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Baranarama

@barabull.bsky.social

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36, Scotland

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Baranarama @barabull.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Is that what this cursed object is?

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Baranarama @barabull.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I love the quirky non-standardised local flavours you spot when travelling.

A 'cab stand for 3' sign depicting what appears to be a 19th century carriage for royalty pulled by a horse.

A sign forbidding strange dog-llama hybrid creatures, with an indignant and shocked expressed on its face.

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Baranarama @barabull.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

How do you know if you're coming or going? 😵‍💫 Still at least this is flavoured with 'real fruit juices' instead of cardboard...

A multipack of Fanta raspberry flavour cans. Beneath the flavour title it says 'made from cardboard'

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Baranarama @barabull.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Stat Trek Deep Space 9, Julian Bashir and Miles O'Brien play a game of racquetball. O'brien is clearly distracted by stupid sexy Julian in a tight grey jumpsuit.

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Baranarama @barabull.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Kaiman from Dorohedoro

Kaiman the protoganist from Dorohedoro is seen here as a big buff human guy in a tight short sleeved white t-shirt and with a reptilian head. He is sat eating a box of gyōza with a surprised look on his face and a sideways glance.

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Baranarama @barabull.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Hummingbird doesn't want to be fed, it wants to hunt.

The scene from Jurasic Park movie where Dr Grant looks out of a jeep window into the T-Rex enclosure where they are trying to bait it into making an appearance via a goat tied to a post.

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Baranarama @barabull.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Although the Scottish Greens seem to have a similar idea to the point I was making above - www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Baranarama @barabull.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I've not seen this written up yet but will share a link here if I do. In the meantime I've tried to explain why this ruling could mean things could improve in the future.

In December 2022, the Scottish parliament passed the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. This bill, if enacted, would reform the 2004 Gender Recognition Act process by which people in Scotland can legally change their gender, including by removing the requirement for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria - thereby making it easier for trans people to legally transition.

The legislation was passed by the Scottish Parliament but blocked by the UK Government after the Secretary of State for Scotland, Alister Jack, issued a ‘section 35 order’ on the basis that the Gender Recognition Reform Bill would have an adverse effect on reserved matters. In particular, one of key arguments presented was that the bill would affect the matter of ‘equal opportunities’ – specifically the Equality Act 2010, which makes ‘sex’ a protected characteristic.

The Supreme Court ruling says that the provisions in the Equality Act 2010 that refer to 'sex' refer to sex at birth, and are different from 'certificated sex' from a Gender Recognition Certificate. As a result this looks like it negates one of the main arguments for blocking the Gender Recognition Reform Bill.

TL; DR - Although the Supreme Court ruling has said that trans people with a Gender Recognition Certificate don't benefit from all of the 'sex' provisions of the Equality Act 2010, in doing so it has potentially removed one of the main legal arguments that has made it difficult to improve the Gender Recognition process to make it easier to get a certificate. This is why there is still cause to be hopeful that progress can be made on improving the lives of trans people.

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Baranarama @barabull.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

What is processing? Sounds ominous... or does it mean marching like a procession?

Star Wars Episode 1, Nute Gunray turns to Queen Amidala and her retinue and instructs his battle droids to 'Process Them'

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Baranarama @barabull.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Tag yourself - I'm 'Butt'.

A warning sign in Nara graphically portrays the various ways the local deer will end you.

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Baranarama @barabull.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

If you have the time I definitely recommend visiting an outdoor onsen in the cold Japan winter air - especially if its snowy. Kurama, a short train ride north of Kyoto is very picturesque

A view of a valley of snow-dusted trees bathed in the pinkish hue of winter skies at the onsen in the village of Kurama north of Kyoto.

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Baranarama @barabull.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Sunset on the Tay River estuary, Scotland. The silvery river reflects the orange glow of the sun on the horizon and the silhouette of the surrounding hills.

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