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Writer, parent and guitar wrangler from Glasgow. Author of Small Town Joy and Carrie Kills A Man, singer in Unquiet Mind. Trans, she/her. linktr.ee/carrieplaysguitar. Pic: Omar Salam

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 2h
Thanks so much for the kind words! Enjoyed this one :)
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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 5h
But remember folks, you should just try and go and have lunch with the people who want you jailed, merrily call you a deviant and want to publish your photos online as a pervert and that will make it all fine and dandy
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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
you simply cannot drive people of genuine talent underground. If you had a lot of free thinkers in underground cellars with a locked door, how would the punters get to them?
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 23h
The religious right is steadily expanding its definition of what is sexual — and restricting what it deems acceptable in public spaces. Tech companies, in want of less oversight, are taking the hint. The deplatforming that started with sex workers / kink / trans has come for gay bars.
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So Disappointed @sodisappointed.bsky.social · 6h
This episode was greatly improved by contributions (quotes) from @carriem.co.uk @argentology.bsky.social, and @martolliver.bsky.social The first part relies on the awesomeness of @chrisnelsonmmmmmm.bsky.social and @film-authority.bsky.social We can’t do this without YOUR input.
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Daryl Baxter @darylbaxter.com · 9h
I’ve got a poorly son today so my time is limited - but any shares of the below or a sign up would be much appreciated. The straw finally broke the camel’s back last week, so I’m just going for it even more now.
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 9h
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How the British Media Legitimized J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia
Preserved like frozen eddies in the whirlwind of a moral panic are the words of a national journalist, days after J.K. Rowling publishes her essay on the threat of the trans rights movement. Shona …
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13h
To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.
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Paul Frightlaw Meets the Wolf Man Uptown @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social · 10h
Please fill your boots.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 10h
This is also, fwiw, exactly why so many British institutions have fallen to transphobic control. Because the transphobes actually took taking control seriously! They, with actually very small numbers, absolutely dedicated themselves to that aim. Fluffy cis liberals didn't respond at all.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 10h
I HATE THIS ERA I HATE THE SLIDE TOWARDS PURITANNICAL MORALITY I HATE THIS SO MUCH IT MAKES ME FEEL CLAUSTROPHOBIC AND I'M JUST A STRAIGHT WHITE CIS WOMAN THIS ISN'T AFFECTING ME IN THE LEAST AND STILL IT MAKES ME FEEL COMPRESSED
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 10h
Fuck yes, it's so laughably not-scary now but at the time...
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 10h
(I did not watch this in 1949)
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Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) The Headless Horseman
YouTube video by Jalen Moran
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 11h
Did you read the Jon Ronson interview with him about cosmic ordering? It's one of the funniest things I've ever read.
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 11h
My turn to demand the story :)
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 11h
Sadly I've told you the most interesting bit already :) Was offered £6K but it would have meant spending several weeks with him, and I was already aware that he was going a bit woo.
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Alan Woke 2 @mrpostsgood.bsky.social · 12h
Melanie Phillips? Cited in Anders Breiviks manifesto Melanie Phillips?
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 13h
As middle age sets in for many people and joints start to show the signs of activity, Chiropractors are finally seeing the harm caused by slamming your body down and winding it all around.
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 13h
Absolutely fuck the EHRC and Stephenson in particular. And solidarity to the trans folks fighting back on what absolutely, obviously, is an erosion of rights they've had for decades.
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Chris Barrus @quartzcity.bsky.social · 20h
"Every site with user generated content is now a social media platform for AI-powered bots. All of them. Today, any site that is not explicitly anti-AI will be completely dominated by AI." 5mag.net/features/galax…
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The Internet Is Over: How bots destroyed a new platform in just 60 days
The dead internet theory has new evidence to back the idea that the internet has been over and done with for awhile, but nobody bothered to tell us.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 13h
Are you a young reader? It's Banned Books Week. Seek out a banned book. Find out what they're afraid of you knowing. Reading is revolutionary. Don't let anyone take it from you.
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 22h
My friend Nova has been on a surgical wait list for 11 years and might finally be getting healthcare in Spring. She wrote this little piece about persistence and how much worse the NHS has gotten since she was first referred
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21h
It's shocking this is not shocking: "The UK’s largest private-sector employer is offering up to three days of paid leave which can be taken flexibly for activities such as attending court hearings, arranging emergency accommodation, changing locks, securing childcare or separating finances."
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Tesco is first supermarket to offer paid ‘safe leave’ for victims of domestic abuse
Exclusive: Britain’s largest private-sector employer has also trained managers to spot signs of domestic abuse
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 22h
I was offered the job of ghostwriting what turned out to be his cosmic ordering book.
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caffeine anxiety ego death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think all comedians 50+ should he fitted with cortical bombs and if they ever say "you can't tell jokes anymore" it instantly detonates and uploads the footage to the internet with a laugh track and "wackety schmakety doooo" music
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 04/10/2026
What? There is literally no overlap between Palestine Action and "skinheads who support neo-Nazi and fascist terrorist organizations/white supremacist terror". The Venn diagram is actually two separate circles. There are zero people who believe this nonsense claim. inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Mahmood says Palestine Action proscription is needed to curb support for neo-Nazis
Mahmood said 'you've got to be able to apply your principles, even when it's uncomfortable for you'
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Disband ICE @adlangx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It was bulletin boards and bullshit, but it was amazing.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23h
This is a good person, totally decent. Just also totally unaware that their media diet (and thus their brain) has been completely cooked to where they're amplifying media by fucking Nazis and passing it along as if that's normal. Sometimes I despair about how we return from this.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23h
Another grim indicator of where things stand — people always send me clips of Prince stuff ("I saw him play this guitar solo from the Rock & Roll hall of fame!") but the latest was a former coworker who's still on Twitter/X, and the video they sent was posted by an unabashed white supremacist.
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Karie Ghoulish 👻 @kariebookish.bsky.social · 23h
So, r/Glasgow has a lot of far-right posters but the latest lot got chased out after users noticed they were referencing use of Imgur (famously blocked in the UK). Reminds me of Old Twitter when a Concerned Citizen of Birmingham didn't know the city is colloquially called Brum.
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 22h
Hey Molly. I have a Skoda IV which is v short range - 30 miles electric. I live in the suburbs and haven’t put petrol in it since June. That’s school runs, trips in and out of the city, big shops etc. but without a home charger it’d be a pain bc that 30 miles takes 3.5 hrs charging.
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 22h
Nearly! It’s a Skoda :)
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 23h
Yes, of course.
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Critically Axed @criticallyaxed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nothing says "challenging sexism" quite like men organising a group to police women's categories at a Saturday parkrun. Men inserting themselves right into a gender-exclusion campaign because nothing helps female sports like a bunch of male allies leading the purity charge.
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 04/10/2026
My GP recommends swimming for my back. I want to go. There are 2 communal changing rooms. Labour say I should use the mens. I am a visibly female woman with a GRC. If I use the mens there's a serious risk of me being confronted and worse. So where do I go? I don't. I'm segregated from society.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
russell t. davies interview in the times. this is the country the labour party has created. a rancid, anti-lgbt+, shithole. five years ago this would have bedn unthinkable. @lucympowell.bsky.social and andy burnham have the nerve to say ‘hope again’. they’re responsible for this:
"I'm called a paedophile and a groomer online by people like [Father Ted creator and anti-trans activist] Graham Linehan, and now people believe what they read. People believe it when they're told the Earth is flat," he says. His support for trans rights has resulted in years of death threats and
"groomer" smears, which he used to brush off. "But the online world is becoming the real world. People have worked out my address, and one person turned up at my house. If you believe a paedophile lives here, it's not the maddest thing in the world to come and get me. I've been saying for years that our rights are paper-thin, and here we are. What scares me is that I can't see an end to it. Nothing is going to unseat these tech barons - it will require some sort of revolution to stop them. So for the first time in history, hatred is being monetised by an algorithm."
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
notable both that this is happening and is being pushed by popular GC accounts
Tribunal Tweets 
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Mental health nurse Amy Gallagher is bringing an employment tribunal against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust claiming racial harassment, belief discrimination and victimisation. While undertaking
psychotherapy training with the Trust, Miss Gallagher says she raised concerns about aspects of teaching on race, including material concerning "whiteness", "white privilege",
"white fragility" and critical race theory.
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 03/10/2026
it's been very noticeable that whatever noises burnham has been making about changing direction, they do not include anything about fixing this horrific situation
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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This appointment tells you everything you need to know about the BBC.
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t really remember Climategate from the time but I absolutely recognised the tactics described in the Tavistock ‘scandal’
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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
I typed up a thread and thought "What's the fucking point". My heart aches for all the people like Cal who've been forced into this situation. People who follow me know what's caused this, the people who caused it and enabled it don't care or actively welcome it. What can you do at this stage?
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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 03/10/2026
the plainness with which this is put covers up a sort of powerless rage that you feel as a parent of a trans kid. it’s, to say the least, an alienating experience to see people bicker over the niceties of this or that pension policy when the party and the government has done this to your family
This Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children.
They have step by step dismantled every protection that supported my daughter. We have tried so hard to help her grow up with happiness and self-esteem through a childhood in an increasingly transphobic UK.
At every point when the Labour Government could have made something better, they have turned around and given her another kick.
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Everyone knows that most guys have a bad Kermit impression and a bad Jimmy Stewart impression just hair-trigger primed to deploy, but less well known is that for those of us of a certain age, we also have a bad Suzy Izzard impression on the stocks
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Laura Kidd 💌 Penfriend @penfriendrocks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I hate money and love music, so to celebrate 7 years + 1 day of quitting my 15 year solo project She Makes War I've made everything on my Bandcamp page FREE / pay what you can: shemakeswar.bandcamp.com 5 albums, 3 EPs, 4 demo collections, 4 fanclub releases, 5 instrumental albums + more!
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She Makes War
Check out my new music project Penfriend at http://penfriendrocks.bandcamp.com +++ She Makes War was the solo project of Bristol based multi-instrumentalist producer and visual artist Laura Kidd. ...
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ultimately the marketing industry exists because business owners care more about their business than the public does, and the visible job of marketing is to increase that public interest but the invisible job is getting businesses to fucking calm down a bit
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 02/10/2026
This cracked me up: the uploader renamed the show because they found the character annoying, so now there are multiple episodes of SPACE ARSE
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Space Arse (1965) AKA as Space Ace - YouTube
This was the first series produced by Tatsunoko Production that aired on Fuji TV from May 8, 1965, to April 28, 1966. Anime Sols attempted to crowdfund the s...
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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've just taken a picture of an ammonite and used my phone's object identifier because I genuinely couldn't remember the proper name. No, Samsung. It is not.
Samsung Bixby Vision identifying an ammonite as an onion. A FUCKING ONION.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As I said before: one “side” are a small number of extremists forcing their way where they have been politely told it would be best not to in order not to reopen wounds. The other side is, quite literally, everyone else
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why do I dislike this guy so much? Rajan named Rowling's screed against trans people one of the greatest pieces of writing of the year 2020, in which he fawningly called her one of the greatest writers of her generation and admiringly remarked on the "plain English" of her rhetoric
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