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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🌈 Pride in STEM (@prideinstem.bsky.social) turns 10 this year! Join us on 17 April at the Royal Society of Chemistry for an evening of celebration, community, canapés - and cake. 🎟️ Get your free tickets before they're snapped up, and see you there! www.outsavvy.com/event/34281/...

A poster for the event. On a colourful background it says Pride in STEM 10th anniversary celebration, Royal society of Chemistry April 17, 6.30 pm.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

"Honestly, we haven't been fed in yeeeears 🥺" #caturday

A black and white tuxedo cat (Nyota) sits on a fluffy beige rug in the foreground, while a calico cat (Nebula) sits behind her on the wooden floor of our living room. Both are staring intently at the camera as if to convey their desire for food.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I love this juvenile crow, thinking he's some mastermind who's tricked me into believing he's a duck 😂 (The excited little hippy hops he does when running off were a bit of a giveaway)

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

In the spirit of this, I thought I'd share this picture of my recently domiciliated helianthuses 🌻

Photo of a vase of bright yellow sunflowers on a side table

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Another small town near where I grew up had its #Pride this weekend - it was lovely visiting with my parents and seeing the place decked out in rainbows. And as you can see from picture 4, even the Hetties were getting involved! 😉

Selfie photo of my dad (holding the camera on the left), my husband, my mum and me. My mum's wearing a multicoloured dress and holding a pride flag, and I'm wearing a white t-shirt that says 'proud' in rainbow lettering on it.

A row of fancy looking shops in Cotswold stone with nice looking awnings and signs. A good 7 or 8 of the shops have pride flags outside them, including at least one trans pride flag.

An old style pub and hotel called The Fox, which has two flags in flagpoles on it. One is a pride flag and the other is a trans pride flag, which is flying in the wind.

A window display in an electrical shop. There's two fridge freezers, but also a big rainbow flag and three little 'Henry'-style vacuum cleaners wearing rainbow and flowery headbands. One of them is a pink 'Hetty' vacuum cleaner. There's also rainbow coloured paper decorations.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

If only senior Labour party politician Sadiq Khan could figure out why trans rights were coming under increasing pressure across the UK 🤔

A two panel meme made from a comic where a goose is chasing down a man wearing a goose feather jacket. Instead of the goose demanding "What's in the jacket?" the goose is demanding "Who's putting them under pressure?"

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Could anybody help me find my cat Nyota? She's just too good at hiding for me 😓 #Caturday

Photo of my computer monitor on my desk. Behind it, sticking out at the top, you can just about see a little pair of cat ears. Definitely not the ears belonging to a cat that's good at hiding!

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Really heartwarming to see #Pride displays in the small town where I grew up, like this one in the Children's Air Ambulance charity shop - seeing that would've made a big difference to young me! ❤️🌈

Photo of a shop window with a display containing all sorts of bright colourful items, combining to make a Pride-themed display. Items include a 'Be You' rainbow poster in the colours of the bi flag, books stacked in rainbow colours, a cushion that says 'love', a card that says 'love is love', and a blue wig next to a rainbow bandana.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

He must've had a lot of fun writing that script!

Screenshot of the same video, where the cooked pudding is being lifted out of the pot of water. The subtitles read "you'll know that it's ready because it will have swollen up and become quite firm when you take it out of the water"

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Do you like our new bookends? 🐈‍⬛🐈

Our two cats sit on our TV cabinet, in front of the television. The cat on the left is black and white, and the cat on the right has tortoiseshell and white fur. The two cats are sitting up very primly, with their feet together and their tails tucked around their legs. Their tails are going in opposite directions, with one going clockwise and the other anticlockwise, so they're sort of mirror images of each other. They are both looking directly at the camera.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

OK, so the sunglasses were wishful thinking but it was still lovely to see #OxfordPride rainbows brighten up a rainy day! #Pride #LGBTQ

Selfie of me in my living room wearing a rainbow lanyard, a white t-shirt with the word 'Proud' written on the chest in the colours of the progress pride flag, and a red tartan hoodie. I'm sort of smiling at the camera holding up a pair of rainbow sunglasses.

Photo of a beautiful dog at the pride march. The dog is wearing a rainbow flag almost as a cape or jacket, and looking back at the camera.

Photo of an intersex inclusive progress pride flag flying over one of the old buildings in Oxford. In the distance is a church tower and behind that lots of green trees. You can see the sky looks cloudy and rainy.

A rainbow pedestrian crossing in Oxford, looking across the street to the Oxford County Council building which is flying a whole load of LGBTQ flags from its windows, including the trans glad, the pride flag and the intersex flag.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Not sure if I should file this under N for Nyota, C for cat, or S for silly sausage 🤔

Photo of Nyota, my black and white cat, curled up on one of the pages in my ring binder. She's looking cutely at the camera. In the background is my computer monitor so you can tell I'm at my work desk while she's doing this!

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The energy I'll be bringing into this Pride month

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

At least we won't forget the date thanks to this wonderful cross-stitch from @hdunning.bsky.social - featuring Nyota and Nebula ❤️

Photo of me holding out a cross-stitch done by my friend Hayley. It shows me and my husband in cute, almost pixel art style, holding hands wearing the suits we wore at our wedding, right down to the tie colours. Next to us in the cross-stitch are representations of our two cats, one either side of us, again looking very cute. And at the bottom is the date of our wedding, 30 April. In the background you can see one of the cats and it's clear how good a likeness it is!

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Can't believe it's been a whole month since our wedding! Still feels unreal calling him my husband after 13 years together 😅

Photo of me and my now-husband sitting at a big wooden desk with our parents standing behind us. We're all looking at the camera and smiling. I'm holding a pen in my hand over a ceremonial wedding certificate.

Wedding photo of me and Ady in our suits - me in a dark blue, him in grey - standing in front of a huge wooden door in Oxford. We're both smiling at the camera and look very happy.

Photo of me and my husband cutting our wedding cake together. The cake is fairly simple - blue, two tiers, with a gold ribbon around it and a small white rose on top. We're wearing our suits still, but have taken the jackets off to show our waistcoats instead.

Candid photo of us taken at the wedding reception where we're both listening to a speech that's being given off-camera to the right. Ady is sitting at the table while I'm standing behind him with my hands on his shoulders.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I think Nebula may be telling me it's time to clock off for the weekend 😅

My cat Nebula (who is tortoiseshell and white) is asleep on a desk, resting her head next to a white computer keyboard. Sunlight streams in from the right, illuminating her fur. In the background, there's a computer monitor, and to the right, a computer mouse.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Glad to see someone in Parliament actually representing their constituents and asking the right questions, not just deferring to whatever the Telegraph or Mail tells them the law should be... (Reposting with Carla's letter so I can add alt text)

Following the guidance, issued by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on the practical implications for trans people of the Supreme Court ruling of 16 April, I am writing to seek your urgent response on these implications.
This ruling and subsequent guidance from the EHRC has immediate consequences for trans people's ability to participate in daily life and for institutions and businesses providing facilities for patrons and the public.
In places like hospitals, shops and restaurants, the new guidance says trans women should not be permitted to use women's facilities, but they should not be left with no facilities to use.
This is extremely confusing and conflicts with the first sentence of your statement to the House last Tuesday following the "For Women Scotland Ltd v. The Scottish Ministers ruling. This guidance puts trans people at risk of discrimination and there are major and immediate questions about how its requirements would be funded and policed.
Last week you told the House that the Govt stands for "dignity and respect for all, now and always", yet the wake of this guidance trans people are not being afforded clarity or respect.
Therefore, I would like to seek clarity from you on the following: How is the Govt going to respond to both distress within the trans community and further confusion for employers, businesses and service providers who are trying to understand what the supreme court ruling means for them? What are the risks of encouraging vigilante policing of public facilities? Have Ministers considered that the Equality Act requires that providers of services avoid 'creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment' for people with protected characteristics (Section 26, Harassment)? The EHRC guidance is clearly correct that trans people must not be deprived of facilities, but as the Equality Act requires more than just the equal provision of services, there is a risk that following this EHRC guidance...

... would make this kind of 'intimidating' environment nearly impossible to avoid, with major risk to organisations of successful prosecutions. What discussions has your dept had with the EHRC about harassment, both of trans people and instances where non-trans women are harassed while using women's changing rooms or toilets if they are perceived as not looking feminine enough? What does this mean for trans men - what facilities are they supposed to use and what risks do they face as a result of this rushed guidance? Were trans, non-binary or intersex people consulted as part of the production of this guidance? What does this guidance mean for organisations that want to continue to include trans people, for example a trans- inclusive lesbian association or venue? The guidance appears to say that such an association should exclude trans women even where association members wish to include them. This appears to differ from the Supreme Court ruling itself, which does not require the exclusion of trans people from eg a lesbian association, only ruling that their exclusion would not be illegal. Does the Govt agree with the Chair of the EHRC that 'lobbying for these spaces' is a job now for trans people, as opposed to being the responsibility of govt to ensure equal rights for all? Who should fund the changes required by the ruling and/or guidance? How does this guidance fit with trans people's rights to freedom from degrading treatment, safety and privacy?
I look forward to receiving your response to the above points so that I can provide clarity to my constituents who are currently unclear on how they can carry out their usual daily activities.
Should it not be possible to answer these questions at the present time, I would suggest that the interim EHRC guidance should be withdrawn until it is possible for guidance to be issued which provides real clarity and has taken into account the experiences of all those who will be affected by it.
Yours sincerely,
Carla Denyer MP

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Despite how it looks thanks to Bluesky's video compression, I didn't actually film this on a potato.

A still from the video above, where one of the adults has the pea in its beak and the baby is just beneath it, ready to grab it from the parent's beak. Posting to (hopefully) show more detail than the video does, because the video looks blurry and compressed.

Another still from the same video showing the three moorhens together.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

If anyone's needing a little bit of peace on their timeline, here's me helping these moorhens feed their little baby 🐥

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

He's getting me connected to the web 🕷️🕸️

Photo of a panel where telephone and internet cables enter my house - on it is a little black spider

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Disappointing (but not surprising) to see the BBC parrot this nonsense without interrogating it. Every restaurant, clothes shop, hospital etc is going to create separate facilities for and at the request of <1% of the population? Really? This is just a way to exclude trans people from daily life.

A screenshot from a BBC news article that reads:

"Crucially, the ruling provides a clear framework for what equality laws mean. The EHRC says it is "working at pace" to update its guidance, and expects that to be ready by the summer.

It has already made it clear that if a single-sex space, like a toilet or changing room, is women-only, that means biological males who identify as women should not use it.

It says instead that trans people should use their "powers of advocacy" to campaign for third spaces, such as unisex toilets.

And it has said it will pursue the NHS if it does not follow the latest ruling."

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Well what kind of restaurant is it then?! 🙄

Screenshot from Google maps, centred on a restaurant called Nón - Vietnamese restaurant (where the word nón is clearly meant to be a Vietnamese word but it looks like it just means the restaurant isn't Vietnamese)

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Going home to visit my parents is all well and good until I have to try to sleep with this guy watching me 😬

Photo of the corner of my childhood bedroom, taken from my perspective lying in bed. In that corner is a toy robot, with a transparent head and white body, looking directly at me.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We even got interviewed on local TV! 😂

Photo of a TV screen showing a news programme. In the cutout on the left, you can see me, my mum and my sister in red t-shirts being interviewed by the news anchor. On the right is a photo of the eclipse happening.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Can't believe it's been a whole year since I got to see the incredible 2024 solar eclipse with my family. If you ever get a chance to see a total eclipse, do it! It's like nothing else on earth, and is honestly one of the best things I've ever done.

Photo of the sun taken through eclipse glasses so that it looks like a yellow disk on a black background. You can see about a quarter of the sun is missing, covered by the moon.

Photo taken during the total eclipse - the sun is now hidden behind the moon, but it's like a fiery ring around the blackness of the moon that's hiding it.

Photo taken just as totality ended, so a little bit of the sun is shining out from behind the moon, with the rest still making an illuminated ring, making the whole thing look like a diamond ring.

Selfie of me and my family taken at the place we watched the eclipse. We're all smiling at the camera, standing in front of a shop window that shows the town is in the path of totality, and we're wearing matching t-shirts that show the eclipse.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Happy #Caturday from a hardworking Nyota and her sleepy assistant Nebula

Photo of my two cats. Nyota, who is black and white, is sitting in an office chair and facing the camera. Nebula, who is orange, brown, black and white, is behind her, lying on the desk with her eyes closed, enjoying the sunlight.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Is this the BBC's new approach to being 'unbiased'? You just read the part of the sentence you agree with?

Text from an article by BBC News, where a sentence is highlighted in yellow that has clearly been edited but the edit is incomplete.

That sentence reads "Since then, Israeli military attacks have killed more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed"

The full paragraph reads "The war in Gaza was triggered by the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, which killed some 1,200 people and led to 251 hostages being taken to Gaza. Since then, Israeli military attacks have killed more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed, health authorities in Hamas-run Gaza say."

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Absolutely stunning spring day in Oxford today - just about makes up for the lost hour of sleep! 🌼

Photo of a river bend curving from right to left across the photo, where the river bank is covered in grass and beautiful yellow daffodils, and in the middle distance is a curved footbridge crossing the river.

Photo of a church spire in the distance, built in a warm yellow stone. In front of it is a wide open green field, and closer still is a river, with two trees reflected in it. The sky in the background is clear and blue, no clouds at all.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🤔 If you're neurodivergent, know someone who is, or just fancy learning more about neurodiversity, check out these fab, free webinars being run to mark #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek: www.neurodiversityweek.com/events I'm really looking forward to the Neurodivergence & LGBTQIA session! 🌈

Calendar of webinar sessions for Neurodiversity Week, running from Monday 17 March to Friday 21 March.
Monday events are: Celebrating Different Minds - An Introduction to Neurodiversity at 9am, Breaking Barriers - The Power of Language in Neurodiversity at 11.30am, Neurodivergence Seldom Travels Alone: The Unexplored World of Co-Occurring Conditions at 1.30pm, Neurodiversity: Where can HR Professionals make a difference? at 3.30pm, Perspective of Young People on Neurodiversity at 7pm.
Tuesday events are: Neurodiversity at Work Q&A: Products & Customer Services at 9.30am, Neurodivergence & LGBTQIA+: A Conversation on Identity, Intersectionality & Empowerment at 11.30am, Empowering Neurodiversity in the Workplace at 1.30pm, Neurodiversity & Mental Health - Acquired Neurodivergence at 3.30pm, Navigating Neurodiversity: Parental Perspectives, Professional Insights, and Policy Changes in 2025 at 7pm.
Wednesday events are: Neurodiversity and Nutrition - Food For Thought at 8.30am, Shaping Neurodiversity through Innovation & Technology at 10.30am, Neurodiversity at Work Q&A: Designing Neuro-inclusive Working Environments at 1pm, Person-Centered Management for Neuroinclusion at 2.30pm, What makes Spaces and Places Neuroinclusive in Further and Higher Education? at 4.30pm.
Thursday events are: Is Neurodiversity a Community? Exploring Identity, Inclusion, and Intersectionality at 9am, Building the Neuroinclusive Classroom of Tomorrow…Today! at 11am, Workplace Burnout: How to Reclaim Your Energy as a Neurodivergent Woman at Work at 1.30pm, Navigating Neurodiversity & the Criminal Justice System at 3.30pm, Neurodiversity around the World at 7pm.
Friday events are: Late Diagnosed Neurodiversity in Women at 9am, Parents & Carers - Supporting Children Through Times of Transition at 11.30am, Is the Business World leading society on Neuroinclusion? at 1.30pm, Celebrating Different Minds: Future Directions and Continuing Conversations at 3.30pm.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A blep of contentment from Nebula this sunny #Caturday afternoon

Close-up photo of my cat, Nebula, lying relaxed on a wooden table next to a window. Her coat is multicoloured - brown, black, white and orange. She's looking off into middle distance as she warms herself contentedly in the sunshine, and a little bit of her tongue is sticking out - a blep.

A photo from a few seconds later where Nebula is still exactly the same in the sunshine, but now she's closed her eyes in contentment - but still has her little pink tongue sticking out.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Just a standard office social, nothing to see here 😅

Photo of a piece of paper stuck to the wall in a bar. It says that the area is reserved for Connor from 6pm to 9pm. But the photo underneath that information is of a very muscular male dancer wearing very little.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Finally! I'm so fed up of only attracting loser garden birds 🙄

Photo of a box of bird food fat balls. On the box, the description says 'Attracts popular garden birds' where the word popular is in a much bigger typeface making it look like this specific product attracts popular birds, and other products attract less popular birds.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I sometimes wonder if the cats know we're gay I guess I don't need to wonder anymore #Caturday

Photo of my cat Nebula sitting in the windowsill, looking directly at the camera, with one of her front paws out in front, with her leg bent at an angle so it looks like she's pretending to have a limp wrist, as though she's being homophobic towards me (or maybe she is doing it intentionally, who knows).

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Nebula's found the one spot in the house that gets the #Caturday morning sunshine

Photo of my cat sitting on the post at the top of my staircase, catching the small amount of sun that's coming through the window and illuminating the bannister and her butt. She is all neatly tucked in because there's not very much space, but she looks very pleased with herself.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

That's ok, I only needed to see 80% of the programme anyway

Photo of both my cats sitting on the TV stand directly in front of the television. On the TV is Twin Peaks, but the two cats are covering up half the subtitles and a lot of the bottom of the screen.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

A very intense blep from Nebula this mlemsday evening

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Have some Sunday swan snacking as a timeline cleanse

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Before and after. These bastards are trying to erase queer and trans people from the history of the Stonewall uprising. To pretend 'LGB civil rights' are a thing. Neither would exist without our trans and queer siblings, and no amount of revisionism will change that.

Screenshot of the US National Parks Service page on the Stonewall National Monument in New York, taken two days ago. The intro text reads "Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGBTQ+ civil rights and provided momentum for a movement."
The page also has a link to another page about "LGBTQ+ flags", with the description "What are LGBTQ+ flags and what days should we celebrate them? Click here to find out."

A screenshot of the same page, taken today. The intro text now reads "Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement." And the page about flags is now called "LGB Flags", with the description "What are LGB flags and what days should we celebrate them? Click here to find out." Both are now missing any reference to queer or trans people.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Quote with you looking fancy ✨ (Surprisingly tricky now I work from home!)

Me and my sister in front of a wall of pink and white roses. We're dressed up for a wedding - I'm wearing a blue suit with a white shirt and blue tie. Faye is wearing a pink dress with a flower pattern on it and a belt around her waist.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Just what we need! More laws to make the already illegal thing super-duper illegal. That'll stop them!

Meme format in three panels, where a cartoon penguin sits at a desk talking on the phone. In the first panel, they say "911, what is your emergency?". In the second panel they say "what do you mean you're being murdered". In the third panel they say "that's illegal, people can't do that".

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This looks like a cannelloni-based follow-up to the spaghetti harvest hoax

Black and white photo of a woman supposedly collecting spaghetti from a tree - the cooked strands are dangling from the branches and she's holding some in her hand.

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Conor McKeever @conormckeever.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The Prince Charles Cinema is where I got to see my sister @fayemckeever.bsky.social's indie film on the big screen - London needs cultural icons like the PCC, not another block of luxury flats. Sign the petition! #SaveThePCC

Photo of me and my sister standing in the lobby of the cinema (with pocorn and other snacks on sale behind us). We're both smiling at the camera, and she is dressed up in a red dress for the screening. I'm holding up a signed poster of a film called Here Comes Hell, which conveys that it is a comedy horror film - the writing is in big red letters and the cast are emanating like ghosts from a deserted mansion.

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