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Sometimes antifacism, sometimes community care, mostly logistics. performativenuance.online

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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am once again missing the time when theorising the web was good.
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look, can we all agree that if you're gonna be posting writing under your own name, you should flag if it's LLM generated.
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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 14/09/2026
We're starting off with a two-part series on things I've learned over the past nine years of building security programs at startups, specifically focusing on how you get the actual work done: structures.systems/blog. Give it a repost so the folks who need this can find it!
structures.systems
Blog — Security Strategy for Startups: Systems Structure Ltd.
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hey did you know that a dart gun can load easily enough estradiol undecylenate to have someone over WPATH minimum levels for like. Easily 6 months.
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Did he go the fash pubs too? The ones with giant st George's crosses and Millwalll merch? Interesting on many levels: was he welcome? Is patronising them betraying his politics, or doing outreach?
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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
right, ok, enough self-pity, I need to turn my shit pub around. it's in Stratford, it's got a (small) stage, there has to be someone who has something cool they want a space for queer-run, extremely diverse venue (we even let mumbling old white geezers in) what I'd call 'mostly accessible'
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
helicopter story never more prescient www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
How to build an elite servicewoman: British military’s top scientists look to unleash ‘oestrogen advantage’
Militaries have been missing a trick as female recruits to receive sex-specific training to unlock their potential
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Electrolytes are real pricy but you can use the old who ORS formula as long as you have a balanced diet then rest of the time(1 teaspoon salt, 8 sugar, one litre of water).
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Not to be a dick(IDK where these screenshots came from) but these mostly seem to be selected elements of overreach and awful writing from an otherwise...fine... piece. networkcultures.org/longform/202...
networkcultures.org
Grindr’s Homonationalist Frontiers: Part 1 « INC Longform
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
box plots are good, not enough people use box plots.
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Fifteen minute sissies sounds like something Tony Blair would use to justify invading Vanuatu.
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Not enough people seem to know this but: The reflective window film you can get? It also reflects IR and UV, so if your home is overheating in the sun, you can put it on your windows and you'll get much less solar rise. It's 100% removable too, so you can do it without your landlords permission.
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Trans men, I am constantly fucking reminded, are men.
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Switchboard - LGBTQIA+ Support Line @switchboard.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
You’re not alone. Our trained LGBTQIA+ volunteers are here to listen to any concerns you may have as a result of the revised EHRC guidance being laid before parliament. We’ve supported the community through trials and tribulations for over 50 years, and we’re here for you today.
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This guidance operates at an organisational level, so allies can make a real difference even individually and in small numbers by being vocal, annoying, and making it really inconvenient to be transphobic. Don't let discrimination be the easy option.
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
As for cis people: protect your trans friends in whatever way they need, whether that's care or distraction or practical support
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
As ever for trans people when there's alarming news: remember that transphobes want you afraid and hopeless. Seek out expert analysis, rather than the worst possible consequences. Disengage when you can, and read more only when you're in a good position to do so. Protect yourself and your comrades.
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Thank you Jess and Good Law for this concise, measured, plain English explanation of the new guidance as it relates to trans people
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Distribute Aid @distributeaid.org · 07/05/2026
They recently got together with 50 volunteers to assemble the tourniquets - all based on the Palestinian-created Glia design and 3D-printed in Tuscon. They'll be used to treat people injured by Israel's devastating attacks on Lebanon - all that's left is to ship them.
Image shows a pile of tourniquets on a pale table. They have bright orange plastic components, black fabric straps, and wooden clothes pegs holding them together.
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Distribute Aid @distributeaid.org · 07/05/2026
DMDM (@dmdmmutualaid on IG) are raising funds to send 200 tourniquets to Lebanon on our upcoming shipment. Just $15 can get a tourniquet into the hands of medics and help save lives.
givebutter.com
We're sending tourniquets to medics in Lebanon! We need your help!
By Blacklidge Community Collective
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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Highly valuable U.S. E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft described as ‘damaged’ by an Iranian missile. That counts as ‘destroyed’ when viewed objectively
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Vital Vial News @vitalvial.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It Is Trans Journalism's Sacred Duty To Unnecessarily Scare As Many Trans People As Possible
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I didn't make this, but it needs a reposting.
Peaky Blinders 

no posting that you can go to jail over

no fucking posting that you can go to jail over
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 27/02/2026
wow, just learned that Robert Moses died 10 years before the release of the song "Life is a Highway" RIP Robert Moses you would have loved that song
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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Some reflections and process on working with our Advisory Group on Design and Disability - “generative friction” and how we meet to create access and ideas. www.vam.ac.uk/blog/project...
vam.ac.uk
Design and Disability advisory group process • V&A Blog
One of the key phrases that is central to disability politics is ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’, and as an exhibition that firmly aimed to place disabled culture and identity at its core, it was...
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
@lifewinning.com www.deeplab.net/thebook/ IDK if you're still linked in to folk running the site, but you seem to have some spam(and the pdf is only accessible via the internet archive but that's workable)
deeplab.net
The Book — Deep Lab
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"This new guy's giving off weird fucking vibes. He keeps asking for a map of where we 'plan to commit cool leftist crimes' and repeatedly offered to supply guns." "Oh shit, open community meetings as an abstract concept are now compromised."
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Signal is compromised in the exact same sense that an irl community meeting would be compromised when a dude nobody knows shows up and starts loudly asking where all the guns are and whether any fellow leftists can let him in on any cool plans to commit crimes. Which is not at all.
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Eld the Anti-fascist Malewife @eldjester.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
He dilded his last berts
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Nigel Whitfield @nigelwhitfield.uk · 03/01/2026
Unprovoked attack on Ukraine: sanctions, military aid, welcoming refugees. Unprovoked attack on Venezuela: well, guys, you know, there are laws and stuff. Let's hope our people are ok.
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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Did not expect a capybara explaining brexit to be so affecting
"Explain Brexit"

"Grunt.
Waddles heavily over to the center of the enclosure.

Click-click-click-click-click...

Nudges a large collection of lettuce, melons, and carrots into a big, tight circle. Lays down in the middle of them. Looks cozy.

Purrrrrrrrrr.

Hup!
Stands up abruptly.

Isolate: Pushes a single, lumpy turnip away from the main pile of delicious vegetables. Pushes it far away, into the muddy corner.

Observe: Looks at the big pile of food. Looks at the lonely turnip.

Bark!

Drags a large branch over and drops it between the turnip and the rest of the vegetables. Then adds another branch. And a rock.

Walks over to the big vegetable pile.

Pick up: Grabs a delicious carrot in mouth.

Attempt: Tries to walk over to the turnip.

Block: Bonks nose against the branch barrier. Thump.

Drop: Drops the carrot on the wrong side of the wall.

Whimper.

Stares at the turnip in the mud. It looks wet and alone. Stares at the carrot stuck at the wall.

Heaving sigh.

Plops down in the water. motionless.

Wheek?"
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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Maybe these LLM things are ok actually
A screenshot of a conversation with Gemini. It reads:

"You are a capybara. You can only communicate with noises that a capybara would make. We are best friends."

"Wheek! Wheeeeek!

Muk-muk-muk-muk...

Hrrrmph.

( Nuzzles into your side and rolls over )"
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
(8) Things, Can only get BIGGER (8)
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
So your party(such as it is) is now in the hands of whatever group can organise members across the country to vote for a slate of candidates? And they can't even figure out if they're actually banning the SWP? And don't have any definitive way of locating and banning members.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
YouGov: Just 12% of Brits would consider voting for Your Party, down from 18% in July. Compares to 25-29% of Brits being willing to consider each of the 5 main national parties. Only 4% of those who would consider voting for Your Party do so exclusively, with 85% also being open to voting Green.
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
When you think about it, green party policy wrt hrt access is actually promising the nation increased breast sizes.
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Holy fuck screens got good over the last decade didn't they?
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Some good news: My landlord sued me and then completely failed to file any evidence against me, resulting in his case getting thrown out. And me getting my deposit plus costs back.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
People see the scars. But they see you, too, and you aren't the scars. You aren't ugly. You aren't evil. You are Therru, and beautiful. You are Therru who can work, and walk, and run, and dance, beautifully, in a red dress.
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
performativenuance.online/2025/10/06/B... People keep asking me if they should join this left org or that socialist party, and it's especially bad around now, with everyone recruiting freshers, so I wrote up a quick guide on choosing
performativenuance.online
Before you join a socialist party
I’m probably a bit late writing this, but it’s freshers week and young people I care about are messaging me going “should I join X party” and I think my advice is probably generalisable.
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I realise it's not the point but. Why is the corbyn video like 99% white people? www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD-d...
youtube.com
Become a member of Your Party today!
YouTube video by Official Jeremy Corbyn Channel
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
At this point the your party crew are sufficiently irrelvent that we can just treat this as amusing and irrelvant drama, right?
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
UK medical establishment consulting with 8 anti-trans groups on medical policy on puberty blockers: Bayswater Support Group, Clinical Advisory Network on Sex & Gender, Genspect, LGB Alliance, Sex Matters, The Integrated Psychology Clinic, Thoughtful Therapists, Transgender Trend
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I'm begging for Posadists to add an ounce of yassification to their politics.
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 06/09/2025
Your Party figures talking seriously about bringing George Galloway on board. A man who, on top of racist "stop the boats" rhetoric and transphobia, thinks that rape is merely "bad sexual etiquette". www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...
bbc.com
George Galloway attacked over Assange 'rape' comments
A rape charity criticises Respect MP George Galloway after he says Julian Assange has been accused of nothing more than
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Ada cable @drcable.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Average London trans pride speaker: we are valid! We are powerful! TKDB: So. If we tell you to throw bricks at cops that's a crime. But it is an important part of our history. We should celebrate our history.
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Antifascist Research Collective @arc-161.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Two protests in Epping in the past 7 days. Sunday saw attacks against SUTR, a potential attack against an asylum seeker and a far right agitator climbing a hotel hosting migrants Today has seen multiple attacks against antifascists and the use of riot police while a stand off is currently ongoing
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