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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻

@halfironmum.bsky.social
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Broken audhd mum of 3 autists and lazy triathlete - half iron, half jelly. Cold water swimmer. Very amateur gardener. Beginner knitter. Social justice warrior and autism advocate. "A fierce presence" #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 12h
Yeah. Nah. I’m not anxious. I’m *furious*
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 23h
Because people under 25 pay less for rent, food and living than people over 25, they get a discount didn’t you know?
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Vickie Hinkley @vickiehinkley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Suicide: What if it's #Poverty? #TiffanyTagbo "We tell people to reach out, then they reach out to agencies with closed waiting lists. We tell them help is available, then require seventeen documents to #PROVEtheyDESERVEit. We tell them not to give up, then send them another denial."
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What If the Thing Making You Want to Die Is Poverty?
For Suicide Prevention Month, perhaps prevention should mean more than keeping someone alive for another night.
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How Gender Criticalism has moved on from “We just have legitimate concerns” to cheering on those who killed a trans person.
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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh also, when i got back from taking the dogs round the park this morning my eldest (23) said "you need to get some exercise today mum or you'll be unbearable...you've got the zoomies!"
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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Actually a bit liberating to discover my knee is arthritis - can't do anything about it - resting and doing rehab isn't gonna regrow any cartilage! Anyway, long story short, I'm getting my exercise mojo back on, and its really helping my brain!!🧠
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
there’s a very strong narrative propaganda push around burnham and that’s how you know he isn’t going to upset the establishment order at all. deals have been made behind closed doors to present this bigoted gobshite and his flunkies like @lucympowell.bsky.social as bold visionaries. it’s insane.
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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Managed a swim before work this morning, which is helping to make the day more manageable! Didn't think I had the energy, but of course it helped! Holborn Lido - beautiful swim.
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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In London for 2 days. Have treated myself to a later train, but that means cramming in a couple of meetings when I get there before a lunch, an afternoon conference and then a dinner. The I'm staying overnight for conference and lunch tomorrow. Pray for my social battery 🪫
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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Life according to Dog...
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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The bread is poisoned and too expensive to buy and the circuses are all age-verified and subscription-based
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Joelle Maslak @jmaslak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wish I could get my doctors to understand I'm a very unreliable reporter about my symptoms. "Do you have X?" Honestly, I'm not connected well enough with my body to know. Some of the ways I wish the medical world would work with autistic folk: (thread)
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Aunt Jules @japulver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We need to make it clear that anti-trans Democrats in 10 years will have as much electability as homophobic candidates have today. This is just another bad faith attempt to malign a minority group for political clout by the conservative movement. Dems who fall for it can kiss their careers bye bye!
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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 08/10/2025
RIP Tom Petty you would have loved not coming around here no more 🎩
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I see operation "just give these people what they want and they'll go away" is continuing as expected.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What?! Actually what?!!! It's on camera!!
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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Terrorism Legitimate concerns
People holding signs in support of Palestine actionGuardian article with headline "Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard"
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Murmuration @murmeration.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If we won’t take a stand on RNLI attackers, you’ve got to ask what are British Values actually for?
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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BBC report fails to mention "Tommo" slashing a dinghy (!) Not beating the Reform Party propaganda allegations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
Protesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west.
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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Osteoarthritis in my knee. MRI says bone on bone in places. Drinking wine and wrote this (will face into it properly tomorrow)
It's only a knee
It's only a knee
Just a hinge really
Bend and straighten Bend and straighten
But it turns out
Bend and straighten
Is something we do a lot
With our legs
Especially if we run
Take to the hills
As a way
To clear our brain
Bend and straighten
Land
Bend and straighten
Land
It sounds like such a little thing But over and over
It has worn away
At my kneeBut not being able to run
Would wear away
At my soul
So i'm going to have to find a way To grind on
Bend and straighten
Land, ow
Bend and straighten..
Look at the view
Look how far we've climbed
Listen to the silence Of a mountain path
Deserted
Breath the clean air
So I will bend and straighten,
Land
Bend and straighten
Land
And enjoy the view
Until I can't bend and straighten
Any more.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Had the results of my MRI - I have arthritis in my knee (in places no cartilage at all) and a small meniscus tear meniscus tear. So it won't be getting better. Eventually I will need a new knee but "we aren't there yet" No running. Not sure that will be happening
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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
On a more positive note, the map of my mornings swim is very pleasing
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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Struggled to get out of bed this morning, but since I did I've basically been on the go all day. Finally decided to sit down for an hour with my book in the garden. Made myself a mache latte, sat down in my chair, kicked it on the floor. POV: If my life was a day
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trans rights or we all enjoy the camps
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
It frustrates me so deeply that cis people simply cannot concieve of transphobia as something serious.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
৮ অক্টোবর গ্রিনকে ভোট দিন।
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 19/09/2026
An autistic woman has revealed that she mostly dyes her hair blue in order to annoy basement-dwelling dweebs who think women can’t be autistic.
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Autistic woman totally dyes hair blue to piss off incels
An autistic woman has revealed that she mostly dyes her hair blue in order to annoy basement-dwelling dweebs who think women can’t be autistic.  Niamh Callaghan, 27, reportedly likes her blue hair,…
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A fun, affordable hobby is: 1. Turning up in random well-to-do Cotswold villages wearing a hi-vis vest with a picture of a wind turbine on it, and a hard hat. 2. Taking measurements of the village green and any other open space, and enthusiastically writing notes on a clipboard.
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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Let's reduce crime by increasing poverty" I am very smart
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 19/09/2026
What even if the kids have real genuine concerns in their little balaclavas? This is bananas
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/09/2026
lol smite
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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026
i need to know what happened
sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"
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Sue Ibrahim @sueimnw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For this week's #PoemsAbout theme #Strays with thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/09... Read the full statement: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/09...
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Take Action to Restore Access to Gender‑Affirming Surgeries in Wales – TransActual
Trans people in Wales have been left in limbo following a decision by NHS Wales to pause access to gender affirming surgeries without warning.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
i can't let this go: Obama navigating gay marriage wasn't about taking rights away from people. Like, maybe that's a hair not worth splitting, but LGBTQ folks were trying to gain the right to marry. they weren't having the right to health care and the right to use the fucking bathroom taken away.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
sure would be nice if the UK had a government instead of 17 Sun polls in a waistcoat
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ok that's 3 minutes, keep moving, got a lot of sad teens here.
Just 3 minutes with a mini horse or donkey improves teens' moods, study says
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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Have been saying for years there should definitely be some triaging of diagnosis so that urgent cases can take priority. I most certainly DO NOT think that no one else should get a diagnosis - wtf?! Just keep going til you hit crisis then, yeah?! www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Plan to limit NHS diagnoses of ADHD attacked as ‘rationing’ healthcare
Review expected to say patients in England should be ‘triaged’ and offered support without formal diagnosis
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If the Streisand effect is getting attention because you don’t want attention, the Sheeran effect is getting drawn into politics when you don’t want to be drawn into politics
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Andy @andydrummond.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
I don't get the businesses thing - the evidence is that #ActiveTravel is *good* for businesses but it seems to be embedded in consciousness that it isn't. When it's a café complaining it's particularly odd, as if you can't sell coffee & cake to cyclists, you're caféing wrong.
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Espuki Fonzu | COMMS OPEN @fonzu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
TikTok screenshot: “If I have to go through any more character development my character will develop into a villain”
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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you want to hurt or kill someone in this country do it with your car - basically state sanctioned violence
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And the far right know where the camp is, a pogrom is inevitable. Putting vulnerable people in harm’s way to appease racists who will never vote for them, they do it because they like it.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So Labour are repeating the dehumanising and performative and also expensive housing of people who are seeking asylum in camps just like the Tories but because Burnham throws out a few crumbs about bus fares in a Northern accent we’re supposed to believe things have changed?
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