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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Well I guess I'm a trans woman then. Late to the party but I made it eventually. Early in my transition so probably wrong about everything. she/her, British immigrant in France

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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s the first big rain of the autumn tonight and there are hundreds of fire salamanders out on the pull.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 28/09/2026
For me I find the fact that developmental co-ordination disorder (dypraxia) does'nt affect intelligence the most frustrating aspect of all. You have all these ideas but executing them is a nightmare/not possible and everyone thinks you're fine.
Dypraxia info graphic.
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’ve been very quiet during #suicidepreventionawarenessweek because it’s shit being constantly reminded of all the things I might have done to save Alice. The “check-in” narrative is particularly distressing. I get that its’s appealing, plenty of people have an anecdote that it saved their life…
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is bonkers. At 6 generations you have 64 great-great-great-great-grandparents. Are you supposed to vet all of them to make sure they're English born? Most people don't even know the names of their relatives 3 generations back.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There are no boobs on a dead planet www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkOn...
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We’ve hit 1.5C… deploy the 🌶️ stars
YouTube video by Simon Clark
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage
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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
capitalism in general: you are a failure as a person if you don't overcome this systemic problem
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026
I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The enshittification will continue until morale improvres.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Normandy, France. Yes, and saying "bonjour" to pretty much everybody you make eye contact with is mandatory. It's considered incredibly rude not to.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don't think Lisa Nandy has a single vertebra to her name.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
At this time on 9/11 I was working for Enron in an office overlooking the gardens of Buckingham Palace. We were all glued to an early version of IPTV watching events unfold live. In the end nobody was doing any work and there was a palpable sense that we might also be a target. We all left early.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
It's always a good time to share this.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Things are getting so bad now I have a a scheduled job which scrapes the French government fuel prices website and graphs the prices from my local petrol stations in Grafana. The cheapest price has gone up 4c in the last 48hrs.
A screenshot of a Grafana graph of local diesel prices
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The farrier came yesterday to trim the donkeys' hooves. The dogs love the trimmings but I was a bit worried that they would make 5 month old Hector ill. He was fine. It was 4 year old and donkey trimming veteran Kilo who threw up on my bedroom floor at 3am. So anyway, morning, how was your night!
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Rav @rvbdrm.com · 11/09/2026
Saw this on instagram. It was captioned: “The precise moment when the 80s became the 90s.”
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Look, I'm not saying you should laugh but in a massive cockup, the Eiffel Tower management were asked to remove female staff during a visit by a group of Hindu monks. They acceded and it's been a massive scandal here in France. The thing is, the monks belong to an organisation called BAPS.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think 2 things are true here. The poster is right that the AI companies don't give a shit about safety and they're hurtling towards something unchecked but also he's drunk the Kool Aid and is AI-pilled about the possible outcome of their efforts. Like aliens, it's never AGI (until it is).
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hmm, I wonder if this video is AI slop?
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is abhorrent and it infuriates me that in 2026 this is still the treatment that every online woman can expect. Nobody thinks that this isn't a problem and yet the solutions always seem to fall between the cracks.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I saw this on Reddit and now you do too.
A slightly scruffy dog stood in front of a pile of rubbish bags with a dildo tied around him and dangling between his legs.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's not just screenshots. At work we have a piece of software called "Portkey". HP references are everywhere and every time I hear one it just a fucking insult.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is highly detailed explanation of the extent to which LG TVs treat you like a farm animal, a resource to be maximally extracted. I hate how you just can't trust any tech that you bring into your house anymore. Everything has an adversarial relationship with you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFV...
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216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I don’t know why they’re pussyfooting around. They’re a far-right paramilitary group. They should all have been arrested as such.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In the US, for a president to be credible, they have to be seen with a bible. In the UK it's a pint. Both are performative both I know which I'd rather have.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026
So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I know Attenborough and the gorillas may be a shibboleth but it was the BBC at its best. I want the BBC fixed but the way it's going at the moment it's digging it's own grave. The BBC is doing the work of the far right who want to destroy it by itself.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Why on earth do people think they get to decide what other people should or shouldn't post?
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 03/09/2026
oh, is that what we’re gonna do today, we’re gonna fight?
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
France has told Palantir to get stuffed. Palantir is sulking.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This looks like a scene from the sequel - the White Ship Disaster - where William's grandson and about 300 people including the crew all got shitfaced on a boat crossing the Channel and crashed it into a rock, sinking the boat. They all died apart from a butcher.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Men used to wear hats nearly universally but for some reason that lot never demand that men go back to wearing trilbys.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 01/09/2026
*not all women welcome
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
post something random and you’ll have an awesome september
Three of my donkeys. Left to right: Alice, Colin and Willoughby. Hector the labrador puppy is sat behind them and Kilo is exploring in the background.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is what the GC crowd imagine when somebody says "gender neutral toilets". I suspect secretly they fantasise about it.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Young man injures hand in argument with estranged father.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
One of the most shameful things about being a British immigrant in France is the performative hatred by other Brits of the French. The most vocal of these are Reform voters so I'm completely nonplussed by how this is going to go down with them.
Guardian headline: French far-right leader Jordan Bardella to address Reform UK party conference
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/08/2026
Does anyone else feel like we're in a inevitable crumbling of society where declining living standards, ever increasing crises, and decaying institutions converge? Even worse, the stupidity of the current political system right now makes it all feel so hopeless for at least the next decade.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Moderation is hard #31241234. Also this is a catastrophic business model - the cost of doing this on every post is going to bankrupt them in a few months.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We're all ordinary people today
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No cheating. Share the last picture of the sky from your camera roll.
A shit but oddly artistic photo of the eclipse
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.
The Young Ones
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Lisa Coombes @cutscore.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The last paragraph of this correspondence The Lancet published following the Supreme Court's judgement is 'Chef's Kiss' perfection www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Why should genitals supersede brains? This is the argument one would have liked to read. The Court’s discussion is poorly informed and simplistic. No doubt the clarity of its conclusion will be welcomed by some, but reducing a complex subject to an overly simple one is not what is needed. Their Lordships would have benefited from a refresher course on sex and gender differentiation.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
How French basketball player Julie Tétart got dragged into US transphobia.
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