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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 · 04/10/2026
The Krakens wake
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My hobby horse is putting NI on unearned income. It seems like such a no-brainer but none of the political parties will touch it. You could have all the pension locks and more.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think Liebfraumilch and Mateus Rosé - base of a million table lamps - were the only wines you could get in the UK in the 70s and 80s.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is well worth a listen - especially with all the Cornell stuff going on at the moment.
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probablynaut.bsky.social @probablynaut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Theres a Marilyn Frye quote, "that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, honor...."
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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
honestly the most depressing thing to me is that we have to talk about this again and again and again and again and again. how to teach men to have human feelings, how to get people to believe us
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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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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One French translation of "fly-tipping" is "décharges sauvages". Literally "wild discharges". I think the 2 may be connected.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One French translation of "fly-tipping" is "décharges sauvages". Literally "wild discharges". I think the 2 may be connected.
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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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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
or "all we wanted was genuine solutions but all we got was hope, again".
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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
As long as centrists defer to wealth and power they will never be decent.
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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 · 22/09/2026
I'm a fan of predictive coding, that is the brain is like an LLM predicting the future and the senses only correct those predictions rather than driving it deterministically.
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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 · 21/09/2026
Has news of French school lunches reached the US? The variety and quality of their 4 course meals is off the charts, often for around $5/day.
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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 · 19/09/2026
None. I came out to my sisters a few months ago and the lack of even intellectual curiosity, let alone concern for my wellbeing, is a deafening silence. They never spoke to me much before but now it seems particularly pointed.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Such a simple sentiment and yet it has the power to set us free; underground, overground, wombling free.
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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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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Don't forget Donald Trump. A catastrophic failure of oil supplies could mean no fuel to get food to the shops and total societal breakdown. We fucked every way.
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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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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wouldn't this spark a major diplomatic crisis with France?
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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
Hector is currently at war with the geese through the French windows.
Hector the puppy and the geese (Izzy and Peggy) at war through a glass door
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I hope you mend soon. I can't do cats but I can do donkeys, puppies and geese
Alice, Colin and Willoughby. 3 of my 4 donkeys with Hector the puppy and Kilo in the backgroundHector, the Labrador puppy at 4 months oldPeggy the goose
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nobody is saying that some women don't do bad things - though you have to ask yourself if Maxwell would have done what she did but for Epstein - the point is that focusing on the women is giving the men a free pass. The relative scale does not compare. It's just outright misogyny.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Don't be an apologist for abuse.
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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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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That's one woman, in service to a man. "In history" how many millions of men have raped women and children without consequences. For every Ghislane Maxwell there are thousands of Harvey Weinsteins. Don't be an apologist for abuse.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
lol, I wish it were only $8/gal - here in France it's already over $10/gal 😢
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @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
As a trans immigrant in France I'm pretty worried but 2 things give me hope. She may win the presidency but not parliament so is hamstrung and also she has fallen out with Bardella who, given the "rats in a sack" nature of right wing politics might run and split the vote (fingers crossed).
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Link to statute?
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
GC is a cult. It cannot be reasoned with. There is no appeasing people who want to eradicate us.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Still not the law then
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
No law then
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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
What law? Link to the relevant statute.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's not the law.
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Joni Baldry (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jonibaldry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Have you read the article? It literally says "Aramco, the Saudi energy ministry and major wire services have not confirmed any hit on the line". I'm not saying it hasn't happened, just that nobody with any authority has confirmed it. Until then it's just 🤷
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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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