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Andrew Carter @cartoir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

LNER going for an ad strategy that is localised enough to name the correct city but not localised enough to realise the phrasing is going to annoy the city in question.

LNER YouTube advert saying 'From Edinburgh to the capital just like that...'

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

what scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you've seen it?

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

this post, with it being written by a "john brown stan", might be the most hilariously bad and ironic posts i've ever seen on bluesky.

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

passed by the burned out buildings on prince's street, edinburgh, earlier. took a photograph, and captured something else at the same time. :)

a photograph of the husk of some buildings that have burned down, with netting and cranes, on prince's street in edinburgh. in the foreground is a young man on a bicycle doing a wheelie.

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Rachel Plummer @smaychel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I wish every one of the people stoking hatred against the disabled could experience what it's like to be told your child will never live independently. I wish I could unfold that feeling like a heavy blanket and lay it on their shoulders, let them carry it for a few years.

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

today is my ninth year of being officially on the hrt. happy and sad.

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Completely untenable to have someone who talks about a minority group like this in charge of anything, let alone being the final say in matters of equality and human rights

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

The UK on the other hand has GCs within Labour, top medical institutions, EHRC, medical journals such as the BMJ, and of course the British press. At every level GC's have done complete institutional capture of key influential positions to erase trans rights.

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

a live stream of spacewalk 97. absolutely incredible that this is even *a thing that can happen*. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW-V...

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U.S. Spacewalk 97

YouTube video by NASA

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

a spider ran over my bed and evaded my hands and then hid behind my pillow someplace. it was elsewhere when i picked the pillows up. it was of significant size and heft. it is a harmless critter and i still hate knowing that it's there. somewhere. ready to make a random itch much more manic.

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

i visited Confelicity bakery in Edinburgh earlier today and got myself a cinnamon roll thing and it was yummy. it is an entirely gluten free bakery and for someone with coeliac disease like me that's pretty amazing.

a half eaten cinnamon roll thing on a plate. it is gluten free but maybe it's hard to tell.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 07/08/2026

They should rebrand it as a 'Genuine UK trans experience for cis people'

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TheWitches (plural system) @thewitches.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There is no conflict of rights between cis women and trans women, only a conflict between the goals anti-trans, anti-feminist hate groups and the broad interests of all women

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Amnesty UK have apologised to JK Rowling for rightfully calling out her anti-rights rhetoric. Shame on them. A human rights organisation should not cave to pressure from billionaires, especially those who wish to make supporting human rights a terrorist offence. xoxo BASH BACK

We are disappointed to see Amnesty withdraw their report on transphobia after legal threats from JK Rowling. This is further proof we cannot rely on 'allies' to fight for US,

Our work has been so effective that Rowling has called for us to be proscribed as a terrorist group, but we're still fighting. We’ll only win trans liberation by fighting for it ourselves.

Don't wait for 'allies' to step in and save us; take action now!

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 22/07/2026

Sex Matters is a charity that loves to hate trans people. And your tax money is paying for it. The stuff they spin isn’t just false, it’s dangerous. So we reported them to the Charity Commission with a dossier of evidence on their staff & trustees. ✊Help us fight back: goodlaw.social/anrx

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Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

And on The Tube in London... the people speak out.

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Baltimore Banner Sports @sports.thebaltimorebanner.com · 20/07/2026

“We’re not asking for permission to be here. We’re playing.” In February, USA Rugby banned transgender women from competing in women's matches. It was, on paper, a massive blow to the Baltimore Ferals, one of hundreds of teams affiliated with International Gay Rugby. Instead, they kept playing.

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

i would really like to go swimming. it is very hard to figure out what might be acceptable as a non passing trans woman. if i present as male i will get yelled at for having boobs. if i present as female i will get yelled at for "lying".

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The Odyssey is such a hit that apparently the author has already churned out a prequel called “The Iliad”? Typical Hollywood.

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Miffythegamer @miffythegamer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

TERFs gloating about ruining - Amnesty Girl Guides Women’s Institute Stonewall The Pink Paper 1000s of small business forced to bankrupt themselves changing loos While they’re getting off on destroying our society they want you to think trans folks are the problem.

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chriswaves @chriswaves.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

the internet feels like a dead mall now. which makes a lot of sense when you realize that the internet and malls were literally created for the same reasons, and then ran themselves into the ground with data collection and gambling. youtu.be/xB0MLdQ9O4A

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The Internet is a dead mall now

YouTube video by chriswaves

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The Newromancer @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is the context of JK Rowling putting a survivor of rape or sexual assault on blast for having the gall to seek help

J.K. Rowling
@jk_rowling
Replying to @salltweets
We had it when we set up Beira's Place, too. I am a woman with PCOS and have a full beard, will you still let me come for rape
counselling?' one man told a support worker over the phone, in his bass baritone. Strangely, on learning he was being recorded, he hung up.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/07/2026

1. TERF activist J.K. Rowling is threatening to bankrupt Amnesty International (UK) with lawsuits because the org dared release a report criticizing anti-trans organizaitons. The UK's laws are designed to allow rich people to suppress speech they do not like. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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TERF Activist J.K. Rowling Threatens To Finance Wave Of Attacks On Amnesty International Over Report On Anti-Trans Groups

“They have sued organizations into the ground.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

It's also available here. Please share and spread this report. Trans folks in the UK can't for fear of lawsuits by gender critical groups. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...

drive.google.com

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

my rent, that is paid for by government benefits, was briefly within the LHA rates. this year a rent hike means it isn't any more, and the extra is going to have to come out of other benefits. ive calculated the government has paid a private landlord about 80k since i have lived here.

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

i wanna go swimming but it's weird and difficult as a non passing transgender person.

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

does anyone else have nightmares where they can't enter their phone PIN any more

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

@chriswaves.bsky.social your cameo in the new Leftist Cooks video was really great 😅

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

really good video by benn jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social talking about the course of capitalism, primarily from an american perspective but relevant to all of us. terrifying and insightful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy...

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The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I especially love this diagram.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

See ya to Starmer. A solid Good Riddance from a very public sociologist. averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-se...

I felt many emotions seeing Keir Starmer announce his resignation outside Downing Street on Monday morning. Not one of them was sympathy. For those who've spent the day celebrating the Prime Minister, demanding we respect the human frailties of a hard-done-to public servant, of Starmer's cracking voice as he struggled through the last few lines of his speech, there's a straightforward reply. Where was his respect and sympathy for the protestors ruthlessly designated as terrorists, for the refugees and trans people he's kicked up and down the country like political footballs, for the disabled people he terrified by threatening them with destitution, with the Palestinians whose genocide he abetted and publicly justified?

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 22/06/2026

It's not that deep. Told his base to fuck off (we did), and totally abandoned his manifesto, whist pursuing increasingly authoritarian, unpopular programmes.

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

never forgive techbros for poisoning cute animal videos with slop

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Ned Trifle X @nedtrifle.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Once again the BBC News ignores their part in this "match lighting". Platforming racists (presumably for "balance"). Amplifying Farage and Robinson because they know it'll generate clicks. BBC News - Laura Kuenssberg: Nowak murder has lit a match under UK politics www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Laura Kuenssberg: Nowak murder has lit a match under UK politics

The police response to the murder of Henry Nowak has triggered a heated transatlantic debate.

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Starmer banning under 16s from social media (entirely unenforceable, useless legislation, almost as dumb as the OSA) feels like he's throwing every awful authoritarian-pandering idea at the wall in the hopes that something sticks and saves his hypocritical neck.

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

do you ever do the thing where you go to the thing and you do it there at the thing and then you go to do the thing at the end and then you go to do the thing where you then you do the

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This was a particularly revealing moment. Stephenson says that it’s not on service providers to police toilets but Kirkpatrick says that service providers have the obligation to uphold the law - when Sarah Owen presses them on how those things are reconcilable they just flounder.

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

just over here listening to some of Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social music that nobody else really knows. i love stfu udkn. maybe because it's rude and funky. heck. love it. youtu.be/eWDLcY7CJJ4

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STFU UDKN

YouTube video by The Excellent Man from Minneapolis - Topic

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

hello i just heard for the first time the recording of layan hamadeh calling for help before she and, later, hind rajab were killed. can we not fund the fucking, fucking, fucking assholes who cause this, please?

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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 28/05/2026

🚨 Opposing the EHRC guidance – we need your voice MPs will decide on the guidance in the next 30 days — and we need to show them the reality We need you to tell us why it is unworkable and the real life impact it will have on you in your workplace 📩 Email us: out@unison.co.uk

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

got me a crepe from Edinburgh's delightful Tupiniquim by the meadows. nom nom nom. ^^

a savoury crepe with bits of cheese and spinach visible, outside on a sunny day.

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

on the bus, saw someone had painted some of the fence outside a park, managed to get a quick picture as i passed. little things like this are reassuring. ^^

some fence railings outside of a little park painted with the transgender pride colours of blue, pink, and white

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Annie Wallace @anniewallace.com · 25/05/2026

Remember this... Eire has had gender recognition based on self-ID for over 10 years with no reports of abuse or hatred. The gender critical movement in Eire is minuscule. This is a British problem. A very sick, twisted, British cult problem. It is a disturbing European outlier . This is not normal.

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

@jeffiot.net good job getting on nebula btw. i hadn't realised that was kind of a recent thing. felt like you belonged there for a while.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

‼️ *EMERGENCY TRANS DEMO* 🏳️‍⚧️ 📍Parliament Square 📆 Saturday 23 May 2026 ⏰ 11AM 🚝 Nearest tube Westminster (step free access) Join us tomorrow, Saturday 23 May at 11AM in Parliament Square. Bring sunscreen, water and your rage! *One struggle, one fight* ✊🏳️‍⚧️

EMERGENCY TRANS DEMO

11AM - 23 MAY 2026
PARLIAMENT SQUARE
TRANS RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK
TRANS INCLUSION ISN'T DISCRIMINATION

BRING YOUR BANNERS AND FLAGS!

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Lou-Mae @lou-mae.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

hey hi can the uk not be a dumb weird jerk when i am in hospital or have to pee please, that would be cool. ELLIPSIS oh. oh okay. i guess not.

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