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Ethel Weapon

@lousadzak.bsky.social
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Exhilarated absurdist. Against nature. Music fiend. Physical media appreciator. Trans and trapped in England. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 3h
In the hospital recovering from GRS holy shit I made it
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
growinguptransgender.com
Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 02/10/2026
UK government is seeking input on 'puberty-suppressing hormones' from researchers, academics, and people representing stakeholder groups.
Puberty-suppressing hormones for children and young people accessing gender identity services
Future research
Published Monday, 14 September, 2026
Future research
Health and social care
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How has evidence on puberty suppressing hormones for children and young people with gender incongruence evolved since 2023, and what challenges affect its interpretation and use?
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please don't get this one wrong, slebs
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Who likes good pop music
youtu.be
[Who Likes] Good Pop Music
YouTube video by Rudy Vallee - Topic
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can’t help feeling that “under 25” must be tied to the pseudoscientific myth that the brain “matures” at that age. Like the same book is being run re: neurodiversity (just asserting “they’ll grow out of it”) that has been used to deny healthcare / social support to trans kids.
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One year since I was made redundant. I’m glad to have sidestepped deeper immersion in the dunce’s inferno that is AI. I can’t imagine how soul-destroying it must be now to watch automated incompetence fungally engulf your workplace, especially if you’ve clocked that none of it is sustainable.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The @bmj.com claims it was a huge scandal that the FDA/CDC maybe delayed reporting a rare, mild, temporary vaccine side effect for a couple of months in 2021. What about their own anti-vaxx and rank pro-virus misinformation from that time? My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
If the BMJ Wants to Revisit Venerable Institutions Who Misled the Public in 2021, They Should Look Inwards at the BMJ
Until the BMJ demonstrate the integrity to revisit their own dismal failures regarding life and death matters, there's no reason to care about their opinions regarding less consequential issues, is th
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Given the absurd fetishism of the pound - one of the things UKIP was built on - rejoining is going to be a long haul. Given that Ireland is not in Schengen I could see that condition being waived, though.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
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Louise Weard @weard.moe · 30/09/2026
world premiere december 2
Screenshot of the Music Box Cinema website. Text reads Castration Movie ⅗ Year of the Hyaena
Opens December 2
2026 / 300 min / DCP
Rated Unratedstill of Castration Movie Part 3 with red border and font saying Music Box. Still features Louise Weard in a red dress as Michaela and Ada Rook in a bunnyhug as Sora.
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Katie Neeves - Cool2BTrans - Trans Ambassador @cool2btrans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trans kids are no longer safe in UK schools! Please watch my video about my friend's 13-year-old transgender daughter who has been forced to leave school and be home-educated, due to transphobia, DIRECTLY brought about by new anti-trans guidelines for all UK schools. youtu.be/2oQKPYs4k58
youtu.be
Trans kids are no longer safe in UK schools
YouTube video by Cool2BTrans
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
static.klipy.com
The Tick I'm Doing Laundry
Alt: The Tick, working a mashing machine and saying “I’m Doing Laundry!”
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As Andy Burnham decides to make pensioners poorer instead of taxing the mega-rich or rejoining the EU, a reminder of how the UK compares with the rest of Western Europe on pensions.
Luxembourg: £2436
Switzerland: £2400
Norway: £2164
Denmark: £1822
Holland: £1403
Italy: Men £1437, Women £1056
Belgium: £1401
Malta: £1400 - £1600
Spain: £1341
France: £1296
Germany: £1281
Sweden: £1226
Austria: £1121 (min)
Ireland: £1115 (min)
UK: £1045
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
amazing how antediluvian it sounds to talk about "the charts" feels like a complaint from the buggy-whip makers union
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That’s what Apple said 40 years ago but look how bloody insufferable it would be
youtu.be
Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987)
YouTube video by Mac History
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Alan-a-Dale kicking out some rocking balladry on his super sick harp lute.
Alan-a-dale in the film Sword of Sherwood Forest playing a lute harp (second course of unfretted strings runs from the body to an extension of the head that curves out).
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah, time to switch back to Very British Bigotry being a blocklist rather than just a mutelist. Why waste even a second on the slathering idiocy.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 26/09/2026
BOOK TRAILER!! BOOK TRAILER!! BOOK TRAILER!! beckbook.com
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Labour: “we must reunite progressive voters to win the next election” Also Labour: *bans trans women from its women’s conference*
metro.co.uk
Powerful unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans ban
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In a brutal place
The improbably long and elegantly curved concrete brutalist structure of Preston Bus Station
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Am I dreaming
Animal welfare
Rick Wakeman performs piano concert to 150 rescued moon bears
in Vietnam
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Terrahawks rock, people
7 inch vinyl single cover 
The image shows the head of a Gerry Anderson puppet, Kate Kestrel, with a truly enormous head of bright pink hair

Text reads:

Kate Kestrel
SOS 
Hit single from the Terrahawks TV series
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Are We The Baddies Bad
Alt: Man in Nazi uniform asks “Are We The Baddies?”
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Tilly Norwood” is a terrible Britcom name, sounds like Hyacinth Bucket’s long-suffering neighbour
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 20th Century Bassoon
Cover of an LP showing what appears to be a painting that might be taken to show a sky showing deep space. Text reads

Thẻ 20th Century Bassoon
JOHN DOWNEY
THE EDGE OF SPACE
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ROBERT THOMPSON Bassoon
GEOFFREY SIMON Conductor
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Meanwhile, the more credible existential threat from AI arises from humans wiring up known-to-be hallucinatinatory bullshit machines directly to military command and other existence-critical systems
arstechnica.com
AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is totally pants (complimentary)
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I guess the transphobest among us are pretty confident about what an "independent" review is going to conclude here huh
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tomorrow (19th September) is #TalkLikeAPirateDay and your annual reminder that when we talk the way we talk when we're talking like a pirate, it's because of a film that was based on a book, inspired by an earlier book, inspired by a real life pirate from #Orkney! ARRR! 🏴‍☠️👇
An illustration of a pirate with a tricorn hat and a bushy moustache
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The proposal to remove hormone treatment as an option for trans under-18s dropped the news that a review of adult hormone services was underway, completion due in 2026. Now we learn from the WGS arbitrarily stopping surgeries that there is also a review of surgery underway in NHSE, due 2027.
In parallel, NHSE is undertaking a review of gender surgery services, the outcomes of which is expected to report in 2027
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
David Heinemeier Hansson called for the extermination of Romani people, comparing them to animals. An entire roster of tech tycoons responded by each personally giving him $1 million for his open source software project, even though he’s already wealthy enough to have a personal race car team.
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This seems like bog standard AI hallucination carried over into “agentive” output, which is totally unsurprising. It’s incredible how this stuff has been ballooned into “existential threat from gods we made” and suckers are sucking it up.
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s because they are racist shitbags
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: Llais, the health watchdog for Wales, is investigating the decision by NHS Wales’ Joint Commissioning Committee to indefinitely pause access to gender-affirming surgeries. If you have been affected - they have asked you to share this with them: www.llaiswales.org/news-and-rep...
llaiswales.org
Update on our work regarding NWJCC’s decision to pause gender-affirming surgery | Llais
Ar ddechrau'r mis hwn, cyhoeddodd Gwasanaeth Rhywedd Cymru - a gomisiynwyd gan Gyd-bwyllgor Comisiynu GIG Cymru (CBCGC) ac a gynhaliwyd gan Fwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Caerdydd a'r Fro (BIPCAF) - y byddai ...
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Spent the entire day assembling a wall-sized set of shelves for vinyl storage. Sick of collapsy IKEA crap so I’m trying out Regalraum shelves, using a 4x6 Boon cube configuration, seems pretty sturdy. (Unlike my back now).
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So they didn’t even bother to justify it with the square root of fuck all Absolutely shocking basic failure of governance
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sign: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
petitions.senedd.wales
Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients.
We call on the Senedd and Welsh Government to direct the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) to: Immediately unfreeze scheduled and approved gender-affirming surgeries for patients who have already completed assessments. Ensure that any ongoing clinical review is conducted concurrently without disrupting active, established patient care. Publish clear, transparent Terms of Reference and a strict timeline for the independent review of the Welsh Gender Service.
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Full list of every movie and TV show you must prove you have seen before seeing Doomsday: - The Man In The Iron Mask - Penda’s Fen - Doom: The Movie - Moonfall - Toomorrow - Peau d’Âne - The Return Of Captain Invincible - Scaramouche - The Marching Monoliths - Mindhorn - Our Miss Fred
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Plain clothes They’ll arrest you again Beat you up on the street Fight back and you’ll get the blame
youtu.be
Fad Gadget - Plain Clothes
YouTube video by Versus101
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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 31/03/2026
I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.
Ben Delo, Nina Power and Daniel 'DC' Miller.
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NW: Psychomania (in high definition, not a scuzzy VHS)
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House of Commons Committees @hoccommittees.parliament.uk · 10/09/2026
Alex Sobel MP has been elected Chair of Joint Committee on Human Rights. The Committee elects its chair from among it's membership. The Committee scrutinises human rights issues affecting the UK.
Alex Sobel MP has been elected Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. Image of Alex Sobel MPQuote about the importance of the Joint Committee on Human Rights in Parliament and honoring Lord Alton's leadership on key human rights issues.
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s all over for Grover 🎉
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A shopping trolley that can’t successfully be steered is not going to develop a superhuman supermarket sweeping capability that will denude all the supermarket shelves causing humankind to starve to death FFS HTH HAND
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Phobeclaimers Tine to fuck off into the dustbin of history alongside Right Said Fred, you drivelling pricklets
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Picking up this glam killer was also a major highlight of today’s charity shop yomping #vinyl #NowSpinning
45 single of Hello Baby by Shambles
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just bought 23 Melodiya / Polskie Nagrania Muza / Pronit LPs, trying to sift out the pop-rock-proggiest looking ones from several boxes as the mildew spores billowed around my head. Beautiful times.
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