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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So so grateful to everyone who has responded so far! If you have a copy of your response, you can share it with me directly. If TransActual have a copy of your response, you can give them permission to share it with me. More information on the website 🏳️‍⚧️

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

prepare for some interesting legal firsts

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So I was idly thinking that, if I ever get space, it would be nice to get a bandsaw and a pillar drill so I could make toys for our parrots. Then I thought about the absolute Fear of the bandsaw that school DT lessons instilled in me and it's just wild that I could just buy one, no questions asked

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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And further to this, there are ways to be accompanied (not represented) even if they say no: - English not your first language? Bring an interpreter just in case. - Feeling very stressed? Bring someone to support your 'wellbeing'. - Declared disability? A reasonable adjustment can be a note taker.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Delighted to be working with TransActual on this! We know that responding to this consultation was painful for many trans people and our supporters. We'd like to use these responses to find out more about our community's thoughts and experiences. Please read the info and contact me if you have qus

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

friends fear they've taken up another expensive hobby

About 20cm of garter stitch knitting still on a pair of circular needles. The knitting is actually fairly neat and regular with no dropped or extra stitches. The yarn is variegated with patches of dark blue, teal, peach and pink.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Goodnight sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! (yes I have a spare pair, yes I am about to drop £500+ on lenses alone because my eyesight is fucked, no I can't order cheap lenses online because my lenses are very high powered & need a human to line up the lens with my pupil)

A pair of dramatically broken glasses. They have broken at the nose bridge. I have placed them lying flat and with one half above the other half.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The way AI is going to “kill everyone” is just by manufacturing consent for ever worse outcomes & conditions, like many governments do. It is a governing technology after all. And like bureaucracy it launders responsibility so the people & institutions who deploy it aren’t accountable for the harms

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I love how organised Guiders are! Printed songsheet with trans-inclusive lyrics is delightful

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Cancelling all transition-related surgery - with no scrutiny, no records, no democratic oversight, no nothing - just a mandate from heaven to crush trans people's rights.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Returning to this article by @lauraclancy.bsky.social and @hannahyelin.bsky.social on public academia, the neoliberal university and digital hate journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Universities love academic visibility but rarely positioned to support the labour & risk of being in the public eye

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Thinking a lot about Jason Arday. Our time at Roehampton overlapped but I didn't meet him. However, I do know his former colleagues and they are deeply grieving. At the heart of this is a man - perhaps a flawed man, but a deeply human one. I don't want to lose sight of his humanity 1/

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is my little sister! I've had a sneaky preview of the book and it is great - buy one for the small curious people in your life and also one for yourself!

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Watched the eclipse from Coniston Water! It was incredible - absolutely magical to watch the light dim, our shadows grow fainter and feel the air chill around us.

A fuzzy photo of a partial eclipse taken through eclipse glasses with a phone lol. Zoom in for a clearer view!

Me standing and looking over the lake. I am a slim brown skinned person with short black hair. I am wearing rolled up trousers, a black t-shirt and cardboard eclipse glasses.

Looking over the lake at the sun. There is a tiny green reverse reflection of the eclipse from my phone lens in the bottom right corner.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Frankly unnecessary to coll eut mu; PhD reoearo1n

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

lads I think I have a solution for England's defence. Good news, she's eligible for the over 18s squad!

A small tabby cat reclining on a table football table just in front of the red team's goalkeeper.

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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

An interactive atlas of the British Empire's civil service: ~16,000 Colonial & India Office careers (1820–1966), every move an arc across the map. Rebuilt from the digitized Indian and Colonial Office Lists with a knowledge graph. WIP, feedback welcome: jimclifford.ca/col_matching/

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What I would give to be a tiny baby tortoise no larger than a raspberry

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

18 days to go! Trans people and friends - please can you help us find the volunteers we need to carry the @transunityquilt.bsky.social?

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Signal on the tube was a mistake. No one wants to hear someone else's very loud tiktok videos

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Crochet and exam boards, name a finer seasonal combination. This will one day be a big scarf - it's not staying this short!

A crocheted rectangle that will one day become a big scarf. It's a gradient from purple to green with lighter spots. It is the other side of the next photo.

A crocheted rectangle that will one day become a big scarf. It's a gradient from purple to green with darker spots. It is the other side of the previous photo.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Thoughtful, creative, angry and REDACTED conversations today with a wonderful community of REDACTED scholars. It is very sad that, in this political environment, I cannot speak about this openly for fear of reprisal or attack

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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · 25/06/2026

Loved #CADS2026 Find all your fellow CADSers here! Get at me in replies/DMs if you're not in this starter pack and should be go.bsky.app/AT6KX6X

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Delighted to be at #CADS2026 in a disconcertingly sunny and hot Lancaster. I'll be presenting work co-authored with Alon Lischinsky - come along if you want to find out about princes, pervs, hotwives and waitresses in erotic fiction

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Important for everyone in the UK as we go into a week of very high temperatures and humidity, but especially for trans and non-binary people who use binders: limit how many hours you bind, try to keep your skin as dry as possible, drink lots of water, and stay as cool as possible

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Some practical tips for keeping British homes cooler during the heat wave: - close curtains during day to keep out the sun - close windows throughout the day - open windows *only* at night, if it's cooler outside! - close doors on hot rooms if you can - divest in fossil fuels - abolish capitalism

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Lime bike users: delighted that you're cycling and hope you're having fun! Delighted also that you've stopped at a local cafe and are enjoying their coffee! However, leaving your extremely heavy and unwieldy bike blocking the path is really fucking annoying and could you just fucking not 😡

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

what she says! 👇

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Permanent lectureship in International Relations at @rhulpir.bsky.social! Particularly interested in people who can broaden our range - people working on Russia, China, Race/Ethnicity & Environment/Climate Change very welcome Deadline is 20/8/26 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in International Relations

Full-Time, Permanent.The Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Royal Holloway seeks to appoint a Lecturer in International Relations (Teaching and Research focus). The succ...

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Over 100 MPs have now signed Early Day Motion 240, which calls for the EHRC's government-backed segregation charter to be "disapproved". Is your MP among them? If not, you can write to them, call them, or demand a meeting about this today!

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Draft Code of Practice on Services, public functions and associations - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament

That the draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations, a copy of which was laid before this House on 21 May, be disapproved.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

What I want to do: read the papal encyclical, eat ice cream on my balcony, see friends, continue reading a 1000 page book on the 1918 flu pandemic What I'm going to have to do: email my MP because this small-minded, petty, cruel government wish to stop trans people being treated as actual humans

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

3/3. Thinking specifically of that Independent piece designed to drive a wedge between disabled and trans people (ignore the massive intersection) - please don't fall for it. Don't mistake gladiatorial media framings for real world possibilities. The EHRC has repeatedly failed us both. Join forces.

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

2/3. Your agent gets a message that you've got a booking waiting for you - so long as you're happy to parrot the oppositional argument that the editorial team wants. It's a deliberate game designed to drive engagement, and there are always people happy to play the game for their own personal ends.

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

1/3. Reminder to anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of dealing with the UK press: there's going to be a lot of divide-and-conquer around new EHRC guidance, and that will be deliberately editorially driven. You get approached to write an article/spout a viewpoint along set oppositional lines.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We will provide analysis and outline what we think needs to happen as soon as possible once the Code of Practice is available. This is going to be a tough and stressful day for all of us, be gentle to yourselves and each other ❤️

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New EHRC guidance is due today. Remember: ➡️ Early reports based on unattributed briefings are spin, not facts. ➡️ This is civil law around who can and cannot bring discrimination claims - not criminal law. ➡️ Whatever it says, it is a choice by this government. They can fix it. ➡️ We will keep going.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Thrilled I've got 150 responses to my survey on personal tutoring! I'm aiming for 200 responses, so if you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral responsibility for students in the last five years, whatever that's called, with ten minutes spare, I'd love to hear from you. Do share if you can.

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The Role Of Interpersonal Relationships And Care In Personal Tutoring Within UK HEIS

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Been thoroughly distracted by the @royalholloway.bsky.social peregrine falcon nestcam today. Today the tiercel (male peregrine - called so because he's smaller by a third than the female) has been sheltering the chicks, and both have been bringing them food www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/env...

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Peregrine falcons livestream

Royal Holloway has been home to peregrine falcons for many years, but this is the first time we have live streamed their activity.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Went to the Crossness pumping station open day and was pleased at the range of nerd interests on offer. Victorian history! Civil engineering! Public health! Sewage treatment! Narrow gauge railways! Victorian architecture! Also a nice cafe for those who are inexplicably not into any of the above

A painted iron column with a white relief plaque and red, white and black polychromatic brickwork arch in the background. The column is painted red; the column capital is a design of green leaves and white dogwood flowers. The white plaque in the background has a similar design of carved dogwood flowers. A scalloped metal floor is just visible at the top of the photo.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Watched Helen Macdonald's beautiful, lyrical documentary about training a goshawk, Lupin: about living with grief, about living with the ghosts of your past yous, about loving wild fierce things, about trust and letting things go with the hope that they will come back to you.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

If the BBC had focused its report on dodgy immigration advisors exploiting people seeking asylum and providing them with false information that would be one thing, and it is an issue which needs addressing. Instead they have framed this as people seeking asylum pretending to be LGBTQIA+ 5/

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This reporting puts LGBTQIA+ as well as migrants' rights, groups at more risk of far-right attacks, undermines safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals, and makes it harder for LGBTQIA+ people seeking asylum, who already face significant barriers, to be recognised, all based on a handful of anecdotes 4/

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds

The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Something that's changed a lot in Shillong is the sheer amount of tourism from the rest of India. The 7 Sisters have always been geographically, linguistically & culturally distinct. In Meghalaya, the Khasi, Jaintia & Garo tribes are matrilineal - property passes to Ka Khadduh, the youngest daughter

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Finally brought my wife to Meghalaya to meet the family, and I can't tell whether she's happier about the sheer variety of pork dishes on offer or that we show affection through brutally roasting each other.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Finally made it - after a 28 hour journey - to my aunt's house in Shillong, Meghalaya. Now doing my marking on my phone's hotspot. Strange how technology collapses the distance and I am both very far away (geographically, culturally, linguistically) and close to the UK

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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Solidarity with the transgender & intersex communities in India after the Amendment Bill was bulldozed through houses of parliament replacing self-identification with mandatory medical certification. My #KilljoySolidarity with you in this fight. Friends, sign & fight! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Signing the Collective Statement on Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026

Collective Statement on Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026. Note: Translations of this statement in multiple Indian languages are available at the end. We, the concerned ...

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Long and intellectually stimulating day at the University of Birmingham discussing trans discourses, media and policy - thank you so much @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social!

View of Old Joe clocktower in the morning. The sky is grey and it's a bit misty.

View of Old Joe clocktower in the late evening. It's dark and the clock face is glowing green.

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Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Today I wrote a chunk of an article and wrote one blindingly good sentence. I don't know if that sentence will stay in or get edited out at some point, but it's nice to feel that I can write - and write well - after having a couple of knocks to my confidence

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