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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can you help us reach more people than ever before? Respond to our Trans Lives Survey today, and share on your social media, so we can get a full picture of the experiences and views of trans people in the UK. form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3

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Text reads: TransActual is launching its biggest survey for the trans community yet!

TRANS LIVES SURVEY

2026

We want to hear about your experiences as a trans person living in the UK.

It's quick, anonymous, and will help us campaign for our community!

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

20 seconds of Dave the robin relaxing near the bird café-he knows he’s well hidden from cats & sparrow hawks & is *very* well fed and watered. He’s basically at a birdy spa day rn…🪶 Also v relaxing for your brain, as footage of appealing animals & birds alleviates anxiety in humans…

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am begging those in power to understand food webs!

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"AI models are typically trained on enormous amounts of data scraped from the internet, including copyrighted materials taken without their owners' permissions, to the chagrin of creative groups." Chagrin?! CHAGRIN?! Try FURY at having our work stolen and our governments ignoring clear copyright law

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Still a very important read, its also pretty relevant here where the UK Labour party is currently chasing far-right votes by removing trans peoples rights!

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Gusya @angrygooseberry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

fish! fish! fish!

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"masked fascist paramilitary seizes port" just isn't the sort of thing the uk media would ever say, is it

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

What exactly are you looking at here? Beside artwork by Paul Kämpf? The answer is going to a take a bit of unpacking, but it's a ruby-tailed cuckoo wasp, Chrysis ignita. Let's start by looking at it from another angle... (🧑‍🎨: Paul Kämpf)

I believe this is a painting "Chrysis cf. ignita by Paul Kämpf". It appears to show a blue-green bejeweled wasp head and a red-orange bejeweled tail shoved together into what looks like two interlocked spheres.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I usually paint the eye last of all. I thought I'd reverse it a bit. What you see here took all day to paint (minus a few hours for cooking and eating, etc). I wish I was joking. ;_;

Detail from a watercolour painting in progress of a common kingfisher. The eye and beak have been painted in, plus some light washes for the head markings.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Compare *this* 2007 Telegraph piece that declares: “Too many journalists & scientists built careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful & ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.”

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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

NEW PAINTING TIME! Here is "Consuming the Fallen," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features over 50 different species of marine vertebrates and invertebrates. #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #SeaRex #Pliosaurus #Ichthyosaurs #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Thalassodraco #Sharks

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

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ered @ered.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Seen some talk of unethical fiction, so here’s my take

Three panel comic titled Unethical Fiction:
1. Made with AI
2. Printed on human skin
3. The author uses their profits to fund a hate group.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If like me you're longing for the sea this photo's for you:small precious things I found on a walk on Old Hunstanton beach 2 yrs ago (+an aquamarine bc it looks like a Cornish rockpool). Let your brain swim about in the beachy colours & tell me your fave exhibit in this tiny museum if you fancy it🪸:

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Auction ends Friday 17th, 12pm EST. 🙏

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

On the 5th August, the EHRC's Code of Practice becomes statutory guidance. It will make life even harder for many trans & non-binary people. It's unworkable & harmful. The Good Law Project is challenging & wants to hear from people affected by these exclusions. goodlawproject.org/discriminato...

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‘Discriminatory’ and ‘unworkable’ trans guidance to come into force | Good Law Project

The equalities minister has ordered the government’s harmful code of practice will apply from 5 August – we’re pushing back

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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

And now a message from the Moth Promotional Board: Want to see cute moths like this? Grow 'weeds'. That's right. Do less gardening, be less tidy, make less effort! & get ecologically super-important, pollinating, beautiful, fluffy flying kittens!!

A beautiful pink and olive green elephant hawkmoth shaped like a tiny adorable jet plane. It's sitting on a grey cardboard egg tray from my moth trap. A+ good moth friend.

A wildflower patch in my garden, filled with sorrels, bedstraws, burnets, long grasses, and various other small plants that moths like to eat.

A tiny furious grass veneer moth, a wedge shaped micromoth with lightly striped wings, round blue eyes, and worry black antennas that look like angry eyebrows. It's livid because it's being photobombed by a fuzzy brown heart and club moth in the background. They're both delightful moths though.

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Nicholas Jackson @njj4.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Labour is currently functionally (and in many cases actively) transphobic, and this petition will not fix that, but it registers a formal objection to the horrific EHRC "guidance". Petition: Disapprove the draft Equality Act 2010 guidance laid on 21 May 2026. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

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Petition: Disapprove the draft Equality Act 2010 guidance laid on 21 May 2026

I want the House of Commons to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, 2026 laid on 21 May 2026.

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 29/05/2026

Long before ANDOR, BABYLON 5 warned us of how fascism raises quitely and slowly until it feels “normalized.” Heck, even predicted the use of blonde-haired woman used as the “pleasant” face of the movement. And the use of “aliens” as the scapegoat.

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The EHRC guidelines are a mess that leave trans people more vulnerable in public spaces and treats trans women as a potential threat to be managed. What the fuck is that saying to humans who just want to live?

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

These guys really could have sold AI as “this is going to make your lives better.” Instead they picked “this is going to take your job and ruin all the art you love and you better embrace it or get left behind.” And they expect applause at commencement speeches!

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I don't know if this is a particular hedgehog's signature move, or if several of them are using this tactic, but either way, that old saying about the fox knowing lots of tricks while the hedgehog has one good one might need updating. #TinyJoys

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

what's preposterous—& makes labour feel so abject—is they've processed the cultural right as their 'boss' whose desires must be enacted & the left (their own voters) as their underlings who must be whipped into line to accommodate them

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"It is true that many voters do see immigrants as the source of all economic woes, but they are wrong and it matters that they are wrong."

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Nicole Loven @nrloven.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I'm trying to find as many different types of orchid in the wild this year. Here's everything I've seen so far! 1st, giant orchids (Himantoglossum robertianum)

A close up of a tight cluster of pink orchid flowers. The lower petal forms a vaguely humanoid shape with a green tinge to tips of the arms and legs.

A tall spike of dark pink flowers, with robust oval leaves at the bottom. It is growing among rough grass.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Results from the #paleostream! Kalakocetus, Qianjiangsaurus, Caipora and Cartelles, Tarkops and Forstercooperia. And yes, these last two pieces are Star Wars themed #MonkeyCruise paintings ;)

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Another piece from a few years ago whose generally lukewarm reception was rather unequal to my own fondness for it. 🥲Perhaps because of the subject? Garden snail (_Cornu aspersum_), approximately 105 x 60 mm. Watercolour on vintage J Whatman paper from 1940. #Invertefest

Watercolour painting of a garden snail with an especially attractively streaked shell.

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

If you're a cis person who thinks that Starmer and his government being appalling on trans human rights is a non-issue because 'nobody's perfect', rather than a telling insight into a fundamental lack of respect for basic human rights law, and a necessary warning for all people to heed...well.

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We brake for nautilus! “We usually stopped what we were doing whenever we saw nautilus, b/c they are such amazing animals to watch,” said #VisioningCoralSea Chief Scientist Dr. Robin Beaman of James Cook University. This enigmatic cephalopod navigated the depths before dinosaurs roamed the Earth!

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

No fan of the Iranian regime. But is this how it works now? You bomb countries you're in talks with? You starve countries of oil for no reason? You kidnap leaders because you want their oil? The failure of leadership, the media and agencies meant to govern this is incalculably immense

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

European goldfinch Watercolour on silk mounted on paper, 84 × 118 mm. Referenced from a photograph by Paul Fisher.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

We’re doing this. It’s a way to fund original scripted comedy from some really great people - with more lined up in the wings - and if it works, this could be a UK industry game changer.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug - A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION with apologies to Richard Scarry - Brought to you by the rough and ready Inner Hive, including long-time member Brady Marsh and new member SquirrelSaver7. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive ) - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

“People have every right to own property, but we must balance that with the demands of burglars to steal that property and sell it.” Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Last month, Kendall indicated she was sympathetic to artists' demands not to have their copyrighted works scraped by AI companies without payment and wanted to
"reset" the debate. "People rightly want to get paid for the work that they do," she said, and "we have to find a way that both sectors can grow and thrive in future".

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter

In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.

I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.

Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B

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Andrew Bluett @drubie.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people. It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Autumn leaf 1 Watercolour, approximately 75 × 130 mm. Suggested musical accompaniment: youtu.be/htnXgyBbiyg?....

Watercolour painting of an autumn leaf of red and gold with dark brown spotting.

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💖 Birdhism Jen @birdhism.com · 14/10/2025

A common occurrence. #birds #kakapo

Po the kakapo says "I'm often mistaken for an adult because of my age."

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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Pauline Loven @paulineloven.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Crow’s Eye Productions latest dress history film, directed by Nicole Loven @nrloven.bsky.social and starring Andreane Rellou. youtu.be/4QR9BnrcNbc?...

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Getting Dressed - Anne Boleyn (1533)

YouTube video by CrowsEyeProductions

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Younger daughter & I are sorting our fossil collection with a late breakfast of ammonite pancakes 🐚🌀

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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

as a neurodivergent & also weird kid school was hell for me, though these days I struggle to remember the names of all the teachers who bullied me. But the three that treated me like a person have never left me. Now more than ever, I hope you all try your best to stay unsquishable!

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