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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/07/2026

not to come back to this again but i read the statement in full and once again, respectfully, DANG “We are not called to the legal minimum of hospitality. We are called to the radical welcome of the one who sought out the excluded and the overlooked.”

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I can't hellp thinking the French government have loaned us the Bayeux Tapestry to remind us that England beat some Vikings before then lost to the French shortly after because they were tired. #WorldCup26

The Bayeux Tapestry being delivered to the British Museum

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Rob Taylor-Ailes @robotrjt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I don't do football, but people at work do. This that someone sent round rather tickled me.

Cartoon of the Manneken Pis sculpture from Brussels in a Belgian football strip doing his thing into a grimy Reflecting Pool in Washington DC.

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Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Trans people have been using the toilets they want to for decades The only thing that changed was a moral panic Nobodys toilet usage changed, what changed was a bunch of bigots started stamping their feet about EXISTING social norms They want to change the social norms, not anybody else

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

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a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face

Alt: a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This is a feeble excuse. Pixar films prompt much harder conversations about death, grief, anxiety, environmental disaster, betrayal, jealousy, friendships, class, animal rights, etc, etc

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/02/2026

In this story, there is a lot of support for trans people that you rarely see covered in the media unless they're being attacked. Businesses and individuals all standing up and saying 'I will not be a part of this' and I think that needs to be highlighted because it can feel lonely out there.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/01/2026

"The flag acts as a warning sign – a silent message. It makes you more vigilant and also, every time you go into a house with a flag, you have to prepare emotionally for the possibility of racism or rejection," says Neomi Bennett. bit.ly/3LvCkEA

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'A silent message to people like me': The nurses scared to visit homes with flags

Workers are affected by the atmosphere that national flag-flying brings, as they deliver care while on high alert for racially charged interactions

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

"Hello. My name is Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. You killed my mother. Prepare to die."

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Hard to read this and not feel a flare of righteous fury at the absolute cruelty that underpins the anti-trans movement. Just diabolical to force a tiny number of girls and young women out because you've let your twitter algorithm convince you they're dangerous. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Trans girls banned from joining Girlguiding

Girls’ adventure charity says it made decision after seeking legal advice in wake of supreme court ruling on gender

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

"What part of 'what you do for the least among you, you do for me' do you not understand?"

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 08/10/2025

Ok. But are there any downsides?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

A lot of people don't understand how pensions (or benefits) really work. They picture a national savings account in which their 'own' taxes are stored until they retire. Not that they were paying for the person before them, and now someone else is doing it for them, so inflation doesn't screw them

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/09/2025

“A row of men lean against the metal shutters that keep them out of Westminster tube station, as they piss through the bars directly onto the steps on the other side. Nearby a furious man in his early 30s yells ‘bring the cocaine here now, mate’. It is not yet 2pm.”

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Tommy Robinson’s march was a drunken, coked-up mess

He claimed the world was watching, but most of London barely noticed - and much of what was on view was appalling

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 13/09/2025

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law. These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

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folk tune stan account 🎻 @folktunes.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times. (1/3)

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Carpathia received Titanic's distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian's exact position at the time is... controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic's distress rockets. It's uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia's Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic's aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia's lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her.

He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don't know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out.

By this time, many of the passengers were awake-prepping a ship for disaster relief isn't quiet-and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here's the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms-which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors.

He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she'd done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can't push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless-it's difficult to maneuver-but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can't do it. It can't be done.

Carpathia's absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can't-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn't expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 07/09/2025

This is the thing. I'm not someone who has ever voted for Labour, but I am someone who should be persuadable to vote for them. I'm not sure which of Lib Dem or Green I'm going to vote for next time, but I know I'm *not* voting for a party that's made it illegal for half my friends to exist in public

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry it's not gender activism, it's transphobia and bigotry

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I’ll say it again: no one’s trying to make your kids trans or non-binary or gay. We’re trying to keep your trans or non-binary or gay kid alive, because we know (unlike certain howling straight people) exactly what it was like.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 28/08/2025

The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The snake oil salesman got his way once - the result was a disaster. Don’t let him do it again

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Well, if it’s 17 June, it must be the 85th anniversary of Major Alfred Wintle, MC, responding to the defeat of France by starting a one-man campaign to rescue the French Air Force using methods which landed him in the Tower of London

b/w photo of a man in late middle age/early old age, with a military sort of moustache and a monocle, his hair brylcreemed and very precisely parted

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Farleigh Hanchet @farleigh.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

Person dressed as a knight with a trans flag and a cape with a trans flag shield that says “Trans Knights are human Knights”

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/05/2025

Hinckley Times doing more actual journalism than most of the mainstream media and platforming an actual trans person.

Hinkley Times full page artcile featuring large photo of Katie Neeves - ‘Supreme Court gender ruling is unworkable, it’s discriminatory and it sets us back 50 years’
TRANS ACTIVIST KATIE TALKS ABOUT CONFLICTS OF LAWS AND HOW IT’S NOT ABOUT TOILETS, BUT FEARMONGERING...

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Natalie Gray @natgrayy.es · 09/05/2025

Nice to see that everyone is referring to the new pope by his chosen name. 🏳️‍⚧️ Do the same for trans people! 🏳️‍⚧️

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Things i have done in public restrooms with blokes: Patted a stranger's back and said "you good dude?" As he threw up in the sink. Had a good chat about football scarves. Recommended a pub to a stag do. Toilets are just toilets. As Odent implies, any anti-trans dialog about toilets is effing weird

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

In 1970 Latvian physician Viktors Kalnbērzs performed the first gender affirmation surgeries in the Soviet Union. Various documents (such as this request for surgery, and before/after patient photos) are preserved in the Riga Medical Museum collection. Kalnbērzs died in 2021.

Framed letter requesting gender affirmation surgery

Historical photos, woth patient identity blurred shoeing before/after of a female to make transition.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Spotted, in the wild. A transgender. Such a danger to society that they must be banned from all bathrooms as a sensible reasonable and proportional measure. Can't you sense the threat? It radiates out of the screen.

A guy lays down on the grass and stroked a fluffy cat

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

"There are a small group of extremists on the far-right who want to see trans people victimised. They are using this as a wedge issue to channel hate. And frankly, the vast majority of people in this country don't want that.

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Goodwin said that 🇬🇧 making trans people out themselves was a breach of the right to a private life. As was making them “other” in an intermediate zone. So this is a pretty clear breach of both of those… …and it overroad the margin of appreciation quarter of a century ago:

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Kaylee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🔜 BLFC @littlemacha.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up. I’ll add more as I find them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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SJ @phyonix.design · 17/04/2025

Trans Women are Women

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WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

All this money & energy spent to make life more miserable for trans people could've been used to fight against domestic violence, wage disparity, sexual harassment, harassment of people accessing abortion services, proper childcare provision; you know, to make the world a better place instead.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/04/2025

"I DO NOT ABSOLVE YOU. WRITE YOUR OWN EMAILS." has been playing on loop in my head all day

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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I mean…gaslighting extraordinaire. How you do you fight this level of mass propaganda? They have a transphobic Health Minister fully on their side, they’ve banned transitioning, introduced conversion therapy, and will now be calling trans women ‘men’. It’s trans people who are terrified of the NHS.

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Delbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

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Rob Taylor-Ailes @robotrjt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This is how a cat cave is supposed to work, right... To be fair, she had just knocked a toy under there. #proofofcat

Black cat playing underneath a blue and green domed cat cave, rather than being in the cave.

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