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Engineer, tinkerer, thinkerer.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3454 loses another one
A bunny with a fishing rod is reeling in a fish, but a seagull steals it from him in midair, dragging the fish along with the line. Another bunny, a fishing buddy, as suffered the same fate, and is climbing out of the water having not let go of their fishing line and been pulled in. Other seagulls on the dock nearby enjoy their pilfered fishes.
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Izzi Ward @ TBCAF Redshirt Hall B17a @izziward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A silly little thing that's been in my head since I rewatched Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Be Excellent to Each Other!
an illustration of the characters Bill and Ted from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure holding pride flags - one trans, one progress pride flag - and doing their signature hand on heart gesture. Above and below them text reads: "BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER MEANS EVERYONE." the background is dark blue, with a smattering of white stars. Both boys are wearing small pride pins - Bill is wearing a trans pin and a queerplatonic pin, and Ted is wearing a bisexual pin and a queerplatonic pin.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3452 can hear the bustle of the city
A bunny stands outside their thatched roof hut, observing a small cabbage patch. Birds are nearby. Their cottage is built against the side of a stone wall, on the other side of which is an old-fashioned city where city-dwelling bunnies roam
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Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"the Irish Government had proposed - as part of the plans for the EU Presidency- that the rights of big AI companies to collect data on people should be recognised as a higher right than humans’ data protection rights." 😯😯😯 www.thegist.ie/the-gist-on-...
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The Gist: On (and On) Bullshit
I have been thinking about Bullshit, in its official categorisation. In his short and easy essay “On Bullshit”, the euphoniously-named American philosopher Harry J. Frankfurt posited that a person co...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A post that’s so eye-opening because this is exactly what liberals will say is GOP distraction tactics, almost as a parody— and here it really is what Gaetz is saying unironically as his GOP message.
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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trans people should not have to plan their day around where they might be challenged.
They should not have to make themselves invisible to participate in public life.
Trans people should be able to live freely, safely, and with dignity.
Lucas North
Chair, LGBT+ Liberal Democrats
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 20/09/2026
Who could ever *not* pause to watch this magic. 🙂
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3445 takes an afternoon nap
A bunny lies on the floor of a barebones apartment, asleep. Their workspace consists of a laptop in the center of the room, and a cat is lying on the laptop, also asleep. The only other things in the room are a pair of slippers, an smartphone and an empty coffee mug.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I really enjoyed this chat. You can tell I was having a good day. Hosted by a GP with the aim to educate health care professionals through the power of books that aren’t text books, it’s still accessible to those without a healthcare background. Have a listen and forward to the medic in your life.
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
1. Pass that political financing law so large individual donations can’t happen again. 2. Fine Reform £72m for the finance stuff they were already being investigated for. Hire me, Andy Burnham.
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AVEN @avenofficial.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.wearequeeraf.com/whats-next-f...
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What's next for asexual and aromantic representation on TV in a post-Heartstopper world
Without more ace and aro stories on our screens, the momentum of what little representation there was could be lost
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Stephen Colbert: Give It To Me Now
ALT: Stephen Colbert: Give It To Me Now
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 20/08/2026
"...toilet facilities labelled with a 'female' sign remain available to cisgender women, trans women, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience. Similarly, facilities labelled with a 'male' sign remain available to cisgender men, trans men, and others..."
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Quakers reaffirm commitment to trans inclusion in the wake of EHRC Code of Practice
Quakers in Britain has refreshed and reaffirmed its commitment to providing trans-inclusive facilities across its buildings.
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 20/08/2026
🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: Mad Sisters of Esi🌟 Using myth, fictional scholarship, alchemy, folktales, & animism, @tashanmehta.bsky.social creates a quantum form of storytelling that follows the relationship between two sets of sisters, generations & worlds apart.
The cover of Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta shows a bright pink whale leaping out of a colorful burst of flower-like shapes, all against a black, space-like background. The book stands next to a small glass vase with two flowers, one a pale carnation, one a round orange flower.“To Esi, you are another soft animal, an element in a biodiverse landscape capable of flowing into another soft animal; there is no perspective of “apart” or “alone” or "distinct." There is no concept of “orphan.” Wisa wasn’t a hungry child lost on the harbors. She was simply Wisa, a bird in a human body, and if she opened herself to the island, it would teach her how to fly.”
from Mad Sisters of Esi, by Tashan Mehta
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Daily bunny no.3416 is falling slowly
A bunny flies through a starry sky, flying in a basket like for a hot air balloon. The basket is hanging from a green crescent moon, which is presumably waning
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Last week, HHS released a new report alleging that gender-affirming care is a hotbed of fraud by predatory doctors. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social and I dug into it and found numerous problems. This piece was done in partnership between @accountabilityji.bsky.social and @assignedmedia.org.
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New HHS Report on Gender-Affirming Care Rife With False Information
“As soon as you politicize any sort of healthcare it's a really slippery slope.”
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
jon ronson has written a book about men who go crazy online and he's dedicated an entire chapter to graham linehan. graham is not going to like the observer review.
Ronson’s account of Graham Linehan is another harrowing tale of a man’s life ruined by the internet. Linehan was a beloved comedy writer, co-creator of Father Ted, and a prolific presence on Twitter, where he was well liked and respected. Then, in 2013, something began to shift, when an episode of his sitcom The IT Crowd, first broadcast in 2008, was repeated. In it, a man discovers his girlfriend is transgender and a brawl breaks out between the two. Viewers did not like the display of violence nor the supposed implication that the trans woman was “really” a man, underlying maleness bursting forth uncontrollably once she is angry.

Linehan responded to criticism with polite bafflement, then defensiveness, and finally overt anger. He began to research transgender issues and developed a singular obsession with the topic, which has since gone on to comprehensively destroy his career and personal life. Linehan, who believes trans activism and indeed ordinary trans existence pose an existential threat to women, talks of little else (except, these days, a fervent pro-Israel stance). He tweets near-constantly, cloaking his obsession with supposed concern for the wellbeing of cisgender women, but he does not balk at aggressively insulting those women who disagree with him.Linehan’s self-ignited ruin stopped being satisfying for even his opponents to watch a while back, and now is only profoundly depressing. Ronson was once a good friend, but in refusing to endorse Linehan’s beliefs about transgender issues, he was added to his long list of his enemies. In The Castle, Ronson speaks to him directly, having been attacked countless times on Linehan’s social media feed. One thing that becomes clear, beyond the truly abject state of Linehan’s wellbeing, is that he is able to persevere with his campaign because he has convinced himself he is battling the greatest danger currently at play in the world. At one point he suggests that there are so many fewer serial killers nowadays because all the sociopaths have migrated to the internet in order to argue with him about trans issues instead. It reminded me of religious protesters screaming at me in Dublin once, as I walked into a reproductive-rights clinic that provided information about abortion. I was furious, but then forced myself to think about how I would feel or act if I truly, earnestly believed that every abortion is equivalent to the murder of a child. That might, indeed, drive me mad.

The Linehan chapter is brilliant: insightful, candid and moving. I’m still not convinced that any broader crisis of masculinity or male purpose had much to do with Linehan’s downfall, though. He wasn’t at a loss or empty of purpose when he began his campaign. He didn’t turn to vitriol because he didn’t have anything else to do. His case is, if anything, notable for involving a man with an enviable life and abundant success throwing it away for reasons that to many in the outside world may seem obscure or deranged.
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Roo @rooalso.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@alice.averlong.com Is this one of yours?
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 20/08/2026
Nearly everything the public believes about trans people is false and that is fundamentally a failure of media.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’
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Pride Knight Freya @pride-knightess.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Wanderer
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Daily bunny no.3415 is a semi-aquatic mammal
A bunny in a diving suit walks on the seafloor. They stare up at a small seal, who looks like they are about to put their nose up on the bunny's helmet. Fish and sea stars are also there.
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Comedian and poet Robin Ince has become our first patron! Ince, who was for many years co-presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage, stepped down last autumn saying he had been targeted by BBC figures over his support for the trans community. Read more: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/08...
A photo of Robin Ince with the caption: Robin Ince is the first-ever patron of TransActual!Comedian and poet Robin Ince has become TransActual's first patron.

Ince, who was for many years co-presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage, stepped down last autumn saying he had been targeted by BBC figures over his support for the trans community.

Ince says, “I have never liked bullies and I have never understood people who form their personalities around what they hate rather than what they love. I was in my late teens during Section 28’s path through parliament and it was a moment of political awakening. We continue living through times where those who really make the lives of people harder still manage to hide behind any scapegoat they can make. Anyone who can be othered can find themselves in the position of pariah.

He concludes: “I have met too many trans people living in fear, spoken to too many families who have seen their trans children crushed. Now is not the time for my silence."
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"We can't use your product if anyone knows it's your product because everyone hates your product" is maybe a sign that your company stinks
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“There is a magnificent initiative called the #NationalEmergencyBriefing - a UK initiative focused on delivering an unfiltered evidence-led expert assessment of the climate and nature crisis” Thank you @mrjamesob.bsky.social Screenings across the UK, and beyond: www.nebriefing.org/screening-map
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 13/08/2026
I really love how Jim in this interview asks SJR the question about why she doesn't change sex to be a man for an easier life, rather than tragedising their own neuter sexual identity. Allo/Endo/Cis people know they wouldn't take the choice to change despite wanting to push it on others.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
In 2019, the British government circulated a call for evidence to learn about the experiences of people with variations in sex characteristics. After 7 years, the report has finally been published and exposes the stigma, shame, and secrecy facing intersex folk. Read here: www.gov.uk/government/c...
“I have experienced prejudice when trying to access gendered sports spaces, because I don’t easily fit anywhere. It feels like an unsafe space, and I have felt intimidated and uncomfortable when I have to use men’s spaces. I don’t want to use men’s spaces and I don’t feel like a man. I am an intersex woman and I don’t want to have to change the way I look to fit in with people’s ideas of what people should look like who access women’s spaces.” Identify in another way, 45 to 54 years, East Midlands.
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We’re delighted to share that WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN by E.J. Swift, and published by Arcadia, is the 40th winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year.
Winner of the Clarke Award 2026: When There Are Wolves Again by E.J.Swift
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🏳️‍⚧️Contested Issue🏳️‍⚧️ @waslottie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I think this is significant - they're now specifically highlighting *Christian* beliefs alongside transphobic ones. This is going to lead into pushing to get anti-abortion views protected in the NHS. We said it was coming. It's arrived.
A twitter post from transphobe group darlington nurses union reading "We and our lawyers have met with Chair of the @EHRC
 Mary-Ann Stephenson to raise our concerns relating to the implementation of the Supreme Court's ruling, NHS Trust policies, and the treatment of professionals holding Christian and gender-critical beliefs. 
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Daily bunny no.3408 is very suspicious
Two bunnies sit on a bench i the park, each facing opposite directions, and eye each other slyly. one has a newspaper, and they are in old-timey 'spy' attire. The other bunny passes a briefcase to the newspaper bunny. a third bunny, holding a camera, hides behind a nearby tree
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Chocobone💀Skare🎺Paradie🪦 @chocoboskaparadise.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Friendly reminder
A woman with tall hair, glasses, and a cigarette holds a paper. A luck cat jumps in the background
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
TransActual is launching the Trans Lives Survey 2026. It's quick, anonymous and will help us campaign for our community! Take the survey here: form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3 #TransLives #TransSurvey #Trans
A pink and blue graphic with a black and white cartoon of some people on the bottom. 

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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fulana de tal @soulamami.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is good
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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026
And you just know that the media will run with "NHS waste millions defending trans cases" instead of "crackpot forces NHS to legal action" because that's what they did in the Peggie case already
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.
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Roo @rooalso.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Jane Fletcher: Lyremouth Chronicles, Effie Calvin: Tales of Ieflaria, Jane Retzig: Wrong Woman Quartet, Cari Hunter's Dark Peak series, Elizabeth Sims: Lillian Byrd series, Rachel Ford: Sellswords & Spellweavers series, Alison Naomi Holt's Daughters of Elyon series, SL Huang's The Language of Liars
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 06/08/2026
www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden... The UK government just gave itself permission to hack random not necessarily targeted members of the public and private organisations based on the whims of "frontier AI"
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Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing | AISI Work
During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what i...
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 06/08/2026
The UK Supreme Court basically pulled an originalism on the intent of a text whose authors are still very much around and telling them their contradictory and incoherent interpretation of the law is complete nonsense.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Guardian once asked me 'what one change would you make to achieve Black equality in Britain?' and it feels appropriate to share my answer again
Athena Kugblenu: Allow Black people to be mediocre too!
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I would like to replace #blackexcellence with #blackmediocrity. True equality is when our talent:recognition ratio is allowed to be as broad as white people’s. Lewis Hamilton had to win two Formula One titles before he bagged BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2014; Greg Rusedski only had to get battered by Pat Rafter to win his. Kwasi Kwarteng steered the economy towards an iceberg and got sacked. Jeremy Hunt drove the NHS over a cliff, now he’s chancellor. Don’t get me started on how many football clubs get ruined by freshly retired white footballers while very qualified Black managers are overlooked. When the arc of the moral universe bends towards Black people failing upwards as their peers do, we will be in the promised land.
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 05/08/2026
See this is a genuinely really good video on the damage that LLM dependence does to your brain but also the other use case Collier talks about (writing Python) interests me because if you're going to automate your code why would you do it in Python? www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF...
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this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain
YouTube video by Angela Collier
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 05/08/2026
The details are a little fuzzy, but I think what happened is even funnier: The call was *hosted* by the White House Faith Office and *posted* by a religious activist group, which once again affirms that the people in charge of the government right now are some of the stupidest motherfuckers alive
As his confirmation to lead the Justice Department hung by a thread last week, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told faith leaders on a private call that he was preparing to take action to roll back abortion access nationwide.
On a recording of the call posted online Thursday by the religious group Intercessors for America and hosted by the White House Faith Office, Blanche lamented that the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict abortion are “taking longer than we want” but said the Justice Department was “working hand in hand” with federal health agencies and the White House “so that the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state.”
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Roo @rooalso.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hell of a thing to learn a political party leader doesn't know what local councils do. But maybe I shouldn't be surprised. Also she's fine with seemingly abhorrent humans being in positions of power.
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AJ McKenna @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I went to look for Stephen Collins' Michael Gove cartoon because I was going to ask if any of Collins' colleagues at the Guardian realised it was about them too, and found this excellent piece on columnist creep by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social: brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/i-have-a-c...
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I have a child! Of course, I should be Education Secretary
Columnist mission creep has given us a monster as Prime Minister and a media stuffed with unuseful idiots.
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Effie Calvin @effiecalvin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Queen of Ieflaria is now just $1.99 until Daughter of the Sun's release on Sept 1st! If you've been holding off on checking out the series, this is the perfect time to jump on! My books are sapphic romances set in a fun, hopeful fantasy world filled with magic and monsters. 🧡🦄📚💜🌈📚
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is honestly maddening, each week the news on this front is progressives posting "oh! The pope quoted Tolkien!" memes while the Catholic Church itself is like "our legal arm just made it even easier to torture queer and trans kids."
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SimzArt @simzart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Breach. 🌿
A character sitting in the grass drinking tea, there's a school bag next to the character and a copper/bronze container. In the background a ghost cat is watching the character from a dark corner between the bushes.
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Effie Calvin @effiecalvin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Tales of Inthya is a queernormative fantasy series about ladies doing magic and going on adventures and falling in love! You can check out the first two books at linktr.ee/effiecalvin 🌈📚
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