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Twenty-something, I might repost but I don't plan to make original posts.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
hey here's something I would love us all to do like RIGHT NOW: find out if your local library is doing any kind of pride programming or display, and if they are, email them to say thank you and why it matters to you. whether or not you're queer. especially if you're in an area where it's fraught
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
No, employers need to do their own training. It’s not educators’ job to make sure that school-leavers — or graduates — have the specific skills that each company needs. Employers need to invest in their workforce.
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 01/06/2025
Happy #Pride everyone! I don't usually do sales because the whole point of my Etsy is to fundraise for my own trans expenses but Pride is better with community so this month I'm giving 10% off orders for 3 or more pins. Why not get some extras for friends? canopyrobin.etsy.com
a line-up of enamel pins: trans inclusive lesbian and gay man flags, a progress pride coloured tree, 4 versions of ferns in trans colours, two of which glow and two of which are pendants, a white flower that turns rainbow in the sunshine, and circular pins that say It's Dr Actually on a range of pride flags
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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Listening to that classic Marxist anthem: Dolly Partons "9-5"
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 29/05/2025
The housing ombudsman for England has seen a 474% increase in complaints in the last five years due to poor quality social housing and lack of repairs. Safe, warm, affordable homes are not too much to ask for. Labour promised this. It's time to restore our social housing.
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
SAFE, WARM, AFFORDABLE HOMES FOR ALL
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft
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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 26/05/2025
You can borrow board games from some Auckland libraries now! www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Pages/board-...
Mini display of board games you can borrow from Auckland Central Library including: Codenames Pictures, The Resistance Avalon, Tokaido, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Root, Exploding Kittens, Catan, Ticket to Ride Europe, Wingspan, and 7 Wonders Duel
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TestZero @testzero.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Made a version of this meme I wanted to see.
Meg Griffin ans AI says "You guys always act like you're better than me."
The rest of the family are dressed nicely, Peter is labeled "Digital artist", Lois is labeled "traditional artist", Chris is labeled "Pixel artist", Stewie is labeled "A literal child with crayons"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
No one who cares about wildlife and ecosystems is now likely to vote Labour in 2029. Or about Gaza. Or poverty. Or inequality. Or international aid. Or corporate power. Or democratic reform. Or racism. Or trans rights. So that's goodbye to just about its entire vote. What are they playing at?
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous. Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family. To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Political parties banned from Manchester, London, Birmingham and Brighton Prides this year. Statements in the images.
STANDING TOGETHER: A UNITED FRONT FOR TRANS RIGHTS
As the organisers of the UK's largest Pride events in Birmingham, Brighton, London and Manchester, we come together today in unequivocal solidarity with our trans community.
We are united not only in message, but in purpose.
At a time when trans rights in the UK are under growing attack, our resolve has never been stronger: we will not allow progress to be undone.
We will not stand by as the dignity, safety, and humanity of our trans siblings are debated, delayed, or denied.
What is happening here in the UK is not isolated. It is part of a disturbing global trend-from the banning of Pride events in Hungary to anti-trans legislation in the United States-where LGBTQ+ rights are being systematically rolled back.
The UK must not follow this path of regression. Instead, it must rise as a global leader in human rights and equality.
The recent ruling by the UK Supreme Court to exclude trans women from the definition of the term 'woman' underscores the urgent need for immediate action. In this moment, we choose to stand firmer, louder, and prouder in demanding change that protects and uplifts trans lives.
That is why this year, we are collectively suspending political party participation in our Pride events.
Know that this is not a symbolic gesture. It is a direct call for accountability and a refusal to platform those who have not protected our rights. We demand real commitments and measurable progress. The Pride movement was born from protest, and we must continue to embody that spirit with intention and urgency.To move forward, we need more than promises. We need every political party to stand unequivocally with every member of the LGBTQ+ community, and to centre the voices of trans people in policy, practice, and public life. Collectively, we call for:
• Full and enforceable protections under the Equality Act
• Timely and dignified access to NHS gender-affirming healthcare
• A reformed, accessible Gender Recognition Certificate process
• Sustainable funding for trans-led services and support organisations across the UK
This is the minimum. Anything less is not allyship, it is abandonment.
To those in power: when you demonstrate true solidarity and tangible commitment to trans rights, we will stand with you. Until then, we will continue to speak truth to power and fight for a future where every trans person can live safely, freely, and proudly.
As Pride events across the UK face mounting challenges, our resolve only grows stronger. We will not be silenced. We will not be divided. Together, we will build a national movement rooted in justice, unity, and unapologetic pride.
Now, more than ever, we need everyone to show up for trans lives and show up for Pride.
In solidarity,
Birmingham Pride
Brighton Pride Pride in London Manchester Pride
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Julie (Mae) Cohen @juliecohen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Wtf does ‘An island of strangers’ mean? Do immigrants cause all citizens’ friends and family to suddenly disappear? Does no one ever make new friends? Are immigrants not allowed to speak with anyone or become part of a community? This is some racist bullshit Keir
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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
adding alt text because we don’t need to leave those with visual disabilities behind!
a screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics showing a person holding a trans flag and asking “will you stand with us because they might come for you next?” and the black mage Ramza replying “No, I’ll stand with you because they’re coming for you now."
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Eveyone & their brother is using ChatGPT to avoid doing the reading/homework & we’re all going to suffer bc of it.
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Lauren Hitzhusen 🔜 NYCC @hitzhusenlauren.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Two of my nephews are 4 and 6 and when I tell them about my job, I'm not entirely sure how much they retain. I was reading a comic to the 4 year old and pointed out a word balloon and said, "Those are whiskers. They go around certain sounds in comics, like sneezes. Whiskers are on cats and comics."
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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
So this has been an entertaining 24 hours
A mastodon post by @hedgielib (on glammr.us server) that says

There was a question about "what AI skills should librarians have" on one of my listservs. My Ideas: 

•	Knowledge of the IP theft underlying these tools
•	Discerning “we just relabeled something and now are pretending it’s AI to charge you more while making the product worse”  from vendor pitches
•	Understanding the inherent biases, the ecological harms, the underpaid mods 
•	Addressing loss of critical thinking and reading skills ]
•	Demonstrating how this is being used as labor suppression

It has 354 boosts in 24 hours
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Julian Dailey @juliandailey.com · 07/05/2025
Black smoke means we don't have a pope. Yellow smoke is electric! Green smoke is alarm smoke. If you see it, you'll have to fight a monster. Orange smoke is orange scented. It will make you smell delic
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The Midnight Grimrose @theeveningprimrose.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
'Have more kids' is real easy to say for people who don't have to push them out of their bodies If you want people to have more kids maybe like I dunno Materially improve the conditions of their lives so they aren't precarious? Healthcare? UBI?
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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Disabled people are worthy of the same rights as anyone else. Yes, even those who can’t work or pay taxes. All disabled people matter!
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Asher Perlman @asherperlman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
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Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This "debate" about who should use what toilet doesn’t benefit anyone. It doesn’t fix the underfunding of women's refuges, NHS waiting lists leaving women in terrible pain, mums skipping meals to feed their kids. How about we get on with tackling the real issues affecting women?
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A plea. Misgendering unfortunately happens. I've done it. You might. "OH, crap, sorry" and moving on with proper pronouns is INFINETELY preferable to making your embarrassment my problem to assuage by apologizing 700 times. Be cool, my babies. Be cool. If I can let it go, you need to, too.
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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Hello friendos Your librarian here with a tip Ditch Duolingo and their AI and use your library card to access Mango or Rosetta at your library. You can also check out language CDs and DVDs, as well as books, phrase books, dictionaries and e-resources.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast
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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
Marisa said she is eft with nothing BUt questions.
"What if I would have been armed," she 2 said. "You're breaking in. What am 1 supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed-that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too. We vork. We pleed justlike anybody else bleeds. We're scared. You could see our faces that we were terrified. What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety? Of being given
the ight t that they took from me to protect my daughters?"
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 28/04/2025
They're finally here! The full range of "It's Dr, Actually" pins is now available, thanks to your support! Please share them as much as possible so that they reach the people who'll love them: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
A collection of circular hard enamel pins which say "It's Dr, Actually". The backgrounds of the pins are in the style of the nonbinary, trans, agender, genderqueer, genderfluid, bigender, intersex, lesbian, and progress pride flags. There are also flagless backgrounds in black, white, hot pink, pearlescent purple, pearlescent dark green, pearlescent pink, pearlescent light blue, and pearlescent light green. A handwritted URL directs you to look up CanopyRobin.Etsy.Com
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/07/2023
A DISCWORLD PRIMER* *or, why should I read this thing that everyone keeps going on about? Come on in, sit down, pull up a chair. If you have followup questions, feel free to ask me or @ankhmorporkcity.watch, we're always happy to help. (1/a lot, idk, we'll figure this out as we go)
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I feel like it’s being overlooked that a policy based on the idea that kids are autistic, not trans, is essentially saying that autistic kids don’t know themselves enough to consent to healthcare. This is making a loophole that will make autistic kids exempt from Gillick competence. It’s dystopian.
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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Honestly I find it galling that Labour continues to call itself that. Whatever they might have started out as they no longer represent the working class. The only labour they represent is the stolen variety
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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
For people wondering why the UK's Equality And Human Rights Commission is acting counter to human rights, I'll c+p a combination of threads from a couple of years ago. They cover the systemic attack on many marginalised communities by idealogues trying to dismantle human rights law. 1/
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Everyone has already made this point but reiterating that US citizens cannot be ‘deported’ and using that language does the mainstreaming and propaganda work of the fascists who want to make it sound normal to kidnap, disappear, and traffic people based on their ethnicity or politics
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I think it’s fucking rude to listen to music or podcasts without headphones on public transport and reserve the right to glare at anyone doing so. But making it a crime is absolutely pathetic. Come on.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The @goodlawproject.bsky.social fighting fund for trans rights is going to exceed £100,000 today. It s still not enough so please contribute. GLP has re-committed itself to fighting for our human rights after the SC injustice. In due course they will be taking our case to the ECHR.
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Fighting fund for trans rights | Good Law Project
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollbacks on trans rights in the UK.
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Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
URGENT: Following yesterday's public protests & our thread calling for everyone to contact their MP urgently here is some guidance on what you might say in an email. This is not a time for thinking someone else will fix this. Please read, share and ACT! www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...
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URGENT ACTION: Write to your MP to protest the Supreme Court ruling and the EHRC's proposals to impose draconian bans on trans people from single-sex spaces.
The trans community is facing a major crisis in the UK after the Supreme Court ruled last week that for the purposes of The Equality Act 2010 sex should be classified as biological (i.e. as recorded a...
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Dave Lee @dave23lee.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
From @cassolotl on Mastodon: UK petition: Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender It's currently getting a new signature every 4 seconds. Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Signatures: 52,447 of 100,000 Deadline: 12 June 2025
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.
We believe the government should change legislation to make it easier for trans people of all ages to change their legal gender without an official diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Today, thousands gathered across the country - from Hastings to London to Glasgow - to say: we will always stand with trans people. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️
Someone holding a sign saying: Respect existence or expect resistance. Parents holding up a sign saying: "this mum says trans rights are human rights" and "our beautiful daughter is trans."Someone holding a sign saying "you can't legislate us out of existence."Someone holding a sign saying "i love my trans self. I love my trans friends."
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Simon Lamrock @simonlamrock.com · 19/04/2025
Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A lot of people want to separate the art from the artist, but I would settle for separating the artist from her money.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?" This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for HistoryExtra , but here's an excerpt! 🗃️🧪
Table showing cost of items in the 14th C., and the equivalent value in eels. The table has 3 columns: "You want to buy", "It Costs", and "But in eels?" The table shows you that:

2 doz. eggs costs 1d, or 6 eels
A gallon of the best ale costs 1.25d or 8 eels
1 sheep costs 1s 5d, or 106 eels
1 cow costs 9s 5d, or 706 eels
A 2-story cottage costs £2, or 3,000 eels

The d. here means penny, from the latin "denarius." There were 12 d. to a shilling (s), and 20 shillings to a pound (£).

As far as I know, no one was buying cottages with eels. This is more to give you a sense of relative costs. But wouldn't it be interesting if you could buy a house with eels?

This chart leaves unanswered the question: "What about the next-best ale?" and suggests and entire spectrum of ale gradations. Which makes good sense, of course. But also, you certainly wouldn't want to spend your eels on inferior ale!
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Ridley @rid-ley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
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𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋™ @devononearth.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Trans women ARE biologically women and no biased court can stop that basic fact from being true. Sex is a homeostatic property cluster containing an array of primary, secondary, and tertiary sexual characteristics. Trans people can and do change sex
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Karen Luk @karenluk.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Cat comic about how to support artists for free by liking, following, subscribing, leaving a comment, not use generative AI, and sharing with credit.
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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It's Autism Acceptance Month. If you are not already accepted by an autistic person you have 27 days left.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
after another long day of browsing old court documents, i just want to remind everyone that if a stranger agrees to do something illegal with you and they keep asking you to say out loud what the illegal plan is, that’s because the officer is recording you.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Repeating my helpful little mnemonic song from Twitter: If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Just going to say, visibility without support kinda blows. See us, hear us, but more importantly support us in actual, concrete ways. #TDOV
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