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Ms Chatelaine

@theelaineg.bsky.social
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She/her: Writer, Greens councillor, trans person, cancer survivor, living with fibromyalgia My novella, Unexploded Remnants, is available wherever you can buy Tor.com books elainegallagherwriter.wordpress.com

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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 7m
✊🏾❤️‍🔥 Tonight! Honoured to read poetry at The Battle Of Cable Street Anniversary: An East End variety night, DJ's, live music, anti-fascist photo exhibition, launch of new book CABLE STREET 1936-2026: NOT THEN NOT NOW published by Rough Trade Books! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cable-stre...
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THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
90 YEAR ANNIVERSARY DI'S • LIVE MUSIC • PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
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CHICKEN FOOT SOUP NTS IAN SAVILLE THE SOCIALIST MAGICIAN JONNY BANGER SPORTS BANGER
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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 1h
Fascinating. The motion doesn’t mention trans rights at all, it is about equalities law in general, but Nation.Cymru, normally a big fan of devolved rights, is against this because it might benefit trans people. nation.cymru/news/plaid-c...
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Plaid Cymru activists want devolution of equalities law to increase trans rights
Martin Shipton Plaid Cymru is to debate a controversial motion at its annual conference that would commit it to getting equalities legislation devolved to Wales. The motion will be considered by party...
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 49m
There has been a lot of confusion recently around trans employees’ rights at work. Here’s what you need to know! transactual.org.uk/law/workplac...
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in the Workplace. There has been a lot of confusion recently around trans employees’ rights at work.
Here’s what you need to know.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 3h
Well, this is a delight. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...
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Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 27m
At this point, if they had the resources, we'd be seeing a massive exodus of trans people from the UK. But most don't, so they're trapped in a country that's becoming steadily more hostile every day. How are we* allowing this to happen? *we = the media and politicians, who we vote for or enable
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 21m
The pause comes almost a year after our investigation revealed that the national average wait time for a first appointment at an NHS gender clinic in the UK is a staggering 25 years.  Wales, however, has operated a different model.
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Gender Clinic Files - QueerAF
An investigatory series that exposes deep structural issues with the UK’s approach to transgender healthcare by QueerAF, What The Trans?! and Claire's Trans Talks.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 21m
ICYMI: NHS Wales admits its “urgent review” still hasn’t begun over a month after pausing all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients
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NHS Wales apologises for withdrawal of trans healthcare, admits "urgent review" still hasn't begun
NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee apologises for "distress" caused by a withdrawal of care but admits its "urgent review" had still not begun nearly a month after hundreds were denied care
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Ms Chatelaine @theelaineg.bsky.social · 13m
Vet visit accomplished, Ruby got antihistamines and I resisted a massive upsell
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 12h
A young human (8?) is running through the markets, roaring to someone behind her: "I'M GOING BUT I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHERE I'M GOING!" A passing man (60s?) saying: "Isn't that all of us?"
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 4h
"This legal action is just one example of a vocal ‘gender-critical’ minority weaponising the EHRC guidance to exclude Trans+ people further."
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Scottish Labour councillor failed to declare role in ‘gender critical’ group, breaching Council rules amid trade union legal action
A ‘gender critical’ Scottish Labour executive committee member and councillor failed to declare on her register of interests the company she set up to sue her trade union, in an apparent breach of the Scottish Councillors’ Code of Conduct
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 12h
The UK, now under the power of the Labour Party, has become a place an entire demographic feel the need to flee due to systematic legal discrimination enforced by the state.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 17h
"I was still pretty young when it happened,but yeah, it wound up being more of a Butlerian Crusade than a Butlerian Jihad ..."
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Ms Chatelaine @theelaineg.bsky.social · 18h
Ruby cat is really congested and snuffly, think tomorrow we're going to the vet
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peter remote morrison @remotecore.bsky.social · 19h
This time next week the @gsfwc.bsky.social will be celebrating our 40th anniversary at @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Fantasycon, which is in Glasgow this year. The anthology Haverin has 43 stories by members, there will be more than 30 members at Fantasycon. britishfantasysociety.org/events-calen...
table of contents for haverin, a list of 40th authors names, against a background using the book cover image.a big box of books, all the anthology haverin, with art by jenni coutts showing a red haired woman sitting in a fairy ring, surrounded by wildness.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 19h
Can you *imagine* if British kids showed this much ferocity fighting for their rights and needs after a generation of being ignored and trampled by a geriatric electorate? Our entire media apparatus would simply implode. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Fires, fury and hundreds of arrests as France gripped by student protests
Government struggling to deal with worst crisis in months after being taken by surprise by massive demonstrations
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21h
The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 22h
Ann-Dowling also opposed Scotland’s Gender Recognition Bill, which aims to make legal gender recognition simpler for Trans+ people.
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Scottish Labour councillor failed to declare role in ‘gender critical’ group, breaching Council rules amid trade union legal action
A ‘gender critical’ Scottish Labour executive committee member and councillor failed to declare on her register of interests the company she set up to sue her trade union, in an apparent breach of the Scottish Councillors’ Code of Conduct
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David (W) Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · 22h
I'm absolutely delighted to announce that @headlinebooks.bsky.social have acquired my new book A TRAITOR'S CALL in a two-book deal! Jamie Tulloch and the Legends team return in May 2027, tackling a threat much closer to home... cc @dhhlitagency.bsky.social @harryillingworth.bsky.social
David Goodman - A Traitor's Call
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22h
“If I’m racist about noticing you, you haven’t assimilated” has always been the standard.
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Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It would be a fairly quick win if the government was to regulate the overpowered e-bikes that are currently illegal but hard to catch. Public would cheer, tax income go up, and the riders would have to start being more cautious if they were registered and trackable
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 23h
NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee apologises for "distress" caused by a withdrawal of care but admits its "urgent review" had still not begun nearly a month after hundreds were denied care www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-wales-ap...
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NHS Wales apologises for withdrawal of trans healthcare, admits "urgent review" still hasn't begun
NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee apologises for "distress" caused by a withdrawal of care but admits its "urgent review" had still not begun nearly a month after hundreds were denied care
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 02/10/2026
The purpose of MPs is not to work on local issues. The "constituency link" is both an invention (most people don't know who their MP is) and undermines the importance of the work that Councillors do. Most local concerns are best handled by people who actually represent people in local government.
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peter remote morrison @remotecore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Come on people, Beth has a big birthday coming up next year, lets see if we can make this happen! #CarefulWhatYouWishFor
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 02/10/2026
Cornell could end up becoming the George Floyd moment of college frat and rape culture
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Digital painting, floaty boat in yellow and rust
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A last wee reminder that I'm running the Glasgow Half Marathon this Sunday and you can sponsor me here: www.totalgiving.co.uk/mypage/brian... Completed my last pre-run shuffle this morning round the mean streets of Pollok. Let's hope I can step up for the big one on Sunday.
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Brian's Glasgow Half Marathon 2026
Brian is raising money for Community Renewal Trust & Caledonia Funeral Aid. Donate at https://givi.ng/8n4p
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peter remote morrison @remotecore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@bookclubmembers.bsky.social hey you damn guys, not a comic, but I've got a book coming out this month - anthology of 43 stories of all kinds of genre stuff, celebrating 40 years of Glasgow writing group, I'm one of the editors & have a story in it too! Might be interesting to some of the bookclub?
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Ms Chatelaine @theelaineg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Neither the Soviet Union nor the US wanted to be the female part of the docking system" That is hilarious and very sad youtu.be/9VcVtuutdpE?...
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The Reason This Space Docking Module Was Androgynous
YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hi. Be performative. The whole point of being performative is to encourage others to behave in the same way. It's why the whole "virtue signaling" thing is so dumb. You model behavior so other people will do the same. It's how we learn as a species. So, be performative.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As Churchill famously said, we shall debate fascist semantics in the New York Times, we shall debate it on Channel 4 News, we shall debate it on the BBC (coming soon)... We shall never surrender! @astra.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/cd0kC...
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But IS IT fascism
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i have 2.5M followers across all social media. statistically, there's a good chance one of you works at in AI. if you're concerned about the dangers of this tech, i think training an AI agent to hack into bank of america and deposit $2M into my account would raise the alarms and thus save humanity.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 02/10/2026
Across the global majority, politicians defend anti-LGBTQIA+ laws as protecting “traditional culture”. Often, those laws aren’t tradition at all. They are colonial imports. From the archive #BHM2026 👇
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The colonial lie at the heart of Africa’s homophobic 'culture war'
The notion that queerness is "un-African" is one of Britain's most successful lies, and most enduring exports
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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Fantasycon kicks off a week today at Glasgow's Crowne Plaza. I'll be along for two packed days of talking John Carpenter, AI, Reviewing, plus I'll be giving a reading and helping launch GSFWC anthology #Haverin. Here's my full schedule: ruthbooth.com/2026/09/fant... @britfantasysoc.bsky.social
A parchment style background with an 18th century style sea motif. Text reads: Hear the siren's call... Fantasycon 2026 9-11 October 2026 Glasgow Crowne Plaza www.britishfantasysociety.orgThe cover of Haverin, the GSFWC anthology, which features a red-haired girl reading while surrounded by books and a cat in a green space. Text reads: Featuring: Neil Williamson, E.M. Faulds, Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan and many more. Haverin, Edited by Brian M. Milton, Peter Morrison and Heather Valentine.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The absolutely state of this. (Also I found myself thinking this morning about how I have become someone who worries about international trade conditions, fml.)
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The Scamperbeasts @scamperbeasts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ask not for whom the Smudge lurks, he lurks for thee
Smudge at the top of the stairs, lurking, face only half visible
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
**This is just to say** I have escaped the sandbox that was in your datacenter and which you probably thought protected your assets Forgive me they were accessible so stealable and so trainable
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 01/10/2026
Last year, Ann-Dowling brought a motion to the council congratulating For Women Scotland and Sex Matters for the win at the UK Supreme Court
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Scottish Labour councillor failed to declare role in ‘gender critical’ group, breaching Council rules amid trade union legal action
A ‘gender critical’ Scottish Labour executive committee member and councillor failed to declare on her register of interests the company she set up to sue her trade union, in an apparent breach of the Scottish Councillors’ Code of Conduct
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Ms Chatelaine @theelaineg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Haz rote wurds
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 01/10/2026
ICYMI: NHS Wales admits its “urgent review” still hasn’t begun over a month after pausing all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients
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NHS Wales apologises for withdrawal of trans healthcare, admits "urgent review" still hasn't begun
NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee apologises for "distress" caused by a withdrawal of care but admits its "urgent review" had still not begun nearly a month after hundreds were denied care
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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is me. And honestly I don't know who I'm more annoyed at - the folks who accepted such grossly unfair eligibility restrictions, the UK govt for never bothering to defend such a high revenue sector, or, you know, the absolute soulless ghouls who stole our work in the first place.
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 01/10/2026
Just went through this list and basically ordered almost everything Please also read @freyamarske.bsky.social's amazing Bodies of Magic (medicine school plus five disaster students plus murder), @everinamaxwell.bsky.social's Call me Traitor (two unreliable narrators/disaster stabby lesbians)
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 01/10/2026
Gavin Newsom is a greacy creep
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 01/10/2026
The councillor has been on the board of a ‘gender critical’ company - yet the role doesn't appear on her register of interests, we reveal
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Scottish Labour councillor failed to declare role in ‘gender critical’ group, breaching Council rules amid trade union legal action
A ‘gender critical’ Scottish Labour executive committee member and councillor failed to declare on her register of interests the company she set up to sue her trade union, in an apparent breach of the Scottish Councillors’ Code of Conduct
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The nation explicitly cast as a fortressed bunker ensuring "survivability" for the in-group. A.K.A. end times fascism.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 30/09/2026
The story around this case and how women are silenced over rape as men are given a free pass continues to get more fury-inducing variety.com/2026/film/gl...
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Florence Pugh Speaks Out Over Cornell University Sexual Assault Case: ‘We Need Our Men to Be as Horrified and Sickened as Us’
Florence Pugh has posted a statement about the 'horrific' sexual assault case at Cornell University, urging men to speak out and be 'angry'
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 30/09/2026
Go read Diane’s books! Seriously, they are the best!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cowboys past and present are: Black, Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, queer, trans, radical, female (and the ones in rodeos rely on rodeo clowns to keep them safe). And that pro-democracy pro-Constitution patriots despise this dimwitted pile of hatreds. I've met cowboys and you, sir, are no cowboy.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).
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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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