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Queer, cat parent, etc. Spends 5 out of 7 days in admin hell 🔥

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Averie 💫🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @therealaverie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ngl this is the worst Fringe season I've seen in Edinburgh as far as accessibility of the city goes bc wdym half of Princes St is shut down and all of the Fringe venues are still up and running AND there's roadworks???
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Further update from the EHRC…
THE EHRO'S NEW CODE:
"EXPLAINED"
Don't check.
→
• Unless somebody complains.
Then you might need to check.
But there's no way to check.
Mary-Ann Stephenson
Chair, EHRC
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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This applies to indie book publishers, indie comics creators, indie musicians, indie audio drama creators, indie EVERYTHING 💚
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Averie 💫🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @therealaverie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Bestselling author The Gruffalo, coming to a book festival near you #EIBF #edinburghbookfestival
Edinburgh Book Festival bus advert with a line-up of bestselling authors. The line-up ends with a picture of The Gruffalo.
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Averie 💫🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @therealaverie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
If you actually think it's ok to tattle on your coworkers for being like 5-10 minutes late when half of the buses in Edinburgh have been diverted because of the fire on Princes Street, then you're a bit of a dickhead, sorry
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
if you are a uk business or service who wants to stay trans-inclusive, here are some notes from @rtie.org on the new code worth sharing/ forwarding rtie.org/2026/06/04/s...
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Staying trans-inclusive as a service-provider
The UK has become much more hostile to trans people in recent years. A particularly troubling instance is that the government is passing a new Equality Act Code of Practice for service providers.Sh…
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 21/05/2026
The updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations has been laid before Parliament. The guidance tells organisations how they should approach trans inclusion. Here’s what that means.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.
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Averie 💫🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @therealaverie.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Ok so I'm going to give my two cents on this. I was co-chair SYP Scotland for two years. Even though we only had an annual average of 14 volunteers (maybe 30 at a push if you include conference committee), there absolutely still were miscommunications internally and externally. (1/?)
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/05/2026
JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.
Two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in first for Scottish parliament
Dr Q Manivannan and Iris Duane secured regional list seats for the Scottish Green Party.
David Young
Friday 08 May 2026 17:52 EDT
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Averie 💫🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @therealaverie.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Am I surprised? No. Am I disgusted and disappointed? Absolutely, yes. @stonewalluk.bsky.social, shame on you for abandoning the most vulnerable members of your own community at the clear rise of fascism.
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Gutter is open to submissions until the end of the month! You know the drill: prose, poetry, essays, meanderings, manifestos, misunderstandings, confessions, exclamations, plots, twists, dips, slips, trips* and shablams all welcome. www.guttermag.co.uk/submit
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Submit — Gutter
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Averie 💫🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @therealaverie.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Completely forgot that the #BAFTAS were on tonight, so I ended up tuning in around halfway through and immediately got jumpscared by Prince William 💀
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Haunt Publishing @hauntpublishing.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We will be offering 50% off all our books left in stock, through our website. The sale will end on 31st May, before we close. Grab yours while you can! Just use the code HAUNT50 at the checkout. www.hauntpublishing.com/books
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Books — Haunt Publishing
Haunt publishes books in the Gothic, horror and dark fiction genres.
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🔥Carrie🔥 @supitscarrie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The best time to stop giving a shit about HP was years ago but the second best time is now
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Averie 💫🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @therealaverie.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
She's always at the scene of the crime
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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 03/02/2026
Okay please shit on jkr But don’t use the logic “it’s suspicious an adult wanted to make a magical world for children” Bc that’s how you get “everyone who works on media for children should be jailed” ass logic
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 01/02/2026
£500 given out to a working class writer every month. Details in link. Please share :)
thewhitepube.co.uk
The Creatives Grant
let's make art less middle class
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/01/2026
for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps
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Nicole Evans | Editor and Author @thoughtsstained.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
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Averie 💫🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @therealaverie.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
PSA for anyone who doesn't want to have their inactive Twitter handles sold off to random people on the internet Looks like it's time to delete my old account, that site is in hell now
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Brianna was killed because she was trans. This whole phones bad project is disgusting and insulting
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 20/08/2025
@jessothomson.co.uk said: “We are seeing a concerted effort to roll back LGBTQ+ rights in this country. If these efforts succeed they will take us back decades. We must not accept it.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-…
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Christian campaigners in legal bid to ban civil servants from Pride
The Christian Institute claims civil service endorsement of Pride breaches rules on impartiality
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Carly @nautiluscarly.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.
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Tom De Ville @devilligan.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Your regular reminder that John Boyne is such a shitty author that he copied a Zelda recipe for a magic potion into one of his books.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 30/07/2025
Taking on the EHRC in court will be long and costly. Now more than ever, we need your help 👇 goodlawproject.org/donate/
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Support us | Good Law Project
We can only keep fighting thanks to individual donations. Our people-powered model keeps us fiercely independent, so we can hold power to account.
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Averie 💫🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @therealaverie.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
HELL YEAH
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a baby is screaming in a crowd while a woman holds it .
Alt: Baby yelling in triumph
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
wonder if decades of mocking media studies as a Mickey Mouse subject has anything to do with this at all
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Maud Woolf @maudwoolf.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Hello brave new world! Starting off on here with a bang by announcing that my debut novel Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock is shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award for 2025! As I have about four followers so far this feels a bit like bragging to an empty room but I’m very happy to be here!
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Faith Elisabeth Lilley @stormknight.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Trans Kids Deserve Better are legends.
A coffin painted in the colours of the trans flag with the words, "RIP DIGNITY" on the lidA dozen young trans people staging a die-in outside the UK Supreme CourtTrans Kids Deserve Better carrying a coffin, painted in the colours of the trans flag, from the Department of Health to the Supreme Court.Trans Kids Deserve Better carrying a coffin, painted in the colours of the trans flag, from the Department of Health to the Supreme Court.
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 30/07/2025
i'm sorry for posting facts:
meme:

two books
left book: THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY

right book (much fatter and split into blue and red, red is far longer than blue):
THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY IF MERRY & PIPPIN HAD A GUN
red: defeating Sauron
blue: taking the gun away from Merry and Pippin
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/07/2025
It's not political to think people shouldn't be starved to death.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Unsubscribe to this vile paper.
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The Newromancer @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Reminder that Sandie Peggie changed in a private room before Dr Upton even worked there so the entire basis of her claim is nonsense bsky.app/profile/tehs...
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 28/07/2025
t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.
Cartoon with corporate media asking U.S. Government how it would like "Control of Internet Speech" wrapped: Anti-terrorism or protect kids
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Averie 💫🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @therealaverie.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Decided to get back into the hellhole that is online dating, and my god, the bullets I've dodged 💀💀💀
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a man in a cape is flying through the air
Alt: Neo from The Matrix dodging bullets
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Here’s a letter template you can send to your MP right now (copying in all the usual suspects) which highlights a bunch of serious issues with how the EHRC have conducted themselves. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Procedural Issues in the EHRC
This letter will be useful for MPs who maybe don’t know / care that much about “trans stuff” but *will* have concerns about lack of independence and proper procedural processes in a statutory body lik...
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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Love this illustration by Robert Lawson depicting Pan silhouetted against the rising sun, with a little elf or fairy listening to his pipes from behind a standing stone.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
92 years ago today the world’s only research institute about trans people was destroyed by the Nazis. All transphobia is inherently fascist.
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David Bol @davidbol.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
@nicolasturgeon.bsky.social has warned a kneejerk reaction to implement EHRC's interim guidance on the Supreme Court ruling could make trans lives in the UK "almost unliveable". She also suggested the UKG should consider amending the law if that's the case. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
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Nicola Sturgeon says trans lives could be 'almost unliveable' as she speaks on Supreme Court ruling
Nicola Sturgeon has spoken out about the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman
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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The reason there's no working class representation in publishing is because publishing and writing currently pay so badly only people who are already financially stable can afford to do it. The problem is always, always money.
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Trans Safety Network @transsafety.network · 06/05/2025
Press release: 141 LGBTQ+, feminist and allied organisations call for transphobic political parties to be banned from Pride events
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Press release: 141 LGBTQ+, feminist and allied organisations call for transphobic political parties to be banned from Pride events
141 LGBTQ+, feminist and allied organisations have signed an open letter calling for the organisers of Pride events to take a stand against transphobia by barring all political parties advocating for ...
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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Remembering the ten pledges from LGBT+Labour that Starmer signed up to in the leadership election. Guess what? Starmer lied about these pledges as well
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These pledges and  LGBTLabour have my full support. I stand in full solidarity with our LGBT+ members and the wider community, will defend LGBT+ rights and protections, and campaign with you for the changes rightly prioritised here. Look forward to the hustings!
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LGBTLabour Feb 12 2020
We're asking each of the Labour Leader and Deputy Leader candidates to sign up to our 10 pledges that we believe are vital to protecting and extending the rights of LGBT+ people in the Labour party and in wider society. 

This is what we're asking for 

Ten pledges to LGBT+ Labour members and the wider LGBT+ community:
1. Fully inclusive LGBT+ Sex and Relationships Education for all children in the UK.
I will campaign for: greater training and support for teachers; buffer zones to protect children, parents and staff from protests; and the removal of any exemptions for non-council maintained schools and an end of the parental right to remove children from these classes.
2. Trans rights and reforming the Gender Recognition Act.
I will campaign to reform the Gender Recognition Act to introduce a self-declaration process and for the introduction of legal recognition for non-binary gender identities. I believe that trans women are women, that trans men are men, and that non-binary gender identities are valid and should be respected.
3. Tackling the rise in anti-LGBT+ hate crime.
I will campaign for a change in the law on anti-LGBT+ hate crimes to bring them in line with hate crimes based on race and faith, by making them aggravated offences.
4. Healthcare system that supports the LGBT+ community.
I will campaign for the provision and funding needed for: the full rollout of free PrEP across the UK; IVF treatment for lesbians, bisexual women, trans men and non-binary people; the reduction of waiting times for trans people to access hormones and surgery; and specific LGBT+ mental health services.
5. Supporting LGBT+ homeless people.
I will campaign to…
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