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riley

@thwackamabob.bsky.social
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24, she/her, maker of various sounds. sometimes they're good. 💉4th Oct 2023 yuppiesupper.bandcamp.com thegarages.bandcamp.com

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The BBC announcing a two part doc on JK Rowling the same week as erasing a “protect the dolls” t-shirt is a pretty clear choice. They’re just full on promoting another network’s show now as long as it’s trans people who pay the price. Good to know, Beeb.
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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
DIG through the ditches and DIG through the ditches and DIG through the ditch and the ditch is done
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Alex 🏴Ⓐ🔆 (The Anarchist Turtle) @theanarchistturtle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The absolute state of trans ally journalism
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riley @thwackamabob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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riley @thwackamabob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i wish the tarmac and gravel spread was a little more even. atm tarmac pace basically doesn’t matter for the end championship, any advantage will be lost through roadsweeping
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Since so much of it is out there at the moment…

I’ve seen the take that rape is “a fate worse than death” a lot. This is usually from well-meaning people who want SA to be taken as seriously as it should be in a society that regularly sacrifices victims at the altars of Men With Bright Futures.

But it’s wrong. And it’s damaging and dangerous for victims to hear. You are not better off dead than raped. 

After your assault, you’ll navigate the feelings of betrayal and anger and hurt. You may experience suicidal ideation. You probably will. But you are not better off dead than raped.

There is a whole life you will live after SA. It may be different than the life you once saw stretch out before you, but it’s no less valuable. You will heal and grow and change. You will know more happiness than you could ever imagine from that dark, angry, fearful place you once inhabited. 

Your life has beauty and value and it is bigger than what SA took from you.
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Samantha Nye // ציפּיע 🌿 @thesamethyst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I already didn't like him I just couldn't find a reason until n-" Shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"You're making fun of queer people" I think most people are pretty sympathetic to the queer woman living out of her truck, $50k in debt, abandoned by her business partners, who thinks she is obligated to sit through 3.5 hour accountability sessions for the crime of wanting to keep the business open.
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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
hello friends i made a little acoustic album I hope you like it DM me if you want a tape of it noise-land.bandcamp.com/album/postca...
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Postcards from Cuervo, by Max the Band
12 track album
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 25/09/2026
They arrested a blind man in a wheelchair for supporting terrorism because he held a sign
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The real story here is that the DWP's PFI Jobcentre Plus is sending people to 'job fairs' that are not screened and unaccountable. They give grifters and liars vulnerable folks desperate for work to prey on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'My new job as a tour guide turned out to be fake'
Ella was given the role after going to a job fair, but the group's "head office" is an empty property and claims on its website are false.
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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
this is sort of a separate point but this is also why i love Audrey's shirts. I think it's honestly more provocative these days to attach the statement specifically to oneself, to insist that it's the kind of preference one can have, without making it a proclamation over all trans-kind
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.
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riley @thwackamabob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
oh look, the Green Party being transphobic electoral politics is never going to save us
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 06/09/2026
People will bang on about "emotional blackmail" and you look and it's like trans people being stripped of gender affirming healthcare saying this is going to cause massive mental health fallout, a fact that in medical circumstances tends to be used as a definition of what trans people are.
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riley @thwackamabob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
okay so: firstly the music needs to be audible at the back. if you add more speakers at the back, you’ll run into phase cancellation issues and it’ll sound awful secondly, at most small gigs the cymbals aren’t amplified. that’s just how loud they are and everything is balanced relative to that
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
immigration controls are positively totalitarian: the "crime" every detained and deported immigrant is guilty of is, at one point in their life, crossing an imaginary, arbitrary line drawn by the state; borders criminalize your very existence in space, if you deviate one inch from your assigned spot
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riley @thwackamabob.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
right, password changed absolute bastards
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riley @thwackamabob.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 23/08/2026
I would love for the surprised Pikachu media lib-left suddenly discovering fascism amongst their colleagues to take note of those colleagues views on trans people and recognise that there were signs all along.
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riley @thwackamabob.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
there are literally zero in-stock homebrewers shipping to the UK rn the secret private everyone recommends contains benzyl benzoate, which i'm mildly allergic to i have maybe one shot left in my current vial *cue panic*
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Trans Revolutionary Anarchist @traexecutive.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Regular reminder that the term in the UK is EDI, so if you ever see "DEI" then it's US culture war bollocks
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riley @thwackamabob.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
this. 100% this. as the newspaper right and the online right converge, we now have MSM lolcows
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday didn’t deserve this. The lie that this is about truth or academic standards is bullshit. The Cass report is based on the transphobic “research” which has since been found to be unethical and based in academic misconduct. That has barely been reported. It’s racism. He was targeted.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I hate that we have let the nastiest racists on earth define and redefine our language. From "woke" to "DEI." Trump's policies are not anti-DEI. They are racist. US firms did not abandon DEI policies. They fired competent black women in droves on the basis of race and sex.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 14/08/2026
One dubious positive of Rowling's increasingly overt anti trans hostility is that it's become less legally fraught to describe her as transphobic. There were literary education materials that had to be pulped a few years ago for even mentioning the controversy on her views in an essay prompt
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Trans Revolutionary Anarchist @traexecutive.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Emergency Alerts is a UK government system that provides warning and advice in a life threatening emergency." So that was a fucking lie.
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Jackeea @jackeea.com · 14/08/2026
I appreciate the government giving the whole country a heart attack to tell us "hey, don't set things on fire. that causes fires."
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riley @thwackamabob.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hey UK government That was not an appropriate use of emergency alerts. We're all aware there's a heightened risk of wildfires atm, that alert should be reserved for "there is a wildfire nearby rn" not "pretty please don't start fires for fun"
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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.
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12tone @12tone.nebula.tv · 29/07/2026
Sadly, none of that changes the fact that artistic funding models are completely broken right now, nor does it change the fact that artists need access to food, shelter, and healthcare, just like normal people. If you want all art to be free, your best bet is to end capitalism.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 19/07/2026
Watching @robinince.bsky.social's talk "why I left the infinite monkey cage" and it's pretty heartbreaking on the institutional prejudice and censorship at the BBC and being confronted with the reality of the suffering trans people are experiencing. Huge amount of respect for him.
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Yuppie Supper @yuppie-supper.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
jesus christ i am bad at bluesky new gigs! we play Sheffield on Friday at The Harlequin as part of a pre-Pride party then on the 1st July, we're Asher's birthday party at Wharf. we're gonna do a Scott Pilgrim cover or 2, and then (since we're among friends) try out some new stuff...
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riley @thwackamabob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
this is all anyone who actually gets elected will do
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riley @thwackamabob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I am 100% certain I would be dead had these laws come in in 2013.
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riley @thwackamabob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I grew up in a tiny village where I couldn't leave on my own other than for school (the last bus from the nearest town with more than a pub I wasn't allowed in was my school bus, and it didn't run weekends) I hated my school and everyone at it, and the internet was basically my only respite from it
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 15/06/2026
If the UK government thinks Palestine Action is that dangerous and harmful why don't they just ban it for under 16s and consider the issue put to rest
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Kevin @scribblesscript.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I dunno I figure her entire personality being built around persecuting a very small and vulnerable minority to an objectively insane degree that even spooks other bigots might be relevant here
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riley @thwackamabob.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
accuse everyone of being trans make sure no one can piss in public ever again
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.
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Yuppie Supper @yuppie-supper.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The worst kept secret in Leeds is out: Asher Hoang (of "drumming and singing in National Citizens" fame) is our new bassist. See Yup Sup 2.0 on May 10th. It's already sounding pretty good.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 20/04/2026
Handy Guide: ✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course ❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in
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Yuppie Supper @yuppie-supper.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Ahhh I forgot to post on here again! Sorry if this is the only place you follow us, here is every gig we're doing in the next 6 months. We've got a new bassist, and whilst the Apr 18th show is going to be an acoustic duo show, the 21st will be our first gig with them.
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