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Geek, Cyclist, Parent, UCU, Goth, Knitter, Cis, Bi, Fat, Queer. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Other places you may know me from: https://lnr.dreamwidth.org/650568.html Trans rights are human rights.

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LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 36m

I have no confidence at all that my employer will actually take any of our feedback at all on board, but I couldn't just sit back silently. To discover when we come out that the EHRC are pushing the govt to bring out the (presumably) trans exclusive new guidance is depressing. Just let people live.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 38m

Formal focus group today as a "listening exercise" on the impact of the supreme court ruling on the equality act at work. Despite ending up in a group which was entirely trans positive it was pretty exhausting and passionate and draining. Imagine how much harder for trans people to go through. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 43m

And you can't find the actual price for individual pharmacies easily from the Pharmadoctor site, and bookings aren't confirmed until you hear back from the actual pharmacy (hint: you might not).

Boots is c. £100 and apparently Tesco c. £90 and you can book direct and see the actual price.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1h

And the cushion on the chair has a boombox design too! <3

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 19h

I don't have enough savings for it to be worth even having an ISA at all any more, but I'm not sure this will net the govt enough to be worth the image it gives.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

You, and @georgepenney.bsky.social

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

The Dark Is Rising also lends itself to reading like that over Christmas.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

I rather enjoy Dracula Daily for this very reason, though it ends up rather oddly paced in places.

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LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

"What are you trying to say here?" ?

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 1d

Good!

Though this was one of the very few areas where the proposed new EHRC guidance was somewhat clear and sensible!

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

Good luck.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

Tesco appear to be cheaper than Boots (at least round us).

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

This one is from the late 70s :)

A toddler in a yellow top and brown dungarees sits on the hearth of a fireplace, next to a typical gas fire, holding a duplo brick and grinning, while chewing her fingers.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

When they should still be making it *easier* not harder!

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, 29 is only a bit short on me (and 31 is a bit long. I want my 30" legs back!)

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

A friend broke their leg at Versailles, at the point when we'd all split up in little groups in the grounds. I was the one talking to members of palace staff in very broken aged-14 French trying to get them to help find the teachers.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

Horseshoe! Just what I needed! Horseshoe shaped jeans.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

They do seem to have both short/petite and extra-short as options online. And a baffling selection of widths/styles including such items as "girlfriend" "boyfriend" "wide" "extreme flare" and "barrel leg" ?!?

The shops seem to have gone for wide aisles and fewer actual clothes and feel a bit sad.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

Oh FFS, M&S have two pairs of jeans that look like this sort of shape - and they're both out of stock in regular length in my size. Every other size is available, just not mine. *sigh*

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LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

It's the "We're taking the hobbits to Isengard" for older people.

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LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

I've pretty much liked the same jeans since about the 90s. Black, mid-rise, straight leg, a bit of stretch (that's a more modern addition). Not that I currently *have* any jeans that fit.

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 2d

My fashion advice for buying jeans is: buy the jeans you like and ignore absolute bullshit like this.

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LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

The bravest little hobbit of them all.

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

Ah damn,this is the right answer

LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 2d

Lettuce, guacamole, bacon and tomato.