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Jane

@localnotail.bsky.social

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local, no-tail, mostly harmless, bit gonzo, sometimes sweary taking notes, library & research assistant English. From Norfolk, of Birmingham, in Europe, on Earth. Meet me in my pinned if you want. 🙏 ask me #alttxtplz if I missed alt-txt & you'd like it

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Jan 30

I've been Charley on social media for over a decade & I've also had IRL harassment so no personal photo or surname on my profile.

But if you ever want to know what I'm like & who I am, in 2018 I did a video for Final Say for All about me & why Brexit was personal:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-JO...

FSFA Birmingham - Jane

YouTube video by Final Say For All - Beehives

www.youtube.com

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1m

Oh, I can't accept credit for the Portland Frog Chorus concept, it's all Duncan's fault

Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 1d

Need to get these brave frogs a sound system to play The Frog Chorus on-

youtu.be/6PMiP90ntZ8?...

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 2m

It's time for a montage!

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 6h

Either Zia Yusuf has been lying to the British public or he's been used as a patsy to cover for the Reform UK leaders who absolutely know who Nathan Gill is.

"I've never spoken to him, most people in the senior leadership team have never really heard of the guy." 😬

(h/t @jim_nauseum2 on X-Twitter)

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3m

Cheers Peter

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3m

I have resolved to stick with the kidney stone theory until proven otherwise. Hopefully won't be too long to find out.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 19m

Yes, all good. Big relief.

But it's a shame they couldn't just confirm to me that it is kidney stones.
Back to sitting in my garden trying not to think about cancer.

Purple and red sunset in a small urban garden #SkySky

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 30m

Shhhh!

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 8h

#CostOfBrexit

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 32m

These beautiful women dancing a jig outside the ICE Facility in South Portland while the Mexican flag flies is everything to me

🙏 @herrem.bsky.social via @snig.bsky.social

#SavePortland

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 5h

"Win or lose, sink or swim
One thing is certain, we'll never give in
Side by side, hand in hand
We all stand together"

#Portland h/t @manmademoon.bsky.social

Photo of 3 valiant anti-ICE protesters in inflatable frog costumes in Portland.
One has a sign which has the words "Frogs together strong" above an image of 2 frogs holding hands

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 23h

Great thread. I can add Peter Davison writing about his father:

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs
Autobiography by Peter Davison

I more like him than I cared to admit while he was alive. I stand like he did, sit like he did, I look at my hands and see his, I look in the mirror and see his features, even though our colouring was so completely different. While I longed to look more like him, I realise I turned out as perfectly as he could have wished.
Here was a man from the Caribbean who wanted nothing more than to be accepted as British, who had a son who had made a name for himself playing the typical Eng-lishman.

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs
Autobiography by Peter Davison

But of course it did matter. What to us was a taste of the exotic was, to my father a bothersome distraction in his quest to be accepted as an exemplary British citizen.
The fact that his only son was born with blond hair and blue eyes, courtesy of inheriting my mother's dominant Caucasian genes, unlike my sisters, made the transition complete. Over the years however, his West Indian heritage became more than a distraction, and while we never knew of it until later, there's no doubt he suffered discrimination and rejection at the hands of Mother England that he loved. When Enoch Powell gave his 'Rivers of Blood' speech and my father had to stand in line and register as an alien, having been eventually accepted by my mother's extended family and friends, probably did nothing to soften his feelings.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 9h

Interesting 🧵 about the ethnic heritage of the Fifth Dr Who, Peter Davison.

Photo of Peter Davison's parents on their wedding day.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 44m

Maybe the best tactic with someone like Piers who says they respect trans people yet delights in a nasty RW gotcha "can a woman can have a penis?" troll is to ask them to reflect on whether they need everyone to share their religious views in order to be treated with respect + not attacked + erased

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Herre Mörker @herrem.bsky.social · 3h

These amazing women.
ICE protest in Portland
👏👏👏

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2h

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 2h

Ah beautiful

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 2h

God I love the NHS. Arrived 30 mins early for my appointment and they just took me straight in. All done bar the "sit around for 10 mins to see if you have a delayed allergic reaction to the dye" now.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 2h

So far so good, just walking my contrast dye into my system now. No panicking because it's not enclosed, so I'm fine.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 4h

Scan day, 2 weeks wasn't a bad wait although it's been so painful and I've been signed off work all this time. Amazing painkillers but can't take them all the time.

Trying not to get too uptight about it, given my MRI claustrophobia panic but at least it's a CT scan this time which is less noisy.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 5h

"Win or lose, sink or swim
One thing is certain, we'll never give in
Side by side, hand in hand
We all stand together"

#Portland h/t @manmademoon.bsky.social

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16h

When Trump says there are fires everywhere in Portland, is it possible that he's just seen the footage of smoke and tear gas grenades set off by his goons?

Or is someone feeding him fake news?

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 7h

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 5h

I was sent to the headmistress in secondary school for earnestly responding to the news that my (glowing) teacher delivered to the class that she was getting married with "Oh, so you are pregnant then"

She was. But pre-masking me couldn't grasp that facts were less important than social niceties

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 6h

I doubt it, sadly

I think these techbros want the world to collapse so they can build their personal empires in the rubble