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Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonld.bsky.social · 1d

The Council of Europe has warned that the UK gov’s treatment of trans people may breach human rights law.

This must be a wake up call.

We’ve seen an increase in hostility towards trans in recent years.

Everyone deserves dignity, safety, & respect - that includes trans people.

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 1d

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Carrie plays guitaaargh 👻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 1d

Going to get my NHS HRT renewal today. To do that I'll walk past my GP surgery, get on a train to glasgow, walk through the city centre, meet a pharmacist, get a train back, walk past my GP again, wait for the prescription to come by post, then take it to the pharmacy next to my GP.

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Sarah @lupwuff.bsky.social · 1d

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Porter Robinson - Shelter (Secret Sky Edit)

YouTube video by Hogarth Anatomics

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 1d

This is how I imagine JK Rowling when she posts.

JK Rowling says "ha ha.. h-heh. I won! I won!" She sits alone in the dark, bathed in the late of her computer screen. We pull back to see her in a large dark empty room. She continues "I won." Seeing the full scope of her cavernous workplace, she appears small and alone. She says, once again, "I won..."

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 2d

This is what one of the biggest Diwali celebrations outside of India looks like.

Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate light overcoming darkness, hope overcoming hardship, and unity in our diversity.

A person stands on stage addressing a large crowd gathered in Trafalgar Square for Diwali on the Square. Colourful tents and festival stalls fill the area behind the crowd, with the National Gallery visible in the background.

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Sarah @lupwuff.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Alert: health check timeout"
"Could not reach host"
"Runtime: Invalid Entry Point"
"Needs 5 9s SLA"
"Cloudflares having an outage"
"Requested image not found"

Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession understands:

"Power's negative center pin"
"Why is it smoking?"
"Missing } Line 851"
"The editor wants revisions"
"Windows 11 installing updates"
"Part cost doubled: tariffs"
"Scarlett bringing cherry pie"

Spooky Scary Sarahtons 🎃 (they/them) @sarahndipity.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“the pharmacist is calling"

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Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession understands:

"Power's negative center pin"
"Why is it smoking?"
"Missing } Line 851"
"The editor wants revisions"
"Windows 11 installing updates"
"Part cost doubled: tariffs"
"Scarlett bringing cherry pie"

Spooky Scary Sarahtons 🎃 (they/them) @sarahndipity.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“the pharmacist is calling"

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

There is no date.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 2d

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

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Sammy🔜Furpoc AA @sammythetanuki.bsky.social · 5d

✨🐺🦊💜✨
#furryart #furry

drawing of two furry canine girls kissing

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𝙃𝘼𝘾𝙆𝙀𝙍𝙈𝘼𝙉ᴴᴹ @hackermanhm.bsky.social · May 6

I wanna hear about the hot sauce brands

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POWERFUL CRAB FART🦀 @powerful.crabf.art · 9d

The year is 2025. There are three social networks remaining. They are run by Dweeb Lowtax, Tweaker Lowtax, and Girlboss Lowtax. You have to pick at least one.

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 9d

people who built bsky:
-trans women (bsky protects jesse singal)
-Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism)
-SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK)
-organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse)
-artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

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Sarah @lupwuff.bsky.social · 9d

Dripped out for the cold war

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AsimosArt @asimosart.bsky.social · 9d

The season of the dark magic and fallen leaves! So I took the opportunity to draw a kobold witch girl. Behold this creature of darkness! :3
She is up for grabs, link below!

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Sarah @lupwuff.bsky.social · 9d

Me after Airsoft:

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The Verge @theverge.com · 11d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Sarah @lupwuff.bsky.social · 12d

Awwwww she's adorable, the body suit looks amazing 💜

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🏳️‍⚧️ Ada Wolf 🐺ΘΔ 🏳️‍🌈 Scotia 26 @adawolf.bsky.social · 18d

Its #FursuitFriday from @wildnorth.bsky.social and I am absolutely thrilled to debut Ada's full suit upgrade from @furryforgefursuits.bsky.social
She's amazing and I'm having some much fun with her and can't wait to do more tomorrow!! =^.^=

📸 @vulpeculafox.bsky.social

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 13d

INSULINDIAN PHASMID - That must be incredibly hard. The arthropods are in silent and meaningless awe of you. Know that we are watching -- when you're tired, when the vision spins out of control. The insects will be looking on. Rooting for you.

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vibeshibe 🌌🔜 NFC @vibeshibe.shibabox.eu · 18d

Whatcha up to on this #FursuitFriday handsome? 😼

📸: @klokifolfie.bsky.social
🪡: @furryfursuitmaker.bsky.social

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Sarah @lupwuff.bsky.social · 14d

This validates how I feel about the ex-Palantir c-suite that showed up in my professional life, thankfully he didn't last very long but did a lot of damage to all parts of the org while he was there.

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 16d

THE MEME IS REAL

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Malcolm Furnass @mfurnass.bsky.social · Aug 28

From this week’s Beano.

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