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Bracken

@summonrats.bsky.social

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They/she A sleepy mongoose, a feathery firefly. Fannibal, Critter, MtG, D&D, comics. Rat keeper and very slow gardener. Bisexual, gender questioning, disabled. Living with ME/CFS. I like to draw, crochet, and paint miniatures. Aspiring illustrator.

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Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social · Oct 11

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Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social · 3h

I hate that my disability makes it so much harder for us to migrate. We'd be seriously considering our options if I wasn't.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 9h

YouGov polling reveals that over a quarter of trans people are likely to leave the UK.

Maybe this is Labour's plan? goodlaw.social/prwv

Over a quarter of trans people likely to leave the UK

YouGov poll reveals a large proportion of UK trans people are looking to emigrate within the next 10 years, with almost 40% of younger people considering a move abroad.

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 4h

Meet Wintertide the Mystical Phantom! I designed and hand-sewed her.

Using her telekinetic powers, Wintertide can move cold objects like popsicles, or semi-cold objects like slightly melted popsicles. Basically, she enjoys making popsicles float around.

www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

Here's a lovely photo of Wintertide. She's a fabric art ghost with a white body and blue face, twinkly black eyes and a little frown. She has two twirly head wisps. She's covered with various hand-embroidered mystical symbols, like light blue flowers with black lines around them. There's a lovely galaxy print fabric in the background.

Here's another lovely pic of Wintertide, where she's looking slightly to the side.

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Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social · 3h

I think I saw a small study where it led to minor improvements in people with ME. Sadly, I can't remember where.

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 6h

Look at all this amazing @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social 2025 coverage! Surely that's got to be worth the 22 followers we need to get to 5,000 before Harrogate? #ThoughtBubbleatBF25

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thought bubble month 2025 Archives – Broken Frontier

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 8h

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

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Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social · 6h

We live in such small lives that a very modest improvement can actually give us significant benefit! I'm trialling a higher dose of ivabradine, which might mean I can be upright more.

Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social · 9h

Wow! Very encouraging, so glad to hear you're able to get out a bit.

Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social · 10h

How are you finding it? I've heard it can help ME/CFS.

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 11h

So does JD Vance have to fuck Lynne Cheney now, too?

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Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social · 13h

Ah, but it might have hurt Charles' feelings, in which case not a total loss 😄

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 13h

Shell told him to continue living in his home but to not smoke, not use mobile phones and to wear PPE at all times. In his home.

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 13h

I'm in the Niger Delta and I just watched a man who had to abandon his home because his family members were dying one after the other from diseases caused by oil pollution pull crude oil from the water well outside his old house.

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Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social · 13h

See also care for disabled people. The NHS is violently ableist.

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OnlyCans @onlycans.bsky.social · 13h

🚨🚨🚨massive i told you so klaxxon🚨🚨🚨

Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Serwotka, who you campaigned with in Wales, said this in an article in the Morning Star today.

Why are you organising with people like this?

Everything should be on the table for discussion as we move forward, but a plea, this must be open, fraternal and comradely — no heresy hunting, no deplatforming, none of that intolerance that has driven so many people, particularly women campaigning for their sex-based rights, away from the existing left.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social · 16h

Hang on, I see a way forward... fill parliament with noisy republicans!

Bracken @summonrats.bsky.social · 16h

Oh gods that's bleak

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