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Bonnie Calderwood Aspinwall ✨ VA/fool
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'Very cute but also wtf.'
Non-binary, they/them
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Bella in @TheAtticMonologues.bsky.social, Eden in DoYouCopyPod.bsky.social, Sister Agatha + [various] in @redracula.bsky.social, etc.
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Bonnie Calderwood Aspinwall ✨ VA/fool @bonthemightybon.bsky.social · Mar 26
Are you aware that AI has an extremely high energy cost? Experts project the AI data centers in the USA will consume 6% of the country's total electricity by next year (ls.wisc.edu/news/the-hid...). How many idle google searches do you do in a day? I know I do A Lot. That shit adds up
The Hidden Cost of AI
ls.wisc.edu
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sexabolition.blog
I just want to remind people that when we talk about creating a "British ICE" and a concentration camp as somehow copying America, we already had the previous Tory government set up a concentration camp run by British military personnel for asylum seekers rapidly shut down after legal battles.
ayoub.bsky.social elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 22d
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 27, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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kenjennings.bsky.social
This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.
truthout.org Truthout @truthout.org · 21d
Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”
House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too
“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.
truthout.org
January 27, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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fergus.oolong.co.uk
Absolutely incredible that Labour have been working to make Access to Work *even harder* to access, while pretending that the cuts they wanted to make to PIP were supposed to somehow help people access work.
October 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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aurelmondon.com
Why people don't trust mainstream politics is a mystery...
Two headlines in a row Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds
October 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Please share. 💔
January 25, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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astrokatie.com
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
bonthemightybon.bsky.social
Relistening to @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social and I have a very important question for @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social: did Cyril perform his ballad for Vandal after delivering Suvi's letter to Sworn, as she had instructed? Follow up question: is the letter or the poem what drove Sworn to drink?
December 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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samwhyte.bsky.social
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"

As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
A simple and efficient strategy
This whole fucking nightmare would be over if someone told Trump that Barack Obama could hold his breath for 15 minutes.
November 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
bonthemightybon.bsky.social
Thinking about if The Creature had had Pal, Cam and Pyrrha...

#frankenstein #thelockedtomb #maryshelley #tamsynmuir #nonatheninth #michaelthomas #mictomart @torbooks.bsky.social @realgdt.bsky.social
Quote from Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir: "Camilla and Palamedes were loved by Nona," said Paul. "Pyrrha was loved by Nona. It's finished, it's done. You can't take loved away. We loved you too. Palamedes and Camilla loved you." White text overlayed over painting by Michael Thomas (@mictomart on Instagram) of a redheaded white woman gazing lovingly at the monstrous skeletal, goat-like infant in her arms. Quote from Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir: "Don't worry, kiddie," she said tiredly. "I'll keep loving you–my problem is I don't know how to stop." White text overlayed over painting by Michael Thomas (@mictomart on Instagram) of a redheaded white woman gazing lovingly at the monstrous skeletal, goat-like infant in her arms. Painting by Michael Thomas (@mictomart on Instagram) of a redheaded white woman gazing lovingly at the monstrous skeletal, goat-like infant in her arms.
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
bonthemightybon.bsky.social
The Inspection of Barley Clown (@dimension20.bsky.social's Adventuring Party: The Sheet of Your Pants, 05:00)

vs

Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi, c. 1620)
Screencap from Dimension 20's Adventuring Party season 21 episode 15: The Sheet of Your Pants, in which Lou Wilson and Emily Axford hold dice trays to shield a non-copyright-compliant, denuded Charlie Brown toy from the cameras as Brennan Lee Mulligan shows it to Zac Oyama. All parties are clustered around the focal point at different levels, like a Renaissance painting. Actual Renaissance painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, "Judith Slaying Holofernes" (c. 1620, Florence), wherein Judith beheads Holofernes with a sword as he lays in bed, while her maid, Abra, holds him down, likewise clustering their figures around the central focal point.
October 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
bonthemightybon.bsky.social
Ame in @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social be like

www.instagram.com/reel/DM0euSf... @erikaishii.bsky.social @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social #wbn #wwwo
adhd_memetherapy on Instagram: "Enlightenment ...#adhd #adhdmemes #audhd #asd #autistic #autisticmemes #autismmemes #neurodivergentView all 357 comments"
Enlightenment ...#adhd #adhdmemes #audhd #asd #autistic #autisticmemes #autismmemes #neurodivergent
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October 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
bonthemightybon.bsky.social
I don't know why I wrote my bio like that

But anyway, Forged Bonds!!
forgedbondspod.bsky.social Forged Bonds @forgedbondspod.bsky.social · Sep 21
While this is Hyacinthus and Apollo's story, we do need to take a step into Apollo's past to tell it- which means we get to have the effervescent @bonthemightybon.bsky.social as Daphne!
A picture of Bonnie Calderwood-Aspinwall in a heart made of chain links with two daggers through it. Below the picture is text reading “Bonnie Calderwood-Aspinwall as Daphne” in cursive font. To the right is their bio in a printed font. “Bonnie (they/them) is a reclusive bookrangler by day, stealth troubadour by night. You can catch their voice in The Attic Monologues, Do You Copy? and Re: Dracula, among other places. When they're not lurking in the stacks or yelling at no one in a cupboard, you can likely find them chasing a whim five miles down a frenzied research rabbit-hole, or they've retreated to post-whimsy seclusion to convalesce, in which case you simply won't find them at all. Come scream into the void with them on Bluesky @bonthemightybon.bsky.social”
September 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
bonthemightybon.bsky.social
Hey @taylordotbiz.bsky.social I'm listening to the Rain Road .wav from the @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social Patreon, am I right that this version doesn't have the ominous brass crescendo which, in episode 14, runs under Galani's thought "Well this song is totally out of our control" (48:02)?
September 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
bonthemightybon.bsky.social
This is 100% who I see in my head whenever Freyja talks in Cloudward, Ho!

@dimension20.bsky.social
Peridot from Steven Universe (green cartoon person looking excited and determined in a frantic way)
August 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
Not sure why we don't protest more. You're outside! Your friends are there! You all hate something! You get to make a sign! Cops don't like it! There are dogs!
June 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
bonthemightybon.bsky.social
OKAY I REALISE BLUSKY IS NOT THE PLACE FOR LOVE ISLAND CHAT BUT I WON'T GO BACK TO TWITTER SO HERE COME MY THOUGHTS #loveisland #loveislanduk
July 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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trulyrawesome.bsky.social
Going to miss him, but glad he's chasing his truth. ✊
gamechangershow.bsky.social Game Changer @gamechangershow.bsky.social · Jul 14
Brennan's announcement
July 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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tacc.org.uk
The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.

tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
FOI Exposes EHRC Bias: Private Meetings, Legal Echoes, and Policy Capture - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
Let’s be honest. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is not acting like a neutral regulator. It is not standing above the fray.
tacc.org.uk
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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itsmlenow.bsky.social
The world might be a fuck but I just heard a little edit preview of @podgoldenrod.bsky.social and chat, you are not ready for the fall this shit sounds so fucking dope
June 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
It’s not just that Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo.

It’s that he and the voters beat an entire transnational criminal syndicate of power brokers who have had a stranglehold on NYC politics for a very long time.

And they’ll be coming after him hard. He’ll need a lot of support—and protection.
June 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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bullshotuk.dramaticvoice.co.uk
I forgot to mention this but the @redracula.bsky.social podcast started again on its annual cycle on 3rd May. This full cast near exact adaptation of Bram Stokers novel releases episode on the days mentioned in the various entries in the book . #AudioDrama #Dracula #AudioFiction #AudioDramaSunday
May 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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esqueer.net
***Taps the sign again*** after the SCOTUS decision stripping immigrants of due process to traffick then into foreign prisons and slavery.
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Feb 15
The law won't save us. Nearly all authoritarian regimes legitimize their actions within the law and make their acts legal.

More lawyers need to realize this.
This image is a screenshot of a tweet by Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) discussing a characteristic of fascism. The tweet states: "The most sinister aspect of fascism is that as it consolidates the powers of the state, it then uses those powers to reinforce its legitimacy. Intensely violent, but legal actions can be undertaken while resistance is portrayed as an attack on the state itself and criminalized." At the bottom, there is an archive label that reads: "Archived from July 20, 2022, at 11:26 PM."
June 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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2damntrans.bsky.social
If Labour really want to withdraw the whip from over 100 MPs then they should definitely do that.
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Jun 24
Under anything resembling normal times, this level of political self harm would be unimaginable, especially over a policy which does not have public support, is counter to expert opinion, will cause immeasurable harm to individuals, and will undermine the economy. These aren't normal times though.
The Independent has been told that MPs – including ministers – considering rebelling against the government's welfare reforms on Tuesday next week have been threatened with losing the whip and even, according to two sources, deselection.
June 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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tacc.org.uk
Anyone planning to attend the mass lobby tomorrow in the House of Parliament, you need to read this thread.

Do not allow them to provoke you, try your best to ignore them when they try, and most importantly, stay safe!
natacha.bsky.social Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Jun 24
PROVOKE AND PUBLICISE

Tomorrow in the Houses of Parliament the transphobes will attempt a “Provoke & Publicise” action. Provoke and Publicise was originally developed as a tactic by racist segregationists in US states like Alabama & Oklahoma to try and stop the civil rights movement there…

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a cartoon drawing of a transgender flag against a yellow background
Alt: a cartoon drawing of a transgender flag against a yellow background
media.tenor.com
June 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM