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Marie Hummingway @crapcerealandpills.bsky.social · 8h

Filed a report with the council about the fucking flags.

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John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · 12h

The Green Party is set to continue to contrast its policy approach on disability with other political parties by supporting disabled people who rely on benefits and have already experienced years of austerity cuts.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/greens-show-...

Greens show contrast with other major parties on disability cuts and refusal to stir up hostility to claimants

The Green Party is set to continue to contrast its policy approach on disability with other political parties by supporting disabled people who rely on benefits and have already experienced years o…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 12h

thank you ☺️

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 12h

Jailed for 21 months for being trans is an egregious attack on trans people's human rights.

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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you ☺️

Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you

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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 1d

Next up live at #CMHP25 we have Anita Solanki, Clinical Pharmacist and Menopause Specialist.

Menopause and Mental Health:
The Pharmacy Perspective.

I really hope she encourages more pharmacists and other clinicians to bring hormones into mental health conversations. It's about time!

THREAD 🧵

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 1d

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became grown, I put away childish things. Then when I became a bit more grown, I rebought those same childish things from a vintage reseller and kinda don’t know how to feel about it

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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 1d

Amber in the shadows . Thanks to @BELLEGREENWICH for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay

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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 1d

ugh a *I* enjoyed writing it. Just to be clear ai had nothing to do with it!

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 1d

#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
I will put a reel in the comments.

IMPERFECT ME

On days my son was measured
in length rather than height
I held him shirtless in one arm
while I lathered my face to shave.
Leaned on my chest, warm,
he plunged an explorer’s hands, decisive,
into my foamy cheeks, gaining agency,
the intimation of form, and play
affirmed in his corporeal birthright.

And me, significant, generative,
like the god of the psalmist,
I could do no wrong.

Whiskey it wasn’t that imperfected me
in his eyes. I may never know
which particular betrayal
inspired that loss of grace.
But it did boost his swagger to say
for the first time fuck you, Dad,
and I absorbed the preordained assertion,
concussive, cracked like a plastic bucket
abandoned on the back porch
when water expands into ice.

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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 1d

Teenagers really know how to hurt us - I felt that! Thanks for sharing

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Dawn McLachlan @deemclachlan.bsky.social · 1d

Time for another #poemsabout day and the theme this week is #ImperfectMe
Thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk as always and everyone sharing and supporting #poets
#poetrycommunity #poemalttext #poetry #poems

Wear the Gloves by Dawn McLachlan

In those muddled days after When all was opened doors
And emptied drawers
I remember them
Butter-soft and finest leather
Stitching like the whisper of the needle
Wrapped still in silvered tissue
Faded tags of festive gifting
Unworn
Saved for a "best" too late to know So if you think me too showy
With misplaced colours and gaudy cloth
Fine jewellery worn for no good reason
It is because I have learned to Wear the damn gloves

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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 1d

Really powerful and such evocative descriptions

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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 1d

Says everything it needs to in 3 short lines - I love it!

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Dave Kurley @badvibrations62.bsky.social · 1d

I've opted for brevity for this week's #PoemsAbout prompt, #ImperfectMe - thanks, as ever, to @alanparrywriter.co.uk for hosting! @thebrokenspine.co.uk

I'll be reading/reposting/replying later

#poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky

Screenshot of this week's poem - a haiku/senryū addressing this week's prompt - the desktop background (but you can't really tell) is a low-orbit satellite picture of a cloudy Earth.

Imperfect Me

In the mirror, look
Decisions, most of them bad
Reflect back at me

© Dave Kurley 2025

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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 1d

This is my contribution to this weeks #poemsabout #imperfectme - a bit of silliness really but ai enjoyed writing it.

With thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt.

Friendship

Buy it
You deserve it
It's just your colour
It's only money don't worry about it

Skip work
Let's go outside
And dance in the sunshine
Raise our faces to the sky

Eat the cake
Have another
Cake is good for the soul
Calories don't count when your standing up

Let's go out tonight
Have a drink
Have another
Go on how often do you get to let your hair down

My best friends
You imperfect me
Don't ever stop

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

Any comment Wes Streeting? Or will you call the coroner a liar as well?

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 2d

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/n...

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 2d

Same!

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 2d

Then Labour fudged the data on Trans+ suicide to cover up their complicity in Trans+ youth suicides

Never forgive and never forget

Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.

Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 2d

If only someone could have predicted this sort of thing would happen 🤦‍♀️

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 2d

Ok now I feel bad!

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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 2d

Only language they understand

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Jane 🏊‍♀️🚴🏻🏃‍♀️🌻 @halfironmum.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh i'm sorry x

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