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He/Him, Pan, 39. Edinburgh, now Whitburn. Enya, NSP, ERA, Queen, Runrig, others. WHFB, graphic novels, podcasts, eclectic books. My new venture! Custom badges, patches, wristbands, and more. @drsourcing.bsky.social‬ https://drsourcing.etsy.com

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HarlequinR.bsky.social @harlequinr.bsky.social · Aug 27

Small maker from Scotland - open for orders.
@drsourcing.bsky.social

#LGBTQ+ #Scotland #customdesign #sourcing

D.R. Sourcing
An LGBT+ griendly provider of custom badges, patches, sticker, and transfers.
Interested in something not on the list? Tell us what you want and we'll make it happen.
Custom designs welcome.
Discounts available on bulk orders.
Contact us through:
Email: DRSourcing@proton.me
Social media: @drsourcing.bsky.cocial
Etsy: DRSourcing

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M. Kirin 📶⚡ @mkirin.itch.io · Nov 16

"i hope this site doesn't end up like the last one :("

Hope has nothing to do with it--DO YOUR PART!

Twitter & Truth Social are dying. Their users are used to farming outrage for engagement. Don't give them any!

🚫 Don't argue with them!
🚫 Don't quote them!

✅ #BlockAndMoveOn

A poster showing a weeping skull wearing a red hat. The skeleton is holding a smartphone that is showing no comments, shares, or likes, as though no one is interacting with its posts. The text on the poster reads "This account does not feed trolls. Block and move on."

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HarlequinR.bsky.social @harlequinr.bsky.social · 6h

Wolves and bats of my Vampire Counts force finished. Lot of difference between the first and last wolf though I wish the camera showed the subtle colour graduation on the later ones. Onto the bat swarms next, which took a bit of work to model with variety between bases. #warhammercommunity #WHFB

A force made up of two units each of fell bats and dire wolves painted in a grim dark scheme.

Two dire wolves models showing the change in how they were painted between the first and twentieth.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 22h

My only self-made and maintained blocklist is for this - any time I see a chud in anyone's mentions, they go straight on the "take out the trash" list, and it's so very good for my sanity.

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 22h

A lot of folks are encouraging blocking the official WH accounts, but blocking the rando assholes who follow them here is SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT.

If the assholes get engagement, they'll stay and bring friends. If they don't, they'll evaporate.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

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wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 3d

Hey folks! Ive gotten an astonishing amount of support on this and I've been able to pay off 46% of this debt so far! Sadly im still way in the red with the huge monthly payments rn and struggling to get by. I could still really use some help with this awful tax situation <3

gofund.me/a4053bb4b

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 22h

Why are these accounts here? They are quote farming. They WANT you to post things like "Fuck you ICE!!!" and "Trump can suck my dick!!!"

That gives them fun little posts for Fox News to demonstrate the "angry left."

DO NOT give them what they want. Block and be done.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 1d

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. New York City Public Schools has announced that it will defy Trump's demands to ban trans students from bathrooms, funding threats be damned.

Instead, it has launched a lawsuit against the admin and declared it will not throw trans students under the bus.

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NYC Public Schools Becomes Latest To Defy Trump Trans Bathroom Ban Demands, Launches Lawsuit

“U.S. DOE’s threat to cut off tens of millions of dollars in magnet funding unless we cancelled our protections for transgender and gender expansive students is contrary to |law|"

www.erininthemorning.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Ian Murray says that allowing violent racist 'fans' who sing songs about raping Palestinian women & the slaughter of Palestinian kids to attend a football match in the UK is necessary to heal society & combat racism.

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Gendered Intelligence @genderedintelligence.co.uk · 1d

Over 50,000 cis women have signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social open letter rejecting the narrative that trans women are a danger to women.

The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence.

Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Background with cream, blue and yellow curved shapes with purple text over it, reading "Not in Our Name

Over fifty thousand cis women have signed an open letter rejecting the false narrative that trans women are a danger to women.

Add your name"

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tidinzeo.bsky.social @tidinzeo.bsky.social · 3d

In today’s #AliciaSellsStuff we have a unit of Hernkyn Pioneers and a unit of Cthonian Berzerks. With bases, but without instructions. Call it £20 each plus postage. DM if interested.

3 Hernkyn Pioneers on sprues with bases.

Cthonian Berserks squad on sprue plus bases.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Maggie Chapman MSP (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 4d

Why do we keep talking about trans healthcare?

Because of statistics like this.
Because every day waiting, in this world obsessed with harassing trans people, is a battle that many don't survive.

So, we keep talking about it, and keep fighting back against systemic transphobia.

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Guy Pradel @pradaldi.bsky.social · 1d

Don't you love reading opinions like this, based on none of the studies proving again and again that AI is a waste and energy and time, bad for mental health, bad at absolutely all its applications and a flimsy pretext to erode salaries and labour laws ?
How does an economist not understand that ?

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 2d

lol a teacher* has been fired** by their school*** for putting up UK Flags****

* short term supply teaching assistant
** not hired
*** recruitment agency
**** making racist posts on social media

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 2d

Unpopulism: the centrist belief (typified by Starmer) that the duty of govt is to choose the least popular set of policy positions, and then attempt to sell them as 'making tough decisions', 'winning back credibility' etc. This views the electorate as ungrateful hogs who should take their medicine.

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samus aran enjoyer @riotlinguist.bsky.social · 2d

(> to paraphrase one of my favorite history papers by historian brooke holms.)

Greta was singled out because she is a highly visible woman, and thus needed to be highly visibly sexually humiliated as an example, as a message, as an act of bragging about their impunity and power to violate.

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ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @bun.is.a.cutie.fyi · 4d

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Every day thousands of new members are joining the Green Party.

And solidarity to our friends in @scottishgreens.org who are also rapidly growing as a party!

Get involved:

Greens.scot/join

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 3d

List of Labour MPs who are openly transphobic nowadays and who to vote for to unseat them.

1) Tonia Antoniazzi

Transphobic for years. Open GC. Behind the "Women's Dec" for Labour

Constituency: Gower
Maj: 11567

Suggested vote: Plaid Cymru

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Ashley Hankinstein Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 3d

Art friends: Here's a tip for getting rid of *a lot* of the AI slop in your Pinterest feed.

⭐Go into your account settings.
⭐Click the "Refine your recommendations" tab.
⭐Click the GenAI Interests subtab.
⭐TURN OFF EVERYTHING.

So far, my feed is *significantly* cleaner.

Screenshot of the Pinterest settings menu. The option "Refine your recommendations" is circled.

Screengrab of the Refine Your Recommendations tab in Pinterest's settings. The subtab GenAI Interests is circled.
Below, all options have been turned off.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3d

1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years.

Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism."

Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing

The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.

www.erininthemorning.com

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HarlequinR.bsky.social @harlequinr.bsky.social · 3d

Had the though that painting with oils in the manner I have been offers a workaround for the issues of extreme detail/design clutter that have become more commonplace with GW minis by taking away the need to specifically paint every last detail.
#warhammercommunity
#nerdlings
#oilpaints

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Legalise *and* regulate drugs.

This morning on @jeremyvine.bsky.social:

youtu.be/kBjqQAFdBRQ?...

Should we legalise all drugs? feat. Zack Polanski & Carole Malone | Jeremy Vine

YouTube video by Jeremy, Storm & Vanessa On 5

youtu.be

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 3d

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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