Jayne
@jayne.bsky.social
Nottingham, UK.
She/her
PFP from Leake Street Arches. Banner from MOCO Museum (Anthony James).
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PFP from Leake Street Arches. Banner from MOCO Museum (Anthony James).
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At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
February 15, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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The UK government has successfully made it harder for women to organise, find camaraderie and share knowledge, while simultaneously ensuring only the vilest most bigoted women are left in a position to do so.
All by targeting and excluding trans women. It’s as clever as it is disgusting.
All by targeting and excluding trans women. It’s as clever as it is disgusting.
At least 12 WI groups are closing or considering closure after the organisation barred transgender women from membership.
Members say more groups are likely to close, and that the federation’s decision has opened up a toxic, traditionalist culture that will deter younger women from joining.
Members say more groups are likely to close, and that the federation’s decision has opened up a toxic, traditionalist culture that will deter younger women from joining.
‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban
Members warn NFWI decision has opened up toxic culture that deters younger women from joining
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The UK government has successfully made it harder for women to organise, find camaraderie and share knowledge, while simultaneously ensuring only the vilest most bigoted women are left in a position to do so.
All by targeting and excluding trans women. It’s as clever as it is disgusting.
All by targeting and excluding trans women. It’s as clever as it is disgusting.
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This isn't just about HE underfunding but about the additional expectations that are continually placed in Unis. Driving local economies, cultural provision, health provision and bursaries for students, spin out company support, visa checking. All important stuff but are we now expecting too much?
Another example (just like the Essex campus closure) of how refusing to have a structured and effective HE policy destroys the rest of the government’s place-based goals www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Shattered dreams: How the battle for Sunderland’s glass centre turned into a political flashpoint
Custodian University of Sunderland says renovation costs of £45m are too high and building must be pulled down. Not without a fight, say locals, who believe they’re being taken for fools
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:21 AM
This isn't just about HE underfunding but about the additional expectations that are continually placed in Unis. Driving local economies, cultural provision, health provision and bursaries for students, spin out company support, visa checking. All important stuff but are we now expecting too much?
I checked my vaccination history last year using the NHS app to send a message to my GP. I got both mmr jabs as I'd just missed the rollout in the 80s. Worth checking if there's any doubt.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Health officials are racing to contain a growing measles outbreak in London, which has struck down dozens of young children and affected 7 schools and a nursery.
UKHSA has warned an outbreak across London could see 40,000 - 160,000 cases:
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
UKHSA has warned an outbreak across London could see 40,000 - 160,000 cases:
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
London measles outbreak: more than 60 children infected
Cases are spreading between children in Enfield as the virus exploits low MMR vaccination rates, medical experts say
www.thetimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I checked my vaccination history last year using the NHS app to send a message to my GP. I got both mmr jabs as I'd just missed the rollout in the 80s. Worth checking if there's any doubt.
Trying to help my elderly Dad renew his E.ON Next tariff following an email from them. Their website is so crap - nothing works. Can't get a quote, can't see the tariff options so he can work out what's best, definitely can't renew anything. 🤬
February 14, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Trying to help my elderly Dad renew his E.ON Next tariff following an email from them. Their website is so crap - nothing works. Can't get a quote, can't see the tariff options so he can work out what's best, definitely can't renew anything. 🤬
Enjoyed Small Prophets a lot. A gently strange, quirky tale. Both funny and melancholic.
February 14, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Enjoyed Small Prophets a lot. A gently strange, quirky tale. Both funny and melancholic.
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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
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Europe desperately wants the US to be Normal Again so it doesn’t actually have to engage with any of the hard work (and spending) that engaging with reality actually involves.
So if Rubio gives a speech with ~better vibes~ it gets lapped up, even if it’s meaningless on substance.
So if Rubio gives a speech with ~better vibes~ it gets lapped up, even if it’s meaningless on substance.
Jesus Christ, a standing ovation? For an apologist for a regime which is buying warehouses to build concentration camps and murdering protesters on the street?
February 14, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Europe desperately wants the US to be Normal Again so it doesn’t actually have to engage with any of the hard work (and spending) that engaging with reality actually involves.
So if Rubio gives a speech with ~better vibes~ it gets lapped up, even if it’s meaningless on substance.
So if Rubio gives a speech with ~better vibes~ it gets lapped up, even if it’s meaningless on substance.
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You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Critical incident declared at #Nottingham hospitals
Critical incident declared at Nottingham hospitals
A high number of elderly people on wards and respiratory cases in A&E prompt warnings from staff.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 4:07 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Critical incident declared at #Nottingham hospitals
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There are some Star Trek fans weirdly obsessed with “decorum” and they really fixate on how Holly Hunter sits in the captain’s chair on STARFLEET ACADEMY. One guy left a comment on the official FB whining about it and so Captain Janeway herself responded to drop the hammer
February 13, 2026 at 5:21 AM
There are some Star Trek fans weirdly obsessed with “decorum” and they really fixate on how Holly Hunter sits in the captain’s chair on STARFLEET ACADEMY. One guy left a comment on the official FB whining about it and so Captain Janeway herself responded to drop the hammer
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Tawny wrote a whole emotional Insta post about her and Cirroc and everyone working so hard to make sure that it felt like it did justice to Avery and being in regular communication with him to ensure that it had his blessing, people really think a Black Trekkie writer is fucking around with that???
I stumbled on a reddit thread where people have convinced themselves that the "Thank you Avery" message at the end of last week's episode of #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy was meant as a sarcastic "Fuck you" to Avery Brooks rather than an homage, and I just don't understand people.
February 13, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Tawny wrote a whole emotional Insta post about her and Cirroc and everyone working so hard to make sure that it felt like it did justice to Avery and being in regular communication with him to ensure that it had his blessing, people really think a Black Trekkie writer is fucking around with that???
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In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
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Just going to leave this here
February 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Just going to leave this here
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i also don’t think we even know the scale of theft and corruption this *single family* has been responsible for, i am only certain that it’s far larger than anyone currently knows
i believe in confiscatory policy targeting assets of every single person with the trump surname not because i think we can use it to pay for healthcare or pay down the debt or whatever, but because they stole it and it doesn’t belong to them
i can remember how in the 80s and the 90s, imelda marcos’ shoe collection was a shorthand for comically naked thievery and corruption and now we have a first family who literally shat in golden toilets
February 12, 2026 at 9:55 PM
i also don’t think we even know the scale of theft and corruption this *single family* has been responsible for, i am only certain that it’s far larger than anyone currently knows
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Why would anyone be worried about having their personal data handed over to a company that works directly with ICE and the Israeli military? Well, I'd rather not be worried about people of colour, left wingers and members of protest groups being disappeared from NHS premises.
NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed
NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed
Exclusive: in 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in UK
Health officials fear Palantir’s reputation will hinder the delivery of a “vital” £330m NHS contract, according to briefings seen by the Guardian, sparking fresh calls for the deal to be scrapped.
In 2023, ministers selected Palantir, a US surveillance technology company that also works for the Israeli military and Donald Trump’s ICE operation, to build an AI-enabled data platform to connect disparate health information across the NHS. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Why would anyone be worried about having their personal data handed over to a company that works directly with ICE and the Israeli military? Well, I'd rather not be worried about people of colour, left wingers and members of protest groups being disappeared from NHS premises.
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This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
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February 12, 2026 at 9:55 PM
A special recording of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, free for everyone.
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Things the UK media aren’t talking about enough:
- Palantir
- Epstein files revelations that don’t involve Andrew Windsor or Peter Mandelson
- Reform omnishambles (Farage/Bannon democracy smashing, telling people they can’t work from home whilst leader works from home, counsellor racism).
- Palantir
- Epstein files revelations that don’t involve Andrew Windsor or Peter Mandelson
- Reform omnishambles (Farage/Bannon democracy smashing, telling people they can’t work from home whilst leader works from home, counsellor racism).
February 12, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Things the UK media aren’t talking about enough:
- Palantir
- Epstein files revelations that don’t involve Andrew Windsor or Peter Mandelson
- Reform omnishambles (Farage/Bannon democracy smashing, telling people they can’t work from home whilst leader works from home, counsellor racism).
- Palantir
- Epstein files revelations that don’t involve Andrew Windsor or Peter Mandelson
- Reform omnishambles (Farage/Bannon democracy smashing, telling people they can’t work from home whilst leader works from home, counsellor racism).
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“We would expect support for full social transition to be agreed very rarely”
There you have it, the gov wants trans kids to rot in the closet
There you have it, the gov wants trans kids to rot in the closet
This explicit transphobia is spelled out in excruciating detail. Direct from Cass again.
February 12, 2026 at 5:01 PM
“We would expect support for full social transition to be agreed very rarely”
There you have it, the gov wants trans kids to rot in the closet
There you have it, the gov wants trans kids to rot in the closet
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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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James Van Der Beek, who starred in the teen drama series "Dawson’s Creek," has died at 48
February 11, 2026 at 7:36 PM
James Van Der Beek, who starred in the teen drama series "Dawson’s Creek," has died at 48
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just billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe throwing out some serious made-up numbers on TV
February 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM
just billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe throwing out some serious made-up numbers on TV
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Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.