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Geek, Cyclist, Parent, UCU, Goth, Knitter, Cis, Bi, Fat, Queer. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Other places you may know me from: https://lnr.dreamwidth.org/650568.html

Trans rights are human rights.
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Just reposting this for anyone who missed it at the time. You still have until the end of June.
We're calling for submissions to the Black Archive from disabled authors and authors of colour, who we know have been underrepresented in the range.

Please spread this as widely as you can, as we want it to reach as many eligible authors as possible. Thank you.

obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...
February 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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MY BIG CLEAR OUT!

Here are 3 shelves of my books in A-Z order by author.

You can have any 2 for £10 (free P+P).

Please share (and buy).

UK only.
February 10, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Matthew has his first set of braces, and has bravely gone off back to school with retainer and elastics in place! I hope he manages OK with getting them in and out for lunch. <3 He'll have the retainer and elastics on 22 hours a day for 3-6 months, before moving to traditional fixed braces.
February 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Ahead of the 10 February Certification Officer hearing, I’ve written about why Ewan McGaughey and I took this route.

This is a regulatory process, not a court case.

Ewan and I will represent ourselves. UCU has hired a King’s Counsel.

vickyblakeucu.uk/202...

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Certification Officer Hearing: Blake & McGaughey v UCU
This is about trust and proper process: an explainer ahead of the 10 February Certification Officer hearing in Blake & McGaughey v UCU, concerning alleged non-compliance with UCU’s election rul…
vickyblakeucu.uk
February 9, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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loot does not drop upon defeating me. the developers didn't expect anyone to attack me, i am so vulnerable, and only trying to help. why did you raise your sword? for material gain? i would give you anything i have if you had only asked. i did not ask to be in this game, i did not ask to have 6hp.
February 8, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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If you're looking for some joy, here's a gorgeous-seeming human being who must be protected at all costs in Klingon/Elsa cosplay singing all of "Let it Go" in Klingon. Humans really can be quite wonderful. via @trip.bsky.social

www.tiktok.com/@emeraldcity...
🖖 Our fans are so talented! #frozen #startrek #cosplaytiktok #cosplay #eccc
TikTok video by ECCC
www.tiktok.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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You should have to retake your driving test every 10 years. Would cut bad driving habits and keep people up to date with Highway Code changes. The demand for tests would create more jobs. The inevitable number of failures would force investment in better public transport.
February 6, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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ICYMI my friend @transqueerfem.bsky.social needs your support. She's an incredible trans/travesti writer, educator, translator and activist in Brazil. Her mom has cancer and she's been unable to work while taking care of her.

Please give whatever you can spare: ko-fi.com/haileykaas
Buy Hailey Kaas a Coffee
Become a supporter of Hailey Kaas today!
ko-fi.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve. #Storytime
February 5, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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Some of the elders say they can remember a time when it wasn’t always raining. Every night they entertain the children with their tall tales, sitting around the space where we’d have a campfire if it wasn’t always raining.
February 5, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds
Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Added Yakety Sax to that video from Minneapolis
February 3, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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Also: who would orchestrate a smear campaign? Absolutely no one wanted this. He was beloved. In addition to the unforgivable pain he caused women, he let himself and all of us down, placing a permanent asterisk on a body of work that was formative and inspiring to many writers and artists.
February 3, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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There's an astonishing cruelty in trying to make the world even more hostile for trans kids by suing schools that want to include them. But that's where 'gender critical' Britain is.

We're acting for a school that is being sued - and we could really use your help with funding.
Defend trans kids in school | Good Law Project
goodlaw.social
February 2, 2026 at 4:58 PM
I have done my new compulsory "You have to be polite to the racists and transphobes" training for work. I think I can still call them that in terms of exercising *my* free speech and right to protest, so long as I do it politely.
February 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Wait, they've made the woman who hatched from an egg alongside her other three quadruplet siblings after the storm god seduced their mum in the form of a swan BLACK?? Whatever happened to historical accuracy!
February 1, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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But, like, I was a precociously curvy teen girl in the 90s and just the sheer continuous experience of public sexual harassment is hard to explain. In places where everyone knew who I was and how old I was. In places my parents were present. All. The. Time. From about age 12-13.
February 1, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Oh Oh
Won’t Won’t
You You
PleasPleas
TakTak
MM
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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
February 1, 2026 at 6:02 PM
I have got to the post-vaccine (from Tuesday) arm ache stage of drawing lines round the edge of the red bit on my arm to check if it's still getting bigger. I'm sure it will settle down tomorrow, right? Stupid meat sack.
January 30, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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Either you're happy for people to be killed and injured to save you a couple of minutes on your journey, or you're not. The evidence that LTNs and 20mph zones save lives is overwhelming.
January 29, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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SCHOOLS!

Here are fifteen books.

I'm giving them away.

If you're a UK school and would like them, let me know.

I'll pick one of you this evening.

You can share it too, if you like.

Ta.
January 29, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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I saw someone rather thoughtfully saying that we shouldn’t be dunking on the 9-9-6 bro but instead interrogating the culture that spawned him… But while that nuance is interesting, I feel like this is one of those “yes, and” situations.
Personally I feel I have more than enough scorn to go around?
January 29, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Or maybe this one …
January 26, 2026 at 2:50 PM