Lucy
@lucymoore.bsky.social
Numismatist, Wikimedian, allotment holder, carer
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The UK gives more protection to cell phones than to trans children
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The UK gives more protection to cell phones than to trans children
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender-affirming care saves lives
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As part of my Wikimedian in Residence position at the Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute I've recently created documentation on linking publications to Natural History Collections in #Wikidata doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Linking publications to collections : adding cites work, uses or acknowledged statements to Wikidata
This resource outlines simple workflows for adding “cites work”, “uses” and “acknowledges” statements to Wikidata items for publications. These statements link publications to natural history collecti...
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
As part of my Wikimedian in Residence position at the Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute I've recently created documentation on linking publications to Natural History Collections in #Wikidata doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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CommonsDB Explorer is live! Browse rights declarations for Public Domain works, check files for matches, and see verifiable rights info that travels with content. openfuture.eu/blog/commons...
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
CommonsDB Explorer is live! Browse rights declarations for Public Domain works, check files for matches, and see verifiable rights info that travels with content. openfuture.eu/blog/commons...
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okay so here’s the thing about being racist, right
you can’t do it nicely!!! There is no kind or complimentary way to be racist!!!
you can’t do it nicely!!! There is no kind or complimentary way to be racist!!!
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
okay so here’s the thing about being racist, right
you can’t do it nicely!!! There is no kind or complimentary way to be racist!!!
you can’t do it nicely!!! There is no kind or complimentary way to be racist!!!
An event for @basenotes.com fans! How to describe olfactory info in WikiData & other Wikimedia projects!
Info (scroll down) wikimedia.org.uk/2025/08/comm...
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Community Sandbox Events - Wikimedia UK
UPCOMING EVENTS Wikisource Transcribe-a-thon This event will introduce Wikisource: a community that is building a huge library of freely available … Continue reading "Community Sandbox Events"
wikimedia.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
An event for @basenotes.com fans! How to describe olfactory info in WikiData & other Wikimedia projects!
Info (scroll down) wikimedia.org.uk/2025/08/comm...
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Pour le jour du souvenir #trans, la #Wikipedia en anglais met en avant des personnes transgenres et des histoires liées à des personnes transgenres 🏳️⚧️
A bunch of @wikipedia.org editors (inc. me) ensured that for this #TDOR the #didyouknow section in the English version was filled with stories of trans people.
Want to hear a trans (mustarjil) folk singer from 1930s? meet Masoud El Amaratly
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3A...
Want to hear a trans (mustarjil) folk singer from 1930s? meet Masoud El Amaratly
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3A...
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Pour le jour du souvenir #trans, la #Wikipedia en anglais met en avant des personnes transgenres et des histoires liées à des personnes transgenres 🏳️⚧️
If you give, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
If you're yet-to-give, do give it some though, I'm happy to answer questions from my perspective as an editor!
If you're yet-to-give, do give it some though, I'm happy to answer questions from my perspective as an editor!
How does a website with no corporate advertising and no paywall stay online?
Only 2% of readers give, but this small group makes all the difference. This grassroots support keeps Wikipedia independent and free.
If you can, donate today ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/give/
Only 2% of readers give, but this small group makes all the difference. This grassroots support keeps Wikipedia independent and free.
If you can, donate today ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/give/
November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If you give, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
If you're yet-to-give, do give it some though, I'm happy to answer questions from my perspective as an editor!
If you're yet-to-give, do give it some though, I'm happy to answer questions from my perspective as an editor!
A bunch of @wikipedia.org editors (inc. me) ensured that for this #TDOR the #didyouknow section in the English version was filled with stories of trans people.
Want to hear a trans (mustarjil) folk singer from 1930s? meet Masoud El Amaratly
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3A...
Want to hear a trans (mustarjil) folk singer from 1930s? meet Masoud El Amaratly
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3A...
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
A bunch of @wikipedia.org editors (inc. me) ensured that for this #TDOR the #didyouknow section in the English version was filled with stories of trans people.
Want to hear a trans (mustarjil) folk singer from 1930s? meet Masoud El Amaratly
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3A...
Want to hear a trans (mustarjil) folk singer from 1930s? meet Masoud El Amaratly
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3A...
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Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
Yes Coinz! (Well tokenz!) & Yes you'd be volunteering with me!
Interested in getting some hands on experience with our collections?
We're looking for volunteers to help catalogue and research our collection of 17th-century tokens.
Volunteering will usually take place on a Thursday, 2 hours per week. Email [email protected] for the full role description.
We're looking for volunteers to help catalogue and research our collection of 17th-century tokens.
Volunteering will usually take place on a Thursday, 2 hours per week. Email [email protected] for the full role description.
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Yes Coinz! (Well tokenz!) & Yes you'd be volunteering with me!
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I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”
If they support them they will too.
If they support them they will too.
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”
If they support them they will too.
If they support them they will too.
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Another morning, another chance to be ashamed to be British. People are fleeing war and persecution, which we are often implicated in. Britain, smugly saying it's the best country in the world, takes their last valuables to pay for bureaucracy & sub standard accommodation. Government by anecdote
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Another morning, another chance to be ashamed to be British. People are fleeing war and persecution, which we are often implicated in. Britain, smugly saying it's the best country in the world, takes their last valuables to pay for bureaucracy & sub standard accommodation. Government by anecdote
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Despite that help is evaporating each week, we CONTINUE with all boldness, because their lives depend on it.
Every dollar + click of “weekly” + share helps SIX families secure crucial food, shelter, blankets—no aid, no NGOs rushing to help. Just us.
Every dollar + click of “weekly” + share helps SIX families secure crucial food, shelter, blankets—no aid, no NGOs rushing to help. Just us.
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
chuffed.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Despite that help is evaporating each week, we CONTINUE with all boldness, because their lives depend on it.
Every dollar + click of “weekly” + share helps SIX families secure crucial food, shelter, blankets—no aid, no NGOs rushing to help. Just us.
Every dollar + click of “weekly” + share helps SIX families secure crucial food, shelter, blankets—no aid, no NGOs rushing to help. Just us.
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"We're history finders"
It would seem not only finders ..... keepers as well !
Let's not forget history is everyone's and donating to Museums is an option
It would seem not only finders ..... keepers as well !
Let's not forget history is everyone's and donating to Museums is an option
"I've never sold a single item & I've found thousands of coins."
'he keeps his finds carefully arranged in a display cabinet at his home.'
...that's just one #detectorist.
Multiply that by perhaps 40,000 people - that's an awful lot of artefacts.
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'he keeps his finds carefully arranged in a display cabinet at his home.'
...that's just one #detectorist.
Multiply that by perhaps 40,000 people - that's an awful lot of artefacts.
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Surrey Metal Detecting Club sees membership leap in six years
Founded with 60 members in 2019, the Surrey club now has more than 3,000 members across the county.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"We're history finders"
It would seem not only finders ..... keepers as well !
Let's not forget history is everyone's and donating to Museums is an option
It would seem not only finders ..... keepers as well !
Let's not forget history is everyone's and donating to Museums is an option
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We’re not going to “fix the Democrats’ brand” by doing TikToks or launching pods. The brand is a direct reflection of our elected officials. If we want to purge our weak branding, we have to purge the weak Dems. I’m looking forward to a robust primary cycle and new Democrats who know how to fight.
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
We’re not going to “fix the Democrats’ brand” by doing TikToks or launching pods. The brand is a direct reflection of our elected officials. If we want to purge our weak branding, we have to purge the weak Dems. I’m looking forward to a robust primary cycle and new Democrats who know how to fight.
I forgot one did not know Zohran was knocking off the Gormenghast font
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I forgot one did not know Zohran was knocking off the Gormenghast font
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Today's first Script Keepers meeting featured some very fruitful discussion and updates on ongoing projects - second one coming up at 9.00pm UK time.
www.scriptkeepers.org
www.scriptkeepers.org
Script Keepers Network – Safeguarding Scripts
Script Keepers Network Unites People To Protect And Revitalize The World’s Endangered Writing Systems.
www.scriptkeepers.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Today's first Script Keepers meeting featured some very fruitful discussion and updates on ongoing projects - second one coming up at 9.00pm UK time.
www.scriptkeepers.org
www.scriptkeepers.org
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Richard Tice is now denying that Reform ever promised to cut council taxes - and interviewers are waving the election leaflets at him! Priceless. leftfootforward.org/2025/11/rich...
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Richard Tice is now denying that Reform ever promised to cut council taxes - and interviewers are waving the election leaflets at him! Priceless. leftfootforward.org/2025/11/rich...
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Transkribus is the handwritten text recognition tool that we used to transcribe 25,000 wills from 1540-1790 for our Leverhulme project.
Beginners' guide here 👇
#DigitalHumanities 🗃️ #EarlyModern
Beginners' guide here 👇
#DigitalHumanities 🗃️ #EarlyModern
Did you miss our beginners' webinar last week? The complete recording of our step-by-step introduction to Transkribus is now available on YouTube 👇
Transkribus Webinar for Beginners (English)
Transkribus is the most popular tools for automatic text recognition of historical documents.
By watching this webinar recording, you will learn how to upload documents to Transkribus, perform…
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Transkribus is the handwritten text recognition tool that we used to transcribe 25,000 wills from 1540-1790 for our Leverhulme project.
Beginners' guide here 👇
#DigitalHumanities 🗃️ #EarlyModern
Beginners' guide here 👇
#DigitalHumanities 🗃️ #EarlyModern
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can albanian speakers please tell me more about this verb that apparently means “to die” but only for humans and bees???
October 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
can albanian speakers please tell me more about this verb that apparently means “to die” but only for humans and bees???
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Go see Dig Me a Grave at Yorkshire Sculpture Park this week!
It's beautiful
guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/...
It's beautiful
guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/...
Claye Bowler: Dig Me A Grave | Yorkshire Sculpture Park | Bloomberg Connects
The arts and culture app.
guides.bloombergconnects.org
October 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Go see Dig Me a Grave at Yorkshire Sculpture Park this week!
It's beautiful
guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/...
It's beautiful
guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/...
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With a few notable exceptions among you, I suspect you (yes! you!!) simply do not know enough about eels.
Not because there is a great eel quiz at the end of it all, no no.
But because eel facts, that you can scratch to reveal, bring joy. We need more joy. Badly.
Get eel facts.
eelfacts.net
Not because there is a great eel quiz at the end of it all, no no.
But because eel facts, that you can scratch to reveal, bring joy. We need more joy. Badly.
Get eel facts.
eelfacts.net
October 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
With a few notable exceptions among you, I suspect you (yes! you!!) simply do not know enough about eels.
Not because there is a great eel quiz at the end of it all, no no.
But because eel facts, that you can scratch to reveal, bring joy. We need more joy. Badly.
Get eel facts.
eelfacts.net
Not because there is a great eel quiz at the end of it all, no no.
But because eel facts, that you can scratch to reveal, bring joy. We need more joy. Badly.
Get eel facts.
eelfacts.net