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Baby octopus
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mancalledhorse.bsky.social
Baby octopus @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · Jan 6
If I've liked your hilarious meme or beautiful picture but not reposted it, it might be because you didn't include alt text
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idilsukan.bsky.social
An extra £30k would be life changing for an indie artist. There isn’t any reason to be paying for Spotify any more

A lot of social stuff is on Spotify but it doesn’t have the hold of Facebook. It would just take a little threshold of people switching to Apple and Tidal for that to be totally undone
dryad.technology mcc @dryad.technology · 15h
"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more."

Los Campesinos:
Here’s how much money Los Camp! make from streaming… - Los Campesinos!
loscampesinos.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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badambulist.bsky.social
HR departments countrywide need to start treating gendercrit employees as potentially hostile. As soon as you are required to interact with one, you dust off the rulebook, you dot every eye and cross every t, and you assume bad faith at every turn.

They are a threat to every organisation.
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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ameresolicitor.bsky.social
All the claims against Dr. Beth Upton failed.

She’s entirely vindicated and her evidence was found more reliable.

Let’s see if a single paper actually represents that fairly…
December 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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ket.bsky.social
dying rn
Applying the guidance in Forstater and the cases cited therein, it appeared to us that the belief held by the second respondent, that the second respondent’s gender and sex are female, is protected notwithstanding that the Supreme Court held that sex under section 11 is biological. We considered that it would not be logical to protect the claimant’s gender critical belief, but not that of the second respondent. In short, although the beliefs of each of the claimant and second respondent are not consistent with how the law determines sex and gender reassignment respectively the law also protects those beliefs in a qualified manner. 874. We concluded that the beliefs held by the claimant and the second respondent respectively are therefore protected in law under section 10. Each is entitled to respect, and each is to be considered in the context of their human rights
December 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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dommgoss.bsky.social
Fascinating study in “cis het success” through Sandie Peggie’s failure, that’s what they think winning looks like pals 😂 it’s fascinating to see press refuse to cause their cis readers alarm by accurately reporting that a cis woman, a nurse no less, lost to a trans woman. Inconceivable stuff!
December 9, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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jjvincent.bsky.social
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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diplomatofnight.com
Something a lot of people miss is that in many ways the pre Oct 2023 status quo rested upon the idea that the Palestinian question didn't need solving. Pretty much everyone thought Oslo had permanently rendered the Palestinians docile and that there no longer was a need for a political resolution.
diplomatofnight.com Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h
Well the fence is illusory and will never work, that's why expulsionism is more popular than ever.
December 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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unfortunatalie.bsky.social
Please enjoy some photographs I took at the krampus run in Whitby this weekend.
Krampus guy with a paper mache deer skull on a stick Crowd scene, several krampus A krampus holds a pot of purple smoke aloft A silly looking krampus with a big wiggly tongue
December 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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maxdavie.bsky.social
If you see this repost with your model of positive masculinity
(One for the kids)
Jones the steam from Ivor
December 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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doublehelix.bsky.social
Sue, you're shouting at biscuits
sheg7.bsky.social She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 17h
I'd pay good money just to see her argument for these biscuits being "biologically male"
Susan Hall on twitter: look at this nonsense, NO, they are gingerbread men Picture, Packet of 16 Morrisons Gingerbread People
December 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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sheg7.bsky.social
Sex baked rights.
sheg7.bsky.social She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 17h
I'd pay good money just to see her argument for these biscuits being "biologically male"
Susan Hall on twitter: look at this nonsense, NO, they are gingerbread men Picture, Packet of 16 Morrisons Gingerbread People
December 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
mancalledhorse.bsky.social
The tribunal found that GC heroine and darling of the right wing press, brave Nurse Peggie, had transphobically harassed her colleague and shared racist jokes in group chats. NHS Fife are perfectly entitled to allow a trans woman to use women's changing rooms. And Forstater is not an expert.
December 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Oooft. Sandie Peggie shared highly offensive messages and was then "untruthful" in giving evidence to the Tribunal.

This is the 'hero' Gender Critical campaigners have chosen.
631. The third aspect was her evidence given when recalled in relation to a message she had passed on to her group of friends which related to floods in Pakistan in the most highly offensive terms. She initially described the messages as “dark humour”. Her evidence later was that the message had been sent to provoke a reaction, in broad summary. We did not consider that latter evidence to be credible given the content of the message sent and her initial evidence about it. In our view it was an untruthful attempt to downplay what she had done, which she recognised as having included very offensive material. We consider that it was clear beyond serious argument that the author or authors of the original message considered the remarks humorous, and that the claimant had also considered them humorous which was why she had passed them on. That was supported in our view by her reference to dark humour
December 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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goodlawproject.org
This is a real disaster for those - pretty much the entirety of the British media - advancing a maximalist reading of the For (Some) Women Scotland decision.
796. Thirdly, the claimant’s contention was in our view not consistent with the court’s comment that “we have concluded that a biological sex interpretation would not have the effect of disadvantaging or removing important protection under the EA 2010 from trans people (whether with or without a GRC).” 797. After that comment the court explained that a person with gender reassignment as a protected characteristic could pursue a claim of direct or indirect discrimination, or of harassment, if the circumstances so warranted. There was no qualification to it to the effect that that was not applicable in, for example, the context of a single sex space under Part 5 of the Act. If their decision had been that all trans persons must be excluded from the changing rooms or toilets for the sex they identify with because it was not the sex assigned at birth, and may also be excluded from the changing rooms or toilets of their biological sex, that in our view certainly does impact on their rights under section 7. 798. Were the claimant’s contention to be correct that would have the effect of materially reducing the extent to which that protected characteristic could be relied on by trans persons, to their disadvantage. What was desired by the trans person when living their life may not be permitted in a large number of practical instances, and would not have been consistent with the view expressed by Lady Hale in Work and Pensions, and the line of authority in relation to human rights. Such a construction in our view would also not be consistent with the interpretation of the Equal Treatment Directive from the CJEU and its predecessor as referred to above, which remains as assimilated law, and would not be consistent with a purposive interpretation still required. The development of the law in relation to what is now the protected characteristic of gender reassignment is set out above. At the very least we would have expected these considerations to have been addressed speci…
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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mcduff.bsky.social
I think at this stage we should point out: kicking up a huge legal fuss, losing hugely on all the merits, and playing up a ruling in your favour over a minor technical or procedural point, is a well established strategy in the UK *because* the press will absolutely 100% play along with it.
hern.bsky.social Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 19h
Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”.
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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timclare.bsky.social
Yes! If people had the humility to grasp this one thing, gosh we'd avoid so much unnecessary suffering. (I have been guilty of not understanding this in the past, because thinking of oneself as Not Easily Fooled is a great way to become smug, hidebound & prejudiced)
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d
Just because you are unable to imagine how someone else’s mind works does not mean that person’s mind does not work like that
December 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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drewharwell.com
Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
December 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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risu.bsky.social
Same
I work with children and adults

The adults are the problem. Half the schools still use Facebook for comms and resource sharing and are telling students to use the disinformation network that is LLM

But if I speak …
sloanelysbeth.bsky.social รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d
im not concerned about young ppl being able to determine what is misinformation online

im concerned about middle aged ppl being able to determine what is misinformation online. especially politicians, journalists, judges, solicitors, and medical professionals

'gender critical' highlights this
December 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
im not concerned about young ppl being able to determine what is misinformation online

im concerned about middle aged ppl being able to determine what is misinformation online. especially politicians, journalists, judges, solicitors, and medical professionals

'gender critical' highlights this
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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emmelinemay.bsky.social
"people i agree with are standing up for their rights - this is ADVOCACY. People I disagree with are doing ACTIVISM and that's a BAD WORD"
December 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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discontinuedfoods.bsky.social
This commercial for French's Mustard from 1987 is equal parts charming and also kinda unsettling, but what strikes me is the work that went into the absolutely delightful puppetry and practical effects for a *mustard commercial*!! Imagine that today??
May 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
justicar.xyz Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 17d
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
maxnichols.bsky.social Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 17d
Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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elizabethbeston.bsky.social
The smallest Squishmallow ever! I think this is a Capitellidae larva (Polychaete - bristle worm) and it’s super squishy!
#marineplankton 🦑
December 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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petersketch.bsky.social
Went to Slimbridge yesterday. Not many actual #birds around but they do have this rather wonderful Tawny Owl built from Lego. You may need to zoom in to see how they've done the shading using very few different colours of brick.
A statue of a Tawny Owl sits on a plinth among some trees. The owl appears pixelated. Zooming in reveals it is built of Lego bricks.
December 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
Should go without saying, but if protections against torture are preventing your policies being implemented then it isn't the protections which are the issue.

There's no difference, for those affected, here from leaving the ECHR if rights are removed anyway.

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Rights groups warn against UK plans to weaken torture protections in ECHR
Exclusive: Ministers face pushback over potential changes to asylum seekers’ rights before Council of Europe meeting
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM