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@pocketswomenuk.bsky.social

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Because women deserve pockets too. https://www.pocketsforwomen.co.uk/ "Sheffield's own pocket warrior" - the Guardian

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · Sep 19

A great article about the fight for women's clothes with pockets. Oh yeah, and I'm in it 😁
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023...

‘Wouldn’t it make life easier?’: the growing campaign for pockets on women’s clothes

Centuries after men began carrying items in their clothes, women are still encumbered with bags. Now activists are changing that

www.theguardian.com

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 17h

Was really happy to see @threeacresacow.bsky.social at the Crucible this evening. Some things you take for granted as being just the way things are, but seeing the history of enclosure, shows how recently we had common rights to land. Also a great crowd and some lovely communal singing 😁

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 1d

Broomhall is a model for redesigning Sheffield www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/from-red-lig...

From red light district and rat runs to calm streets

Broomhall is a model for redesigning Sheffield

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk

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End Sexism In Schools @endsexisminschools.bsky.social · 19d

Is that the wonderful @katemossewriter.bsky.social writing in The Observer talking about End Sexism in School's new report into the History curriculum? 👀

New report out Wednesday - watch this space.

Girls just wanna be in our history textbooks | The Observer

Women are still largely missing from the history we teach in classrooms. If we want a fairer future, we must stop erasing half the past

observer.co.uk

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 28d

A great article about pockets in women's clothing, the history and the designers who champion them. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

'Girls need to carry things too!': How women's pockets became so controversial

Why do men's clothes have so many pockets, and women's so few? For centuries, the humble pocket has been a flashpoint in the gender divide of fashion. Is that finally set to change?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · Sep 1

In Bruges last month there was a little kid who'd lost his parents on a tour, but as soon as he started with his anguished cries of “mummy!” the crowd mobilised. Some to comfort him, others to look for the parents. They were reunited in minutes. Most people are nice. It's hard to remember sometimes.

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · Aug 29

Pyjamas with pockets naysayers : I found mine extremely useful when camping for my torch in a middle of the night toilet trip

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · Aug 28

That sounds great, thanks!

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Bloody Popcorn @bloodypopcorn.bsky.social · Aug 24

My 13-year-old just recently got some black skinny jeans from the women’s department because fellow emo kids told him that was the best place to find them, and, oh, the validation I felt when he complained about the teeny tiny pockets

a woman holding a cup of coffee with the words exactly written below her

ALT: a woman holding a cup of coffee with the words exactly written below her

media.tenor.com

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · Aug 27

And it was really helpful, thanks!

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks! That's so lovely 😁

The Wayfaring Path @lindaholman.bsky.social · Aug 26

Are you a fan of pockets in clothing? Here’s an awesome #Sheffield start-up that ONLY has clothing with pockets! www.pocketsforwomen.co.uk #pockets #fashion #women #business

Pockets For Women - Women's Clothes with pockets

We've found all the women's clothes with pockets from the top UK retailers, so that you need never be without pockets again

www.pocketsforwomen.co.uk

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · Aug 18

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Stop Burning Our Moors: Protect our kids, not grouse hunts.

Wealthy landowners are burning our moorlands for grouse shooting on the land. But the toxic smoke from this burning blows over surrounding communities and releases tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Aug 10

🥾 Just shy of 200 people joined us up at Moscar Moor today to mark the start of the shooting season and united around our call for this huge grouse shooting estate in the Peak District to be taken into community ownership.

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Jul 29

🛑 Stop grouse shooting

📣 Join our walk to protest against this cruel and environmentally destructive practice.

🗓 10.30am on Sunday 10th August

📍Redmires Reservoir Car Park

🥾 Hike ~3km easygoing trail to a meeting point where we will gather for speeches and music

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · Jul 17

Reassuring that when it comes to drawing a pelican on a bicycle, AI is still pretty rubbish 😂
simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/25/...

Pelicans on a bicycle

I decided to roll out my own LLM benchmark: how well can different models render an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle? I chose that because a) I like …

simonwillison.net

Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · Jul 6

"McCardell insisted on putting pockets in women’s clothing; previously, pockets were reserved almost exclusively for men."
She sounds fabulous 😁
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

It Has Pockets!

How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion

www.theatlantic.com

Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thanks. She sounds fabulous, and I'd never heard of her

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · Jul 6

Absolutely! Puts my faith back in politics 😁

Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · Jul 6

So proud that she's my MP

Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · Jul 6

Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.

@wildjustice.bsky.social

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Jul 1

🎓 Members of our history and ecology group made a visit to Sheffield archives...

🗺️ We've got saucy historic maps of the moors and other info to digest before we start making beautiful propaganda!

🎶 I'll know my song well before I start singing

💬 Do get in touch if you want to reclaim our moors!

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · Jun 30

We’re in Westminster and we’re ready for our parliamentary debate on banning driven grouse shooting – you can watch along online at www.youtube.com/live/dVP_u8X...

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · Jun 25

I hear you!

battybunce.bsky.social @battybunce.bsky.social · Jun 25

Honestly, I dream of all women’s clothing having any type of usable pockets. MORE POCKETS!

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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · Jun 18

✨ Hurrah for The Star!

🎩 Duke of Rutland urged to sell 'trashed' grouse moor 'to people of Sheffield'

www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ...

Reclaim our moors! Are you game?

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · Jun 10

Once again cannot express how much I love Naga Munchetty's 'time of the month' program on @bbc5live.bsky.social . So glad someone is talking about these women's health issues. This week IBS. With the rise in bowel cancer, people need to not be ashamed to talk about poo.

Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · May 10

Sounds like a great opportunity and a really good cause

Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · May 10

Opportunity here to rebrand and develop the website for Spread the Word, the agency that supports writers all over London. £30K in total.

Get in touch if you're interested.

Link here www.spreadtheword.org.uk/tender-oppor...
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Please share :)

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · May 10

Oh god, don't worry about that! Yeah I'm good thanks. Hope you're ok? Let me know if you're heading up to Sheffield anytime soon x

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