Horrible House Sparrow (she/they)
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Basic cliche, goth-adjacent, occasionally bro-ish. Self-help book permanently lodged somewhere uncomfortable.
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The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here!
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
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Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
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The Yuletide Bundle! Available until 1st December
December gifting sorted! A vintage book, beautifully wrapped with a handwritten seasonal greetings card containing your gift message, a library card AND candy*. What more could you ask for? All this f...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here!
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚
shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...
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I don't wish to sound overly harsh, but if you have a "no simultaneous submissions" instruction and also don't send rejection notices, I think you should have to contend with ants in your underwear every single day.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I don't wish to sound overly harsh, but if you have a "no simultaneous submissions" instruction and also don't send rejection notices, I think you should have to contend with ants in your underwear every single day.
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It's here but not been updated since it was uploaded www.flickr.com/photos/kaput...
Edinburgh Charity Shop Map
A London Underground "tube style" walking map of charity shops in Edinburgh.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
It's here but not been updated since it was uploaded www.flickr.com/photos/kaput...
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What would you do with infinity? What would infinity force you to do? Subterraneans S09E03: Sacrifice is now available early exclusively to Patreon subscribers. www.patreon.com/posts/s09e03...
S09E03: Sacrifice (Transcript + Early Access) | James Thompson
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November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
What would you do with infinity? What would infinity force you to do? Subterraneans S09E03: Sacrifice is now available early exclusively to Patreon subscribers. www.patreon.com/posts/s09e03...
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I wrote about my first appointment with the surgical team at the hospital who will eventually do my top surgery, and how I left that appointment feeling disgusted not just with my body but with myself: www.genderbent.co.uk/and-then-the...
And then the doctor drew my boobs
Dysphoria roiled in my stomach and I wanted to scream. Or cry. Or maybe throw up.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I wrote about my first appointment with the surgical team at the hospital who will eventually do my top surgery, and how I left that appointment feeling disgusted not just with my body but with myself: www.genderbent.co.uk/and-then-the...
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The Billion Oyster project uses them as oyster nurseries, and there are ones that double as mangrove planters for mangrove restoration.
Okay, you may say, that’s neat but why did it consume your interest?
Three words: Coral Reef Burials.
Okay, you may say, that’s neat but why did it consume your interest?
Three words: Coral Reef Burials.
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The Billion Oyster project uses them as oyster nurseries, and there are ones that double as mangrove planters for mangrove restoration.
Okay, you may say, that’s neat but why did it consume your interest?
Three words: Coral Reef Burials.
Okay, you may say, that’s neat but why did it consume your interest?
Three words: Coral Reef Burials.
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we should have Leave A Nice Review Friday. its where on fridays we leave nice reviews for works by indie creators on whatever platform having reviews on helps them the most
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
we should have Leave A Nice Review Friday. its where on fridays we leave nice reviews for works by indie creators on whatever platform having reviews on helps them the most
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I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
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A new entry from the #HooklandEncyclopaedia – #HooklandEncyclopedia for Hooklanders abroad). Double lives, autogyros, aerial archaeology, the Soot Sprite Trust and ghosts. All in all, typical of the county.
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A new entry from the #HooklandEncyclopaedia – #HooklandEncyclopedia for Hooklanders abroad). Double lives, autogyros, aerial archaeology, the Soot Sprite Trust and ghosts. All in all, typical of the county.
I really enjoyed this book- I've been wanting more from Rachel Plummer since rachelplummer.co.uk/wain/, which I have given to younger relations at Christmas. Very much looking to seeing where they go next.
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I really enjoyed this book- I've been wanting more from Rachel Plummer since rachelplummer.co.uk/wain/, which I have given to younger relations at Christmas. Very much looking to seeing where they go next.
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“How I turned my DAW into an improv partner while producing my jazz album” musictech.com/features/mat...
How I turned my DAW into an improv partner while producing my jazz album
Here’s how Ableton, programmed drums, and a restored Rhodes shaped Matt Wilde’s Find a Way – read on to find out more
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November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“How I turned my DAW into an improv partner while producing my jazz album” musictech.com/features/mat...
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Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
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For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Guess it’s coming to the time of year where I can share my Mari Lwyd pins again (which come in standard and trans flavoured)
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Guess it’s coming to the time of year where I can share my Mari Lwyd pins again (which come in standard and trans flavoured)
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Reproductive rights are inextricably linked to trans rights.
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Reproductive rights are inextricably linked to trans rights.
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no katamari tonight!! riding out this wave of productivity while i can. see you tomorrow night 6pm ET on CB if you want to watch me churn my own butter while scantily clad
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
no katamari tonight!! riding out this wave of productivity while i can. see you tomorrow night 6pm ET on CB if you want to watch me churn my own butter while scantily clad
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Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday
Going to a TDoR vigil tonight, and since the quiet space afterwards will apparently have tea and coffee available, hopefully implying hot water, I need to pick up some hot chocolate sachets. And maybe soothing beige snacks. Going to pack my bag for minor emergencies and headaches.
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Going to a TDoR vigil tonight, and since the quiet space afterwards will apparently have tea and coffee available, hopefully implying hot water, I need to pick up some hot chocolate sachets. And maybe soothing beige snacks. Going to pack my bag for minor emergencies and headaches.
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Calling anyone who can read shorthand! I would very much love to know what this method for my grandmother's "Uncooked Chocolate Cake" is! Guessing it's from the 1950s if that helps. (please feel free to share if your network might know shorthand <3)
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Calling anyone who can read shorthand! I would very much love to know what this method for my grandmother's "Uncooked Chocolate Cake" is! Guessing it's from the 1950s if that helps. (please feel free to share if your network might know shorthand <3)
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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While I am getting loads of attention I wasn't expecting... did you know I run the free education programme 'Romancing the Gothic' which has free online classes from experts around the world every week?
Get your tickets here!
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Get your tickets here!
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Romancing the Gothic
Romancing the Gothic – Romancing the Gothic runs free-to-access talks on Gothic, horror, folklore and supernatural topics. We run weekly talks and a b...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
While I am getting loads of attention I wasn't expecting... did you know I run the free education programme 'Romancing the Gothic' which has free online classes from experts around the world every week?
Get your tickets here!
share.google/tegHFYWn1yp7...
Get your tickets here!
share.google/tegHFYWn1yp7...
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Working on a pond vessel
November 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Working on a pond vessel
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Today is Trans Awareness Week *and* International Men's Day, so it's really the perfect time to subscribe to my newsletter where I (a trans man) write about gender and masculinity.
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Genderbent
Exploring gender, transmasculinity & mental illness
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November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today is Trans Awareness Week *and* International Men's Day, so it's really the perfect time to subscribe to my newsletter where I (a trans man) write about gender and masculinity.
www.genderbent.co.uk
www.genderbent.co.uk
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Captivated by these tiny, crocheted, ceramic vessels by Jeremy Brooks
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/jere...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Captivated by these tiny, crocheted, ceramic vessels by Jeremy Brooks
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/jere...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/jere...