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Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️

@valsparkle.bsky.social

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Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · Oct 20

Now that there’s more of you on here!
In case anyone is interested in getting a commission by yours truly, here is a price list and some info. DM me if you'd like one!
Since it’s permitted here, I also do nsfw

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 4h

Incredibly refreshing to see a uk politician just say yes a woman can have a penis and can you be normal about trans people if you dont want them to have a dick fund their transition awesome love this guy

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 5h

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 9h

i'm bored 😔

Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 2d

sweaters and fall weather 💚

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Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 2d

Fitzier is a hair length and colour gap relationship, so realistically Francis will be finding long strands of dark hair all over the place

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Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 2d

especially science communication stuff, like youtubers and podcasters (maybe those aren't that suitable for a visual medium but whatever).
feels like a more personal version of "i can do this job, I just can't figure out how to convince you to give me a chance" of the job market

Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 2d

does it fall under parasocial relationships to look at a public figure or internet famous person, and think "i want to be your friend, specifically because I want to work with you creatively. please hire me for illustration collabs"

so many people I wanna @ and offer my services to

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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 2d

Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 3d

i boyfailed too close to the sun, after a lot of projects sewing non stretchy cotton my hubris led me to believe I can sew stretch fabric with only pins holding it in place... so much seam ripping damn

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 5d

Same, little tree. Same.

A fenced-off sapling with a sign on it saying "I am stressed but I will be happier once Autumn comes".

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Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 5d

🫢 oh no

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 7d

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 7d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Rufus jones @rufeydoof.bsky.social · 8d

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Jun 12

So many retellings of folklore that miss the mark is because their authors think the same way plagiarists act; they don't respect the source material, they think they are better than, they don't want to understand or believe that people of antiquity were as intelligent, with as rich interior lives

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Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 9d

haha yessss yes

Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 9d

i have not seen a flying mammal to feed a banana to yet, but I saw a flightless bird and fed it fish

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Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 9d

thaaaaanks

Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 9d

🎂🦇
i'm a little birthday boy today and shall he insufferable unless my cousin distracts me enough

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Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 10d

what

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Hellvetika @hellvetikaseraph.bsky.social · 11d

Oh look, it's that easy. 🤷🏼‍♀️

PN: If there was a Green government, would the Greens reverse the Tories, and subsequently Wes Streeting's, ban on puberty blockers for trans youth?

ZP: Absolutely.

It's really important that policy for trans people is informed by the National Health Service and is done in consultation with trans people. It seems like an abominable gap, particularly in the Cass review, that trans people were not included in the conversations.

It's a basic principle: nothing about us without us.

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Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 11d

You read that right- there are now 1,500 official bat species known to science!
The Bioko pipistrelle (𝘗𝘪𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘭𝘢) was found on Bioko Island in Africa’s Equatorial New Guinea by former BCI Student Scholar Dr. Laura Torrent and her colleagues.

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Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 12d

trying out something on my head that's two symmetrical things attached to a flexible thing, and then taking it off or marking the position to glue would be much easier with a second set of hands

Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 12d

Hm🐏

first time in I don't know how long, but I had a sudden fixation on doing a craft I haven't touched in 25 years, actually sat down to do it, and finished a thing I didn't have instructions for.

might paint them more and redo the headband, it's just hard to do by myself

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Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 13d

well, given what we do to that fish in the kitchen...
but also haha what

Aaron (Val)🦊🔪🌟🍪🏔️ @valsparkle.bsky.social · 13d

i know it's bad to be a "fan" of politicians but oh my god, it's such a relief to see one actually do stuff, actually try things that might work. Man even seeing my local MP list what he's been up to in a week makes my mind boggle because it seems so weird to have one of them actually do fuck all