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jane fae

@janefae.bsky.social

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Elf Princess: feminist, journalist, campaigner on political and sexual liberty: also IT, law and policing. Content may contain spoof! She/her. Also fae/faer

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jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 8h

Ciao! Mi ha sempre piaciuto molto quest' immagine!

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 1d

Going to bed, wondering if, by the time i wake tomorrow, the second US civil war will be officially started.

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 2d

Also. Who is this Kemi, of which you speak?

Her name is Olukemi.

Pedantic? Much.

But for someone with such strong views on name change for trans folk, consistency matters!

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 2d

Not well thiught out.

In any sense.

bsky.app/profile/jane...

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 2d

It's not a great metaphor.

Presumably the message, intended or otherwise, is that Britian (or Britain) is like a bar of chocolate.

So sweet. So appealing.

And what do we do with chocolate bars, kiddies?

Why, we break it into delicious little pieces and hand them out to our friends!

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 2d

It's not a great metaphor.

Presumably the message, intended or otherwise, is that Britian (or Britain) is like a bar of chocolate.

So sweet. So appealing.

And what do we do with chocolate bars, kiddies?

Why, we break it into delicious little pieces and hand them out to our friends!

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 2d

Only acceptable if the mechanism by which aforementioned political temperature is taken is rectal thermometer!

Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 3d

BBC Radio 4 Today takes the political temperature in Manchester by interviewing a cross section of the population … in a golf club
Next, a representative survey of US public opinion in Mar a Lago?

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 3d

Nah. Its north Brum.

Not a patch on the sunny uplands of stirchley and moseley.

(Or, indeed, small heath, where I was bring up in the late 60s!)

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 3d

But didn't the most bigoted/extreme uk Christians, like, self-deport to the USA?

A brave new world chock full with "savages" for them to enslave, exploit, and convert to Christianity?

Because only through suffering can you be truly saved.

So, "suffer, babes, suffer!"

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 3d

I went to the exhibition after. He had an exhibition in an art gallery just off bond St.

White wine, dozens of women eyeing up the assorted vag, and trying to work our which was theirs.

Also, dozens of guys trying to look like they weren't looking!

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 3d

Peeled it all off about 5 mins later, and he had a perfect negative/mould from which he could create the cast.

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 3d

Very cold. That is, Jamie seemed very detached from it. I guess once you've seen 100 vulvas, you've seen em all. Sort of.

And the process was cold, too. You had to have shaved down below. No hair!

Then he walked on this blue alginate stuff (very cold) followed by plaster to stiffen the alginate...

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 3d

Was fun. We all sat in a pub next to Jamie's studio, chatting, drinking and trotted over two by two - very noah's ark - for the serious plastering.

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks. Not espesh brave!

I used to perform at an alternative queer club in soho... very L-oriented.

Ended up being a very social space. As result of which, about a dozen of us... mostly cis women, plus me... headed off down to Brighton one weekend to get our bits immortalised in plaster.

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 3d

I believe I may be one of them.

At any rate, I sat* for Jamie, the artist, back when it was the 'greatwallofvagina', which is a much better name.

Assume he changed it for US sensibilities.

* when I say 'sat,' more lay back and spread my legs!

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 3d

Just occasionally, Ofcom do the right thing.

Here they do half a right thing...

TransMediaWatch @transmediawatch.bsky.social · 3d

Ofcom censure GB News for anti-LGBTQ commentary.

No actual sanction. But wrist slapped and told not to do it again.

So, that will work!

www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...

www.ofcom.org.uk

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 9d

That Pete Hegseth speech in full:

("If i had it my way, I'd have all of you shot").

youtu.be/8urkDqSoc54?...

Pink Floyd - In the Flesh (official music video)

YouTube video by gabriel levis

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 9d

And they came SO close.

Had a nuisance of a general not moved Stauffenberg's briefcase by a matter of inches... Hitler would have died in July 1944.

And millions of lives would have been spared.

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 9d

Von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators knew that it was not enough just to cut off the head of the nazi snake.

That's why they were ready to implement Valkyrie to round up those loyal to Hitler, and instal a new government straight after.

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 9d

For the history nerds... a lot of folks think Operation Valkyrie was some Mission Impossible style stunt to assassinate Hitler.

Not surprising, given Tom Cruise starred in the film...

But blowing up Hitler was just the easy first half....

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 9d

Methinks Trump might do well to learn some history.

In nazi Germany, operation Valkyrie was originally a plan for dealing with internal disturbances in "emergency situations."

Such a shame that certain officers realised it was also an excellent blueprint for removing an out of control leader!

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9d

This photo just about sums it up

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 9d

The very idea!

Having immense problems imagining similar in London.

(OK: now tell me i am wrong and totally ignorant of such things...).

😹😹😹

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 11d

How very dare you!

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 11d

Who split that infinitive?

You? The telegraph? Or the Home Secretary?

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 11d

Not your nationality getting in the way here, so much as your age.

it's a cultural reference from approx.1973 UK.

jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 11d

I also shampooed the cat.

He gets done about every two months, and mostly does not seem to bear a grudge.

That is, after shaking himself off, I ended up with one very moist cat sat on my chest and purring.