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Leo Greene (if you're nice)

@leo-greene.bsky.social

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🏳‍⚧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇵🇸🏳‍🌈 Teacher, storyteller, environmentalist, activist. Queer, neurodivergent, bilingual and vegan. Gender? None of your beeswax "Pronoun wanker" Top 3 priorities are joy, creativity and connection. Chocolate is also important

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Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 17h

I'm still waiting for my pre-ordered copy to arrive, but Tom's writing just gets better and better so I would totally recommend reading this

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19h

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 21h

That sounds incredible. I hope it comes to our local arthouse

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic

Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 1d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 1d

Ways to resist fascism

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🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 4d

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!

Store details below!

5 Oval shaped pins with gold outlines with an oval cutout in the middle with a yellow slideable star:

Spoons: Lavender background
Hunger Scale: Red background
Migraine Scale: Blue background
Speaking vs Non Speaking: Green background

The first one has SHE, THEY, HE on top. At the bottom there's HER, THEM, HIM. White background.

Strawberry, Galaxy and Bats Wrist Braces

Strawberry, Galaxy and Bats Thumb Splints

Elbow braces in the strawberry, Galaxy and Bats patterns

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Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 1d

If you're a fan of Anne Cleeves there's a good interview with her in today's Guardian. She basically says she had to bring the Shetland series to an end, and move Jimmy Perez to Orkney, because she'd killed off so many Shetlanders!

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Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 1d

These aren't low homicide rates. Every murder is a tragedy and the result of several failures. Accidental deaths can be minimised but probably never eliminated, but there is no excuse for extreme violence

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 1d

She is familiar with Vimes' economic theory regarding boots then, isn't she?

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 1d

Took me about a fortnight to get on hrt for menopause. The discrepancy is unforgivable

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 1d

I would suggest 'avoid using AI to generate images for campaigns' for a start

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 1d

TW: rape, gun violence

Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody in US politics ever wants to talk about how Israel intentionally murdered their own civilians on 10/7, or how in the days leading up to the attack, Israeli forces were raping and shooting at Palestinians to provoke them.

This tweet is from October 6, 2023:

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 1d

So many winter weasels have died in the pursuit of a fursuit...I mean justice. It seems equally cruel to make a human wear all that fur in Australia's climate

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 2d

But what was his crime?

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Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 2d

Has he actually come out in support of Israel? I've been trying to find out ever since a certain pirate stole my heart and have never got a definite answer, just lots of rumors. Then again, anyone with a public platform who hasn't spoken against genocide is disappointing

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 2d

I was going to suggest it should be aimed towards neurodivergent folk too, but are there any queer/Furry /trans folk who aren't ND?

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 2d

And don't get me started on the high risk of being shot, sexually assaulted or otherwise injured by another, and having to pay a fortune to be patched up. Surely whoever shot you should pay your medical bills? Rape victims should get free treatment, PEP and Plan B

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 2d

I remember being so confused watching an episode of Glee featuring a young man disabled in a sports accident. His mother apologised for the state of the house but said she'd been 'on the line to the insurance people all day.' Took ages to work out what she meant and I still don't fully understand it

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Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 2d

Can he tell a funny joke about himself? Create something beautiful from his own imagination? Sing, write poetry or play an instrument? Would you seek him out to share joy, or sadness? Do faces light up when he enters a room? Does he understand that kindness isn't weakness, and we all hurt sometimes?

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Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 2d

Well, it did cause a sharp intake of breath, which is inspiration of a kind!

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 3d

Have done, and would do again 💖

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 3d

I've never watched Titanic. Just never had the spare time. I have seen Love, Actually and it's bloody awful, actually. I'm trying to remember why I watched it and I really can't!

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 3d

What a fabulously unhinged tale. You could buy a house for £2000 back then!

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 3d

I still think there's an even chance Glinner will become a born again Christian in the next 5 years just to complete his drift to the right.
It's a shame he's developing all the negative characteristics of the various Fathers with none of their lovable ones

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 3d

They believe their 'large gametes' are obvious enough that it doesn't matter

Leo Greene (if you're nice) @leo-greene.bsky.social · 3d

I can't think of a nice way to say this, but several of those transphobes could be challenged for trying to use the ladies loo. Gender really is a performance, and you really can't tell someone's 'biological sex' just by looking. You can't destroy the patriarchy by clinging to a gender binary

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 4d

‘Gender critical’ bigots have set themselves up outside the Green Party Conference to harass trans-inclusive people arriving at conference.

They’re presenting themselves as poor put-upon women “being silenced” while aggressively lobbying for trans-exclusion! 🤮

A bunch of ‘gender critical’ transphobes - including Green Party Peer - Jenny Jones, outside Green Party Conference.

Gender Critical Transphobes outside Green Party Conference