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Lissa Evans

@lissakevans.bsky.social

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Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog, desultory gardener, attention span of a flea. lissaevans.com

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🅢🅗🅔🅔🅝🅐 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 2h

This made me laugh more than it probably should 😂
#funny

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 10h

The KLPA only has 200 members - the vast majority of women who swim in the ponds don't even know it exists, let alone that it's been taken over by a clique that thinks their vote can override the law. It can't.

Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you! 😁

Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very difficult (as you’ll see) to get a good pic of ⁦
Fortnum & Mason's⁩ window displays. They’re always imaginative, but these creatures, made of recycled materials, are absolutely magnificent. I’m bagging the hyena for my living room.

Dung beetles made of recycled prop materials, including paint chippings, nails and sawdust.

Hyena made with old staff uniforms and sample tea towels.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 1d

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How extraordinary!!

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 1d

Youtube videos are your friend, if you want to learn!

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! So easy and so therapeutic to knit...

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 1d

I had the brilliant idea of making a mitred square blanket (you join it up as you go along) to use up all my odds and ends of wool, except I've now run out of 'odds and ends' and the blanket is only a quarter finished so I'm having to buy vast amounts of extra 'odds and ends' just to carry on....

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 4d

Haa!! Yes, me too - and I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 6d

Underneath your labels you're just a bunch of misogynists.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 6d

'No debate' doesn't work any more. The law is on the side of reality.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 6d

Men in women's spaces cause discomfort, embarrassment and alarm for women. Doesn't that matter to you?

Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 7d

To me, that's a Louis Wain cat who's just been electrocuted.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, plenty of men have stood with women over the years, thank God, fighting against misogyny and violence. That doesn't negate the necessity for single sex spaces.

Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, we're all biological; no-one disputes that, as I think you know.

Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 7d

They were refused because the interventions were personal statements rather than legal arguments.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 7d

'Woman' and 'man' are words that were totally understandable to everybody until about ten minutes ago. I think we all know which side today's newspeak has come from.

Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 7d

Women should not have to continual justify why we don't want to share changing and toilet facilities with men. Sex matters in life and law.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 7d

It's been the law since the Equality Act of 2010. The 2025 Supreme Court ruling only confirmed that.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 7d

I’m a pond user. But I’m not a female nurse wanting a single sex space to change in, and yet I will fight for that too.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 7d

If a service is advertised as for women, then ‘women’ means ‘biological women’. It’s the law.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 7d

I reiterate what I wrote about the vote, of which the vast majority of pond users knew (and still know) nothing. The sign at the entrance has always read ‘Women’s Pond. No men allowed beyond this point.’

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 7d

✨Open today!✨

Explore our brand new #Exhibition all about Wonder. Inspired by the cabinet of curiosity or Wunderkammer (wonder-room) that flourished in 17th and 18th-century Europe, this exhibition showcases the varied collections and often lesser-seen objects held by the Linnean Society.

A graphic displaying an illustration from our new Wonder exhibition. Text reads: Wonder: A delightful pick and mix of our fascinating natural history collections. Free exhibition, 10.00-17.00 Tues-Fri. 01 October 2025 - 06 March 2026. The Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, Picadilly W1J 0BF.

Photograph of a finely detailed illustration of a fly's head, its bulbous compound eyes dominating the page.

A wooden type tray full of red and black wax seals, labelled in neat cursive.

Photograph of part of a display case from the Wonder exhibition. In the top left, a coloured illustration of a white bird with spiked plumage and a yellow face. Below and to the right, a brown rodent with a long tail, teeth bared.

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