LNR
@lnr.bsky.social
Geek, Cyclist, Parent, UCU, Goth, Knitter, Cis, Bi, Fat, Queer. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Other places you may know me from: https://lnr.dreamwidth.org/650568.html
Trans rights are human rights.
Not age verified: can't read DMs!
Other places you may know me from: https://lnr.dreamwidth.org/650568.html
Trans rights are human rights.
Not age verified: can't read DMs!
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Are you looking for a calendar for 2026? Do you like the kind that hangs on your wall and has pictures of a little robot wandering wistfully through fictionalised-but-recognisable British landscapes? Well, then you should buy this one: forms.gle/oRuyygP9tpWN...
2026 Small Robots Calendar Order Form
This is the form for ordering a 2026 Small Robots Calendar. It's a wall calendar featuring twelve brand new full-colour illustrations of Wistfulbot going for a walk in various landscapes, thinking abo...
forms.gle
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Are you looking for a calendar for 2026? Do you like the kind that hangs on your wall and has pictures of a little robot wandering wistfully through fictionalised-but-recognisable British landscapes? Well, then you should buy this one: forms.gle/oRuyygP9tpWN...
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Genuine question. What invasion of privacy will you choose to determine biological sex
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Genuine question. What invasion of privacy will you choose to determine biological sex
Hmm, CL has 6.45mm of rain. I have 21.1mm of rain. Am I over-reading?
Now it could be very localised, and the south of Cambridge has had a downpour which didn't reach them... But the puddles are saying my number isn't implausible.
Now it could be very localised, and the south of Cambridge has had a downpour which didn't reach them... But the puddles are saying my number isn't implausible.
December 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Hmm, CL has 6.45mm of rain. I have 21.1mm of rain. Am I over-reading?
Now it could be very localised, and the south of Cambridge has had a downpour which didn't reach them... But the puddles are saying my number isn't implausible.
Now it could be very localised, and the south of Cambridge has had a downpour which didn't reach them... But the puddles are saying my number isn't implausible.
I'm disappointed in the Girl Guides and the WI for caving to this, but I'm *furious* with the transphobes and the supreme court and the EHRC and the government for causing this situation, when even trans inclusive institutions are throwing people out.
December 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I'm disappointed in the Girl Guides and the WI for caving to this, but I'm *furious* with the transphobes and the supreme court and the EHRC and the government for causing this situation, when even trans inclusive institutions are throwing people out.
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Trans men are men, trans women are women, and if you have a problem with that just block this account because I cannot be fucking doing with it. It'll improve both our timelines.
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Trans men are men, trans women are women, and if you have a problem with that just block this account because I cannot be fucking doing with it. It'll improve both our timelines.
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I wonder if the UK Supreme Court Judges were really both so legally inept that they thought the Equality Act 2010 implicitly overruled the Gender Recognition Act 2005, and so politically inept that they didn't foresee a slew of cases giving the lie to their claim it wasn't a victory for either side.
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I wonder if the UK Supreme Court Judges were really both so legally inept that they thought the Equality Act 2010 implicitly overruled the Gender Recognition Act 2005, and so politically inept that they didn't foresee a slew of cases giving the lie to their claim it wasn't a victory for either side.
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Wildlife tracking! I'm reposting things I made this past year. If you look closely at the deer tracks you'll see I added the hint that they're double registering (hind foot is stepping into the same spot as front foot).
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Wildlife tracking! I'm reposting things I made this past year. If you look closely at the deer tracks you'll see I added the hint that they're double registering (hind foot is stepping into the same spot as front foot).
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My mental health declined pretty badly last wk but some of you asked for more photos like the hunt-the-tiny-owl one I made & I wanted to try to make an advent calendar so:some lovely things that fell off trees & this time a tiny deer stag to find.
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌
December 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My mental health declined pretty badly last wk but some of you asked for more photos like the hunt-the-tiny-owl one I made & I wanted to try to make an advent calendar so:some lovely things that fell off trees & this time a tiny deer stag to find.
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌
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Because I’m aware these things can have amusing regional variants, is the version of “Jingle Bells (Batman smells)” that I learned at primary school (London, 1980s) still prevailing?
“Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin flew away, Father Christmas lost his knickers on the motorway! (Hey!)”
“Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin flew away, Father Christmas lost his knickers on the motorway! (Hey!)”
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Because I’m aware these things can have amusing regional variants, is the version of “Jingle Bells (Batman smells)” that I learned at primary school (London, 1980s) still prevailing?
“Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin flew away, Father Christmas lost his knickers on the motorway! (Hey!)”
“Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin flew away, Father Christmas lost his knickers on the motorway! (Hey!)”
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Not that the Science Museum shouldn't exist *too*, but the Media Museum was Bradford's *one thing*, and it was a genuinely magical place, and London has enough other stuff you could spend a year going to museums and art galleries and never run out. Didn't Bradford deserve its one nice thing too?
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Not that the Science Museum shouldn't exist *too*, but the Media Museum was Bradford's *one thing*, and it was a genuinely magical place, and London has enough other stuff you could spend a year going to museums and art galleries and never run out. Didn't Bradford deserve its one nice thing too?
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if you’re cold they’re cold
let your demons in
let your demons in
November 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
if you’re cold they’re cold
let your demons in
let your demons in
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Designed in my brain with movable type, vintage printing plates and linocut, and printed on a tiny press by hand, taking five impressions to print each card. Each has unique details making them one-off.
No AI, just real art made by a real person.
Last chance for shipping next week!
No AI, just real art made by a real person.
Last chance for shipping next week!
Hi! Would you like some of my lovely Christmas cards?
I still have a small number of packs available and sending out a couple of times a week.
You can find them here:
ko-fi.com/s/1af2e209ad
I still have a small number of packs available and sending out a couple of times a week.
You can find them here:
ko-fi.com/s/1af2e209ad
November 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Designed in my brain with movable type, vintage printing plates and linocut, and printed on a tiny press by hand, taking five impressions to print each card. Each has unique details making them one-off.
No AI, just real art made by a real person.
Last chance for shipping next week!
No AI, just real art made by a real person.
Last chance for shipping next week!
That feeling when the hall carpet is covered in little black pellets... but thankfully they're small bits of rubber from the astro pitch at 12 year oldest school, not mouse droppings.
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
That feeling when the hall carpet is covered in little black pellets... but thankfully they're small bits of rubber from the astro pitch at 12 year oldest school, not mouse droppings.
I have a new weather station gadget which I got for my birthday. It's currently on a pole in a planter but eventually will try and get it on the shed roof. It's currently reading 1 degree warmer than the one at the CL but has the advantage that the wind, pressure and sunshine sensors actually work!
November 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I have a new weather station gadget which I got for my birthday. It's currently on a pole in a planter but eventually will try and get it on the shed roof. It's currently reading 1 degree warmer than the one at the CL but has the advantage that the wind, pressure and sunshine sensors actually work!
I'm doing my best not to argue with jokes, but type 2 diabetes isn't caused by eating sugar!
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I'm doing my best not to argue with jokes, but type 2 diabetes isn't caused by eating sugar!
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It’s that time of year where @dreadships.bsky.social and I need book recommendations for the ScornDread Children, as Nikolaus will leave a book in their boots next Saturday. The younger one (14) really enjoys fantasy and the older one (17) nerdy nonfiction.
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It’s that time of year where @dreadships.bsky.social and I need book recommendations for the ScornDread Children, as Nikolaus will leave a book in their boots next Saturday. The younger one (14) really enjoys fantasy and the older one (17) nerdy nonfiction.
One subcontractor is quoted:
"15 drop-offs daily from a hotel in south east London to a doctors surgery around two miles away. These journeys alone would cost the Home Office £1,000 a day"
They're charging nearly 70 quid for a 2 mile trip? Who's ripping off the home office here?
"15 drop-offs daily from a hotel in south east London to a doctors surgery around two miles away. These journeys alone would cost the Home Office £1,000 a day"
They're charging nearly 70 quid for a 2 mile trip? Who's ripping off the home office here?
So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get.
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
One subcontractor is quoted:
"15 drop-offs daily from a hotel in south east London to a doctors surgery around two miles away. These journeys alone would cost the Home Office £1,000 a day"
They're charging nearly 70 quid for a 2 mile trip? Who's ripping off the home office here?
"15 drop-offs daily from a hotel in south east London to a doctors surgery around two miles away. These journeys alone would cost the Home Office £1,000 a day"
They're charging nearly 70 quid for a 2 mile trip? Who's ripping off the home office here?
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Part two! Next time some clown tries to tell you that nobody makes interesting games anymore, just send them these articles.
And finished! Another 20 fantastic-looking unknown indie games to play right now or wishlist!
kotaku.com/indie-games-...
Thanks so much to everyone who submitted, and sorry to the hundreds I couldn't include! Very pleased to have managed to get to 40 though!
Please repost far and wide!
kotaku.com/indie-games-...
Thanks so much to everyone who submitted, and sorry to the hundreds I couldn't include! Very pleased to have managed to get to 40 though!
Please repost far and wide!
20 Extraordinary Indie Games To Wishlist This Black Friday
Another incredible selection of unknown games, both out now and coming soon
kotaku.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Part two! Next time some clown tries to tell you that nobody makes interesting games anymore, just send them these articles.
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Today is the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Mahna Mahna on Sesame Street. You’re familiar with it by now, of course, but... well, it never hurts to be reminded, does it?
Sesame Street - Mahna Mahna (1969)
YouTube video by Tiny Dancer
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Today is the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Mahna Mahna on Sesame Street. You’re familiar with it by now, of course, but... well, it never hurts to be reminded, does it?
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“I’d rather be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war” - someone who didn’t see what happened to Samwise and Boromir.
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
“I’d rather be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war” - someone who didn’t see what happened to Samwise and Boromir.
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There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
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Today in "Jokes that work in written form only" ...
How do you tell the difference between a train driver and a chemist?
Ask them to say "unionised".
How do you tell the difference between a train driver and a chemist?
Ask them to say "unionised".
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Today in "Jokes that work in written form only" ...
How do you tell the difference between a train driver and a chemist?
Ask them to say "unionised".
How do you tell the difference between a train driver and a chemist?
Ask them to say "unionised".
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dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
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I paused, out of breath. The Void had taken all my frustrated screaming and absorbed it.
"I'm sorry," I whispered. "You must have heard all this before, countless times."
'only you,' said the Void, 'scream your frustration like you do'
I took a deep breath to resume, then smiled.
"Thanks."
"I'm sorry," I whispered. "You must have heard all this before, countless times."
'only you,' said the Void, 'scream your frustration like you do'
I took a deep breath to resume, then smiled.
"Thanks."
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I paused, out of breath. The Void had taken all my frustrated screaming and absorbed it.
"I'm sorry," I whispered. "You must have heard all this before, countless times."
'only you,' said the Void, 'scream your frustration like you do'
I took a deep breath to resume, then smiled.
"Thanks."
"I'm sorry," I whispered. "You must have heard all this before, countless times."
'only you,' said the Void, 'scream your frustration like you do'
I took a deep breath to resume, then smiled.
"Thanks."
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Working on invertebrate #paleoart at the moment, knowing I'm probably making mistakes despite best efforts, consulting primary literature etc. Inverts are much like fossil plants: there are few accessible resources on their appearance so we must wing it, or go down deep rabbit holes to restore them.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Working on invertebrate #paleoart at the moment, knowing I'm probably making mistakes despite best efforts, consulting primary literature etc. Inverts are much like fossil plants: there are few accessible resources on their appearance so we must wing it, or go down deep rabbit holes to restore them.