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Beth Granter

@megabeth.bsky.social

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Socialist, feminist, bi woman, mother. Like animals, biology, data, & female fronted punk rock. Digital & campaigning freelancer. #VoteLabour.🌹🏳️‍🌈 In Edinburgh. bethgranter.com

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Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Feb 12

I am EXTREMELY EXCITED to announce the launch of Wellbeing of Women's Period Symptom Checker, written and built by ME! Co-designed by GPs, researchers, other women with menstrual health conditions and the team at Wellbeing of Women.
www.wellbeingofwomen.org.uk/what-we-do/c...

Period Symptom Checker - Wellbeing of Women

If you’re having periods that are negatively impacting your life, our symptom checker can help. Answer a few short questions about your experiences an

www.wellbeingofwomen.org.uk

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 21d

W/ @megabeth.bsky.social at #TalkUX being like remember when people used to chat on the socials while at a conf and post pics like...

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Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · 21d

I am at #TalkUX, my first in-person conference since Twitter went terrible... And I'm missing the conference chat that used to happen there!

Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Sep 8

I only know web developers that would work on big projects alongside designers, rather than people who do personal websites I'm afraid.

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Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Sep 5

Of course, this was one year after they kettled my Queers Against Cuts group on the official Pride parade for absolutely no reason other than to intimidate activists.
If I wasn't radicalised before, I certainly was after all that nonsense.

Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Sep 5

...and one of their pieces of "evidence" that I was up to no good was the fact I'd been invited to a Riots Not Diets gig? How weird was that? 🤣

Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Sep 5

Remembering when Sussex police sent a uniformed officer to my workplace to tell me to stop organising an alternative pride BBQ on the beach (which had already happened a week before, organised by someone else)...

a puppet police officer is standing in front of a police car with the words crime does n't sleep

ALT: a puppet police officer is standing in front of a police car with the words crime does n't sleep

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Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Jul 28

Does anyone have advice for toilet training regression for a 5yr old boy? Started 3 weeks ago and is wetting himself at least once a day now, after a year of rare accidents. He starts school in 2 weeks, but doesn't seem particularly worried about it or anything else.

Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Jul 27

Why is corn on the cob delicious but sweetcorn off the cob repulsive? Or is it just me?

Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Jul 26

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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · Jul 25

Good morning ☀️

Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Jul 26

This is cute

Scott Christian Sava @ssavaart.com · Jul 25

I Joined Art Fight!
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Animal Flix @animalflix.bsky.social · Jul 25

This is an uninterrupted minute of Maruay the rescued tiger with his beloved ball..🥰😇 #bluesky

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Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Jul 25

Today I got two job application rejections. Booo. But yesterday I won two new freelance projects that will keep me busy till mid September so I'm pretty happy!

Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Jul 25

I just did it and was disappointed to find it did not tell me what age it estimated me to be 😃

Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Jul 25

Cool! It will be 3 years this November for me.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Jul 25

Pivot to video was such a curse. Now everything’s like obviously you’d rather watch a 40 minute video than read a sentence.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · Jul 23

Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found that Google users who encounter an Al summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than use 's who don't encounter an Al summary. To be precise, only [my emphasis] 1 percent of users who encountered an Al summary clicked the link to the page Google is summarizing.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Jul 25

Every week, I see at least one headline that’s exactly this tweet.

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Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social · Jul 25

Banning people from work makes no sense.

Some people who attended this event are still going through the asylum system. They all said that they are ready to work to contribute to the UK economy.

What is the government waiting for? #LiftTheBan

RAS Voice @rasvoice.bsky.social · Jul 25

An incredible day we had yesterday at the launch of the "Lift the Ban" report in Bradford! This was an huge success due to the teamwork between CoS, REN, BRAVE and RAS Voice
Naz Shah MP for Bradford highlighted the critical importance of lifting the ban on the right to work for people seeking safety

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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · Jul 20

Yes climate change is already killing people

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Bar chart showing heat-related deaths in several European cities from 23 June to 2 July 2025, distinguishing between numbers due to human-caused climate change and those due to natural variability
Milan: 317 from human caused climate change, 182 natural
Barcelona: 286, 54
Paris: 235, 138
London: 171, 92
Rome: 164, 118
Madrid: 108, (then some relatively small number not given)
Athens: 96, 79
Budapest: 47, 24
Zagreb: 31, 25
Lisbon: 21, 71
Frankfurt: 21 (then some relatively small number not given)

Added text says two-thirds of heat deaths in London were attributable to climate change

Guardian graphic, source: World Weather Attribution, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London

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Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Jul 20

I tell them that keeping salaries secret only benefits the bosses and that it's in workers' interests to know what everyone earns, to avoid anyone being taken advantage of. It's an Equalities and workers rights issue. Then I tell them mine and leave it up to them if they share back.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jul 19

The word is 'shoot'

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Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Jul 12

19 years ago I was social bookmarking things to do with mashups, web 2.0, fonts, creative commons, and anti-intuitive interactive art websites. I wonder how much of this stuff is still live. pinboard.in/u:bethgrante...

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Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Jul 12

I used delicious too, then moved to pinboard. My first social bookmark was 2006! pinboard.in/u:bethgrante...

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Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Jul 11

Reasons my 5 year old cried yesterday:
1. I opened the door before he knocked so he didn't get chance to hide around the corner and jump out.
2. I held his glass whilst pouring his milk.
3. I pulled the plug out of the bath while he wasn't looking so he missed watching the whirlpool down the drain.

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Beth Granter @megabeth.bsky.social · Jul 11

TBH I don't think there's much difference in terms of scariness, I'd never heard of pneumonic plague before and didn't realise it can start as bubonic till I read the rest of the article! I was just being pedantic