MsDWrites
@msdwrites.bsky.social
Editor, writer, ceramicist, keen on facts and changing models when required. She/her, Brit in Oz, sweary, loves animals, lesbian mums, bugger all bigot tolerance.
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MsDWrites
@msdwrites.bsky.social
· Dec 18
‘Very disheartened’: trans actor Chanel Stewart speaks out as Disney changes her Pixar character to be cisgender
Studio says ‘many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline’
www.theguardian.com
You know, my lesbian mums didn’t want to have to explain vicious homophobia to me when I was a kid. If I had to deal with that, I think bigots’ children can deal with the mere existence of trans kids.
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"*warns* of intense competition"
Your regular reminder that those who cheer capitalism actually hate a free market, and want a rigged one.
Your regular reminder that those who cheer capitalism actually hate a free market, and want a rigged one.
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"*warns* of intense competition"
Your regular reminder that those who cheer capitalism actually hate a free market, and want a rigged one.
Your regular reminder that those who cheer capitalism actually hate a free market, and want a rigged one.
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We have been tracking people’s experiences with gendered spaces and our new report looks at the impact of the 2025 EHRC interim update on access to, and experiences within, gendered spaces in the UK.
![Image shows a row of toilet stalls with blue doors. Text reads: " I went to use the women's toilets as I was on my period and there were no gender neutral ones. A middle aged male security guard ran in after me…he started banging on the [cubicle] door, trying to open it as he shouted "sir, sir you can't be in here”... hearing the pitch of my voice was enough for him to drop it and leave. But I sat in the toilet feeling scared, vulnerable and dirty for a good few minutes." -a non-binary person tinyurl.com/ReportALoo](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2dxbxnaywyhxdhuiiafrmy34/bafkreidejcnvaog3bhbxzgwcjjezztytalgxswj5nglv66zovq63le7oba@jpeg)
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We have been tracking people’s experiences with gendered spaces and our new report looks at the impact of the 2025 EHRC interim update on access to, and experiences within, gendered spaces in the UK.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
November 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Every person in Aotearoa knows an average of 70 words in Te Reo and the average has been increasing for two decades in part because of courses like those supported by govt departments. Fuck Seymour for wanting to take us backwards. #nzpol
Public agencies are offering staff te reo Māori and Māori-Crown relations training, but senior ministers say this isn’t how public funds should be spent
Seymour says his ministry shouldn’t offer te reo lessons on taxpayer dime
newsroom.co.nz
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Every person in Aotearoa knows an average of 70 words in Te Reo and the average has been increasing for two decades in part because of courses like those supported by govt departments. Fuck Seymour for wanting to take us backwards. #nzpol
Elon is just fundamentally wrong about people. Thank goodness. ‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth - Guardian Australia apple.news/AzEhsssAAQT6...
‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth — Guardian Australia
Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help
apple.news
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Elon is just fundamentally wrong about people. Thank goodness. ‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth - Guardian Australia apple.news/AzEhsssAAQT6...
Spent the whole day selling pottery in my carport to absolutely lovely people but so hot!! Trotted up to Olympic Meats for dinner and a lovely young man offered me his seat in the waiting area: half thinking the young ones are good eggs and half ‘I must look my age tonight…’ (I took a spare stool)
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Spent the whole day selling pottery in my carport to absolutely lovely people but so hot!! Trotted up to Olympic Meats for dinner and a lovely young man offered me his seat in the waiting area: half thinking the young ones are good eggs and half ‘I must look my age tonight…’ (I took a spare stool)
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Women are dying of sepsis after being denied abortions. A conservative sect that wants to repeal women’s voting rights is growing and gaining national attention. *This* is the NYT’s contribution to conversations about women?
November 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Women are dying of sepsis after being denied abortions. A conservative sect that wants to repeal women’s voting rights is growing and gaining national attention. *This* is the NYT’s contribution to conversations about women?
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What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
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Shoutout to Rooney Mara; and oh no what will Olivia Coleman and Emma Stone do now? Oh no they will never become famous
Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows.
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.
www.worldofreel.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Shoutout to Rooney Mara; and oh no what will Olivia Coleman and Emma Stone do now? Oh no they will never become famous
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Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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It’s a good day to look up Rosalind Franklin.
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It’s a good day to look up Rosalind Franklin.
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Sandwich Guy was acquitted.
Juries are the last line of defense for democracy. The Constitution provides an absolute right to a jury trial, and if the crimes of the state are egregious enough, a jury will not convict those who stand against that state.
Juries are the last line of defense for democracy. The Constitution provides an absolute right to a jury trial, and if the crimes of the state are egregious enough, a jury will not convict those who stand against that state.
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Sandwich Guy was acquitted.
Juries are the last line of defense for democracy. The Constitution provides an absolute right to a jury trial, and if the crimes of the state are egregious enough, a jury will not convict those who stand against that state.
Juries are the last line of defense for democracy. The Constitution provides an absolute right to a jury trial, and if the crimes of the state are egregious enough, a jury will not convict those who stand against that state.
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’.
But shareholders will be richer.
Chemicals seep into water supply and companies don't invest in waste disposal.
Companies don't bear social cost of their operations
But shareholders will be richer.
Chemicals seep into water supply and companies don't invest in waste disposal.
Companies don't bear social cost of their operations
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’.
But shareholders will be richer.
Chemicals seep into water supply and companies don't invest in waste disposal.
Companies don't bear social cost of their operations
But shareholders will be richer.
Chemicals seep into water supply and companies don't invest in waste disposal.
Companies don't bear social cost of their operations
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A senior federal bureaucrat who dismissed her own department's cybersecurity advice and ordered a trove of parliamentary emails be released to a private company previously hacked by Russian criminals says she believed the risk assessment was "overrated" www.9news.com.au/national/jaa...
Bureaucrat who dismissed cybersecurity advice thought risk was 'overrated'
www.9news.com.au
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
A senior federal bureaucrat who dismissed her own department's cybersecurity advice and ordered a trove of parliamentary emails be released to a private company previously hacked by Russian criminals says she believed the risk assessment was "overrated" www.9news.com.au/national/jaa...
Catching up on tonight’s #abc730 and one of the most useful tips I’ve heard for flood areas is always keep an axe in your roof space to chop your way out if the worst happens. You do not need much skill, space or strength to chop through weatherboard or a tin roof with an even halfway sharp axe.
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Catching up on tonight’s #abc730 and one of the most useful tips I’ve heard for flood areas is always keep an axe in your roof space to chop your way out if the worst happens. You do not need much skill, space or strength to chop through weatherboard or a tin roof with an even halfway sharp axe.
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Not to replace substance with message but I genuinely do not think that the GOP establishment is prepared, nor capable, of regulating itself in a world where all high profile democrats are directly staring into a camera and telling Trump to go fuck himself.
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Not to replace substance with message but I genuinely do not think that the GOP establishment is prepared, nor capable, of regulating itself in a world where all high profile democrats are directly staring into a camera and telling Trump to go fuck himself.
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[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
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Just saw this and wow
This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Just saw this and wow
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i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
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Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
highlight of my day!!!! vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social vote @workingfamilies.org ❤️❤️❤️
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.
The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.