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@psyllobora22.bsky.social
Big ladybird fan. She/her 🕎🏳️🌈
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Indie author and nature podcaster :)
Tips here: https://ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast
Profile pic shows a 5 spot ladybird.
Indie author and nature podcaster :)
Tips here: https://ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast
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not a lawyer but for me this is another worrying case of "this seems very short-sighted when you're odds on to lose an election to reform"
Worth noting that a lot of continental European systems don't use jury systems as much as the UK or US, the really fucking sketchy part of Labour's plans is limiting right to appeal decisions
November 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
not a lawyer but for me this is another worrying case of "this seems very short-sighted when you're odds on to lose an election to reform"
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And the two child benefit limit is abolished. An enormous victory for those who have campaigned tirelessly for eight long years through successive governments. This will lift at least 450,000 children out of poverty. Fewer kids will be hungry. No more women forced to disclose their rape.
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
And the two child benefit limit is abolished. An enormous victory for those who have campaigned tirelessly for eight long years through successive governments. This will lift at least 450,000 children out of poverty. Fewer kids will be hungry. No more women forced to disclose their rape.
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so now, having destroyed our economy, wreaked our national finances, gutted our public services, all in the name of chasing anti-immigrant, what does this new government choose to do?
chase anti-immigrant sentiment
chase anti-immigrant sentiment
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
so now, having destroyed our economy, wreaked our national finances, gutted our public services, all in the name of chasing anti-immigrant, what does this new government choose to do?
chase anti-immigrant sentiment
chase anti-immigrant sentiment
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“Torching the rights of migrants is ok because of a minimum wage increase” is a bad way to be.
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
“Torching the rights of migrants is ok because of a minimum wage increase” is a bad way to be.
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Some good news amongst the deluge of daily horrors
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Some good news amongst the deluge of daily horrors
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this is absolutely disgusting and absurdly malicious a. on the part of the judge and b. on the part of the BBC, who do not have to be like this.
let me reiterate, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CALL A YOUNG TRANS GIRL A BIOLOGICAL MALE. it's so fucking petty and nasty. fuck these people, all of them.
let me reiterate, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CALL A YOUNG TRANS GIRL A BIOLOGICAL MALE. it's so fucking petty and nasty. fuck these people, all of them.
I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
this is absolutely disgusting and absurdly malicious a. on the part of the judge and b. on the part of the BBC, who do not have to be like this.
let me reiterate, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CALL A YOUNG TRANS GIRL A BIOLOGICAL MALE. it's so fucking petty and nasty. fuck these people, all of them.
let me reiterate, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CALL A YOUNG TRANS GIRL A BIOLOGICAL MALE. it's so fucking petty and nasty. fuck these people, all of them.
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I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
New asylum policies making homeless refugees “targets for the far right”
Labour’s abrupt return to the 28-day move-on period is pushing vulnerable people into rough sleeping and exposing them to fraud and abuse.
national.thelead.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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To tie back to my comparison to other online radicalisation, even if you don't give a shit about trans people, the judiciary becoming increasingly partial on a specific issue should be seen as the canary in the coal mine giving the current direction of travel in this country
Like it was obvious when the Supreme Court randomly decided to rewrite the Equality Act, but I think there's a large amount if journalistic negligence that no one really treats judges as anything other than neutral conduits through which the word of law moves
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
To tie back to my comparison to other online radicalisation, even if you don't give a shit about trans people, the judiciary becoming increasingly partial on a specific issue should be seen as the canary in the coal mine giving the current direction of travel in this country
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As a lot of the people I'm subtweeting are men, I am sympathetic that some will have the mindset of "it's not my place to talk over women on a feminist issue", but given how often cis feminists who don't agree with the GC consensus get ignored, or even iced out, too, it's misguided
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
As a lot of the people I'm subtweeting are men, I am sympathetic that some will have the mindset of "it's not my place to talk over women on a feminist issue", but given how often cis feminists who don't agree with the GC consensus get ignored, or even iced out, too, it's misguided
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I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
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Hey @news.rte.ie what the fuck is up with this sentence?
"Judge Clarke said she did not find the complainant "was as alarmed or distressed" as THEY had portrayed themself to be after Linehan made a string of tweets about THEM." And then proceed to quote a glinner sentence which misgenders her?
"Judge Clarke said she did not find the complainant "was as alarmed or distressed" as THEY had portrayed themself to be after Linehan made a string of tweets about THEM." And then proceed to quote a glinner sentence which misgenders her?
Graham Linehan cleared of harassing transgender activist
Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been cleared at Westminster Magistrates' Court of harassing transgender activist Sophia Brooks, but was found guilty of criminal damage to their mobile phone.
www.rte.ie
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Hey @news.rte.ie what the fuck is up with this sentence?
"Judge Clarke said she did not find the complainant "was as alarmed or distressed" as THEY had portrayed themself to be after Linehan made a string of tweets about THEM." And then proceed to quote a glinner sentence which misgenders her?
"Judge Clarke said she did not find the complainant "was as alarmed or distressed" as THEY had portrayed themself to be after Linehan made a string of tweets about THEM." And then proceed to quote a glinner sentence which misgenders her?
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That famous left-wing bias again
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
That famous left-wing bias again
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This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
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Phillips has been like this consistently for 2 decades - I’ve said it before but I’ll repeat it - he bought “island of strangers“ discourse into the Labour Party far earlier than Starmer
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Phillips has been like this consistently for 2 decades - I’ve said it before but I’ll repeat it - he bought “island of strangers“ discourse into the Labour Party far earlier than Starmer
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Country asked if it wants to shoot itself in the foot, asks when can we start.
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Country asked if it wants to shoot itself in the foot, asks when can we start.
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Total insanity. Deeply illiberal and authoritarian. Snatching people who look different off the street on the off chance they might be illegal. Does Philips realise that this is the language of tyranny?
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Total insanity. Deeply illiberal and authoritarian. Snatching people who look different off the street on the off chance they might be illegal. Does Philips realise that this is the language of tyranny?
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Do you see what I mean, when I say it’s not the random punter in the street we need to be worried about
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Do you see what I mean, when I say it’s not the random punter in the street we need to be worried about
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Do any of my mutuals live in Liverpool or will be there from 19-22nd Feb? I'm going to the coleopterists day that weekend
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Do any of my mutuals live in Liverpool or will be there from 19-22nd Feb? I'm going to the coleopterists day that weekend
Do any of my mutuals live in Liverpool or will be there from 19-22nd Feb? I'm going to the coleopterists day that weekend
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Do any of my mutuals live in Liverpool or will be there from 19-22nd Feb? I'm going to the coleopterists day that weekend
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labour don't have a comms problem they have a being utter bastards problem.
it didn't have to be this way either. they won with a massive majority. they could have said no to culture wars and started implementing reforms of our massively out of control press.
but nope. they decided to be bastards.
it didn't have to be this way either. they won with a massive majority. they could have said no to culture wars and started implementing reforms of our massively out of control press.
but nope. they decided to be bastards.
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
labour don't have a comms problem they have a being utter bastards problem.
it didn't have to be this way either. they won with a massive majority. they could have said no to culture wars and started implementing reforms of our massively out of control press.
but nope. they decided to be bastards.
it didn't have to be this way either. they won with a massive majority. they could have said no to culture wars and started implementing reforms of our massively out of control press.
but nope. they decided to be bastards.
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Labour MP Rosie Wrighting kicks off by saying the Greens are offering false hope. This from a party full of charisma voids lecturing and hectoring and giving millions anxiety attacks and depression.
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Labour MP Rosie Wrighting kicks off by saying the Greens are offering false hope. This from a party full of charisma voids lecturing and hectoring and giving millions anxiety attacks and depression.
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Marienkäferarten kommen oft in verschiedenen Farbmorphen vor. Die dunkle Form des Nadelbaum-Marienkäfers (Aphidecta obliterata) kannte ich noch nicht. Bild 4 zeigt die "Normalfärbung".
#artenvielfalt #nature #natur #insekten #insects #Käfer #coleoptera #beetle #beetles #marienkäfer #Coccinellidae
#artenvielfalt #nature #natur #insekten #insects #Käfer #coleoptera #beetle #beetles #marienkäfer #Coccinellidae
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Marienkäferarten kommen oft in verschiedenen Farbmorphen vor. Die dunkle Form des Nadelbaum-Marienkäfers (Aphidecta obliterata) kannte ich noch nicht. Bild 4 zeigt die "Normalfärbung".
#artenvielfalt #nature #natur #insekten #insects #Käfer #coleoptera #beetle #beetles #marienkäfer #Coccinellidae
#artenvielfalt #nature #natur #insekten #insects #Käfer #coleoptera #beetle #beetles #marienkäfer #Coccinellidae
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After a two year hiatus, @vc40orthops.bsky.social and I were really pleased to finally find another Willow Ladybird (Scymnus limbatus) using our refugia yesterday. 🥰 New for my #LadybirdYearList #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
After a two year hiatus, @vc40orthops.bsky.social and I were really pleased to finally find another Willow Ladybird (Scymnus limbatus) using our refugia yesterday. 🥰 New for my #LadybirdYearList #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird