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Paddington Bear becoming the UK's go-to psychopomp is one of the very weirdest things to happen in this very weird decade.
December 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Paddington Bear becoming the UK's go-to psychopomp is one of the very weirdest things to happen in this very weird decade.
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This is the beggy one. If u have any money can we have it please, we're so busy and want to buy Lego & books sometimes fore the world changes & it becomes irrelevant forever:
Also please share the link and ask ppl to donate (unless u hate us, altho fuck it u too!)
www.gofundme.com/f/help-aeora...
Also please share the link and ask ppl to donate (unless u hate us, altho fuck it u too!)
www.gofundme.com/f/help-aeora...
Donate to Help Æora rebuild her life following a Flat Fire, organized by The Orca
Hi, I’m Æora, a disabled white trans woman who celebrated her 40th birthday … The Orca needs your support for Help Æora rebuild her life following a Flat Fire
www.gofundme.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is the beggy one. If u have any money can we have it please, we're so busy and want to buy Lego & books sometimes fore the world changes & it becomes irrelevant forever:
Also please share the link and ask ppl to donate (unless u hate us, altho fuck it u too!)
www.gofundme.com/f/help-aeora...
Also please share the link and ask ppl to donate (unless u hate us, altho fuck it u too!)
www.gofundme.com/f/help-aeora...
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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PSA: there’s been an exploit for Signal and WhatsApp released that can be used to silently track you.
Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings:
For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages.
For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody
Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings:
For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages.
For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody
December 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
PSA: there’s been an exploit for Signal and WhatsApp released that can be used to silently track you.
Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings:
For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages.
For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody
Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings:
For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages.
For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody
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Hope I don't need to say this, but killing random Jewish people is not any form of legitimate political struggle. It's just antisemitism.
Just saw people arguing that the shooting in Sydney wasn’t antisemitic because Chabad is a Zionist movement, and killing Zionists is fine.
Fucking ghouls. Get fucked.
Fucking ghouls. Get fucked.
December 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Hope I don't need to say this, but killing random Jewish people is not any form of legitimate political struggle. It's just antisemitism.
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Just done the cats' flea treatment, which involves immobilising a reluctant cat, and precisely placing a drop of liquid on the back of its neck.
Leaflet: "Do not eat, drink, or smoke while applying this product." I can't help admiring the ambition of anyone who might even try such a feat.
Leaflet: "Do not eat, drink, or smoke while applying this product." I can't help admiring the ambition of anyone who might even try such a feat.
December 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Just done the cats' flea treatment, which involves immobilising a reluctant cat, and precisely placing a drop of liquid on the back of its neck.
Leaflet: "Do not eat, drink, or smoke while applying this product." I can't help admiring the ambition of anyone who might even try such a feat.
Leaflet: "Do not eat, drink, or smoke while applying this product." I can't help admiring the ambition of anyone who might even try such a feat.
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Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.
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This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
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Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers.
NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
Hogwarts Legacy is free on Epic Games Store. Mystery game is the next title buff.ly/HE94Ti2
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers.
NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
If you can donate please do, imagine losing everything you own in a single day. Please help Æora.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-aeora...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-aeora...
Donate to Help Æora rebuild her life following a Flat Fire, organized by The Orca
Hi, I’m Æora, a disabled white trans woman who celebrated her 40th birthday … The Orca needs your support for Help Æora rebuild her life following a Flat Fire
www.gofundme.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
If you can donate please do, imagine losing everything you own in a single day. Please help Æora.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-aeora...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-aeora...
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good morning bluesky friends ❤️
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
good morning bluesky friends ❤️
Any social housing tenants in the UK had trouble with their landlord granting permission for full fibre broadband? Mine want Openreach to produce plans, drawings, specifications and insurance details which Openreach say they don't provide because they are Openreach.
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Any social housing tenants in the UK had trouble with their landlord granting permission for full fibre broadband? Mine want Openreach to produce plans, drawings, specifications and insurance details which Openreach say they don't provide because they are Openreach.
Was at a pub for dinner and the table next to me was a group of rich farmers (Rolex watches, expensive cars etc). They spent most of their meal whining about how HMRC keeps making sure they aren't paying their workers in cash because it means they can't fiddle their taxes as much as they used to.
December 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Was at a pub for dinner and the table next to me was a group of rich farmers (Rolex watches, expensive cars etc). They spent most of their meal whining about how HMRC keeps making sure they aren't paying their workers in cash because it means they can't fiddle their taxes as much as they used to.
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It's difficult enough /when you aren't/ an asylum seeker. Can't imagine what it's like for them.
I was also just telling hutch that this is a roundabout way of denying healthcare. Referred for hospital care? HO moves you. Need to be referred again. HO moves you again.
I was also just telling hutch that this is a roundabout way of denying healthcare. Referred for hospital care? HO moves you. Need to be referred again. HO moves you again.
Most people in the UK really have no idea how extremely difficult it is to navigate the bureaucratic maze that is our healthcare system when you're an asylum seeker. It's a form of slow institutional violence where we effectively withhold healthcare and blame it on asylum seekers' "incompetence".
For asylum seekers with limited English and/or limited prior access to medical care, the process of changing GP is extremely challenging.
Besides which, you might have highly complex healthcare needs, likely including trauma, and so recounting your health issues to new doctors may be triggering.
Besides which, you might have highly complex healthcare needs, likely including trauma, and so recounting your health issues to new doctors may be triggering.
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It's difficult enough /when you aren't/ an asylum seeker. Can't imagine what it's like for them.
I was also just telling hutch that this is a roundabout way of denying healthcare. Referred for hospital care? HO moves you. Need to be referred again. HO moves you again.
I was also just telling hutch that this is a roundabout way of denying healthcare. Referred for hospital care? HO moves you. Need to be referred again. HO moves you again.
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more pointless performative cruelty from a government of sickos
If somebody had to travel 250 miles for a medical appointment then yes there’s a problem but the taking a taxi ain’t it
November 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
more pointless performative cruelty from a government of sickos
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oh shit, it's a week until i run the Valencia Marathon. I'm having a final fundraising push - any shares or donations to help raise money for @deeboom.bsky.social and @stargocks64.bsky.social trans healthcare would be massively appreciated 🙏
www.gofundme.com/f/running-th...
www.gofundme.com/f/running-th...
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
oh shit, it's a week until i run the Valencia Marathon. I'm having a final fundraising push - any shares or donations to help raise money for @deeboom.bsky.social and @stargocks64.bsky.social trans healthcare would be massively appreciated 🙏
www.gofundme.com/f/running-th...
www.gofundme.com/f/running-th...
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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I’m pretty sure it was proven that those “autonomous” robots were piloted by workers in India/South America. So they’re basically replaced low paid gig economy workers with even lower paid gig economy workers but are pretending they’re robots.
Same with Amazon Fresh IIRC
Same with Amazon Fresh IIRC
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I’m pretty sure it was proven that those “autonomous” robots were piloted by workers in India/South America. So they’re basically replaced low paid gig economy workers with even lower paid gig economy workers but are pretending they’re robots.
Same with Amazon Fresh IIRC
Same with Amazon Fresh IIRC
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Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
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This is a really good New Republic article about trans people leaving the country. Do some research about getting visas. Start now. It is harder and slower than you think, and there are no opportunities for asylum right now. It also is entirely doable.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is a really good New Republic article about trans people leaving the country. Do some research about getting visas. Start now. It is harder and slower than you think, and there are no opportunities for asylum right now. It also is entirely doable.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Reminds me of when a female leopard seal spent 4 days trying to feed a human, I remember at the time it was theorised that his camera lens reminded her of a pup opening its mouth to ask for food.
as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Reminds me of when a female leopard seal spent 4 days trying to feed a human, I remember at the time it was theorised that his camera lens reminded her of a pup opening its mouth to ask for food.
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Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
Unsettling Horror Game Horses Banned From Steam, Leaving Studio With 'High Risk' of Closure - IGN
Indie horror game Horses is preparing to launch on December 2, on the Epic Games Store, GOG, Itch.io, and the Humble Store. But one place it won't be is on Steam, because Steam has banned the game for...
www.ign.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
My old catflap died and as I have two giant cats I'm replacing it with the much bigger pet door version (for large cats and small dogs). How do these giant cats keep finding me. I'm known at the vets because the combo of them and me (barely over 5ft) is so funny.
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
My old catflap died and as I have two giant cats I'm replacing it with the much bigger pet door version (for large cats and small dogs). How do these giant cats keep finding me. I'm known at the vets because the combo of them and me (barely over 5ft) is so funny.