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Suzi Queen of the North. Ruler of none. She/her to all, dad to some. Trans woman, never surrender, idgaf, sometime procrastinating fool fighting my way to the life I didn’t expect to have. 4eva 🖤Joan Jett. 18+ Minors DNI NSFW. No alt text = no follow back

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🏳️‍⚧️Suzi QotN Sobering Era (Redux)🖤 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇧🇪 @sqotn.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is a request for artists, photographers, writers, daily word prompt setters associating your work or others using visual media to please, please use ALT TEXT.

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🏳️‍⚧️Suzi QotN Sobering Era (Redux)🖤 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇧🇪 @sqotn.bsky.social · 17h

Has Guinness now achieved its own taxon?

An advertising board seen at an airside bar in Dublin airport. A blue background with white print and images. Bounded by a brassy coloured metallic framing.
There are ideograms for three types of alcoholic drinks each with an arrow pointing the same way with text for each one. Top to bottom reads GUINNESS, WINE, DRAFT BEER. Noting that DRAFT is an American English spelling, locally the usual spelling would be DRAUGHT. Do like (not) a bit of cultural imperialism!

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🏳️‍⚧️Suzi QotN Sobering Era (Redux)🖤 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇧🇪 @sqotn.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Boff, Conservative and session heckler getting it correct here. Not all Conservatives are cunts.
"He dubbed the event – titled “The meaning of sex: Gender Critical Debate” and chaired by shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho – “curated hatred".

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Adv Adham Madi 🍉🇵🇸 @mr-adham.bsky.social · 2d

Two years ago today... it was the last night of our normal lives.
The last time we slept peacefully,and woke up to a normal sound other than the sound of bombing.
We had no idea that the dawn of October 7 would change everything.
It would take away our homes, our safety, and the people we loved.
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🏳️‍⚧️Suzi QotN Sobering Era (Redux)🖤 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇧🇪 @sqotn.bsky.social · 2d

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#speirgorm
This, in a Boots pharmacy in Drimnagh, Dublin.
Anyone know if there are any specific EU or Irish laws governing this usage of bodycams?
The poster QR code only refers back to Boots UK corporate privacy conditions.

Photo of a poster seen in a Boots Pharmacy in Drimnagh, Dublin, Ireland. It warns that body cams may be worn by staff and your interaction with them can be recorded.
There is a QR code which connects to a Boots.Com website which explains the Boots.co.uk privacy considerations. There is no EU or Irish specific explanation.

The main text of the poster reads:
Stop! Live monitoring.
Colleague-worn bodycams are being operated in this store.
Video and audio is being used when required, for the welfare and safety of ALL our customers and colleagues.
If you have any concerns please speak to a member of staff or refer to our privacy policy.

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Nicole 「天使」Carter @nicoletenshi.bsky.social · 3d

Funny, the consistent experience that I hear from every single "gifted kid" I've ever met, including myself, is that being placed into the social category of "gifted kid" and having higher expectations placed on us fucked us up for life and destroyed our emotional stability

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 6d

My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades

www.nytimes.com

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Chris(tyn) Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 2d

It's just the same story over and over. Anytime a group of doctors take an honest look at the Cass Review they realize it's bunk.

The irony is that Cass and her confederates were convinced they were blowing the lid off a major medical conspiracy to trans kids.

Transphobe physicians heal thyselves.

Madeleine Moore @matheleine.bsky.social · 2d

“Evidence‐based medicine has three pillars: (i) appraisal of research evidence, (ii) real‐world clinical expertise, and (iii) individual patient values and preferences. The Review's failures across all three are evident.”

Oh dear, Cass.

www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people

Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

www.mja.com.au

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🏳️‍⚧️Suzi QotN Sobering Era (Redux)🖤 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇧🇪 @sqotn.bsky.social · 2d

just catching up on this, wtf! (Discourse never finds me).
It's been long enough around can we not reclaim it as 'cl*nny?

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Jul 15

New from Internet Archive Canada: Queen’s University Library has digitized a collection of rare, self-published sci-fi & fantasy fanzines, making long-lost voices from 1940s–1980s more widely accessible.

⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s...

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Cover of Dark Fantasy No. 22 (1980), published by Shadow Press. The title is printed in bold, stylized yellow and black text at the top. The central illustration features a medieval knight in armor leaning against a large, leaf-covered tree, holding a bow and arrows. A castle is faintly visible in the background. A diagonal black-and-yellow banner across the bottom reads, “Nominated for 10 SPWAO Awards.” Price is listed as $1.50.

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🏳️‍⚧️Suzi QotN Sobering Era (Redux)🖤 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇧🇪 @sqotn.bsky.social · 2d

If miggledy were to executive order himself to another term, who's going to stop him?

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

My favourite Stephen King novel is that one about the dogs and cats and hamsters that die and get buried in a scary place and come back to life but there’s something kind of opposite about them and how they used to be, I think the book’s called Pet Symmetry.

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If the word 'palindrome' isn't a palindrome what even is the point of anything, ever?

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Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social · 2d

Dragonstone, a mix of epidote and piemontite, was once believed to carry dragon’s blood and protect warriors in battle.

Fancy a kiss of dragon magic? Visit Mythical Creatures at Colchester Castle: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/events/mythical-creatures

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Guy Le Jeune @guylejeune.bsky.social · 2d

Gavin’s havin’ a great day,
In the arms of his family,
And old, bold Mehole,
Is in a bit of a quandary.

At least he’ll not get the boot when Jim loses… so there is that. More’s the pity.

#aras

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To tide you over and keep your options open, perhaps add a line to the effect that any accusations (if such were ever made) of murder would be unproven.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 3d

This is mad, this is my Arsenal website as a question on Beat The Chasers on ITV1 tonight!

The Daily Cannon is a website dedicated to what London foootball site? Arsenal Fulham Tottenham Hotspur

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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 2d

The reveal I want to see is that Jim Gavin's tenant was CMAT.

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__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 2d

A pie chart displaying "things you love to see"

The legend displays a blue square as "it"

The pie circle is 100% blue

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Jane (JRG) @janereplygirl.bsky.social · 3d

just finished Dulhaniyaa by @taliabhatt.itch.io, it's a really touching lesbian romance and i loved it

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I only picked up his egregious pronunciation in the H20 movie! Were there more?

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Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social · 3d

I've been keeping this quiet, but I can now share that my poem 'Arboreal' won First Prize in the Whispering Wisdom Poetry Competition! 💙

Arboreal - by Bex Hainsworth
It was my first time taking the bus to school
and the 662 was late. Half-carried into the aisle,
I was a squat shrub, crowded by a canopy
of strangers. My sapling arms reached up
for the swinging vines of the grab handles,
but I stumbled as the bus rounded a corner.
Sunlight was swallowed by anoraks, blazers.
And then I felt the elderly woman beside me
shift the soft branch of her arm around my waist.
The sequins on her mossy cardigan shimmered,
both of us undergrowth, but her roots were deep
in the floor, her walking stick like a tree stake.
She anchored us, bud and trunk. It was the safety
I’ve been searching for, all my life.

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Imbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 3d

We stopped taking on wholesale customers over a year ago. Focus now is trying to get word out on how we're run in hope a really bIg business will see it's viable and copy. This year we'll give up 4% of all our income. Need coffee, you can buy here. If not you might tell others imbibe.ie/pages/shop

Shop

Imbibe Coffee Roasters

imbibe.ie

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Not a word of a lie here from Uilliam.

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 3d

The UK is unique among democratic nations in that terrorists can phone the media to announce a campaign of domestic terrorism secure in the knowledge that government will ignore it and it won't be mentioned in the nation's parliament or in most of it's press.
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/...

Loyalist terror gangs in sinister threat to burn Belfast council facilities over Irish language proposals

Loyalist paramilitaries are planning an arson campaign to prevent Irish language signage from being displayed on Belfast City Council buildings and vehicles.

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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