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stay at home poet, rabbit mother, professional autist
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oldfriend99.bsky.social
(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
classic story of some lady hitting the transphobia pipe harder and harder and becoming an intolerable shithead who alienates all her friends www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
How Sandie Peggie 'Benidorm Posse' friend group was torn apart by NHS Fife trans tribunal
The personal cost of the changing room row was exposed in expletive-ridden private messages as tensions boiled over in group chats.
www.thecourier.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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nerd4cities.bsky.social
Maybe electrifying and doubling frequency on regional rail lines is good
apta-info.bsky.social American Public Transportation Association @apta-info.bsky.social · 26d
The top 5 fastest growing U.S. transit agencies (3 million to 15 million annual trips) over the last year are:
1. @caltrain.com, CA ⬆️ 56%
2. GoRaleigh, NC ⬆️ 42%
3. Blacksburg Transit, VA ⬆️ 26%
4. Airtrain JFK, NY ⬆️ 23%
5. Golden Empire Transit, CA ⬆️ 20%

#TransitWrapped2025 is fall 2025-fall 2024.
December 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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fionaswriting.bsky.social
The flu rates are spiking - please get a flu vaccine if you can ❤️ protect yourself and the people in your life.
December 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
therewerenever.bsky.social
Well, nothing’s permanent.

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
asls.org.uk Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Nov 12
‘I am not prepared to let Moscow dictate to Glasgow.’
Failures may be interesting, but it is the firmness
of what he wanted and did not want
that raises eyebrows…

—Edwin Morgan, “On John Maclean”
from COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 1997
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978184777965...
Edwin Morgan On John Maclean ‘I am not prepared to let Moscow dictate to Glasgow.’ Failures may be interesting, but it is the firmness of what he wanted and did not want that raises eyebrows: when does the quixotic begin to gel, begin to impress, at what point of naked surprise? ‘I for one will not follow a policy dictated by Lenin until he knows the situation more clearly.’ Which Lenin hadn’t time to, and parties never did – the rock of nations like the rock of ages, saw-toothed, half-submerged, a cranky sputtering lighthouse somewhere, as often out as lit, a wreck of ships all round, there’s the old barnacled ‘Workingclass Solidarity’, and ‘International Brotherhood’ ripped open and awash, while you can see the sleekit ‘Great-Power Chauvinism’ steaming cannily past on the horizon as if she had never heard of cuius regio. Maclean wanted neither the maimed ships nor the paradox of not wanting them while he painfully trimmed the lighthouse lamp to let them know that Scotland was not Britain and writs of captains on the Thames would never run in grey Clyde waters. Well, nothing’s permanent. It’s true he lost – a voice silenced in November fog. Party is where he failed, for he believed in people, not in partiinost’ that as everyone knows delivers the goods. Does it? Of course. And if they’re damaged in transit you make do? You do – and don’t be so naive about this world! Maclean was not naive, but ‘We are out for life and all that life can give us’ was what he said, that’s what he said.
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
lol she got his ass and he knows it
Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world." Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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magnets.bsky.social
lmaooooo
'A party in decline: Former MEP quits 'dying' Alba to join Your Party
October 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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sydney-bauer.com
Imagine if other mainstream artists did this on tour. Imagine if they brought tables to their venues to explain to fans why this is so important. It would change the conversation profoundly. This is important.
tscuniversity13.bsky.social TSCUniversity 🎓💟 @tscuniversity13.bsky.social · Oct 17
The Sabrina Carpenter Fund will now directly support The Transgender Law Center! The fund will support the Legal Info Helpdesk, which responds to more than 2000+ requests annually and the training of 400+ trans leaders through programs like the Disability Project, Black Trans Circles, and more. 🏳️‍⚧️
An image of a description of the Transgender Law Center reads: Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national trans-led organization working to ensure all people can live freely, safely, and authentically. Centering BIPOC, disabled, and HIV + communities, TLC advances community-driven strategies that harness trans knowledge, power, and joy, while addressing the urgent political, legal, and social violence faced by trans communities. Through advocacy, education, and leadership development, TLC works to create a world where all trans people can thrive. The Sabrina Carpenter Fund will directly support TLC's Legal Information Helpdesk, which responds to more than 2,200 requests annually and the training of more than 400 trans leaders through programs like the Disability Project, Black Trans Circles, and Positively Trans - driving the Trans Agenda for Liberation forward. Sabrina Carpenter in a Polaroid style picture with long blonde wavy hair and a red button down tank top.
October 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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stefmowords.bsky.social
quick mods are asleep turn completely in on yourselves and quietly implode leaving just a perfectly smooth grey pebble behind
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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ryanvance.bsky.social
Unfortunately Glasgow already has this, and medicine‘s greatest minds have been unable to figure out why a city with a motorway running through the middle of it has a lower than average life expectancy.
edmorrish.bsky.social Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · Sep 28
cities with syndromes named after them:

• paris (disappointment)
• florence (becoming over-awed)
• jerusalem (religious fervour)
• stockholm (allegiance with captors, now discredited)

if your city had a syndrome, what would its effects be?

leeds syndrome: just going absolutely fucking feral
September 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
therewerenever.bsky.social
tbh the most unexpected thing that has happened in the last couple of weeks is finding out how many people I know wear Mitchum deodorant
September 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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katiemcvay.bsky.social
Camus explains how liberalism won't help you get out of fascism.
from Camus' "Why Spain?" today: "In the meantime we must struggle. But with the knowledge that totalitarian tyranny is not based on the virtues of the totalitarians. It is based on the mistakes of the liberals. Talleyrand’s remark is contemptible, for a mistake is not worse than a crime. But the mistake eventually justifies the crime and provides its alibi. Then the mistake drives its victims to despair, and that is why it must not be condoned. That is just what I cannot forgive contemporary political society: it is a mechanism for driving men to despair."
August 31, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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fliglman.bsky.social
Henrik ISBN
August 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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politlcsuk.bsky.social
🚨 UPDATE: Suspended Scottish Labour MSP Colin Smyth allegedly put a “secret camera” in the Parliament’s toilet

[@paulhutcheon]
August 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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drhannahgraham.bsky.social
Does this latest MSP defection mean the all male Public Audit Committee at Holyrood gets a membership change? It normally would do because of spots being assigned by party, but IIRC, Jamie Greene has stayed on it (Deputy Convener) upon defecting to the Lib Dems, so I'm not entirely sure?? #anorakQns
August 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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asls.org.uk
In his darkroom he is finally alone
with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows…

—Carol Ann Duffy, “War Photographer”
published in COLLECTED POEMS (Picador, 2019)
#poem #poetry
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/caro...
War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy In his darkroom he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows. The only light is red and softly glows, as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass. Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass. He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now. Rural England. Home again to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel, to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat. Something is happening. A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries of this man’s wife, how he sought approval without words to do what someone must and how the blood stained into foreign dust. A hundred agonies in black-and-white from which his editor will pick out five or six for Sunday’s supplement. The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers. From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care.
August 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
JCO casually doing murders last night
Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates oh. he speaks to you often? are you a Diet Coke? JMDeFee @LtlBfloJMD • 21h I have never heard Trump say that the Nobel Peace prize is his motivation. I have heard him say he wants the killing to stop.
August 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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pastglasgow.co.uk
Looking along St Vincent Lane to the elaborate German renaissance style Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance offices of 1899 by James Thomson.

#Glasgow
August 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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ryanvance.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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marcusjdl.bsky.social
Hardly a revelation if you’re in the business of talking to anyone. And whose fault is it “the middle ground has gone”?
greenelects.world Green Elects @greenelects.world · Aug 17
Concerns in South Tyneside that Labour could be facing an annihilation. People will vote Green or Reform.
Image shows BBC reporter who speak to her mate that Labour are concerned about Local elections next year, and the party is predicating annihilation
August 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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magnets.bsky.social
the thing here to remember is that people like janice turner think racism etc is just working class language but if you tell them to fuck off that's not working class language that's abuse
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Aug 2
Janice Turner here equating 'working class' with 'racist'
Class snobbery is at heart of NHS gender war Case of Sandie Peggie reveals a working-class woman being hounded by management for wrongthink on trans ideology Janice Turner @victoriapeckham Janice Turner Outside the tribunal in Dundee, Jane Russell KC, stopped to pet a border collie. “Would that be a female dog or a male dog?” asked a mischievous Scot. Russell laughed nervously. “Ha- HAH! Well, I don’t know. How would you know?” she mumbled, then darted into the building. Does Russell, a keen horsewoman who celebrated taking silk by galloping through London on a steed called Jupiter, really believe biological sex is “complicated”, that babies — and, presumably, dogs and horses — are randomly “assigned” male or female at birth by a midwife/ vet? Or is this just fashionable sophistry she deploys to defend her clients NHS Fife and the transidentified male doctor Beth Upton? Certainly for Sandie Peggie this postmodern conceit is no joke. A nurse for 30 years, she was suspended, put through internal disciplinary hearings and at this tribunal has endured scrutiny of every intimate matter, from her menstrual cycle to whether she loves her lesbian daughter, just for upholding a basic truth: sex is real. Of all such cases — and I’ve followed many — none encapsulates the shibboleths, snobberies and magical thinking of our age so well. Day after day we heard doctors and managers of Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, relate how they unashamedly closed ranks against a working-class nurse, whose rights, feelings or even basic humanity fell beyond their #BeKind purview. It started on Christmas Eve 2023, when Peggie rushed to the female changing rooms, fearing that a sudden menstrual flood — a common occurrence around menopause — had soaked her scrubs. When Dr Upton entered, Peggie says she told him he was making her feel uncomfortable and asked him to leave. But this incident, which sparked almost two years of litigation, isn’t the most shocking. Twice before, Peggie had come in
August 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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robertdallasgray.com
it’s when starmer tries to make a concession to decency that his full repellency is most apparent
July 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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kieranhurley.bsky.social
[recognising your statehood while I murder your family] as you can see I am being reasonable here
July 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
In Dutch, mondegreens are popularly referred to as Mama appelsap ("Mommy apple juice"), from the Michael Jackson song Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' which features the lyrics Mama-se mama-sa ma-ma-coo-sa, and was once misheard as Mama say mama sa mam[a]appelsap.
July 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM