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stay at home poet, rabbit mother, professional autist
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(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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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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Maybe electrifying and doubling frequency on regional rail lines is good
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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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
Well, nothing’s permanent.

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‘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...
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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lmaooooo
October 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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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.
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. 🏳️‍⚧️
October 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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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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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.
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
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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Camus explains how liberalism won't help you get out of fascism.
August 31, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Henrik ISBN
August 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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🚨 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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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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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...
August 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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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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JCO casually doing murders last night
August 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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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August 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Hardly a revelation if you’re in the business of talking to anyone. And whose fault is it “the middle ground has gone”?
Concerns in South Tyneside that Labour could be facing an annihilation. People will vote Green or Reform.
August 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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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
Janice Turner here equating 'working class' with 'racist'
August 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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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[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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July 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM