Anna Nicholson
@transponderings.bsky.social
AuDHD trans dysfunctional human being. She/her. Scribbler of words, music and pictures. Meds reminder. Erstwhile linguist etc.
*Please connect if we knew each other on the bird site.*
Blog: transponderings.blog
Mastodon: @[email protected]
*Please connect if we knew each other on the bird site.*
Blog: transponderings.blog
Mastodon: @[email protected]
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trans people exist.
billionaires shouldn't.
billionaires shouldn't.
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
trans people exist.
billionaires shouldn't.
billionaires shouldn't.
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Islamophobia does not only appear in headlines. It shows up in schools, workplaces, services, and community spaces. For Autistic Muslims, this often means navigating both Islamophobia and ableism at the same time. In recent years, the UK has witnessed a deeply troubling rise in #Islamophobia.
November 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Islamophobia does not only appear in headlines. It shows up in schools, workplaces, services, and community spaces. For Autistic Muslims, this often means navigating both Islamophobia and ableism at the same time. In recent years, the UK has witnessed a deeply troubling rise in #Islamophobia.
This article by @brettscott.bsky.social may be a couple of years old, but it will probably still be relevant until we overthrow capitalism. An excellent read.
www.asomo.co/p/tech-doesn...
www.asomo.co/p/tech-doesn...
Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster
Breaking through the illusion of convenience that's used to sell us automation
www.asomo.co
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This article by @brettscott.bsky.social may be a couple of years old, but it will probably still be relevant until we overthrow capitalism. An excellent read.
www.asomo.co/p/tech-doesn...
www.asomo.co/p/tech-doesn...
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Scotland could support around 400 wild lynx, helping to restore our world renowned nature and biodiversity.
They were once native here before being driven to extinction.
We're bringing their reintroduction to a vote in the Scottish Parliament. 🐈
They were once native here before being driven to extinction.
We're bringing their reintroduction to a vote in the Scottish Parliament. 🐈
Lynx reintroduction 'crucial' to restoring Scotland's biodiversity, say Greens
REINTRODUCING Lynx would be a crucial step in restoring Scotland’s world-renowned nature and biodiversity, the Scottish Greens have said.
www.thenational.scot
November 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Scotland could support around 400 wild lynx, helping to restore our world renowned nature and biodiversity.
They were once native here before being driven to extinction.
We're bringing their reintroduction to a vote in the Scottish Parliament. 🐈
They were once native here before being driven to extinction.
We're bringing their reintroduction to a vote in the Scottish Parliament. 🐈
‘An attempt to create a work that encompasses everything humanity has created while simultaneously trying to remove as much of ourselves from the creative process as we possibly can.’
– Thomas Flight on AI ‘art’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFit...
– Thomas Flight on AI ‘art’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFit...
Why AI "Art" Feels So Wrong
YouTube video by Thomas Flight
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
‘An attempt to create a work that encompasses everything humanity has created while simultaneously trying to remove as much of ourselves from the creative process as we possibly can.’
– Thomas Flight on AI ‘art’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFit...
– Thomas Flight on AI ‘art’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFit...
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Cycling UK are campaigning for infrastructure which is safe for everyone to use, noting that women often feel least safe in existing infrastructure. Safe cycling (and active travel) is a social and environmental justice issue.
cyclingUK.org/myrideourright
@davewalker.bsky.social
cyclingUK.org/myrideourright
@davewalker.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Cycling UK are campaigning for infrastructure which is safe for everyone to use, noting that women often feel least safe in existing infrastructure. Safe cycling (and active travel) is a social and environmental justice issue.
cyclingUK.org/myrideourright
@davewalker.bsky.social
cyclingUK.org/myrideourright
@davewalker.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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The government is right to be worried about the potential impact of the EHRC's Code of Practice. Following our joint letter with over 650 businesses, many MPs have realised that this bathroom ban is unworkable.
But we have to keep the pressure up.
Act now 👇
www.transsolidarityalliance.com
But we have to keep the pressure up.
Act now 👇
www.transsolidarityalliance.com
You'll have to ignore the buckets of anti-trans campaigning commentary in the piece, but the basic news is quite simple. The EHRC has failed to get the government to accept its anti-guidance in haste. Something is holding it up, perhaps for another a year www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rules forcing trans people to use birth-sex facilities delayed
The Equality and Human Rights Commission set out statutory guidance on how gyms, clubs and hospitals must judge single-sex spaces based on biology
www.thetimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The government is right to be worried about the potential impact of the EHRC's Code of Practice. Following our joint letter with over 650 businesses, many MPs have realised that this bathroom ban is unworkable.
But we have to keep the pressure up.
Act now 👇
www.transsolidarityalliance.com
But we have to keep the pressure up.
Act now 👇
www.transsolidarityalliance.com
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This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI
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the mainstream media refuses to acknowledge this as a genocidal act, but the message is clear: the Trump regime doesn't want any new trans people, and will do everything it can to eliminate those of us that already exist
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
the mainstream media refuses to acknowledge this as a genocidal act, but the message is clear: the Trump regime doesn't want any new trans people, and will do everything it can to eliminate those of us that already exist
I’m not, and never have been, a Lib Dem, but there are good arguments made in Appendix B of this open letter from LGBT+ Lib Dems to the party leadership.
Please sign our open letter to the @libdems.org.uk party asling for the awful decision over diversity quotas to be scrapped. 👇
lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
Lib Dem Internal Elections 2025 – LGBT+ Liberal Democrats
lgbtlibdems.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’m not, and never have been, a Lib Dem, but there are good arguments made in Appendix B of this open letter from LGBT+ Lib Dems to the party leadership.
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2000+ Edinburgh and West Lothian Greens... and more every day!
@scottishgreens.org are surging. There's never been a better time to join the movement: greens.scot/join.
@scottishgreens.org are surging. There's never been a better time to join the movement: greens.scot/join.
October 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
2000+ Edinburgh and West Lothian Greens... and more every day!
@scottishgreens.org are surging. There's never been a better time to join the movement: greens.scot/join.
@scottishgreens.org are surging. There's never been a better time to join the movement: greens.scot/join.
Armistead Maupin’s message to transphobes including JKR:
‘Stop with your judgemental bullshit!’ ☺️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GubB...
‘Stop with your judgemental bullshit!’ ☺️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GubB...
Holding Forth: In Support of Trans Folks
YouTube video by Armistead Maupin
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Armistead Maupin’s message to transphobes including JKR:
‘Stop with your judgemental bullshit!’ ☺️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GubB...
‘Stop with your judgemental bullshit!’ ☺️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GubB...
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I absolutely agree that people with Indefinite Leave to Remain should have the right to vote in General Elections, if you do too then please sign this and share it!
I always keep an eye on new Parliamentary petitions, and think this one is worth supporting.
It makes sense to give more migrants a say in the democratic process when their continued existence in this country is under threat from politicians in Reform, the Conservatives and Labour.
It makes sense to give more migrants a say in the democratic process when their continued existence in this country is under threat from politicians in Reform, the Conservatives and Labour.
Petition: Allow people with Indefinite Leave to Remain to vote in parliamentary elections
Extend voting in UK parliamentary elections to include those who have been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR).
petition.parliament.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I absolutely agree that people with Indefinite Leave to Remain should have the right to vote in General Elections, if you do too then please sign this and share it!
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It's a shame,
of course,
that it must be like this
But anything else is just
Magical thinking
Utopianism
Communism
Reckless
Fantasy.
of course,
that it must be like this
But anything else is just
Magical thinking
Utopianism
Communism
Reckless
Fantasy.
There's this narrow political consensus shared by most mainstream politicians, the vast majority of politics-adjacent journalists, and only a small proportion of the population at large, which insists that very little change is possible: that we simply must keep doing the same things, again & again.
October 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
It's a shame,
of course,
that it must be like this
But anything else is just
Magical thinking
Utopianism
Communism
Reckless
Fantasy.
of course,
that it must be like this
But anything else is just
Magical thinking
Utopianism
Communism
Reckless
Fantasy.
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white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
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click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
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Not gonna quote dunk the AI guy everyone is quote dunking on, but I will say this: if* a tool is only useful if I "invest time to understand it", is it actually that useful?
*Big if in this case.
*Big if in this case.
October 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Not gonna quote dunk the AI guy everyone is quote dunking on, but I will say this: if* a tool is only useful if I "invest time to understand it", is it actually that useful?
*Big if in this case.
*Big if in this case.
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This shit is going to kill trans people. Which is of course the point.
Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.
My records have been altered, which is upsetting.
My records have been altered, which is upsetting.
October 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This shit is going to kill trans people. Which is of course the point.
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Here we go! 📝📝📝
🚽 Scrap the Bathroom Ban🚨🏳️⚧️
Our work so far is already working (see here: archive.ph/gaCN4)
Now we’re demanding that any new Code must outline how providers can lawfully *include* trans folk in their services.
✍️ Write to your MP with our easy tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
🚽 Scrap the Bathroom Ban🚨🏳️⚧️
Our work so far is already working (see here: archive.ph/gaCN4)
Now we’re demanding that any new Code must outline how providers can lawfully *include* trans folk in their services.
✍️ Write to your MP with our easy tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Scrap the Bathroom Ban
🚨This is urgent🚨
Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...
actionnetwork.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Here we go! 📝📝📝
🚽 Scrap the Bathroom Ban🚨🏳️⚧️
Our work so far is already working (see here: archive.ph/gaCN4)
Now we’re demanding that any new Code must outline how providers can lawfully *include* trans folk in their services.
✍️ Write to your MP with our easy tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
🚽 Scrap the Bathroom Ban🚨🏳️⚧️
Our work so far is already working (see here: archive.ph/gaCN4)
Now we’re demanding that any new Code must outline how providers can lawfully *include* trans folk in their services.
✍️ Write to your MP with our easy tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
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I've just done this, please send a letter to your MP. They are our voice in the government and they need to know the anger we feel over this and how it will affect us.
🚨This is an emergency🚨
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
October 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I've just done this, please send a letter to your MP. They are our voice in the government and they need to know the anger we feel over this and how it will affect us.
I missed this post yesterday.
Ironically, I had what I thought was a uveitis flare – though it seems to have gone today – so maybe that was just my body celebrating in its own special way. 😉
(I have AS, and uveitis comes for free with that.)
Ironically, I had what I thought was a uveitis flare – though it seems to have gone today – so maybe that was just my body celebrating in its own special way. 😉
(I have AS, and uveitis comes for free with that.)
It’s World Arthritis Day, so it’s only appropriate I woke up in a flare, right? (This storm battering the NE coast of the US has been brutal for my joints.)
For more World Arthritis Day information, visit www.newhopephysio.com/blog/world-a... (page is source of graphic)
For more World Arthritis Day information, visit www.newhopephysio.com/blog/world-a... (page is source of graphic)
October 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I missed this post yesterday.
Ironically, I had what I thought was a uveitis flare – though it seems to have gone today – so maybe that was just my body celebrating in its own special way. 😉
(I have AS, and uveitis comes for free with that.)
Ironically, I had what I thought was a uveitis flare – though it seems to have gone today – so maybe that was just my body celebrating in its own special way. 😉
(I have AS, and uveitis comes for free with that.)
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During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Yeah this sounds fine
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests
Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails.
One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Yeah this sounds fine
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Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose
#r4today
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose
#r4today
October 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose
#r4today
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose
#r4today
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.