Katherine
@airedaletales.bsky.social
🏴 Home educating library worker in North Yorkshire. Also partial to knitting, gardening, reading, cake, culture and using public transport. ND family.
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well would you look at that. being trans is a protected characteristic and being a bigot is not.
Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board and another (judgment and summary) - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Case number: 4104864/2024 Employment Tribunal, Scotland 8 December 2025 Before: Employment Judge A KempTribunal Member L BrownTribunal Member C Russell Between: Mrs Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board...
www.judiciary.uk
December 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
well would you look at that. being trans is a protected characteristic and being a bigot is not.
My husband’s current special interest is tracking energy prices so we can ‘download’ it at cheaper times to the storage battery we got as part of our solar panel system. He says it’s cheapest when it’s windy. Why aren’t we talking about this more? People love cheaper energy.
Today marks 25 years of offshore wind power: an initiative that reduced the UK’s spending on imported fuels by up to £30bn.
Without wind power the country would’ve imported & burned over 20 million tonnes of gas over the last 25 years.
Wind works 🌬️ For the climate and the economy.
Without wind power the country would’ve imported & burned over 20 million tonnes of gas over the last 25 years.
Wind works 🌬️ For the climate and the economy.
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My husband’s current special interest is tracking energy prices so we can ‘download’ it at cheaper times to the storage battery we got as part of our solar panel system. He says it’s cheapest when it’s windy. Why aren’t we talking about this more? People love cheaper energy.
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This is why I’m on my soapbox everyday at work and being loud about AI and academic integrity
“LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).”
“LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).”
Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is why I’m on my soapbox everyday at work and being loud about AI and academic integrity
“LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).”
“LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).”
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Martin Parr RIP
You could do a lot worse today than binge-watch Signs of the Times, you know.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
You could do a lot worse today than binge-watch Signs of the Times, you know.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Signs of the Times - Marie Louise Collects Bric-a-Brac
A look at couples with incompatible taste: Matt cannot abide Marie Louise's large wooden pig in the living room, while Sue has quietly removed Gary's mug tree. (1992)
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Martin Parr RIP
You could do a lot worse today than binge-watch Signs of the Times, you know.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
You could do a lot worse today than binge-watch Signs of the Times, you know.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Fact check:
🛡️Green policy is to stay in NATO and push for internal reforms.
💊The war on drugs has failed; a legalised, regulated and health-based approach is the only viable option.
🟢The fact the Prime Minister is spending time here to bash the Greens proves that we're doing the right thing.
🛡️Green policy is to stay in NATO and push for internal reforms.
💊The war on drugs has failed; a legalised, regulated and health-based approach is the only viable option.
🟢The fact the Prime Minister is spending time here to bash the Greens proves that we're doing the right thing.
Keir Starmer: ‘The Greens are anti-Nato and think it’s all right to sell drugs. That’s nuts’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Fact check:
🛡️Green policy is to stay in NATO and push for internal reforms.
💊The war on drugs has failed; a legalised, regulated and health-based approach is the only viable option.
🟢The fact the Prime Minister is spending time here to bash the Greens proves that we're doing the right thing.
🛡️Green policy is to stay in NATO and push for internal reforms.
💊The war on drugs has failed; a legalised, regulated and health-based approach is the only viable option.
🟢The fact the Prime Minister is spending time here to bash the Greens proves that we're doing the right thing.
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Netflix Confirms Cancel Membership Button Will Be Leaving Streaming Service Next Month
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Netflix Confirms Cancel Membership Button Will Be Leaving Streaming Service Next Month
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When there’s an article about reading, the author often focuses on the C20th as if they too don’t understand the link between not reading and not feeling represented. Thankfully, @tygertale.bsky.social put this list together
Tell me what you agree/disagree with
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
Tell me what you agree/disagree with
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
The 100 Best Children’s Books of the 21st Century
In September the Guardian published the 100 books of the 21st Century. It contained only five children’s books, two of which were published in the year 2000 – wrong century – and featur…
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November 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
When there’s an article about reading, the author often focuses on the C20th as if they too don’t understand the link between not reading and not feeling represented. Thankfully, @tygertale.bsky.social put this list together
Tell me what you agree/disagree with
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
Tell me what you agree/disagree with
tygertale.com/2025/11/28/t...
There’s a Rotary Club Santa that comes round the streets in the evenings in our town. Every time they post on the local Facebook page someone comments ‘why do you never come to xx Road?’ and people reply ‘well we know why, don’t we?’. I don’t! I want to know, but also don’t want to get involved…
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
There’s a Rotary Club Santa that comes round the streets in the evenings in our town. Every time they post on the local Facebook page someone comments ‘why do you never come to xx Road?’ and people reply ‘well we know why, don’t we?’. I don’t! I want to know, but also don’t want to get involved…
10/10 to VR Rail in Finland for their website where you can track your train on a map. On a Pendolino train there are three classes - Eko, Ekstra Relaxed (which the 13yo has chosen) and Ekstra Calm (quiet coach at the end). En route to Rovaniemi now, the final stop.
13yo is doing his virtual trip to Finland again. He has worked out the trains and boat needed to get there and is tracking them in real time over the next few days, and if any part of the journey appears on Train Sim World, he’ll do it on there too. He’s currently en route to London from Torquay.
December 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
10/10 to VR Rail in Finland for their website where you can track your train on a map. On a Pendolino train there are three classes - Eko, Ekstra Relaxed (which the 13yo has chosen) and Ekstra Calm (quiet coach at the end). En route to Rovaniemi now, the final stop.
I read about this when it was happening, had not realised the Duchy of Cornwall’s involvement in it!
An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I read about this when it was happening, had not realised the Duchy of Cornwall’s involvement in it!
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Them: “25 years ago”
Me: *nods sagely* “1986”
Me: *nods sagely* “1986”
December 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Them: “25 years ago”
Me: *nods sagely* “1986”
Me: *nods sagely* “1986”
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Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY?
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY?
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
Enjoying a Christmassy day in Stockholm (but also pausing to read the latest stats on station usage from the Office of Rail and Road released today) before sailing overnight to Helsinki is today’s plan.
13yo is doing his virtual trip to Finland again. He has worked out the trains and boat needed to get there and is tracking them in real time over the next few days, and if any part of the journey appears on Train Sim World, he’ll do it on there too. He’s currently en route to London from Torquay.
December 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Enjoying a Christmassy day in Stockholm (but also pausing to read the latest stats on station usage from the Office of Rail and Road released today) before sailing overnight to Helsinki is today’s plan.
Yessssssss!!!
It's happening!! In June 2026, Squid Bits: That's a Nice Hat will be coming out! This book is a collection of some of the Squid Bits comics I've been working on since 2014 for The Phoenix and it's so exciting to finally see it in book form! There're some vintage SB strips in there too!
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Yessssssss!!!
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Thanks for everyone who's bid on the #Creatives4Sudan auction so far. In amazing news, we're at 12k. We have TWO DAYS LEFT though. If everyone places lots of little bids, I think we could get to 15k easy. The money is going to Sudanese-run Emergency Response Rooms. 💗🇸🇩 app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Thanks for everyone who's bid on the #Creatives4Sudan auction so far. In amazing news, we're at 12k. We have TWO DAYS LEFT though. If everyone places lots of little bids, I think we could get to 15k easy. The money is going to Sudanese-run Emergency Response Rooms. 💗🇸🇩 app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
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a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization
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With anti-trans news every day, we're on a mission to bring festive joy to trans+ youth 🎄
We have just closed sign ups for this year's Trans Secret Santa with hundreds and hundreds of registrations. 🎅
Now we we need your help making the gifts as magical as possible ✨
www.transsecretsanta.co.uk
We have just closed sign ups for this year's Trans Secret Santa with hundreds and hundreds of registrations. 🎅
Now we we need your help making the gifts as magical as possible ✨
www.transsecretsanta.co.uk
Trans Secret Santa 2025
Help us bring festive joy to trans youth
www.transsecretsanta.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
With anti-trans news every day, we're on a mission to bring festive joy to trans+ youth 🎄
We have just closed sign ups for this year's Trans Secret Santa with hundreds and hundreds of registrations. 🎅
Now we we need your help making the gifts as magical as possible ✨
www.transsecretsanta.co.uk
We have just closed sign ups for this year's Trans Secret Santa with hundreds and hundreds of registrations. 🎅
Now we we need your help making the gifts as magical as possible ✨
www.transsecretsanta.co.uk
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🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
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Only first instance but this feels quite significant - it was lawful, post For Some Women Scotland, to offer trans inclusive workplace toilets.
BREAKING: Employee who demand a trans-exclusive toilet policy loses employment tribunal. All claims, direct and indirect discrimination, harassment, and 1992 Regs, dismissed.
Judgment: www.gov.uk/employment-t...
Judgment: www.gov.uk/employment-t...
B M Kelly v Leonardo UK Ltd: 8001497/2024
Employment Tribunal decision.
www.gov.uk
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Only first instance but this feels quite significant - it was lawful, post For Some Women Scotland, to offer trans inclusive workplace toilets.
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Both the WI and Girl Guiding had been steadfast in their support for trans members and in making sure every child was included. This is forced suppression. Presumably the Alliance Defending Freedom is the coffers behind this, too?
December 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Both the WI and Girl Guiding had been steadfast in their support for trans members and in making sure every child was included. This is forced suppression. Presumably the Alliance Defending Freedom is the coffers behind this, too?
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You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
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December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
He’s aiming to get to Stockholm today, currently using Zugfinder to track the train.
13yo is doing his virtual trip to Finland again. He has worked out the trains and boat needed to get there and is tracking them in real time over the next few days, and if any part of the journey appears on Train Sim World, he’ll do it on there too. He’s currently en route to London from Torquay.
December 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
He’s aiming to get to Stockholm today, currently using Zugfinder to track the train.
Guides, WI, these seemed to have been organisations that had previously said they welcomed trans women? Is the person in the mouldy castle throwing their money around or something?
December 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Guides, WI, these seemed to have been organisations that had previously said they welcomed trans women? Is the person in the mouldy castle throwing their money around or something?
16yo me wants to order it all.
#Christmas 1995: Home Decor from Homewise
(+Sun and Moon Throwover; Rug; Set of Three Candles; Polysotone Photo Frame; Three Piece Dolomite Candle Holder; Metal Watering Can Shape Planter/Ornament; Dolomite Sun, Moon and Stars Wind Chimes; Trinket Box; and Set of Two Cushion Cases)
(+Sun and Moon Throwover; Rug; Set of Three Candles; Polysotone Photo Frame; Three Piece Dolomite Candle Holder; Metal Watering Can Shape Planter/Ornament; Dolomite Sun, Moon and Stars Wind Chimes; Trinket Box; and Set of Two Cushion Cases)
December 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
16yo me wants to order it all.