Fyre
@amuseoffyre.bsky.social
Fyre online since 2000. Scottish. Geek. Author. Globetrotter. Technically 'grown-up'. Can be found under the username amuseoffyre in most locations :)
https://ko-fi.com/amuseoffyre
#OurFlagMeansMuppets
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#OurFlagMeansMuppets
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Saw a post recently that all our time travel lore is how going back & changing one thing can alter the future but no one thinks what they do today makes a difference.
What you do matters, I promise. Fight & also enjoy things💪🏻
Lil sneak peek of my piece for @quirkyfox.bsky.social
#moth #sciart #🐡
What you do matters, I promise. Fight & also enjoy things💪🏻
Lil sneak peek of my piece for @quirkyfox.bsky.social
#moth #sciart #🐡
January 30, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Saw a post recently that all our time travel lore is how going back & changing one thing can alter the future but no one thinks what they do today makes a difference.
What you do matters, I promise. Fight & also enjoy things💪🏻
Lil sneak peek of my piece for @quirkyfox.bsky.social
#moth #sciart #🐡
What you do matters, I promise. Fight & also enjoy things💪🏻
Lil sneak peek of my piece for @quirkyfox.bsky.social
#moth #sciart #🐡
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Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
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Who’s ready for….
THE OFMD FANDOM CRAFT MARKET?
Running March 5 through March 21, we’ll be raising money for the amazing @immcouncil.org!
THE OFMD FANDOM CRAFT MARKET?
Running March 5 through March 21, we’ll be raising money for the amazing @immcouncil.org!
January 30, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Who’s ready for….
THE OFMD FANDOM CRAFT MARKET?
Running March 5 through March 21, we’ll be raising money for the amazing @immcouncil.org!
THE OFMD FANDOM CRAFT MARKET?
Running March 5 through March 21, we’ll be raising money for the amazing @immcouncil.org!
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Sex Matters tried to block a ban on conversion practices, but the Council of Europe has voted to make it illegal
goodlawproject.org/council-of-e...
goodlawproject.org/council-of-e...
Council of Europe votes for conversion therapy ban
Sex Matters tried to block a ban on conversion therapy, but the Council of Europe has voted to make it illegal
goodlawproject.org
January 29, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Sex Matters tried to block a ban on conversion practices, but the Council of Europe has voted to make it illegal
goodlawproject.org/council-of-e...
goodlawproject.org/council-of-e...
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In the 2024 election, nearly a quarter of women aged 18 to 24 voted for the Green Party – roughly double the number of young men who voted for Reform. Yet “predictably”, it was the young men voting Reform that “got all the attention”, said @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social.
theweek.com/politics/why...
theweek.com/politics/why...
Gender politics: why young women are going Green
Women under 25 are flocking to the populist left faster than young men moving to the populist right
theweek.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:10 AM
In the 2024 election, nearly a quarter of women aged 18 to 24 voted for the Green Party – roughly double the number of young men who voted for Reform. Yet “predictably”, it was the young men voting Reform that “got all the attention”, said @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social.
theweek.com/politics/why...
theweek.com/politics/why...
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By all means do a trans history week but the current Labour government has to be discussed as the current oppressive force in the comparison with history. They are banned from pride for a fucking reason what are you doing involving them with this
I dont want a fucking trans history week i want some fucking work put in so we have a Tomorrow
Yeah no i really think you kinda made a fool of yourself if you have a nice chat with Keir Starmer about a bloody awareness week
January 30, 2026 at 9:09 AM
By all means do a trans history week but the current Labour government has to be discussed as the current oppressive force in the comparison with history. They are banned from pride for a fucking reason what are you doing involving them with this
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Dorks will be like "AI is expanding what’s possible and allowing storytellers to go places they simply couldn’t before" and then use it to recreate the year 1776, something that has been possible since the year 1776.
They still sell the hats at the store and everything.
They still sell the hats at the store and everything.
January 30, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Dorks will be like "AI is expanding what’s possible and allowing storytellers to go places they simply couldn’t before" and then use it to recreate the year 1776, something that has been possible since the year 1776.
They still sell the hats at the store and everything.
They still sell the hats at the store and everything.
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Anyway, you can give $5 tax deductible to PBS for their app and get Ken Burns Revolutionary War doc along with Lupita and Sandra Oh in Twelfth Night and not pollute all of Memphis while you’re watching it.
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Anyway, you can give $5 tax deductible to PBS for their app and get Ken Burns Revolutionary War doc along with Lupita and Sandra Oh in Twelfth Night and not pollute all of Memphis while you’re watching it.
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Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”
January 30, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”
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"You can beat the charge but not the ride" is the fundamental premise of so much of what the Trump administration does. And, our system is ill-equipped to stop it.
DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
‘Abolish ICE’ has become an increasingly popular position and people are being shot in the streets over it why the fuck would you dillweeds roll over like this. Especially given that citizenship is much more friable than people think it is this is not as protective as dems want it to look.
January 30, 2026 at 2:09 AM
"You can beat the charge but not the ride" is the fundamental premise of so much of what the Trump administration does. And, our system is ill-equipped to stop it.
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Just deleted my TikTok account.
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January 27, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Just deleted my TikTok account.
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You can click through to settings and delete your account WITHOUT accepting the new TOS.
Please note that if you open TikTok on a web browser, it will ask you to accept a new TOS.
DO NOT ACCEPT THE TOS!
You can click through to settings and delete your account WITHOUT accepting the new TOS.
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"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs."
Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
January 29, 2026 at 5:55 PM
"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs."
Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
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no fan of jeffries, but holy shit is this article misleading. in the press briefing he calls for "a prohibition that DHS cannot *detain* or deport American citizens", and his focus throughout the briefing is on the detainment part
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Jeffries demands ban on deportation of US citizens as part of DHS reforms
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation fun…
www.kget.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:34 AM
no fan of jeffries, but holy shit is this article misleading. in the press briefing he calls for "a prohibition that DHS cannot *detain* or deport American citizens", and his focus throughout the briefing is on the detainment part
Never fails to crack me up that the algorithm can't pin down who/what I'm interested in because I like such a random and eclectic plethora of stuff and things. It does, however, mean I get to add more varieties of stuff and things by wandering down rabbitholes, which serves to confound it even more
January 29, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Never fails to crack me up that the algorithm can't pin down who/what I'm interested in because I like such a random and eclectic plethora of stuff and things. It does, however, mean I get to add more varieties of stuff and things by wandering down rabbitholes, which serves to confound it even more
TWO DAYS LEFT! I'll be picking the new home for Frenchie on Sunday evening, after I see Return of the King :D Support the amazing work that the Good Law Project is doing and have a new friend with knives in his feet! #OFMD
🎺MUPPET RAFFLE TIME🎺
Since he has now been glowed up to the max, Frenchie is looking for a new home and it could be you 🫵
All details are in the piccies below/alt text ❤️
#OFMD #ourflagmeansmuppets
Since he has now been glowed up to the max, Frenchie is looking for a new home and it could be you 🫵
All details are in the piccies below/alt text ❤️
#OFMD #ourflagmeansmuppets
January 29, 2026 at 8:35 PM
TWO DAYS LEFT! I'll be picking the new home for Frenchie on Sunday evening, after I see Return of the King :D Support the amazing work that the Good Law Project is doing and have a new friend with knives in his feet! #OFMD
I'd like to offer a couple of my ladies :) Possibly as a pair, because do not separate the chaos lesbians
#OFMD#FandomMarket
#OFMD#FandomMarket
January 29, 2026 at 6:28 PM
I'd like to offer a couple of my ladies :) Possibly as a pair, because do not separate the chaos lesbians
#OFMD#FandomMarket
#OFMD#FandomMarket
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For YEARS we were told we couldn’t believe the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers. They were, we were told, “Hamas numbers.” Now, lo and behold.
The truth is they are *conservative* estimates and everyone knows it.
The truth is they are *conservative* estimates and everyone knows it.
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:37 PM
For YEARS we were told we couldn’t believe the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers. They were, we were told, “Hamas numbers.” Now, lo and behold.
The truth is they are *conservative* estimates and everyone knows it.
The truth is they are *conservative* estimates and everyone knows it.
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I am amazed that this company does not fall under exclusions under the National Security Act - particularly as it is domiciled in a hostile nation and directly lobbied Starmer.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
MPs question UK Palantir contracts after investigation reveals security concerns
Journalists find Swiss government rejected company over fears US intelligence might gain access to sensitive data
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I am amazed that this company does not fall under exclusions under the National Security Act - particularly as it is domiciled in a hostile nation and directly lobbied Starmer.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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"The idea that trans inclusion at the ponds is somehow imposed against the wishes of users simply does not survive contact with reality. Londoners have looked at the evidence... and overwhelmingly said: this works, this is fair, and this reflects our values."
celord.com/2026/01/29/h...
celord.com/2026/01/29/h...
January 29, 2026 at 2:58 PM
"The idea that trans inclusion at the ponds is somehow imposed against the wishes of users simply does not survive contact with reality. Londoners have looked at the evidence... and overwhelmingly said: this works, this is fair, and this reflects our values."
celord.com/2026/01/29/h...
celord.com/2026/01/29/h...
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The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software.
Palantir’s founder openly despises the NHS.
You can push back – use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir
https://goodlaw.social/658abc
Palantir’s founder openly despises the NHS.
You can push back – use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir
https://goodlaw.social/658abc
Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
goodlaw.social
December 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software.
Palantir’s founder openly despises the NHS.
You can push back – use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir
https://goodlaw.social/658abc
Palantir’s founder openly despises the NHS.
You can push back – use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir
https://goodlaw.social/658abc
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UK anti-trans journalism is the twisted baby of UK anti-vax journalism and UK anti-gay journalism, with a sprinkling of tactics from UK anti-immigrant and UK anti-traveller journalism
I wasn't aware the anti-vax stuff originated in the UK till I saw hbomberguy's big video on it, and man was I getting constant deja vu with how the UK media reported on the anti-vax nonsense and how they report on trans people. Uncritically pushing junk science to harm people.
January 29, 2026 at 8:06 AM
UK anti-trans journalism is the twisted baby of UK anti-vax journalism and UK anti-gay journalism, with a sprinkling of tactics from UK anti-immigrant and UK anti-traveller journalism
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I have met many women who use the pool and hoped this would be the result - enjoy your swim
January 29, 2026 at 1:18 PM
I have met many women who use the pool and hoped this would be the result - enjoy your swim
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With all the things Esther says it always feels like she sees getting murdered as a trans girl going outside as a natural normal expected thing there’s never any talk of preventing death by preventing the killers its all on the victim
“leading her to take risks with her personal safety“ what risks for her personal safety??? Being trans??? Being trans and going outside in the park to meet peers from school????
okay I'm sorry but I fundamentally do not see how this is anything other than victim-blaming Brianna??
Brianna met her killers, one of whom was a friend, in broad daylight. How is that some kind of online-influenced risk-taking?? They could have been meeting up to go to the cinema
Brianna met her killers, one of whom was a friend, in broad daylight. How is that some kind of online-influenced risk-taking?? They could have been meeting up to go to the cinema
January 29, 2026 at 11:38 AM
With all the things Esther says it always feels like she sees getting murdered as a trans girl going outside as a natural normal expected thing there’s never any talk of preventing death by preventing the killers its all on the victim
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Our Flag Means Death Crew watching Heated Rivalry Loons discover HBO Max streaming numbers aren't adding up
January 29, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Our Flag Means Death Crew watching Heated Rivalry Loons discover HBO Max streaming numbers aren't adding up