Fred
@fredsl.bsky.social
he/him
Queer, Quaker, trans, bi, polyamorous optimist. Swimming & cycling & birdwatching & sewing & folk fiddle & SFF &...
Queer, Quaker, trans, bi, polyamorous optimist. Swimming & cycling & birdwatching & sewing & folk fiddle & SFF &...
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I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
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Could you help us promote peace and nonviolent conflict resolution throughout British schools?
We are looking for an experienced educator to support and develop our peer mediation work.
The deadline is Thursday 20 November. To read the full job advert and apply, visit our website:
We are looking for an experienced educator to support and develop our peer mediation work.
The deadline is Thursday 20 November. To read the full job advert and apply, visit our website:
Quakers in Britain: Job opportunities
Find a range of jobs with Quakers in Britain. With a 1:4 ratio between our highest and our lowest paid staff, we are a Living Wage employer.
www.quaker.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Could you help us promote peace and nonviolent conflict resolution throughout British schools?
We are looking for an experienced educator to support and develop our peer mediation work.
The deadline is Thursday 20 November. To read the full job advert and apply, visit our website:
We are looking for an experienced educator to support and develop our peer mediation work.
The deadline is Thursday 20 November. To read the full job advert and apply, visit our website:
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We’re hearing that EHRC’s updated Code is now with the Minister for Equalities.
Now, more than ever, it’s critical to write to your MP to get them to pressure her for a debate & vote in Parliament, not for this Code to become statutory automatically.
Please do write; template letter linked below 🙏
Now, more than ever, it’s critical to write to your MP to get them to pressure her for a debate & vote in Parliament, not for this Code to become statutory automatically.
Please do write; template letter linked below 🙏
Success! We delivered our joint letter demanding full scrutiny, meaningful debate & a free vote for MPs on the new Code of Practice.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/02/e...
Many MPs we’ve spoken to are now ready to help.
❗️BUT they’ve advised that they need you—as constituents—to keep writing in❗️
1/2
www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/02/e...
Many MPs we’ve spoken to are now ready to help.
❗️BUT they’ve advised that they need you—as constituents—to keep writing in❗️
1/2
September 5, 2025 at 6:44 AM
We’re hearing that EHRC’s updated Code is now with the Minister for Equalities.
Now, more than ever, it’s critical to write to your MP to get them to pressure her for a debate & vote in Parliament, not for this Code to become statutory automatically.
Please do write; template letter linked below 🙏
Now, more than ever, it’s critical to write to your MP to get them to pressure her for a debate & vote in Parliament, not for this Code to become statutory automatically.
Please do write; template letter linked below 🙏
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For ways to find patterns, The Foldline is an indie pattern aggregator shop, good for browsing: thefoldline.com And for reviews / project logs, Patternreview.com is old-school and Threadloop.app is modern / indie stuff - useful to see what pattern users liked.
The Fold Line | Online Sewing Pattern Shop
Shop the largest collection of independent sewing patterns in the world. Find the perfect dressmaking pattern for your next making adventure.
thefoldline.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
For ways to find patterns, The Foldline is an indie pattern aggregator shop, good for browsing: thefoldline.com And for reviews / project logs, Patternreview.com is old-school and Threadloop.app is modern / indie stuff - useful to see what pattern users liked.
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So, straightway, the brave little feller,
Not showing a morsel of fear,
Took his stick with the horse's head handle
And shoved it in the raven's ear.
You could see that the raven didn't like it,
For giving a kind of a caw,
He pulled Albert inside the cage with him
And quothed, 'Do that nevermore!"
Not showing a morsel of fear,
Took his stick with the horse's head handle
And shoved it in the raven's ear.
You could see that the raven didn't like it,
For giving a kind of a caw,
He pulled Albert inside the cage with him
And quothed, 'Do that nevermore!"
April 16, 2024 at 2:53 PM
So, straightway, the brave little feller,
Not showing a morsel of fear,
Took his stick with the horse's head handle
And shoved it in the raven's ear.
You could see that the raven didn't like it,
For giving a kind of a caw,
He pulled Albert inside the cage with him
And quothed, 'Do that nevermore!"
Not showing a morsel of fear,
Took his stick with the horse's head handle
And shoved it in the raven's ear.
You could see that the raven didn't like it,
For giving a kind of a caw,
He pulled Albert inside the cage with him
And quothed, 'Do that nevermore!"
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In honour of realising it's thirty years since I came out as bisexual, I used my 'Ugly Zines' class to make this advice to my 14 year old self 1/2
August 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
In honour of realising it's thirty years since I came out as bisexual, I used my 'Ugly Zines' class to make this advice to my 14 year old self 1/2
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It's the year 2025 and I'm so tired of having to say:
- immigration is good
- racism is bad
- bodily autonomy is good
- policing bodies is bad
- consent is good
- overriding or ignoring consent is bad
Why are so many people determined to ignore these demonstrable facts?
- immigration is good
- racism is bad
- bodily autonomy is good
- policing bodies is bad
- consent is good
- overriding or ignoring consent is bad
Why are so many people determined to ignore these demonstrable facts?
August 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
It's the year 2025 and I'm so tired of having to say:
- immigration is good
- racism is bad
- bodily autonomy is good
- policing bodies is bad
- consent is good
- overriding or ignoring consent is bad
Why are so many people determined to ignore these demonstrable facts?
- immigration is good
- racism is bad
- bodily autonomy is good
- policing bodies is bad
- consent is good
- overriding or ignoring consent is bad
Why are so many people determined to ignore these demonstrable facts?
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This letter is specifically about toilet provisions at Friends House which is
a. Directly opposite Euston Station
b. Has a cafe
c. Would be delighted to provide you with a coffee and gender-affirming facilities, regardless of your religious beliefs.
a. Directly opposite Euston Station
b. Has a cafe
c. Would be delighted to provide you with a coffee and gender-affirming facilities, regardless of your religious beliefs.
August 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This letter is specifically about toilet provisions at Friends House which is
a. Directly opposite Euston Station
b. Has a cafe
c. Would be delighted to provide you with a coffee and gender-affirming facilities, regardless of your religious beliefs.
a. Directly opposite Euston Station
b. Has a cafe
c. Would be delighted to provide you with a coffee and gender-affirming facilities, regardless of your religious beliefs.
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On Tuesday 26th August tear gas canisters were fired near Ramallah Friends School and a parent was fired on by a sniper while trying to reach the school gates.
Nobody at the school was injured but the children were left shaken and their families anxious.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Nobody at the school was injured but the children were left shaken and their families anxious.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn dangerous Ramallah Friends School incursion
On Tuesday, 26 August, the Israeli army carried out a dangerous incursion outside the gates of the Quaker Ramallah Friends School in the occupied West Bank.
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
On Tuesday 26th August tear gas canisters were fired near Ramallah Friends School and a parent was fired on by a sniper while trying to reach the school gates.
Nobody at the school was injured but the children were left shaken and their families anxious.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Nobody at the school was injured but the children were left shaken and their families anxious.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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We are filled with anguish to see human beings seeking refuge facing the threat of further violence and intimidation.
Too many politicians are fanning the flames of division when they should be voices for peace.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Too many politicians are fanning the flames of division when they should be voices for peace.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quaker statement on asylum seeker harassment
One year on from the riots in the summer of 2024, we are filled with anguish to see human beings seeking refuge in our nation facing the threat of further violence and intimidation. As our book of tea...
www.quaker.org.uk
August 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We are filled with anguish to see human beings seeking refuge facing the threat of further violence and intimidation.
Too many politicians are fanning the flames of division when they should be voices for peace.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Too many politicians are fanning the flames of division when they should be voices for peace.
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Oh hey who wants a retelling of Sherlock Holmes where Holmes is an abrasive female scholar and Watson is a traumatized sentient spaceship who ekes out a living by making space tea?
Nebula Award Winning book right here, and on sale!
Nebula Award Winning book right here, and on sale!
THE TEA MASTER AND THE DETECTIVE by @aliettedebodard.com is currently on sale via Kobo! Discounted in North America, the UK, and Australia & New Zealand!
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Part of the author's acclaimed, award-winning Xuya Universe. Published by @awfulagent.bsky.social.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Part of the author's acclaimed, award-winning Xuya Universe. Published by @awfulagent.bsky.social.
The Tea Master and the Detective ebook by Aliette de Bodard - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Tea Master and the Detective" by Aliette de Bodard available from Rakuten Kobo. Winner of the Nebula Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Novella
Finalist for the Hugo Award, Locus Award...
www.kobo.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Oh hey who wants a retelling of Sherlock Holmes where Holmes is an abrasive female scholar and Watson is a traumatized sentient spaceship who ekes out a living by making space tea?
Nebula Award Winning book right here, and on sale!
Nebula Award Winning book right here, and on sale!
I am very much looking forward to reading this, by the author of the excellent Our Child of the Stars and its sequel.
The fantastic cover of The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder! Preorders open!
I have a deep dive on getting this cover on website
#booksky #mystery #spooky #sapphic #Victorian #murder #womensleuths #indieauthor #books #reading #amreading
stephencox.co.uk/yes-judge-a-...
I have a deep dive on getting this cover on website
#booksky #mystery #spooky #sapphic #Victorian #murder #womensleuths #indieauthor #books #reading #amreading
stephencox.co.uk/yes-judge-a-...
August 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I am very much looking forward to reading this, by the author of the excellent Our Child of the Stars and its sequel.
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But so many of the things I do with my husband - eating out, cinema, theatre, watching Leyton Orient, cycling and walking in the Peak District, birdwatching, driving for more than a couple of hours - depend on there being legally-usable toilet facilities for both of us.
August 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
But so many of the things I do with my husband - eating out, cinema, theatre, watching Leyton Orient, cycling and walking in the Peak District, birdwatching, driving for more than a couple of hours - depend on there being legally-usable toilet facilities for both of us.
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Question for my fellow cis friends: if this comes in, are you going to feel OK using spaces and facilities that trans people are banned from? Because I'm not.
🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
August 8, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Question for my fellow cis friends: if this comes in, are you going to feel OK using spaces and facilities that trans people are banned from? Because I'm not.
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Oh you wanna check my driving licence? It says 'male' on it. You wanna check my passport? It says 'male' on it. You wanna check my birth certificate? It says 'male' on it. You wanna summon a gender prophet to read my soul? Sucks to be you, because that also says 'male' on it.
August 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Oh you wanna check my driving licence? It says 'male' on it. You wanna check my passport? It says 'male' on it. You wanna check my birth certificate? It says 'male' on it. You wanna summon a gender prophet to read my soul? Sucks to be you, because that also says 'male' on it.
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Once "future fair for all" and now "we revel in punishing our most vulnerable minorities"
Fuck them
Fuck them
🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
August 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Once "future fair for all" and now "we revel in punishing our most vulnerable minorities"
Fuck them
Fuck them
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People desperately need to be listened to. We have life-changing experiences, and we don’t know how to metabolize them. We also desperately need to hear each other, because the doubts and fears that make us feel alone are often actually shared.
Emily Provance – Swarthmore Lecture 2025
Emily Provance – Swarthmore Lecture 2025
July 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
People desperately need to be listened to. We have life-changing experiences, and we don’t know how to metabolize them. We also desperately need to hear each other, because the doubts and fears that make us feel alone are often actually shared.
Emily Provance – Swarthmore Lecture 2025
Emily Provance – Swarthmore Lecture 2025
Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books:
Arthur Ransome
C.S. Lewis
Terry Pratchett
Lindsey Davis
Robin Hobb
John Steinbeck
Paula Danziger
Ellis Peters
Patrick O'Brien
L.M. Montgomery
Arthur Ransome
C.S. Lewis
Terry Pratchett
Lindsey Davis
Robin Hobb
John Steinbeck
Paula Danziger
Ellis Peters
Patrick O'Brien
L.M. Montgomery
Ten writers by whom I’ve read more than five books:
Terrance Dicks
John Wagner
Agatha Christie
John Christopher
Ben Aaronovitch
Stephen Donaldson
Paul Cornell
Susan Cooper
JP Martin
Nicholas Fisk
Terrance Dicks
John Wagner
Agatha Christie
John Christopher
Ben Aaronovitch
Stephen Donaldson
Paul Cornell
Susan Cooper
JP Martin
Nicholas Fisk
Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books:
Terrance Dicks
Iain Banks
Christopher Fowler
Lisa Jewell
Paul Magrs
Tim Lott
Magnus Mills
Adam Alexander
Armistead Maupin
Roger Hargreaves
Terrance Dicks
Iain Banks
Christopher Fowler
Lisa Jewell
Paul Magrs
Tim Lott
Magnus Mills
Adam Alexander
Armistead Maupin
Roger Hargreaves
July 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books:
Arthur Ransome
C.S. Lewis
Terry Pratchett
Lindsey Davis
Robin Hobb
John Steinbeck
Paula Danziger
Ellis Peters
Patrick O'Brien
L.M. Montgomery
Arthur Ransome
C.S. Lewis
Terry Pratchett
Lindsey Davis
Robin Hobb
John Steinbeck
Paula Danziger
Ellis Peters
Patrick O'Brien
L.M. Montgomery
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[OLIVER CROMWELL]
How does a nepo baby son of a lord and a
Yorkshireman dropped in the middle of a civil
war that's not civil, crown fighting town, brother fighting brother
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar
[THOMAS FAIRFAX]
Sir Thomas Fairfax
My name is Sir Thomas Fairfax...
(Sorry not sorry)
How does a nepo baby son of a lord and a
Yorkshireman dropped in the middle of a civil
war that's not civil, crown fighting town, brother fighting brother
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar
[THOMAS FAIRFAX]
Sir Thomas Fairfax
My name is Sir Thomas Fairfax...
(Sorry not sorry)
June 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
[OLIVER CROMWELL]
How does a nepo baby son of a lord and a
Yorkshireman dropped in the middle of a civil
war that's not civil, crown fighting town, brother fighting brother
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar
[THOMAS FAIRFAX]
Sir Thomas Fairfax
My name is Sir Thomas Fairfax...
(Sorry not sorry)
How does a nepo baby son of a lord and a
Yorkshireman dropped in the middle of a civil
war that's not civil, crown fighting town, brother fighting brother
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar
[THOMAS FAIRFAX]
Sir Thomas Fairfax
My name is Sir Thomas Fairfax...
(Sorry not sorry)
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Reposting my call for participants for my PhD project!
#Nonbinary, aged 15+ and live, or have lived, in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)?
Does what you wear help create your identity? How do clothes matter to non-binary people? How do *you* dress 'authentically'?
I want to hear from you!
#Nonbinary, aged 15+ and live, or have lived, in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)?
Does what you wear help create your identity? How do clothes matter to non-binary people? How do *you* dress 'authentically'?
I want to hear from you!
My PhD research questionnaire is now live!
forms.gle/HEPBswqzswGi...
Looking for those who:
1. identify as #nonbinary in the broadest sense
2. live or have lived in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)
3. aged 15+ (adult consent required to participate)
Open until 23/09/2025.
More info below! 👇
forms.gle/HEPBswqzswGi...
Looking for those who:
1. identify as #nonbinary in the broadest sense
2. live or have lived in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)
3. aged 15+ (adult consent required to participate)
Open until 23/09/2025.
More info below! 👇
Research Questionnaire: Non-binary Finery
You are being asked to take part in a questionnaire as part of the following doctoral research project at University for the Creative Arts (UCA): Non-binary Finery: Dress, adornment, and the embodimen...
forms.gle
June 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Reposting my call for participants for my PhD project!
#Nonbinary, aged 15+ and live, or have lived, in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)?
Does what you wear help create your identity? How do clothes matter to non-binary people? How do *you* dress 'authentically'?
I want to hear from you!
#Nonbinary, aged 15+ and live, or have lived, in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)?
Does what you wear help create your identity? How do clothes matter to non-binary people? How do *you* dress 'authentically'?
I want to hear from you!
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🚨 WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT
Standing up to power is difficult and expensive
To get this case off the ground, we need to show the EHRC that we are ready to take it all the way
Please support our case by donating today: www.crowdjustice.com/case/legal-a...
Standing up to power is difficult and expensive
To get this case off the ground, we need to show the EHRC that we are ready to take it all the way
Please support our case by donating today: www.crowdjustice.com/case/legal-a...
We Are Taking Legal Action Against the EHRC
Liberty challenges injustice defends freedom and campaigns to make sure everyone in the UK is treated fairly.
www.crowdjustice.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🚨 WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT
Standing up to power is difficult and expensive
To get this case off the ground, we need to show the EHRC that we are ready to take it all the way
Please support our case by donating today: www.crowdjustice.com/case/legal-a...
Standing up to power is difficult and expensive
To get this case off the ground, we need to show the EHRC that we are ready to take it all the way
Please support our case by donating today: www.crowdjustice.com/case/legal-a...
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Song, Stone, Scale, Bone is still out in ebook & paperback if you’re looking for a weekend read (books2read.com/Song-Stone-S... ) & here’s a quick character thread…
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Wiz Duos - Book 2 by Juliet Kemp, E M Faulds
books2read.com
May 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Song, Stone, Scale, Bone is still out in ebook & paperback if you’re looking for a weekend read (books2read.com/Song-Stone-S... ) & here’s a quick character thread…
My wonderful spouse's wonderful filk, with spoilers for Doctor Who and acknowledgements to 'Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812'
🎵"There's a World being Wished out there somewhere,
And Doctor Who's not here.
There's a World being Wished out there somewhere,
And Doctor Who's not here." #DoctorWho
And Doctor Who's not here.
There's a World being Wished out there somewhere,
And Doctor Who's not here." #DoctorWho
May 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
My wonderful spouse's wonderful filk, with spoilers for Doctor Who and acknowledgements to 'Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812'
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The man remains truly excellent and this is going to be amazing
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-...
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-...
Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and nonbinary production of Twelfth Night
Director Phoebe Kemp said: "Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us"
www.attitude.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The man remains truly excellent and this is going to be amazing
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-...
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-...