Gwenfar
@gwenfar.bsky.social
Plants. Cats. ME/CFS. Also, Paleobotany, dinosaurs & earth sciences. #MedievalHistory #Disabled #FreePalestine #TransPeoplesRights #Anarchist They/them. Wales/Penarth. #GardeningWithME #GreenParty
Also on Mastodon @GwenfarsGarden@rage.love
Also on Mastodon @GwenfarsGarden@rage.love
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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
#Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
"Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism"
There are alternatives, Ie. ghost.org
Using Substack means you are giving money to Nazis
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
"Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism"
There are alternatives, Ie. ghost.org
Using Substack means you are giving money to Nazis
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The creator of a very popular ME/CFS awareness image has taken feedback on board and updated it
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfsAwareness
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#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfsAwareness
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February 13, 2026 at 11:12 PM
The creator of a very popular ME/CFS awareness image has taken feedback on board and updated it
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfsAwareness
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#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfsAwareness
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I want to spend more time writing about the amazing fossil discoveries paleontologists are unveiling each week. So I've started a newsletter!
You can subscribe, and read the first post, right here. Welcome to The Boneyard. 🦴
You can subscribe, and read the first post, right here. Welcome to The Boneyard. 🦴
Back to the Dinosaur Den
It’s always a pleasure to meet a stegosaur, like this friend outside the Dinosaur National Monument visitor center. I felt so small next to the reptiles. Not...
buttondown.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I want to spend more time writing about the amazing fossil discoveries paleontologists are unveiling each week. So I've started a newsletter!
You can subscribe, and read the first post, right here. Welcome to The Boneyard. 🦴
You can subscribe, and read the first post, right here. Welcome to The Boneyard. 🦴
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Pitcher plant dragon…
February 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Pitcher plant dragon…
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210 responses, 3 provider surveys filled out! If you are a medical or healthcare provider or researcher and have worked with ME/CFS patients/participants, please consider taking this short open-ended survey!
Hi everyone, I wanted to share a research study I just launched on rest, energy, & ME/CFS, open to people with ME/CFS & medical or healthcare providers who are currently practicing or conducting research & have had at least 1 patient or participant with ME/CFS. Visit restandmecfs.com for more.
February 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
210 responses, 3 provider surveys filled out! If you are a medical or healthcare provider or researcher and have worked with ME/CFS patients/participants, please consider taking this short open-ended survey!
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Hi everyone. As you know, I am our trans rights lead at Good Law Project. I have been working alongside a fantastic team on our challenge since May last year. But whilst what we have achieved is significant - there is still a lot further to go.
If you can, please donate and help us keep fighting.
If you can, please donate and help us keep fighting.
Help us appeal the High Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
goodlawproject.org
February 13, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Hi everyone. As you know, I am our trans rights lead at Good Law Project. I have been working alongside a fantastic team on our challenge since May last year. But whilst what we have achieved is significant - there is still a lot further to go.
If you can, please donate and help us keep fighting.
If you can, please donate and help us keep fighting.
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you know, feminists have been talking about how much of the current fascist backlash is fundamentally an antifeminist backlash that wants to reverse all still very limited gains against patriarchy made in the last few decades and he’s just saying it out loud
Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
you know, feminists have been talking about how much of the current fascist backlash is fundamentally an antifeminist backlash that wants to reverse all still very limited gains against patriarchy made in the last few decades and he’s just saying it out loud
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Also, worth stressing, the Proscription order remains in effect pending appeal. Expressions of support remain unlawful.
February 13, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Also, worth stressing, the Proscription order remains in effect pending appeal. Expressions of support remain unlawful.
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Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records.
Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'.
Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'.
Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 13, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records.
Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'.
Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'.
Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
So the @greenparty.org.uk policy that we tax the rich, is not so pie in the sky after all. How surprising; not.
#TaxTheRich #WealthTax
#TaxTheRich #WealthTax
Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated.
The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...
(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...
(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
Seattle’s millionaire tax is a huge success. Here is how grassroots groups beat big money and are now raising tons of money for mixed income, rent stabilized housing. (We call it “social housing.”)
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
February 13, 2026 at 10:30 AM
So the @greenparty.org.uk policy that we tax the rich, is not so pie in the sky after all. How surprising; not.
#TaxTheRich #WealthTax
#TaxTheRich #WealthTax
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“Palestine Action is the first civil disobedience organisation that does not advocate for violence to be proscribed by the British Government as a ‘terrorist’ group, in a Trumpian abuse of power which would have seen this Labour Government proscribe the Suffragettes": Ammori.
February 13, 2026 at 10:20 AM
“Palestine Action is the first civil disobedience organisation that does not advocate for violence to be proscribed by the British Government as a ‘terrorist’ group, in a Trumpian abuse of power which would have seen this Labour Government proscribe the Suffragettes": Ammori.
Does this mean the people in prison awaiting trial, can be released. And anyone arrested, their records given a clean slate?
Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
February 13, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Does this mean the people in prison awaiting trial, can be released. And anyone arrested, their records given a clean slate?
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Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
February 13, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
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Labour’s vote is collapsing everywhere.
In Peterborough last night, as in Gorton and Denton, voting Green is the only way to stop Reform.
In Peterborough last night, as in Gorton and Denton, voting Green is the only way to stop Reform.
Fletton & Woodston (Peterborough) Council By-Election Result:
➡️ RFM: 29.4% (New)
🌍 GRN: 27.6% (+16.2)
🌳 CON: 21.8% (-11.8)
🌹 LAB: 16.8% (-31.2)
🔶 LDM: 4.4% (-0.7)
No TUSC (-1.9) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2024.
➡️ RFM: 29.4% (New)
🌍 GRN: 27.6% (+16.2)
🌳 CON: 21.8% (-11.8)
🌹 LAB: 16.8% (-31.2)
🔶 LDM: 4.4% (-0.7)
No TUSC (-1.9) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2024.
February 13, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Labour’s vote is collapsing everywhere.
In Peterborough last night, as in Gorton and Denton, voting Green is the only way to stop Reform.
In Peterborough last night, as in Gorton and Denton, voting Green is the only way to stop Reform.
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The High Court ruling that the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful raises huge questions regarding Home Office decision-making processes. Obviously, this will be appealed. But the significant chilling effect the unlawful proscription has had on freedom of expression cannot be overstated.
February 13, 2026 at 10:11 AM
The High Court ruling that the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful raises huge questions regarding Home Office decision-making processes. Obviously, this will be appealed. But the significant chilling effect the unlawful proscription has had on freedom of expression cannot be overstated.
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Oops I accidentally spent three hours making a powerpoint presentation on phylogenetics and legless gecko diversity/appreciation.
Look at how cute Aprasia inaurita is!
📷 Nick Volpe @nvolpe.bsky.social
Look at how cute Aprasia inaurita is!
📷 Nick Volpe @nvolpe.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Oops I accidentally spent three hours making a powerpoint presentation on phylogenetics and legless gecko diversity/appreciation.
Look at how cute Aprasia inaurita is!
📷 Nick Volpe @nvolpe.bsky.social
Look at how cute Aprasia inaurita is!
📷 Nick Volpe @nvolpe.bsky.social
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Late #Cretaceous Winton Formation, #Australia. A huge Australotitan cooperensis ploughs ahead, paying no heed to bothersome #pterosaurs (Ferrodraco lentoni) or a puny Australovenator wintonensis. A group of Diamantinasaurus matildae observe the commotion from a distance. #dinosaur #paleoart #sciart
February 9, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Late #Cretaceous Winton Formation, #Australia. A huge Australotitan cooperensis ploughs ahead, paying no heed to bothersome #pterosaurs (Ferrodraco lentoni) or a puny Australovenator wintonensis. A group of Diamantinasaurus matildae observe the commotion from a distance. #dinosaur #paleoart #sciart
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![Kate Richerson @kate_richerson • Jun 9
I just learned there's a fish with the latin name Boops boops, so "Boops boops boops Boops boops" could conceivably be a sentence right?
[doodle of two fish touching noses on a post-it note with the word “boop” above them. “Boops boops
boops Boops boops” is handwritten near them]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ua4y7ly7p2scvftkutgpusyx/bafkreiah3bfywgziatcptyhpkihcu2yunfhyzaprpp7zo34c3k7tvp6ks4@jpeg)
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The Disabled Persons Railcard gives 1/3 off rail fares across Britain for the cardholder & one accompanying adult, if you are in receipt of e.g. PIP or DLA. From 1 March additional people can apply: those who can demonstrate need through existing documentation e.g. Blue Badge.
tinyurl.com/347743be
tinyurl.com/347743be
Rail industry announces expansion of the application process for the
tinyurl.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:12 PM
The Disabled Persons Railcard gives 1/3 off rail fares across Britain for the cardholder & one accompanying adult, if you are in receipt of e.g. PIP or DLA. From 1 March additional people can apply: those who can demonstrate need through existing documentation e.g. Blue Badge.
tinyurl.com/347743be
tinyurl.com/347743be
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A curious little velociraptor sculpture is ready for this next update! It’ll be available Friday, February 20th at 8pm Eastern time.
February 11, 2026 at 5:29 PM
A curious little velociraptor sculpture is ready for this next update! It’ll be available Friday, February 20th at 8pm Eastern time.
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If you’re not sold on When the Earth Was Green, you can check out at sample at Smithsonian all about the goopiest time in Earth’s history. 🦟
How a Fragile Insect Living 100 Million Years Ago Becomes a Fossil
A bug, a dinosaur and a tree intersect, creating the perfect conditions for resin to capture a moment in time
www.smithsonianmag.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:58 PM
If you’re not sold on When the Earth Was Green, you can check out at sample at Smithsonian all about the goopiest time in Earth’s history. 🦟
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No, your artificial lawn is not a "life hack". It's another tiny nail in the planet's coffin.
February 2, 2026 at 8:33 AM
No, your artificial lawn is not a "life hack". It's another tiny nail in the planet's coffin.
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Under Starmer, recognised refugees can no longer reunite with their children.
Recognised refugees.
Denied the right to reunite with their children.
It’s diabolical. Worse than anything the Tories did. & no, the racists are not & never will be satisfied.
So yes, he’s hated.
Recognised refugees.
Denied the right to reunite with their children.
It’s diabolical. Worse than anything the Tories did. & no, the racists are not & never will be satisfied.
So yes, he’s hated.
What these “but why do people hate Starmer SO MUCH” takes come down to is so shallow.
Starmer doesn’t sound or look like a firebrand so what’s the big deal?
Immune to questions of SUBSTANCE - he’s liar, enabled a genocide, pandered to anti-migrant politics & global Fascism.
Starmer doesn’t sound or look like a firebrand so what’s the big deal?
Immune to questions of SUBSTANCE - he’s liar, enabled a genocide, pandered to anti-migrant politics & global Fascism.
February 11, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Under Starmer, recognised refugees can no longer reunite with their children.
Recognised refugees.
Denied the right to reunite with their children.
It’s diabolical. Worse than anything the Tories did. & no, the racists are not & never will be satisfied.
So yes, he’s hated.
Recognised refugees.
Denied the right to reunite with their children.
It’s diabolical. Worse than anything the Tories did. & no, the racists are not & never will be satisfied.
So yes, he’s hated.
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Bringing this back up for the International Day of Women in Science, and yes, I consider scientific art, as part of scientific process and communication 🫰
February 11, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Bringing this back up for the International Day of Women in Science, and yes, I consider scientific art, as part of scientific process and communication 🫰
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Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-) is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but not to her - the prize was awarded to her (male) supervisor. #CelebratingWomen
February 10, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-) is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but not to her - the prize was awarded to her (male) supervisor. #CelebratingWomen
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The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 10:22 AM
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...