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Baby octopus
@mancalledhorse.bsky.social
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mancalledhorse.bsky.social
Baby octopus @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · Jan 6
If I've liked your hilarious meme or beautiful picture but not reposted it, it might be because you didn't include alt text
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coolbikeart1.bsky.social
Judy Blume, renowned writer of children's, young adult, and adult fiction.

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Judy!
Born February 12, 1938

📷Jeffery Salter/The Guardian
Writer Judy Blume poses on a multi-colored bike with a large plastic crate on the rear rack.
February 12, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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coolbikeart1.bsky.social
Christina Ricci rides in the 1997 drama The Ice Storm

#BicycleBirthday
Born on this day, February 12, 1980
A girl wearing a red poncho rides a bike on a wooded road.
February 12, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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parsingphase.dev
#DailyBird 🤖
Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos), 8th May 2024
es: Sinsonte Norteño, fr: Moqueur Polyglotte
Prime Hook NWR, Broadkill Hundred, Delaware
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 941mm, 40% crop, 1/400s, f/13, ISO 1250
#Birds #NorthernMockingbird #NOMO
A pale brown songbird stands on the sloping, lichen-covered wood of an outdoor stair-rail.
February 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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adrianchills.bsky.social
#48: Miserable
A screenshot of a headline to a Guardian column by Adrian Chiles. It reads 'I'm not fooled by the sun poppin ou t - it's the season of miserable greay' I know their game. They think that they can lure me out of my hiding place by pretending that things have gone back to the way they were before. But I’m smarter than that.That’s the reason I’ve been able to survive for this long. Right now there’s a circle of light on the floor of the cave, bright summer light, the way it used to be before The Great Cloud descended and covered the earth in a layer of fog so viscous and thick that it clogged up all the systems of living that we had in place, rendering our civilizations at a single touch devastated. The circle is the first sign of light that I’ve had in seven months, the first suggestion that the nightmare might be over. I know that I can’t trust it. With the fog and the ensuing chaos came The Greys. Indistinct forms, a little larger in size than a man, but with the hunched stature of a vulture, they were natives of the fog, brought with it down from the sunless sky, distributed in their thousands across the country. Like vultures, they were scavengers, falling on the bodies of the dead and dying and hungrily consuming them where they lay, their cries, desolate and mournful, ringing out across the misted earth all day and all night, a maddening cacophony. I have only been able to survive by finding this cave, in the woods close to my home, the depths of which the fog cannot penetrate. I leave for just an hour each day, to gather the remnants of corpses on which to feed. Sometimes, standing by my small fire, cooking a discarded leg or arm, I look at my own shadow on the wall and wonder if I’m any better—or any different—from The Greys themselves. But that way of thinking leads only to madness. They seek me, I know that. Sometimes I hear their conspiratorial mutterings through the murk. The sunlight can only be a trap, a way to tempt me from my cave, bring me out into the open where they can rip my body to shreds. I won’t bite. I turn away from the circle, towards the fire, and try to ignore what might be behind me.
February 6, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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misterabk.bsky.social
I have also gigged in a Working Man's Club.
BBC News headline: I died for 40 minutes - here's what it taught me about life
February 12, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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tomashirstecon.bsky.social
This reads more like he was galaxy braining a list like:

a) Darth Vader
b) [my clearly preferred candidate]
c) Mr Blobby

And the PM still almost went for Vader.
seankemp.bsky.social Sean Kemp @seankemp.bsky.social · 13h
This piece in The Spectator by @shippersunbound.bsky.social has an absolutely mad detail that I was not previously aware of spectator.com/article/auth...
McSweeney pressed for his mentor to get the job. One of the most bizarre shortlists of all time was drawn up: Mandelson, George Osborne and the rugged TV survivalist Bear Grylls, since it was believed he would appeal to Trump, also a star of reality TV. Starmer initially backed Osborne but McSweeney got his way.
February 12, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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cjterry.bsky.social
My lawyers have instructed me not to comment on this story.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reform candidate calls for ‘young girls’ to be given ‘biological reality’ check
Exclusive: Matt Goodwin argued ‘young girls’ should be explained ‘the biological reality’ that ‘many women in Britain are having children much too late in life’
www.independent.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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clairemullaly.bsky.social
Early resistance matters.
February 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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rebelraising.bsky.social
And this is what queer people are colluding with when they describe themselves as "same sex attracted" in order to avoid the trans cooties. Self erasure through colluding with the splitting of the community that gave them their (limited) freedom, tenderising their own faces for the leopards.
sexabolition.blog Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 11h
The exact same reason they've shifted from describing patients as trans, to describing them as gender dysphoria patients, to now describing them as patients experiencing "gender confusion and distress".

There's a concrete known minority human experience right there, that they refuse to acknowledge
February 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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sexabolition.blog
Yeah important point here too that studies of children given puberty blockers for precocious puberty show no indication of increased trans youth or health problems.
lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social LesbianSpaceMerc (Claudia) @lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · 11h
Gosh, I bet if they looked at cis kids on puberty blockers, they could find out if a bunch of them become trans later, and show if blockers are related. It's almost as if…
February 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
cannot believe it still needs to be said: suggesting sex workers should just fuck the misogynists is misogyny. you don’t “manage” male supremacy with sex workers’ lives and labor
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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polphilpod.bsky.social
one of the things i got from diving into the weeds of this debate for my reporting on it was just how small the core 'gender critical' team is

almost all (anti-trans) reporting cites/ quotes the same half-dozen people
February 12, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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okwonga.bsky.social
Complaints that specifically cited problems with the way treatment had been provided constituted around five per cent of all complaints made in that time. They represented 0.06 per cent of the 12,000 service users the clinic was believed to have been treating on average. The journalists noted that the majority of the eight complaints filed were over fears that ongoing treatment for patients could be suddenly rescinded.
February 12, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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nibus.bsky.social
Some key topics covered in @fortrenn.bsky.social's 1949 Gaelic phrasebook
✅️ dirty forrin sandwiches
✅️ the unhelpfulness of moccasins
✅️ gruel/butter etiquette
✅️ gurnet v. dogfish
What the Saxon calls sandwiches are here What kind are they? Hand me over those moccasins They will not help you much They are like a singed cat I shall take a mouthful of hot gruel with butter in it Go to your bed first The gurnet is plentiful to-day It is not so plentiful as the dogfish
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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sexabolition.blog
I feel like a policy change that does a complete u turn on the established care model for a minority of kids resulting in many of them suddenly dying deserves to be taken more seriously but it's really hard to get cis people who don't have a trans relative to give a shit.
February 12, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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somershade.bsky.social
Tech people have a pattern where they stumble up to basically any area of human endeavor and underestimate / misunderstand what is being done so wildly that they immediately start yapping about how whatever new shiny they are trying to sell can totally replace the whole discipline or industry.

1/?
February 12, 2026 at 12:54 PM
mancalledhorse.bsky.social
However she also said, according to that report, that "no teacher should be compelled to use someone’s preferred pronouns in an educational setting" which is her as both the Equalities minister and the English Education Secretary giving the green light to transphobic bullying of kids by teachers
February 12, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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saddestrobots.bsky.social
dril tweet: "see this watch? i got it by Crying. my car? crying. my beautiful wife? Crying. My perfect teeth? Crying. now get the fuck out of my office"
February 12, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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alexblechman.bsky.social
It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift
February 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
This seems as good an excuse as any for a short thread introducing people to some single moths I've found in my area, looking for fun.

1. Here, for starters, is a Canary-Shouldered Thorn Moth (I didn't make this up).
A Canary-Shouldered Thorn Moth
February 12, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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hleehurley.com
Nothing will change until the government stop saying people worrying about immigration have 'legitimate concerns' and they're all out there saying that today as they criticise Ratcliffe for being a racist.

They gave him the permission to say what he said.
February 12, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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mcraeandrew.bsky.social
In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different.
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
www.thepinknews.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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okwonga.bsky.social
If it was a gift to the far-right then the far-right would be boasting about being in the Epstein files. But they aren’t, are they? Because you can’t spin the sexual abuse of children the same way you can spin financial corruption or even genocide. It’s one of the last few “live rails” in politics.
okwonga.bsky.social Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 14h
“The Epstein scandal is a gift to the far-right” - no, this in itself is a far-right talking point; just look at Epstein’s actual politics and look at who his actual friends were. It can’t be a gift to the far-right if it *directly implicates the far-right themselves*.
February 12, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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sexabolition.blog
One of the fun things about a potential D&D boycott re Hasbro buying the Harry Potter contract is that pretty much all the significant influencers/personalities in the D&D space have basically had alternative game systems prepped and published and seeded since a year ago.
February 12, 2026 at 12:16 PM
mancalledhorse.bsky.social
Last chance to respond to Labour's cruel and counterproductive plans to appease Reform, sorry, I mean legitimise racism and xenophobia, sorry, I mean shit all over children who have lived here for years, sorry I mean welcome billionaires but not workers, sorry I mean, tell your nurse to go back home
ruthejbooth.bsky.social Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 15h
Earned settlement relies too heavily on financial contributions at a time when we're all making less, assuming we can even get a job. Help prevent carers, victims of persecution and others from being unfairly pushed out.

www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
February 12, 2026 at 12:23 PM