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Baby octopus
@mancalledhorse.bsky.social
Cats! feed enjoyer. Distributor of likes.

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Judy Blume, renowned writer of children's, young adult, and adult fiction.

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Judy!
Born February 12, 1938

📷Jeffery Salter/The Guardian
February 12, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Christina Ricci rides in the 1997 drama The Ice Storm

#BicycleBirthday
Born on this day, February 12, 1980
February 12, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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#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
February 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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#48: Miserable
February 6, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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I have also gigged in a Working Man's Club.
February 12, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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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.
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...
February 12, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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Early resistance matters.
February 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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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.
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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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.
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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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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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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February 12, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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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
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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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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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
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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February 12, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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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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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).
February 12, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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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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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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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.
“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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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
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
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