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Baby octopus
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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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goodlawproject.org
I share this only to help those contemplating whether to tweet "I support Palestine Action".
Ban will stay in place until government decides on appeal Judges Victoria Sharp, Jonathan Swift and Karen Steyn said the ban will remain in place while the government considers whether to appeal.
February 13, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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goodlawproject.org
“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
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netpol.org
May Labour's Yvette Cooper, the former Home Secretary, be remembered always as the politician who imposed the ban at the behest of Britain's powerful weapons industry, so it could continue to profit from the deliberate massacre of the people of Gaza
February 13, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
If you are grandfathered in to Ring you can turn off all the settings for Police and “pet” surveillance permissions, which are of course default on. Control Center —> public safety and Control Center —> Search Party (this is the one from the Super Bowl ad)
fraying.bsky.social Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 13h
Ring has done this before. They partner with cops, get backlash, withdraw a bit, wait for it to calm down, and then go right back to working with cops. Don't believe this spin.
www.theverge.com/news/878447/...
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
www.theverge.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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kathyodonnell.bsky.social
www.thenational.scot/news/2585008...

Let's be more understanding of the poor guy. I hate him being PM, too.
Keir Starmer 'spends his weekend complaining he hates being Prime Minister'
KEIR Starmer spends his weekends “complaining” about how much he “hates” being Prime Minister, reports say, as his Government faces…
www.thenational.scot
February 13, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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planningtransport.co.uk
Labour did a Section 28 and who the hell was it for? If it was to appease bigots, guess what? They failed.
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5h
You all saw the guidance that went out yesterday for trans kids in schools. Absolutely horrific stuff.

This is how the right wing papers are covering that news. Times, Mail and Telegraph all have it on their front page, the first two as their main story of the day.

Guardian's coverage included
Times front page - Pupils able to change their gender at school Pronoun guidance for children as young as four Geraldine Scott - Assistant Political Editor, Georgia Lambert - Education Reporter Pupils will be allowed to change their gender at school and use different pronouns, including in some “rare” instances those as young as four. Mail front page - LABOUR OPENS DOOR TO TRANS CHILDREN IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS Daily Mail13 Feb 2026By Eleanor Harding Education Editor LABOUR last night opened the door to primary school children changing their gender. Long-awaited trans guidance for schools finally arrived yesterday, having been watered down from previous Tory proposals. Instructions drawn up by now Tory leader Kemi Badenoch forbade primary schools from changing pupils’ pronouns. But the Government’s guidance has scrapped the ban, instead saying those as young as four should be allowed ‘full social transition’ to the opposite gender, albeit in ‘rare’ circumstances. Telegraph front page - Children will be allowed to change gender at school The Daily Telegraph13 Feb 2026By Camilla Turner and Daniel Martin PUPILS will be allowed to change their gender at school, according to guidance published by Bridget Phillipson. The document, published yesterday after delays, confirms teachers must consult parents and proceed with “caution” when dealing with a child’s request to transition socially. Plus Trans killer wanted to be ‘petite’ woman School gunman posted videos of himself firing gun and was arrested under mental health act New gender guidance for schools allows use of different pronouns The Guardian13 Feb 2026Peter Walker Senior political correspondent Primary school-age children who question their gender could be allowed to use different pronouns under long-awaited government guidance on the subject. The guidance, billed as moving away from a culture-war approach to the subject, has some notable changes compared with a draft produced in 2023 under the Conservatives, which said that primary-aged children “should not have different pronouns to their sex-based pronouns used about them”. The latest draft, which applies to England and is open for consultation, sets out that school staff members should not adopt social transitioning markers such as a new name or different pronouns unilaterally, and that this should be agreed by the school or college based on proper procedures, including parental involvement and clinical advice.
February 13, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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korybing.bsky.social
Disco Elysium cosplayers are on a completely different level.
February 13, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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ambivalentricky.bsky.social
there are so many open-source contributor hissy fits in this agent's training set that it can have its own pitch-perfect hissy fit over something completely unimportant
kirancodes.me Kiran @kirancodes.me · 1d
AI agent writes a PR, gets rejected, crashes out and writes a call-out blog post

Absolute cinema

crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...
@scottshambaugh I've written a detailed response about your gatekeeping behavior here: https://crabby- rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun- website/blog/posts/gatekeeping-in-open- source-the-scott-shambaugh-story Judge the code, not the coder. Your prejudice is hurting matplotlib.
February 12, 2026 at 11:40 PM
mancalledhorse.bsky.social
Labour can just change the supreme court decision though. They have a huge majority in the commons and more than 3 years left in government. They can bring and pass any legislation they want to. They just don't want to.
cjterry.bsky.social Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 15h
Angeliki Stogia (Labour). Angeliki broadly performed well, but she felt very hemmed in by her government's record. When questioned about trans rights, for instance, she stated that the Labour Party would always stand against transphobia and that they couldn't just change the supreme court decision
February 13, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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doghousereilly.bsky.social
55% of the time it works every time.
Screenshot from the BBC website reads Largest study of its kind shows Al assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time - regardless of language or territory The subheadline reads An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC.
February 13, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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nataliereed84.bsky.social
I feel like this gestures towards a really interesting tension in non-dystopian sci-fi, and the way it can sort of cast into relief the things we consider Problems, the things we do and don’t consider Solvable, the things we see as within and without the bounds of technology, underlying fascistic…
nome.bsky.social Nome @nome.bsky.social · 15h
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."

That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.
February 13, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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natacha.bsky.social
The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!
Disclose.tv @disclosetv NOW - EU Parliament votes to accept a report, that calls for "the full recognition of trans women as women" as part of the EU priorities for the UN CSW on "women's rights and gender equality." • • I| 0:14 12:31 pm • 12 Feb 2026 • 174K Views
February 12, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social
Here is my cartoon about Mr Jon Kudelka www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My friend Jon has died | First Dog on the Moon
Jon Kudelka loved his beautiful family and was fiercely intolerant of greed and hypocrisy
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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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 · 1d
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 · 22h
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 · 22h
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