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Miranda Debenham
@mdebenham1.bsky.social
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Disabled theatre producer with Interplay Theatre, supported by Stage One. TTRPG player, SFF reader, Korean learner, disaster bisexual, all around nerd

https://mirandadebenham.carrd.co/
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mdebenham1.bsky.social
Had the best time recording the first episode of #HeartforgeSiege over on @thetransmissions.bsky.social 💜 Can't wait for you all to meet these characters!
A fully blurred out screenshot of the full screen for a livestream D&D game
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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drhannahrobbins.bsky.social
Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.

Please contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to be involved.
On Wednesday 5 November, the very same day the Prime Minister publicly reaffirmed the importance of music education, staff in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham were informed of the immediate suspension of recruitment to all undergraduate degree programmes. This announcement precedes proposed plans to permanently close all Music degrees at the University. This decision threatens to end over a century of music education in the East Midlands, offered continuously since the University opened in 1881. Across that time, the Department has educated thousands of composers, researchers, performers, educators and other creative professionals. Its graduates have taken up leadership roles within the country’s leading arts organisations, fostering creativity and growth within the UK’s dynamic creative industries. It remains a centre of world-leading research, using music to explore and address complex societal and global challenges. The Department is deeply embedded in the local community, working with schools, music hubs, community groups and venues. Its closure would not only dismantle a thriving academic and cultural institution but also severely diminish musical life and future opportunities across Nottingham, the wider East Midlands and the nation as a whole. As staff we are devastated, especially on behalf of our students, but also for the future of music education and research in the UK. We remain committed to advocating for the value of Music programmes at Nottingham and beyond. If you share our concern and wish to support efforts to protect music education at the University of Nottingham, please get in touch with protectuonmusic@gmail.com. Your voice can make a difference. Thursday 6 November 2025
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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keezyyoung.bsky.social
me to others: it's hard right now. be gentle with yourself
me to me: wtf is wrong with you
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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dungeonofthedragon.bsky.social
Catch my tiny supplement of Baldur’s Gate themed character options as part of this release!
roll20.net Roll20 @roll20.net · 8d
We challenged creators to make a D&D supplement in one month.
55 answered the call! 💪 Over HALF are first-time publishers.

Explore these Baldur’s Gate–themed PDFs from our @dmsguild.com Game Jam and let's celebrate new creators together!

➡️ buff.ly/5xfzNDR
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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oldgodspod.bsky.social
Hey, family - check out this Kickstarter for a new project by Lauren Shippen - for an audio drama set in the 90s about a rock band that exorcises ghosts. If you're so inclined, throw a little support their way.

buff.ly/VVlZDfg
Phantom Pulse
www.kickstarter.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
Happy "WTF do you mean it's already November???" to all who celebrate.
November 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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lynnemeyer.bsky.social
Remember, folks.
First image: From the Simpsons, a bus driver looking ahead as he drives, saying “Don’t make me tap the sign” Second image: A closeup of his hand, tapping the sign. Text altered by me to say “If you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t.”
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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pdxjenni.bsky.social
Someone has put together a VERY thorough list of resources for people in the Portland area who need food. For those who have enough to share, please consider putting your time and/or money somewhere. For those who need help, here are places to get it.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Food Resource List - PDX
Food Resources PDX Share this sheet to amplify these existing resources to support individuals & families in accessing food during this government shutdown. A delay in SNAP means over 750,000 families...
docs.google.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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philippaeast.bsky.social
TransActual have put together these handy FAQs to respond to MPs (or anyone else) who is still struggling to get their head round why the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice would be so devastating for the trans community.
Feel free to share, download, print, whatever!
transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
FAQs in Response to the Draft EHRC Code of Practice and Supreme Court Ruling We are calling for the EHRC’s “bathroom ban” to be scrapped, and the Code re-written to allow for trans inclusion in single sex services according to lived gender. Below are some common questions that might be raised by MPs (or others), and possible responses you can give to explain why this is needed. QUESTION “The Supreme Court ruling only affects those few thousand trans people who have Gender Recognition Certificates (GRCs). Otherwise, trans people retain all the rights and protections they have always had under the Equality Act 2010.” RESPONSE The Supreme Court ruling disapplies the effect of a GRC to the entirety of the Equality Act 2010. This means that there no longer exists any mechanism whatsoever for trans people to be legally recognised in their acquired gender under the UK’s most significant piece of equalities legislation. This not only affects those trans people who currently hold a GRC, but also the potentially hundreds of thousands of trans people who would wish to obtain a GRC in the future. For this reason, ILGA-Europe removed all legal gender recognition points from the UK this year, meaning that the UK now sits at an all-time low on the ILGA-Europe Rainbow map. There are many reasons why trans people do not apply, or have not yet applied for a GRC. Many report that the UK’s medicalised process for legal gender recognition remains humiliating, invasive and inaccessible for many. In this, the UK is out of step with international best practice, which recommends a model based on self-determination RESPONSE The Supreme Court ruling, as interpreted by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), does not just affect those with a GRC, but all those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.
October 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
mdebenham1.bsky.social
Everything I bought at the anarchist bookfair today 😍
A layout of pamphlets, stickers, books etc on my kitchen table. They include a tea towel with the seven cooperative principles, a jigsaw puzzle showing capitalism as a pyramid scheme, various lino cut prints saying Be Gay Do Crimes, Let Trans Youth Bloom and Turn Golf Courses Into Sex Forests, a book on growing herbs, and info on housing coops
October 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
mdebenham1.bsky.social
Not really but asking people if they'd eat Big Foot is always a good time
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28d
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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eris.anarchogoth.rip
Waitlists for a trans healthcare first appointment are now 224 years in some areas of the UK, according to this report. We are so far ahead of schedule to reach the world of Lichcraft by laurieoconnel, an rpg about trans necromancers and the nhs

laurieoconnel.itch.io/lichcraft
The Year is 2069... The setting is Great Britain. The Tories have been in power since 2010. Due to National Health Service cuts, trans healthcare has become increasingly hard to access. The waiting list for a first appointment at a gender identity clinic is now 300 years. They don’t want to outright refuse you; that would imply that the health service is over capacity or underfunded. Instead they will simply add you to the end of the list and wait for you to die. But they are fools. For you have learned the secrets of immortality. And you will get to the end of that waiting list, even if it means waiting another millennium... This is a game about spite, necromancy, being trans, and a 300 year long NHS waiting list. Although the game itself deals with serious themes, it is set up to be tongue-in-cheek, satirical, super queer, and intimate.
October 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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katie.bzky.team
every time i think i can close the project file for pghrt.diy, invariably i get a message from someone asking a clarifying question based on what seems to be their doctor inventing an entirely new hrt myth whole cloth, prompting much bafflement as i decide where address it.

up to 18.1k words now!
A Practical Guide To Feminizing HRT
The futile attempt at answering every possible question for someone looking to trans their sex.
pghrt.diy
September 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
mdebenham1.bsky.social
A graphic with the bi flag as a background and the text Happy Bisexual Visibility Day
September 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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kaaauthor.bsky.social
#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎

You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by...

Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social
Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic
September 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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anoosh100.bsky.social
THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT
wrecked9n76e.bsky.social Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · Sep 16
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
September 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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bardrockcafe.com
Hey TTRPG folks of Blue Sky:

I am looking to seat 2 POC players in an Upcoming miniseries (~10 episodes).

Looking for players who have passionate opinion is about gaming and tech issues, as well as (adamantly against) AI

Please comment if that's you or tag someone you think would be interested.
September 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
mdebenham1.bsky.social
I can't believe Celine Song made a film about money and capitalism and literally called it Materialists and then sold it as a romcom and everyone believed her hahaha that was a romcom in the same way Gatsby is a romcom DELICIOUS

#materialists #CelineSong
September 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
mdebenham1.bsky.social
It is 9am on the 1st September and someone has requested Wake Me Up When September Ends on Radio 1 😂 What a vibe lmao
September 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
mdebenham1.bsky.social
> be me
> be so tired
> haul yourself up on time and hurry through the shower etc and make it to the bus stop just in time
> the bus company changed the timetable
> the bus was 10mins ago
> you missed the bus
> you have to get up 10mins early every day now
September 1, 2025 at 6:43 AM
mdebenham1.bsky.social
Trans Kids Deserve Better chuffed.org/project/1463...
Trans Kids Deserve Better
Trans Kids Deserve Better is a direct action network run by trans kids for trans kids across the UK. Our specialty is making mischief in the name of our rights! The work we do affects all trans people...
chuffed.org
August 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
"The last few years of apparent stasis and rapid, almost convulsive, change resulting in the creation of new spaces, the loss of old spaces, and the off-and-on of the meanwhile spaces in which many of Sheffield’s creative conversations happen."

longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/urban-vill...
Untitled configuration (2025) by Emma Bolland: a display of pastel discs in the middle of a former Wilko, discs painted onto taped-up cardboard boxes, discs propped up on the rungs of ladders, discs scattered on the scuffed tiles.
August 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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cnlester.bsky.social
A concrete thing every UK person who cares about trans rights can do right now:

1. Email a link of this report to your MP, with highlights from the executive summary in your email. Ask them what it means for your constituency and their party - highlight trans people's legally mandated human rights
translegalproject.bsky.social Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social · Aug 20
TW.
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Trans Actual's report entitled 'Trans Segregation in Practice. Experiences of trans segragation following the Supreme Court Ruling'.
August 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
mdebenham1.bsky.social
PSA - the main lift AND the goods lift at Sheffield station are not working, meaning no access to/from the main entrance or Platform 1. They're advising you exit via the tram stop and walk along the line into town/take the tram 🤪🤪🤪

#disability #clusterfuck
A photo of a blocked off lift with a printed sign reading This lift is currently out of order, an engineer has been called. If you require assistance please contact a member of station staff. Below that in biro it says Please use supertram exit
August 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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euphoriaap.bsky.social
Our panel on Disability Representation in TTRPGs is now at youtu.be/v8OHxWUrv1g

@flightless-heron.bsky.social @pennyblake.bsky.social
@mdebenham1.bsky.social @cutestpatoot.itch.io @lithiarch.bsky.social discuss joy, nuances, challenges and growth in highlighting disabled people in storytelling
July 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM