dr nicky imrie
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Tressa Burke, chief executive officer of the Glasgow Disability Alliance says she turned down an MBE because the recent budget “supercharged the inequalities and unfairness disabled people face”.
“It is fuelling misinformation. It is fuelling hatred. It is fuelling blame and scapegoating."
Bravo ⭐
“It is fuelling misinformation. It is fuelling hatred. It is fuelling blame and scapegoating."
Bravo ⭐
Campaigner turned down MBE over ‘scapegoating’ of people with disabilities
Exclusive: In letter declining proposed award, Tressa Burke, CEO of Glasgow Disability Alliance, accused government of ‘fuelling hatred’
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Tressa Burke, chief executive officer of the Glasgow Disability Alliance says she turned down an MBE because the recent budget “supercharged the inequalities and unfairness disabled people face”.
“It is fuelling misinformation. It is fuelling hatred. It is fuelling blame and scapegoating."
Bravo ⭐
“It is fuelling misinformation. It is fuelling hatred. It is fuelling blame and scapegoating."
Bravo ⭐
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Absolute bullshit, and authors, if Harlequin has your foreign rights, you should also complain.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Absolute bullshit, and authors, if Harlequin has your foreign rights, you should also complain.
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Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive:
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.
goodlaw.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive:
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
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Starmer CHOSE to keep the Supreme Court misjudgment despite its obvious flaws and its injustice.
It allows him to deniably harm trans people. It is a mixture of political cowardice, gratuitous oppression, lack of principle and hypocrisy which defines the content of his character.
It allows him to deniably harm trans people. It is a mixture of political cowardice, gratuitous oppression, lack of principle and hypocrisy which defines the content of his character.
Let’s be clear about who is responsible for trans girls being excluded from the Guides.
Keir Starmer
100%
He could have overturned the injustice of the flawed Supreme Court any time, but CHOSE not to. So he is responsible for these girls being harmed. There’s a word for adults who harm children.
Keir Starmer
100%
He could have overturned the injustice of the flawed Supreme Court any time, but CHOSE not to. So he is responsible for these girls being harmed. There’s a word for adults who harm children.
December 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Starmer CHOSE to keep the Supreme Court misjudgment despite its obvious flaws and its injustice.
It allows him to deniably harm trans people. It is a mixture of political cowardice, gratuitous oppression, lack of principle and hypocrisy which defines the content of his character.
It allows him to deniably harm trans people. It is a mixture of political cowardice, gratuitous oppression, lack of principle and hypocrisy which defines the content of his character.
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New ILGA-Europe data shows how stigma, discrimination & economic insecurity push LGBTI people into hidden homelessness across Europe. Change is possible with inclusive policies, trauma-informed services and action on structural discrimination. www.ilga-europe.org/press-releas...
Press Release: New Report Highlights Hidden Homelessness Faced by LGBTI People in Europe | ILGA-Europe
New cross-country findings show how systemic stigma and economic vulnerability push LGBTI people into hidden homelessness and long-term instability.
www.ilga-europe.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
New ILGA-Europe data shows how stigma, discrimination & economic insecurity push LGBTI people into hidden homelessness across Europe. Change is possible with inclusive policies, trauma-informed services and action on structural discrimination. www.ilga-europe.org/press-releas...
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This is just one “news” paper - The Times. They are OBSESSED with attacking trans people! 😖
They will absolutely KNOW that it’s TDoR today, and will have published this transphobic bilge as a gesture of power and provocation.
It is pure, malicious, propaganda! 😣
They will absolutely KNOW that it’s TDoR today, and will have published this transphobic bilge as a gesture of power and provocation.
It is pure, malicious, propaganda! 😣
![Double page spread in the Times - From gender critical beliefs to boxing: what the guidance says
Geraldine Scott - Assistant Political Editor
A trans rights protest outside parliament in April after the Supreme Court ruled that the term sex in the Equality Act referred to biological sex
Next image ›
The equality watchdog has set out sweeping new guidance on how to apply equality protections for the first time in more than a decade, with a focus on how transgender people should be treated.
The 300-page document, seen by The Times but not yet published, was prompted by a Supreme Court judgment in April that ruled the terms “sex” and “woman” in the Equality Act referred to biological sex.
Here we outline the key elements.
Single-sex spaces
The most significant change is a departure from previous interpretations that transgender people should generally be treated in line with their gender identity in single-sex settings such as changing rooms or hospital wards.
Previously it was thought that excluding a transgender woman from a single-sex setting could amount to discrimination.
The new guidance states clearly that trans people may be excluded from single-sex spaces that do not correspond to their biological sex when it is a “proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim”, such as protecting privacy, dignity or safety.
Reflecting the Supreme Court ruling, the guidance said that for the purposes of the Equality Act “a person’s sex remains their biological sex, whether they have a GRC [gender recognition certificate] or not”. The guidance adds: “A trans man with a GRC is a woman and a trans woman with a GRC is a man, for the purposes of the act.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyefpiziml7b24sxpd74axq7/bafkreib2buaq3w6z2bphwtq3lvtmf2keurfz5hdbfqdedh7ushy5xdgdru@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This is just one “news” paper - The Times. They are OBSESSED with attacking trans people! 😖
They will absolutely KNOW that it’s TDoR today, and will have published this transphobic bilge as a gesture of power and provocation.
It is pure, malicious, propaganda! 😣
They will absolutely KNOW that it’s TDoR today, and will have published this transphobic bilge as a gesture of power and provocation.
It is pure, malicious, propaganda! 😣
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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This is also still ongoing, to fund English translations of African novels written in non-colonial languages! (which do not get translated very frequently!)
the African Translation Project is at 7% of their final goal, which they need by FRIDAY
Please donate, please share
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Please donate, please share
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3245, 68%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...
ko-fi.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This is also still ongoing, to fund English translations of African novels written in non-colonial languages! (which do not get translated very frequently!)
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Let's take a ride... My next book is coming out with @faberbooks.bsky.social. Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains will be published March 12 2026. Preorder links in profile, and lots more on the book and the remarkable stories people told me to come over the next few months...
October 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Let's take a ride... My next book is coming out with @faberbooks.bsky.social. Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains will be published March 12 2026. Preorder links in profile, and lots more on the book and the remarkable stories people told me to come over the next few months...
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Tonight I was talking to a friend about this and she told me, this is one more major milestone in the decline of German democracy. For many people, it will be the thing that makes them decide to pack their bags, in anticipation of what is coming.
So the main culture war in Germany, fought by the country’s leader, is that despite mass deportations there are still too many non-white men in German cities: which needs to change so that white German daughters can feel safer. That’s an actual position that he is taking. An incitement to violence.
“Ich habe gar nichts zurückzunehmen”
- sagt #Merz heute zu seiner “wir haben im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem”-Äußerung in Bezug auf Migration.
- sagt #Merz heute zu seiner “wir haben im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem”-Äußerung in Bezug auf Migration.
October 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Tonight I was talking to a friend about this and she told me, this is one more major milestone in the decline of German democracy. For many people, it will be the thing that makes them decide to pack their bags, in anticipation of what is coming.
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Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?
BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.
Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire
Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.
bit.ly
October 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?
Brilliant short play on #BBCRadio4Extra today: #Autumn by #SusanHill.
A couple tries to escape their past by moving home.
Stars #JuneBrown and a classic telly fave, #BernardHepton. And today is centenary of his birth.
Something for @secretarmypod.bsky.social fans?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
A couple tries to escape their past by moving home.
Stars #JuneBrown and a classic telly fave, #BernardHepton. And today is centenary of his birth.
Something for @secretarmypod.bsky.social fans?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Autumn by Susan Hill - BBC Sounds
A middle-aged couple battle to escape their past. Stars June Brown.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Brilliant short play on #BBCRadio4Extra today: #Autumn by #SusanHill.
A couple tries to escape their past by moving home.
Stars #JuneBrown and a classic telly fave, #BernardHepton. And today is centenary of his birth.
Something for @secretarmypod.bsky.social fans?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
A couple tries to escape their past by moving home.
Stars #JuneBrown and a classic telly fave, #BernardHepton. And today is centenary of his birth.
Something for @secretarmypod.bsky.social fans?
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Excellent, wide-ranging long thread on the state of the UK...
Thank you @tanjabueltmann.net
Thank you @tanjabueltmann.net
When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Excellent, wide-ranging long thread on the state of the UK...
Thank you @tanjabueltmann.net
Thank you @tanjabueltmann.net
And while you are visiting @edinburghprints.bsky.social be sure to leave plenty of time check out Robert Powell's astonishing Hall of Hours installation with working clock and gorgeous copper ornaments.
October 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
And while you are visiting @edinburghprints.bsky.social be sure to leave plenty of time check out Robert Powell's astonishing Hall of Hours installation with working clock and gorgeous copper ornaments.
Such a moving, thought-provoking and vibrant exhibtion @edinburghprints.bsky.social
reflecting on and exploring Asqa Arif's lived experiences of seeking asylum, housing injustice, culture/art-washing and maintaining and negotiating cultural heritage in Glasgow. Highly recommend!
reflecting on and exploring Asqa Arif's lived experiences of seeking asylum, housing injustice, culture/art-washing and maintaining and negotiating cultural heritage in Glasgow. Highly recommend!
✨Aqsa Arif: Raindrops of Rani
Until 2 November
Edinburgh Printmakers
Free to Enter
Photos by Alan Dimmick
#edartfest #edinburghartfestival #edinburghexhibition #scottishartist #contemporaryscottishart
Until 2 November
Edinburgh Printmakers
Free to Enter
Photos by Alan Dimmick
#edartfest #edinburghartfestival #edinburghexhibition #scottishartist #contemporaryscottishart
October 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Such a moving, thought-provoking and vibrant exhibtion @edinburghprints.bsky.social
reflecting on and exploring Asqa Arif's lived experiences of seeking asylum, housing injustice, culture/art-washing and maintaining and negotiating cultural heritage in Glasgow. Highly recommend!
reflecting on and exploring Asqa Arif's lived experiences of seeking asylum, housing injustice, culture/art-washing and maintaining and negotiating cultural heritage in Glasgow. Highly recommend!
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Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts.
We are stable parts of the human genome.
“Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason; our differences are the genius – and the conscience – of our species.”
—Carol Black, A Thousand Rivers
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
We are stable parts of the human genome.
“Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason; our differences are the genius – and the conscience – of our species.”
—Carol Black, A Thousand Rivers
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
Behold the Spectrum
Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts.We are stable parts of the human genome.If you believe in a Maker, Maker built us in.Look to Maker and behold the Spectrum!If you don’t subscribe…
stimpunks.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts.
We are stable parts of the human genome.
“Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason; our differences are the genius – and the conscience – of our species.”
—Carol Black, A Thousand Rivers
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
We are stable parts of the human genome.
“Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason; our differences are the genius – and the conscience – of our species.”
—Carol Black, A Thousand Rivers
stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...
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We asked the EHRC whether they consulted any trans, intersex or LGBTQ+ groups before intervening in the 2024 Supreme Court case For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers.
Their answer? They didn’t. 1/
Their answer? They didn’t. 1/
September 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
We asked the EHRC whether they consulted any trans, intersex or LGBTQ+ groups before intervening in the 2024 Supreme Court case For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers.
Their answer? They didn’t. 1/
Their answer? They didn’t. 1/
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Shameful, the UK arresting people for wearing T-Shirts and holding signs.
Where are the people who scream for the right to Free Speech?
Where are the people who scream for the right to Free Speech?
September 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Shameful, the UK arresting people for wearing T-Shirts and holding signs.
Where are the people who scream for the right to Free Speech?
Where are the people who scream for the right to Free Speech?
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If you’re in Aberdeen and looking for somewhere quiet to work, the McBey Library at the art gallery is brand new, really beautiful and the staff told me it’s underused. Fast wifi and there are two cafes in the building (although you’re not allowed drinks in the library)
September 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
If you’re in Aberdeen and looking for somewhere quiet to work, the McBey Library at the art gallery is brand new, really beautiful and the staff told me it’s underused. Fast wifi and there are two cafes in the building (although you’re not allowed drinks in the library)
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don't forget to donate to individual fundraisers too. here is a site that tracks individual campaigns and boosts the ones with little or no donations:
lifeline4gaza.com
lifeline4gaza.com
lifeline4gaza - a list of appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza
lifeline4gaza gathers links to existing chuffed & gofundme appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza.
lifeline4gaza.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
don't forget to donate to individual fundraisers too. here is a site that tracks individual campaigns and boosts the ones with little or no donations:
lifeline4gaza.com
lifeline4gaza.com
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This is an important thread & piece about the negative impact of AI on the translation sector - sobering & illuminating #xl8
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This is an important thread & piece about the negative impact of AI on the translation sector - sobering & illuminating #xl8
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An excellent no nonsense statement from the Women's Institute.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
The Women's Institute was founded on democratic ideals over 100 years ago and this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion is still central to our ethos today.
www.thewi.org.uk
August 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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A devastating critique of an uncurated, uncatalogued collection @profdanhicks.bsky.social
A new museum/archive/warehouse in London with 'at least a thousand unlabelled items sitting on the shelves. There’s no way of finding out what they are'. Extraordinary!
artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
A new museum/archive/warehouse in London with 'at least a thousand unlabelled items sitting on the shelves. There’s no way of finding out what they are'. Extraordinary!
artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse
You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit
artreview.com
August 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
A devastating critique of an uncurated, uncatalogued collection @profdanhicks.bsky.social
A new museum/archive/warehouse in London with 'at least a thousand unlabelled items sitting on the shelves. There’s no way of finding out what they are'. Extraordinary!
artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
A new museum/archive/warehouse in London with 'at least a thousand unlabelled items sitting on the shelves. There’s no way of finding out what they are'. Extraordinary!
artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
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More than half of Glasgow's high schools found out today that they will have ZERO library staff when the school year starts tomorrow.
Full story from @heraldscotland.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2538717...
Full story from @heraldscotland.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2538717...
Sixteen Glasgow secondaries will have no library staff as new school year begins
The development comes as proposals to scrap all school librarians in Glasgow are being considered.
www.heraldscotland.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
More than half of Glasgow's high schools found out today that they will have ZERO library staff when the school year starts tomorrow.
Full story from @heraldscotland.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2538717...
Full story from @heraldscotland.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2538717...
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It has been six years since the Gender Autonomy Act was passed in Iceland. In those six years, none of the usual fears that anti-trans advocates warn against have manifested - and trans people, non-binary people and intersex people have enjoyed increased rights and protections.
June 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It has been six years since the Gender Autonomy Act was passed in Iceland. In those six years, none of the usual fears that anti-trans advocates warn against have manifested - and trans people, non-binary people and intersex people have enjoyed increased rights and protections.