Rosie Best
@rosiebee.bsky.social
I am procrastinating right now.
Riding gloriously into Whamhalla within ten minutes of arriving at my favourite cafe in Becontree, wish me luck for the next two hours!
December 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Riding gloriously into Whamhalla within ten minutes of arriving at my favourite cafe in Becontree, wish me luck for the next two hours!
I have additional questions, Spotify.
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I have additional questions, Spotify.
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Cis folks: Speak the fuck up and open your wallets. Our trans friends can’t fight this alone. It’s our job to be both noisy and generous right now.
You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
goodlawproject.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Cis folks: Speak the fuck up and open your wallets. Our trans friends can’t fight this alone. It’s our job to be both noisy and generous right now.
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SHAME on everyone who has pushed and paid for this. You are not feminists. You are not allies. You KNOWINGLY work with ultra-conservative and far right organisations. SHAME on you.
Also, your daughters think you’re shitheads.
Also, your daughters think you’re shitheads.
The Women's Institute has been forced into excluding trans women too
"Not doing so would leave us at risk of costly legal challenge and potential regulatory action from the Charity Commission. We have a public duty to ensure our charity is not in breach of the law."
www.thewi.org.uk/media-centre...
"Not doing so would leave us at risk of costly legal challenge and potential regulatory action from the Charity Commission. We have a public duty to ensure our charity is not in breach of the law."
www.thewi.org.uk/media-centre...
Press Releases
www.thewi.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
SHAME on everyone who has pushed and paid for this. You are not feminists. You are not allies. You KNOWINGLY work with ultra-conservative and far right organisations. SHAME on you.
Also, your daughters think you’re shitheads.
Also, your daughters think you’re shitheads.
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Nothing says feminism like forcing women to do something they have been vocal about not wanting to do.
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Nothing says feminism like forcing women to do something they have been vocal about not wanting to do.
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This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
One of the most peak British thoughts I've ever had here in this French hotel room: "huh I will have to unplug either the kettle or the desk lamp to plug my laptop in. That's OK I don't need the light on."
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
One of the most peak British thoughts I've ever had here in this French hotel room: "huh I will have to unplug either the kettle or the desk lamp to plug my laptop in. That's OK I don't need the light on."
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MY LOVE OF SANTA HAS GIVEN ME SAXOPHONE POWERS
*plays unrelated notes*
*plays unrelated notes*
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
MY LOVE OF SANTA HAS GIVEN ME SAXOPHONE POWERS
*plays unrelated notes*
*plays unrelated notes*
Every year I’m caught off guard by the fact that this is a real thing and not something @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social made up for The Unsleeping City.
Just 20 days until Santacon, so remember: the time to start planting mantraps is now.
November 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Every year I’m caught off guard by the fact that this is a real thing and not something @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social made up for The Unsleeping City.
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Back in the day, the datacenter LiveJournal was hosted in had the requisite emergency power off button in the event of fire suppression systems becoming necessary. It was placed on the wall right next to the exit door ... where it looked precisely like a button to open an automatic door.
This is where @oggie.bsky.social and @kingfox.bsky.social gather in a dark corner of a virtual bar and reminisce about the time a guy unplugged the wrong thing to plug in a vacuum cleaner.
every time I see people whining about the internet and single points of failure and “remember when” I laugh and LAUGH. folks. did you know that at one point sufficient rain in northern Virginia could take half the internet down? the infrastructure is way more robust and resilient than it used to be.
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Back in the day, the datacenter LiveJournal was hosted in had the requisite emergency power off button in the event of fire suppression systems becoming necessary. It was placed on the wall right next to the exit door ... where it looked precisely like a button to open an automatic door.
YES. GOOD. It's SUCH a major ballache at the moment, having to be there on the dot of 6am on a Monday and sit in a 200 person queue so you can get a slot in six months' time, when you may or may not be ready to take the test...
Bots and third parties to be banned from booking driving tests in DfT shake-up
Bots and third parties to be banned from booking driving tests in DfT shake-up
In effort to tackle severe backlog and end resale market, only learner drivers will be able to make bookings
Bots and third parties will be banned from booking driving tests as part of a government shake-up to tackle a severe backlog of almost 670,000 learners booked in for a practical assessment.
The Department for Transport (DfT), which recently consulted on how to crack down on touts selling on test slots at inflated prices, said that only learner drivers themselves and not their instructors would be able to make bookings. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
YES. GOOD. It's SUCH a major ballache at the moment, having to be there on the dot of 6am on a Monday and sit in a 200 person queue so you can get a slot in six months' time, when you may or may not be ready to take the test...
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yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
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Want to know why the prisons system seems to be suddenly falling apart?
Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC.
(A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)
Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC.
(A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Want to know why the prisons system seems to be suddenly falling apart?
Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC.
(A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)
Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC.
(A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)
It has officially been too long since I’ve written an action scene featuring characters who have opposable thumbs.
November 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
It has officially been too long since I’ve written an action scene featuring characters who have opposable thumbs.
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u should post however u like
respond to whoever u want
just remember some people come here desperate for the trolling engagement it is not your duty to provide them with it
respond to whoever u want
just remember some people come here desperate for the trolling engagement it is not your duty to provide them with it
October 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
u should post however u like
respond to whoever u want
just remember some people come here desperate for the trolling engagement it is not your duty to provide them with it
respond to whoever u want
just remember some people come here desperate for the trolling engagement it is not your duty to provide them with it
October 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
A thing thats throwing me off about Paris that I never expected is that the scale is ever so slightly bigger than London. Not like America big, but bigger enough that I keep underestimating how far distances are on the map. My heart says it’s a 10-20 minute walk, my feet say 30-45.
October 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
A thing thats throwing me off about Paris that I never expected is that the scale is ever so slightly bigger than London. Not like America big, but bigger enough that I keep underestimating how far distances are on the map. My heart says it’s a 10-20 minute walk, my feet say 30-45.
Uh oh.
Recently dyed hair vs hotel pillows.
Hair 1, Pillows 0.
Recently dyed hair vs hotel pillows.
Hair 1, Pillows 0.
October 9, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Uh oh.
Recently dyed hair vs hotel pillows.
Hair 1, Pillows 0.
Recently dyed hair vs hotel pillows.
Hair 1, Pillows 0.
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why did you buy a slop machine if you didn't want slop
Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)
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September 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
why did you buy a slop machine if you didn't want slop
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Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
September 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
My toddler introducing Spider-Man to his house and favourite things in it 3x a day = me watching ‘Americans try British slang/chocolate/football chants for the first time’ videos = nostalgia = am I onto something here or has being Spidey discovering the sofa over and over again broken my brain
September 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
My toddler introducing Spider-Man to his house and favourite things in it 3x a day = me watching ‘Americans try British slang/chocolate/football chants for the first time’ videos = nostalgia = am I onto something here or has being Spidey discovering the sofa over and over again broken my brain
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The Green Party now has 78,000 members.
Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.
I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.
I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
September 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The Green Party now has 78,000 members.
Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.
I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.
I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
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Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record
Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.
www.them.us
September 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
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I remember someone saying that's how you know AI can never truly be a writer. If you tell AI to stop using em dashes, it'll stop. If you tell a writer to stop using em dashes they'll tell you to fuck yourself and that you can pry them from their cold, dead fingers.
September 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I remember someone saying that's how you know AI can never truly be a writer. If you tell AI to stop using em dashes, it'll stop. If you tell a writer to stop using em dashes they'll tell you to fuck yourself and that you can pry them from their cold, dead fingers.