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Aunty Cis
@auntycis.bsky.social
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She/her, Sheffield based goth, eccentric, bellydancer, one-time re-enactor, foodie, piss artist, person with MS & a dodgy knee, refugee from Twitter.
Cis by name and gender = it's not a slur!
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cyrilpedia.bsky.social
“I think our bill was $74,000 on broken windows,” said Ranahan. “And the crazy thing is, everyone loved it. The people, the neighborhood, they still come out to me and talk to me about it.”
(via The Browser)
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
'It was chaos': The history of San Francisco's most unforgettable TV ad
The million-dollar shoot resulted in $74,000 in broken windows.
www.sfgate.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
auntycis.bsky.social
Can definitely recommend! I just ordered from Jeremy, the plan is some treats for me, some for gifts - but it's a while until Christmas, so who knows how much will make it to other people 😁
jeremyjenkins.net Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net · 7d
A tiny bit of shameless self-promotion because the gifting season is creeping up on us. If you’re after something delicious, handcrafted, and ethical, my chocolate boxes, bars, and treats make really lovely gifts. Treat yourself, treat someone else, or both, I won’t judge! Reshares appreciated! 🍫✨
Chocolate boxes, bars, and treats from Jenkins’ Emporium in a Christmas setting.
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
auntycis.bsky.social
Getting around on crutches while recovering from knee surgery, both hands occupied - thank goodness for clothes with functional pockets! Hat tip to Snag and Popsy 💜
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
auntycis.bsky.social
Erm.... not saying it >doesnt< happen!
nataliedecorsair.bsky.social Natalie de Corsair @nataliedecorsair.bsky.social · Apr 9
Does it happen to you?
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
auntycis.bsky.social
I keep getting emails from Amazon trying to persuade me to black Friday deals or Xmas presents - so fuck them, just ordered chocolates from @jeremyjenkins.net Jenkins Emporium #SupportIndependentBusiness
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
auntycis.bsky.social
Morning!
fotofacade.bsky.social Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 13d
☄️Out of this world. 🔆A bit of warmth and light for the darker days.
The medieval St. Thomas Becket, Fairfield, Romney Marsh—once part of a thriving village, now isolated by time and circumstance.
St. Thomas à Becket Church stands alone on Romney Marsh, its weathered timber and brick glowing in soft light, surrounded by flat, waterlogged fields and wide sky.
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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bwganbuzz.bsky.social
Politicians cutting domestic abuse shelter fundings and causing financial crisis where women are unable to leave abusers and end up murdered. Of course they jump on vilifying a scapegoat to act as if trans people are harming women when the harm comes them and austerity politics in Westminster
mimmymum.bsky.social Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 23d
“That is what makes it so morally bewildering to me that these culture war clowns are supposed to be a bastion of women’s rights. While they try to strip the dignity from a marginalised minority, frontline women’s services are on the verge of collapse.”

👉 archive.ph/ivFo2
The Herald Anti-trans 'activism' is a distraction from real issues facing women
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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nionwomen.bsky.social
🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision.

In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.

Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.

1/5
NION Women Rejects Anti-Trans Narrative at Kenwood Ladies Pond Image of women swimming in the wild
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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garius.bsky.social
For those asking: yes. I'm still slowly chipping away at writing Goblin Launderette.

This feels an appropriate extract for this month. Functions as a self-contained short story.

(Usual caveats about draft status and typos applies: you don't need to tell me about them)

Hope you enjoy.
Aside from her time at university, Em had lived in Gamlinberg her whole life. Growing up, her friends would moan that the town was dull and that they couldn’t wait to escape. They would talk of going to live in one of the great cities of the Empire, becoming adventurers or travelling the world. She’d never understood that. To her, Gamlinberg was home. The world outside of it was fascinating, sure, but it was also scary and overwhelming. She was perfectly happy experiencing it through the words of others. This was why she never objected when her friends suggested they visit the Launderette. Em’s father, with his scars, tattoos and of course his eye-patch, was someone who the other parents talked about in hushed words. He definitely didn’t look like the kind of man who had spent his whole life dry-cleaning in Gamlinberg. They didn’t know what he’d done, and politeness prevented them from asking, but he’d definitely done something. This was equally obvious to Em’s friends. So visits to the Launderette were a chance to quiz her father on the wider world. For her it was an extra opportunity to spend more time with him and she was more than happy with that. He didn’t seem to mind, as long as it wasn’t busy. They’d all sit in here, on the same bench she was sat on now, pestering him for stories about his days as a fighter. Begging him to tell them about monsters and demons as he folded sheets on the counter or worked through a load of washing. Em closed her eyes and allowed herself the luxury of falling into a memory. She could see her dad now, a giant in their eyes, describing the epic battles he’d fought in, and the incredible beasts of legend that he’d encountered in the mountains and deserts of distant lands. All while quietly ironing or sewing up a torn pair of trousers. Even at that young age they noticed that many of his stories seemed to be versions of the old legends they heard at school or from bards in town. None of them minded. Adults think that children can’t tell when they’re lying, but it’s not true. It’s just that adults forget what they once understood implicitly when they were children themselves: Sometimes the truth needs to be protected by a tale. Em and her friends knew that most of the stories her father wove for them while darning socks couldn’t possibly be true. But even at that young age they’d learned to recognise the look that enters an old soldier’s eyes when the real memories are a bit too close to the surface. Her dad got that a lot. So if he found it easier to tell a tale than share a memory, then they didn’t feel the need to point it out. All that mattered was that he was a great storyteller. So they sat there, listening, enraptured. One day, after school, she’d overheard a couple of the mums discussing her father when he arrived to pick her up. The first, new to Gamlinberg, had asked who the fighter was. When the second told her that he ran the launderette now, she started to laugh, then stopped. Em heard her say, with a curious mix of sympathy and humour, that maybe it wasn’t such an odd career move for a man like him. “Perhaps the smell of the soap covers up the smell of blood.” She’d said. Em didn’t understand what that meant at the time. As she became a teenager, she began to resent that her father never opened up to her. Whenever she tried to ask him about his life before Gamlinberg or how he’d met her mother he’d deflect the question. The more she pushed him, the less he said and the angrier she got. Indeed by the time she’d left for university they were barely talking at all. It was only as she’d grown older. More aware of how the world, and people, worked that she’d finally understood what the woman had meant that day. That what Em had seen as his refusal to let her into his life was the exact opposite. He wanted her to know him only as the person he’d become, not what he’d gone through to get there. The man who wielded a needle, not a sword. By the time she’d worked that out, it was too late. Her father was dead. Em wasn’t a person who had many regrets, but that was one. She’d never got the chance to tell him that she understood his silence now, and that it was okay.
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
auntycis.bsky.social
FFS, this really needs to be stopped!
theabigailthorn.bsky.social Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 26d
NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.
sophiemolly.co.uk Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 27d
"Laura fears all will be lost if ICB Sussex forces her child off the medication.

If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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politicanimal.bsky.social
I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...
Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero'
The "extraordinary bravery" of the LNER worker who intervened during the train mass stabbing attack on Saturday has been hailed by his company.
news.sky.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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amrakunj.bsky.social
Algerian-born train hero saves train passengers from attack.

Since the right-wing press loves reporting criminals’ race and religion, surely they should report heroes’ too.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
www.bbc.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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astrokatie.com
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
auntycis.bsky.social
Looks like Labour have FINALLY got around to the 'Find Out' part after waaaaaaay too long fucking around 🤣🤣🤣
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Oct 20
How is it taking them this long to work this out?
October 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
auntycis.bsky.social
Spotted one of these on my way to work, in Sheffield, this morning 😁
October 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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assignedmedia.org
6 Oct 2025 -- 16-person Aussie team publish a killer take-down of The Cass Review in the prestigious Australian Medical Journal titled, Cass Review Does Not Guide Care for Trans Young People ("lacking expertise & compromised by implicit stigma & misinformation..." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people
Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...
www.mja.com.au
October 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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doctorwaffle.substack.com
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?
October 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
auntycis.bsky.social
The fact that this seems to have been *very quickly* hidden from view makes me want to share it widely....
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
September 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
auntycis.bsky.social
Applause!👏👏👏

I think this may be the best one yet, but also props for the Idol-inspired version down thread....
scriblit.bsky.social Gabby HC's books make ideal festive presents @scriblit.bsky.social · Aug 31
NE VER MORE MORE MORE
Says the raven in my room
By my door door door
It's symbolic of my gloom
Of my loss, of my grief
I was in love but bae dropped dead
Now this bird's words are brief
It just repeats one word I dread

(Usually 'I misread this as' replies are an anathema to me but Guy gets a pass)
brainmage.bsky.social 'i will strangle a horse' on itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · Aug 31
I fully misread that as agadoo and I hate how much that's feasible
August 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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sylviademars.me
The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/
ajlanes.bsky.social Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · Aug 28
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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ajlanes.bsky.social
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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barristersecret.bsky.social
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
August 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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riotgrlerin.bsky.social
making great art even better: thread
Ellen Ripley and Facehugger in American Gothic by Grant Wood.
August 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
auntycis.bsky.social
Calling all fellow goths in possession of a sense of humour! This is worth a look...
oldenoughtosay.com madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · Jul 31
absolutely incredible, 10/10 no notes
lagowski.com Andrew Lagowski @lagowski.com · Jul 31
Check out the photo’s - you won’t regret it! Nicked from @tomellard.bsky.social Mastodon account www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
July 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Think of all those pro-Israel pundits you saw on your television screens this past year trying to sociopathically justify the mass starvation of Gaza by robotically claiming Hamas steals the aid. They were all lying. Shamelessly. Even the Israeli military confirms it now.
No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM