Fae with an a
@fae-with-an-a.bsky.social
Fae (she/her)
Secondary art teacher 🖌️
Generally worried about everything.
ADHD, queer/bisexual
B with the T
Secondary art teacher 🖌️
Generally worried about everything.
ADHD, queer/bisexual
B with the T
"Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it."
Gwen Sharp
Gwen Sharp
Maga is in meltdown over a preppy pink sweater for men. So, what exactly is the problem? | Ellie Violet Bramley
Maga is in meltdown over a preppy pink sweater for men. So, what exactly is the problem? | Ellie Violet Bramley
The outrage a J Crew jumper has provoked shows that the US right’s sense of masculinity is far more fragile than it would care to admit, says freelance writer Ellie Violet Bramley
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it."
Gwen Sharp
Gwen Sharp
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Meanwhile... we could have seen this coming:
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS
> Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS
> Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Meanwhile... we could have seen this coming:
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS
> Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS
> Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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"The party’s LGBT+ group described the move as “explicitly trans-exclusionary” while Young Liberals said the changes were “unacceptable and untenable”. Some Lib Dem MPs are understood to be perplexed at the sudden turnaround."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lib Dem members criticise ‘trans-exclusionary’ rule change for party elections
Rules on quotas to ensure fair representation of women changed on legal advice in light of supreme court ruling
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"The party’s LGBT+ group described the move as “explicitly trans-exclusionary” while Young Liberals said the changes were “unacceptable and untenable”. Some Lib Dem MPs are understood to be perplexed at the sudden turnaround."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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It’s cool how they run with this story and headline with just a tiny bit buried deep in the article:
“All of Palisade’s scenarios were run in contrived test environments that critics say are far-removed from real-use cases.”
“All of Palisade’s scenarios were run in contrived test environments that critics say are far-removed from real-use cases.”
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
It’s cool how they run with this story and headline with just a tiny bit buried deep in the article:
“All of Palisade’s scenarios were run in contrived test environments that critics say are far-removed from real-use cases.”
“All of Palisade’s scenarios were run in contrived test environments that critics say are far-removed from real-use cases.”
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Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
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This is such a good point. I can't afford £100 for a covid booster. I could and would cheerfully pay £15 for one as I do flu. I also don't understand why so many aren't eligible for an NHS booster this year considering it didn't miraculously stop being covid over the summer
This makes me want to break things. If it's such a no-big (it actually is a big that fucking disabled me), and you're equating it to flu (again, not remotely like), then why aren't the prices comparable?
(They should be free but given that's not going to happen, well)
(They should be free but given that's not going to happen, well)
It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.
October 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This is such a good point. I can't afford £100 for a covid booster. I could and would cheerfully pay £15 for one as I do flu. I also don't understand why so many aren't eligible for an NHS booster this year considering it didn't miraculously stop being covid over the summer
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Comics/graphic novels aren’t recognized or taken seriously as literature in the publishing industry, despite taking twice as much work to create as prose novels, and it just breaks my heart.
That’s it, that’s the take.
Please read more comics.
That’s it, that’s the take.
Please read more comics.
Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?
October 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Comics/graphic novels aren’t recognized or taken seriously as literature in the publishing industry, despite taking twice as much work to create as prose novels, and it just breaks my heart.
That’s it, that’s the take.
Please read more comics.
That’s it, that’s the take.
Please read more comics.
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We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
October 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
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Resharing an old post for #BookWormSat #WorldAnimalDay #Caturday
‘Day and night, soft purr, soft pad,
Pangur Bán has learned his trade.
Day and night, my own hard work
Solves the cruxes, makes a mark.’ Anon ~ C9th monk trans. Heaney.
🖼️ Sydney Smith
‘Day and night, soft purr, soft pad,
Pangur Bán has learned his trade.
Day and night, my own hard work
Solves the cruxes, makes a mark.’ Anon ~ C9th monk trans. Heaney.
🖼️ Sydney Smith
October 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Resharing an old post for #BookWormSat #WorldAnimalDay #Caturday
‘Day and night, soft purr, soft pad,
Pangur Bán has learned his trade.
Day and night, my own hard work
Solves the cruxes, makes a mark.’ Anon ~ C9th monk trans. Heaney.
🖼️ Sydney Smith
‘Day and night, soft purr, soft pad,
Pangur Bán has learned his trade.
Day and night, my own hard work
Solves the cruxes, makes a mark.’ Anon ~ C9th monk trans. Heaney.
🖼️ Sydney Smith
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More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...
Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%
Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%
Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
September 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...
Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%
Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%
Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
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I can't wait to see the protests that erupt over these dangerous rapidts who are being allowed to roam our streets. I'm sure the concerned parents will be working out how to evict them from their communities to make us all safe. Wait: No?
September 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I can't wait to see the protests that erupt over these dangerous rapidts who are being allowed to roam our streets. I'm sure the concerned parents will be working out how to evict them from their communities to make us all safe. Wait: No?
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Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
September 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
Every time I leave my garden unsupervised for a few days I come back to find it looking more and more like a vegetable jungle.
September 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Every time I leave my garden unsupervised for a few days I come back to find it looking more and more like a vegetable jungle.
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Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.
Georgia Nonprofit That Produces Life-Saving Food For Kids Has Federal Contract Cut
An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.
www.huffpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
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Regardless of whether you support increasing defence spending, this - and indeed any policy - should never be paid for by the poorest, either in the UK or overseas.
This is a political choice, not a necessity, and it is the wrong one.
This is a political choice, not a necessity, and it is the wrong one.
February 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Regardless of whether you support increasing defence spending, this - and indeed any policy - should never be paid for by the poorest, either in the UK or overseas.
This is a political choice, not a necessity, and it is the wrong one.
This is a political choice, not a necessity, and it is the wrong one.
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I’m reposting this because it NEEDS UK based trans folk AND ALLIES to consider signing it - please
It is the only way we will get that conversation with the DHSC & NHS England
It is the only way we will get that conversation with the DHSC & NHS England
Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it.
#Trans #LGBTQ #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#Trans #LGBTQ #UK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards
The previous government proposed changes to the NHS constitution which would mean transgender hospital patients in England may not be treated in female- and male-only wards. We believe that this segre...
petition.parliament.uk
February 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I’m reposting this because it NEEDS UK based trans folk AND ALLIES to consider signing it - please
It is the only way we will get that conversation with the DHSC & NHS England
It is the only way we will get that conversation with the DHSC & NHS England
Detail of street art in Padua, Italy, depicting the owner of the website we’ve all emigrated from.
February 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
January 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
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As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.
January 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.
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There may be a ceasefire in Gaza, but Israel continues to attack and kill Palestinians in the West Bank.
This week, Israeli forces killed at least 10 people in Jenin and besieged a government hospital and a refugee camp.
We must end arms sales to Israel and implement sanctions.
This week, Israeli forces killed at least 10 people in Jenin and besieged a government hospital and a refugee camp.
We must end arms sales to Israel and implement sanctions.
January 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
There may be a ceasefire in Gaza, but Israel continues to attack and kill Palestinians in the West Bank.
This week, Israeli forces killed at least 10 people in Jenin and besieged a government hospital and a refugee camp.
We must end arms sales to Israel and implement sanctions.
This week, Israeli forces killed at least 10 people in Jenin and besieged a government hospital and a refugee camp.
We must end arms sales to Israel and implement sanctions.
Today I will only be engaging in penguin related news i.e. www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/news/edinbur...
Edinburgh Zoo’s penguins go for a Wee Waddle each weekend
From Friday 20 September Edinburgh Zoo’s penguin colony will take part in the Wee Waddle, a reimagined version of the world-famous Penguin Parade. This new experience will allow visitors the chance to...
www.edinburghzoo.org.uk
January 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Today I will only be engaging in penguin related news i.e. www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/news/edinbur...
The news is bad but on the bright side it is international penguin awareness day. Penguins: Are you aware of them?
January 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The news is bad but on the bright side it is international penguin awareness day. Penguins: Are you aware of them?