hilaryonline.bsky.social
@hilaryonline.bsky.social
MD @Nexerdigital.bsky.social. Interests veer
wildly from pop culture and TV/film nostalgia, to LGBTQ+, Eurovision and digital inclusion. Cumbrian, in Stockport, working for Sweden.
wildly from pop culture and TV/film nostalgia, to LGBTQ+, Eurovision and digital inclusion. Cumbrian, in Stockport, working for Sweden.
Pinned
Don’t ban people from football, from wards, from park runs or from spaces. Find a way to include. Fund the research to understand levels of activity and need, then redesign things to accommodate. What we are doing to trans people is horrendous #LwithTheT
Took loads of photos at our office party and every one has Chris de Burgh’s massive face on the mounted TV in the background. Glaring at us, like an 80’s pop grinch. A Spaceman Came Travelling has haunted me since I worked in Dorothy Perkins
December 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Took loads of photos at our office party and every one has Chris de Burgh’s massive face on the mounted TV in the background. Glaring at us, like an 80’s pop grinch. A Spaceman Came Travelling has haunted me since I worked in Dorothy Perkins
So I didn’t get a Spotify unwrapped, because Apple, but at least LinkedIn Park is telling me I’m a “seasoned pro”. I can rest easy now.
December 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
So I didn’t get a Spotify unwrapped, because Apple, but at least LinkedIn Park is telling me I’m a “seasoned pro”. I can rest easy now.
I love this. A useful explainer and simple message, when you really think about it.
Trans women and girls are being excluded from services across the UK that they've used for decades because of legal pressure and targeted campaigns.
We explain what just happened, and why blanket exclusion is a choice, not a necessity.
📖 notinourname.org.uk/banning-trans-people-what-just-happened
We explain what just happened, and why blanket exclusion is a choice, not a necessity.
📖 notinourname.org.uk/banning-trans-people-what-just-happened
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I love this. A useful explainer and simple message, when you really think about it.
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Here’s Carole Malone & GBNEWS apologising for their racist smear and defamation of Meghan’s mum, Doria Ragland. Thank you to everyone who wrote to Ofcom and GBNEWS to complain. We’re sick of their cra*p. Enough is enough. ✊
#ToxicBritishMedia
#SayNoToRacism
#ToxicBritishMedia
#SayNoToRacism
December 16, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Here’s Carole Malone & GBNEWS apologising for their racist smear and defamation of Meghan’s mum, Doria Ragland. Thank you to everyone who wrote to Ofcom and GBNEWS to complain. We’re sick of their cra*p. Enough is enough. ✊
#ToxicBritishMedia
#SayNoToRacism
#ToxicBritishMedia
#SayNoToRacism
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The legal challenge to the NHS’s clinical trial of puberty blockers is funded by a pressure group backed by Russian oligarchs and linked to the far right. goodlaw.social/1jop
From Russia to the far right: the shadowy forces challenging the NHS puberty blockers trial | Good Law Project
CitizenGO is backed by Russian oligarchs and linked to the far right. Good Law Project’s undercover investigation shows that it’s ramping up its work in the UK.
goodlaw.social
December 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The legal challenge to the NHS’s clinical trial of puberty blockers is funded by a pressure group backed by Russian oligarchs and linked to the far right. goodlaw.social/1jop
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It was only a matter of time before terrible people started claiming the terrible words they said/terrible things they did were AI generated.
December 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It was only a matter of time before terrible people started claiming the terrible words they said/terrible things they did were AI generated.
Only watching Christmas UK sitcoms specials every evening this in week, announced earlier in the day by a line from each. Last night’s “implants and a Dyson”.
I’m with this for tonight’s “The Ooh Aah bird is so called because it lays square eggs”.
I’m with this for tonight’s “The Ooh Aah bird is so called because it lays square eggs”.
December 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Only watching Christmas UK sitcoms specials every evening this in week, announced earlier in the day by a line from each. Last night’s “implants and a Dyson”.
I’m with this for tonight’s “The Ooh Aah bird is so called because it lays square eggs”.
I’m with this for tonight’s “The Ooh Aah bird is so called because it lays square eggs”.
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I've set up a small monthly newsletter called Focus State.
With accessibility support shrinking in a lot of orgs, I wanted to create something that divides that gap, builds community, and makes the internet a bit more fun.
If you dig digital accessibility give it a look:
annaecook.com/newsletter
With accessibility support shrinking in a lot of orgs, I wanted to create something that divides that gap, builds community, and makes the internet a bit more fun.
If you dig digital accessibility give it a look:
annaecook.com/newsletter
Subscribe to Focus State — Anna E. Cook
Focus state is a newsletter about building better products through accessibility and systems thinking.
annaecook.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I've set up a small monthly newsletter called Focus State.
With accessibility support shrinking in a lot of orgs, I wanted to create something that divides that gap, builds community, and makes the internet a bit more fun.
If you dig digital accessibility give it a look:
annaecook.com/newsletter
With accessibility support shrinking in a lot of orgs, I wanted to create something that divides that gap, builds community, and makes the internet a bit more fun.
If you dig digital accessibility give it a look:
annaecook.com/newsletter
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They say never meet your heroes but I know Robin so I know sometimes you should.
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
They say never meet your heroes but I know Robin so I know sometimes you should.
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The BBC should be one of our big defences against all this. But its immune system has been compromised by “balance”. It’s been bullied into weakness, into a belief that it should have no beliefs, or both beliefs, just in case. An untenable position within fractured concensus reality.
December 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The BBC should be one of our big defences against all this. But its immune system has been compromised by “balance”. It’s been bullied into weakness, into a belief that it should have no beliefs, or both beliefs, just in case. An untenable position within fractured concensus reality.
Went out for a Christmas drink with work friends, ended up playing bingo for three straight hours in the local Cons club. Played two cards, won £13.50
December 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Went out for a Christmas drink with work friends, ended up playing bingo for three straight hours in the local Cons club. Played two cards, won £13.50
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December 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Remembering how our central marketing team used to ask me to vet their Christmas messages and one year it was:
HAVE
AFAB
XMAS
There was a quite lengthy email exchange.
HAVE
AFAB
XMAS
There was a quite lengthy email exchange.
December 12, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Remembering how our central marketing team used to ask me to vet their Christmas messages and one year it was:
HAVE
AFAB
XMAS
There was a quite lengthy email exchange.
HAVE
AFAB
XMAS
There was a quite lengthy email exchange.
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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Articles like this further support our message, that we are being distracted from the true causes of harm to women and girls, and hurting trans people as a consequence:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Rules on single-sex spaces pose risk to trans people’s mental health, UK charities say
Fifteen organisations sign letter expressing deep concern over EHRC guidance being considered by ministers
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Articles like this further support our message, that we are being distracted from the true causes of harm to women and girls, and hurting trans people as a consequence:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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UNIX, the first usability abstraction layer
December 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNIX, the first usability abstraction layer
Decided easiest option was to arrange a winter gathering in the office, rather than organise a place we could all meet. Temperature control got so out of hand for the menopausal women, some men put their coats back on. Turns out I’m great at Cornhole though
December 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Decided easiest option was to arrange a winter gathering in the office, rather than organise a place we could all meet. Temperature control got so out of hand for the menopausal women, some men put their coats back on. Turns out I’m great at Cornhole though
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For the many women I meet who support trans rights , in case you don’t know it, there is @nionwomen.bsky.social here and on instagram
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
For the many women I meet who support trans rights , in case you don’t know it, there is @nionwomen.bsky.social here and on instagram
When we start unravelling progress under the guise of protection, to deny children an early understanding of diversity and difference, we do them a disservice.
Sad the Girlguiding movement faced pressure to change. I hope we get sensible, sensitive guidance soon. For trans people and for society
Sad the Girlguiding movement faced pressure to change. I hope we get sensible, sensitive guidance soon. For trans people and for society
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
When we start unravelling progress under the guise of protection, to deny children an early understanding of diversity and difference, we do them a disservice.
Sad the Girlguiding movement faced pressure to change. I hope we get sensible, sensitive guidance soon. For trans people and for society
Sad the Girlguiding movement faced pressure to change. I hope we get sensible, sensitive guidance soon. For trans people and for society
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My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.
Popped downstairs to let the dogs out. I’d left the radio on for them. Just heard Jeremy Vine get all falsely aerated and continually interrupt an MP about the OBR “black hole”, before inviting Edwina Currie to comment. Poor bloody dogs
December 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Popped downstairs to let the dogs out. I’d left the radio on for them. Just heard Jeremy Vine get all falsely aerated and continually interrupt an MP about the OBR “black hole”, before inviting Edwina Currie to comment. Poor bloody dogs
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I might be knackered after a full day with seven 10yo girls in London, followed by our nieces 18th birthday last night, but watching that Karen Carney back story on catchup #Strictly broke me this morning. We are still so shit to girls and women. Hope she wins
November 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I might be knackered after a full day with seven 10yo girls in London, followed by our nieces 18th birthday last night, but watching that Karen Carney back story on catchup #Strictly broke me this morning. We are still so shit to girls and women. Hope she wins
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🛍️ This Black Friday NION Women are encouraging brands to ensure their shopping spaces are welcoming for everyone, including trans customers who continue to face uncertainty and exclusion.
Read our latest blog on why this matters, and what retailers can do to lead with integrity.
Read our latest blog on why this matters, and what retailers can do to lead with integrity.
This isn’t just retail, it’s trans-inclusive retail - Not in our name
NION Women highlight why inclusive retail matters. We encourage brands to support trans customers, and show inclusion and equality for all.
notinourname.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🛍️ This Black Friday NION Women are encouraging brands to ensure their shopping spaces are welcoming for everyone, including trans customers who continue to face uncertainty and exclusion.
Read our latest blog on why this matters, and what retailers can do to lead with integrity.
Read our latest blog on why this matters, and what retailers can do to lead with integrity.
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The irony is that one of the reasons Harriet Harman decided not to pursue Badenoch for hacking her website was a belief that more black women in politics was a good thing. So, in a small but salient way, Badenoch owes her position to the very solidarity she now mocks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Badenoch defends calling chancellor 'spineless' in Budget row
The Conservative Party leader says she was
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The irony is that one of the reasons Harriet Harman decided not to pursue Badenoch for hacking her website was a belief that more black women in politics was a good thing. So, in a small but salient way, Badenoch owes her position to the very solidarity she now mocks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...