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johelianthus.bsky.social
Jo Rhiannon
@johelianthus.bsky.social
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Trans woman. Use my name or she/her please!

j0ri is my stage name

j0ri.bandcamp.com

Half of Failures Art with James Jefferys
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Jo Rhiannon @johelianthus.bsky.social · Sep 24
My EP has been out for a bit, I was kinda mentally indisposed around the time i should’ve been promoting it. It’s about my coming to terms with my trans identity and there is an element of chronology contained in the songs and the order they appear

j0ri.bandcamp.com/album/metamorphosis
METAMORPHOSIS, by j0ri
4 track album
j0ri.bandcamp.com
johelianthus.bsky.social
“Now on BBC Radio 4; Janet Street Porter, Jeremy Vine and Polly Toynbee discuss the most effective ways to bring about a more tolerant society with their new show: I’m Fucking Farting And It’s Making My Arms Feel Squashy”
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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nevereverdave.bsky.social
Well worth reading 🙏
Anyone reading this who is a parent or carer – how would you feel if a child you love was the target of a cruel hate campaign? If they were being targeted just for being different. My child is not a risk. She is not a threat. She loves painting, hiking in the country, climbing trees, camping with her friends. She loves dancing like no-one’s watching. My daughter is wonderful, kind, sweet (brave, clever, strong, and funny) and she loves Guiding. Girl Guiding’s motto is ‘For All Girls’. Girl Guides is inclusive of deaf girls, girls with disabilities, girls from different ethnic or religious groups, and yes, trans girls too. Diversity. Inclusion. Kindness. That includes my daughter.
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
johelianthus.bsky.social
🧵. Perfectly explains the whole anti-trans shitshow in the UK
flyingrodent.bsky.social flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d
For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Trans girls banned from joining Girlguiding
December 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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greenredsonja.bsky.social
www.change.org/p/allow-tran...
Sign the Petition
Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
www.change.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
johelianthus.bsky.social
Crabbing around the Christmas tree
Everybody’s being sick
December 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
johelianthus.bsky.social
Simply
Having
A wonderful Christmas hide
December 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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alyssamerc.bsky.social
Incredibly weird behavior from a man who has previously sexually harassed me. AI makes it even easier to spread low-effort misogyny, so I'm not surprised the online right is using it so much that it's melting their brains.

Exhausting, but expected.
YouTube 8-Bit Eric Perez shares a picture of Alyssa next to one he AI-generated of her. "I asked ChatGPT to make her beautiful," reads the caption.
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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aimeekitty.bsky.social
Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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badambulist.bsky.social
an honest press would turn the public against the GCs in a week just by describing what they do and say accurately
December 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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esqueer.net
Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
ulycia.bsky.social pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 1d
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
This update includes information you may find upsetting. Please take care when reading. From today, it is with a heavy heart that we announce trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community. There will be no immediate changes for current young members, but more information will be shared soon. Most adult roles - including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support - are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation. Girlguiding believes strongly in inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we will explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us. We stand in solidarity with trans girls and women.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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juliagiantrat.bsky.social
It is quite brutal that in every single case of this type of decision so far, the organizations seem universally to go "oh we're soooo sorry we have to do this" before throwing the trans kids out of the moving car.

I get the rationale kinda but its clear trans kids are seen as Acceptable Casualties
ulycia.bsky.social pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 1d
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
This update includes information you may find upsetting. Please take care when reading. From today, it is with a heavy heart that we announce trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community. There will be no immediate changes for current young members, but more information will be shared soon. Most adult roles - including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support - are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation. Girlguiding believes strongly in inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we will explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us. We stand in solidarity with trans girls and women.
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
johelianthus.bsky.social
I was so moved by this graffiti
A black fence with the word “DORITO!” Spray painted onto it in white
December 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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moongirlsgonemad.bsky.social
Black trans women are paid dust by cis people and trans people. 21 is too young for a trans girl to die. It's not fucking fair. But per the course, Girlalala will be lost in a sea of stories of trans women of color who aren't as loved or as protected as we should be.

May she rest in peace.
TikTok Star Girlalala Dies at 21 as Boyfriend Is Arrested on First-Degree Murder Charge
The creator, who had hundreds of thousands of followers, worked as a hairstylist in Pompano Beach, Fla.
ca.news.yahoo.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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pairofclaws.bsky.social
You heard right: Me and three of my friends are going to force femme the Pope.
them.us Them @them.us · 19d
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
johelianthus.bsky.social
Went out in Chorley this evening. Got attacked for being trans. Punched in the face and physically assaulted. If JK Rowling and her tribe think that they’re doing good for the world, I challenge them to look at the bruises on my face and to tell me otherwise. I’ll bite your fucking nose off.
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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patchworkrattlebag.bsky.social
The 'Vertigo Dreams' music video is now available on YouTube following its premiere at @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social

YouTube - youtu.be/QMr0U7W9PxA?...

Digital - ditto.fm/vertigo-dreams

Bandcamp - patchworkrattlebag.bandcamp.com

#newsingle #youmaketheconnections #wearepatchworkrattlebag
Vertigo Dreams (Official Music Video)
Patchwork Rattlebag - Vertigo Dreams Single release - 07/11/2025 Streaming platforms (excluding Spotify) - https://ditto.fm/vertigo-dreams Bandcamp (pay what you want) -…
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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johelianthus.bsky.social
Me: What on earth are you doing John? It’s been a week and I’ve heard nothing

John Lennon: I’m saving the world

Me: You’re in bed..?

JL: Saaaaving the wooolrd 🙂

Me: It stinks in here, have you been in bed all week??

JL: I doing it for wooolrd 🙂

Me: FFS is that heroin?

JL: Savin wolrd peas 🙂
January 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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johelianthus.bsky.social
Jeremy Vine has worms for fingers and he tickles all the cakes in secret
March 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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patchworkrattlebag.bsky.social
Vertigo Dreams, the second single from our album 'Fragments 1', will be released on 7th November 2025.

Available on all digital platforms, excluding Spotify.

Pre-order - ditto.fm/vertigo-dreams

#singlerelease #youmaketheconnections #wearepatchworkrattlebag #boycottspotify #nomusicforgenocide
October 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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johelianthus.bsky.social
Trans people are like City fans. By the amount that their respective community is spoken about you’d think there was millions of us when in reality there’s about 38 of us
September 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
johelianthus.bsky.social
Playing Dragon Quest 11 on Switch and I just adore Sylvando
October 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
johelianthus.bsky.social
My EP has been out for a bit, I was kinda mentally indisposed around the time i should’ve been promoting it. It’s about my coming to terms with my trans identity and there is an element of chronology contained in the songs and the order they appear

j0ri.bandcamp.com/album/metamorphosis
METAMORPHOSIS, by j0ri
4 track album
j0ri.bandcamp.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
On the one hand, it is *incredibly* aggravating that this is being Noticed now, and Noticed via being passed to a Tory MP to make it look like a new story in particular. On the other, this letter is a Who’s Who of people who spent early 2024 bragging to journos about how smart they’d been.
Vijay Rangarajan Chief Executive Electoral Commission By email: pef@electoralcommission.org.uk 20 September 2025 Dear Vijay, LABOUR TOGETHER: REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATION I am writing, on behalf of the Conservative Party, to request that the Electoral Commission opens an investigation into the alleged actions of Morgan McSweeney and the members' association, Labour Together. New information has come to light that raises the question of whether a criminal offence has been committed, such that the Electoral Commission would wish to initiate a formal inquir and then to refer the incident to the police. The previous investigation for hiding donations Morgan McSweeney was Secretary of Labour Together - the role responsible for compliance and administration, from 10 July 2017 to 4 April 2020.' As you will be aware, in September 2021, the Electoral Commission found that Labour Together broke the law by failing to report £739,492 of political donations. The Commission fined Labour Together £14,250 for (a) failure to deliver donation reports within 30 days of accepting donations, (b) inaccurate reporting of a donation, and (c) failure to appoint responsible persons within 30 days of accepting donations? These funds were used by Labour Together in a sustained political campaign to bring down Jeremy Corbyn and secure the election of Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour Party. Only after Keir Starmer had seized control of the Labour Party, in November 2020, and after Morgan McSweeney had joined the Labour Party as Starmer's Campaigns Director, did Labour Together approach the Electoral Commission to report the late donations. The lawyers representing Labour Together blamed "human error and administrative oversight" and that their client had been as "open and transparent" as possible.' The Electoral Commission will hold the full copy of this letter, which has not previously been placed in the public domain. ' Companies House, Labour Together LTD, (link). 2 Electoral Commission, Mon… New information on how the Electoral Commission was misled The Conservative Party has now seen the internal correspondence between Morgan McSweeney (corresponding from a Labour Party email account) and Gerald Shamash* of solicitor Edwards Duthie Shamash. We assume that this email has been passed from within the Labour Party to outside sources. This correspondence relates to how the Electoral Commissior should be handled after the Commission had initiated its formal investigation On 3 February 2021, Mr Shamash advises Morgan McSweeney: "The amounts of the late reported donations is £739,492 and there are in my view, no easy way to explain how LT [Labour Together] finds itself in this situation." • "The legislation is clear that notwithstanding LT should have reported." • "The advice from the EC was that LT as a members association LT needed to continue to register." • In that light, he recommends a strategy where "best to simply base our case as to the non-reporting down as admin error." • The current Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is quoted that she recalled a meeting with Labour MPs in early 2019, where Morgan McSweeney told them that donations to Labour Together had to be, and were being, reported to the Electoral Commission. • But, based on information from Shabana Mahmood and Steve Reed [current Local Government Secretary, who is in charge of electoral law], he notes that the intent of Labour Together was otherwise - to hide the donations "to protect Trevor [Chinn) as donor and director". [EC's] suspicions". • There is discussion of a notional conversation with the Electoral Commission in 2018 (incidentally, of which the Electoral Commission has no record*), where it is recommended should not be referenced given it would result in a "defensive approach" by the Electoral Commission; the advice is also that such an approach would be inconsistent with the reporting of a donation in August 2018. I believe there is a strong public interest that this information is … Alongside this, the Electoral Commission has released under the Freedom of Information Act® details of a phone call (rightly logged by the Electoral Commission under their case management system) of 14 November 2017 making clear that donations had to be reported. "Labour Together have not been reporting donations to us, Mr McSweeney was under the impression that Labour Together did not have to report because they do not campaign. However; Labour Together is a registered MA on our system. Mr McSweeney says they are not a members association and so this is where the confusion started... I advised him to report the donations to us with a cover letter saying why they had not been reported sooner and said that if the details in the system are wrong, we can review it." In addition, the FOI shows that this was followed by an email of 6 December 2017 to Morgan McSweeney making this totally explicit. "During our conversation on this matter (14/11/17), I said I would look into the question of whether Labour Together is a Members Association. "The definition of a Members Association is: an organisation that is not a political party, but it is wholly, or mainly, made up of the members of a political party. As the board of Labour Together is mainly made up of Labour Party Members, it is considered to be a Members Association. Under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA) there are rules that certain organisations must follow in relation to donations and loans that they receive in connection with their political activities, which include such activities as promoting or developing policies for adoption by a political party, or promoting the candidacy of an individual for internal party office. Groups that are wholly or mainly made up of members of a registered political party but exist outside that party's constitution are subject to these rules. Under PPERA, members associations fall under 'regulated donee' rules. Members associations do not need to regi… €147,500 of donations during the period of the 2020 Labour Party leadership election when Morgan McSweeney was Secretary.* In this new evidence which has come to light, there is discussion of Morgan McSweeney's "defence that "LT was not at that time a campaigning organisation, was inward facing, had no public meetings, acted as a think tank without a Twitter account". But the lawyers are then explicit that "the legislation is clear" and "LT should have reported" the donations. The statutory tests above are obvious that just being 'inward facing' does not exempt one from the requirements to report donations. The implications of this new revelation Taken together, one could draw the following inferences: • Labour Together and Morgan McSweeney were told they needed to report donations. • They chose not to report those donations, as they did not want the Corbyn-led Labour Party to know who was bankrolling their secretive political campaigning, and to keep their work below the political radar. Whilst their donors could have faced intimidation from the hard-left, that is not justification for breaking the law. • Once the Electoral Commission was investigating the case, a false excuse of administrative errors was concocted to minimise the sanctions they faced and the bad publicity. Morgan McSweeney's name was airbrushed out of the picture. • The Home Secretary and the Local Government Secretary (in charge of criminal law, and political finance law, respectively) have been embroiled in this cover-up. • The Electoral Commission was knowingly misled. Potential for a criminal investigation The Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000 provides for a criminal offence under paragraph 13(3), Schedule 19B, of knowingly or recklessly providing false information to a person authorised to investigate possible offences under PPERA.' There is no risk of double jeopardy in this case, given it would clearly be a separate offence to the substantive failure to report political d…
September 23, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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badambulist.bsky.social
I wonder for how many military people it was a radicalising moment to see the British press and political class go all-in on ‘protecting women’ from trans women and yet just kind of boys-will-be-boys away the rampant threat of sexual assault of women soldiers
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Sep 24
"The British Army tried to suppress a report revealing that female soldiers were locking themselves in their bedrooms at night to avoid sexual assault by drunken male comrades." [Tiny piece in the Times p13]
September 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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steviechick.bsky.social
So apparently something I'll have to do now for ther foreseeable is play whack-a-mole and get Twitter to take down accounts impersonating me and DM-ing artists telling them they will write about them for MOJO or the Guardian if the artist pays them money.
September 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM