Thyme
@kittenthyme.bsky.social
Queer ND teacher at a large sixth form college, active in the NEU and outspoken about all things education.
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As Pride Month comes to an end, let’s remember the Stonewall riots of 1969
We must honour the spirit of Stonewall!
Pride is a protest, as well as a party!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcMPVqFSky4
We must honour the spirit of Stonewall!
Pride is a protest, as well as a party!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcMPVqFSky4
Stonewall at 56
Stonewall at 56
www.youtube.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
As Pride Month comes to an end, let’s remember the Stonewall riots of 1969
We must honour the spirit of Stonewall!
Pride is a protest, as well as a party!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcMPVqFSky4
We must honour the spirit of Stonewall!
Pride is a protest, as well as a party!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcMPVqFSky4
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July 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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NEW: We’ve uncovered how the EHRC met behind closed doors twice with anti-trans group Sex Matters to discuss rolling back trans rights. What they said will alarm you. 1/6
tacc.org.uk/2025/06/23/h...
tacc.org.uk/2025/06/23/h...
How the EHRC Enabled an Anti-Trans Agenda - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
The meeting between the EHRC and Sex Matters shows a human rights body quietly aligning with those seeking to remove rights from a vulnerable minority.
tacc.org.uk
June 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
NEW: We’ve uncovered how the EHRC met behind closed doors twice with anti-trans group Sex Matters to discuss rolling back trans rights. What they said will alarm you. 1/6
tacc.org.uk/2025/06/23/h...
tacc.org.uk/2025/06/23/h...
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If you're in the UK, you can get a sticker for £1 (stamp + envelope) + 'pay as you feel' here: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/pay-...
If you're anywhere else, unfortunately the only way I can afford to do this is as a freebie when you buy a pride pin at: canopyrobin.etsy.com (let me know!)
If you're anywhere else, unfortunately the only way I can afford to do this is as a freebie when you buy a pride pin at: canopyrobin.etsy.com (let me know!)
Pay as you feel trans GameChanger sticker
A 7.5cm x 4cm vinyl sticker.
Shipping fees and the 25p minimum spend are only enough to stop me actively loosing money doing this. I would really appreciate if you feel you are able to donate a little...
canopyrobin.sumupstore.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
If you're in the UK, you can get a sticker for £1 (stamp + envelope) + 'pay as you feel' here: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/pay-...
If you're anywhere else, unfortunately the only way I can afford to do this is as a freebie when you buy a pride pin at: canopyrobin.etsy.com (let me know!)
If you're anywhere else, unfortunately the only way I can afford to do this is as a freebie when you buy a pride pin at: canopyrobin.etsy.com (let me know!)
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I've never been able to understand why (state) sixth form colleges have to pay VAT? When we buy things like graphical calculators in bulk for students to buy, we have to charge them 20% more than their peers in schools. If we have to pay it, private schools certainly should!
High court dismisses challenges against adding VAT to UK private school fees
High court dismisses challenges against adding VAT to UK private school fees
Surcharge was a Labour party manifesto commitment at the 2024 general election
The high court has dismissed a wave of legal challenges against adding VAT to private school fees in the UK, saying that the government’s decision was a rare example of Brexit freedoms.
The judges noted that adding 20% to private school fees would not have been possible under EU law, stating: “This is therefore one respect in which the UK’s exit from the EU has increased the scope of parliament’s freedom to determine policy.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I've never been able to understand why (state) sixth form colleges have to pay VAT? When we buy things like graphical calculators in bulk for students to buy, we have to charge them 20% more than their peers in schools. If we have to pay it, private schools certainly should!
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Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do.
So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.
So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.
I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
June 13, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do.
So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.
So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.
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"bsky is not fun, the algorithm isn't showing me funny posts :/"
skill issue. you obviously need more horse game + art history analysis in your feed
skill issue. you obviously need more horse game + art history analysis in your feed
but alice bringing up the connotations of the bayeux horse penises is still just as relevant then as it is now as new media is produced. viewers can clearly see not only the erect component, but the balls. these appear in the lengthy (haha) bayeux tapestry over 90 times. so we have to ask: why? +
June 13, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"bsky is not fun, the algorithm isn't showing me funny posts :/"
skill issue. you obviously need more horse game + art history analysis in your feed
skill issue. you obviously need more horse game + art history analysis in your feed
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Considering the outrage of literal children peacefully camping outside the EHRC its clear they just see Any protest as unjustified and to be met with scorn instead of consideration
Im sure this will only make protests more gentle
Im sure this will only make protests more gentle
An otherwise vaguely good article by Gabby Hinsliff in the Guarditerf marred by this hooey.
How many trans people have been murdered or driven to suicide for being trans?
How many transphobic bigots have been murdered or driven to suicide for being transphobic bigots?
How many trans people have been murdered or driven to suicide for being trans?
How many transphobic bigots have been murdered or driven to suicide for being transphobic bigots?
![and she was visibly emotional when the gender-critical MP Rosie Duffield (who has been through something similar) reminded her about the placards reading “the only good Terf [trans-exclusionary radical feminist] is a dead Terf” or when protesters in 2022 dumped 60 bottles of urine on her office doorstep.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d56idxm2oyqwwn2uxnegm2yo/bafkreihbq44qopt2b7bznt4rom5xosclujngbfdncgawdccfoyospv6jzu@jpeg)
June 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Considering the outrage of literal children peacefully camping outside the EHRC its clear they just see Any protest as unjustified and to be met with scorn instead of consideration
Im sure this will only make protests more gentle
Im sure this will only make protests more gentle
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If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a single-sex space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. We need to hear from you.
Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo25
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ
Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo25
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ
June 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a single-sex space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. We need to hear from you.
Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo25
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ
Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo25
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ
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Where did she get the legal advice from? Grok AI?
Goodwin vs UK makes it very clear that Article 8 does apply.
Goodwin vs UK makes it very clear that Article 8 does apply.
June 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Where did she get the legal advice from? Grok AI?
Goodwin vs UK makes it very clear that Article 8 does apply.
Goodwin vs UK makes it very clear that Article 8 does apply.
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I firmly believe David Walliams should be punished to the harshest extent of the law for (waves hand vaguely) whatever they can think of
June 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I firmly believe David Walliams should be punished to the harshest extent of the law for (waves hand vaguely) whatever they can think of
Solidarity and support for HSDC and Alton College workers on strike today. Good for you. Love and support from the rest of the post-16 sector. You're a force for good in the areas where you are.
June 13, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Solidarity and support for HSDC and Alton College workers on strike today. Good for you. Love and support from the rest of the post-16 sector. You're a force for good in the areas where you are.
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Pride isn’t a marketing moment.
Some firms who have supported Pride are advertising on GB News – a rightwing TV channel known for pumping out hatred of LGBTQ+ people.
We’ve teamed up with Stop Funding Hate to get these companies to pull their ads.
Support our action 👇
goodlaw.social/dft0
Some firms who have supported Pride are advertising on GB News – a rightwing TV channel known for pumping out hatred of LGBTQ+ people.
We’ve teamed up with Stop Funding Hate to get these companies to pull their ads.
Support our action 👇
goodlaw.social/dft0
May 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Pride isn’t a marketing moment.
Some firms who have supported Pride are advertising on GB News – a rightwing TV channel known for pumping out hatred of LGBTQ+ people.
We’ve teamed up with Stop Funding Hate to get these companies to pull their ads.
Support our action 👇
goodlaw.social/dft0
Some firms who have supported Pride are advertising on GB News – a rightwing TV channel known for pumping out hatred of LGBTQ+ people.
We’ve teamed up with Stop Funding Hate to get these companies to pull their ads.
Support our action 👇
goodlaw.social/dft0
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Kishwer Falkner has been a disaster for the EHRC (long before recent events, and not just on trans issues).
If she has any integrity or concern for our rights (the rights the EHRC exists to protect) she will resign now and let Govt appoint someone who can.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
If she has any integrity or concern for our rights (the rights the EHRC exists to protect) she will resign now and let Govt appoint someone who can.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
MPs fear UK equality watchdog may take months to sign off gender guidance
Exclusive: EHRC insiders believe process could drag on until after its chair is replaced in November
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Kishwer Falkner has been a disaster for the EHRC (long before recent events, and not just on trans issues).
If she has any integrity or concern for our rights (the rights the EHRC exists to protect) she will resign now and let Govt appoint someone who can.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
If she has any integrity or concern for our rights (the rights the EHRC exists to protect) she will resign now and let Govt appoint someone who can.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The pressure is working, the Governing unity between the Tories and Labour against trans people is beginning to break apart.
Keep up the pressure, keep organising, keep contacting your MPs, keep ensuring your workplaces and community spaces resist.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Keep up the pressure, keep organising, keep contacting your MPs, keep ensuring your workplaces and community spaces resist.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘A real mess’: splits emerge in Labour over supreme court’s gender ruling
Growing number of MPs are questioning Keir Starmer’s claim that ruling has brought ‘clarity’ to issue
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The pressure is working, the Governing unity between the Tories and Labour against trans people is beginning to break apart.
Keep up the pressure, keep organising, keep contacting your MPs, keep ensuring your workplaces and community spaces resist.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Keep up the pressure, keep organising, keep contacting your MPs, keep ensuring your workplaces and community spaces resist.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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the member of staff who needs to check if u have a penis but not in a Rude Manner
May 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
the member of staff who needs to check if u have a penis but not in a Rude Manner
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The key question in this short but damning (of the Supreme Court) letter by Emeritus Professor of neuroscience at Cambridge Uni is this;
“Why should genitals supersede brains?”
The “Supreme” Court has decided our bodies matter more than our souls, our minds.
It is an extreme dehumanization.
“Why should genitals supersede brains?”
The “Supreme” Court has decided our bodies matter more than our souls, our minds.
It is an extreme dehumanization.
The UK Supreme Court's ruling and the rights of transgender people
On April 16, 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that only those who are what it terms
as biologically female can be defined as women.1 This has wide implications for medicine
as well as for people who a...
www.thelancet.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The key question in this short but damning (of the Supreme Court) letter by Emeritus Professor of neuroscience at Cambridge Uni is this;
“Why should genitals supersede brains?”
The “Supreme” Court has decided our bodies matter more than our souls, our minds.
It is an extreme dehumanization.
“Why should genitals supersede brains?”
The “Supreme” Court has decided our bodies matter more than our souls, our minds.
It is an extreme dehumanization.
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Just so I'm clear. The EHRC were able to do all the necessary work to get legal advice on interim guidance in 9 days and within 4 weeks have produced an updated guidance with a consultation, but they cannot respond to a letter before action in 14 days or 21 days (which is FOI time period). Liars.
May 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Just so I'm clear. The EHRC were able to do all the necessary work to get legal advice on interim guidance in 9 days and within 4 weeks have produced an updated guidance with a consultation, but they cannot respond to a letter before action in 14 days or 21 days (which is FOI time period). Liars.
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It's been exactly 6 months since I launched my first enamel pin at canopyrobin.etsy.com
Since then, I've sold over 700 pins to people across 13 countries and more than 300 towns 🤯 I've also made 5 more designs in 28 variations. Thank you so much to everyone who's bought and shared them!
Since then, I've sold over 700 pins to people across 13 countries and more than 300 towns 🤯 I've also made 5 more designs in 28 variations. Thank you so much to everyone who's bought and shared them!
May 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It's been exactly 6 months since I launched my first enamel pin at canopyrobin.etsy.com
Since then, I've sold over 700 pins to people across 13 countries and more than 300 towns 🤯 I've also made 5 more designs in 28 variations. Thank you so much to everyone who's bought and shared them!
Since then, I've sold over 700 pins to people across 13 countries and more than 300 towns 🤯 I've also made 5 more designs in 28 variations. Thank you so much to everyone who's bought and shared them!
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I think people need to delete their menstrual tracking apps. They have already been used as evidence against women accused of illegal abortions. This is a crime that can have you sent to prison for life
The U.K. police have had guidance on how to search you after a miscarriage incase someone wants to accuse you of an illegal abortion. I can’t say it enough, we need this abortion decriminalisation amendment to pass this time observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer
New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs
observer.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I think people need to delete their menstrual tracking apps. They have already been used as evidence against women accused of illegal abortions. This is a crime that can have you sent to prison for life
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Politicians saying they can't march if they can't do it as their party are interesting. So there's not a single community group already registered for the parade that would let you march with them? Damn, sounds like you have some work to do engaging the LGBTQ+ communities you say you support.
May 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Politicians saying they can't march if they can't do it as their party are interesting. So there's not a single community group already registered for the parade that would let you march with them? Damn, sounds like you have some work to do engaging the LGBTQ+ communities you say you support.
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UK gov pledges nearly £500,000 to support LGBTQ+ survivors of domestic abuse.
💔 Queer people face unique barriers to safety. This funding could be life-saving, but is it enough?
📢 Survivors need more than promises. They need protection.
💔 Queer people face unique barriers to safety. This funding could be life-saving, but is it enough?
📢 Survivors need more than promises. They need protection.
Labour’s delay on conversion practices ban is ‘dangerous’, campaigners say
Exclusive: Failure to act sends message ‘our safety is optional’, says coalition of LGBTQ+, faith and mental health organisations
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
UK gov pledges nearly £500,000 to support LGBTQ+ survivors of domestic abuse.
💔 Queer people face unique barriers to safety. This funding could be life-saving, but is it enough?
📢 Survivors need more than promises. They need protection.
💔 Queer people face unique barriers to safety. This funding could be life-saving, but is it enough?
📢 Survivors need more than promises. They need protection.
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Would love to see some ally mps actually oppose the segregation of trans people rather than accept the premise but insist we “aren’t left without facilities”
Im not thankful for provisions of segregation
Im not thankful for provisions of segregation
May 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Would love to see some ally mps actually oppose the segregation of trans people rather than accept the premise but insist we “aren’t left without facilities”
Im not thankful for provisions of segregation
Im not thankful for provisions of segregation