Charlie Brampton
@maniccharlie.bsky.social
Disgruntled academic librarian. Feminist and optimist. Podcast listener, book reader and bus traveller. She/her.
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if you are concerned that magistrates are being given more powers and you think that the demographics of magistrates might mean that these powers are unfairly deployed, a good thing to do is to look up the qualifications to become a magistrate and to think seriously about doing that yourself
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
if you are concerned that magistrates are being given more powers and you think that the demographics of magistrates might mean that these powers are unfairly deployed, a good thing to do is to look up the qualifications to become a magistrate and to think seriously about doing that yourself
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You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"I PITY THE FOOL who measures out his life in coffee spoons. I ain't gonna wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled, fool."
Oh look. It's Mr T's Eliot.
Oh look. It's Mr T's Eliot.
October 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"I PITY THE FOOL who measures out his life in coffee spoons. I ain't gonna wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled, fool."
Oh look. It's Mr T's Eliot.
Oh look. It's Mr T's Eliot.
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IG newberlinlibrary
IG newberlinlibrary
October 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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IG newberlinlibrary
IG newberlinlibrary
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we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
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Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
August 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
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One overlooked benefit of declaring preferred pronouns as a social norm is that it's not just for LGBTQ but also for people w non-Anglo names. I'm a cishet woman with a very feminine name but nobody's gonna know that if they don't know Chinese.
But the anti-LGBTQ crowd are also anti-immigrant so..
But the anti-LGBTQ crowd are also anti-immigrant so..
August 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
One overlooked benefit of declaring preferred pronouns as a social norm is that it's not just for LGBTQ but also for people w non-Anglo names. I'm a cishet woman with a very feminine name but nobody's gonna know that if they don't know Chinese.
But the anti-LGBTQ crowd are also anti-immigrant so..
But the anti-LGBTQ crowd are also anti-immigrant so..
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A strong woman is a woman making
herself strong every morning while her teeth
loosen and her back throbs. Every baby,
a tooth, midwives used to say, and now
every battle a scar. A strong woman
is a mass of scar tissue that aches
when it rains and wounds that bleed
when you bump them
herself strong every morning while her teeth
loosen and her back throbs. Every baby,
a tooth, midwives used to say, and now
every battle a scar. A strong woman
is a mass of scar tissue that aches
when it rains and wounds that bleed
when you bump them
For strong women by Marge Piercy at Allpoetry
Comments & analysis: A strong woman is a woman who is straining / A strong woman is a woman standing / on tipto
allpoetry.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
A strong woman is a woman making
herself strong every morning while her teeth
loosen and her back throbs. Every baby,
a tooth, midwives used to say, and now
every battle a scar. A strong woman
is a mass of scar tissue that aches
when it rains and wounds that bleed
when you bump them
herself strong every morning while her teeth
loosen and her back throbs. Every baby,
a tooth, midwives used to say, and now
every battle a scar. A strong woman
is a mass of scar tissue that aches
when it rains and wounds that bleed
when you bump them
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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
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An excellent no nonsense statement from the Women's Institute.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
The Women's Institute was founded on democratic ideals over 100 years ago and this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion is still central to our ethos today.
www.thewi.org.uk
August 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
An excellent no nonsense statement from the Women's Institute.
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Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.
July 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.
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All this stuff about Britain is broken, all is terrible, there is no recourse, society is falling apart, if there was a war nobody would go, etc is beginning to irritate me.
There are doubtlessly considerable problems. But I worry that the catastrophizing could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
There are doubtlessly considerable problems. But I worry that the catastrophizing could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
June 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
All this stuff about Britain is broken, all is terrible, there is no recourse, society is falling apart, if there was a war nobody would go, etc is beginning to irritate me.
There are doubtlessly considerable problems. But I worry that the catastrophizing could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
There are doubtlessly considerable problems. But I worry that the catastrophizing could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Happy as a clam? A clam? You mean those tiny things with no brain that just chill on the bottom of the ocean all day in their own little private shells and have absolutely no concept of what’s going on in the nevermind I get it now
July 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Happy as a clam? A clam? You mean those tiny things with no brain that just chill on the bottom of the ocean all day in their own little private shells and have absolutely no concept of what’s going on in the nevermind I get it now
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Man, this is good advice.
Never trust a politician who doesn’t know how to stack chairs or fold a table away
June 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Man, this is good advice.
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okay and here is my ‘sounds like a shitpost but it’s genuine’ UK heatwave tip: if there is a Saxon or Norman church near you, and it’s open, go sit in it. not gothic, they have too many windows, get you some thick stone walls with some high up tiny windows. they stay cold. and you can just sit there
June 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
okay and here is my ‘sounds like a shitpost but it’s genuine’ UK heatwave tip: if there is a Saxon or Norman church near you, and it’s open, go sit in it. not gothic, they have too many windows, get you some thick stone walls with some high up tiny windows. they stay cold. and you can just sit there
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The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage *and* a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.
June 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage *and* a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.
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"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
June 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
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Even if "white British" will be a minority in the UK in 40 years - so what? Seriously, so what? What is so terrible about that? Make people spell out their horrors. Make them spell out the things they are supposedly not allowed to say. Make them own it.
June 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Even if "white British" will be a minority in the UK in 40 years - so what? Seriously, so what? What is so terrible about that? Make people spell out their horrors. Make them spell out the things they are supposedly not allowed to say. Make them own it.
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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The Chicago Pope implies the existence of a New Keynesian Pope and a Behavioral Pope
May 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The Chicago Pope implies the existence of a New Keynesian Pope and a Behavioral Pope
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An estimated 1000 people have gathered in Bonn Square to demonstrate support for trans rights. The rally has been organised by Oxford for Trans Rights.
April 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
An estimated 1000 people have gathered in Bonn Square to demonstrate support for trans rights. The rally has been organised by Oxford for Trans Rights.
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Our @womensinstitute.bsky.social welcomes anyone who identifies as a woman and I hope the WI will always be a welcoming space and an ally to the trans women in our communities. Trans women are women, and I won’t entertain any regressive takes that insist otherwise.
Actually fuck off. Who is the EHRC to tell voluntary associations what to and what not to do?
April 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Our @womensinstitute.bsky.social welcomes anyone who identifies as a woman and I hope the WI will always be a welcoming space and an ally to the trans women in our communities. Trans women are women, and I won’t entertain any regressive takes that insist otherwise.
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Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
April 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
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April 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM