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@mathawthorn.bsky.social
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Artist-Trans Nonbinary-They/them
Artist at Hawthorn Crafts
50something GenXer over 18s only occasional NSFW posts
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Mat @mathawthorn.bsky.social · Nov 27
Hi, I’m Mat, a non binary and transgender artist living in the UK.
I mostly paint/draw fantasy and pagan flavoured art. I’m married to my amazing Ali and we have a business together selling my stuff online:

www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Hawt...
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saffronsfloof.bsky.social
Today’s our first adoption fair! We are six times bigger with six times as much love to bring than when mama and dad took us in!

#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #NoVA #adoptme
Color photograph. Two small gray and black tabby kittens snuggle into a blanket and look at the camera
October 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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cartamonir.com
If you love trans people, if you love sex workers, if you think we deserve to have families... please donate. The amount of money my friend needs to raise for court costs is shocking. Please donate.
morecarta.bsky.social More Carta @morecarta.bsky.social · Oct 12
I am fundraising for an anonymous friend, who is a trans sex worker and POC. They are at risk of losing custody of their children. Please, please donate. This is a situation that is painful and scary beyond description.

PLEASE SHARE GRAPHICS WIDELY

🫂 www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-... 🫂
URGENT NEED! HELP KEEP FAMILY TOGETHER, DONATE NOW! We are raising funds for a pillar of our community: a trans sex worker of color who is at risk of losing custody of their children. While their lawyers are confident they can win this discriminatory case, funds are needed by February 2026. We believe they should no longer have to face this on their own, which is why we are asking for your support. Goal: $50,000 https://www.gofundme.com/help-keep-family-together-urgent Venmo: carta-monir Cashapp: $cartamonir Send donations with a red heart emoji to ensure funds are redirected to this SWER We are raising funds for a beloved community member; a trans sex worker of color who is at risk of losing custody of their children. For their safety and privacy they must remain anonymous, but this is a pillar of our community, loved and verified by those of us running this fundraiser. Our friend is facing a trial in February regarding the custody of their young children. The case against them is based on the fact that their primary form of income is sex work. Notably, the judge of the initial custody arrangement ruled that their job was not reason enough to restrict their parenting time years ago. Because of this precedent, their lawyer feels very confident they will win their upcoming case. To defend their rights to parent their own children, our friend needs to raise $75,000 by February 2026. This staggering amount of money is required by the court to cover the costs associated with a two day trial (lawyers fees, expert witnesses, the court reporter, depositions, creation of trial binders, the list goes on). If they cannot secure these funds by the February deadline, they will be forced to settle, resulting in severely reduced interaction with their children. We obviously do not want this to happen. Our friend has provided for themself and their children for years, fighting their custody battle in private while continuing to be an incredible parent, friend, and educator. They can no longer face this by themselves, which is why we are asking for your support. In our current political climate, we know that our friend's situation is especially precarious. This is a crucial moment to show solidarity with a community member who needs it more than ever.
October 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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katrafiy.bsky.social
I think it is important for people to understand that the UK in 2025 is more transphobic now than they were in 1394 (700 years ago) when they arrested and subsequently released Eleanor Rykener in a similar case as this one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John/El...
October 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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rincewind.run
this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too
oregonian.com The Oregonian @oregonian.com · Oct 10
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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mayawest.online
I love The Frog 😭
dannykpolitics.bsky.social Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · Oct 6
WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents
October 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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greenparty.org.uk
💚 Greens are on the rise everywhere!

📈 New polling from YouGov shows the Green Party is viewed more favourably than any other party in London and among younger voters.

💪 And we're just getting started. Join the Green Party today ⤵️
Greens most popular party in London Green Party 27% Labour 20% Reform 16% YouG0v REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ With photo of Dalston in the background
October 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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artbyveya.bsky.social
Block bigots because it's self-care.

You deserve to have your spaces be as safe and loving as you need or want them to be. You don't owe anyone a platform. You don't owe anyone space. Block when you need to, to maintain your peace.
October 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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unraveledpress.com
Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition.

A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.
October 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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deeboom.bsky.social
Genuinely don't know if I'll be able to scrape the money together to make my surgery on the 8th of December

My family pulled out of £2k they promised, for no reason 😖

Please help me share my fundraiser to try and get me through the door and have my surgery

🏳️‍⚧️🙏🏻🏳️‍⚧️🙏🏻🏳️‍⚧️

chuffed.org/project/1312...
Help Dee Get Her Gender Affirming Surgeries 🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Hi, I'm Talyn, a good friend of Dee's and I want to get her at least off to a good start fulfilling her dream of getting gender affirming surgeries.
chuffed.org
October 4, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
By the way, signal boosts are especially appreciated on this, 'cos it's a mature game so I'll have less viewers than usual.
October 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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esqueer.net
Earle-Sears has exclusively focused on anti-trans messaging in her political ad spend and it has resulted in her losing by 12 points. This anti-trans stuff is not popular, people want to hear about actual problems.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Spanberger holds wide lead in Virginia governor’s race, Post-Schar School poll finds
Democrat Abigail Spanberger is up 12 points over Republican Winsome Earle-Sears in campaign where the economy weighs heavily on voters’ minds, a Washington Post-Schar School poll found.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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wearequeeraf.com
Tomorrow in our newsletter, we'll be publishing our latest up-to-date estimates for every GIC in the country.

An investigation months in the making:

www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

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October 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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taliabhatt.itch.io
what pro-trans crusade

Streeting meets with conversion therapy groups and Starmer repeats their talking points verbatim and it's still not enough
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Oct 2
Oliver Brown has been quiet for a couple of months but has clearly been away huffing more mould. This is in the sports section of today's Telegraph.

Lisa Nandy basically said some trans people could be included in some things and this is the response.
Labour’s pro-trans crusade is deluded – and voters know it The Daily Telegraph2 Oct 2025 Oliver Brown Chief Sports Writer
October 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social
Elon Musk is the rare sort of bigot that hates LGBTQ+ people because so many of us are effortlessly cooler and more likeable than him and don't need to drop billions of dollars buying a social media site just so people will talk to us because we're enjoyable to be around.
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Oct 2
1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters
Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
mathawthorn.bsky.social
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leftiestats.bsky.social Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · Oct 2
🚨 NEW | Anti-trans hate group "Green Women's Declaration" have been formally barred from Green Party conference.

The group sought a stall at conference, but their bid was denied by the party. Green leader Zack Polanski recently affirmed the party's support for trans rights.
October 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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sundersays.bsky.social
As Yom Kippur ends, it is terrible that a holy day has seen people killed at a place of worship in Manchester

I hope many of us will express solidarity + support for Jews in Britain, and work with them + those of every faith and none to deepen our efforts to tackle antisemitism, hatred + extremism
To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you
October 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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andreaceleste.meangirls.online
nova twins say trans rights!
parasites & butterflies by nova twins on vinyl autographed with the caption Andrea Celeste, Trans Rights!!
October 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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whatthetrans.com
Literally recording this episode right now!
wearequeeraf.com QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · Oct 2
This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter:

A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare

Sign up 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/
Picture of documents with NHS branding, with title: The Gender Clinic Files and text that reads: A new investigative series that exposes deep structural issues with the UK’s approach to Transgender healthcare in the QueerAF newsletter with What The Trans!? every Saturday this month. QueerAF and What The Trans logos all on a blue background showing a blurred out medical setting.
October 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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transsalamander.bsky.social
lmao the episode where Nightshade reveals their pronouns are they/them premiered over two and a half years ago and there was already a conservative backlash over it.

They're sooooo out of touch and just reacting to whatever is in their feed in the moment.

tfwiki.net/wiki/Age_of_...
Text from TFWiki: « Transformers: EarthSpark ep 10 » Earthspark AOEP2 staredown.jpg Mandroid's Moving Castle "Age of Evolution, Part 2" Season 1 No. in season 10 Production company Entertainment One Nickelodeon Airdate November 11, 2022 (Paramount+) March 3, 2023 (Nickelodeon) Writers Nicole Dubuc & Dale Malinowski Director J.J. Conway Animation studio Icon Creative Studio Quotes Nightshade: Ooh, may I be the bobblehead? Optimus: Of course. Morgan, can you switch...um... Mo: Nightshade's pronouns are "they/them". Nightshade: "He" or "she" just doesn't fit who I am. Optimus: My apologies. Please switch their piece.
October 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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lazzieb.bsky.social
..look..

Normativity aside, if you're a school head and you're sending a vulnerable subset of kids wearing skirts into the boys' toilets, something has gone badly fucking wrong, man.

Badly fucking wrong.

You're not even being consistent. Ban transition altogether, that's what you're after anyway.
October 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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popeguilty.bsky.social
"Transphobic" like "racist" was coined to describe a reality and a moral valence came along with that description and it turns out a lot of people love the reality - the behavior, the attitude, the structural harm- but will violently resist the idea that their lessers may morally evaluate them.
ciara2001.bsky.social ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.bsky.social · Oct 2
Sorry luv, that's definitely transphobic, that's extremely transphobic
October 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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brodiewaddell.bsky.social
Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core. Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
mathawthorn.bsky.social
Improve a song by replacing a word with gock

Another one bites the gock
shelleybwoke.bsky.social FreeLinkophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · Oct 2
Improve a song by replacing a word with gock

The Gocks are Back In Town
victorfield.bsky.social Victor Field @victorfield.bsky.social · Oct 2
"Gock Around The Clock".
October 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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shelleybwoke.bsky.social
Reading the news about the Green Party rejecting an insidious transphobic hate group, and seeing trans people celebrate a party that is actually doing some things right, I can't help but think about the Your Party, which had this at its grasp, if only ...🤔
October 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM