meadowyarn
@meadowyarn.bsky.social
Dyeing yarn and telling stories in the Suffolk countryside
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An extraordinary thing, this.
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
Trans Mission - Wednesday 11th March
Mighty Hoopla and Olly Alexander team up for a Trans Mission: an all-star solidarity concert for the trans community at OVO Arena Wembley
www.transmissionlive.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
An extraordinary thing, this.
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
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steve smith, you scored 17 on your specialist subject, "getting hit by jofra archer"
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
steve smith, you scored 17 on your specialist subject, "getting hit by jofra archer"
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"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
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And why call it 'golden ticket'?
Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?
A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.
4,671.
Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?
Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?
A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.
4,671.
Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?
People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
And why call it 'golden ticket'?
Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?
A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.
4,671.
Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?
Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?
A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.
4,671.
Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?
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Imagine receiving a pay rise 18 times more than the average UK salary of £37,800.....
Deloitte UK’s chief executive receives £700,000 pay rise to £4.9m.
Firm has a history of delivering dud audits. Rewards for failure.
In common with other LLPs, the firm avoids paying employer national insurance on partners' profit share.
Govt silence on fat-cattery.
archive.ph/Z1h6H
Firm has a history of delivering dud audits. Rewards for failure.
In common with other LLPs, the firm avoids paying employer national insurance on partners' profit share.
Govt silence on fat-cattery.
archive.ph/Z1h6H
Deloitte UK’s chief executive receives 17% pay rise to £4.9m
Richard Houston’s increase compares with 2.9% for staff at the Big Four firm and comes after warning of lower bonuses at biggest division
www.thetimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Imagine receiving a pay rise 18 times more than the average UK salary of £37,800.....
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Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
September 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
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You can’t out-fash the fash.
Stop trying. It makes us hate you, and the fash will never love you.
Stop trying. It makes us hate you, and the fash will never love you.
BREAKING: Yvette Cooper says she is suspending all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system.
September 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
You can’t out-fash the fash.
Stop trying. It makes us hate you, and the fash will never love you.
Stop trying. It makes us hate you, and the fash will never love you.
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Can govt please explain to those of us who aren’t racist or anti-immigration, who’ve protested peacefully in far greater numbers against Brexit and in support of Palestine… why we are not worth representing at all? Why is it ok to doggedly ignore us in favour of a minority of ignorant haters?
August 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Can govt please explain to those of us who aren’t racist or anti-immigration, who’ve protested peacefully in far greater numbers against Brexit and in support of Palestine… why we are not worth representing at all? Why is it ok to doggedly ignore us in favour of a minority of ignorant haters?
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This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Politically acceptable UK racism is rising, even under La...
As I wrote these words last autumn: “We have made progress... even though that progress remains fragile and insufficient”, little did I realise just how ...
observer.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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“Feminism for me has always been rooted in intersectionality and as a society we should be proud of how we treat our most vulnerable. That’s what I want to be part of working towards.”
🩷 This is what one woman said when we asked our founding members why they joined NION Women.
#WhyWeSigned
🩷 This is what one woman said when we asked our founding members why they joined NION Women.
#WhyWeSigned
August 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
“Feminism for me has always been rooted in intersectionality and as a society we should be proud of how we treat our most vulnerable. That’s what I want to be part of working towards.”
🩷 This is what one woman said when we asked our founding members why they joined NION Women.
#WhyWeSigned
🩷 This is what one woman said when we asked our founding members why they joined NION Women.
#WhyWeSigned
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THREAD The media treats racists in the same way it treats transphobes. Less than 1000 racists protesting against refugees gets loads of mainstream media publicity, like the transphobes got from MSM.
Meanwhile counter-demos & demos against the Gaza genocide with 1000s in attendance are ignored.
1/5
Meanwhile counter-demos & demos against the Gaza genocide with 1000s in attendance are ignored.
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Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations
Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!)
Epping: 100-150
London: 20
Birmingham: 30
Stevenage: 30-50
Norwich: ? anything of any scale
Manchester: ? anything of any scale
Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!)
Epping: 100-150
London: 20
Birmingham: 30
Stevenage: 30-50
Norwich: ? anything of any scale
Manchester: ? anything of any scale
Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
August 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
THREAD The media treats racists in the same way it treats transphobes. Less than 1000 racists protesting against refugees gets loads of mainstream media publicity, like the transphobes got from MSM.
Meanwhile counter-demos & demos against the Gaza genocide with 1000s in attendance are ignored.
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Meanwhile counter-demos & demos against the Gaza genocide with 1000s in attendance are ignored.
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I mean, a girl's got to keep her knitting needles somewhere...
August 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I mean, a girl's got to keep her knitting needles somewhere...
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This Labour govt risks £bns of public funds on Sizewell C- vulnerable to coastal erosion & rising sea levels. Thorpeness, just over a mile away, holds EMERGENCY meeting as the village is likely to lose homes to the sea in the very near future- yet no govt ££s available to help!
#SayNo2SizewellC
#SayNo2SizewellC
August 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This Labour govt risks £bns of public funds on Sizewell C- vulnerable to coastal erosion & rising sea levels. Thorpeness, just over a mile away, holds EMERGENCY meeting as the village is likely to lose homes to the sea in the very near future- yet no govt ££s available to help!
#SayNo2SizewellC
#SayNo2SizewellC
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UK readers, if you can't afford to buy any of these books, order them from your local library. The authors will see your support through loan figures and PLR. You don't even have to finish reading them if you don't want!
14 of 24 authors have now withdrawn.
First Book:
Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas
Main:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies
Judges:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes
First Book:
Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas
Main:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies
Judges:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes
August 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
UK readers, if you can't afford to buy any of these books, order them from your local library. The authors will see your support through loan figures and PLR. You don't even have to finish reading them if you don't want!
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Labour came to power under the banner of ‘change’.
Every poll for years had been saying change is what everybody wanted.
Yet the government had made it its business to go out of its way to portray business as usual.
@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
Every poll for years had been saying change is what everybody wanted.
Yet the government had made it its business to go out of its way to portray business as usual.
@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
Pecksniff: Voters would approve of 80% of immigrants – but nobody dare tell them
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
eastangliabylines.co.uk
July 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Labour came to power under the banner of ‘change’.
Every poll for years had been saying change is what everybody wanted.
Yet the government had made it its business to go out of its way to portray business as usual.
@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
Every poll for years had been saying change is what everybody wanted.
Yet the government had made it its business to go out of its way to portray business as usual.
@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
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It has been six years since the Gender Autonomy Act was passed in Iceland. In those six years, none of the usual fears that anti-trans advocates warn against have manifested - and trans people, non-binary people and intersex people have enjoyed increased rights and protections.
June 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It has been six years since the Gender Autonomy Act was passed in Iceland. In those six years, none of the usual fears that anti-trans advocates warn against have manifested - and trans people, non-binary people and intersex people have enjoyed increased rights and protections.
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My talented wife @jeaniefinlay.com has turned my 'Adrian Chills' stories (short horror stories inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles) into actual columns!
April 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
My talented wife @jeaniefinlay.com has turned my 'Adrian Chills' stories (short horror stories inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles) into actual columns!
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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.
“fears cost of removing two-child benefit cap will outweigh political benefit” It’s true, the children living in abject poverty don’t have a vote…
No 10 delays child poverty strategy with tens of thousands more facing hardship
Exclusive: Flagship policy put back until at least autumn amid fears cost of removing two-child benefit cap will outweigh political benefit
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“fears cost of removing two-child benefit cap will outweigh political benefit” It’s true, the children living in abject poverty don’t have a vote…
I'm a 50+ cis woman who spent a good chunk of the 90s arguing, as a third wave feminist/artist/academic, that we should *absolutely not* be defined by our biological characteristics, I find the supreme court ruling today to be ridiculous and regressive. WTAF! trans women are women trans men are men
April 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I'm a 50+ cis woman who spent a good chunk of the 90s arguing, as a third wave feminist/artist/academic, that we should *absolutely not* be defined by our biological characteristics, I find the supreme court ruling today to be ridiculous and regressive. WTAF! trans women are women trans men are men
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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“The world has changed” says Chancellor on #bbclaurak.
Yes it has - so why stick to outdated counterproductive austerity agenda & arbitrary fiscal rules? You can’t cut your way to growth. Taxes on extreme wealth of super rich would be fairer & more effective than more cuts @patmillsuk.bsky.social
Yes it has - so why stick to outdated counterproductive austerity agenda & arbitrary fiscal rules? You can’t cut your way to growth. Taxes on extreme wealth of super rich would be fairer & more effective than more cuts @patmillsuk.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“The world has changed” says Chancellor on #bbclaurak.
Yes it has - so why stick to outdated counterproductive austerity agenda & arbitrary fiscal rules? You can’t cut your way to growth. Taxes on extreme wealth of super rich would be fairer & more effective than more cuts @patmillsuk.bsky.social
Yes it has - so why stick to outdated counterproductive austerity agenda & arbitrary fiscal rules? You can’t cut your way to growth. Taxes on extreme wealth of super rich would be fairer & more effective than more cuts @patmillsuk.bsky.social