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Matt Ellis
@mellisr1.bsky.social
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dad, cyclist, ❤ homebrewing,work on climate change, trans rights are human rights & every day stunned & saddened by the theft of rights & protections which are worsening daily :(
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mellisr1.bsky.social
Really enjoyed this half of Black Shuck stout from @bridscrossbrew.bsky.social this lunchtime from the hop emporium at Warrington market. They said it was the first from you and I said they must get the wcipa in. Absolutely delicious
A well kept and delicious half of Black Shuck stout from the wonderful Brid's Cross Brewing based in Rochdale I think
October 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
mellisr1.bsky.social
Such a good project. Emily is my wife's niece and she and her friend have been putting in so much effort into this
chrisgpackham.bsky.social Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · Aug 20
The inspirational Eva & her friend Emily from Devon are taking on an incredible challenge to raise & release 220 harvest mice this summer , reintroducing them to a suitable site near their home in collaboration with renowned ecologist Derek Gow . Do donate ! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/evaemilyha...
August 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
mellisr1.bsky.social
A really nice new food shop in Letchworth. Amazing section of fruit and veg from all over the world. I'm going to take a guess as to what @beernouveau.co.uk will choose as his beer of choice from the chiller.... 😀🍻
Beer selection in chiller fridge in the Onqu food centre Letchworth Garden City The amazing fruit selection in the Onqu Food Centre, Letchworth Garden City
August 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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ninajankowicz.com
Happily greeting a war criminal on a red carpet. What an embarrassing moment for the United States.
August 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
mellisr1.bsky.social
Love this beer festival. Booked for the Thursday evening session (a few Manchester homebrew folk and other clubs tend to do that one at least). Can't wait. One of the highlights of my beer year. Such a great feel and raises money for a hugely deserving cause. 🍻😀
August 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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markshawtoronto.bsky.social
Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane
A cute baby elephant
July 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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loucalvey.bsky.social
Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.
July 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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campfireharve.st
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!" This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows: Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="
July 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
Since Bob Vylan said "Death, death to the IDF" the IDF has killed 400 Palestinians.

Which is why he said what he said.
July 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
mellisr1.bsky.social
Signed. Please consider reading and signing also
philippaeast.bsky.social Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · Jun 21
Open letter calling for an inquiry into the EHRC. I’ve just signed.

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Screenshot from the above webpage. To Women & Equalities Committee We, the undersigned, write to express serious and urgent concerns about the actions of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the apparent unwillingness of the Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) to investigate them. It is becoming increasingly clear that the EHRC is no longer operating as an impartial human rights body. Over the past several years, its leadership has shifted in a direction that appears ideologically driven, hostile to trans equality, and closely aligned with lobbying groups who advocate for the removal of legal protections for transgender people. These groups - including Sex Matters, Policy Exchange, and the LGB Alliance - have played a significant role in reshaping public discourse and influencing legal interpretations of the Equality Act 2010. We are calling on the Women and Equalities Committee to launch an immediate and transparent inquiry into: - The EHRC’s internal decision-making processes regarding the definition of “sex” under the Equality Act 2010; - All communications, meetings, and correspondence between the EHRC and external lobbying organisations from 2020 to the present; - The EHRC’s advice to government departments, ministers, and the courts—especially its role in shaping the outcome of For Women Scotland v The Lord Advocate [2024] UKSC 59. As transgender people and allies, we are gravely concerned that this advice, and the EHRC’s developing policy stance have been influenced not by human rights or evidence, but by ideological lobbying and political convenience. We must understand who the EHRC has been speaking to, what was said, and why these decisions were made. Anything less is a dereliction of democratic oversight.
June 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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goodlawproject.org
"Musicians from London, New York, Mexico, and Nigeria came together and fully gave themselves to a song written by and for trans people. When the session ended, I broke down in tears and we all hugged—some of us were crying too. Something powerful happened that day." m.youtube.com/watch?v=bdjC...
Africa Express - 'Hacernos Así' ft. Luisa Almaguer, Damon Albarn, Seye Adelekan, Nick Zinner & more
YouTube video by Africa Express
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June 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
british fan chat
cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows: [Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them] 1 TOWER FAN 1: Right lads, get ready. 2 TOWER FAN 1: This is our time. 3 TOWER FAN 1: The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here. 4 TOWER FAN 1: We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft, and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever. 5 TOWER FAN 1: I know what you’re thinking, lads: 6 TOWER FAN 1: Surely this will be the year they finally replace us? 7 TOWER FAN 1: Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018... 8 TOWER FAN 1: Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh… TOWER FAN 2: Cheers mate 9 TOWER FAN 1: But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists. By the time they remember, new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon. 10 TOWER FAN 1: So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out... 11 TOWER FAN 1: ...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than. 12 [The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder] PERSON: APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA
May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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maladroithe.bsky.social
This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jun 18
Vice-President JD Vance confirms he has joined BlueSky.

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social
JD Vance V @JDVance Just set up my page on @bluesky, hope to see you guys there! un valive @jd-vance-1.bsky.social Follow Hello Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you. States" supports this position). The implication of these arguments is that courts should defer to so-called expert con- There are several problems with appealing and deferring to the authority of the expert class. First, so-called experts have no license to countermand the "wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices." FCC v. Beach Communications, Inc., 508 U. S. 307, 313 (1993). Second, contrary to the representations of the United States and the private plaintiffs there is no medical consensus on how best to treat gender dysphoria in children. Third, notwithstanding the alleged experts' view that young children can provide informed consent to irreversible sex-transition treatments, whether such consent is possible is a question of medical ethics that States must decide for themselves. Fourth, there are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here, as recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ide-logy to influence their medical guidand Taken together, this case serves as a useful reminder that the American people and their representatives are en- JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social • 47s To that end, I found Justice Thomas's concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating. He argues that many of our so-called "experts" have used bad arguments anc substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth. JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social • 46s I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids. What do you think?
June 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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joshfwd.bsky.social
Reassure people they can tactically vote to keep out Reform tomorrow (May 1st) by voting for..

🟢 GREEN in these places:
stopreformuk.vote/for/greens

🔶 LIBDEM in these places:

stopreformuk.vote/for/libdems

🙋 INDEPENDENT in these places:
stopreformuk.vote/for/independ...
April 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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seawindowcraster.bsky.social
29th April 2025 06.26
Golden glow through hazy cloud
April 29, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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pighill.bsky.social
A modern re-make of a Roman tile makers experiences, in Gaul circa 120 AD.
April 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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heatherreally.bsky.social
We've absolutely demolished my initial target of £200, thanks everyone! Time I moved the goalposts, can we get to £500 for trans+ shelter? (I feel like a poundshop auctioneer lol)
April 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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markgrimshawtism.bsky.social
As Keir Starmer does a “trans women are men” media tour today, I hope people think about that time he invoked the memory of Brianna Ghey in Parliament as part of a gotcha for Rishi Sunak. Abusing her memory for PR whilst plotting to remove the rights she would’ve had to live as herself. He’s sick.
April 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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parkesland.bsky.social
Trans people in the UK are (finally) getting organized!

This letter, started by a single passionate ally, has garnered nearly 1000 signatures in just a few days.

Now, two trans rights orgs are throwing their weight behind it, demanding MPs act

Sign it. Share it.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Re Operation of Single-Sex Services after the Supreme Court Ruling
Explainer: FGEN (feministgenderequality.network) and TransActual (transactual.org.uk) have thrown their support behind this letter and want to make it an official petition for a face to face meeting ...
docs.google.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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goatsarah.org
PLEASE

CIS ALLIES

Have you said “I support trans people?”

Now’s your chance to really follow through. @goodlawproject.bsky.social is crowdfunding to challenge the recent UK decision to effectively strip trans people of all our rights.

PLEASE DONATE. Any amount helps. goodlawproject.org/s/8d966c
Fighting fund for trans rights | Good Law Project
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollbacks on trans rights in the UK.
goodlawproject.org
April 21, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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markavery.bsky.social
Just 850 more signatures will bring us to 100,000 and trigger a debate in parliament. Plz share widely - I’m holding my breath! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
petition.parliament.uk
April 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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chrisdayphoto.bsky.social
Perfect light in a Snakehead fritillary meadow
April 7, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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wildjustice.bsky.social
85,000 signatures for our ban driven grouse shooting petition – thank you 🙏

Only 15K more to go to trigger a Parliamentary debate. Please keep signing and sharing govpetition.uk/p/700036 ✍️
April 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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craftbeerchannel.bsky.social
Having your first beer of the weekend? While you do, our petition is about 440 short of being half way to a statement from the government. Give it a sign!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
April 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM