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They/them queer Lokean pagan nonsense-monger, occasional dabbler-in-art-stuff and caretaker to the best 20 year old little old man cat baby that has ever existed
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ilisabat.bsky.social
"The government has claimed it is following the science, yet science does not stop, and did not stop with the publication of the Cass Report, much as many politicians and journalists would have liked it to. The extensive criticism of the Cass Review and the puberty blocker ban are science."
natacha.bsky.social Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Jun 29
My research paper about the effects of the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban has now had more than 8,500 hits, and it was only published less than two weeks ago. This is stratospheric for an academic article.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
8,634 Views Research Article Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty-blocker ban. Natacha Kennedy
July 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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lindsaygoldwert.bsky.social
No good news goes unposted! To those of us who lost loved ones to HIV/AIDS, you’re in my heart today and always. Love! Science!
June 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
newt0nium.bsky.social
It could line up. It's so close, like a mm. It could.

But it doesn't.

Aaaaaaaarg.
June 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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altaudge.ruins.party
this user supports crows, ravens, and their agenda corvid haters unfollow immediately
June 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
newt0nium.bsky.social
youtu.be/Cf51LYWxeE8?...

Check out my cohabiting partner's latest performance recording! They also recently played Folkestone battle of the bands and did really well
Jimmy and the Riddles - KingsBanner (Smallworld2025)
YouTube video by Mike Keen
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June 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
newt0nium.bsky.social
Everyone needs to see how fucking cool my friend is, look at this absolute pillar of excellence. @pride-knightess.bsky.social
farleigh.bsky.social Farleigh Langridge @farleigh.bsky.social · Jun 7
This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵
Person dressed as a knight with a trans flag and a cape with a trans flag shield that says “Trans Knights are human Knights”
June 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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pride-knightess.bsky.social
Hey there, it's me! That one knight in armour at the pride event you went to!

Hi!

#pride #canterburypride #canterbury #pride2024
May 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
newt0nium.bsky.social
Mine used to do that, but these days he just sits on the floor by the bed and screams for a solid 20 minutes before my alarm goes off. To ensure his breakfast is not produced even a single moment late. Then does this so I can't stay mad at him.
June 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
newt0nium.bsky.social
New promo video for #Jimmy&TheRiddles! If you're in Folkestone this Saturday come cheer them on at the #BattleOfTheBands on the leas bandstand. Enjoy some punky #reggae #ska #afrobeats fusion #LiveMusic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVPS...
Jimmy and the Riddles
YouTube video by Mike Keen
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May 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
I updated this to note that there are other clearly AI-generated parts in the Heat Index section, which seemed pretty clear when I first went through it but I wanted to spot check a few things before including them. Shout out to @joshuajfriedman.com, who has been documenting some of them
Other articles in the Heat Index insert have what appear to be AI-generated sections as well. For example, in an article called “Hanging Out: Inside America’s growing hammock culture,” Buscaglia quotes “Dr. Jennifer Campos, a professor of leisure studies at the University of Colorado, in her 2023 research paper published in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.” A search for Campos in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography does not return any results. While it’s not exactly clear why the AI said this, the only mention of “Jennifer Campos” on the University of Colorado’s website is about the graduation of a student named Jennifer Campos, who works in advertising. The same article also mentions a “2023 Outside Magazine interview” with Brianna Madia, the author of Nowhere for Very Long, a book about van life. “A hammock is basically my most essential piece of furniture,” Buscaglia quotes her as saying. Outside interviewed Madia in 2019, but hammocks were not discussed. Outside also did an article about her favorite van life gear in 2017, and she did not mention hammocks. The quote Buscaglia included does not show up on the internet outside of his own article. There are examples like this throughout the section, and several of them have been pointed out by the journalist Joshua J. Friedman on Bluesky.
May 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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fizzvstheworld.bsky.social
When your AI-assisted laziness causes irreparable damage to the relationship between journalistic publications and the book industry:
May 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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philippaeast.bsky.social
I'm watching the Parliamentary debate about the self-ID e-petition and my JAW IS ON THE FLOOR.
The MPs speaking are hitting ALL the key pro-trans talking points:
- transphobic bias in EHRC
- nightmare of SC ruling
- toilet bans are awful
- must hear trans voices
- IGLA rainbow map

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May 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
newt0nium.bsky.social
Been getting back on my art flex again. Currently working on some doodles to put together into a colouring book
A line art drawing depicting a deer appearing to dance while wreathed in fire and smoke, in front of a cluster of silver birch trees A line art drawing depicting a hare crouched on the grass. It looks up to watch three other hares that have leapt into the sky and now spin in place around a central point marked by their entangled paws A line art drawing depicting a severed hares leg stuck in a bear trap, with a cluster of dandelions sprouting out of it like a bloody bouquet A line art drawing depicting a wild boar fleeing from archers. The boar is unknowingly passing through a fallen standing stone arch, spilling blood onto the crumbled stones, and is transformed as it passes through. In the background are several silver birch trees.
May 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
newt0nium.bsky.social
Have a cosy weekend Looshkin enjoying a sunbeam
A handsome, elderly cat with rich, shiny black fur is laying curled in a sunbeam with his front paws either side of his face. His black fur looks a warm, reddish chocolate brown with the sunlight glowing through it, and you can see how thick and shiny and soft it is. There is a tiny little rainbow shining on the carpet near his face, from the way the light has refracted through the window.
May 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social
I have written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission asking them to withdraw their interim guidance on single-sex spaces ⬇️.

It goes beyond the Supreme Court ruling, increases risks of harassment and violence to trans people, and is contradictory & confusing.

@EHRC please act!
May 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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tokenin.bsky.social
As it turns to dusk at the forest market, you approach a vendor's stall. They are selling . . . some Good Sticks. 🌲🍃🐛
May 4, 2025 at 5:11 AM
newt0nium.bsky.social
I'm very reassured to see my MP, Tony Vaughan, fulfilling the promises he recently made to my community after meeting with us. His letter to the EHRC is not perfect, but is a very good start. Whatever my feelings about Labour as a party, I feel good about him being out representative
May 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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emmelinemay.bsky.social
Letter to Baroness Faulkner from Labour MP Tony Vaughan

It's pretty good. Could be clearer on the impact on trans men's safety, rather than framing in the form of perceived risk, & doesn't mention the potential Article 8 conflict, but 1/2

@tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social
1. I am writing to express my deep concerns regarding the Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC's) interim guidance on single-sex spaces entitled "An interim update on the practical implications of the Supreme Court judgment" published on 25 April 2025. 2. I write as a Member of Parliament representing many constituents who are adversely affected by that guidance. Before being elected to Parliament, I was previously a member of the EHRC's own Panel of Counsel (2019-2024). 3. Since the publication of the guidance last week, my office has heard from several constituents within the transgender community who fear that it exposes them to heightened risks of harassment, violence and exclusion. These concerns are based on their own real-world experiences of rising hostility and discrimination against trans people in our society. This is a statistical fact: Home Office statistics show a long-term upward trend in hate crimes against trans people in the UK. Sadly, this is also what we are seeing across Europe, as the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner recently pointed out (Human Rights and Gender Identity and Expression, March 2024). As the statutory guardian of equality and human rights in our country, the EHRC must take these concerns seriously and balance them fairly against others' interests. On the face of it, this guidance does not do so. 5. I write on an urgent basis out of concern for my constituents. As an MP, I intend to hear from constituents who hold a wide range views on these issues so I can ultimately help our whole community to navigate this difficult area respectfully and sensitively. I do nevertheless feel it necessary to write urgently, based on the information I have, given my serious concerns about the guidance and its effects on those in the communities I represent Legal incoherence 6. In For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 the Supreme Court ruled that the terms "sex", "woman" and "man" in the Equality Act 2010 refer to "biological sex," rather than sex as certificated by a Gender Recognition Certificate. The Court also reaffirmed that trans people remain protected under the "gender reassignment" protected characteristic. 7. The Supreme Court's ruling requires women-only spaces to be respected. However, your guidance appears to treat access to men's and women's single-sex spaces based on biological sex as if this were an absolute rule, rather than - as the Equality Act states an exception justified by proportionality (your guidance says, "trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women's facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men's facilities"). 8 This approach risks violating Section 19 (indirect discrimination) and Section 26 (harassment) of the Equality Act, and exposes service providers to possible legal claims. The lack of universally available alternative facilities makes the guidance impractical and, in many cases, impossible to implement without breaching the law. 9 In the context of services, the suggestion in the guidance that admission to single sex facilities must always be based strictly on biological sex does not, in my view, come from the Supreme Court's ruling. Indeed, as the former Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption said last week, the judgment allows service providers to exclude trans people from single sex spaces but does not oblige them to do so. 10. The guidance also seems to be contradictory and confusing, and raises more questions than it answers. It says, for example, that trans people should not be put in a position where there are no facilities for them to use; but does not explain how this can be avoided if access to single-sex toilets is based on biological sex. It also says that in "some" circumstances trans women (biological men) can be banned from men's facilities, and says the same for trans men, without explaining what those circumstances might be. Risks of Harassment, Violence, and Forced Outing 11. The guidance also fails to address the practical reality that many trans people "pass" as their gender identity, making enforcement not only impractical but also - as I mentioned at §3 above - dangerous. 12. Take the example of public toilets. The guidance will encourage "policing" of toilets by fellow citizens who believe they are upholding the law by forcibly outing trans people. Your guidance means that, for example: (i) A trans woman, who presents as a woman, would have to use the men's toilets. One constituent in this situation told me that she has always used the women's toilets because she feels safer doing so, having experienced harassment for using the men's facilities in the past. She will now needlessly be exposed to heightened risks of harassment and violence (ii) A trans man, who presents as male but is biologically female, will on this guidance be required to use the women's toilets. This will result in many cis women feeling that their single-sex space has been made unsafe; (iii) Cis women or intersex people using the female toilet, but who have features perceived to be male, also risk being accused of being in the wrong toilet. One of my constituents has found herself so accused, experiencing hostile and aggressive behaviour when being challenged. 13. None of this is the necessary consequence of the Supreme Court's ruling. 14. In several contexts, including services, a proportionality assessment is needed. The EHRC's job is to explain what may be proportionate or disproportionate in different scenarios and what these tests mean. Unfortunately, this guidance takes a blanket approach which does not do this and puts trans people and others at risk. 15. Some have said that trans people can simply use the disabled toilet. On this point, a constituent has reported to me that, just last weekend, they were shouted at and humiliated for using a disabled toilet in Folkestone as they did not appear to be disabled. Furthermore, at a recent meeting of a group from the trans community in Folkestone, most confirmed to me that they had been harassed by members of the public in the context of their use of public toilet facilities. They and I have no doubt that this guidance only increases the risks of this occurring more often, and with greater severity. Failure of Consultation and Public Sector Equality Duty 16. I am concerned that the EHRC did not consult - whether properly or at all with trans-led organisations or those with lived experience before issuing this guidance. This omission is at odds with the Public Sector Equality Duty, which requires meaningful engagement with and consideration of affected groups when developing policies that impact their rights and safety. As I said above, this is what I, as a local MP, intend to do, in order to be able to help my constituents navigate this ruling. The EHRC must also do so.
May 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
newt0nium.bsky.social
Found Mike a shawl for festival garb that suits him shockingly well. As does my hat, which I fear may well get pinched by him next time he goes on his travels if I don't get him his own.
A short king with his long hair pulled back into a pony tail looks at the camera with the hazy facial expression of a lightweight who unexpectedly had more than 2 pints in a single night. He has a blonde goatee and side burns. He is wearing a black hat with green embroidery on the underside of the rim and it suits his face shape very well. He is also wearing a large, soft shawl with a geometric woven pattern in gold, green and blue, draped around his body and shoulders. The shawl also suits him well. He looks very pretty. And 30 minutes after the photo was taken is going to be pinned under the photographer to demonstrate to him just how much they appreciate hits prettiness.
May 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
newt0nium.bsky.social
We had a washing machine delivered a few days ago. It came in a massive box that almost fills the front room. Unfortunately, we can absolutely never take the box down because the boy has never experienced joy like this in his life and won't let us even move it
A handsome, elderly black cat with glossy fur is curled up, peacefully asleep, on top of a large box. His paws are curled in towards his chest and his little nose is looking incredibly kissable A close up image of a handsome, elderly black cat sleeping on a box. His little nose and forehead are in the centre of the screen and he looks sweet and blissful in his nap. Behind him is a large cabinet stuffed full of embroidery threads The sweet, elderly black cat from the previous two photos has slightly moved position and is now sleeping, still on top of the box, in a more tightly curled position. His nose and eyes are tucked under his fluffy tail got warmth, do only his ears and forehead are visible.
May 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
newt0nium.bsky.social
Another London speaking event this week. I don't want to go posting photos of the actual events on here because I want to keep my professional self separate from my trash goblin self. But I thought my look was pretty great for it so want to show it off
A person with green, partially-shaved hair and round teal glasses looks at the camera. They are sat on a train, looking less-than-enthused about the commute. A person with partially shaved green hair strands in front of a mirror taking a selfie. They are wearing a black star print dress and a long waistcoat, with blue star print tights. They are leaning on a walking stick.
May 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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emmas.bsky.social
Hey, disability studies people. We need to talk about this: www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/n... - because we know where it's come from, right? You know that research behind this has come from people in our field, right?
NHS 'to test trans young people for autism and ADHD'
Trans young people will allegedly be 'screened' for autism and ADHD according to planned NHS guidance on youth gender clinics.
www.thepinknews.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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vaspider.gay
I feel like we need to just start saying that this administration has named a new abomination unto Nuggan, for as much sense as half this shit seems to make.
May 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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bluepoppypub.bsky.social
Dictionaries are an abomination unto Nuggan.
Guess who just reread Monstrous Regiment? #Discworld #BookSky
May 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
newt0nium.bsky.social
My local queer bookshop has a solidarity wall. When making a purchase, you can add to it and the extra money becomes a voucher another patron can use, no questions asked.

Since the supreme court ruling here in the UK, customers have been adding hundreds to it in a show of quiet local solidarity.
A "reader solidarity fund" board at a bookshop, covered in vouchers for customers to use towards their purchase. It has a lot of donations on it.
April 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM