Manda Osborne
@nookrat.bsky.social
Sock Enthusiast. Wistful. Goblin.
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I’d ask my many cis-gender friends and followers to take a moment today to consider this scenario.
You are so unhappy / uncomfortable with your birth sex that you choose to live as the opposite sex at the cost of family and other relationships.
You are so unhappy / uncomfortable with your birth sex that you choose to live as the opposite sex at the cost of family and other relationships.
April 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I’d ask my many cis-gender friends and followers to take a moment today to consider this scenario.
You are so unhappy / uncomfortable with your birth sex that you choose to live as the opposite sex at the cost of family and other relationships.
You are so unhappy / uncomfortable with your birth sex that you choose to live as the opposite sex at the cost of family and other relationships.
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And transmen having to use women only toilet facilities.
A warning to both sides: be careful what you wish for; & be kind to those around you.
A warning to both sides: be careful what you wish for; & be kind to those around you.
April 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
And transmen having to use women only toilet facilities.
A warning to both sides: be careful what you wish for; & be kind to those around you.
A warning to both sides: be careful what you wish for; & be kind to those around you.
If he had even a shred of credibility, he has none now. The world might as well plan around him.
April 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If he had even a shred of credibility, he has none now. The world might as well plan around him.
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Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!
March 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!
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PIP is not an "out of work benefit". A lot of what people use PIP for is to actually help them work. Making it harder to access will mean fewer people get genuine, rather than political soundbites, support. It is going to devastate lives. This is a cruel and pointless policy which only causes harm.
March 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
PIP is not an "out of work benefit". A lot of what people use PIP for is to actually help them work. Making it harder to access will mean fewer people get genuine, rather than political soundbites, support. It is going to devastate lives. This is a cruel and pointless policy which only causes harm.
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Stoats ? Vermin . Crows ? Vermin . Birds of prey ?! Still vermin !
The driven grouse shooting industry's obsession with vermin is just one reason why it should end .
Please sign @wildjustice.bsky.social 's petition to ban driven grouse shooting now : buff.ly/3FbSxuQ
The driven grouse shooting industry's obsession with vermin is just one reason why it should end .
Please sign @wildjustice.bsky.social 's petition to ban driven grouse shooting now : buff.ly/3FbSxuQ
February 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Stoats ? Vermin . Crows ? Vermin . Birds of prey ?! Still vermin !
The driven grouse shooting industry's obsession with vermin is just one reason why it should end .
Please sign @wildjustice.bsky.social 's petition to ban driven grouse shooting now : buff.ly/3FbSxuQ
The driven grouse shooting industry's obsession with vermin is just one reason why it should end .
Please sign @wildjustice.bsky.social 's petition to ban driven grouse shooting now : buff.ly/3FbSxuQ
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Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
March 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Class. Well played, Starmer.
March 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Class. Well played, Starmer.
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Pretty much sums it up
March 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Pretty much sums it up
If you were disgusted by the way Zelensky and Ukraine were treated today, and you can afford it, consider making a donation to a charity of your choice collecting on the behalf of Ukraine.
If you can't afford it, just yell your feelings. Ukraine and its allies need to know they aren't alone.
If you can't afford it, just yell your feelings. Ukraine and its allies need to know they aren't alone.
February 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
If you were disgusted by the way Zelensky and Ukraine were treated today, and you can afford it, consider making a donation to a charity of your choice collecting on the behalf of Ukraine.
If you can't afford it, just yell your feelings. Ukraine and its allies need to know they aren't alone.
If you can't afford it, just yell your feelings. Ukraine and its allies need to know they aren't alone.
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It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them.
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them.
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
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Other women. And thinking “no I don’t want to end up exhausted by doing everyone’s housework and caring and emotional labour, I’d quite like some basic social democratic welfare state provisions so the entirety of social reproduction doesn’t fall to me, unpaid”
February 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Other women. And thinking “no I don’t want to end up exhausted by doing everyone’s housework and caring and emotional labour, I’d quite like some basic social democratic welfare state provisions so the entirety of social reproduction doesn’t fall to me, unpaid”
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I am in Trafalgar Square with thousands of brave people who love their freedom. That piece of shit in the White House is going to sell them out. #SlavaUkraini
February 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I am in Trafalgar Square with thousands of brave people who love their freedom. That piece of shit in the White House is going to sell them out. #SlavaUkraini
"You should beware of believing things you see in books. I never regard books as the truth, and least of all the Bible, because there's no check on what they can write in them."
Independent People, by Halldor Laxness
Independent People, by Halldor Laxness
February 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"You should beware of believing things you see in books. I never regard books as the truth, and least of all the Bible, because there's no check on what they can write in them."
Independent People, by Halldor Laxness
Independent People, by Halldor Laxness
The UK didn't have elections during WW2 either. It should be obvious that holding fair and safe elections whilst your territory is actively under attack and a large portion of your population is displaced due to evacuation or mobilisation is incredibly hard and takes focus from the war effort.
Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
February 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The UK didn't have elections during WW2 either. It should be obvious that holding fair and safe elections whilst your territory is actively under attack and a large portion of your population is displaced due to evacuation or mobilisation is incredibly hard and takes focus from the war effort.
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‘Orwellian’ -a very clear statement from Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social in the Independent.
February 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
‘Orwellian’ -a very clear statement from Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social in the Independent.
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read this every time I see it, it never disappoints
I would get the history of the witch panics right before posting saccarine dross like this.
going-medieval.com/2023/10/20/y...
going-medieval.com/2023/10/20/y...
February 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
read this every time I see it, it never disappoints
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yesterday?
🧑🧒🧒🇺🇦🙏 Donald Trump says he can convince Putin to return children abducted from Ukraine.
🧐 The American president called the situation "quite tough." According to him, he only learned about the crime yesterday.
🧐 The American president called the situation "quite tough." According to him, he only learned about the crime yesterday.
February 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
yesterday?
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This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
February 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
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This petition to stop Musk donating insane amounts of money to UK political parties just hit 70,000 signatures - up from 30k a day ago. Can we make it hit the 100k mark tomorrow and trigger a parliamentary debate??
bsky.app/profile/guys...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
Stop Musk from funding far-right politics in the UK!
I just signed this petition 'Tighten the rules on political donations' - it's nearly at 30,000 signatures - can you add your name too? -
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
I just signed this petition 'Tighten the rules on political donations' - it's nearly at 30,000 signatures - can you add your name too? -
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations
We want the government to:
Remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies).
Cap all donations ...
petition.parliament.uk
January 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This petition to stop Musk donating insane amounts of money to UK political parties just hit 70,000 signatures - up from 30k a day ago. Can we make it hit the 100k mark tomorrow and trigger a parliamentary debate??
bsky.app/profile/guys...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
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"As we commemorate 80 years since Britain and her allies defeated the Nazis and ended the Holocaust, we must never forget those atrocities.
"We must remember so that we try harder to stop it happening again - as it has so tragically in Cambodia, Rwanda, and elsewhere."
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
"We must remember so that we try harder to stop it happening again - as it has so tragically in Cambodia, Rwanda, and elsewhere."
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
January 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"As we commemorate 80 years since Britain and her allies defeated the Nazis and ended the Holocaust, we must never forget those atrocities.
"We must remember so that we try harder to stop it happening again - as it has so tragically in Cambodia, Rwanda, and elsewhere."
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
"We must remember so that we try harder to stop it happening again - as it has so tragically in Cambodia, Rwanda, and elsewhere."
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
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We had a lot of people in Berlin today as well...
January 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We had a lot of people in Berlin today as well...
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49,000 signatures for banning driven grouse shooting - thank you for your strong support. Plz sign & share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Looking forward to 50,000 soon.
Looking forward to 50,000 soon.
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
January 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
49,000 signatures for banning driven grouse shooting - thank you for your strong support. Plz sign & share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Looking forward to 50,000 soon.
Looking forward to 50,000 soon.