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Ferdiad
@oldmanferdiad.bsky.social
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Druid, time-traveller, Social Justice Eisbär 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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oldmanferdiad.bsky.social
This year’s Samhuinn tumpshie lanterns. /|\
While I remain team #NeepsNotPumpkins all carvable veg are welcome: I’ll be on the lookout for kohlrabi and manglewurzles next year!
#Samhuinn #Samhain #Ancestors #JackOLantern #druidry #UrbanDruidry #TumpshieLantern #DruidSky
Carved turnip lanterns Carved turnip lanterns Carved turnip lanterns Carved turnip lanterns
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
oldmanferdiad.bsky.social
Jack-o-lantern carving as a warmup for carving the tumshie lanterns tomorrow 🎃 /|\
#NeepsNotPumpkins #Samhuinn #Samhain #JackOLantern #Druidry #UrbanDruidry #DruidSky
Small pumpkin carved into a smiling Jack o lantern and lit with a candle
October 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
oldmanferdiad.bsky.social
Blessed feast of Artio Retiring /|\
#Arctolatry #Artio #Druidry #UrbanDruidry
Altar to the bear goddess Artio with candles, incense, offerings of nuts and images of Artio and bears
October 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
oldmanferdiad.bsky.social
Never not a good evening for a walk beside the river.
🩵💚🤍💙
#Thames #TamesisGrove #UrbanDruidry #Druidry #DruidSky
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The River Thames facing west from Blackfriars. It is early evening and low tide with the gravelly foreshore visible.
May 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
oldmanferdiad.bsky.social
Low energy kind of day so I thought I’d make pickled rhubarb
A preserving jar full of thinly sliced rhubarb pickling in brine.
May 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
oldmanferdiad.bsky.social
Fortunate Fires marked the gateway to summer as #TamesisGrove celebrated our #Bealtaine ritual.
May the blessings of the flames bring us what we need as the wheel turns. /|\
#UrbanDruidry #Druidry #obob #beltane #ritual #DruidSky
Bealtaine fire burns safely in a small cast-iron cauldron on the woodland floor Bealtaine altar wreathed in hawthorn blossoms: a tea light candle lit in a white lantern Druid altar on the woodland floor wreathed by hawthorn blossoms. Within, a lit lantern; bowl of water; decorated stone and smouldering herb bundle mark the quarters
May 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
oldmanferdiad.bsky.social
Ready for the Tamesis Bealtaine ritual /|\
#TamesisGrove #Druidry #UrbanDruidry #Bealtaine #Beltane #obod #ritual #pagan #DruidSky
Druid Awen badge, Tardis police box badge with rainbow coloured door panels, badge reading “support your local Druid”.
May 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
oldmanferdiad.bsky.social
Hedgerows full of Hawthorn blossoms for Bealtaine.
Blessings of sunshine and thorn as the gates of summer open! /|\
#bealtaine #beltane #UrbanDruidry #Druidry #DruidLife #DruidSky
Hawthorn blossoms Hawthorn blossoms Hawthorn blossoms
May 2, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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druidcat.bsky.social
Please sign and share ❤️ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.
We believe the government should change legislation to make it easier for trans people of all ages to change their legal gender without an official diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
petition.parliament.uk
April 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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sexabolition.blog
Please more cisgender people do this. Read @jessothomson.co.uk's and @goodlawproject.bsky.social's articles on the impact of the supreme court ruling and demand primary legislation to urgently safeguard trans rights.
garciansmith.bsky.social Dan Entwistle @garciansmith.bsky.social · Apr 17
Following yesterday's Supreme Court ruling, I wrote to my MP. I'm not the best at conveying the nuances, as a cis man, but I needed to get my views to her as soon as possible. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️
Dear Kirith Entwistle MP, As your constituent, I am writing to you today to express my deep concern, disappointment and anger at the recent UK Supreme Court decision to remove trans people's protections under the equality laws as it pertains to their legally recognised gender. As you are no doubt aware, there has been a co-ordinated attack on trans people for years, driven by the machinery of the press, both government and opposition as well as external pressures from both national and international lobbying groups. I am a cisgender man, and I am deeply concerned and afraid for trans people's safety, dignity and livelihoods following this ruling. I am, therefore, asking you to join me in supporting trans people in opposition to this ruling and lend your voice to this in your position as my MP. To be clear, I personally have friends - whom I care for deeply - who are trans, and I am extremely concerned for their well-being for simply wanting to exist as their real selves in public. However, it simply should not matter if I have a personal stake in this: supporting trans rights following years of fighting for said rights is the right, moral thing to do and I sincerely hope you agree. My final point on this: as previously mentioned, this effort was, in no small part, driven by national and international lobbying groups who have a track record of going beyond anti-trans positions, including, but not limited to: anti-abortion, anti-same-sex marriage, anti-vaccination, and anti-education. Whilst my primary concern in the immediacy is the safety, security and dignity of all trans people in the UK, I am also extremely concerned that these same groups will push for further degradation of hard-fought human rights across a more broad, progressive spectrum. To conclude: I believe this to be a dark time in British history. The erosion of rights for a historically vulnerable group is a blot on our nation and a stepping stone to the worst impulses of not just anti-LGBTQIA+ supporters, but anti-women also. I look forward to hearing from you, and hopefully your support. Regards, Dan Entwistle
April 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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sexabolition.blog
Please cis people step up on this one. Get loud and make it clear there is a problem here.
April 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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jessothomson.co.uk
My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.

The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010

www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010
The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country
www.wearequeeraf.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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tessmachling.bsky.social
👇 IMPORTANT
katherineschof8.bsky.social Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · Apr 16
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
www.scientificamerican.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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ceilidhann.bsky.social
Clive Barker gets it.

faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-c...
Noting Rowling’s vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling’s newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, “It really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.” “I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. “And certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”
April 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
oldmanferdiad.bsky.social
The love of all existences. 🏳️‍⚧️/|\
#TamesisGrove #druidry #UrbanDruidry #DruidLife #DruidSky
Trans flag gradient background with the text: Today is an important day to re-affirm that Tamesis welcomes and affirms the sacredness of our trans, genderqueer and non-binary members. Tamesis stands in a circle of fellowship, inclusion and equity: both in our grove and in the wider world. It is not a space where we will debate the existence or human rights of any person, especially not people who are marginalised in society. If your druidry does not include "the love of all existences", then it is not a druidry that will find a comfortable home in Tamesis.
April 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM
oldmanferdiad.bsky.social
The balance of light and dark, gratitude for spring time and dramatic thunder and lightning. All part of a lovely Spring Equinox celebration with the Tamesis Druids. /|\
#TamesisGrove #SpringEquinox #AlbanEilir #UrbanDruidry #DruidLife #obod #pagan #druid #druidsky
A spring equinox altar on bare earth showing magical tools and decorations: a lantern, incense censer, bowl of earth and bowl of water. Three empty pots wait to have seeds planted. Flower petals are scattered in a circle Heavy thunderclouds over the London skyline as viewed from Primrose Hill in the late afternoon
March 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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discospock.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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thechiller.bsky.social
#Labour INTEND to kill disabled people.

It's not accidental. They know.

And when they say "savings" you need to hear "cuts that will kill the most vulnerable."
March 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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themodernwitch.bsky.social
There is this weird bullshit about 'spiritual folks not involving themselves in politics. If you don't actively stand up for justice, for human rights, for fair-mindedness, for moderation, for LOVE - then, WTF is your spiritual practise good for?

Dress ups? Show? Nice aesthetic?

#witchsky
March 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
oldmanferdiad.bsky.social
It’s better to light a Wicker Man than curse the darkness.
🔥🔥🔥
March 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
oldmanferdiad.bsky.social
Blessed Feast of Artio Rising /|\
#Artio #arctolatry #NewMoon #Ritual #Altar
#UrbanDruidry #Druidry #BearGoddess #ArtioRising #DruidSky #PaganSky
An altar with an offering candle depicting a women wearing a bear mantle and the name Artio (the Celtic bear goddess) printed at its base. The altar objects include various carved bears in wood and stone, pictures of bears and offerings of water, incense and fresh spring daffodils.
February 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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k1956.bsky.social
Steve North is president of Unison - screenshots from the other place
February 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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sinblache.bsky.social
You guys, @gaystheword.bsky.social is here. Now it's a party. Go follow them.
February 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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isaacrowlett.bsky.social
from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM