Gemma
@pachamoochka.bsky.social
I love books, trees, cats and daydreaming. I'm a queer woman with CPTSD, and a Buddhist.
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; welcome to the UK, where those peacefully holding signs opposing genocide are deemed "terrorists" and arrested, yet far-right thugs protesting outside hotels housing migrants with signs reading "kill them all", bellowing racist chants and doing Nazi salutes are applauded as "patriots". 🙄
August 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
; welcome to the UK, where those peacefully holding signs opposing genocide are deemed "terrorists" and arrested, yet far-right thugs protesting outside hotels housing migrants with signs reading "kill them all", bellowing racist chants and doing Nazi salutes are applauded as "patriots". 🙄
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Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.
August 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.
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"Things can change, they have to." - Arts Emergency Youth Collective Manifesto
Join our beautiful, vital and truly people-powered movement!
If you can, donate £2 a month to help us make the change 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...
Join our beautiful, vital and truly people-powered movement!
If you can, donate £2 a month to help us make the change 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...
June 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"Things can change, they have to." - Arts Emergency Youth Collective Manifesto
Join our beautiful, vital and truly people-powered movement!
If you can, donate £2 a month to help us make the change 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...
Join our beautiful, vital and truly people-powered movement!
If you can, donate £2 a month to help us make the change 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...
Buddha Day celebrations today at Norwich Buddhist Centre! I couldn't make it this year but I did help make the shrine for the first time ever...Zia was the main designer but I enjoyed helping and I feel happy with it :)
May 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Buddha Day celebrations today at Norwich Buddhist Centre! I couldn't make it this year but I did help make the shrine for the first time ever...Zia was the main designer but I enjoyed helping and I feel happy with it :)
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Kenmure Street, Glasgow. Four years ago.
Ordinary people stopped what they were doing to protect their neighbours. No strangers.
Happy Kenmure Street Day ✊
Ordinary people stopped what they were doing to protect their neighbours. No strangers.
Happy Kenmure Street Day ✊
May 13, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Kenmure Street, Glasgow. Four years ago.
Ordinary people stopped what they were doing to protect their neighbours. No strangers.
Happy Kenmure Street Day ✊
Ordinary people stopped what they were doing to protect their neighbours. No strangers.
Happy Kenmure Street Day ✊
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tfw your leader does a rivers of blood speech and you get banned from pride in the same week
May 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
tfw your leader does a rivers of blood speech and you get banned from pride in the same week
I'm considering re-joining the Labour party, so I can leave it again, harder.
May 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I'm considering re-joining the Labour party, so I can leave it again, harder.
Also, wasn't Dr Who great yesterday? Genuinely scared me.
April 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Also, wasn't Dr Who great yesterday? Genuinely scared me.
Absolutely brilliant yesterday be with so many people at the pro trans rights rally in Norwich. I didn't take pictures, but it was massive. Queer people have always been here, we always will be, and we won't be defeated or scared into silence. Solidarity to my trans siblings all day every day.
April 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Absolutely brilliant yesterday be with so many people at the pro trans rights rally in Norwich. I didn't take pictures, but it was massive. Queer people have always been here, we always will be, and we won't be defeated or scared into silence. Solidarity to my trans siblings all day every day.
Being at work is like having a fire alarm going off constantly in my head. And I know it's a false alarm but oh my god I wish it would stop
April 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Being at work is like having a fire alarm going off constantly in my head. And I know it's a false alarm but oh my god I wish it would stop
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“Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza…No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.”
🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza…No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.”
Such a lovely morning at the cat cafe, all the little cuties snuggling up in the warm 😻
February 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Such a lovely morning at the cat cafe, all the little cuties snuggling up in the warm 😻
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Becoming homeless due to Russian air strikes - bad & sad, you may come and stay. Becoming homeless due to Israeli air strikes - you brought it on yourself, clear off. We are witnessing a grotesque spectacle at the moment
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Keir Starmer pledges to close loophole that let Gazan family settle in UK
The family won an appeal to come to the UK, after originally applying through a scheme for Ukrainians.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Becoming homeless due to Russian air strikes - bad & sad, you may come and stay. Becoming homeless due to Israeli air strikes - you brought it on yourself, clear off. We are witnessing a grotesque spectacle at the moment
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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More of the approach that's never worked once in political history: screaming "we're racist!" at the far right in the vain hope that people *who despise you* will switch from more racist parties, without your horrified base switching to less racist ones.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’
Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
More of the approach that's never worked once in political history: screaming "we're racist!" at the far right in the vain hope that people *who despise you* will switch from more racist parties, without your horrified base switching to less racist ones.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.
Trump, with Netanyahu sitting next to him, says "Gaza maybe is a demolition site right now ... you can't live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location."
February 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.
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The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
February 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
It feels like a dark and scary time for LGBTQ+ people right now. But I love being queer and I'm proud of my community. I have quite a bit of straight passing privilege, so my intention for this month includes wearing one of my pride badges every day and being as out and proud as I can be.
February 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It feels like a dark and scary time for LGBTQ+ people right now. But I love being queer and I'm proud of my community. I have quite a bit of straight passing privilege, so my intention for this month includes wearing one of my pride badges every day and being as out and proud as I can be.
Happy Imbolg and happy Brigid's day!
February 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Happy Imbolg and happy Brigid's day!
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Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.
"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.
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The Onion is on a roll at the minute.
January 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The Onion is on a roll at the minute.
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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
It's our Trixie's birthday...twelve today and still as cute as a kitten.
January 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It's our Trixie's birthday...twelve today and still as cute as a kitten.
Our Trixie is a very sweet, affectionate girl, but she is a bit reserved and not a lap cat at all. But since I got home from hospital and have been in pain and recovering from quite a traumatic procedure, she's been constantly by me, on my lap or laying by my legs with her paw on me. 🥰
January 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Our Trixie is a very sweet, affectionate girl, but she is a bit reserved and not a lap cat at all. But since I got home from hospital and have been in pain and recovering from quite a traumatic procedure, she's been constantly by me, on my lap or laying by my legs with her paw on me. 🥰