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Terry
@texspex.bsky.social
Write, run, photos, coffee, nonsense. Mostly nonsense.
The @thiwurd.bsky.social classes are outstanding support to developing creative writing and to the creative writers, if there are any spaces left on the winter courses and you’re a creative writer of any experience, they’re invaluable #creativewriting #creativewriters #literature
It's Sunday & our class returns tonight #thiwurd
October 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Almost 60,000 women have signed this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social women to say that the transphobes do not speak for them. Meanwhile the Daily Express front-pages seven transphobes, falsely claiming that they “represent women”. If they do not represent you. Please sign.

notinourname.org.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meh. Had a listen, derivative, sluggish, '70's cliche, overall dull
An AI-generated band got 1m plays on Spotify. Now music insiders say listeners should be warned
The Velvet Sundown released two albums before admitting their music, images and backstory were created by AI
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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ANNOUNCING new day schools, in-person & online: Aug–Oct 2025. All writers welcome #thiwurd
www.thi-wurd.com/classes/
Classes - thi wurd
www.thi-wurd.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Disappointing, if so and probably is, @theguardian.com
Guardian’s ed editor, Richard Adams, follows house style and does not mention the report’s author, Alice Sullivan, is one of the loudest anti-trans campaigners at a UK university.

Add this report to the pile of similar official reports, such as ‘Racist Finds UK Not Institutionally Racist’,
UK universities have failed to protect gender-critical academics, report finds
July 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Post your favourite Doctor Who, wrong answers only
(actually, @joelycett.bsky.social might be quite good)
June 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
So, Sur Knob Stewart, England's most overrated pub singer, has come out in support of Farage (rhymes with garage) and Reform (reactionary regressiveness) well, Sur Knob, bollocks to your nonsense, definitely avoiding at Glastonbury
June 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
On a train
June 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Seen this going around but I’m
Reposting it with the full alt text bc everyone deserves to read this glorious reply from Boy George
June 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
... the UK government appears to be using rapid fire to their own twinkle toes
NHS nurses could go on strike over 25% erosion in pay, union boss warns
Exclusive: RCN’s Nicola Ranger says nurses could ‘bare our teeth’ as they seek restoration of lost earnings since 2010
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
As the UK government once again shoots itself in the foot...
Ministers demand BBC World Service plan for cuts as aid budget slashed
Exclusive: David Lammy asks BBC bosses to draw up tightened budget amid criticism move could harm UK’s global influence
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Go Lois!
❓How do you get Steve Reed the Environment Secretary to listen to your concerns about the private water industry?

❗⚽Meet him on his home turf.⚽❗

Lois is inviting Steve Reed to the football - fat cat water bosses can do it, so why shouldn't she?

#Loisatthepalace
May 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Wow, that's mental
May 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Hey, writerly people, www.thi-wurd.com/classes/ will give you the best conversations, critique and chance to develop and discover valuable insights into creative writing - join in! #creativewriting #literaryfiction #literaryevent #writing #literature
April 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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How are you supposed to get a gender recognition certificate, which requires you to have lived in your acquired gender, now the Supreme Court has said you are not allowed to live in your acquired gender?
April 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
www.theguardian.com/law/live/202...

Just take a look at the wasteland of X, the ruling has opened the door on direct discrimination - trans women and men are now seen as ligitimate targets by transphobes
UK supreme court ruling on legal definition of woman ‘brings clarity and confidence’, says government – live
Judges say definition of women and sex in Equality Act 2010 act refers to biological women and biological sex
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
www.theguardian.com/law/live/202...

Had a quick look on the toxic wasteland of X, and there is a clear material distinction being made as to how people are being perceived and treated by others, a very clear material distinction
UK supreme court rules definition of woman in Equality Act refers to ‘a biological woman’ – live
Judges were asked to rule on whether the definition of woman in the Equality Act 2010 included transgender women with gender recognition certificates
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
www.theguardian.com/law/live/202...
This will undoubtedly be exactly that, considered as a triumph of one group over another
UK supreme court rules definition of woman in Equality Act refers to ‘a biological woman’ – live
Judges were asked to rule on whether the definition of woman in the Equality Act 2010 included transgender women with gender recognition certificates
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Bored at work this afternoon
March 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
'And if Adolf Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway' Trump petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
you.38degrees.org.uk
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM