Fiona
@zoo-music-girl.bsky.social
Antifascist. #BlackLivesMatter Cis/she/her. 🧜🏻♀️(Trans ally, but also occasional mermaid.) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive:
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.
goodlaw.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive:
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
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Upset about recent WI and Girl Guides announcements? Me too. But they didn't choose this. It was imposed by the Charity Commission, based on EHRC guidance that arose from the Supreme Court judgement. Take that down & the whole house of cards tumbles. Here's how. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
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December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Upset about recent WI and Girl Guides announcements? Me too. But they didn't choose this. It was imposed by the Charity Commission, based on EHRC guidance that arose from the Supreme Court judgement. Take that down & the whole house of cards tumbles. Here's how. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Been saving a bunch of books set at Christmas until now, and just finished the latest Dog Sitter Detective novel, another cracker (sorry!) set in remote Somerset with retired spies and of course, dogs! There’s even a little Goth Easter Egg in there, read it to find it! @antonyjohnston.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Been saving a bunch of books set at Christmas until now, and just finished the latest Dog Sitter Detective novel, another cracker (sorry!) set in remote Somerset with retired spies and of course, dogs! There’s even a little Goth Easter Egg in there, read it to find it! @antonyjohnston.bsky.social
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This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
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This would be a wonderful positive AI use-case. Although a strange, difficult reality for a lot of people in 2025.
Mind-blowingly cool use of AI
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
This would be a wonderful positive AI use-case. Although a strange, difficult reality for a lot of people in 2025.
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Every year we treat ourselves to a new decoration or two for the Christmas tree and this year’s additions are just absolutely outstanding
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Every year we treat ourselves to a new decoration or two for the Christmas tree and this year’s additions are just absolutely outstanding
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
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Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
@wordlessreader.bsky.social , thought you might find this interesting.
Part 1 of Why the Hell am I learning Irish series is here.
If ‘My tiger ate the apple on a cloudy but sunny day in Clonee with my sister Patrick’, is what you'd like to learn, then I take it all back, DuoLingo is for you."
Enjoy!
timwrite.net/factual-work...
If ‘My tiger ate the apple on a cloudy but sunny day in Clonee with my sister Patrick’, is what you'd like to learn, then I take it all back, DuoLingo is for you."
Enjoy!
timwrite.net/factual-work...
I learn Irish – Part 1 – Duolingo sucks
In which DuoLingo gets short shrift. Let me begin like a churl. The Irish language (Gaeilge) is far from the beautiful, lyrical, poetic encoding of deep emotions and profound contemplation that some ...
timwrite.net
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
@wordlessreader.bsky.social , thought you might find this interesting.
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among all the "yass slay" responses, I think it's worth considering that glamour mag believes that trans ppl+allies are a bigger consensus than the gc dogma in the UK
and that is a SIGN
and that is a SIGN
The fearmonger-in-chief also had a winge about it. I won’t share her tweet, but this was Glamour’s reply. 💀
October 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
among all the "yass slay" responses, I think it's worth considering that glamour mag believes that trans ppl+allies are a bigger consensus than the gc dogma in the UK
and that is a SIGN
and that is a SIGN
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I only knew the modern meaning of "Luddite" until recently. Turns out, the Luddites were badass, actually. So you get a thread! And now you'll know too!
October 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I only knew the modern meaning of "Luddite" until recently. Turns out, the Luddites were badass, actually. So you get a thread! And now you'll know too!
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Nobody complained when chimpanzees drank tea, aliens made instant mash, ambassadors served mediocre chocolate in lieu of canapes. But portray a black couple enjoying a breakfast buffet at a Premier Inn and there will be hell to pay.
Runcorn, i love you, but you're bringing me down.
Runcorn, i love you, but you're bringing me down.
October 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Nobody complained when chimpanzees drank tea, aliens made instant mash, ambassadors served mediocre chocolate in lieu of canapes. But portray a black couple enjoying a breakfast buffet at a Premier Inn and there will be hell to pay.
Runcorn, i love you, but you're bringing me down.
Runcorn, i love you, but you're bringing me down.
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Anyone who remembers puberty should know that menopause is no picnic. It’s puberty backwards in high heels. But equally, anyone who remembers puberty knows you survive. And that’s the thing to hold onto.
I keep thinking how impossible it feels to balance the need to openly, honestly acknowledge how immensely difficult & distressing menopause can be & how impactful on every aspect of the body-mind, with the need not to make it excessively forbidding or frightening for those yet to experience it
Feel compelled to acknowledge world menopause day today as it’s such an important thing to talk about without shame or embarrassment, but anything that feels wise or useful is currently beyond me.
So just love & solidarity to anyone else going through it, whatever version of it you’re navigating
So just love & solidarity to anyone else going through it, whatever version of it you’re navigating
October 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Anyone who remembers puberty should know that menopause is no picnic. It’s puberty backwards in high heels. But equally, anyone who remembers puberty knows you survive. And that’s the thing to hold onto.
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I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.
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in 20 years, the most extreme, reactionary, "return to tradition" masculinity influencer is going to adopt this uniform and you'll have to calmly explain that this was once considered non-traditional
October 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
in 20 years, the most extreme, reactionary, "return to tradition" masculinity influencer is going to adopt this uniform and you'll have to calmly explain that this was once considered non-traditional
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The Hampstead ponds have REPEATEDLY voted to include trans women. But the officious pricks at Sex Matters don’t care what other women think and are forcing a public consultation anyway. Throw the ponds some support.
🚨 Consultation survey launched on whether trans people should be able to access Hampstead Heath ladies' pond following Supreme Court ruling
The consultation is open until 12:00 on Tuesday 25th November 2025.
(Survey link in next post)
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
The consultation is open until 12:00 on Tuesday 25th November 2025.
(Survey link in next post)
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Survey launched on trans access to Hampstead Heath ladies' pond
The ladies’ pond at Hampstead Heath currently admits biological women and transgender women
www.standard.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The Hampstead ponds have REPEATEDLY voted to include trans women. But the officious pricks at Sex Matters don’t care what other women think and are forcing a public consultation anyway. Throw the ponds some support.
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Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵
September 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵
Millie is 5 now and this is still true. Let sleeping dogs lie!
September 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Millie is 5 now and this is still true. Let sleeping dogs lie!
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** The Official crowdfunder link for my case commenced in the European Court of Human Rights **
A legal first: trans and non-binary lawyers leading the case: Oscar Davies, Olivia Campbell-Cavendish and me as client. Trans Legal Clinic in partnership with W-Legal.
www.translegalclinic.com/mccloud
A legal first: trans and non-binary lawyers leading the case: Oscar Davies, Olivia Campbell-Cavendish and me as client. Trans Legal Clinic in partnership with W-Legal.
www.translegalclinic.com/mccloud
McCloud v UK | Trans Legal Clinic
www.translegalclinic.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
** The Official crowdfunder link for my case commenced in the European Court of Human Rights **
A legal first: trans and non-binary lawyers leading the case: Oscar Davies, Olivia Campbell-Cavendish and me as client. Trans Legal Clinic in partnership with W-Legal.
www.translegalclinic.com/mccloud
A legal first: trans and non-binary lawyers leading the case: Oscar Davies, Olivia Campbell-Cavendish and me as client. Trans Legal Clinic in partnership with W-Legal.
www.translegalclinic.com/mccloud
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The contrast in reporting these stories is nuts, right? It's not just me?
August 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The contrast in reporting these stories is nuts, right? It's not just me?