Today is my birthday, and the best gift for me will be a retweet. My name is Vitalii. I am from Ukraine and open for commissions, so if you would like to get #SciFi artwork (spaceships, vehicles, dystopian future), I will gladly do this. You can contact me here or via valahor@gmail.com

Those who back banning trans girls from Girlguiding need to look at Brownie Law ...which clearly states: ‘A Brownie Guide thinks of others before herself’ – something that seems to have been forgotten in making the decision to ban trans girls from Girlguiding. There are many risk...

“I question the energy that is being dedicated to harming vulnerable people and children rather than tackling the much bigger and very real risks facing women and girls.”

A Brownie parent tackles Girlguiding banning trans girls: “It is an attack on children.”
www.independent.co.uk/voices/girlg...

Going to have to go with A Close Shave. The scene with Gromit in the plane shooting porridge never fails to make me smile.

@mgjevans.bsky.social How cool are these?

yes it is.

morning :)

how very hipster

I pronounce it like that every single time I see a sign for it. Every single time. I’m a delight on car journeys :)

the answer is always one (or more) onions.

it’s the cycle of picking the date though as you’ve described. Couple of days after giving blood, ideally a weekend so if you feel rough you can rest - but not a weekend you’ve got plans.

mines the 4th Oct.

Morning!

Clearly, Women‘s voices and engagement in democracy don’t matter.

The Hampstead Women’s Pond user group has repeatedly upheld that Trans Women are welcome to swim in the Hampstead Women’s Pond.

What matters instead of democratic process is having the money for expensive lawyers to litigate.

And we start out with the best of intentions, thought Moist, find 'em out, dig 'em up, make 'em free. But we don't know what we're doing, or what we're doing it to. "Gladys, the thing about books... well, the thing...I mean just because it's written down, you don't have to...that is to say, it doesn't mean it's...what I'm getting at is that every book is--" He stopped. They believed in words. Words give them life. I can't tell her that we just throw them around like jugglers, we change their meaning to suit ourselves-- He patted Gladys on the shoulder. "Well, read them all and make up your own mind, eh?" Terry Pratchett, Making Money

Terry Pratchett wrote of Golems with no sex who chose to be identified as men … and Gladys … the Golem that identified as a woman … and was respected for *her* identity …

and wrote of the importance of words we *choose* for ourselves …

And making up our *own* mind on what that means.

a bunch of balloons with the words `` happy birthday '' on them Alt: a bunch of balloons with the words `` happy birthday '' on them

Very happy birthday - hope you’re keeping as cool as you can be!

@pauln1964.bsky.social thanks for the recommendation for Apollyon.
An awesome listen.

"Agree to disagree" is reserved for things like "I don't like marmite." Not homophobia, transphobia, not human rights. Not basic common decency. We do not have a difference of opinion here. We have a difference in morality. Disagreeing with the validity of someone's identity and the rights and services they deserve or don't deserve because of it is discrimination, not disagreement. David A. Evans

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

haven’t played this game but am enjoying the word “punchsplode!”

I first started listening to him a couple of years ago. I love how more of my friends are discovering and sharing and liking his stuff :)

I hear it's pretty good...

(spoiler: it's ME reading it!)

but but - this takes away all the game parts of the game. Interested though.

excellent news!!!

these look delicious

welcome!

Screenshot showing 6000 people have signed the Not In Our Name letter on change.org Women in support of the trans+ community

6000 signatures in 24 hours

🌟 keep sharing 🌟

Feeling particularly sorry for myself. Dental surgery on Monday had left me with 30 stitches along my gum and jaw. Have entered my Marlon Brando “Godfather” era. Some impressive swelling and bruising.

Has anyone stopped to ask if I *want* to be defined? Well, in case anyone was wondering, no. I don't want to be defined. I don't want to be defined by my sex, my genes, or by my "large gametes" (wtf is wrong with people, jesus christ). I thought that was the whole point of feminisim.

Amicite Cyclosis See the current tracks uploaded and playable here.

Amicite Cyclosis amicite.co.uk/cyclosis
these are excellent to listen to :)

I do! I find them excellent to have in whilst writing.