Raindrops on Roses and
Whiskers on kittens
Proportional Representation and
Universal Basic Income for citizens
A new deal for renters
A country without a King
These are a few of my favourite things
Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️
In clear detail, how the Labour government and NHS are deliberately deceiving the British public in order to ban the existence of trans people under 18
And yes, banning existence is genocide
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This is an attack Gillick Competence, and without a doubt the beginnings of an assault on the supply of birth control to young people.
I was 17 when I started taking HRT. If you’re over 16, then by English law you can legally consent to your own healthcare.
Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).
This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5
Labour’s healthcare bans are shameful and have already harmed British kids. Wes Streeting’s normalisation of conversion therapy is a stain on the country. Every NHS doctor and admin who went along with this has undermined public confidence in the profession.
2/5
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If you’re a Labour MP who doesn’t want to be called transphobic or be tarred with the bigoted stench this Labour government’s policies leave behind?
Leave Trans kids alone you absolute freaks.
We're excited to announce our Berlin 2026 conference! Write the Docs Berlin 2026 will be on September 6-8, 2026. We’ll be back at bUm for another year, with great talks, lots of networking, and awesome community building. This year, with a Writing Day too 🇩🇪 🎉
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Are you a fan yet? Chaz Brenchley's Crater School books are a perfect recreation of the classic girls' boarding school tales such as the Chalet School series. There's just one twist: the school is on Mars! The first book in the series is Three Twins at the Crater School.
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Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Now you may ask why Great Britain doesn't rule the world (still) in light of all the ska bands.
ANSWER: That was survival ska. That's the amount of ske required to survive postwar malaise, collapse of empire, and Thatcher. They're only in as good a shape as they are today because of ska.
Vote in EuroPython 2026's Community Voting! If you registered (2022–2025) or submitted a 2026 proposal, your voice shapes the programme. Pick sessions, explore talks, and get a digital badge. Vote by Mar 5: europython.eu/voting
#europython #conference #europython2026 #python #opensource
40 years ago, I yearned to find love, find a satisfying job, find friends, travel, and do a lot of cycling.
I have fulfilled these dreams, and no one has been genocided even once by my doing so.
Yearn for wholeness and dream of joy, not like this guy.
If you don't read SIDEQUESTED yet and want a quick summary, I really love this book trailer narrated by @itsdanicarr.bsky.social. It sums up the chaotic side of the story in a minute.
Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.
Since we are losing review space left, right and centre, and Goodreads is making that worse, I'm now going to be doing regular romance review roundups on my blog. Get recs here! Share your own!
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Happy 25th anniversary to the PSF! 🎉 That's a quarter century of the PSF supporting #Python and its community to grow, build, & change the world. Thank you to our community for making it all possible, we're grateful to be in community with each and every one of you- for the next 25 years & beyond!
I got vol 1 for Christmas last year. Both are highly recommended and huge 🙂. As someone who was reading this stuff when it first came out, these feel like a really good job of pulling out what matters from the genre, and also the academic-style introduction sections are excellent.
What Andrew was, and was not, arrested for is an interesting application of the Al Capone Theory (qz.com/1043588/the-...).
As depressingly usual, it's easier to arrest a powerful man for pretty much any kind of crime than a sex crime.
I got given The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 2 (www.penguin.co.uk/books/460847...) for my birthday, and it’s both huge and excellent (it starts off with Delany’s wonderful “Time considered as a helix of semi-precious stones” and manages to wend its way through to “Cat pictures please”!).
Oh, the grand old duke of york
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I hate filling out forms or drafting letters, but this made it really easy. Thank you.
The High Court has made clear that the draft Code of Practice is wrong about the law. Make sure your MP tells the Minister it now has to be rejected 👇
The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance.
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Transphobes get fucked forever
⚡️ Lightning: Mapping the International PyData Community featuring Web Scraping and Data Wrangling - @hevansdev.bsky.social
Hugh loves maps! But Meetup’s map of PyData events is not great.
So he made a better one: circle size for group and green for newly scheduled meet-ups.
This is such a unanimously bad idea that I cannot even fathom where to begin with it
What if we let people wear clothes, makeup, jewelry that made them happy and we shut the fuck up about age, body, gender and every other thing because it's none of our business and JUST LET PEOPLE ENJOY THEMSELVES.
Despite reposting the call to arms below, I didn’t act on it until a few minutes ago.
Why? Because it felt too hard and overwhelming.
It was SO EASY.
Add your name to the letter now. If you choose not to write anything individual it will take less than a minute ❤️
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