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I love The Frog 😭

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💚 Greens are on the rise everywhere!

📈 New polling from YouGov shows the Green Party is viewed more favourably than any other party in London and among younger voters.

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Block bigots because it's self-care.

You deserve to have your spaces be as safe and loving as you need or want them to be. You don't owe anyone a platform. You don't owe anyone space. Block when you need to, to maintain your peace.

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition.

A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

Help Dee Get Her Gender Affirming Surgeries 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Hi, I'm Talyn, a good friend of Dee's and I want to get her at least off to a good start fulfilling her dream of getting gender affirming surgeries.

Genuinely don't know if I'll be able to scrape the money together to make my surgery on the 8th of December

My family pulled out of £2k they promised, for no reason 😖

Please help me share my fundraiser to try and get me through the door and have my surgery

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By the way, signal boosts are especially appreciated on this, 'cos it's a mature game so I'll have less viewers than usual.

Spanberger holds wide lead in Virginia governor’s race, Post-Schar School poll finds Democrat Abigail Spanberger is up 12 points over Republican Winsome Earle-Sears in campaign where the economy weighs heavily on voters’ minds, a Washington Post-Schar School poll found.

Earle-Sears has exclusively focused on anti-trans messaging in her political ad spend and it has resulted in her losing by 12 points. This anti-trans stuff is not popular, people want to hear about actual problems.

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Tomorrow in our newsletter, we'll be publishing our latest up-to-date estimates for every GIC in the country.

An investigation months in the making:

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🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

what pro-trans crusade

Streeting meets with conversion therapy groups and Starmer repeats their talking points verbatim and it's still not enough

Elon Musk is the rare sort of bigot that hates LGBTQ+ people because so many of us are effortlessly cooler and more likeable than him and don't need to drop billions of dollars buying a social media site just so people will talk to us because we're enjoyable to be around.

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This is part of the reason I’m pushing myself back into doing art despite having negative feelings about my own art. I’m doing it for me and I think that’s part of what I’ve been missing.

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you

As Yom Kippur ends, it is terrible that a holy day has seen people killed at a place of worship in Manchester

I hope many of us will express solidarity + support for Jews in Britain, and work with them + those of every faith and none to deepen our efforts to tackle antisemitism, hatred + extremism

parasites & butterflies by nova twins on vinyl autographed with the caption Andrea Celeste, Trans Rights!!

nova twins say trans rights!

Love them

Literally recording this episode right now!

I can’t stop looking at it. Why, just why?

lmao the episode where Nightshade reveals their pronouns are they/them premiered over two and a half years ago and there was already a conservative backlash over it.

They're sooooo out of touch and just reacting to whatever is in their feed in the moment.

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..look..

Normativity aside, if you're a school head and you're sending a vulnerable subset of kids wearing skirts into the boys' toilets, something has gone badly fucking wrong, man.

Badly fucking wrong.

You're not even being consistent. Ban transition altogether, that's what you're after anyway.

"Transphobic" like "racist" was coined to describe a reality and a moral valence came along with that description and it turns out a lot of people love the reality - the behavior, the attitude, the structural harm- but will violently resist the idea that their lessers may morally evaluate them.

This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Improve a song by replacing a word with gock

Another one bites the gock

Reading the news about the Green Party rejecting an insidious transphobic hate group, and seeing trans people celebrate a party that is actually doing some things right, I can't help but think about the Your Party, which had this at its grasp, if only ...🤔

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

If you use, or would like to use, the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds, it is absolutely worth your time to respond to this consultation.

www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

On the HUD website - partisan propaganda. "The Radical Left in Congress shut down the government. HUD will use available resources to help Americans in need. " Button circled: Website Feedback

Go to hud.gov and use the website feedback button to tell them the website is for all Americans and to take down this partisan propaganda.

#ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

The transformation in the characterisation of the political left—from being ridiculed as 🌈 crybaby snowflakes to being portrayed as dangerous, radical, leftist, violent murderers—warrants thorough investigation.

The phenomenon of projection warrants careful analysis.

Nazis everywhere, man.

As an #intersex child, I'd often wait until the break was over before I went to the toilet, and then I'd often sit in the locked cubicle and cry because I was terrified of going back into the classroom where the teacher would single me out for example

It was 1979, and I was 9 years old 🧵