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Psst, over here.

*Opens grimy trench coat*

Gay aliens, want some gay aliens?!
Some trans pirates for ya missus?
Lesbian witches? Yeah, check out these beauties!

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BBC One - Prayer and Reflection, Series 1, Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery, Eskdalemuir Traditional Tibetan Buddhist prayers from Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery, Scotland.

This temple is just up the road from where I grew up. I first remember it as a commune, farm & old farmhouse. It's a massive centre now, with retreat centre (that my dad helped to build), accommodation, huge Tibetan temple, peace gardens. Worth a visit.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I was in Bath today; Passenger has its fleecy grip on that city. But anyway, I was there with my 10yr old for Children's Literature Festival & discovered that the Phoenix comic has a Philosophy penguin! Grooming children into Philosophy!!

Fascist Gestapo says: "We are just getting started!" 😏

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

Gender Clinic Files: Some people in Scotland will never get a gender clinic appointment on a 224-year waitlist

“More than 48,000 people in the UK were waiting for their first NHS gender clinic appointment as of March 2025, a 12.5% increase since the previous year”

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A Short History of Trans Misogyny. By Jules Gill-Peterson. Verso, 2024. | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 51, No 1

New book review out in Signs of the fantastic A Short History of Trans Misogyny. Great issue too, check out lots of brilliant articles www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Manchester synagogue: Four people injured in car and stabbing attack at Manchester synagogue - suspect shot by police Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham says it's believed the suspect is dead, and that the immediate danger appears to be over.

I am alarmed and upset by this emerging news of attacks at a synagogue on Yom Kippur.

The rise in religious hate crimes in this country is totally unacceptable - there is no excuse for antisemitism and no excuse for violence.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Christina McAnea: "All of us at UNISON are horrified by the attack on the Jewish community in Manchester. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families, and all those marking this holy day of Yom Kippur."

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Planet Patriarchy: Global Feminism with Rahila Gupta & Beatrix Campbell A UWE Bristol Public Sociology event — Dr Finn Mackay This in-conversation event will cover how patriarchy fluxes and changes around the world, and how feminism resists and triumphs. Covering case studies from the women's revolution in Rojava, in North E...

Only a few tickets left for this Bristol event on new book "Planet Patriarchy", book signing & discussion with Rahila Gupta, specialist on Rojava, which is close to the hearts of many in Bristol. Come along,Watershed later this month www.drfinnmackay.co.uk/new-events/p...

The youngest human in the family, age 3, is unwell. In her unwell state, overhearing us saying she has a bug, she said "have I caught a bug mumma, like an ant?". I said no my love not that kind of bug, and she said "a ladybird?".

Safety Advice:

I keep seeing young trans people on social media talking about therapists disrespecting their pronouns and parents telling them that the therapist has a right to their beliefs.

I want to be clear: you have a right to the therapy room being a safe supportive space for YOUR growth.

The Left says Farage’s guilty of ‘fowl play’ for claiming migrants are eating swans. So how does it explain this troubling evidence? The Mail on Sunday 28 Sep 202 5By TOM HARWOOD GB NEWS DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR

For there is, in fact, a substantial body of anecdotal evidence that a small minority of migrants may indeed have been capturing, killing and eating swans from British rivers, ponds and lakes. One of the most convincing episodes relates to an RSPCA investigation of a family that was suspected of stealing a swan from a local park in 2010. Sky One’s Emergency Animal Rescue programme filmed the welfare officer visiting the Romanian family at their home, where she discovered the meat and bones of an unknown bird simmering in a cooking pot. As the officer inspects the contents of the casserole pot, she says: ‘You see the bones in this bird, because it’s not a chicken... I’m a bit concerned.’ The footage also shows the officer retrieving white feathers and a distinctly swan-like beak from a bin in the back garden. The clip was recently reposted on social media by, among others, Turning Point UK, a British offshoot of the Right-wing American student pressure group run by the recently assassinated Charlie Kirk, where it has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

"For there is, in fact, a substantial body of anecdotal evidence"

"One of the most convincing episodes relates to an RSPCA investigation of a family that was suspected of stealing a swan from a local park in 2010."

"The clip was recently reposted on social media by, among others, Turning Point UK"

Yep! Nothing to see here, please move on....

🚨 Govt is paying Deloitte £3m to advise on using public-private partnerships for new neighbourhood health centres.

👉 This is public money, being used to ask private firms whether we should privatise.

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FOI by @weownit.org.uk

I watched Heretic, fun movie but so many tired sexist tropes in a film trying to be intellectual & cool. What can be more predictable than male violence against women, male coercive control & ego, the girl who has sex outside of marriage getting killed, the dull good girl with faith being saved.

I know, isn't it so lovely. A little light from afar. Shed a little tear hearing hir voice & seeing Minnie together with LF. I have a framed portrait of Leslie in my office, taken & signed by Del LaGrace.

Argh! Yes, if you search Outlaw Alice Lebow, it should come up to watch here.

Fabulous short film with s/hero Leslie Feinberg "until the lions win, it will always be the hunters writing history" "we can only be seen as gender bent, in a society that is gender rigid". Rest in power revolutionary communist Leslie Feinberg archive.org/details/leslie…

Linked In keeps suggesting voice work to me, seems mainly training for the AI machine, not for broadcast. But is flexible & could be done evenings & weekends, is this a good job? Anyone doing this?

Women & Money: Money Confidence for Women Money Confidence for Women: Boost your skills & confidence with this free, empowering 2-hour workshop

Bristol, money confidence workshop for women,with Bristol Womens Voice www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-mone...

Why didn't we have a Trump In Need telethon to cover the millions of pounds it's costing for the security operation?

If it's an unfunded hobby then what exactly is it they can't afford? As they aren't paying for it, as it's an unfunded hobby? I've never had funding or time off my teaching job. Writing, researching, reviewing, editing.... all an unfunded hobby in salvaged time carved out.

Huge hugs to your friend.
You can also report to @transactualuk.bsky.social here (on behalf of her)

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Five-house Farage

Has a great ring to it…

After all, he does have 5 houses.

Strange how he doesn’t like to publicise that fact…

Green Party boss tears Keir Starmer apart over Peter Mandelson Epstein row New Green Party Boss Zack Polanski has said that Sir Keir Starmer defended Mandelson to protect his own career.

"Mr Polanski who has launched a podcast which has surged to fourth in the charts, said the scandal proved politics was rigged to reward failure."

Am I about to get lots of new podcast listener's from the Daily Express? Unexpected!

www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

I'll watch anything with Matt Damon in it because I love him. So I watched The Instigators. Fun movie. Familiar representations of masculinity as wounded, failed, infantile, pursuing redemption, with a mother & child used only as signifier/prop for man's redemption & heroics.

Indeed!

I have to read Frozen stories to my 3yr old & was thinking, if Elsa can make ice & snow why do people still have to go into the mountains & harvest ice? I'm not about deskilling but it would seem a sustainable & economic option? New industries like reindeer safari or ice sports could be developed?