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Sharon Curtis

@sharoncurtis.bsky.social

Oxford software engineer, supporting medical research. She/her. Music (French horn, trumpet, ...), crafts (tatting, sewing, crochet, ...), sports (table tennis, wild swimming, cycling), science, nature, gardening & cooking. Pro-human, anti-oppression.

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Was there anything gold in there? I'll bet that they rescued that before demolition.

23.10.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just needs a bunch of footprint-size stickers.

22.10.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well it's appreciated that you went to the effort, seems to have spread quite far and wide!!

22.10.2025 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also will need dealing with problems well. Easy enough to go forward on a rush of publicity, good vibes and great policies, but the mettle of a party is really shown in how they deal with problems.

A good example of problem handling gone wrong can be seen with regards to Your Party.

22.10.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

21.10.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 7020    πŸ” 1917    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 61

This is great! However, a suggestion for improvement from friends' feedback: the ring road would be better depicted in grey, or at least not the sector colours. It misleads some folks into thinking you can't get from one section of the ring road to another without going past a camera.

22.10.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yup. There are some cycle racks on the main road, but that's really no excuse for failing to provide them on site.

20.10.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Tweet from @SexMattersOrg: "We have written to @CommonsWEC and @HumanRightsCtte about @MichaelCJT Dr Michael O'Flaherty's letter about the Supreme Court judgment and the Equality Act."

There is an image of Maya Forstater & a quote attributed to her: "Working through tensions between the human rights of different groups depends on correctly defining the groups. The only coherent & workable interpretation of the Equality Act, to protect everyone's rights, is to read the terms related to sex as having their ordinary meaning."

Tweet from @SexMattersOrg: "We have written to @CommonsWEC and @HumanRightsCtte about @MichaelCJT Dr Michael O'Flaherty's letter about the Supreme Court judgment and the Equality Act." There is an image of Maya Forstater & a quote attributed to her: "Working through tensions between the human rights of different groups depends on correctly defining the groups. The only coherent & workable interpretation of the Equality Act, to protect everyone's rights, is to read the terms related to sex as having their ordinary meaning."

The (very clear) intention of the drafters of equality legislation in Britain, in Ireland, in Europe & around the world was to ERADICATE sex discrimination, NOT to create separate "men's rights" & "women's rights" to be assigned at birth based on genitals or chromosomes. #GOTF

18.10.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 240    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 5

Don't knock pasties. A good one is delicious and I'm absolutely gutted that due to food sensitivities I'm never going to have one ever again.

18.10.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The glamorous TV host, the web of influence and a mysterious trip to Moscow – inside the downfall of Reform’s disgraced MEP Ahead of a critical Welsh byelection for Reform next week, part two of our investigation into Nathan Gill uncovers the web of Russian influence that encircled him – and asks why it took so long to cha...

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18.10.2025 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 561    πŸ” 259    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 14

As requested: twice a week is fine with me, in whatever formation you consider suitable.

Also photos of more college cats is purrfectly fine.

Thank you, Clarion!!

17.10.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice. Accessible too.

Around here the separated cycle/pedestrian road crossings almost always involve a substantial gradient for the cyclists. If your legs work fine, fine, but if not, it's very discouraging.

Barely any gradient change for the motor vehicles, though.

17.10.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Programmers are hirable!

17.10.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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British.

16.10.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6925    πŸ” 2469    πŸ’¬ 273    πŸ“Œ 551

Also, I reckon it's really important that they get paid-up members if they are to have enough money to make a difference, without having to resort to accepting donations from ethically dodgy places and people. We collectively have to put our money where we would like to see our politics. πŸ’š

15.10.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But not just that. He has empathy and compassion, both of which our politics is sorely lacking in nowadays.

14.10.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Does the Clarion know whether there are any proposals under consideration with regards to street lamps that switch on when there's folks about (i.e. movement activated)?

14.10.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like the ALT text....!

13.10.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes. We need more truth and empathy in politics.

10.10.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

09.10.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 56203    πŸ” 22836    πŸ’¬ 1899    πŸ“Œ 2183

Not only are we at record numbers of members and growing every day - this is our highest ever poll rating.

We're just getting started.

This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

09.10.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1126    πŸ” 313    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 21

Why they don't just set up rules which lead to the segregation of the transphobes off to separate gender-neutral toilet cubicles is beyond me. There you go, transphobes, your own little space, and leave the rest of us women (cis- and trans- alike) to our ladies toilets.

09.10.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – it's time to fight back

https://goodlawproject.org/petition/keep-hampstead-womens-pond-inclusive

08.10.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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08.10.2025 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 325    πŸ” 125    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 27

Exactly. Because they would have to decide the balance internally.

Still very important to have town & country both well represented inside any decision-making bodies inside the authority. Can't have one trampling on the other.

02.10.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, *sure*, if we want to go to Vulgaria and rescue children from the child catcher, flying cars are perfect for that!

02.10.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You don't tailor it to the bike configurations, you get machine learning algorithms to distinguish human behaviour: someone using a key to unlock their bike is going to have a different pattern to someone breaking a lock. (I also work with computers, ~40yrs.)

02.10.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is why one county authority helps, not Oxford vs other regions.

02.10.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is exactly the sort of thing that computers could and should be expected to help with. The police should have access to software trained to spot ordinary vs suspicious removals of bikes from the racks. Then the footage to be reviewed is minimised. Funding?

02.10.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sure Starmer's words weren't even so much as inciting a milkshake against him, let alone actual violence.

01.10.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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