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Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section KCC says the move came after a

You know when we kept saying this was coming, this was happening, this was never a US-only issue, we were having events cancelled and being left off lists and parents had to sign permission slips when we were coming in to do assemblies? You know? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fresh air at St Andrews yesterday. Sometimes they rub each other up the wrong way like all siblings but they have such a strong relationship.

Dancing exams this week. Both of them had fun and think they did well. Apparently the tap examiner "wasn't very good at managing her face" when someone made a mistake though 🤣🤣

I've cancelled the subscription I had on substack because of this. It's not hard to find the information but it's just Meta. Bad.

Facts are important

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We've had a lovely few days as Mammy is off work. We've been to ninja warrior with A's friend on Monday, swimming with Chloe & little A yesterday and riding today. Pops put up another shelf for M's lego and tomorrow we're having a date day with cinema and dinner!

My father in law painted the picture of our wedding venue that's there and have it to us on the day

It's awful!

That's lovely. We have ours framed on the wall. We got little books for people to read from and that we put our vows in.

Ofcom, stop GB News broadcasting hate *CW: Homophobia, hate speech GB News is no stranger to spouting hatred and toxic lies. They take pride in it, and pretend the rules don’t matter. But they do. And they must be enforced. On 22 January,...

On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. The @GoodLawProject is filing a complaint to Ofcom and is inviting anyone who wishes to, to make a complaint using this link: point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

Mind you, every single girl in this photo is in more danger being in close proximity to Donald Trump than they would be playing fucking badminton with a trans woman

Can't cope with the news today but popping in to say that if you add the word fuck to your google search string, you don't get that stupid AI nonsense at the top of your results. Yes there are other ways, but this one pleases me.

Yay!! All the trains

Yes!

Might just be big enough for our huge dog!

Glad they were so helpful. Things like that can be hard

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Feels weird putting a link to a Facebook video on here but this is fabulous

In memory of the late Janey Godley today

A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
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I'm not sure what messages are out there for parents re their kids but staff in schools (certainly special schools) are off at much higher rates and so staffing becomes unsafe as budget cuts mean even less contingency

It's interesting because I would say in our service and in many schools the rate of sickness absence is much higher since covid. Many people are prioritising their health (& some are definitely taking the piss!) but the system can't cope and places are dangerously understaffed as a consequence