Beth Portwood 🏳️‍🌈

Beth Portwood 🏳️‍🌈

@bethportwood.bsky.social

Woke lefty, feminist killjoy living in Manchester with my cat and stitching things.

221 Followers 155 Following 14 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week More than 5,000 workers to benefit from reduced hours with no loss of pay Two hundred UK companies have signed up for a permanent four-day working week for all their employees with no loss of pay, in the latest landmark in the campaign to reinvent…

Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week

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Photograph of a white woman sitting with arms folded in an arched doorway in a house on a street with a similar shaped closed black door in the next house which has childrens' scribbled drawings on it, to the right a white dog with black ears walks towards the left and a black and white cat sits on the doorstep

Shirley Baker, Hulme, 1965, UK photographer known for her street photography around Greater Manchester,UK #WomensArt

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Glad to see Laura Kuenssberg has Nadhim Zahawi on. It's so important to hear the views of someone who claimed £6,000 to heat his stables, hid £27m offshore to avoid tax and threatened to sue anyone who asked questions.

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Can someone hide all the pens?

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Helpful!

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It's been quite something to watch supposedly 'patriotic' British newspapers actively cheerleading on a foreign administration that is openly working against our interests.

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Photo of my large handsome fluffy brown tuxedo tabby Fergus sitting upright in a small cardboard box.

Many people doubted Fergus. “He’ll never fit in that box!” they said. But I never doubted him. 🏆

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Monochrome photograph featuring the head and shoulder of a white woman, the subject has head down resting on her left shoulder, she has cropped short hair and a cigarette behind her ear, she wears a top with a small floral print, the background is dark

Sinéad O'Connor, 1992 by UK photographer Jane Bown, taken during a rehearsal backstage #WomensArt

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Someone on Twitter writes: "Unfortunately die work wear or whatever is a psyop to turn men into women . Cuz why the hell else would he be telling them to dress that gay"

The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

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Manchester's Magic Bus does disappearing trick after 30 years The low-fare Manchester bus popular with students bows out after almost 30 years in service.

RIP the Magic Bus. You took me home from poptastic at 3am with a spicy wing meal in hand more times than I can remember ✌🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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adding this to my Dream Wedding moodboard on Pinterest. #TheTraitors #Traitors

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#TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUK
Quote of the season:

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Not to be over dramatic or anything but, at a checkout in a shop, if the person in front of you doesn’t put a divider down for you when they’ve finished putting their shopping on the conveyer belt then you should be allowed to stamp on their fingers.

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Salt and Vinegar Potatoes While steaming then roasting potatoes may seem rather a fandango, one bite of these will convince you that it's utterly worth it; besides, it's not as if you have to do anything while they either stea...

And it’s Friday! But anyway, it’s always cause for jubilation when Salt and Vinegar Potatoes are #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/salt...

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A Minute of Silence for those traumatized by inclusivity.

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i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

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I’m sick of living through Wikipedia entries.

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Today is an object lesson in the radicalisation of the British right-wing press. Britain is being disparaged and insulted by a foreign far-right conspiracy theorist. But the Mail, the Express, the Telegraph and even the Times choose focus their criticisism on the British prime minister instead.

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Black and white photo taken in a studio setting with a backdrop painted to look like tree foliage. A young white woman with long dark hair is dressed dramatically in draped layers of chiffon and cradled a shorthaired white and tabby cat in her arms.

I think we all need to get dramatic portraits like this done with our cats. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

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Rejection is Protection every single time. Quote: "May the bridges we burn light our way."

Let them be mad.
Let them judge you.
Let them misunderstand you.
Let them gossip about you.
Let them ignore you.
Let them be right.
Let them doubt you.
Let them hate you.
Let them run your name in the ground.
Let them make you out to be the villain.

But never let them make you question your worth.

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Lindsay Reade. Gillian Gilbert. Ang Matthews. Cath Carroll. DJ Paulette. Stella Hall. Linder Sterling. Kay Carroll. So many brilliant women played a pivotal role in Factory’s story. Thanks for acknowledging & amplifying some of their voices @ophiraophira.bsky.social @manchestermill.bsky.social

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BBC Radio 4 - You're Dead to Me, Grainne O’Malley Greg Jenner takes us to 16th-century Ireland to meet pirate queen Grainne O’Malley.

It’s Nollaig na mBan or Women’s Christmas in Ireland. Traditionally it was a day off for women who had worked to make Christmas great for their families. Nowadays it’s also a time to remember + celebrate women.
So here’s a funny podcast on Gráinne O Malley I was in.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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New French guidelines show doctors overwhelmingly support gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation The medical guidelines contradict numerous conclusions from the UK's infamous Cass Review.

After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...

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Compare the sheer scale of the coverage handed by the BBC this morning to Nigel Farage and his party, with its grand total of five MPs, to its coverage of other similarly small parties.

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This cat is running around with a goddamn dollar bill in his mouth and you know what, I'm too tired for this, go buy those loose ciggies if you must

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A cross stitch of convicted master felon and antagonist of Wallace and Gromit: Feathers McGraw. He is a plasticine penguin, wearing a red rubber glove as a cap to deceive people into thinking he is an innocent chicken when he is in fact a very evil and criminal penguin.

Woke up this morning with this guy on my mind and thought "I simply must cross stitch him" and so, hours later, here he is.

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Painting of the head and shoulders of a white woman looking down with long thick wavey grey hair and wearing a black jacket and white t-shirt against a grey backdrop

Patti Smith, 2022,
by US performer, activist and painter Joan Baez
#WomensArt

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