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I need to revise the description for the Follow Farming list and it will be WAY too long, so I'm posting this and will thread the description in replies:

submitted 158 days ago • 13 comments

If you're cis, I strongly recommend reading this. It was part of what cracked my egg, but the reason I think you should read it is because you have no idea what this is like and too many of you think it's just about liking pink and skirts

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

I’m convinced this is how a bay leaf would talk

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Every trans person I know supported the decriminalisation of abortion. In contrast plenty of “feminist” “protecting women” “women’s concerns” “gender critical” transphobic bigots opposed it. Transphobes use “women’s rights” as a cover for transphobia. They don’t care about women’s rights.

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

"[T]he out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, gendered. Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about. Some men. Every woman knows what I'm talking about." Rebecca Solnit (2008), Men Explain Things To me.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl, made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in mold. Timeless beauty! Dating late 1st BC–early 1st AD, found in Cuora, Cavarzere, Italy Photo: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria 🏺

submitted 19 hours ago • 16 comments

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1561

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

I don't need the fucking 'Ministry of Justice' to say they love LGBTQ+ people. But along with numerous other things, whether on abortion or capitulating on 'two-tier policing' panic despite known bias against minorities, it's clear in Shabana Mahmood, we have a deeply regressive Justice Secretary.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

It's time to abolish the Home Office. It is not fit for purpose & has totally lost the trust of every stakeholder it serves - We knew that already. So I looked into how it could practically be done for @carladenyer.bsky.social My NEW report out today 👇👇

submitted 20 hours ago • 29 comments

I will not buy your AI book, I will not give its text a look I will not share your AI art, I will not share even a part I will not play your AI game I will not play it, feel some shame! Use your soul and heart and head And make us things to love, instead #noAI

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

The champions of women...

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Syril and Dedra from Andor

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

So. The Pinkertons. That news item that went around yesterday about Emily Blunt playing Kate Warne? It's from four years ago. Last solid news about the Kate Warne biopic was from 2023. It seems clear that the movie is trapped in development hell and won't ever appear. Which is a good thing. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

UK Parliament Sides with Anti-Trans Activists in Apology www.transvitae.com/u... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

💥 NEW 💥 The EHRC’s interim update unleashed chaos after the Supreme Court’s transphobic decision. But now the commission says it was only ‘some observations’ and rows back on its demand for single-sex toilets. goodlaw.social/pa8z

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

HOLY SHIT Y'ALL LOOK 😍🤯

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This comes from engagement work with teenage girls in a park in York. And you see all those things with two dots by them. Those make up 90%+ of what we currently provide for young people in public space. Whereas the things that girls want - they just aren't there. Let's do better.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Well, if it’s 17 June, it must be the 85th anniversary of Major Alfred Wintle, MC, responding to the defeat of France by starting a one-man campaign to rescue the French Air Force using methods which landed him in the Tower of London

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

England faces 5bn litre public water shortage by 2055. Govt softening people up for bill hikes. Island surrounded by water has shortage - 1 trillion litres a year lost to leaks, lack of new reservoirs, £85bn paid in dividends, rivers/lakes polluted by sewage. Crisis created by privatisation.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Greetings and good morning it’s the Tuesday farm rush hour with Widget our rescue cow

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

the load-bearing institution we broke first was school. this is very weird and we won't know how much it matters for years

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

He introduced me to his favorite film, Destination Moon. To be fair he knew he was pushing against an open door as he knew I loved SFF, and he'd just bought me Arthur C. Clarke's Islands In The Sky.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I live in a world where I am supposed to just accept that this sentence exists

submitted 2 days ago • 98 comments

As the ancient proverb goes, "there's always a tweet".

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

My painting of Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) in textured oil paints with palette knife. #Vera #Art #Detective

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Everything’s coolio

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

This hits very hard. I, and many of my trans colleagues, operated from this logic by default. Many now, I think, are waking up to its flaws. Some, sadly, still do not and cling to the hope of a quick fix or compromise.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Today marks nine years since Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right extremist, a terrible loss to those who knew and loved her and to politics. Zero lessons were learned though and the far-right continues to be pandered to. With more political assassinations in the US it all feels too familiar.

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

I no longer wonder why the 'Spanish" flu is barely mentioned in the literature of the 1920s.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Did you wash your hair this morning? Then you've Dean Mahomed, the "Shampooing Surgeon" to thank. Born in India in the 18th century, he fought in the British army under an Irish man, Captain Baker, who encouraged him to move to Cork, where he fell in love with an Irish woman, Jane...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

People who rely on personal independence payments tell how cuts will affect them as chancellor rules out U-turn www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

The great Darwyn Cooke’s covers for Criterion’s 2007 DVD box-set ‘Monsters And Madmen’.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Trans barrister accosted outside Commons toilet by gender critical activists www.thenational.scot... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

youtu.be/vboUAIibXPo?... WATCH MY MOVIE FOR FREE

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Nice one! Frustrated by the lack of a good fully-electric ute on the market, Mike Casey has made one anyway. "So I found a really good, old Hilux ...We took an old Nissan Leaf motor and basically slotted it into the gearbox of the Hilux ... then put a battery box under the tray."

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

submitted 3 days ago • 161 comments

‘What does this movie’s dismal box office mean for the future of the franchise?’ No clue but how about you go talk to the overnight ratings obsessives and see who bores who into unconsciousness first.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Reform UK’s “DOLGE” wants to “cut waste” in councils – starting with a misunderstanding of a scheme to provide services across England. Their lead efficiency expert? A 29-year-old with a failed company and £834 in assets. Here’s what you need to know ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

We are all going to have to get used to immediately checking for watermarks on all videos (like on this one, where you can see the 'Veo' logo in the bottom-right, proving it's not real). Except within a few weeks there will be a tool to remove them. Fucking hell the future is EXHAUSTING

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

I see that Jack has written a longer, more detailed version of the Toilet Police story, including naming the club responsible.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Military expert here. You might find squeaking tanks funny, but they only make that noise when in distress when in front of a desultory crowd while being pressed into service on behalf of a wannabe dictator.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.

submitted 4 days ago • 909 comments

A weekend mystery... I'm not entirely sure what this is, other than being one of the weird and wonderful beasties that you meet on blackwater dives. My best guess is a siphonophore of some sort. Pic from Balayan Bay, Anilao #MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

My sons' viewing experiences aren't radically different from my own as a child.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

This just hit Amazon Prime and it's great. Zero budget northern zombie apocalypse movie. Does way more than that suggests. www.interlopersmovie.com

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment