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dorkymum.bsky.social
Freelance writer & blogger • Science, environment, travel, books, family, islands • Green, socialist, feminist • Trans rights are human rights • Free Palestine • She/her • lutruwita/Tasmania via Scotland • #MDANT • dorkymum.com • ruthdawkins.net
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Help! I'm teaching storytelling to middle school students in NYC who need to tell their stories. You can imagine. Introducing them to the concept of zines. Please send me links to printable zines that might inspire them. Any topic (maybe not "my dad's yacht is too small." Pl share widely.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

When my Dad was over at Christmas he told me that in the town he grew up in, to this day, which pub you go to drink in is still defined by which side of the Miners Strike you were on in 84/85. Just a quick reminder that you don't have to forgive or forget, the people who betray you and your class.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

regret to inform everyone this is a real guy who could be pope

submitted 9 hours ago • 439 comments

Absolute hilarity/horror in the middle of the night, being woken up by my husband’s electric toothbrush - which had turned itself on and vibrated itself off the shelf and into the sink 😭😭😭😭

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

after hearing from several of you last night, i think i have a general structure for this. it's subject to change based on feedback, but if you're a current, fired, or currently-being-litigated federal worker, i want to hear from you. here are the details.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

It's not "controversial," guys, it's a Nazi salute. You can call it out as such. Stop dancing around the truth.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Please stop eating Tasmanian farmed salmon!

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

With the world seemingly falling apart with <waves hands at everything> some good news: it won't literally be falling apart in 2032. The latest data from Asteroid #2024YR4 ☄️ has reduced the chances of impact to 1-in-370. Bruce Willis, you can stand down. 🧪🔭 ℹ️: cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/detai...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

As a left-wing person who long reconciled himself with the reality that my politics are marginal and will likely remain so forever (and that I personally am not a terribly convincing advocate for them), I'm struck by how often the mere existence of my politics is treated like a major social problem

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Blaming left wing people for rising fascism instead of the so-called centrists who destroyed any chance of progressive government and have now adopted far right policies about trans people, immigration and disabled people in particular is frankly a huge LOL Luke. Embarrassed for you.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Can we please get @dieworkwear.bsky.social onto this 🙏🏻

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Fossil fuel companies building renewables will build them how they've always built fossil fuels: oversized, environmentally destructive and socially corrosive. They're just burning through goodwill at an astonishing rate

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

For obvious reasons, I agree wholeheartedly with this piece by @brocklesnitch.bsky.social - age is really only one consideration in whether a relationship is problematic or not but it seems to be the one factor where folk feel it’s okay to openly judge. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Ballots and medications.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Crikey 😬😬 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Please consider helping Diana and her beautiful family if you have a few dollars you can send today to help with their everyday essentials ❤️🙏🏻

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The dog has a new bed and it seems that she is every bit as set in her ways and bad at dealing with change as I am, because right now she is acting like she hates it and is sleeping on the floor in protest.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Genuinely wondering if there is a misprinted visitor brochure out there this year, because I get asked for directions to Salamanca Market almost every time I’m down at the waterfront, by people who think it’s a daily event not weekly.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Love this thread about the magic of learning ❤️

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments