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I’ve mentioned on here that my 16 yo daughter is dialling down schoolwork overwhelm by making linocuts. Here’s her latest design:

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Today’s face is Citla drawn with Copic markers and coloured pencils #ArtSky drawingfaces.home.blog/2025/04/28/c...

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Demands for branded uniform are a big strain on family budgets and Government efforts to cut these costs are welcome. But ministers will need to go much further to tackle child poverty, starting with scrapping the two-child limit.

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Unprecedented result in women’s sport climbing lead World Cup - top two women climb to the highest point in exactly the same time. So shared gold medal for first time. And one of the winners is British- the amazing Erin McNeice!

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So happy that the IFSC sport climbing season is back - had to get a vpn to avoid the £42 a month that Discovery+ are charging for it this year!

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So a couple days ago, Brooke Raboutou climbed Excalibur, a 5.15c/9b+ sport climbing route in Italy. In the process, she became the first woman to climb 5.15c. This is a monumental achievement that hasn't gotten a lot of attention outside of climbing. Let me explain why it's a big fucking deal.

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Spent the afternoon at the movies watching Sinners. Absolutely epic!

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We have travelled such a long road to get to where we are, with so many opportunities to take a more humane, more human rights centred road. 🥺 www.theguardian.com/society/2023...

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This is a tiny optics thing, really, but I think it's worth remembering that when campaigners win real civil rights after court battles, you don't tend to see them popping champagne bottles or triumphantly smoking cigars on yachts.

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London councils yet to spend £130m in local climate funds

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The notion that trans people "aren't real" is at the dark heart of the antitrans movement. They dismiss the possibility of them existing, ridicule them as fakers, liars & predators. And then they coo and smile and bleat about "Oh but no, we respect them really, just not really really..."

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If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there. (Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...

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Possibly the news photo of the decade.

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Hey related are any trans artists selling enamel badges that we could buy directly from

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The NHS is England’s biggest employer by far. Our NHS staffing tracker shows the trends in staffing levels across hospital and community services, general practice, and those in training to join the workforce 👩‍⚕️ Explore our tracker here 👇

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WTF?

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I learned as a child that there were some adults who you could not trust, that you had to check anything they said with an Independent source before you believed it. Journalists need to apply that principle www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

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Should benefit claimants risk having their bank accounts spied upon and driving licences revoked? I don’t think so | Neil Duncan-Jordan

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Why women don’t go up against powerful white men. The system was built by them and for them. Rest in peace Virginia Giuffre. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Carry on using the right toilets. And remind your friends and family voting in the local elections next week that this is Labour's policy and Labour extended the term of the bigot running the EHRC.

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Today’s face is Peggy #ArtSky drawingfaces.home.blog/2025/04/25/p...

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Important new research from Sue Fletcher-Watson, Heidi Kristiina Kaljusto, & Emma Wilson. Endless £millions being spent on genetics research for autism: Hardly any research teams bother to work with us, listen to our priorities, or use respectful language.

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LGBTQ+ inclusion doesn't just benefit certain Brits – it helps all of us

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People in North of England and Wales would be the hardest hit by disability benefit cuts. They will suffer three times the economic impact and with twice as many affected residents as London and the south-east. Deprived areas have more people with disabilities. No impact assessment from govt.

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Farage, Badenoch and the US far-right are all lining up to attack people with autism, ADHD and other conditions that indicate people might have special educational needs. The move is sinister, wrong and profoundly worrying. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...

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Tulips from Tulleys visit on Monday are looking stunning today

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There are still spaces left on our Co-production and You e-learning course! This course is for people wherever they are on their co-production journey: if you want to spend some time reflecting deeply, with peers, on the place of co-production in your work. Find out more and book 👉 buff.ly/uQACdyS

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I think it’s fucking rude to listen to music or podcasts without headphones on public transport and reserve the right to glare at anyone doing so. But making it a crime is absolutely pathetic. Come on.

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"The soldiers reloaded their magazines and kept shooting even after it was clear that no return fire was coming from the other side – and despite the cries of the aid workers who tried to identify themselves." From Haaretz. archive.ph/4vam4

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I found this piece useful - explaining the absurdities the supreme court ruling has created for trans men. Anyone who claims the law brings clarity, this is the opposite of clarity. This is a messy tangle of absurdity. Cruel, harmful absurdity. theconversation.com/what-does-th...

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Well well well well well

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Fucking yes, exactly.

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This headline sums up the utter insanity of the world at the moment. The evidence says one thing, Trump says the opposite.

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I really think we need to push back on this hard. I'm not going to shut up about it. We can't let science denial become normalised

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Starmer has broken every manifesto promise he has made to trans people; his government is supressing data on the suicides his policies are causing and commissioning bogus reports to attack those trying to tell the truth; and is dishonest about what the judgment means. And now he wants us to shut up?

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New analysis of the latest health care funding figures for England. Updated following the 2025 Spring Statement, the #REALCentre looks at how current funding compares with historical levels and how it stacks up against what is needed to meet future pressures. Read more ⬇️

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The Supreme Court ruling left out trans people. We're stepping in — with lawyers, resources, and action 🏳️‍⚧️⚖️ Donate to our fighting fund 💪 goodlaw.social/9235c1

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This is superb!

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Today’s face is Keso #ArtSky drawingfaces.home.blog/2025/04/23/k...

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The environmental cost of playing with these “cute” little AI games and memes. news.mit.edu/2025/explain...

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This statement from the Greens' co-leader, Carla Denyer, on last week's supreme court verdict on gender, quite neatly sums up the worries about its repercussions shared by not just Greens but some Lib Dems and quite a few Labour MPs. They are worries not as yet really addressed by the government.

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Gary Lineker, "Why worry about people you don't like?" Amol Rajan, "Because of damage to the BBC" Gary Lineker, "This is the mistake the BBC make" "The BBC try to appease the people that hate the BBC"

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Baroness Jones tells LBC that Labour are pandering to the far right, just like the Conservatives and that it won't help Britain

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