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I'm not "inspired" by women with more money than they know what to do with taking an expensive joyride as ordinary Americans go without when women who actually flew aircraft are being erased from history by the Pentagon and women astrophysicists are being besmirches as "DEI hires" and fired.

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Statement by Translucent providing some context… Written by a lawyer with decades of experience in this area.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

I give this Supreme Court judgement the same respect I would do for one ruling on racism that only heard from racist organisations and declined to hear either people of colour of their organisations. Last year 1074+ negative trans articles in the Times, Mail, Guardian and Telegraph.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Eternal love and strength to my trans and intersex pals. May the fury of a thousand suns descend on your oppressors.

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they don't speak for me, i refuse them, they are working against the interests of women everywhere and protect no one

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Great to see The Guardian recycling an article of mine from 2023 without attribution: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html as https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world

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Email your MP. Ask for a reply. Leave a message. This matters more than petitions. I've got local MPs to meet local writers

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An astronomy professor colleague of mine once relayed trying to explain to his students why it was important that they actually write their class reports themselves. “The point is not to teach ME about neutron stars,” he said.

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The launch today making me think of what William Shatner said when he went on the celebrity penis rocket

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A comment on going to space. Not the only view, but a valid one. #space #poetry #performance #NASA Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon" www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2...

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Things social media could do without - latest in an interminable series. Person - having considered all my options for doing this, I've chosen to do this. Random - here's why you're wrong, even though I know nothing of your reasons which you have chosen not to share. Instablock time.

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Bad form to Sam Freedman of the @theguardian.com who stole the entire text of a Charlie Stross essay for a post www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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After weeks of glorious sunshine, the rains have arrived, just in time for the long Easter weekend. Bah!

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WATCH: Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park react to Monday's 5.2 magnitude earthquake that shook San Diego County. The elephants formed an "alert circle" meant to protect the young and the entire herd from any threats, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.

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Happy Puffin Day. Here's a Manx Shearwater (RSPB)

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I'm not really well enough to walk every day at the moment but I saw so many nice things while out at the weekend that I thought I might post some this week when I can't manage to get out. Here's some vibrant Green Alkanet I saw on Saturday. #walking #flowers #MentalHealth

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BREAKING: 15 people charged with gambling offences following the gamblegate scandal of the general election, including former Conservative MP and aide to Rishi Sunak, Craig Williams. The sleaze scandal was one of the final nails in the Tory govt’s coffin.

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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 9 days ago • 531 comments

Yup.

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I really hate this take. You have no idea why people didn't vote. We live in a country with systemic voter suppression. Election Day isn't a national holiday in the US and there's a host of mechanisms set up to encourage people in many states not to vote.

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Apple blossom between railway line and motorway, how many years ago was the apple lobbed from a passing car or train, I wonder. #TreeFlowers #WildflowerHour

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