Shmoe
@jojo9.bsky.social
Pre-Raphaelite... Loves wine and cake!
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After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
September 26, 2026 at 3:56 PM
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Norwegian humor is on another level.
Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
September 22, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Norwegian humor is on another level.
Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
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Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.
June 22, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.
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This is a funny 9/11 memory
September 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
This is a funny 9/11 memory
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Let’s focus on the real threats, which we see around us, every day, online and offline. Let trans+ people live their lives safely, peacefully and joyfully. We have work to do elsewhere
September 6, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Let’s focus on the real threats, which we see around us, every day, online and offline. Let trans+ people live their lives safely, peacefully and joyfully. We have work to do elsewhere
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If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
September 3, 2026 at 11:59 AM
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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September 3, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
www.theverge.com
September 3, 2026 at 2:05 AM
As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.
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in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
August 25, 2026 at 6:47 PM
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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"Fines for waste offences are set to rise by 16 times from £300 to £5,000"
That's still a fee, not a punishment.
That's still a fee, not a punishment.
Andy Burnham has launched a major crackdown on waste criminals who dump "mountains of rubbish" in communities across the UK.
Criminal gangs who illegally dump rubbish face fines increased by 16 times
www.mirror.co.uk
August 20, 2026 at 5:15 AM
"Fines for waste offences are set to rise by 16 times from £300 to £5,000"
That's still a fee, not a punishment.
That's still a fee, not a punishment.
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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for spaghetti with semi-dried tomatoes, garlic, herbs and breadcrumbs | A kitchen in Rome
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/aug/20/spaghetti-semi-dried-tomatoes-garlic-herbs-breadcrumbs-recipe-rachel-roddy
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/aug/20/spaghetti-semi-dried-tomatoes-garlic-herbs-breadcrumbs-recipe-rachel-roddy
August 20, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for spaghetti with semi-dried tomatoes, garlic, herbs and breadcrumbs | A kitchen in Rome
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/aug/20/spaghetti-semi-dried-tomatoes-garlic-herbs-breadcrumbs-recipe-rachel-roddy
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/aug/20/spaghetti-semi-dried-tomatoes-garlic-herbs-breadcrumbs-recipe-rachel-roddy
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When someone says they're acting “for women”, it's worth asking: which women?
More than 100K women have signed our letter saying that excluding trans+ people isn't being done in our name.
People need to hear what women are actually saying.
✍️ Add your voice, sign our letter: notinourname.org.uk
More than 100K women have signed our letter saying that excluding trans+ people isn't being done in our name.
People need to hear what women are actually saying.
✍️ Add your voice, sign our letter: notinourname.org.uk
August 19, 2026 at 5:02 PM
When someone says they're acting “for women”, it's worth asking: which women?
More than 100K women have signed our letter saying that excluding trans+ people isn't being done in our name.
People need to hear what women are actually saying.
✍️ Add your voice, sign our letter: notinourname.org.uk
More than 100K women have signed our letter saying that excluding trans+ people isn't being done in our name.
People need to hear what women are actually saying.
✍️ Add your voice, sign our letter: notinourname.org.uk
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This was such an incredible moment
August 16, 2026 at 7:40 AM
This was such an incredible moment
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This geode that resembles the Cookie Monster was discovered by gemologist *Lucas Fassari* in November 2020 in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. #AGoodPlace
August 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM
This geode that resembles the Cookie Monster was discovered by gemologist *Lucas Fassari* in November 2020 in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. #AGoodPlace
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A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
August 16, 2026 at 6:38 AM
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Please sign. Enough is enough. We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
goodlawproject.org
August 15, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Please sign. Enough is enough. We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Rescheduled event! 🙌
We are really pleased that our friends @transsolidarity.bsky.social have been able to reschedule their “mass lobby” for Wednesday 9th September, giving a fresh opportunity to join hundreds of trans+ people and allies as they head to Westminster to speak directly to their MPs!
We are really pleased that our friends @transsolidarity.bsky.social have been able to reschedule their “mass lobby” for Wednesday 9th September, giving a fresh opportunity to join hundreds of trans+ people and allies as they head to Westminster to speak directly to their MPs!
August 15, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Rescheduled event! 🙌
We are really pleased that our friends @transsolidarity.bsky.social have been able to reschedule their “mass lobby” for Wednesday 9th September, giving a fresh opportunity to join hundreds of trans+ people and allies as they head to Westminster to speak directly to their MPs!
We are really pleased that our friends @transsolidarity.bsky.social have been able to reschedule their “mass lobby” for Wednesday 9th September, giving a fresh opportunity to join hundreds of trans+ people and allies as they head to Westminster to speak directly to their MPs!
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Trans+ people are our children, parents, siblings, friends, colleagues and neighbours. People we know, people we love, and people who are part of our everyday lives.
They deserve to be treated with the same humanity, compassion and kindness as anyone else.
✍️ Sign if you agree: notinourname.org.uk
They deserve to be treated with the same humanity, compassion and kindness as anyone else.
✍️ Sign if you agree: notinourname.org.uk
August 12, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Trans+ people are our children, parents, siblings, friends, colleagues and neighbours. People we know, people we love, and people who are part of our everyday lives.
They deserve to be treated with the same humanity, compassion and kindness as anyone else.
✍️ Sign if you agree: notinourname.org.uk
They deserve to be treated with the same humanity, compassion and kindness as anyone else.
✍️ Sign if you agree: notinourname.org.uk
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Okay Clacton. Let’s go.
August 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Okay Clacton. Let’s go.
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Cis allies; brilliant time to wear a trans flag pin, badge, T-shirt, anything that implies you might be trans to weird creepy bigots.
If you get hassled, don’t say that you’re not trans, please; simply state the truth, e.g. “I’m a woman and I am just trying to pee in private and in peace”.
If you get hassled, don’t say that you’re not trans, please; simply state the truth, e.g. “I’m a woman and I am just trying to pee in private and in peace”.
It's time again! Cis allies: if you can, please consider being chaff for us. Toilet hobbycops think like 10% of people are trans, and to overturn our segregation we need respectable cis people causing trouble on our behalf.
Please wear a trans flag pin.
Get in good trouble, as John Lewis put it.
Please wear a trans flag pin.
Get in good trouble, as John Lewis put it.
THE CHAFF PROJECT
Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!
How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.
Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!
How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.
Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
August 6, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Cis allies; brilliant time to wear a trans flag pin, badge, T-shirt, anything that implies you might be trans to weird creepy bigots.
If you get hassled, don’t say that you’re not trans, please; simply state the truth, e.g. “I’m a woman and I am just trying to pee in private and in peace”.
If you get hassled, don’t say that you’re not trans, please; simply state the truth, e.g. “I’m a woman and I am just trying to pee in private and in peace”.
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For today’s @ftweekend.com I am rather appropriately at the seaside in Whitstable, at Keller, a spiffing new wine bar from the team behind the Fordwich Arms in Canterbury; pomme dauphin with dill emulsion, lobster salad with white currants, mussels on toast and more.
www.ft.com/content/f896...
www.ft.com/content/f896...
August 8, 2026 at 7:10 AM
For today’s @ftweekend.com I am rather appropriately at the seaside in Whitstable, at Keller, a spiffing new wine bar from the team behind the Fordwich Arms in Canterbury; pomme dauphin with dill emulsion, lobster salad with white currants, mussels on toast and more.
www.ft.com/content/f896...
www.ft.com/content/f896...
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I just saw a piece in @thebookseller.com about this fundraiser - to protect and share a collection of over one million Black books in the UK, a labour of love by one collector, Baba Pepukayi, but a vital resource for the nation. www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil... Please share, and donate if you can.
Donate to Save 1 Million Black Books, organized by Black British Book Festival
Save 1 Million Black Books
One of Britain's Largest Collections of Black Books… Black British Book Festival needs your support for Save 1 Million Black Books
www.gofundme.com
August 5, 2026 at 8:41 AM
I just saw a piece in @thebookseller.com about this fundraiser - to protect and share a collection of over one million Black books in the UK, a labour of love by one collector, Baba Pepukayi, but a vital resource for the nation. www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil... Please share, and donate if you can.
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The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace.
This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans
Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2026 at 8:48 AM
The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace.
This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...