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Poster titled: "Call for trans and non-binary participants (18+): Participate in Research on Media, Politics, and Transphobic Hate Crime", with the logo of Glasgow Caledonian University, a QR code, and another image of a person holding a transgender flag. The text reads: "This study explores trans and non-binary people’s perceptions of media and political discourse in the UK, and how these relate to experiences of safety and hate crime. We are looking for trans and non-binary adults living in the UK to fill out an anonymous questionnaire If you would like to take part, you can scan the QR code below or follow this link: https://forms.office.com/e/RhZKQPgHVJ"

Researchers from Glasgow Caledonian University are recruiting trans and non-binary adults in the UK to take part in an online questionnaire on media, politics and hate crime. This can be accessed at: forms.office.com/e/RhZKQPgHVJ
Any questions: lrusse300@caledonian.ac.uk

#TransResearch

Iconic Aran jumper to be honoured on postage stamps The iconic Aran jumper is being celebrated by An Post with the launch of a new stamp collection.

The iconic Aran jumper is being celebrated by An Post with the launch of a new stamp collection

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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HHS has eliminated EVERY SINGLE SAFEGUARD FOR DATA PROTECTION AT CDC. Giving data to CDC is no longer safe and puts your residents at risk.

Unless and until all CDC’s data protections are restored you should consider CDC a bad actor.

It's Wednesday and you know what that means, right?

Could you tell me?

Bluesky accessibility settings, including a toggle "require alt text before posting"

Follow-up reminder: if you want to use alt text but keep forgetting, there's a setting for that!

black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background Alt: “Black history is not a month it's a lifetime,” written on a yellow background

Oct. 8:

ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

Please encourage your moots and favourite artists to enable the mandatory alt text requirement setting where possible!

A lot of people, myself included, won't share others' posts when it isn't present.

For those that struggle there are the hashtags #alt4me and #alt4you that can help 😊💚

Don't we all.

Ruin a movie by making it about Gary

When Harry Met Gary

Yarn blanks, two Yarn cakes fern leaves and plums and apricots displayed on a platter with silver beads

Close open of 2 yarn cakes, yarn blanks and apricots and plums

A bunch of yarn cakes and fern leaves

Bunched up yarn blanks in a gradient from sage green to orange to plum

Introducing September's #monthlyyarnclub colorway "Twilight Orchard".

A first for Yarnian subscribers, this is a Yarn cake with gorgeous autumnal colors inspired by the robe, tunic and turban of a Black Magi in an Italian 16thc painting. 🧶

#yarnsky #yarnlove #yarnaddiction

Uhuh .. yup

a child looking down at a golden retriever named Samaria resting in their lap. the child pets the dog's face.

a person holding a child on their hip crouches down on the sidewalk to pet a golden retriever on the head.

a child wearing all gray sits on a yellow curb. a golden retriever lays on the sidewalk next to them, and rests their head in the child's lap.

A group of 6 LCC K9 comfort dogs arrived in Minneapolis yesterday in the wake of the latest mass shooting. The organization deploys comfort dogs following tragic events. The dogs wore their "please pet me vests," offering love and comfort to those processing this heartbreaking tragedy. 15/10 for all

It turns out the recurring nightmare I’ve been having is just life in general.

It’s not every day I walk into work with a smile on my face.

It’s not today either.

Trans Youth Activists attempt to climb The Cursed Child theatre in protest: 'Stop Funding Transphobia!' | Trans Kids Deserve Better

New TKDB action

They attempt to climb the cursed child building in London

transkidsdeservebetter.org/trans-youth-...

A barrister, Sarah Phillimore, led a campaign of harassment of a trans woman so wicked that she sought to take her own life. Jk Rowling saw the threat of regulatory sanction for that misconduct and offered to pay her legal costs.

That's where she now is.

Initially read it as “Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce Are Enraged” and honestly that was a much more intriguing headline.

The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...

Interviewer: Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Me: In a secure psychiatric unit.

Bluesky is just group therapy where no one’s licensed

The absolute, wanton cruelty of this.

i have more faith in single ply toilet paper than i do most people

@alt-text.bsky.social

Thousands march in banned Budapest Pride parade Tens of thousands of protesters have marched through Hungary's capital as a banned LGBTQ+ rights rally swelled into a mass demonstration against the government.

Tens of thousands of protesters have marched through Hungary's capital as a banned LGBTQ+ rights rally swelled into a mass demonstration against the government

the world is heading entirely in the wrong direction so i need a couple billion people to help me turn it towards peace & love

This ruthless pursuit of disabled people has damaged Labour – no matter what happens next | Frances Ryan The number of rebel Labour MPs vowing to oppose the disability cuts is growing. But the moral stain could take years to shift, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

“This ruthless pursuit of disabled people has damaged Labour – no matter what happens next”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pride Month - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : ' Pride Month' on Monday 23 June 2025.

We need to write thank you letters to Ben Maguire and all the MPs who spoke supportively in this debate.
Seriously, it really helps.
You can check who via Hansard: hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...