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Let's redefine "normal".
Community action! Joy! Connection! All of the above, on this very Wednesday. It is going to be ICONIC and HISTORIC!
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Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage.
But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...?
We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.
I'm sure all those women MPs from other parties who are so vocal about the abuse they receive will be fully and loudly condemning this attack on Hannah.
Being feminists and all...
Nope it is looking bad. Hope firefighters are safe as it will be chaos in morning
Yes indeed x
Terrifying. The anti-trans mob are a threat to all women.
I do love poetry
#3goodthings
1. Catch up with one of my oldest friends
2. Plans made with both my girls
3. Relaxing bath
#InternationalWomenβsDay
Our BBC podcast Youβre Dead To Me has covered many extraordinary women from history, as well as broader themes in social & gender history. Itβs a funny show, but we take it seriously, so why not give it a try? π
Here is a recent episode
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Alex and I have an overdue catch up on things. Enjoy! π§π
I have written to my MP about the proposed immigration changes by Labour and the press release I got in reply was a disgrace. After listening to @quietriotpod.bsky.social I am incensed again so will write yet again to voice my opposition
Today is the 150th anniversary of the patenting of the Telephone in 1876 β so, here is our very funny 150th episode of Youβre Dead To Me about the telephoneβs origins
With comedian Catherine Bohart and historian of science Professor @irmorus.bsky.social
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This notinourname.org.uk petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social has almost reached 90,000 names!
If you are a woman who is opposed to transphobic bigotry being deployed in your name, please sign and shareβ¦
Those two little girls should be 33-34 now with many decades ahead of them.
Let's remember Holly and Jessica and think of their families today, rather than waste too much thought on the man who murdered them.
Glad you are home and enjoying Friday pint of something x
"As International Womenβs Day 2026 approaches, the most valuable way for our sisters to give is to join together as a collective, for under one banner we are stronger together."
Read more from our Women's Campaign Unit π
#IWD
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History is going to judge McSweeney very badly for being so close to this
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Delighted @gregjenner.bsky.social and You're Dead to Me are looking at Dowager Empress Cixi as it goes very nicely with @empirepoduk.bsky.social
miniseries on Mao.
Sending only positive thoughts
#3goodthings
1. Colleagues sorted out my classes when I had to come home as feeling poorly
2. Slept all afternoon
3. Chicken soup
Itβs the perfect day to disappear into a quaint bookstore, never to be seen again.
Untrue - the Convention provides both for the possibility that protection might cease to be necessary (ie the cessation clause: refugee status ends if there's a change in circumstances) AND the possibility it might need to be long-term (ie references to facilitating citizenship of the refuge State)
As a Modern Studies teacher asked similar questions this week. Trying to give clear answers without adding to anxiety but also not downplaying seriousness or the student's fear being very real.
View of geese at pond
#3goodthings
1. Lots of encouragement at the gym
2. Lunchtime walk
3. Making plans with Alice
Oh lovely photo
Yes it was a Rotary competition. My seniors won and my intermediates were 1st and 2nd. So thrilled for them x