Will never forget when my phone was confiscated at secondary school because I got a phone call telling me a family member was in the hospital, and this meant I had caring responsibilities. Told them and school still insisted on taking it off me even though I needed to, you know, do that caring.

i am fully embracing my auntie-dom.

at the train station, i saw some 13-14 year olds running down the stairs and couldn't help but say, 'watch out for your laces- they're not tied' (they were def. a trip hazard). & one kid says, 'auntie said to tie your laces!'

yes, i am auntie.

Are you a ‘gentle partner’ or a ‘Fafo partner’? I know which team I’m on | Polly Hudson Yes, we should all cut our loved ones some slack. But asking me to listen attentively to my husband’s football chat – and mirror it back to him – is definitely a step too far, writes Polly Hudson

using parenting techniques on your partner of 19 years is more worrying tbh www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

PURE JOY at the return of @abortionbookclub.bsky.social last night. I get to partner with legend @rishie.bsky.social and amazing abortion nerds from across the globe to chat abortion in literature.

Verdict? #TheIncendiaries by R O Kwon is probably not one to recommend to your fave abortionista.

Graphic saying: UK Government Statement THIS IS A WARNING Guidance to exclude trans people is coming in May

Today's government statement is a warning shot.

They’re reframing the Equality Act around “biological sex” as if that’s the default, which it isn’t.

The law is about proportionality and inclusion, not blanket exclusion of a minority group. 1/5

Stanton are NOT an abortion clinic.

These anti-abortion fake clinics spread harmful & medically inaccurate disinformation that prevents pregnant people from making informed decisions.

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Thanks for posting this, it’s also on Wikipedia (I assume from the article you posted)

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How 11 Deaf Men Helped Shape NASA's Human Spaceflight Program - NASA Before NASA could send humans to space, the agency needed to better understand the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body. So, in the late

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I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

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how am i meant to respond to emails about acting as a phd supervisor when the (rather vague, but ok - i can feedback!) research proposal has 3 references - 2 of which don't have the correct titles, and the other (the first) ref is a paper I've never written & SSM would never publish?

The systematic destruction of feminist spaces online is what inspired us to start  The Flytrap. Since last year, part of this work is archiving key Bitch Magazine articles that have disappeared from the internet. Here's some pieces we reprinted this year!

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Like most Nobel winners, Claudia Goldin was inundated with media requests and people asking for her expertise after receiving her prize. Advising the WNBA union was one of the requests she accepted — and Goldin insisted on doing it for free. https://bit.ly/4dfGdJg

Picture of a colourful book on a grey train table. The book is ‘The Incendiaries’ by RO Kwon

@abortionbookclub.bsky.social is back on the 15th! We’re (re)reading The Incendiaries by RO Kwon- sign up & come along for pro-abo chats (& we don’t even require you to have read the book!) www.otherabortionstories.space/2026

Police chiefs failed to tackle racism due to lack of leadership, watchdog finds Review finds no ‘meaningful impact’ five years after race action plan launched, amid calls for government to step in

Some people spent five years reaching a conclusion that anti-racists have been saying for decades: "an external framework is incapable of overcoming a culture that does not want to change.”

Policing is institutionally racist and impossible to reform www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Also, how it feels like my body is moving throughfog

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My tactic is to just make long, uncomfortable eye contact as they lift. They usually just go away of their own volition. 😅

I love the ALCS. If you’re a UK-based academic, you really should sign up & try get ££ for your writing!

They keep saying lines of inquiry are up to the investigating officer, but it’s so WEIRD that these arcane laws are the line when they weren’t for ages, and general knowledge on abo laws here is ‘oh, isn’t it legal?’ 👀👀

i mean, maybe? not outside the realm of possibility, but the popo here are set up differently so i think there's a more central/centralising impetus - of course, the politicians here are taking notes/money from groups stateside, so that's likely a prong.

i still can't figure out *why* there has been an uptick. it isn't just telemedicine, it isn't just introduction of medical abortion - there have been more sporadic investigations (not as high-profile) over the years, a steady ticking of numbers.

It’s impossible to convey how important Our Bodies Ourselves was to the generations of women before the internet. Monumental, positive impact for American women.

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The Importance Of Being Earnest (Full Show) | Take Your Seats | National Theatre at Home YouTube video by National Theatre

The National Theatre's production of The Importance of Being Earnest (with its first cast, including the irresistible Ncuti Gatwa and the divine Sharon D Clarke) is streaming for free for a week.

I’m really enjoying Dabba Cartel

and what a fantastic team to work with too! Responsive, supportive, and just really all round fab folks to trust your hard gotten qual data with- you know they’ll treat with the care & thoughtfulness it requires!

So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members.

So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company.

Shut it all down.

Mind you these workers are specifically Kenyan workers who are made to view and annotate the absolute worst things created by man and machine for extremely low pay and absolutely no support or care from Meta for the trauma they endure every day at work