Fun fact: Women's sports are segregated not to protect women, but to protect *men* from losing *to* a woman.
Don't believe me? Look up Jackie Mitchell. Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then suddenly women were unfit to play baseball.
Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics.
The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.
Woohooh I am taking #TheFeministArtOfWalking @plutopress.bsky.social back on the road, starting with the always wonderful Kinder Trespass commemorations and celebrations this weekend in Hayfield. Full details www.thelrm.org #psychogeography #KinderTrespass
Last chance! I'll be signing and dedicating copies at @welbooks.bsky.social on the 28th--order by the 27th so they have enough stock.
(I say dedicating, but I'll write anything you like. Birthday message, personalised death threat, location of the buried treasure: hit me up.)
🚨 BREAKING: We can win an MP in Manchester Rusholme
🐝 We need your help to fund our Local Election campaign to turn Manchester GREEN on May 7th!
More councillors = more MPs. Our councillors will support Hannah Spencer's work & re-election too!
Donate now 👇
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I'm part of the Environmental Audit Committee, and today we published our report on PFAS 'forever chemicals' 👇
It's scary how many products contain PFAS, and it's impossible to avoid them through our individual purchasing choices, so govt needs to take action.
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In This Together: a joint manifesto.
Feminism wins when we choose transfeminist solidarity.
Read the full manifesto and add your organisation's signature: tgeu.org/transfeminism/
Painting by Lee Madgwick of a small tower on a hill.
Treescape painting by Beckie Reed.
Painting by Lee Madgwick of a white building behind two trees in an open landscape.
Treescape path painting by Beckie Reed.
My wife and I have a selection of paintings on show at The Brian Sinfield Gallery (in Burford) in the Cotswolds, should you be interested. briansinfield.com
Challenge accepted!
#PalantirOut - not in!
A photo of a man holding crops in front of a wood in Honduras.
A photo showing the river surrounded by trees in Honduras.
A photo showing a man leaning over working the land in Honduras.
A photo showing a field with a mountain in the background.
It's #EarthDay which celebrates environmental protection.
Honduras is one of the most dangerous places for land and environmental defenders. With our partner ERIC/Radio Progreso, we support communities improving access to food and with legal advice as they defend land rights.
Today I got to talk to the incredible Zayre Ferrer.
They wrote on s1 and s2 of OFMD and are SUCH a delight!
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Tweet from Pete Hegseth: "The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately."
In World War I more U.S. soldiers died of influenza than from combat. In America's first 145 years of war more soldiers and sailors died from infectious diseases than from enemy action. In every single war in human history more combatants have died of illness and disease than bullets and the blade.
Brian Cant and Floella Benjamin smile out from the cover of an album: Songs from BBC TV's Play School and Play Away
At 11am on 21 April 1964, Play School made its debut, and became the first programme ever broadcast on BBC2
Closing soon: We are looking for a Conservation Projects Manager (Species Recovery) maternity cover 🐝
It’s an exciting time to join the team and be part of our species recovery work.
See our vacancy page for the full details: https://ow.ly/5uHT50YFEQz
Greys also cause huge damage to woodland. In the Epping Forest archive are records of ammo purchases to try and control numbers when they first arrived, but unfortunately it didn't work & the reds were soon gone. Squirrel is delicious, low carbon meat – as with deer, eating them is good for forests!
Graph showing percentage of seats contested by the Green Party at each set of local elections, year by year. 2026 shows a record high at 89% (previous record was 72% in 2025)
Fantastic work by @greenparty.org.uk activists across the country
In addition to our full slate of 96/96 in Wales for the Senedd elections, we are standing a new record high % of local election candidates in England: 89% 📈
Huge thank you to everybody standing, election agents and officers 💚
The copper Buddha on a bright sunny day. You can actually go inside it.
This is a temple to a different aspect of the Buddha. You can’t take any photos inside the main shrine but there’s a large beautiful statue made of camphor wood.
Same temple but lower down the hill, it’s a cave with carvings and shrines. Some of the passages are low and you have to walk doubled over.
A large lovely Shinto shrine. I couldn’t see all of it because I couldn’t make it up the stairs to the upper part.
We’re having a fantastic time in Japan. This is all from Kamakura.
Two women with their backs to each others. One rests her head gently on the other’s shoulder. Both have their eyes closed to show rainbow coloured eye-shadow.
This Lesbian Visibility Week, we uplift and support all lesbians — cis, trans, gender non-conforming — all are welcome with us.
Here at NION, our lesbian members are proud to join our trans sisters in the fight for a more inclusive society.
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Last week, we published our briefing on affordability in the private rented sector (PRS)
We pointed to average rent-to-income ratios being persistently high as one of the key issues renters face.
Today, we'll explain how this is particularly acute for low-income households ⬇️
New research finds that women and girls have similar rates of autism as men and boys. The study found that the reason why girls are less likely to be diagnosed is because of clinical biases. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
Also it doesn’t say “low support needs” on anyone’s diagnostic report.
It says “requires support” and we don’t get any.
This was one of the formative incidents in my young life. And I watched almost an entire city of people across racial lines absolutely lose their minds. It was the equivalent of a lynch mob and the NY press was leading the way.
Anyone who still has “huge respect” for JK Rowling after Everything she’s said and done has definitionally no respect for trans people
The big worry here is that Stonewall is in the room with the anti-trans activist Labour government when discussing who should and shouldn’t be protected by a conversion therapy abuse prohibition bill
I've said this time and time again, institutional orgs like Stonewall will absolutely capitulate
“One of my, er, regular customers, as it were, turned out to be 13, though she looked older“ - also John Peel.
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I'd like to hit 2000 subs by my 46th birthday in August 🥳
