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A woman of many roles. ED Nurse. Handy with a needle and thread. Transgender since before it was popular to hate us. I write poetry of questionable quality. Working on my first novel, and a huge pile of unfinished short stories. Scottish. Gingerish. Une guerre obscure et méritoire
Blog About Thingshttps://write.as/inbabel/
My Poetryhttps://write.as/i-do-not-belong-here/
Readinghttps://bookwyrm.social/user/Megan
Photographyhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/126649098@N06/

I like that critical Mass London are still doing their thing. Report on February's ride https://network23.org/criticalmasslondon/

Edit to add - I've just realised they meet on the last Friday of the month on the South Bank below Waterloo Bridge, which means there is a meeting tonight! 7:00pm for anyone interested.

#bicycles #bike #bikesonMastodon #cycling #criticalmass #cycling #bicycle

A woman in Morocco has been jailed for wearing a Tee shirt that said “Allah is Lesbian” Details of the campaign supporting her here https://ex-muslims.international/freebetty/

https://linktr.ee/freebetty

#LGBTQ #Morocco #Queer #LGBT

Edited to update the link

#FREEBETTY: Ex-Muslims International Campaigns for Ibtissame Betty Lachgar

Ex-Muslims International calls for immediate release of Ibtissame Betty Lachgar currently in a Moroccan jail charged with blasphemy for posting about a t-shirt with "Allah is Lesbian"

The other story here, that's harder to tell, is the way "normative" ie "ordinary" people indulge in extremism, despite their apparently reasonable qualities more broadly. Extremism doesn't always look like Donald Trump or The Nazis. It mostly comes in the form of "reasonable" people, who have convinced themselves they don't have prejudices.

The new chair of the UK's "Equalities and Human Rights Commission" has been meeting anti transgender organizations. There is a good story here for any journalist willing to do a bit of work digging. The anti transgender group she met have created a false narrative, that there is a conflict between the rights of transgender people and cisgender women's legal protections, and public officials are actively promoting it. https://tacc.org.uk/2026/03/25/new-ehrc-chair-ignores-the-trans-community/

#transgender #trans # UKPol

New EHRC Chair ignores the trans community - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective

Co-authored by Mise Rather than working to “rebuild trust”, the new EHRC Chair ignores the trans community and jumps straight into bed with anti-trans campaigners to discuss “mutual priorities”. On November 30th 2025, Baroness Kishwer Falkner’s four-year term as EHRC Chair came to an end. The following day, the new Chair, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, took - Co-authored by Mise Rather than working to “rebuild trust”, the new EHRC Chair ignores the trans community and jumps straight into bed with anti-trans campaigners to discuss “mutual priorities”. On November 30th 2025, Baroness Kishwer Falkner’s four-year term as EHRC Chair came to an end. The following day, the new Chair, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, took

Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective -

Fuck everyone involved in creating this catastrophe.

#Iran #USPol

If a man learns to ride a motobike, and doesn’t vlog about it on youtube, does his motorbike actually make a sound? #Philosophy #Deep #Motorbikes #motos
Added note - I just watched his video about a mass driver on the moon. He looks and sounds wasted as he’s talking, exactly like a sketchy hippie in a K-hole. #ElonMusk #SpaceX
Can journalists please describe Elon Musk as a fantasist in their headlines? The ones where he states his intentions for building bases on The Moon and Mars? Or whatever other fantastical claims he makes. At this point its clear he talks 99% proof shite, all the time. #Musk #ElonMusk

According to this website, whose truthiness I can’t vouch for, which is itself quoting from an FT article that is paywalled, Russia has modified some of it’s missiles in a way that allows them to evade anti-missile systems like the patriot. Better hope they don’t share that knowledge with Iran. https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/10/02/modified-russian-ballistic-missiles-now-able-to-evade-patriot-defense-system-ft

Seperately I checked up on Meduza, despite their header’s weird nazi font, they seem legit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meduza?wprov=sfti1

#Russia #Iran #Ukraine #USPol

Modified Russian ballistic missiles now able to evade Patriot defense system — FT

Russia has likely modified the ballistic missiles it is using against Ukraine so they can evade the Patriot air defense system, the Financial Times reported, citing Ukrainian and Western officials.

Meduza
I'm learning the basics of motorcycle maintenance, the Haynes general everything manual describes the 4-stroke combustion cycle as "suck, squeeze, bang, blow..." and well, now my juvenile mind is engaging on the worst possible level. Now I want to run a motorbike blog with that title. #motorbike #motos #motorcycles #motorcycle #motorbikes