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autist artist typist anarchist and pylon enthusiast ᗗ ѧ ᗗ seeing an unbearable light at the edge of everything & trying to trap it in ink ѧ ѧ ᗗ

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Trans Healthcare Access Glasgow - Open Collective Improving access to blood testing for trans people in Glasgow

Couldn't make it to the gig last night? You can donate to Trans Healthcare Access Glasgow here:

03.03.2026 16:51 👍 17 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
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Home - Not in our name Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

More than 86,000 women have now signed the Not In Our Name letter to say that trans exclusion is not what we want and should not be done on our behalf.

If you’re a woman who believes in dignity, fairness and standing alongside our trans+ siblings, add your name:

notinourname.org.uk

04.03.2026 09:00 👍 162 🔁 75 💬 1 📌 3

Wearing a mask was made into a symbol of being neurotic and kind of annoying, and THAT'S what sunk the final nail in the coffin of widespread takeup.

Shaming people for not vaccinating their kids is in fact the one thing that WILL move the needle; it isn't an education issue, it is a social one.

06.03.2026 20:26 👍 69 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1

I don't want to pick a fight about it but I saw someone claiming that shaming doesn't work where vaccines are concerned and then try and turn around and say "How many of you are wearing masks?"

And that's the thing: People stopped wearing masks because they were shamed OUT of it.

06.03.2026 20:25 👍 102 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 3

living dangerously by always sewing in bed. it's all fun and games having a giant big pin cushion until the adhd drops

06.03.2026 21:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

all needles should be fluorescent so you can find them when you drop them and also see where you're up to easier

06.03.2026 21:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

06.03.2026 19:47 👍 23942 🔁 6047 💬 221 📌 200

this is tomorrow!

Masked Plus Size Clothes Swap
1-5 PM at Levenshulme Old Library Manchester M19 3QE
Insta: @levymaskedfatswap @fatswapstop
all genders
£3-5 Suggested entry
size 16 & up
masks required (free available)
wheelchair access
air purifiers

bring and take as much as you want

06.03.2026 19:55 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

slightly too far South for Gorton and Denton revenge

06.03.2026 19:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

wow implied homophobia and being totally wrong about politics at the same time what a twofer

06.03.2026 15:19 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So, less than a year later, the Met Police have decided to raid the Meeting House AGAIN.

06.03.2026 13:23 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

that's a little bit too on the nose

06.03.2026 10:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

i am also asking the UK government for a 15 year window during which I am allowed to commit crimes.

06.03.2026 09:46 👍 27 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

but then they give themselves all the being in charge of everything jobs and consigning them to life of leisure looks like the lesser evil

06.03.2026 10:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

oh I hadn't even thought of that, I should look into it. luckily for me I work from home, which now I think about it it's wild I was able to swing it to get given a pair. yeah if I was still in the office I would be on the brink of mass murder continuously

06.03.2026 09:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

my work bought me the fancy noise cancelling headphones and then the noise cancelling button or whatever randomly just stopped working after a few months and I'll never be able to either afford my own or convince them to replace them so that was nice while it lasted 😐

06.03.2026 09:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Antenna tower behind a hill, next to street light, electric wires.

Antenna tower behind a hill, next to street light, electric wires.

#Galway

06.03.2026 04:19 👍 51 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

Bring back cooling towers. That’s what I say.

05.03.2026 23:31 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Rugeley power station next to the Amazon depot that sat for a while near what was once Lee Hall Colliery.

Rugeley power station next to the Amazon depot that sat for a while near what was once Lee Hall Colliery.

From the author’s personal collection.

05.03.2026 23:36 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Surely this can't go on.

And yet it goes on

05.03.2026 22:38 👍 82 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
Crucifixion Study - oil on canvas by Roger Wagner, 1990. A crucifixion in a field with cooling towers in the background.

Crucifixion Study - oil on canvas by Roger Wagner, 1990. A crucifixion in a field with cooling towers in the background.

Stan Barstow A Kind Of Loving book cover, Penguin Books 1972. A mid sixties couple walking along a tow path. He has a sharp suit on, and she has a baby blue knee length coat and a head scarf on. They’re staring into each others eyes.

Stan Barstow A Kind Of Loving book cover, Penguin Books 1972. A mid sixties couple walking along a tow path. He has a sharp suit on, and she has a baby blue knee length coat and a head scarf on. They’re staring into each others eyes.

Ironbridge B Power station, 2015. The cooling towers are surrounded by autumnal leaves on trees.

Ironbridge B Power station, 2015. The cooling towers are surrounded by autumnal leaves on trees.

Ratcliffe power station, Study 50, Nottinghamshire, England, 1987. The condensation is backlit, and the cooling towers are like standing stones. Stonehenge is shown in a similar photo on the opposite page, not shown.

Ratcliffe power station, Study 50, Nottinghamshire, England, 1987. The condensation is backlit, and the cooling towers are like standing stones. Stonehenge is shown in a similar photo on the opposite page, not shown.

It’s the best book. It also has a photo of a pub I worked in that looks so quaint and pretty, but was not at all like that when I worked there.

05.03.2026 23:08 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

which ones? it's such a shame so many have been destroyed. beautiful things. my hometown gasometers (Reading) have gone too. heathen times

05.03.2026 23:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

these are all magnificent 😍

05.03.2026 23:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ahhh an absolute classic. I had this as my userpic for ages over on the app formerly known as.

05.03.2026 22:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

show us some pics please 🙏🏻👀

05.03.2026 22:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

yeah currently I'm operating on it either turns up and surprises me or it doesn't and I'm none the wiser

05.03.2026 21:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

now that it's approximately bedtime I obviously want to start a new craft project with a billion fiddly pieces that are currently distributed god knows where in at least 12 different locations around the house

05.03.2026 21:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I cannot be trusted to remember anything I have ever done anywhere or where the information pertaining to it might live

05.03.2026 21:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

someone should make an app that keeps track of all the books you've preordered

05.03.2026 21:53 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

based on the only other anecdote I've heard about your past (nightmare filing dead wasps job) this tracks entirely

05.03.2026 11:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0