Manchester queer folks, businesses, community members should all be aware that Lucy’s ‘support’ was performative only, and refuse to ‘rainbow-wash’ her any more.

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@lucympowell.bsky.social is responsible for Labour’s new section 28. Labour’s changes (from the front bench) will kill trans people, but Manchester’s MP is perfectly okay with this, at best, or an avid transphobe more likely who has finally gone mask off.

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Greetings from Armenia, where the Armenians are gracious enough to let me try some basic phrases in their language – which is thrilling for an Indo-Europeanist like me. I'm getting a kick out of ordering two things with երկու (yerku) 'two', the unbelievable Armenian cognate of two/deux/dos/dva/etc.

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Clue to a book I will be reading this evening. Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 47; Omiliae lectionum sancti evangelii Venerabilis Bedae presbiteri numero quinquaginta; 1143 CE-1178 CE; Engelberg; f.1v (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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I'm on Question Time tonight, in Brecon. The other panellists are currently from Reform, the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and Labour. Though, given the rate of resignations and defections in Wales, that might change by 9pm this evening. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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