@forestpines

@forestpines@hachyderm.io Work stuff: software dev, especially cloud and .NET. Fun stuff: trains and history. She/her. Bi.

 Aberhwmbr, Lloegr
symbolicforest.com/blog/
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Hi new followers! This account is a bit of a mixed bag, so sorry if you were expecting one hyperfocused topic. We'll be including... - Coding - Trains - LGBT rights - Archaeology & history - Kink - and very much not least, bad puns With occasional nice photos too
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A friend of mine is having awful problems with her son facing discrimination at school from specific members of staff, and the school and the trust are just ignoring her
Lauren Smith@LaurenJSmith_25 May 2023
I’ve been hesitant to make this public, but after another evening of my trans teen in tears due to blatant and insidious discrimination by @HarbourLearning I wonder, will it be naming staff in his suicide note that finally makes you take notice and actually communicate with me?
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The Popty-Ping Recording Company@popty_ping_12 May 2023
Design Genius who produced Rail Alphabet, the font we use for all our work :
the Design Museum
@DesignMuseum12 May 2023
Happy birthday to British typographer & graphic designer Margaret Calvert 🎈🎂⁣ Calvert’s work in transforming the UK’s road signage system, to the wayfinding at railway stations & airports, has been central in shaping much of our national visual identity.
A black and white photo of a sign at Glasgow Airport designed by Calvert

ALT A black and white photo of a sign at Glasgow Airport designed by Calvert

A black and white poster showing the British Rail Alphabet typography by Margaret Calvert

ALT A black and white poster showing the British Rail Alphabet typography by Margaret Calvert

A road sign with white and yellow laminated lettering and graphics against a green background

ALT A road sign with white and yellow laminated lettering and graphics against a green background

A black and white photo of the Calvert typeface being used to promote the new Tyne and Wear Metro in the 70s

ALT A black and white photo of the Calvert typeface being used to promote the new Tyne and Wear Metro in the 70s

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Robin Moira White (she/her)@moira_robin6 Apr 2023
I agree with every word.
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HOPE not hate
@hopenothate30 Mar 2023
💥 Last weekend, residents in Llantwit Major rejected hate and sent fascists from Patriotic Alternative packing. PA activists were outnumbered 10 to 1, and scuttled off embarrassed. Here's how Llantwit Major did it: hopenothate.org.uk/2023/03/2…

How a town in South Wales said no to fascism – and yes to Welsh cakes – HOPE not hate

The residents of Llantwit Major successfully stood up to the dangerous activism of Patriotic Alternative over the weekend. They also showed up in style, with...

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Holly Brockwell
@holly28 Mar 2023
I'm writing a biopic about the Beach Boys' little-known hairdresser and muse. It's called Barber Ann
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Juliet Brando@sliderulesyou27 Mar 2023
In my park-loitering days, we didn't have laughing gas, so had to make do with vodka, spliffs, and clinical depression.
Ava-Santina
@AvaSantina27 Mar 2023
Banning laughing gas will "put an end to hoards of youths loitering in parks" says Suella Braverman in the commons. Will it?
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Phil Brown@pgbswi22 Mar 2023
Whilst I know what the real outcome is, when you can hear the driver of a @Se_Railway service report that he's found a smoking badger on the down, I can't help but think of a slightly different image
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Ann Coates Single X🦕🦖@setoacnna22 Mar 2023
During the pandemic I attended more than one work leaving do on Zoom, and I'm sure I'm not the only person. And Boris Johnson could have done that as well.
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Vox Margo Short@EnbyCreative7 Mar 2023
A thread on motivations behind trans voice training. 🧵 It can feel like there's a very narrow range of options for what you "should" want from your voice when you start voice training, and that you're not "allowed" to deviate from that. But of course, that's not true!
An illustration of a tanned person with shoulder length dark purple hair holding a sign that says "you're allowed to change what you want from your voice" with with URL nonbinarycreative.com under it. The person is wearing a pink triangle headscarf, a purple mask, a purple off the shoulder top, a choker necklace and bracelet. The background is the LGBTQIA+ Progress flag, which is the 6 rainbow stripes with a chevron on the left with a white, pink & blue stripe representing trans people, and a brown and black stripe representing Black and Brown queer people. The black stripe also represents those living with & lost to AIDS.

ALT An illustration of a tanned person with shoulder length dark purple hair holding a sign that says "you're allowed to change what you want from your voice" with with URL nonbinarycreative.com under it. The person is wearing a pink triangle headscarf, a purple mask, a purple off the shoulder top, a choker necklace and bracelet. The background is the LGBTQIA+ Progress flag, which is the 6 rainbow stripes with a chevron on the left with a white, pink & blue stripe representing trans people, and a brown and black stripe representing Black and Brown queer people. The black stripe also represents those living with & lost to AIDS.

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Flups@TheRealFlups5 Mar 2023
Being unloved romantically is even more difficult to deal with when you remember that even Katie Hopkins is married.
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hux | lizzie huxley-jones 🍟📚 (they/them)@littlehux15 Feb 2023
please do not go for a chiropractic adjustment to get your neck cracked. the inventor of chiro says he was told it by a freaking ghost, and neck manipulation can cause arterial dissections and strokes
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Posting this for @EnbyCreative
Two diagrams, one with sound bouncing around the room, captioned "The sound from a musician on stage bounces off the auditorium walls to surround the audience", and one with a pigeon and the word "coo" against the wall, captioned "The sound from a pigeon on stage does not do this. The reason is a coo sticks"

ALT Two diagrams, one with sound bouncing around the room, captioned "The sound from a musician on stage bounces off the auditorium walls to surround the audience", and one with a pigeon and the word "coo" against the wall, captioned "The sound from a pigeon on stage does not do this. The reason is a coo sticks"

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Electra Rhodes - writes a bit/archaeologises a bit@electra_rhodes25 Jan 2023
It was six years ago, and my mate, Pink, had just been told he was going to die. He accepted the news with a grace I can only marvel at, but he said he’d a list of things he’d still like to do. We sat in a pub one night and read it over. Eight things? Four months? Ok. Deal. 🧵
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Caithness Broch Project@TheBrochProject21 Dec 2022
So @elonmusk wants to do away with polls? There's a simple way around that: RT this if you LUV brochs n you think Elon is an absolute bam COMMENT if u r more of a crannog person n think Elon is a total weapon LIKE this if ur big into cairns n think Elon is a mega rocket
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New blog post! On it being the end of the year, and the solstice tomorrow symbolicforest.com/blog/2022…
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PinkNews
@PinkNews20 Dec 2022
Tributes have flooded in for gay teacher Simon Cremen who tragically took his own life after being relentlessly abused by a homophobic stalker. Read more: thepinknews.com/2022/12/17/g…

Gay teacher died by suicide after weeks of homophobic abuse from twisted stalker

Tributes have flooded in for gay teacher Simon Cremen who tragically took his own life after being relentlessly abused by a homophobic stalker. 

thepinknews.com
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