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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

Tell me honestly, as a person who has friends and loved ones who are trans, how am I supposed to not hate the Labour Party

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2h

Note that sociologist Alice Sullivan, lead author of the “Sullivan Review” into Sex and Gender in Research and Data (which @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I critiqued in @tibg.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...), is “pleased” to be part of it

Tweet from Alice Sullivan: “I'm pleased to be on the panel for this important investigation.” Above announcement of Committee for Academic Freedom’s announcement of their “investigation”

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Slice of Fox @michaelwi.bsky.social · 1h

Half her GC journalist friends racistly harassed him till he committed suicide. She should be nowhere near this to biasedly absolve them of their guilt.

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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 4h

No one seems to care, but these were the UK's submissions about hospital use in I v UK in *2002*. I get that the UKSC is big on reading ECtHR jurisprudence as narrowly as possible, but it really does strain credulity to think there is no Art 8 violation .

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 1h

labour mp clarifies: yes, trans people must be banned from hospitals

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Liam Connell @liamconnell.bsky.social · 5h

I can't stress enough how weak the historical volunteer units were in comparison to the ones you can raise in the game. They are some of the strongest units you can get. That is not a reflection of the SS volunteers. More to the point, the game also generally portrays the Waffen-SS as the elite unit

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Liam Connell @liamconnell.bsky.social · 6h

An excellent piece, but if anything it is too generous to Paradox. Their softly softly approach to far right fans (they liased with The Fire Rises team for fuck's sake) and the creeping in of nodding and winking to fascist fantasies is revolting - see the focuses on the fascist American path.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15h

This week on the blog - more discussion of Hearts of Iron IV and this week's topic is a heavy one, assessing how the decision not to acknowledge or address war crimes and crimes against humanity causes the game to blunder into being a 'clean Wehrmacht' myth simulator. acoup.blog/2026/10/16/t...

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Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIb: The Opposite of Love

This is the second half of the third part (I, II IIIa) of our long-delayed series looking at the theory of history advanced by Paradox Interactive’s Hearts of Iron IV, one of the most popular…

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

What a heartless, cruel thing for an elected representative to say.

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

✒️ Today, Peter Gordon reviews “Hong Kong Art Deco Architecture: Unveiling the Hidden Heritage” by Prudence Leung Kwok Lau and Vanessa Winghei Yeung, published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. buff.ly/hiZoNGS

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It is SO IMPORTANT that scientists, doctors, and folks in STEM speak out against human rights abuses for several reasons: 1. We cannot allow our tech and research to be used to harm people. 2. We are the seat of evidence when the case is made that harm was caused. 3. We are “experts”! Thread 🧵

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/10/2026

Like, you’re acting like someone with a five year old old is such a risk that you have to smash his window and just grab him? The fuck is wrong with your assessment of the situation? Similarly every cop acts like a simple traffic stop is life and death and will draw at any moment.

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Themperor Palpatine @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So of course they aren't going to support RTN in Glasgow. Its antithetical to their "protected beliefs" that there are women and girls who are inherently unworthy of safety, protections in law. Who are there to be abused as an underclass for their men.

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Themperor Palpatine @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Much like the line in 1984 when he screams "do it to her, do it to Julia", GCs want to sacrifice women and girls who do not meet their white supremacist eugenics ideals or classism or racism, or cispremecy, to the threshing machine of patriarchal violence so they can feel safer.

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Themperor Palpatine @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I so desperately want cis people to understand this - the GCs are not feminists, they dont believe in women's rights, they dont value the agency or rights of children. GC is an abuser, forced birther, misogynist, racist, anti working class manifesto of bigotry. Its Andrew Tate with a Chanel handbag.

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Themperor Palpatine @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The people ensuring we get misinformation about Sandie Peggie, who bankroll lawfare against our unions, NHS, public services etc - NOTHING about supporting a collective action against the steep rise in gendered violence in Scotland. For Women Scotland? Wheeshting the night away.

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Themperor Palpatine @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

*Fun fact it was the anti trans member of the team who would sit, at the event after our march, enraptured at the poetry of a pre transition Kae Tempest who would perform for us every year. I like to think his transition journey destroyed her, personally.

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Themperor Palpatine @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There is a Reclaim the Night protest organised in Glasgow for Monday. There are many local grassroots organisations and unions all pitching in. There has been nothing but the chirping of crickets from any of the TERF orgs who have vast wealth behind them. I need cis folks to understand this.

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They worship and love death. It is their god

The Christofascists of today do not view themselves as existing outside
Christianity, but it can be said that they worship a different god: the god of the plantation, concentration camps, prisons, punishing your enemies, apartheid, and genocide. Again, Söelle says as much, stating that in the Religious Right, she saw
"a God without justice, a Jesus without a cross, an Easter without a cross-what remains is a metaphysical Easter Bunny in front of the beautiful blue light of the television screen, a betrayal of the disappointed, a miracle weapon in service of the mighty."
Their political objectives reveal the god of Christofascism as a god of death, a god who proclaims a gospel of counterfeit life while feasting upon life itself. Within this god's political project, being a good

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Dr. Jonathan Schroden @jjschroden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The first incarnation of The Matrix was designed to be an AI tailored paradise and it was, as Agent Smith told us, a miserable failure If you found that easy to believe, you don’t want what these people are pushing

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I could be wrong but pointing out that Republicans are, in fact, Nazis, and then explaining in detail why they are Nazis, might be an effective line of attack!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

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ceej @ceej.online · 09/10/2026

this is some real coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb stuff. if nothing else ossoff sure knows how to talk shit

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

like, this isn’t even an “AI could create that much value” versus “no it can’t” argument - let’s grant the premise, let’s say it does in that world, with these people in charge, unemployment and poverty explode and no safety net is built to handle it

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 07/10/2026

okay so this anecdote in Margaret's obituary has me crying because this is exactly what it's like being in tech and trying to anticipate failures and having men basically tell you you're being hysterical and then you have to fix it later

"the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the
Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight - which
crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.
She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of "defensive" programming, the

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

America is currently being run by people who admire the Nazis. That's not an exaggeration or a piece of propaganda. That's an objective and provable fact that everyone in power knows. Now, are they acting like it?

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Again, I don't think anything shows the absolute moral cowardice at the heart of the Western political establishment than the fact that nobody can point out how close this guy is to American government power because we can't risk upsetting the Americans.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely insane story about the arrest of August Hanning, former head of German intelligence agency BND Added gimmick is that investigators only found out because Hanning is accused of involvement in another absolutely insane story of a German millionaire trying to abduct her own children

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 05/10/2026

I prepared to fight for HRT. Five minutes later, I had a prescription. My trans friends can wait years for similar treatment. I wrote about what that contrast says about whose healthcare is treated as healthcare, and whose is treated as politics. medium.com/@heatherpate...

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Five Minutes for Me. Years for Them.

This afternoon I picked up my first prescription for HRT.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Curtis Yarvin, a major influence on Vice President JD Vance, is openly fantasizing about Hitler again. Extremism isn’t fringe on the right.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

50 years ago today... police & paramilitary forces massacred students & protesters at Thammasat University. Today ceremonies of remembrance of those killed took place at Thammasat. The legacy of the massacre & subsequent coup in 1976, still impact Thai society today. #ลบมรดกรัฐประหาร6ตุลา

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You can really see the different phases of the war play out in this radar imagery. These first two show the damage from the most intense bombing, before ground forces entered Gaza, when the IDF was announcing the destruction of “power targets” and sometimes dropping more than 1,000 bombs in a day.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I continually struggle to reconcile “Kemi Badenoch, who as business secretary went ‘getting rid of all retained EU law would be the act of a nutty arsonist’ and backed Rishi Sunak in 2022” with “almost everything Kemi Badenoch does and says as leader of the opposition”.

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Lisa Godson @lisagdub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jeffrey Archer dead - letter from the English Collective of Prostitutes following his conviction for perjury and a few months after Monica Coughlan's death

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stop normalizing sexual assault. Fucking shun people who have done it. Start acting like the victims fucking MATTERED.

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Heather Herbert is .... @heatherherbert.uk · 05/10/2026

Trans rights activists like the UN, Lemkin Institute, The EHRCs own equality impact statement ...

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Evergreen headline. 100 years old today…

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JJ ⁷ ^(;,;)^ @riotgrrlscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I saved a mean tumblr post for you

Tumblr user slimegirlandroid:
tending to my pet anarchists. going into their solarpunk themed enclosure and spreading packaged medicine around in bushes for them to naturally gather. refilling their stock of grain discreetly so they think it all comes from their garden sized wheat field. I spot one and she hisses at me and calls me an authoritarian tankie but i make cooing noises and offer zines as treats and she lets me pet her

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No surprise here for trans people, who told you all years ago, that they were the wedge issue to get at everyone else’s rights except for cis white males. youtube.com/shorts/SaRFs...

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Ladies we know the play so let’s act accordingly.

YouTube video by Monte Mader

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.

An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."

Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1 in 6 people living in the UK were born abroad. And yet the public discussion about immigration is so often about us, and very rarely with us. Almost no one in power has interest in talking to us, very few consider us people with agency, plans, desires, aspirations. Just numbers to bring down.

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Themperor Palpatine @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want to know more, here is the megathread, however if you are trans, treat yourself to the tldr of Bigots Talk Shite. bsky.app/profile/mxth...

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“To the ICE agent who took away my mother: I hope it was worth it,” wrote Samuel Gonzalez Terrones before taking his own life. This is the reality of what mass deportation looks like. Not only impacting those who are detained but also leaving a path of destruction for the family they leave behind.

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His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide

Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.

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