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Francis James Franklin

@alinameridon.bsky.social
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Writer, scientist, lecturer & obsessive.

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Chara @astrochara.bsky.social · 22h
For carbon-rich white dwarfs, the colours move "down", which brings onto the table blue, purple, pink, and peach. For metal-rich white dwarfs, absorption of certain metals can produce diverse colours, including green.
Chromaticity diagram for carbon-rich white dwarfs. All the datapoints sit below the blackbody curve.Chromaticity diagram for metal-rich white dwarfs. The datapoints sit in a straight line more dispersed as it moves into the green-yellow-orange space. A few datapoints sit in green. One datapoint, WD J2356–2054, sits deep in the blue space, even beyond the blackbody curve.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Janet Murray has now made 4 posts specifically about this individual in the last 24 hours. This is a journalist using her platform gained from working for national press organisations to harass a random person, purely because she can’t handle the fact that trans people exist. It’s sick.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026
You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 13/10/2026
if you're american and you want the bbc's right wing bias summed up easily for you here you go:
2. BBC blurs Strictly trans rights shirt
Bethany's "Protect The Dolls" T-shirt was cropped from BBC posts and blurred on Strictly Come Dancing.
609 posts4. BBC makes JK Rowling documentary
BBC Scotland and Rogan Scotland plan a film on the author's life and her views on trans rights.
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Emma Williams @emanemz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Please can you give my posts a boost? I’ve managed a couple of sales but in order to progress and build a business I need to sell a few little bits to be able to self fund this please help me if you can. As I’m guessing nowhere fast and I really need to prove myself right this time. 
A table with a pink cutting mat, various fabrics folded up pairs of scissors, rulers, and eight scrunchies from top to bottom a pink scrunchie, a yellow and green scrunchie with positive affirmations, a red and black dragon scrunchie, a pink and multicoloured sugar skull scrunchie, a grey and black dragon scrunchie, a aqua mermaid scrunchie, and two black and green chameleon scrunchies 
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linealoca.bsky.social @linealoca.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Polanski interviews the award winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr about Farage/ Reform donations +sponsors. But so much more discussing Brexit,Trumps 2016 election, the relationships of Putin, Trumps Maga, the Tech Bros,+ the implications for Europe + the world in general. youtu.be/43m0LKNDz6M?...
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Who Is Funding Reform UK? | Carole Cadwalladr | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 10/10/2026
QueerAF can reveal figures that show 618 people have died while under the care of an NHS gender clinic, at least 21 by suicide. www.wearequeeraf.com/the-deadly-t...
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The deadly toll of the trans healthcare crisis: 21 suicides and over 600 other deaths
QueerAF can reveal figures that show 618 people have died while under the care of an NHS gender clinic, at least 21 by suicide.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just a reminder - the previous government forced trans & gender-questioning youth who are under 18 to go through the CAMHS service (with equally long waiting lists) before being referred onto youth gender clinics - effectively hiding the numbers of trans+ kids waiting for CAMHS (and any deaths)!
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.
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SF Enjoyer @shinji2015.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
100%. It's a game that sticks with you, and you start seeing its influence everywhere. Between this and Nine Sols, there are some real masters of the craft over at Red Candle. 2.39 USD is a steal for a game like this
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 29/09/2026
hey, i haven't had blood testing in over 2 years. i've been putting it off bcos of the cost. if you can donate or repost id appreciate it. thanks. 🤍
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Donate to help sloane with medical costs, organized by Sloane Lysbeth
hi, my name is sloane. im a transgender woman living in england. im currently … Sloane Lysbeth needs your support for help sloane with medical costs
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have said before and will again: any electoral reform commission must NOT rule out a change of system BEFORE the next election if needed. We cannot risk a minority vote handing a huge majority to any party that would take a shredder to democracy itself.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.
Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%
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Emma Williams @emanemz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another day with nothing but hope to carry me through 🙄. I’m going to continue with sewing what I can with what supplies I have and hope for a few sales so that I can progress building myself a business. #queerbusiness #lgbtqbusiness #smallbusiness
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Ted Lasso: It's the Hope That Kills You
Alt: Ted Lasso: It's the Hope That Kills You
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 25/09/2026
labour have sold us out to american corporations. we have no sovereignty. you just do whatever the mad emperor tells you too. look at streeting embarrassing himself over chagos. spineless government of traitors.
The Guardian
Chagos Islands deal 'can't go ahead' without US support, Streeting says
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BBC
UK to review Chagos Islands deal over lack of US support, Streeting tells BBC
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The Telegraph
Chagos deal is not good enough, admits Streeting
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Politics.co.uk
Wes Streeting: Chagos Islands deal is not good enough
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ITN
Streeting: Chagos deal is "being revised'
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B London Business News
Streeting says Chagos deal 'can't go ahead' without US support
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NEW ‘Free Speech’ versus free speech ‘National Security’ versus national security The fundamental disconnections between political speech and substance, and why they matter By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
A feature of modern politics is the detachment of rhetoric and action from principle and consistency. This, of course, is not a new thing. Hypocrisy is no doubt as old as human nature. Five hundred years ago Machiavelli wrote about the difference between what those with power do and what they say and, 70 years ago, Orwell warned of slogans like “ignorance is strength”.

But with mass media and internet communications, the discrepancy is perhaps more obvious, and there is reason to believe it is becoming more common. Indeed some, like President Donald Trump, are brazen in their disregard for there being any connection between speech and reality. Instead of changing the world, politicians take the easier route of simply contriving new worlds for others to nod-along with.
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My neighbour's bookshop has been smashed in twice because they are LGBTQIA+. The couple have told us of multiple incidents of people turning up to spit on them. Gangs of masked men dressed in black roam the streets attacking PoC they've decided are 'immigrants', beating them to a pulp. Labour.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We can win in Holborn & St Pancras But we need your help on the streets to help make history. 💚
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Katie Neeves - Cool2BTrans - Trans Ambassador @cool2btrans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trans kids are no longer safe in UK schools! Please watch my video about my friend's 13-year-old transgender daughter who has been forced to leave school and be home-educated, due to transphobia, DIRECTLY brought about by new anti-trans guidelines for all UK schools. youtu.be/2oQKPYs4k58
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Trans kids are no longer safe in UK schools
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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If folks need an impression of how dismal things are wrt treatment of ME and LC in the NHS, you just need to look at the services stocktake that was done in January 2025. There was "no data" for ME/CFS clinic referrals.
Annex 1 - Data Dashboard - Long Covid ME/CFS Stock take December 2024. 

Highlighted box shows that there is NO DATA for total referrals to ME/CFS clinics for the period examined in the stocktake.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Watch the excellent John Humphrys talking to me as part of his documentary ‘The Royals: Time to Go?’ on Channel 4 at 9 tonight!
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nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social @nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What happens when the law forces complex questions of sex and gender into rigid binary categories? At #ELLA2026, I spoke about where this leaves trans, non-binary and intersex people following For Women Scotland. How do we move beyond the binary?
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 22/09/2026
reminder: several international human rights organisations have accused @lucympowell.bsky.social, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, starmer, streeting, burnham, and so on of attempting to eradicate transgender ppl. the united nations claims labour is institutionalising discrimination.
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UK: Revised Code of Practice risks institutionalising discrimination against transgender and gender-diverse persons, warn UN experts
GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today warned that the UK’s revised Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions, and Associations, in force as of 5 August, may place transgender and gender-divers...
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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“That is why Haynes’s retellings feel dangerous. She does not destroy the old stories. She removes the protective distance around them. Once the gods, heroes and monsters are allowed to become people again, their myths stop feeling safely ancient. They begin to look uncomfortably like us.”
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 19/09/2026
i know bigotry is intersectional but this is exactly how the british government determines policies surrounding transgender ppl. we're not consulted bcos we can't be 'objective' whereas every 'gender critical' whackjob in the country is considered 'neutral'.
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cornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with the resident, sure. But how inhuman do you have to be as a reporter to stand there in front of this clearly distraught woman and tell her she's wrong and that no actually all of her neighbours are deadly serious about their racism?????? god I fucking hate the media in this county.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No amount of fudge can make airport expansion compatible with our climate commitments. It is disgraceful to see this government twist its own promises into knots simply to try to make bigger profits for the bosses of one private company in spite of the ever-growing costs of climate breakdown.
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 14/09/2026
more of phillipson’s white supremacy on display. she was a disaster in both education and equality. im not sure why some ppl try to claim she was good in education. im guessing they weren’t paying attention to higher ed policies.
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Mezzy (She/It)🏳️‍⚧️🇯🇵 #toxicyurivnjam @ateliermichi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The bellwether for any politician should be "human rights for everyone." Because if human rights don't apply to ALL humans, then they aren't "human rights" they're just demographics to manipulate for political gain. Empathy is a prerequisite, not an optional trait.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We need to wake up to what’s going on 🚨 jujuliagrace.substack.com
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Mia Moore @miamoore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Come see my movie AGAIN AGAIN: a lesbian time travel movie from Executive Producer Lilly Wachowski! -Vancouver Canada September 13 -Seattle Washington September 18 -Los Angeles California October 18 -Tacoma Washington October 24 More dates TBA Linktr.ee/miamooretree
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10/09/2026
THE REPORT THEY TRIED TO HIDE. Empty shelves. Water shortages. Food security at risk. The government cannot keep hiding the scale of the threat. It must release the report in full and act on it.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Great to be at the @transsolidarity.bsky.social event in Parliament today and to speak to so many amazing folk who took the trouble to come down and meet their MPs. I will never stop fighting for the rights of my trans siblings and the whole LGBTQ+ community.
Carla stands in in an old part of Westminster in front of a crowd of people. She is holding a sign that reads "Trans people deserve real equality" (the word real is underlined). Carla stands in an old part of Westminster. She is in conversation with two people. They are all smiling.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I have asked the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission to come to Brighton, and today Brighton came to me with so many stories of how the EHRC Code of Practice is impacting them. Trans lives are already being harmed, and the EHRC needs to hear this.
Image is of Siân with three staff members from Refuge UK. They are stood smiling in Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament. A crowd of people is visible in the background participating in the mass lobby for trans equality. Image is of Siân holding a notebook and pen. She is stood in front of desks, staffed by people in high-vis jackets. A placard is resting against a table and reads: Trans people deserve real equality.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 09/09/2026
In Parliament today, supporting Trans+ Solidarity Alliance's Mass Lobby So many people chatting to their MPs!
A selfie of me in Westminster Palace, wearing a suit and hi vis, holding a Mass Lobby placard saying Trans people deserve real equality
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 09/09/2026
today in labour news burnham and @lucympowell.bsky.social stated that organised, far right, racist militias are free to shut down our southern port towns and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social announced her white rights policy platform still think these folks are 'soft left' or are you getting it now?
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 08/09/2026
labour is doing nothing. it’s a performative bit of policy aimed at duping left-leaning voters. but even that has israel pitching a fit they won’t accept anything less than craven compliance it’s a lesson labour have failed to learn domestically and here’s the same mistake internationally 1/2
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 08/09/2026
Our Age of Silicon is Collapsing [2342 words] First new blog post in a while.
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Our Age of Silicon is Collapsing · EmilyGorcenski.com
The breaking of the fragile bonds.
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 07/09/2026
Because there's obviously no better use of their time and resources 🙄 "The equalities watchdog is investigating guidance to employers by a charity devoted to trans inclusion in business, after a feminist pressure group claimed they were “entirely counter to the law”."
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Vitally important Healthwatch’s role as an independent patient voice is maintained and I have stood up for this and will be voting to keep it.
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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
That's an amazing achievement, change is coming. #GreenParty 💚💚
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🇹🇭Nene Royal🇹🇭 doing Metallica's Master of Puppets. She's pretty damn good. Only 16 but you'd think she's a seasoned rock goddess with how confident she blasts through it. 🤘🤘🎸
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