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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 3h

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 17h

Following along @mzakharuk.bsky.social's reread of @juliaserano.bsky.social's "Whipping Girl". Barely any cis people understand the rampant rape culture inherent to the medical gatekeeping of trans healthcare. These "professionals" know the power they hold over trans people and often abuse it.

> In the 1970s, Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna came across several instances in which gatekeepers were rather blatant about this practice: “A clinician during a panel session on transsexualism at the 1974 meeting of the American Psychological Association said that he was more convinced of the femaleness of a male-to-female transsexual if she was particularly beautiful and was capable of evoking in him those feelings that beautiful women generally do. Another clinician told us that he uses his own sexual interest as a criterion for deciding whether a transsexual is really the gender she/he claims.”

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Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.

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Georgia Harper @mindtheflap.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I really do not have time to get into a newspaper headline despair hole today, *and yet*. It almost doesn't matter what the detailed content of the report actually says, if this is the messaging people will take away. Autistic people have always been here and we are not going anywhere.

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Liz Tarabiscoté*e @boesesliz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ihr überlegt, wie ihr gegen den erstarkenden Faschismus aktiv werden könnt? Gegen faschistische Gesetze Vorgehen wäre ein Anfang.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

maybe ask a professor of sociology then

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"That conservatives define their “best interests” differently is one of the most important lessons that the rest of us nonetheless struggle to learn"

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Queer Politics Webinar @queerseminar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Be sure to join us today for the first presentation of our new programme! 👀

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls.

Screencap from Invincible: "I do love your mother, but she's more like a pet to me."

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ich re-poste das nochmal - weil es ernst gemeint ist: Bislang ist die Leserschaft für die deutsche Fassung meines Newsletters noch sehr klein - zu klein, um die viele Arbeitszeit rechtfertigen zu können… Es müsste doch da draußen noch mehr Leute geben, die das interessiert? Hoffentlich? 🙏

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 17/09/2026

Do LGBTQ+ individuals take a nativist turn after Islamist violence? Does the general pop. increase support for the LGBTQ+ community? We, with @wurthmann.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social, answer these Qs with a pre-reg. RDiT around the Berlin attack which I'll present at the next QPW on Oct 8th.

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sami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I catalogued over 500 hours of Youtube footage for a website that lets you stare out the window of a train, and also control the weather somehow train.samismith.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wisst ihr noch als wir dachten, #metoo würde wirklich etwas grundlegendes verändern? Jahre später lese ich Takes von rechten US-Medien & hab das Gefühl, einige sind in all den Jahren keinen Schritt vorwärts, sondern 5 Schritte zurück gegangen. Es ist einfach ein großes nicht enden wollendes Elend.🙁

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The idea that better things aren’t possible is fertile soil for reactionary politics.

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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seit Jahren wird Leuten, die sagen, dass es einen rechten Umbau beim ÖRR gibt, gesagt, sie sähen Gespenster. Ich hoffe wenigstens das ist vorbei. Was allerdings nie vorbei sein wird, ist die Verblendung der mehrheitlich rechtsliberalen Medien, zu denken, Grüne, Linke und Co. würden nicht kritisiert.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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Max Czollek @maxczollek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

5 Millionen Euro für die Antisemitismusbekämpfung in Berlin werden dieses Jahr nicht verteilt. Grund dafür ist der Fördermittelskandal. Man kann das so verstehen, dass die CDU Antisemitismus nur bekämpfen will, wenn es ihr nützt. Die CDU Berlin will nicht das Beste für Berlin. Sondern nur für sich.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities

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Puka @pukayana.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Statistisch gesehen besteht also doch noch Hoffnung

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

cw rape The thing about rape is that we treat it as an individual reflection of character, and obviously it is but on a broad social level rape is violence that serves to discipline oppressed people into compliance. It is the violence that maintains the order of Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

We are told that the fact that a man who has done terrible harm *could* be better means that we have to pretend he already is.

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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Das welt poschardts austausch-ding abdruckt zeigt mir eigentlich klar, dass diese blase ohne gewaltsame massenabschiebungen nicht zufrieden sein wird. Man ist aktiv rassistisch und möchte rassistische Aktivität, da gibts nix zu verhandeln

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026

I implore all cis people to read this.

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🦇🧛 Hanno Auflauer 🧛🦇 @matthias-warkus.de · 02/10/2026

Wenn ein Zug mehrere Stunden Verspätung hat und kein Professor postet drüber, ist der dann überhaupt zu spät?

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Avery Brooks is 78 today

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Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

KI als Projektionsmaschine, oder: eine Behörde und wie sie die Welt sieht.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Disability doesn’t care how old you are. Specialist food is no cheaper if you’re 19. Employers don’t lose their prejudice if you’re 21. This is blatant intergenerational inequality from Labour. Younger disabled people of all severities deserve better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes

Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Arne Semsrott @arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1) Die AfD plant in Sachsen-Anhalt gemeinsam mit dem BSW, nur noch ihre eigenen Landtags(vize)präsidenten zuzulassen. Damit können alle anderen Fraktionen gegängelt werden. 2) Sie wollen die Ausschüsse so besetzen, dass die AfD überall Blockademehrheit hat. Nur noch AfD-Themen auf der Tagesordnung.

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Let's Learn Everything! @llepodcast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What do bird watching apps remind you of? 🤔 Catch more birds on episode 113 of Let's Learn Everything! You may also discover some new organs along the way!

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Me Too did not go far enough.

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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

The moral panic around estrangement is backlash against the small amount of cultural progress we have made for familial abuse survivors. Against the idea that parents don't get to hurt their kids, against the absolute tyranny of the heteropatriarchal family.

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Paul @unacceptapaul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saw the post quoted below and was put rather in mind of this

1919 election poster for the Bayerische Volkspartei, with a not exactly subtle message about Bolshevism 😬 Source: Time-Life Great Cities: Munich, p147

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

gotta burst into the room and whip an iced coffee directly at the interviewer's head because you'd never want to work for someone with bad reflexes

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Onward. Forward. With your help. Happy birthday to Democracy Americana! One year ago, I started this experiment. To keep it going, I need your support. This is my once-annual pitch to everyone reading. I hope you’ll indulge me:

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Onward. Forward. With your help.

Happy birthday to Democracy Americana! One year ago, I started this experiment. To keep it going, I need your support.

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Holger Nohr @holgernohr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In Heidenau hat der Stadtrat heute tatsächlich auf gemeinsamen Antrag von CDU und AfD ein Verbot von weiteren Stolpersteinen beschlossen. www.morgenpost.de/politik/arti...

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Auf Antrag von CDU und AfD: Heidenau beschließt Stolperstein-Verbot

Stadträte im sächsischen Heidenau haben mehrheitlich für ein Stolperstein-Verbot votiert. Der Antrag kam von der AfD und der CDU.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am not reading it ...

sound of music meme
watch me not reading your article ...
if the title contains a question mark!

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 17/09/2026

Non-autistic parents and professionals are lobbying for the term "profound autism." But autistic people themselves think the label is dangerous & will lead to autistic people with more needs getting less help. In @autisticadvocacy.org's #ProfoundAutism toolkit: autisticadvocacy.org/the-profound...

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The “Profound Autism” Label Hurts Autistic People

Functioning labels don’t help autistic people get what we need. They hurt us. Recently, some people have started using a new functioning label called profound autism.

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taz @taz.de · 24/09/2026

In einem offenen Brief fordern 150 Berliner Jüdinnen und Juden eine rot-rot-grüne Koalition in der Hauptstadt. Sie widersprechen damit dem Zentralrat der Juden.

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Richtungsstreit nach der Wahl in Berlin: Jüdische Unterstützung für Linksbündnis

In einem offenen Brief fordern 150 Berliner Jüdinnen und Juden eine rot-rot-grüne Koalition in der Hauptstadt. Sie widersprechen damit dem Zentralrat der Juden.

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Berit Glanz @beritmiriam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Das konservative Projekt einer Retraditionalisierung von Geschlechterrollen schreitet voran. Denn man muss sich keine Illusionen machen, wer kürzer treten und Stunden reduzieren wird, um kranke Kinder zu betreuen.

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Arne Semsrott @arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEU: Mehr als 2/3 der Menschen in Berlin will, dass die BVG-Verkehrsbetreiebe künftig auf Strafanzeigen wegen Fahren ohne Ticket verzichtet. Die Mehrheit der Anhänger*innen *aller* Parteien! In 14 Städten gibt es eine solche Regelung bereits. Repräsentative Umfrage: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...

Verzicht auf Strafanzeigen gegen Schwarzfahrer*innen
Zwei Drittel der Wahlberechtigten in Berlin für einen Verzicht auf Strafanzeigen gegen Schwarzfahrer*innen.
Auch parteiübergreifend findet eine Mehrheit das richtig

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Es tut weh, aber man muss ihn wirklich ganz bewusst erleben diesen Moment, in dem die angebliche Mitte, die über Jahre den neuen Rechtsextremismus normalisiert hat, nun in einen hysterischen Fiebertraum verfällt, weil von links die zarten Anfänge eines Angriffs auf ihre Diskurshoheit zu sehen sind.

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Teresa Bücker @teresabuecker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jetzt bestätigt: Die Bundesregierung plant, dass Kinderkrankentage ab kommendem Jahr wieder zurückfallen auf 10 Tage pro Elternteil (20 für Alleinerziehende). Eine weitere Stufe des Sozialabbau, die sich deutlich stärker auf Frauen auswirkt + Familien belastet. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/bund...

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Gesundheitspolitik: Linnemann gegen Verlängerung von Kinderkrankentagen

Für die Betreuung kranker Kinder können Arbeitnehmer einen Ausgleich für Verdienstausfälle erhalten. Eine Verlängerung der Zahl der Tage, an denen das möglich ist, soll auslaufen.

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