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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'd say "Something for nothing" culture is getting paid £100,000 a year of public money, plus expenses, for a job that you then fail to turn up to for months on end

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/07/2026

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

When politicians and media say ‘difficult choices’, that’s code for working class people about to be screwed.

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Jessica Lauren @auntiejessie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“You’re the most naive magic bean-buying mofos I’ve ever seen in my life!” 😂😂😂 Brilliant podcast, a must-watch 🔥💚🔥

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Dr. Joanna Horrocks-Paschedag @joannahorrocks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

'The code is a labyrinth of nonsense, an unworkable, illogical, irrational, hopelessly befuddled mess of competing urges, moral panic and institutionalised anxiety. It is a bramble of contradictory propositions which eventually dissolves into nothing.' Brilliant takedown of the EHRC code.

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Jessica Lauren @auntiejessie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This is tragic and disgraceful. Imagine, for a moment, if only the huge sums of money being funnelled into gender critical legal battles were to be put into genuinely protecting vulnerable women and girls.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 03/06/2026

Impractical, intrusive and inhumane - @rachelmillward.bsky.social responds to the ECHR guidance on behalf of Green Party leadership.

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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Wish there was a mode of politics in this country that wasn’t “slow and easily preventable car crash you can see is going to happen from miles away but can do nothing to stop”

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It appears the government won't be satisfied until it has hounded trans people out of society altogether. The Government are choosing every moment and mechanism they can to demonstrate they don't care about their lives. We have to draw the line. Reject the framework.

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Jessica Lauren @auntiejessie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I’m watching with dismay and despair as my trans siblings are eating the faces of our allies and each other. Yes, we’re afraid, yes we’re filled with desperation, yes ask for the best from them: but PLEASE! We’re not meant to be our own leopards.

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Jessica Lauren @auntiejessie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My mum and dad brought me up to live and let live. I think Britain needs to get back to a more ‘live and let live' approach to life, not where we're constantly arguing with each other, being judgmental about each other. (1/2)

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Jessica Lauren @auntiejessie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This is absolute bullsh*t by Burnham. How can you implement the SC ruling and EHRC guidance, yet not marginalise us? Let’s all be respectful and nice to each other? Oh please.

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Jessica Lauren @auntiejessie.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

This post of mine on Instagram just got over 28k views! I’m so pleased 😊 And Zack's back! 🌟💚🌟 We're so blessed to have had 2 visits from Green Party leader Zack Polanski within 48 hours. Congratulations Cllr Rob Yates on a wonderful win, and to all of Thanet Greens for such a great campaign 🌟💚🌟

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Saturday's Together Alliance march was incredible. We know that the far-right are looking at the USA - the mass arrests, the political violence, the deportations - and they see a blueprint. Here's how we stop them:

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Jessica Lauren @auntiejessie.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It was when @zackpolanski.bsky.social asked in that interview “Who are Democracy Volunteers anyway?”, and said (politely) that the media should stop taking everything Reform say as gospel.

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Ameen Hadi is a brilliant youth worker, anti racist and trade unionist. He was defending newly elected MP Hannah Spencer from violent far right transphobes and for that he has been suspended from Salford Council. Please sign and share the petition here actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

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Trans+ History Week @transhistoryweek.com · 03/03/2026

If you look really closely you’ll see @zackpolanski.bsky.social is donning his Trans+ History Week badge early. Pictured here with Laïla from @prideineducation.bsky.social Trans+ History Week is May 4-10 this year. Download our resources: www.wearequeeraf.com/dotheworkbook/

Zack Polanski, a man in a black blazer and white shirt, stands smiling alongside Laila from Pride in Education. Laila wears a white blouse, a pinstriped vest, and a keffiyeh scarf. She is smiling and pointing toward a Trans+ History Week pin on Zack’s blazer lapel. Both are standing against a plain white wall.

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Jessica Lauren @auntiejessie.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Trump is an Emperor. He said he was going to be. Those that voted for him knew it when they did. Now we’re all holding our breath waiting to see who the lions will be eating first. I don’t mean metaphorically.

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⸸ Andrea Celeste ⸸ @andreaceleste.meangirls.online · 12/12/2025

the only folks who aren't biological people are the chemical brothers

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Jessica Lauren @auntiejessie.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I’m so sad @robinince.bsky.social has had to resign as co-presenter of The Infinite Monkey Cage on BBC Radio 4. I’ve loved TIMC, but currently hardly turn on Radio 4 (the only station I listen to) for fear of what transphobic thing I’m going to hear.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter

In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.

I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.

Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B

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Jessica Lauren @auntiejessie.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The Terfinator. She’ll be back.

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Jessica Lauren @auntiejessie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Someone rightly pointed out that having no biog on my page and never having posted, I might be dodgy, botty, suspicious, terfy and more. I am the opposite of all of these things. Just to be clear. Keeping on keeping on.

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