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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well so if they were diesel thieves, Wes Streeting knew that when he said people did not have the full picture but also went on about threats to the country. That's the important thing though. The important thing to you remain scared enough to let them buy some more American bullets or whatever.

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Stuart G @avidinquirer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A tried and tested technique of the centre and right in every single country - use Jewish people as a political football, terrify them by falsley telling them they are not safe. Its sick

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is not even a bit new, access to bathrooms especially has been a plank of every marginalized group’s fight for & civil liberties in the past 100+ years and if you’re a person falling for/a candidate messaging on “not in our spaces” right now, we know who you would’ve been in those fights, too.

The history of bathroom segregation and politicization can be traced back centuries. Along with the right to vote, the suffrage movement fought for women (well, cis women) to have access to their own public toilets. Bathrooms were also a core feature of Jim Crow bigotry, with facilities divided between men, women, and "colored" people. Here Black men and women were denied gender-specific facilities, simultaneously conflated and ungendered. While the comparison between cis-only bathrooms and whites-only bathrooms doesn't fully cohere, the struggles are certainly interconnected; there's a clear racialization to how sex is constructed in the public eye, as C. Riley Snorton has chronicled in Black on Both Sides, a history that dives into the degendering of Black women. Meanwhile, Black civil rights groups like the NAACP have fought in support of trans rights over the years.
During the 1970s, opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment used fears that it would mandate unisex toilets to aid their successful campaign to tank the law. Bathroom issues continued during the '80s and '90s during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, when some wanted gay men to be banned from public facilities. Queers, like trans people, weren't considered family-friendly. They were seen as potential groomers or vectors of disease.
There were gains interspersed within these cycles of backlash. The Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 and the Disabilities Act of 1990 mandated that bathrooms be made accessible towards people with disabilities. And by 2016, there seemed to be enough of a consensus around bathroom access that standing up for trans people's right to pee was a mainstream position.
So how did we get to where we are now? Wedge issues, of course.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Remember the iron rule of reporting on the Middle East: Nothing justified Oct 7th. Oct 7th justified everything.

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Stuart G @avidinquirer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is good. No matter how the disingenuous in our media try to spin it, “Free Palestine” should never get somone banned from performing. Shame on the tour promoters and shame on Ed Sheeran for not withdrawing too www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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All of Ed Sheeran's Openers Abandon Tour After Macklemore Debacle

Finneas, Lukas Graham, and more have dropped off shows with Ed Sheeran after Macklemore was pressured off the tour after saying, 'Free Palestine.'

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He's acting as if these two environments exist in a vacuum from each other. That we're starting from 2010, but with different conditions. We're not, we're starting from a decade and a half of hack and slash in conditions that have been made worse by that. It's time to try something else.

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Not only should the British Government intervene to stop this money reaching Israeli settlers, it should also review the remit of the Charity Commission and what is considered “A Charity” by this country!!

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Stuart G @avidinquirer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Someone better tell Mike Huckabee about sanctions on North Korea and Russia. Someone should also tell the useless person on radio 4 that interviewed him not to let bullshit like that slide unchallenged on their show

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Science Magazine @science.org · 03/09/2026

An analysis of 21 years of monitoring across Europe now demonstrates that climate warming is increasingly displacing species from mountaintops, especially those that are close to their lower range margins. Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/4zYxuUS

Alpine vegetation, such as this grassland in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland, is changing under the impact of decades of warming. Species richness has increased in many locations owing to plants migrating upward. However, analysis of 21 years of monitoring across Europe now demonstrates that climate warming is also increasingly displacing species from mountaintops, especially those that are close to their lower range margins.

Photo: Radomir Jakubowski/Minden

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I went back to listen to it and it’s genuinely quite shocking.

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The wildly over-the-top reaction to Britain's tiny Israeli settlements trade ban – including hyperbolic media inflation of minimal risks and nonsense warnings – is a sign of just how much international impunity Israel has enjoyed, and for how long

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Robust as in "actually effective response to the issue" or robust as in "the very maximum allowable level of response given the political environment we, ourselves, had a huge part in creating"?

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Billy OceanGate 🇵🇸 @stitzch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Imagine a left wing street movement shutting down a small town, seeing no arrests then the next day the same group mobilising to another port to cause disturbances? The daily mail would be calling for the military to overthrow the government

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Stuart G @avidinquirer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Absolutely wild how many UK commentators just blindly promote reform bullshit stunts and as anything other than bullshit stunts

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One must ask, I would think, are they this complacent because they've been doing this shit for years and nobody has ever noticed before?

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No To Racism @notoracism.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Starmer took 7 weeks off on the public purse and resigned as an MP on his first day back.

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Stuart G @avidinquirer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It’s almost funny watching the right melt down about the thought they might be held to account for spreading lies in their newspaper. They know they are lying to everyone and know that it’s effective

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Rick—The Political Gardener @politicalgardener.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There is an organised pys-op — permitted by the British Government & Media. Two institutions dominated by tufton street offices & billionaires in the media. British Uni's are the gate keepers of debate, politics, wealth & who gets status. Producing mostly Lawyers & Accountants who mostly work for?

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Jason Arday was hounded through the national press for weeks. There was nowhere for him to turn. IPSO has not opened a single standards investigation in over a decade. Add your name for an inquiry into press culture: hackedoff.org/campaign-actions/demand-an-inquiry-into-the-culture-of-the-press

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Nothing ominous about UK media doing fascist tropes right after hounding a black academic to suicide.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Matthew Syed, Sunday Times, writes about his sister's work with the late Jason Arday & with young people, and reflects with regret at not himself speaking/writing last week about why + when legit scrutiny had become disproportionate & dangerous www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

thetimes.com

Jason Arday was failed by the system — and by me

The academic my sister knew was ‘kind, wise, warm and fun’, if also deeply flawed. The system that overpromoted him should have been the target, not him

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is an inappropriate, credulous & politically biased BBC headline. The claims about savings will be sharply contested. News reports should not imclude what reads as an ediorial endorsememt in the headline www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Stuart G @avidinquirer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The British press drove a man to suicide, and barely a single one of them has any remorse whatsoever. Horrible horrible people are literally all over twitter saying “don’t blame my industry”. I detest these people

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Jason Arday story is by no means the biggest scandal at Cambridge University. I'm sure the media is going to pick this up and run with it in just the same way ... Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I'm not saying he did nothing wrong. He definitely exaggerated achievements and made some false claims. I'm not sure what to make of the plagiarism allegation. But, as we confront environmental, political and economic emergencies, on a scale of 1-10 the importance of this story is roughly 0.01.

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gabundy ☭ @gabundy.blog · 14/08/2026

Countless 'journalists' should never work again; several publications should be closed down... there should be a full inquiry into the way Arday was treated, who led the witch hunt against him, who joined in, and who is going to be held legally culpable. Because someone should be.

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Stuart G @avidinquirer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Convince me that the objections to #MachairWind are not simply NIMBYism

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels

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Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues

Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I am particularly annoyed about this stuff, because I automatically believed her when she started going on radio deliberately eliding this stuff with her relationship with her local party. Why would anyone play stupid games about such a serious matter? It wouldn’t have occurred to me otherwise.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is all horrific stuff, and I invite you to go back to 2018/19 and reread her columns, newspaper interviews and podcast appearances talking about it, and then decide who it sounds like it was, that had been doing all this.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

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Stuart G @avidinquirer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Why would this need looked at? Who does it matter to?? Why would we indulge such bigotry???

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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Everybody who is reading this survived Covid. Not everyone did.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Pro-Palestine protesters, who sprayed red paint and broke some windows, are about to be sentenced as *terrorists*. Neither they nor the jurors were told of this possibility during their trial for criminal damage. So they were unable to defend themselves against this far more serious charge.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Stuart G @avidinquirer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Climate change the right have denied for decades will wreak havoc on British farming, the lack of food will cause unrest. And still a bunch of thick cunts will vote for the right wing pricks cos-playing in farmer gear. How does one persuade an insane person they are insane?

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Same thing her and her pals - particularly the ones she names here - have been doing for a very long time.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hard to explain exactly how Britain really, really *feels like* a country where all of our most virulently racist wingnut crackpots were given prominent platforms many years ago to propagandise, and to harass and harm all the people they hate, doesn’t it. You feel it in the air every day, now.

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Maddie (delicious, nutritious) @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The worst part about being executed by a roving Reform death squad, for me, is definitely going to be the liberal next to me lecturing me for calling it fascist.

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Stuart G @avidinquirer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Really annoying to hear Michael Walker lean into “the left are to blame for the right not caring about climate change” nonsense. The left care about climate change & have leftist solutions to it. The right have not cared & it’s not the left’s job to devise rightist solutions to it

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Stuart G @avidinquirer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Do the rest of the world refer to the “US and their proxies” when thinking about the UK?

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