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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h
The UK is working to completely purge trans people from society. They are banning trans people from hospitals, banning their healthcare, banning them from bathrooms, protecting people that will harass them, and making it impossible to exist. This is all happening under Labour.
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House House @househouse.com · 15/10/2026
An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox
Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"Bitter exchange" and it's her using her billions of dollars and massive platform to try and eradicate trans people from society
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Can’t show “Protect The Dolls” on BBC but you can make a fluff propaganda film supporting the world’s greatest transphobe, its impartial cause we can all agree trans people are subhuman scum obviously
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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026
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 · 11/10/2026
Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
hey cool that's awesome
Harriet Williamson • @harriepw
NEW: Home Office stats released today reveal that arrests for "terrorist-related activity" in the year ending June 2026 were up 1,553% on last year and 94% of the arrests (3,630 of 3,867) were linked to showing support for Palestine Action.
Figure 1.1: Arrests for terrorist-related activity, by legislation, years ending June 2002 to June 2026, Great Britain
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3,500-
3,000
2,500 |
Number of arrests
2,000
1,5001
1,000
500
Arrested for peacefully holding signs
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Section 41/
Terrorism Act 2000
Year to 30 June
Other legislation
(not linked to supporting
Palestine Action)
Other legislation (linked to supporting
Palestine Action)
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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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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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026
the reporting on this stuff is a form of pareidolia. all this is explicable by a set of automatons stochastically exploring a state space and host environment with whatever predictive capacity an LLM affords them. absolutely no intent is required, they do not "know" what they are doing
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a frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe @supermathskid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Jeremy Vine on radio 2 inviting comment on the thugs last night, literally suggested that you might phone in if "you think they've got a point, because the government clearly isn't doing enough to curb the small boat crossings". How fucking dare you use my licence fee for this fascism
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NHS cancelling surgeries for adults even after they’ve already paid for travel + accommodation and waited years to get there. Some were about to be wheeled into theatre! Every manager responsible for this decision must be sacked and every patient paid compensation.
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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.
Sorry Zack Polanski this long hot summer is not the apocalypse - it's like a gloriously long holiday in France
..with village green cricket thrown in good measure
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The Anti-Christ Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 09/08/2026
"You're blocking out the music of humanity"
The Irritating gentleman painting by Berthold Woltze, with a woman in a victorian train, being annoyed by a man leaning over the seat behind her, except she's now wearing headphones.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.
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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
you could do a really heartwarming Muppet F1 movie. Kermit's in charge of a struggling team, just trying to keep the factory lights on with janitor Frank the dog warning him about bailiffs while Gonzo and Rizzo try to convince him to let them do unconventional aerodynamic testing.
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/07/2026
"the graphics have caught up with our imagination" is intended as a compliment but is inadvertently damning of the whole project. Yeah, the imagination of Halo no longer exceeds a high-resolution tree. Cool.
The original Halo presented an alluring and mysterious setting that combined alien ruins with Pacific Northwest-inspired natural grandeur, but the level of detail back then simply hadn't yet caught up with the imagination. That's resolved here, with a gorgeous visual update that makes the whole campaign pop with excitement.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Andy Burnham is joining the war on historic heatwaves, on the side of historic heatwaves.
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Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 15/07/2026
[screams]
09:02
S01E05 Scotch Mist 26 February 2004
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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)
In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/07/2026
The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.
thepinknews.com
Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'
Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".
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a w m @awmeggs.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Oars not swinging anymore…
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 28/06/2026
"how can we incentivize public transport usage" make it free "but who will pay for it" the taxpayer "but won't that make people have less money" not if they use public transport "but doesn't that punish motorists" that is the incentive yeah
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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
please anyone in/near Stratford look out for Emily, she's tiny and a fucking idiot goblin and I'm desperate to find her please please please bring her home safe 😩
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Samira Shackle @samirashackle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Keir Starmer is a bad person who used his power to make the United Kingdom a more unequal place and dismantle the possibility of opposing oppression and genocide, and to drive trans people from public life. If you think he is decent, I have news for you about your own moral judgement.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Bills up. Wages too low. Record profits for Oil & Gas. 50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population. Shit in our rivers. Pensioners jailed for protesting. Migrants thrown under the bus. Supporting a Genocide. That's Starmer's legacy.
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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
out painting a pride flag on my pub, as one does. passing fella: is that a pride flag me, bracing for a Discussion: yes passing fella: sick, have a good day
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Americans think British people are wimps for complaining about the heat. But what you don't realise is that most British houses were actually built in Britain, a cursed island that hates us.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Labour government has just further emboldened the worst people on the planet to intimidate, harass and threaten any woman they see in a toilet who doesn't meet their weird standards of femininity. The most transphobic government the UK has ever had.
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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I'm absolutely disgusted with every single person who continues to associate with Labour. Every single one of you is complicit in the direct discrimination and segregation of a vulnerable minority.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Start to end Rip Off Britain. Vote Green tomorrow! www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
standard.co.uk
'Vote Green, make history,' says Zack Polanski seeking London local election gains
The Green Party leader said he was aiming to break Labour’s ‘stronghold’ grip on the capital
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
When you see the relentless attacks from other parties on the Greens across the media remember this: They hate our plan to end Rip Off Britain. They don't want a wealth tax. They don't want public ownership & lower bills. They're trying everything in their power to stop us.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Even a trace of racism in public life is completely unacceptable and anyone who fails to show relentless vigilance against prejudice and incitement should be hounded out of their positions and forbidden from public office and political participation
Nigel Farage is in Golders Green this morning, where he is claiming that sources have told him IRGC operatives have crossed the channel in recent weeks.
He brushes off claims about his past alleged comments about Jewish people and says community can trust him to keep them safe.
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Aidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it. It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.
Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…"

quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman
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a w m @awmeggs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
One day I will have moved on; new moments of life overwriting the tape of memories and I will no longer see it. Not today.
Screen grab of YouTube home page with a NASA space shuttle rocket shown
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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Support the devs and wishlist The Quiet Things store.steampowered.com/app/2288520/...
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The Quiet Things on Steam
Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England. Inspired by the developer’s real diaries, this autobiographical narrative adventure invites you to uncover Alice’s story by piecing togethe...
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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Think of how many games where the verb is violence. How many games (including the ones nominated for tonight’s BAFTA awards) where you shoot, fight, kill. But when games want to explore the topic of violence in a meaningful way, that’s the issue?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We're on the verge of a genocidal, nuclear war that our supposed "ally" has said he's ready to unleash. Would it be too much to ask for the Prime Minister to have something to say about it? Or do? Suspend US bases on UK soil now.
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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
i know writers who use AI and they're not writers
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a w m @awmeggs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Cookie Monster, the perfect example of om nom nominative determinism
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
One of the many reasons I had to leave the BBC - shameful - a lascivious obsession with the far right and a refusal to believe just how many people believe in fairness , justice and diversity
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Chain Bear @stuartcb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
With new Rowling comment being promoted just remember she personally funds the organised suppression of trans people. By suppression I don't mean just stopping them organising politically, I mean literally just living their normal lives, minding their own business and being healthy.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Dear Shabana,
I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank.
You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to
make a perilous crossing on small boats.”
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton
and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government
who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division.
When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there
to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done
in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the
flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney.
As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking
points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I
filled water tanks and picked up litter.
What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop
the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country.
Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it.
It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping
migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and
croissants to refugees and food parcels.
When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She
said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for
refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers
whilst risking death on the seas.”
She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on
the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/03/2026
Greens deputy leader calls for apology from Starmer over false claims that led to death threats
theguardian.com
Greens deputy leader calls for apology from Starmer over false claims that led to death threats
Mothin Ali fears for his life after anti-war protest was wrongly described as being in support of Iranian regime The deputy leader of the Green party has demanded an apology from Keir Starmer after the prime minister appeared to back false claims he protested in support of the Iranian regime, which led to him receiving death threats. Mothin Ali said he was “so scared” that the racist threats had increased to a point where “it feels like this time it might get me killed”. Continue reading...
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