Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7hThe people pushing this garbage are just untalented and lazy losers who assume the rest of us must be untalented and lazy losers too. 34646100 646
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/10/2026If you would try to win by abandoning trans people (or any targeted group) you can save this “we need to win” talk; there is no “we.” I am about solidarity, and you have chosen anti-solidarity. You are not any “we” I recognize. You are the enemy I’m trying to defeat. Beating you is how my “we” wins. 4136331005 3.6K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Every Elon demo 303497773 3.5K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16/10/20260 complaints about trans people in hospitals. Trans people banned. 0 cases of puberty blockers for trans kids causing harm. Puberty blockers for trans kids banned. 0 cases of trans people attacking cis people in toilets. Trans people banned. 10908313 908
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The Bob's Burgers illustrators love accurate buildings and infrastructure, down to the framing, plumbing, wiring. The boiler has an expansion tank. The power poles have transformers wired up just like they should be. There's a gas meter in the alley. The under-sink plumbing is detailed and correct 453099349 3.1K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 15/10/2026www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I can't really describe how evil and cruel this is. I can't really describe how this is one of the most awful policies I've ever heard, and how much it will hurt people. I don't even really have the words.bbc.co.ukTrans people should use hospital spaces according to biological sex, NHS England saysNew guidance says trans patients should be cared for on single-sex hospital wards or bays that align with their biological sex. 291322403 1.3K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/10/2026AI is conscious AND it is my girlfriend AND it is my slave. A perfect scenario for me, a normal person. Not gonna think too deeply about this. Now do all other living human people deserve the level of investment devoted to my Tamogotchi slave girlfriend? Not so fast. 7063911245 6.4K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Again, there was almost no public element in this: no organic surge in public opinion to demand it. It was simply imposed upon Britain by the world’s most hateful and poisonous media outlets, by leaning hard on our ever-compliant political leaders, who are always happy to say yes to the tabloids. 11413123 413
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity. 98132213890 13.2K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 13/10/2026Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms 201015129 1K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialBat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 13/10/2026The irony that the BBC blurred out the Protect the Dolls slogan on a Strictly contestant’s tshirt for their social accounts as “political” but will happily dedicate a two-part doc to the woman who uses her billions to fund lawsuits to persecute transgender people www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...bbc.co.ukTwo-part documentary on J.K. Rowling announced by BBC Factual and BBC ScotlandThe documentary will use her life as a lens through which to explore three decades of profound social, political and technological change 462685780 2.7K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849. 131254443 1.3K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The other day I talked to an aunt who has truly seen everything, and she couldn’t overstate how much more racist England now feels. When a working-class black woman in her mid-seventies tells you it’s bad, then it’s really bad. 161217338 1.2K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026once again, you're *supposed* to signal virtue, while also attempting to *possess* it. 161118166 1.1K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I spoke a bit about Matthew Shepard over the weekend in person to some folks, but I didn't want to let the anniversary of his death — October 12, 1998 — pass by without giving a moment to him and his memory here. 192865480 2.9K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026You don't fix one security crisis by creating another. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comMinisters preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spendingExclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say 621138343 1.1K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/10/2026when i was a kid my teachers warned us not to click links on Wikipedia because it wasn't safe 362479276 2.5K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialCaroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Your 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. 211579509 1.6K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialMike (They/Them) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏴 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026Bethany 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 10558111559 5.8K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know 392851791 2.9K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialMei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence. 50169385556 16.9K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialSarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026 43116452409 11.6K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialMark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”. 301154475 1.2K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people. 8746191092 4.6K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4073530510618 35.3K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives. 9878231 878
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If you're willing to sell out trans kids for theoretical votes I have to assume you'd sell out anyone for theoretical votes, so, yes, I do think supporting sports bans means you get not a fucking thing from me. 81249338 1.2K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The threats to our resilience are the same as the threats to our democracy: corporate lobbyists shaping policy, with dire consequences for our ability to withstand crises. Burnham seems to want to change this. But is he aware of scale of the task? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comStockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George MonbiotThe UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 30633248 633
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A painted #Etruscan terracotta cinerary urn lid with a reclining woman. Found in Chiusi, dating 150-120 BC. It was on display at the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, which will be closed for the next couple of years. 📷️ me 526855 268
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialThemperor Palpatine @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Badenoch claims £2,700 a month from the taxpayer to rent a grade II-listed farmhouse with six bedrooms. The property sits within the highest council tax bracket, costing over £4,000 in council tax a year, which the Essex MP also claims on expenses. "Best welfare" is being an MP. 2408147 408
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026AI has talked kids into suicide, fueled paranoid delusional that led to murder, degraded education quality in both k-12 and higher ed, run roughshod over copyright law, increased spam, fueled spam, fueled fraud, degraded the environment, put people out of work, the list goes on and on. 91348268 1.3K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough. 471845330 1.8K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Exactly 💯 280117863425 11.8K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a little louder for the cheap seats in the back 3256411954 5.6K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialJim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins. 502628644 2.6K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialWitchy Annie 🏳️⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit. 9585883261 8.6K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026The far right power grab is global and entirely organized, moneyed & interconnected. No matter where it happens, every pillar of free society that falls has been and will continue to be everyone’s problem. It’s a domino effect. 3807282 807
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic 572847397 2.8K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973726438 3.7K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialPhil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque. 351378498 1.4K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026I implore all cis people to read this. 171003421 1K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.social💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live. 51221547 1.2K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/10/2026the Cornell case should make us question prosecutors and police all the time: the same DA offices discounting college students’ sexual assault cases (the lacking investigations, the disbelief) are happy to jail countless women for far less, day in and day out, when most people aren’t watching 11097234 1.1K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialScifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Concept art for The Fifth Element by Patrice Garcia (1995) 337779 377
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialTyler King @tyleraking.com · 02/10/2026Their mission is the pursuit of human rights for their technology designed to deprive you of human rights. 38899320 899
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.motherjones.comPolice didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.” 17528188 528
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialKumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026AI will never be able to make art. Thanks. 1085649808 5.6K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21275902510 7.6K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”. 231397504 1.4K
Reposted by billysevens.bsky.socialBen Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them 7790253 790
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