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Bob of Teesdale

@bobm50.bsky.social
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Old gay man, lefty ex-Labour now a Green Party member. Human Rights need constantly fighting for. Trans ally. Him/ him Gardener, nature lover. Post pics of wildflowers, country walks and bucolic views alongside the politics.

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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Despite this the BBC Today programme have James Esses on. Calling him a psychotherapist. And now they've got Cass on. What are the chances they'll speak to a trans person or parent?
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Why should anyone listen to you on this when you've capitulated completely to the anti trans lobby today. Less use than a chocolate fire guard.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Guardian has been campaigning for years to remove rights enjoyed by trans people. Why are you still writing for them?
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Some pics from my walk along the Tees from Blackwell to Broken Scar. Happy to.report that the sand martins are still around
A path between overhanging trees A load of purple and white wildflowers A drift of yellow loosestrife
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The beavers would like a word.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Reform should've stuck with demonising trans people and calling for their eradication from society and then Phillipson would've been cheering them on.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We used to get banana flavoured ice lollies. They were kind of milky. Half way between an ice lolly and an ice cream. On a stick 😋
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I think the whole cigs will help you stay slim thing was just tobacco company advertising and mostly not true.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Almost everyone was much slimmer then. Watch any film or TV show from the time. More manual work, far fewer cars so more walking, food was real and more expensive and you couldn't but 3litre bottles of soda.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
They were.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Just as well that the Trump regime hasn't increased borrowing by a trillion $$ or so.....
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I remember a Tory lord in the debate about decriminalisation in 1967 saying, "I thought men like that, shot themselves." Can't remember him being disciplined.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Their legs. Unless they've provided evidence of their biological sex we should refer to all politicians and journos with gender neutral terms.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
But he's kept Mahmood as HS so nothing will change re immigration policy.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Guardian columnists have been at the forefront of the anti trans moral panic. Why do you think they'd criticise Phillipson for her part in destroying trans lives?
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
He's not fash enough for the Torygraph. They'll be supporting Lowe and Restore
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
They're not doing that because they're transphobic.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The guidance comes into full force on August the 5th along with the new Sect 28 which bans teachers from even mentioning the existence of trans people. None of this would've been necessary if the SC had not ruled as it did.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Yes that would be great and probably was the case until the Christian PACS spent $millions to push their anti trans anti LGB and misogynistic agenda all helped by 1000s of anti trans articles in the UK press.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The law was inclusive of trans people. Check Hansard if you don't believe me. The SCs decided it knew better than Parliament. And believe me I am campaigning for a change in the law. As it currently stands it hurts everyone who's not a supporter of patriarchy and christofascism.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
That she was trans. This will also negatively affect cos women and girls who don't look feminine enough for the gender poliice. How will you feel if being admitted to hospital you're asked to prove your biological sex before being assigned a ward? It's a complete mess.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
According to the guidance trans women MUST use male facilities and trans men must use the female facilities unless they look 'too' masculine in which case they are not allowed to use either. Stealth will get you locked up as that young trans girl found when she gave a bj to a guy without revealing 1
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'll be all ears when I go out walking tomorrow 👂👂
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Well the EHRC did say that it's not homophobic to say that homosexuality is a sin resulting in an eternity in hell......
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Wow! An osprey. Didn't know that thet ever visited us.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Just how does forcing trans people to out themselves everytime the wish to access a service or use the loo protect them from discrimination? The SC may not have stated that trans people should be discrimayed against but that is the outcome.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Very much giving 'If only people had bought my mediocre paintings I wouldn't have become an evil dictator. A Hitler vibes.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'll hold off until I see what he does v what he's said he'll do.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Then I hope you and your sister step up and look after them if they need it rather than having low paid people fork out in higher taxes.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
And how many trans people are they going to lock up for using the loo or daring to have sex?
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Exactly.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Perhaps he could get his Setetary of State for media, culture and Sport to clear out the Tories at the top of the BBC and get Ofgem to act like an actual regulator.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
He's stuffed his cabinet with Labour Together and Labour Friends of Genocide. Just what is it that gives you hope that there's anything different from Starmer's regime?
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
By deporting all the brown care workers as outlined by your home secretary obviously, Andy. Some joined up thinking might actually help.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
He's fine with Mahmood's policy of deporting care workers so I'm very doubtful that this will come to anything at all.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Well as she wished Feile well with their action, I'm sure she's delighted. Unless, of course, her 'Good luck with that' post was sarcastic 🙄 🤔
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Well Biden. Obviously 🙄
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Their grandfathers were selling stockings, sausages and sugar on the black market and looting bomb sites.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
And our 'beloved' BBC will continue to bang the drum for more drilling in the N Sea. Totally ignoring the 'What we need to do now,' bit at the end of everyone of their very own Attenborough nature programmes. Utterly insane!
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The current Home Secretary would designate the Grunwick strikers as a tertorist organisation and lock you up for supporting them. You're in the wrong party, Dawn.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
But he's talking to the Tories who told him that he must fix social care without spending any public money or getting the rich to contribute. Makes it seem that he's no entirely serious about fixing social care at all.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
And no doubt Bad Enoch will be along to tell us that the Tories support this as long as no taxes are raised, no new borrowing sort and no rich person is asked to pay and Burham will clap like a performing sea-lion.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Palliative care for my friend's mum who had been in homes for years with dementia, consisted of starving her to death without her consent but yeah it's going to solve all our dying needs.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Reform/Restore folk are totally incapable of making connections as it would require them to have empathy.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The courts have been the battleground for some years now. From Employment Tribunals telling us that GC beliefs are covered by the Equality Act to the Supreme Court telling us the same act was never meant to protect trans people. Amazing what can be 'achieved' when a billionaire backs you.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Always lots of great sights on bikes in Amsterdam 😋😋
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My local hospital is stuffed full of trans hating nurses and every time I go I worry that I might have to deal with one or more of them and I'm just a gay man. Had a couple of incidents of homophobia there over the years. I don't know how trans people are supposed to cope.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Only if they, or their supporters, say them!
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
They don't seem to recognise that the GC lobby will absolutely not agree to trans people having any rights let alone equal rights.
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Bob of Teesdale @bobm50.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Day trip to Saltburn by train. Lovely walk through the Valley Gardens followed by fish & chips at the Cat Nab cafe.
A view of the beach and cliffs taken from Saltburn pier.A wood lined path through the Valley Gardens Saltburn War memorial.with an unusual bronze plaque of Jesus in the tomb attended by angels
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