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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ironic that Placebo was a watered down version of The Cure.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the roving uniformed thuggish gangs in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 05/09/2026
We have reached the fascist militia stage of mainstreaming and this emboldening is a direct consequence of mainstream elite treating far-right politics as "legitimate grievance" rather than tackling them head on www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 01/09/2026
Welcome to Bluesky.
Thanks for being patient. A team member is coming to cancel you.
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Amazing. It seems that plagiarism is only a problem for The Times when black people do it
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actually madeleine is the scientist🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🦇 @webway.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
section 28 all over again from a government motivated by nothing but hate
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21/08/2026
Be really embarassing if your paper, using an anti trans reviewer, also gave it a four star review, wouldn't it
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just saying, the trans community told everyone that once The Guardian had successfully dragged trans rights into the mud they'd move on to the nuerodivergent. And they were right.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In the Guardian’s review of ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’, Lucy Mangan writes that the mother of a boy featured in the documentary “decides to keep him off the drugs”. In the end credit sequence of the programme, it says she put him back on the medication “after poor exam results”.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
aw,shame, I liked Lucy Mangan. But in the bin she goes! Live with and love my kid for a bit, Lucy, and rethink whether this bullshit is 'compassionate'.
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Infinity Connect @infinityconnect.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@fbpech.bsky.social How is this even possible?
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
PSA for anti-americanism warriors: 'can I get' is SCOTTISH.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I will also do the book thing
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 'holiday reading is serious work.....I took eight books for a three week holiday' hahahahaha fucking casual
bbc.co.uk
What your summer reading list says about you
Just picked your holiday book? Our choices can subconsciously reveal important parts of our personality, studies show.
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 31/07/2026
Here's the link to tell them what you think. Obviously keep it polite but do consider letting them know. www.amnesty.org.uk/contact-us/
amnesty.org.uk
We'd love to hear from you
If you would like to get in touch please fill our the form below and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/07/2026
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
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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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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Dave Turner @mrdaveturner.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
When every single person who’s heard of you is gutted you’ve died, that’s the sign of a life well lived. Well played, Sam.
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mseviechops.bsky.social @mseviechops.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
At birth, and I probably would have taken my mum with me.
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
With trans rights under attack as never before, we need to show our support for the trans community. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a
goodlawproject.org
I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 26/06/2026
Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.
The Café and The Coffee Shop in Tesco will be offering one free Kids Hot Meal Deal, Kids Breakfast or Kids Pick ‘n’ Mix deal with any full price adult purchase when they scan their Tesco Clubcard. **The adult purchase could be something as small as an apple costing just 65 pence.** And with no limit to the number of Kid’s meals you can redeem, families of all sizes can benefit too.
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DAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHHniel @djbarc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
She fucking lied. Yes, we knew it. Yes, we knew they knew it, but here she is, many years & suicides later openly admitting she fucking lied. Anyone citing the Cass Report as a valid document is a despicable, rancid cunt. No exceptions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Speaking to the BBC, Dr Cass said she believes since then "some of the hype about risks have been exaggerated in that we genuinely don't know if there are harms."
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
If you are done for terrorism coz you threw paint on a plane delivering weaponry to Israel you have terrorism charges on your record for life. This doesn't just mean jail time. It affects your ability to get a job and a home FOR LIFE. Your human rights lawyer and decent man did that.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026… it was not hot enough." via Climate Alert
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting
Screenshot of the article's graphic, showing color swatches derived from the Earthcam archive, illustration the color of the reflecting pool calibrated against satellite imagery, from 8 June to 19 June 2026. I chose yesterday, 19 June, so it rendered the US American flag with a green hue instead of blue.
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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Starmer is refusing to allow debate time for the Early Day Motion about the EHRC ‘guidance’, despite it being signed by over 140 MPs. If we get 100,000 signatures on this petition we can force a debate.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 18/06/2026
it's the same picture dot jpg
vintage x ray specs ad from the back of a comic Snapchat smart glasses
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Honestly, this is where the current transphobia leads. Suddenly everyone gets comfortable treating gayness as tragic like it’s 1982. These are connected. You’re next.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
They tried to hide but I got em anyway
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
OH MY GOD HE LITERALLY GRABBED HER HAIR IT WASN'T JUST "ASKING FOR A KISS" GO FUCK YOURSELVES, BBC NEWS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Man who asked woman for kiss on train sentenced in legal first
David Stroud was convicted in a first-of-its-kind sex-based harassment charge in May.
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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
IT FUCKIN WIMDY
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Coll 🩰💻📚🎢 @soarin-to-tower.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
rip Anthony Stewart Head 😭😭
“thinking about the pink nintendo ds anthony head brought everywhere while filming merlin”

4 pictures of Anthony Head as King Uther Pendragon holding his pink Nintendo DS on set between takes
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Anna @caspiansteeth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The beloved Giles, obviously, but also Hercules Shipwright, the best thing to happen to the sky since rainbows
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I'm not sure "hey, we're not just banning trans people from toilets, we're also banning them from vital support after they've been sexually assaulted or raped" is exactly the flex The Guardian seem to think it is. Fucking vile humans.
Opinion
The new EHRC ruling isn't just about trans people's access to toilets - it's about protecting other vital single-sex spaces
By Susanna Rustin

From the start, feminists have fought for spaces that are less visible but which have special status: prisons, refuges, rape crisis centres, lesbian groups, women's health centres and sports
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There are no “legitimate concerns” about trans people. There aren’t any about women’s safety or fairness in sports or kids being kids or fucking toilets. If there were you’d have heard of them before 2018. I am a cis white woman so you have to listen to me or I’ll cry.
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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This isn't just a fuck off you daft sod. It's a M&S fuck off you daft sod.👏
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Zee Zom @fnafilms.com · 26/05/2026
Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Screenshot from TUC on Facebook 

Reform-led Durham council cut off funding to the annual Pride celebrations.
So trade unions launched a fundraiser to save it, eventually raising more money than was cut.
Which means this year's Pride will be bigger than ever.
In the 1980s, the LGBT+ community raised thousands of pounds to help striking miners and their families.
When we stick up for each other, we can achieve anything.
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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The only thing I dislike more about these people than their snarling bigotry is the way they demand everyone else treat them as nice liberals
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/05/2026
one of the reasons i am always on about elite persuasion is that i have seen elite persuasion operate in real time. as toby documents here, the radical anti-trans push in the uk didn't come from some "bottom-up backlash," but was orchestrated and organized primarily at the most elite levels
liberalcurrents.com
The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse
It's never just one minority.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago
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Matthew Beswick (they/them) @mbeswick.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
One cartoon can't counteract all the targeted attacks over the past decade. Without a formal apology and reparations to trans people from The Guardian this is just insulting. No offence meant to the person who made the cartoon just the audacity of The Guardian publishing it
Transgender - The IOC's decision to protect the female category is a victory for fairness 

4w agoObserved (newsletter sign-up) - the supreme court has carefully rung fenced protections for women. That's all we wantedTransgender - No woman should be forced to change her clothes in front of a male colleague 

1y agoWomen - At last, a moment of clarity - the UK supreme court has upheld the rights of women

1y ago
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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
For business owners, the important part of the new ECHR advice is this: 13.179: There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex. [...] Therefore, it is unlikely to be proportionate or practical to ask for further evidence of a person’s sex.
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