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Charley Hasted

@charleyhasted.bsky.social
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(They/Them) Emergency Preparedness student (MSc Coventry Uni), Amateur Politico, Former Chair of LGBT+ Lib Dems, Ambulance control minion, writer, musicals nerd, carer, disabled person, very bi. Once told Heathrow Airport ops centre to "go away"!

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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Le Creuset are taunting me with nerd pots and pans I cannot afford and this is inherently unfair.
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Geek Native @geeknative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE
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UK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade halls
UK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The second attack in two weeks on an LGBT+ bookshop in Glasgow. STV posted this story on Facebook and there is an endless stream of comments underneath suggesting the answer is for them to stop using the word "queer", stop supporting trans rights, and stop being so visible. Mainstreamed hate.
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Queer bookshop vandalised again two weeks after targeted attack
Category Is Books in Govanhill has been targeted twice within two weeks
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Text which says "The best way to stop grey squirrels from multiplying rapidly is to take away their calculators."
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I continue to strongly insist that being against *this shit specifically* isn't Nimbyism and that we deserve better housing than this overpriced garbage.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Happy pumpkin spice latte season to all those who celebrate!
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I am signed up to the Sotheby's mailing list because I enjoy looking at books I very much want and can't afford. It also provides an intriguing glimpse into how the other half live when you get emails with subject lines like "your guide to buying loose gems."
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Thing is you know full well if Jenrick, Braverman, Farage or Tice or any of that lot ever actually became disabled they'd be filling in the claim forms for PIP and AtW before you could finish saying 'Department for Work and Pensions'. Grifters gonna grift.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Too bad, so sad.
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The Jungle Book: Shere Khan
ALT: The Jungle Book: Shere Khan
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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 14/08/2026
Look, I do think they should ban single use BBQs, but it's going to have as much impact on the world burning as banning plastic straws had on plastic in the oceans i.e. not NONE, but certainly not as much as doing something about big stuff, like regulating data centres, or not abandoning net zero.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I think they don't want to risk being in control. Being in control means you have to do things. You have to produce results and, most importantly, you have to take the blame. Farage as PM would be bound by a lot more rules. He'd have a lot less time and make far less money than he'd get as PM.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you can't have a total eclipse, why not have a teddy eclipse!?!
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Britain’s tiny gaggle of hooting mad elite cranks, who all know each other and relentlessly repeat each other’s idiotic bullshit, are of course not “victims of social contagion”.
The Times and Sunday Times • • 2h
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A disproportionate number of Gen Z females are affected by vague syndromes and may be victims of social contagion
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Not a woman but I use a stick for various reasons among them: - it increases my walking distance by relieving pressure and pain on an old injury. - it gives me extra stability as I have poor balance due to dyspraxia. - it's a much better visual indicator that I need a seat than a badge.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
But convicted neo-nazi's she fine with apparently.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Love the "I don't want my taxes being spent on EDI woke nonsense" rage. Sweetie the NHS pays me which means you get to fund ALL my nonsense, EDI, Woke or otherwise. 😘😘
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I've been taking part in Amnesty Campaigns for nearly 30 years. I even helped run an Amnesty International Club at my school. It's the reason I studied Human Rights Law at Uni. This is so extremely disappointing. "We'll stand up for everyone's human rights unless they threaten to sue us."
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I think we need to actually restate how wild it is how much anti trans activism there is, and the extreme degree. We're getting two high court decisions on trans rights today alone that have huge consequences for trans people's lives (strip searching and puberty blockers). In one DAY
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I really hope the "don't have kids you can't afford" crowd are taking that same energy into their financial planning to pay for their care needs...
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
When your Mum says you're rude and you get to point out that she was responsible for raising you so it's technically her fault.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Stop assuming politicians don't know PIP isn't an out of work of work benefit. They know. It just suits their desire to slash support for disabled people to keep comparing it to the minimum wage.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I mean this very genuinely- it's easy to forget how much you actually get done in a day sometimes trying to make up a bit of doggerel forces me to remember what I've achieved and makes even the mundane every day stuff feel a bit more epic 😀 (I'm also a fan on the 'to done' list)
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Had a particularly productive day in the kitchen with the complicated parts of four dinners done in advance*. As is customary**, I started singing a little riff on 'we are the champions'*** The moral here is "make sure songs are sung of your deeds even if you're the one who has to sing them!" 1/2
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Even if I’m doing a ‘dear god, that’s so stupid’ laugh, it’s still a laugh
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Went to Whipsnade Zoo today and nearly saw the Child Redistribution system! Small child ran up to an adult and grabbed their hand. The adult was pushing a pram and started walking off with them. Then started speaking to them - about three words in looked down and just went "You're not mine!" 😂😂
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
just watched some besuited Evangelicals move a homeless guy from his spot outside Asda, so they can set up their leaflet stand. Feels like something Jesus would have opinions about.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Something something leopards eating faces...
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Chariots of Fire is "on top of spaghetti" but really dramatic.
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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Tax on cis people sharing screenshots of rowling's latest cruelty - one screenshot, one donation to a trans youth group? I know we need to know what she's doing for activist work reasons - but I wish the work we were doing FOR trans youth got as much online traffic as attacks on them.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Got married (the legal bit) today - now off to #MyChemicalRomance #MCR to celebrate!!
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/07/2026
Saying you're the "most physically attacked" MP when two MPs have been killed in the last decade is just horribly self-absorbed.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage quitting to spend more time with his g̶r̶i̶f̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ family?
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Out of interest @overlysarcastic.bsky.social how is Blue enjoying some real life Pope fights?
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Seeing "X age Group doesn't want to work anymore!" Doing the rounds. Let's be clear. The number of people who *want* to work is miniscule regardless of age. If I said "you can have £20m on the condition you never undertake paid work again." I'd not have time to finish the sentence 99% of the time.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Sweating like Boris Johnson on Father's Day!
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The venn diagram of people who say "all Muslims are terrorists" and "Not all men" is damn nearly a circle. #Hypocrisy
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I have social media under aliases because I've worked with children and young people and it was required under my then employer's policy. Some of those accounts are still in use and some have fallen by the wayside. Using an alias isn't the issue. Being a twerp on the internet is.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Out with mates at uni, one of the guys tries to pull and strikes out. He's commiserating with me later. Friend: "But Nathan said she was looking at me like I was KFC." Me: "Clearly she's vegetarian mate."
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Cwiar Cymru @cwiar.org · 15/06/2026
Starmer’s proposed social media ban will harm trans kids even more. For many trans young people, online spaces aren’t optional - they’re where they first find people like themselves. ⬇️ Continued
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’. If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Really wish my mother's Housing Association would stop sending me texts about visits to her property addressing me as my dead father... Especially given he hasn't lived there in 25 years and has been dead 18 months (and they are WELL aware of that)
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
@wimbledonltc.bsky.social has announced the 2026 prize money. Ladies and gents singles winners walking away with 3.6 million. Meanwhile they can't be bothered to break into 6 figures for wheelchair singles and the wheelchair doubles will get a whole 18k each...
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Kudos to the grown up on the bus who didn't respond with a pat 'because they can't walk.' when the ~3yo kid they were with asked why someone would be using a wheelchair but instead gave them examples like 'because they might get very tired' and 'because walking might hurt them a lot.' Great job 👏
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Liberal Democrat Conference 🔶 @conference.libdems.org.uk · 03/06/2026
Last chance to get drafting advice for motions for #LDConf this week, the deadline is 10 June at 13.00 for Autumn Conference - www.libdems.org.uk/conference/s...
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Hololive Hologra: Running Alarm Clock
Alt: Hololive Hologra: Running Alarm Clock
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🚨 NEW: 27 Members of Parliament have signed a motion to reject the EHRC Code of Practice edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Ask yours to join them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
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Draft Code of Practice on Services, public functions and associations - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That the draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations, a copy of which was laid before this House on 21 May, be disapproved.
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Heather Herbert is Baking Bread. @heatherherbert.uk · 01/06/2026
I thought this was a parody, but no ... OM fucking G
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It's simple. They can't. Just as I personally wouldn't fly over, let alone into, the US under Trump's administration all I can say to trans people from outside the UK is don't come here if you have another option.
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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
@mariecgoldman.bsky.social led the charge of @libdems.org.uk MPs speaking out against the new draft EHRC code of practice in the House of Commons earlier today. Thank you to Marie and all our MPs who contributed. 🧡 We will keep fighting this, until the law is changed.
A white graphic with splashes of yellow, red and indigo, with the LGBT+ Lib Dems rainbow bird-of-liberty logo at the top, above a portrait of Marie Goldman MP (Chelmsford; Lib Dem) and a banner saying 'THANK YOU, Marie Goldman, MP'

Beneath, a trio of quotes from her in the HoC today:

"This code is unworkable, exclusionary, and expensive to businesses."
"The government's own Equalities Impact Assessment identifies disproportionate harm."
"This guidance conflicts with our core British values of tolerance, decency, respect for individual liberty, and the rule of law."

The attribution is 'Marie Goldman MP, responding to the Ministerial Statement on the new EHRC draft Code of Practice, 01/06/2026
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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My current favourite genre of Internet is "Hubristic American immigrants admitting that the 30+ degree weather in the UK is bloody awful compared to the US actually." 🤣🤣
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