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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 58m

The other thing about this is that it is essentially going to be a lawfare generator machine for anti-trans types. The choice for healthcare professionals will be between saving our health and saving their livelihoods. We should not be put in that position but honestly, neither should they.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 9h

Getting closer and closer to just saying right out there on the news that you have to be islamophobic or you're an antisemite. Think they should all just cut to the chase, tbh. Let's have it out and explain what it is people are saying.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 5h

Believe it or not, I am a British, Sunday Times bestselling author & in that capacity I would like to publicly state the British government is beclowning itself with its ludicrous law depriving rhe courageous (& Irish!) Sally Rooney of the ability to sell books & earn money doing so in the UK.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 5h

NEW Sally Rooney and Faber are not overreacting in withdrawing books from the UK market Their interpretation of Section 15 of the Terrorism Act is not fanciful By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

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Faber withdrawing Sally Rooney's books from the UK is no overreaction

Their interpretation of Section 15 of the Terrorism Act is not fanciful

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 5h

The Times doing their usual reframing of a straightforward case of an author and publisher facing the long arm of the law and deciding to stand up for their principles. So naturally, it’s time to speak to an (allegedly) racist author that was so inconvenienced the BBC ran a six-part series on her?

“Times Radio: Sally Rooney could spark ‘purity spiral’ after pulling books from UK shelves over Palestine Action support
Thursday October 15 2026, 10.10am, The Times
Sally Rooney’s decision to pull her works from UK shelves over her previous commitment to donate the proceeds of her book sales to Palestine Action is “unnerving” and could spark a “purity spiral”, says author Kate Clanchy, who received an apology from her publisher four years after her book received an online backlash for alleged racism.”

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 8h

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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

What happens when a court ruling suddenly throws your life into turmoil? My new paper explores how trans+ people dealt with the aftermath of the FWS judgement, the EHRC's response, and political antagonism, showing they remained defiant, finding space for joy alongside fear and rage. bit.ly/4jhvf96

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Trans lives and defiance following the For Women Scotland UK Supreme Court ruling

This article explores responses and strategies of UK trans and gender diverse (TGD+) people for dealing with the immediate aftermath of the April 2025 UK Supreme Court judgement in For Women Scotla...

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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is really good, and you should read it. It is especially nice on people’s experiences of finding and building joy as trans people within the UK.

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

apropos of recent thoughts about how misinformation spreads, I found myself reflecting on the time Eoin O'Malley wrote of Imane Khelif that "World Boxing last week released the result of sex tests that show he is biologically male", an event that did not happen www.independent.ie/comment/eoin...

Another group now used to being labelled “far right” are so-called TERFs. The word — trans-exclusionary radical feminists — is used as a term of abuse against a group that generally regard themselves as left-wing.
But feminists who dared to criticise those gender theorists who claim anyone can be a man or a woman if they just say they feel like one, are not “one of us”, so they must be “far right”.
During the last Olympics, when there was a controversy over the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif fighting in the women’s category, it was common for anyone who questioned his sex to be labelled “far right”. World Boxing last week released the results of sex tests that show he is biologically male.
The TERFs were proven right — not “far right”.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 14/10/2026

can't support PA in this country, but you can give all your money to a trans-hating woman with black mould for a brain/heart

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I do not know what witchcraft primary school teachers use, but I've just seen on RIP.ie that my first teacher, from all of 54 years ago has died and I swear she looks the same in the photo they have alongside as I remember her looking all those decades ago

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My apologies to anyone else who’s old enough not to want to be reminded just how fucking long ago it was, but: today is the 41st anniversary of the release of Cloudbusting—so it must be time to tell you about Wilhelm Reich and his orgasmatron...

Cover art of Cloudbusting single, showing Kate Bush as Peter Reich, sitting on his father’s rain machine, with its huge blunderbuss barrels pointing at the sky

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

William Burroughs was a fan and had his own orgone accumulator, pictured below with Kurt Cobain sitting inside

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 14/10/2026

Can’t Sleep.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Remember every pearl-clutching journalist and commentator who insisted it was in the public interest to know every single detail of a Cambridge academic's life, even after he resigned his position, because he did some sloppy copy-and-pasting as a post-grad student?

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yeah, they're currently very silent on the Oxford academic standing trial for possessing indecent child images But then she's shared their platforms, spoken at their events, written for their publications... Funny how the Free Speech Union have nothing to say about the vanishing media coverage?

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Henry Hopwood-Phillips, another Critic writer, ADMITTED 2 counts of taking an indecent photo and 2 counts of distributing indecent images of a child. He now has a sexual harm prevention order and is subject to lifetime sex offender notification requirements 18/

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Salem was charged by Thames Valley Police in May this year along with Henry Hopwood-Phillips, a historian and geopolitical analyst. They both wrote for the The Critic magazine as freelance contributors.

Hopwood-Phillips, 39, founded a Singapore-based political consultancy that specialises in analysing China’s geopolitics.

In June he admitted two counts of taking an indecent photograph and two counts of distributing indecent photographs of a child at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court.

He was handed a 15-month suspended sentence, a sexual harm prevention order and made subject to lifetime sex offender notification requirements.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Again, we should reiterate that she denies all charges and she deserves a fair hearing This is less about her and more about how segments of the media seem to be working hard to keep this story as quiet as possible Imagine she wasn't a Right-leaning, White lecturer with strong media connections?

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

i'm credited with discovering the first ever rootkit in an IM worm infection, used to power a large botnet, way back in 2005. i know my way around a worm and how they spread. please allow me to repeatedly slam my head in an oven door

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Mara Flint @mara.carminerebellion.uk · 13/10/2026

So the BBC told me "As is standard practice on any entertainment show on the BBC and in line with our editorial guidelines, appropriate steps are taken to reduce the inclusion of any overt branding or slogans..." Which makes me wonder how all these got into the same episode?

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I've recently been writing about Palestinian students with university places in Scotland which they can't access due to a lack of funding options. Now I hear that there are other such students who have funding in Ireland, but not visas. Will you lend them your voice? secure.avaaz.org/en/campaigns...

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Urgent: help evacuate 55 Gazan scholars

These young Palestinians deserve the chance to study. Sign now to call on Irish leaders to grant their visas.

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The Husband of Frankenstein 🧠 @hessephillips.com · 14/10/2026

It goes without saying but I'm gonna say it: the concerns of the Publishing Industry (which is what Soc of A *actually* represents) and the concerns of actual writers could not be further apart

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It’s no coincidence that these freaks are all again sex education. Because comprehension sex ed is one of the best protections we have against child sexual abuse. It teaches kids that adults making them do stuff is wrong and gives them a language to articulate if something is being done to them.

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

My twenties, when the rest of my peers were saving for their first house deposit, I ended up saving and spending essentially the price of a starter home on treatment, I will never own my own home (at best a 1/3 share in an inheritance sometime in the future) but still no regrets

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

we used to be an internet... A REAL INTERNET!!!!

Reddit post from r/AskReddit titled, "URGENT! Need to know right fucking now: Is it safe for octopi to drink beer? Stout in particular". The post includes edits explaining that the octopus seems okay, but that the user replaced its containment rock with a cinderblock, and that the octopus later inked the tank before the user went to sleep.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Octopi can handle their liquor and bananas catch on fire when you microwave them. Truly a wondrous universe.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Margaret Skinnider, revolutionary woman, committed trade unionist, President of the INTO in 1956. Said that the first thing any women should do, on getting a job, is join a union - she joined the INTO the day she got her teaching post. She’d be on the picket line today. #uptheworkers

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I'd wager that most lawyers, by now, have had clients come to them with fully-"drafted" pleadings and affidavits for a case and they say "how much of a discount do I get since I've done all the work?!" You cannot make them understand that you are going to have to scrap it all and start from scratch

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I did one swimming lesson when I was 8, noped out (open air unheated pool in average Irish summer) and only got the confidence to do swimming lessons again 50 years later (in truth it took me an awful long time to realise my local pool did adult swimming lessons)

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I simply never had an internal sense of myself as "male", I didn't realise until I was 7 or 8 that this was not normal in most people's eyes, so when I learned of the existence of trans people when I was 11/12 I knew there was only one option open to me to help fix the disconnect

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Good. These cunts allowed grasping dorks to steal my actual voice. Fuck 'em.

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

I would definitely watch a Batman remake with this biblically accurate version of The Penguin

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 13/10/2026

None of her colleagues will say a word because there are no good UK journalists

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INDICATOR @indicator.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There are JUST 10 DAYS TO GO until our Limited Edition of LUCKY LUCIANO is released on 4K UHD and Blu-ray. To celebrate, come join us for a nice pasta dinner at Scarpato's... youtu.be/Nq4IJVnGO5M

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Honestly, this kind of thing was actually my biggest fear when I was transitioning, the difference was in those days you'd get splashed on the red tops, it wasn't the "quality" press (derogatory) doing it

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Yup, I don't think I ever came to a realisation, I always just knew I was weird

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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 13/10/2026

The 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/...

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Two-part documentary on J.K. Rowling announced by BBC Factual and BBC Scotland

The documentary will use her life as a lens through which to explore three decades of profound social, political and technological change

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Alternative headline: Woman has to crowdfund for essential surgery because people like Janet have ensured that otherwise she'd have to face generational long waiting lists

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If anybody knows anybody (including yourself!) who might like to be the EHRC Scotland Commissioner, the vacancy is coming open now: apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9649 Many thanks for spreading the word wherever you can and encouraging suitable candidates to apply 🙏

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Hayley Woods: I Will Fight Them From The Inside

Alt: Young woman confidently says “ I Will Fight Them From The Inside”

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

How the fuck is that going to work if you're not allowed to say on the BBC that she's a transphobe without them issuing a grovelling apology?

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

This would seem to be like booking a theatre for your forthcoming production of the works of Shakespeare as reimagined by an infinite number of monkeys

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

No one is talking about this

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

"Rowland Manthorpe" complaining about pronouns in email signatures? Really? The writers really aren't trying very hard this season

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In terms of BBC erasing Protect the Dolls T shirt - make your feelings known - the TERF lobby has been relentless (and has plenty of allies in the BBC) - they need to know there are plenty of people who are trans allies too

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DoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

When we turned on the LHC you all got mad because you thought it would end the world. When we turned it off you all got mad because you thought it gave you extra menses. I'm beginning to think the problem is not the LHC. 🧪 medium.com/age-of-aware...

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Is The Large Hadron Collider Shutdown Giving Women Two Periods?

Odd dreams, a spare house key, fireflies out of nowhere. A tour of the summer’s strangest coincidence, and the six ways your brain would…

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm actually getting worse at packing as I age, 30 years ago, not a problem, now even an overnight stay and I'm wondering what if it's warm/cold/wet/dry (or all if the above on an average Irish autumn day)

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Your regular reminder that in 2023 I was asked on Women’s Hour to be interviewed by Emma Barnett about Alice’s inquest. I said no, because Emma is GC, but I’d go on with someone else. They didn’t engage with me after that. The BBC is biased. It’s anti-trans and anti-anyone who supports trans people.

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