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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love a good murmuration...

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Imagine them saying they’re going to limit cancer diagnoses

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That Hudds Guy @huddsvers.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Gay Cinderella:

A classic white jockstrap lying abandoned on a beach, with a few footprints around it in the sand

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

By being open and shameless about living with HIV we can help to dispel the fear and ignorance that leads to stigma. Interview clip from 2021 (with fleeting appearance by my dear friend @andrewkeates.bsky.social).

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The ability to treat HIV effectively must be one of the greatest medical achievements of my lifetime. On treatment I have about the same life expectancy as someone without HIV. What’s more, HIV treatment means there is NO RISK of passing HIV on to sexual partners. #UequalsU How fantastic is that?

Me yesterday (when I was still 58, just). Wearing a pinkish vest, a moustache and a smile.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

When I was diagnosed with HIV, aged 30, I was told I could expect to live for another 20 years. Today I turn 59. HIV treatment works. Science saves lives. Tell everyone.

Me, shortly before my 30th birthday and around the time I believe I acquired HIV.
In this black and white photo, I’m dressed up in black tie (although no actual tie) ready to go to a fancy event. My suit was hired.
This may be the most handsome photo of me that there is, which is why I’m happy to share it.

A workout photo, taken 25 July this year. I’m wearing a vest. I have a small moustache and fairly large biceps.

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 10/08/2026

In case you missed it: I’ve spent the past few months researching, writing, and drawing a new comic about worker rights and gig work. You can read it, and download it, for free! (See below) Please share it around!

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 10/08/2026

Please help me get QUEER ORIGINS 'out there' by recommending it to your favourite libraries! Academics and students can usually submit a request to their uni libraries. Public libraries all have a way for members to suggest a title. Thank you! 💜🌈📚🗃️ #books #booksky #libsky #libraries #lovelibraries

Promotional image for DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE: A HISTORY OF SEX AND SCIENCE. Above an image of the book is an endorsement from Kit Heyam, author of BEFORE WE WERE TRANS. It reads: 'As politically essential as it is compelling. A rich counter history of biology.'

Screenshot from Brighton & Hove City Council's 'Brighton and Hove Libraries' webpage. It's a completed 'Suggest a Purchase' form, filled out with the title of Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science'.

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God @thegodshow.com · 09/08/2026

Can I get an amen?

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Alex Jungroth @alexjungroth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

@vaush.gg explains why @grahamformaine.bsky.social should drop out of the Senate race. Platner should drop out now. The allegations of rape are serious and credible. Do not vote for Graham Platner. #Vaush #Maine #US #youtube

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Platner, Drop Out Now You Selfish Piece Of Sh%#

YouTube video by Vaush

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It's a collective psychopathy, which treats disabled people, elderly people and people with long-term conditions as disposable. We see it in the Covid-19 pandemic. We see it in the heatwaves. Their deaths are inconvenient reminders that a favoured policy is disastrous. So they must be dismissed.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

How long will it be before we start hearing people with disabilities and special needs being described once more as "useless eaters"? Because frankly, if I'm interpreting this right, that's what such culture warriors are thinking. Sorry to download. Feeling quite angry and bitter right now.

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Jack S @cockaigne.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

@tristanjbarber.bsky.social the Committee have assembled (taking up forbidden places, naturally) in your honour...

Two cats, one black and one tabby, on (or in) a wooden bookcase. They are not supposed to be on the bookcase.

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Jack S @cockaigne.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

To all my friends: Please could you be so kind as to spare 5 minutes to fill in this survey on men's mental health? It's for EVERYONE, and forms part of a friend's dissertation research; please fill in to the best of your ability. Thank you for your time. forms.office.com/e/B7QWuBJhVB

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

To be fair, he really needs daytime rest after being up all night posting fantasy A-I images of himself on "Truth" Social, as all presidents do.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

An old watercolour sketch of Cambridge Trinity Street. I must admit that populating the streets with people in their may ball finery did well for sales at a time when I really needed the money! #Cambridge #TrinityStreet #MayBall

The gents' outfitters on the left is no longer in Trinity Street. The grey shop frontage in the middle distance is Heffers, a wonderful bookshop: long may it survive. I think this one is sold.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Fishing in Cambridge in front of the ice cream kiosk on Jesus Green, Cambridge. Small oil painting #oilpainting #cambridge #fishing

A small oil painting showing people buying ice creams at the kiosk on Jesus Green, Cambridge while a man with a blue hat is fishing. A girl iin a pink dress is feeding the ducks.

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Alex Jungroth @alexjungroth.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

VOL00003_IMAGES_0001_EFTA00003933.pdf Epstein is holding a check in this photo for $22,500. When the text for the signature is selected on this image the clipboard gets the word TAMP. But the signature reads DJTRUMP. So when TRUMP is searched for this image won't come up. #ReleaseTheFiles

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Pinpoint

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

An HIV diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. We need to share the good news that treatment will prevent AIDS. We must challenge fear by ensuring that everyone knows effective treatment means we can’t pass HIV on to our sexual partners (#UequalsU). 12/13

A picture of me in Sydney in 2020. On the wall behind me is a big red heart and a rainbow.
I’ve added the text: U=U - HIV treatment means no risk of sexual transmission. Undetectable means Untransmittable.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It was AIDS that killed those men, but it was homophobia that allowed it to happen – and that led to so many men dying alone. Homophobia killed us then. Worldwide, it remains the cause of thousands of deaths, through violence and neglect, even today. 11/13

1988 demonstration. Marchers carrying a banner reading ‘Human rights for people with AIDS / HIV’. The Houses of Parliament are in the background.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

At the same time Section 28, inserted into the Local Government Act in an attempt to ban “the promotion of homosexuality”, started making its way through Parliament. 4/13

Me and Jackie Forster on a Section 28 march in Leeds in 1988.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The government’s ’Don’t Die of Ignorance’ HIV advertising campaign, featuring icebergs, a tombstone and a doom-laden voiceover, came out a couple of years later when I was in my first year at university. It was designed to terrify. It did. 3/13

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Later that week, I watched with rising panic the Horizon documentary, Killer in the Village. It warned of a new disease that was killing gay Americans. A few cases had just been identified in the UK too. At that time, the disease did not have a name. We now know it as AIDS. 2/13

A still from the titles of Killer in the Village. It’s available on YouTube.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

‘Good bread and good drink, a good fire in the hall, Brawn, pudding, and souse, and good mustard withal. Cheese, apples and nuts, and good carols to hear, As then in the country is counted good cheer.’ ~ Thomas Tusser, ‘Christmas Cheer’, 1557. #Caturday #BookWormSat

Detail of Victorian Christmas card of black cat in large red bow carrying a Christmas pudding with holly on the top, green and red spotted curtains in the background.

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Jack S @cockaigne.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

May have started an alt 👀

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Jack S @cockaigne.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It's been a productive year... I wonder if he'll thank me? #2025

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It’s so refreshing to hear an MP acknowledge that the true disgrace of trans healthcare isn’t the mythical children being hurried into surgery (it DOESN’T HAPPEN!) but the years and years that trans people have to wait to be seen for affirmative care. Thank you Nadia. 💜

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I’m 58 years old. I’ve been living with diagnosed HIV for over 27 years. HIV is a virus, not a limitation.

Me during a home work out on Saturday.
I’m wearing short grey shorts and a vest. I’m kneeling on a mat, smiling.

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Shilah Morgana 🏳️‍⚧️ | Human Rights |Pan African Feminist @shilah2567.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Do you know what U=U means? It stands for Undetectable = Untransmittable. When a person living with HIV is on effective treatment and their viral load is undetectable, they cannot pass on HIV.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I don't like to dress cats up in clothes, but for Halloween I do put stealth costumes on Francie when she's sleeping.

My fluffy white cat Francie curled up in a ball. Placed in the center of the white circle her body forms is a round piece of paper decorated with marker to look like a green human iris. It makes Francie look like a big hairy eyeball.

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Jack S @cockaigne.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Well, at least *someone* likes the new bed... 🐯🖤

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/10/2025

In the same article it says that Microsoft executes believe OpenAI would fail www.theinformation.com/articles/mic...

After striking the blockbuster deal in 2023, several top Microsoft executives told colleagues around that time that they thought OpenAI’s business would eventually fail, even if its technology was good, according to a former manager who discussed it with them.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Sanders: Today, October 18th 2025, there are more people out on the streets in more communities all over our country than we have ever seen in American history

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/10/2025

periodically I see posts that are like This Big Account Blocked Me And It Says Something About Society brother it is not that deep you were being annoying in my replies

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Wow! Love your creativity Ocean Beach (San Francisco)!

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Jack S @cockaigne.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Autumnal images snapped on stepping out this morning

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

On the same day in the Telegraph:

The Telegraph

Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement

Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence

[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]

Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent

29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph

Money > Property > Second homes

How to avoid tax on your second home

From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net

[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]

Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer

29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Graham Linehan persistently harassed and bullied trans women. He is not the victim.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This is censorship from an authoritarian regime that wants to project the illusion that they face no internal opposition or dissent. No other way to describe it.

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Too many thought that the whole issue of Brexit was just about the EU. But Brexit, and with it the rise of Farage, was the start of a far right project to turn back the clock in Britain. Now we see the slide into 1970s-style racism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy

I’ve experienced more racism in the past year than the rest of my life put together – the only answer is for young people to stand up to the far right, says writer Rohan Sathyamoorthy

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

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