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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 12h

Today's announcement from NHS England was as bad as we expected. It is cruel and unworkable, and is phrased such that it is likely cost the NHS a vast amount of money as it is subjected to even more gender-critical lawfare. Trans+ people, and the NHS, deserve better than this.

NHS England’s recent guidance on accommodating trans & non-binary people in NHS facilities is wrong and will only further harm trans+ people and their trust in NHS services.

The impact of this is yet to be fully understood, but we do not see how this policy is workable or how it will prevent trans people facing humiliation and a lack of dignity when accessing NHS services.

This situation only further shows why the Liberal Democrats are right to call for post-legislative scrutiny of the Equality Act 2010. It clearly is not protecting trans+ people and in this case is being used as a vehicle to actively harm trans+ people.

- The LGBT+ Liberal Democrats

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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 9h

Alt text included. My apologies for missing it on the original post but I was a mess reading it.

Dear beautiful women,
I've started this letter like ten times and deleted it every time because every time I start I cry. So I'm just going to write it.
Your flag matters to me. It matters so much that it's flying at a lesbian household where anyone walking by can see it.
I'm a trans girl so I'm not sure you can relate but I'll try. Most days I'm doing math in my head like which hallway is safer, who I can sit near at lunch whether it's worth saying something or just letting it go. I'm so tired. I don't think people who don't have to do it know how tired it makes you.
I walk past your house almost daily. The first time I saw the flag I slowed down without meaning to. It was just hanging there like it was no big deal but to me it was everything. It felt like the people inside would see me as who I actually am and I wouldn't have to explain or prove anything. My shoulders dropped for the first time all day and I almost cried right there in front of your home.
I know that living here isn't easy for gay people like you where not everyone is kind about it so putting that flag up means risking stares, comments or worse. You didn't have to do it. It would have been so much easier to stay quiet. You did it anyway, and that is the bravest thing I've seen anyone do. Every day it stays up it tells people like me that someone is willing to be brave so we don't have to be alone.
Now I look for it. Some days it's the one thing that makes me feel like I'm not imagining that I deserve to be here. When so much of the world feels like it's deciding whether there's room for me your flag says there is. Please keep it up. You might not know it but it's helping me get through the day.
Thank you for your courage, and for leaving the porch light on for the rest of us.

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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 14h

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 10h

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A typed-up letter:
Dear beautiful women,
I've started this letter like ten times and deleted it every time because very time I start I cry. So I'm just going to write it.
Your flag matters to me. It matters so much that it's flying at a lesbian household where anyone walking by can see it.
I'm a trans girl so I'm not sure you can relate but I'll try. Most days I'm doing math in my head like which hallway is safer, who I can sit near at lunch whether it's worth saying something or just letting it go. I'm so tired. I don't think people who don't have to do it know how tired it makes you.
I walk past your house almost daily. The first time I saw the flag I slowed down without meaning to. It was just hanging there like it was no big deal but to me it was everything. It felt like the people inside would see me as who I actually am and I wouldn't have to explain or prove anything. My shoulders dropped for the first time all day and I almost cried right there in front of your home.
I know that living here isn't easy for gay people like you where not everyone is kind about it so putting that flag up means risking stares, comments or worse. You did it anyway, and that is the bravest thing I've seen anyone do. Every day it stays up it tells people like me that someone is willing to be brave so we don't have to be alone. Now I look for it. Some days it's the one thing that makes me feel like I'm not imagining that I deserve to be here. When so much of the world feels like it's deciding whether there's room for me your flag says there is. Please keep it up. You might not know it but it's helping me get through the day.
Thank you for your courage, and for leaving the porch light on for the rest of us.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 7h

I have always stood up to him and that will never change. The pedophile protector will never silence me.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 16h

I have already heard from trans constituents who are avoiding essential NHS screening and treatment for fear of being treated without respect and dignity. Ministers told me: “the revised guidance will support the privacy, dignity and safety of all patients” How exactly does this do that?

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 18h

The NHS is already one of the biggest perpetrators of anti-trans violence in the UK. This new guidance, which refers to trans people using slurs, demands that we be segregated and abused. I’ve said it before: senior NHS managers must be sacked and punished for what they’ve done to us.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 22h

such a horrifying ending

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

EXCLUSIVE: New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia holds her first press briefing.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

sorry for extending the kelly clarkson discourse for yet another day but not hard to see why she got frustrated with this guy. he's asked three times whether or not the bird is for sale and won't give a clear answer!

Did someone say that Molly wasn’t for sale? Walk us through how this actually went.
I wanna tell you guys, the store was packed when this happened. It was not, like, a one-on-one interaction. The store was packed. If you have ever worked in a shop, and it’s busy, part of what you do is when somebody looks at something and they find it interesting is you show them something else that’s very similar. It has nothing to do with price. That’s just how you treat people. “Oh, you like this one where the pictures move? Do you have kids? Because we have another one where the people move. It’s for kids. Look at this.” Are you gonna get offended because it costs less?

She was in the shop for less than five minutes. If this tweetstorm had not happened, we wouldn’t have realized there was a negative interaction in the shop; it was that undramatic. We treated her like a normal person, but apparently that didn’t live up to her expectations.

But was it for sale or not?
We are a nontraditional shop. We work directly with artisans. This guy is an artisan who does not make many things like this. I think that’s where the misunderstanding might have come in. Bliss lives in the woods in a house that he made with his own hands. He’s not on social media. He doesn’t have a warehouse. It takes him years to make these machines. There are two in existence. This is one. If someone showed serious interest, we would reach out to him about getting them an automaton. This is not something that’s sitting in a warehouse. It’s like a piece of sculpture. It’s a fine-art piece.

But there is a price tag —
So many people asked about it that we had put a price on it, but we talked to the creator when he came to fix the machine, and if someone showed serious interest, we would reach out to him about getting them an automaton. As you’ve noticed, we’ve raised the price due to popular demand. It now costs $15 million.

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is a thread of hard-won tips and tricks for preventing the brain from falling over - or, at the very least, mitigating any falling over that may still occur, despite best efforts. Please do add yours to the list

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Who called it “cultivating a sourdough starter” and not “growing pains”

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I remain pretty skeptical about this project, but Gerwig (or whoever cut the trailer) gets all the points in the world for a) using "Stairway to Heaven", and b) NOT using a slowed-down, orchestral version of "Stairway to Heaven" youtu.be/gDJ-ini7fF0

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NARNIA: THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW | Official Trailer | Netflix

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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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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

BONUS: The Millennium Falcon that Mike gets Eleven to levitate with her mind powers in the first season of ‘Stranger Things’ (set in 1983) is a late 90’s re-release of the original toy, distinguishable by additional detailing not found in the 79-83 releases.

The actor Finn Wolfhard as Mike in Stranger things. He is holding an anachronistic millennium falcon toy

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Zelenskyy: "When our strikes reached Yandex data centers, it suddenly became little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. Many people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, fewer provocations because there were fewer bots. It's pretty clear where those bots were coming from.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 10/10/2026

Meanwhile, doing some lighting tests on concept art for PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND STARSHIPS. Here: Lib Bennet gazes at 1813 Aquilae V, a planet called Pemberley...

From the viewing deck of an orbiting starship, Lib Bennet gazes at 1813 Aquilae V / Pemberley

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A graph projecting what will happen to The Traitors viewing figures if Hannah Fry is voted out.

The made-up graph that is doing the rounds.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm sure former UN ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi will be delighted to have been introduced, very crisply, as "Abdullah al Mussolini" by Justin Webb. Seriously, how does this man still have a six-figure job at the BBC? When he is not busy being biased, he is busy being useless.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Is it possible to die from dehydration because you've thrown a days-long tantrum and cried yourself dry?

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Andrew Coleman Francis @andrewcfrancis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For #DoctorWho folks, Elizabeth Sladen's daughter is posting on Instagram about some weird generative AI videos about Elisabeth Sladen and Jon Pertwee...

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I don't want to give this person traction or publicity but lets normalise calling people who make Al videos of people's dead relatives what they are - a bit of a pervy weirdo

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This video uses Al images of my mother, making her say and do things she has not agreed to do because she is dead. Anyone watching, promoting and especially making this type of content is abhorrent. My mum would HATE this as would Jon. Stop feeding strangers into a computer because you're a pervert.

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Would you want strangers making videos of your dead relatives?

Didn't think so

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Martin Lyons @martinlyons.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You're not the only one who dislikes it. Elizabeth Sladen's daughter has issues. I don't want to link to the video but her comment is perfect

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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Suella Braverman selling 106 copies of her book after all that publicity is so delicious.

Crack 'em while you can, though, because Suella's star might just be on the skids. Despite plugging her book on Question Time, on Tim Shipman's Spectator podcast, in serialised excerpts in the Daily Mail, and in a fawning interview with Allison Pearson in the Telegraph, in its opening weekend, Patriot sold precisely 106 copies.

— from Ian Winwood’s New World piece.

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Have you betrayed us? Have YOU... betrayed... ME?" #TheTraitors #Blakes7

Avon at the Traitors roundtable holding a chalk board sign with Blake written in precise handwriting.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In the 1985 Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos, an authoritarian regime run by a weak man keeps the downtrodden population in line by broadcasting public executions to distract from the fact that it has tanked the economy through a combination of incompetence, arrogance and institutional cruelty.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘Culturally British by my standards’ is one of the most chilling phrases uttered in British politics. Entirely unsurprising to me who it’s from.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well, there goes lifelong learning. Absolute bastardry.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is one of the most terrifying interviews I’ve ever seen. The slow reveal of the mental landscape at work here. If you don’t end up thinking we should stop these people with as much force as we can muster, I’d be very surprised. youtu.be/lnLDjXy2kRA?...

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Jacob Coxon On Witnessing the Existential Threat of AI from the Inside | The Daily Show

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026

Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Monica Coglan was cross-examined for 13 hours by Archer’s lawyers in the libel trial. She was frequently in tears as her entire life and character was attacked. She died in a car crash before Archer was found guilty of perjury in that trial. Before it was found she’d told the truth all along.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026

There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today is the 64th anniversary of the London premiere of Dr. No, so it’s time for the story of the theft of not one but two portraits of the Duke of Wellington—because Goya’s portrait of him had been nicked from the National Gallery the previous summer, just 19 days after it went on display

Sean Connery in Dr No’s lair, about to go up a short flight of stairs when he spots a portrait of the Duke of Wellington on a stand. The original had been stolen from the National Gallery the previous year, and this was a joke by the Bond production team

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SHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com · 03/10/2026

Unfortunate juxtaposition on the front of The Times today:

Photo of Richard E GRant - who blurted out I'm a traitor on The Traitors and has 'murdered' one person on that show - next to the headline 'Man accused of murdering Widdecombe faces Farage terror charge'.

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 03/10/2026

How many local models do you run?

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Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?

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Paul Hanley @paulhanley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know the tiny audience I have here is mainly for Doctor Who work I did years ago, but @gailsimone.bsky.social checked out the original series I'm co-writin' now with Laurie Foster and digs it! So maybe give it a look, huh? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lag...

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 02/10/2026

Still the absolute funniest "trailer remix" ever made -- as well as one of the very first of its kind, debuting in 2005 Every shot is perfectly chosen God I could watch this all day

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the only map of england everybody else needs (best selling music by territory, Actually Helpful for understanding some things; also Suck It Morrissey.)

map of england where every county is lableled by their best selling band

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Doctor Who In An Exciting Adventure With The Mechanical Turks

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