Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yes! That motion was not helpful. Polanski I suppose tried to distance himself from it but, in doing so, can obviously be accused of lack of leadership. 030
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's incredible how the media are portraying his historic vote share in a safe Labour seat as a disaster! He reduced the Labour majority by about 8k. 150
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What I wonder is what the proposers of that motion, and the c.1k people who voted for it, think it will achieve. People often lazily label Greens as indulging in 'student politics' and the ZiR motion is exactly that. It belongs in a debate club. 010
Reposted by Damien DonnellyRuth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Are you: - a trans woman or a non-binary person with a prostate? - aged 40+? - on oestrogen and/or post-op for bottom surgery? - based in the UK? The TransPRIDE study invites you to participate in research to inform better trans-inclusive prostate care! transpridestudy.org.uk 24839
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No. If a country isn't doing everything within their power then they are complicit but I'd say still allowing export of components used in military action is even more clearly complicity. 010
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The UK certainly couldn't have stopped it alone but could've at least tried to make it a little bit harder! 121
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Every country who did not actively try to stop it is complicit. 031
Reposted by Damien DonnellyAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026Graham Linehan is calling the people who murdered a trans man in cold blood, heroes. 701296293
Reposted by Damien DonnellyEIS @eisunion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Striking colleagues from EIS, Unison and UCU stood together this morning united in our fight to protect quality education at GCU. GCU management must return to the negotiating table with a promise to rule out compulsory redundancies✊ Stop the cuts. Save the 100 🛟 024
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#DailyPhoto2026 214. Checked www.instagram.com/p/Dd4nx1CkSs... #photography #mirrorless #manchester #check #grid #geometric 051
Reposted by Damien DonnellyJon Holmes @jonhholmes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you haven't yet watched Kylie's AFL Grand Final pre-game show, go check it out! Thanks to Chris at @joy949.bsky.social's "GayFL" for giving me the queer lowdown on what happened at the MCG, and the awesome podcast he's created with his husband, Brendan. For @outsports.com #LGBTQsports #AFLoutsports.comKylie and 'GayFL' delivered the most gay-friendly Grand Final ever - OutsportsKylie Minogue’s epic show set the stage for an AFL Grand Final with record ratings. The ‘GayFL’ radio show tells Outsports why. 022
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#DailyPhoto2026 213. Flock Around the Clock www.instagram.com/p/Ddzhp9EEY2... #photography #mirrorless #manchester #clock #birds #rylandsmarket #rylandsbuilding 040
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#DailyPhoto2026 212. Church Tower www.instagram.com/p/DdhObLhkUx... #photography #mirrorless #saltcoats #church #blackandwhite 050
Reposted by Damien DonnellyMike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Farage being deliberately misleading by pretending the Govt have only announced that the donations cap will be retrospective as a response to Refuk's recent £76m. In reality, Govt made clear in March that the cap would apply from then. Perhaps if Farage sat in the House more he would have known... 36677256
Reposted by Damien DonnellyLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 20/09/2026Excuse the substack link (I've since moved) but you can get a round up of the whole year in this article, a weekly roundup in the other posts along with a significant amount of other anti trans news that didn't make the papers. It was quite the endeavour bsky.app/profile/hlee... 0232
Reposted by Damien DonnellyLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 20/09/2026If, and that's a big if, I was to eventually compile the year I tracked the anti trans reports in the Mail, Guardian, Telegraph and Times into a book, would people be interested? 2012312
Reposted by Damien DonnellyTransLucent @translucent.org.uk · 18/09/2026STATEMENT: After a formal complaint from TransLucent, the media outlet City AM has updated its article on whether workers can use toilets according to their gender. This relates to a letter sent by the trans hostile group Sex Matters to Mary-Ann Stevenson at the EHRC. . 0218
Reposted by Damien DonnellyMark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington 7233471001
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026#DailyPhoto2026 211. Flapping Baby Seagull #photography #mirrorless #saltcoats #beach #seagul #babyseagull #sea #seaside #scotland www.instagram.com/p/DdPbS5uEX2... 050
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026#DailyPhoto2026 210. Ghost Sign www.instagram.com/p/DdNFDu9gny... 021
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Anyone else hate the new Scotrail app? I keep buying singles by mistake and I think it's slower than the old one. 130
Reposted by Damien DonnellySam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The window of my local queer bookshop was smashed last week. They're fundraising to install shutters so they can keep themselves and their community safe. Support this one-of-a-kind place, its one-of-a-kind proprietors, and the whole Glasgow queer & trans community: www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...gofundme.comDonate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is BooksFor the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters! 1318248
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026#DailyPhoto2026 209. Orange Scottie www.instagram.com/p/DdFCUP-kYb... 011
Reposted by Damien DonnellyJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Police overlooked tip-off, night before far-right agitators blocked Dover roads Kent police were contacted after people heard boasting about going to Dover to ‘attack Muslims’ Preston-next-Wingham resident e: “There were hundreds of them. They took over the place" An invasion by fighting-age men.theguardian.comPolice overlooked tip-off day before far-right agitators blocked Dover roadsDetails passed to Kent police after people heard in pub boasting about going to Dover to ‘attack Muslims’ 513233
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's the political and media messaging around all this that's making me feel sick. Thugs will be thugs and misinformation will embolden them and recruit others. The fact that the establishment is minimising it is really terrifying. 011
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Saw your post just after I posted this: bsky.app/profile/ddon... 120
Reposted by Damien DonnellyGemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I kid you not, the far right are now doxing the heroes who rescue people from the sea. Lets send them a few £ if you can, take less than a minute rnli.org/support-us/g... 25819
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I saw a clip of Nick Ferrari encouraging RNLI supporters to rethink, describing their service as 'a taxi service' for 'illegal immigrants.' I think I need to block myself off from these sources before my head explodes. 360
Reposted by Damien DonnellyLee @leewilliamdesigns.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It’s been 25 years since #KylieMinogue released CGYOOMH!!! Can’t believe it’s been a quarter of a century! Perfect for a plug of my Kylie print though. lol www.etsy.com/uk/listing/9... 183
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It's not the first time Sturgeon has disappointed me but I think it'll be the last 🥺 041
Reposted by Damien DonnellyDr Helen Webberley @www.helenwebberley.com · 07/09/2026To everyone who spent the weekend confidently explaining that trans identity is a social media trend: trans people predate your phone, your parents, your grandparents, and every civilisation that tried to erase them. The only thing that is new is how quickly we can find each other now. Keep up!… 0163
Reposted by Damien DonnellyDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026When masked thugs radicalised by racist hate blockade ports and threaten harm, the police make zero arrests, and the response of the government is to issue a statement sympathising with the protesters' aims and only mildly rebuking their actions, we have a big fucking problem. 13346117
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026#DailyPhoto2026 208. St. Michael www.instagram.com/p/Dc4TUTgEb7... 000
Reposted by Damien DonnellyGregor/Fisher @grogipher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It started with trans folks. Then it was dropping the fight for gay people. Now it's hinting anti-migrant pish. John Swinney cares only about trying to get wee Aberdonian arseholes to vote for him, at the complete loss of everything else. Get him in the fucking bin. 0185
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The @snp.org in Glasgow is beginning to subtly lean into anti-migrant sentiment, with the City Council leadership blaming 'Westminster's asylum policy' for lack of money. If they don't understand what the radicalised will take from that they're not competent to run the city. 0172
Reposted by Damien DonnellyEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I really believe this. Trans people have taken some of the worst hits the administration could deal out, and unlike many elites and august institutions we haven't shrunk away or compromised ourselves. We're standing strong. At a time like this, that matters. 116428
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I wish it were as simple as them being stupid. They've done a fantastic job of making the unthinking believe that 'conversion therapy' must be about stopping people from 'transing the gay away.' 050
Reposted by Damien DonnellyShe Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Tag and the biggest trans positive account you follow and ask them to repost this to spread the word among the community. There will be many people panicking about being forced out of work, social engagements and general life this evening. I'm sorry that this is the best we can do. Truly. 01813
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I've been persisting in posting my photographs on @pixelfed.bsky.social (as well as Instagram and here) but it's truly awful to use! While the resolution of images is better, and it's more photography focused, the app and website are so glitchy and tonight I can't get on it at all! 000
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026#DailyPhoto2026 207. Tom Urie www.instagram.com/p/Dcy_5dZFFK... 010
Reposted by Damien DonnellyNevereverDave.bsky.social @nevereverdave.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"And recently backed up by making it now a criminal offence punishable by 6 months to 2 years in jail, plus profesional sanctions." Bravo #Spain YOU care and are proud to back it up with serious penalties! BANNING #ConversionPractices is NOT hard. ⬆️⬇️ 0249
Reposted by Damien DonnellyJojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Not remotely shocked swinney isnt going to ban conversion therapy Ive said it over and over, swinney isnt going to give us the progressive scotland we actually want and need Hes a privileged, abled, cishet, religious white man, his goal isnt progress its regress 0215
Reposted by Damien DonnellyGemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Nobody is working harder to destroy the independence movement than Swinney. He can’t be trusted with LGBT people’s lives and wellbeing and he can’t be trusted with women’s healthcare and autonomy either. They only got through because the Reform fascists are worse. 14612
Reposted by Damien DonnellyStop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This dangerous, extreme, inflammatory rhetoric is what Ikea are supporting by advertising on Talk. Take action: www.facebook.com/IKEAUK/ 1518469
Reposted by Damien DonnellyGemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I’m honestly disgusted. The SNP got so many votes from people who just wants stop make sure Reform were kept out. Spineless Swinney. 32911
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026*now trying (Why does now ALWAYS autocorrect to not on my phone?!) 000
Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026...prioritise ending violence against women, domestic violence advocacy workers are also taking a pay cut! 000
