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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 9h

At this point I would honestly prefer that the UK authorities said nothing on this than they kept dribbling out cryptic clues like it's a murder mystery evening. "What if I told you one of them rang 999 himself?" "We've bailed them, but it's still Iran, what might that mean?" Not. Helpful.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 9h

Someone asked me to draw her happy, so here she is painting a Warhammer guy

Louise the Deer paints warhammer guy. There are bandages where her antlers used to be

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15h

God yeah, imagine a party captured by its most extreme wing.

Does anybody think it’d be a good idea for a government to be propped up by one of those parties who have single issue policies that really would be potentially very damaging to the UK itself and to our foreign relationships?

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dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com · 13h

Found him. The biggest loser in Austin, Texas. He was driving a cybertruck with a license plate that said AI XPERT.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve heard decent people I respect describe Burnham’s speech as the most consequential of their lifetimes. For trans people - not mentioned at all - it has no consequences beyond the continuation of our demonisation and exclusion.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 12h

I’m joking of course. Ubisoft never took sexual misconduct reports seriously to begin with.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 12h

Is it any wonder Ubisoft’s executives are excited about AI game development? A virtual employee won’t report them for sexual assault.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 21h

And labour continues to welcome and cowtow to the transphobes, this did not grow so bold in a vacuum, it's what labour wants. Hate transohobia? Leave that bigoted party of racist shits Simple. Just like boycott at women's conference worked: bsky.app/profile/aida... Stand up by not playing

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Octo @octodontidae.bsky.social · 19h

writers of vampire fiction had a hell of a ride the last week

a venn diagram between Nighthawks and the Astarion novel

people expecting something way more scandalous after the drama

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 19h

You can't do good things but you can do shit versions of good things that don't work.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19h

Is it not pretty odd that they ever had a leadership class that openly hated the party and most of the people in it? Is it not doubly odd that nobody said this was a problem at the time, and that they either remained silent or cheered wildly for it.

The New Statesman *
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"It's fantastic to have a leader who likes
Labour!"
Emily Thornberry thinks it's time to be unapologetic.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 29/09/2026

I have written to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to ask some important questions relating to her appearance and comments on The Daily T's Sunday Showdown, where she stated she was "a woman, defined by my biology", and that a women’s refuge should be for those of us who are “biologically women"

"... When asked whether you would have allowed a trans woman fleeing domestic abuse into the women’s refuge you once managed, you answered: “No.”

You said that alternative provision could be made, and that a women’s refuge should be for those of us who are “biologically women”.

That deserves considerably more scrutiny than another political soundbite.

You have chosen to justify your position by appealing to biology, so I would like you to explain what you mean by that claim in biological terms, rather than simply referring back to the law, the Supreme Court or the EHRC.

What, biologically, is a woman?

The scientific picture is considerably more complicated than the neat binary your statement suggests. Sex-related biology involves multiple characteristics, including chromosomes, gonads, reproductive anatomy, hormones and secondary sex characteristics. These characteristics do not always align in the stereotypical way, which is why medicine recognises differences of sex development. Contemporary scientific literature describes sex-related biology as involving multiple interacting characteristics rather than one single biological test that can infallibly sort every human being into one of two boxes.

You already know this. Biologists, doctors and other experts sent you an open letter specifically explaining these issues. They warned that reducing human sex biology to an immutable binary is an oversimplification and that policy built upon that oversimplification can cause real harm.

That does not mean biological sex is meaningless. It obviously is not. Female and male reproductive biology are real and medically important. But acknowledging that doesn't require pretending every human body is a perfectly standard biological specimen.

So let us get away from slogans.

You say that you are a woman “defined by my biology”. You say that I am not.

What, precisely, is the biological distinction you are making?"

"...And how would you establish it?

Would you take my blood? Sequence my chromosomes? Examine my gonads? Inspect my anatomy? Measure my hormones? Demand medical records?

Because the moment “biologically a woman” has to become a real-world test rather than a political phrase, the simplicity disappears.

And nowhere is that more obvious than in the refuge you once managed.

Imagine a woman arriving at the door after fleeing an abusive partner. She is terrified. She has no passport, no birth certificate and no medical records. She may have left everything behind to get herself and her children somewhere safe.

You have said the refuge should be for women who are “biologically women”.

So how does the refuge establish that?

Does she need to prove her chromosomes before being allowed through the door? Does somebody examine her body? Does she have to produce evidence of her reproductive anatomy? Or does a member of staff simply look at her and decide whether she appears sufficiently female?

Because the last option is not biology.

It is gender policing.

And then comes the question you cannot escape: how would you identify a trans woman without simply assuming that she is trans?

You cannot see somebody's chromosomes. You cannot see their gonads. You cannot see their hormone levels. You cannot see their developmental history.

If your answer is appearance, you have created a system in which women can be challenged because they are too masculine, too tall, too muscular, too deep-voiced, too gender-nonconforming or do not conform to somebody else's idea of what a woman is supposed to look like.

That is not a minor administrative problem. It is the policing of women's bodies, dressed up as biological certainty.

And feminism should recognise that for what it is...."

"...Sex and gender are related, but they're not interchangeable concepts. Sex encompasses biological characteristics and processes; gender also encompasses the social and personal dimensions through which human beings understand and live their gender. The scientific literature itself recognises that these concepts interact in complex ways rather than functioning as two completely separate boxes.
...You have experience running a women's refuge. You know what a woman arriving at that door needs. She does not need a politician's abstract definition of womanhood. She needs safety.

So I am asking you, as Minister for Women and Equalities, to answer some very straightforward questions.

What biological characteristics make you a woman and make me not one?

How would you establish that distinction in practice?

How does your definition account for women with differences of sex development?

What happens to women whose chromosomes do not fit the stereotypical XX model?

What happens to women who cannot produce eggs, who have no ovaries, who have undergone hysterectomy or who have otherwise experienced changes to their reproductive anatomy?

And most importantly:

How does a frightened woman fleeing domestic abuse prove that she is “biologically a woman” without being subjected to exactly the kind of bodily scrutiny and gender policing that feminists have spent generations challenging?

If your answer is that she does not have to prove it, then why should a trans woman?

If your answer is documentation, what happens to the woman who has none?

If your answer is appearance, whose idea of female appearance are you using?

And if there is no practical biological test, then perhaps “biology” is not quite the straightforward answer you have presented it as.

Women fleeing violence need refuge workers asking whether they are safe, not whether they can pass an ideological biology exam....."

"...You have chosen to draw a line between yourself and me by saying that you are a woman defined by biology and that women like me are not. I am therefore asking you to explain where that line actually is.

Not in a court judgment.

Not in an EHRC document.

Not in a political slogan.

In biology.

Because if you cannot define the biological test, and cannot explain how it could be applied fairly to women standing at the door of a refuge, then “biologically a woman” is not the clear, objective safeguard you claim it is.

It is simply a phrase being used to decide which women are allowed through the door.

And when the woman on the other side of that door is fleeing an abuser, that is not an abstract debate.

That is somebody's life.

Yours sincerely,

A woman who apparently needs a biology exam to prove it,'

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Len @len.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This might be the funniest achievement Paradox has ever added.

Papal Bull
Make your Puppet Pope sleep with your spouse

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a lot of very annoying men have been going on about “restoring trust” in universities, by which they mean increasing “viewpoint diversity,” by which they mean privileging evidence-free conservative beliefs. but it seems like a bigger deal that students and faculty can’t trust their school this way:

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026

Good grief. "The right to bigotry must be protected at all costs."

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026

The idea that women are given special rights based on sex is a remarkably absurd framing and not how discrimination protections actually work in practice. It can only stem from a thoroughly right-wing understanding of the world that believes marginalized people are granted extra entitlements.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But We Mustn't Ruin HIS Life By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

Four-panel cartoon with a tiny kicker panel below.

PANEL 1. A Black delivery worker stands beside her van, holding a package. She looks downcast.

WOMAN: Everywhere I went I was terrified I’d run into **him**. I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t concentrate…
WOMAN: After I failed two classes I lost my scholarship.

PANEL 2. A girl in pink sits on a bicycle on a residential street, looking down.

GIRL: He sent the video to everyone in school. **Everyone**. I had to be homeschooled until I could get into a different school.

PANEL 3. A woman sits in an apartment armchair, holding a baby who pats her face. She looks sad.

WOMAN: It’s been ten years… My therapist says PTSD isn’t ever cured, but it’s something I can learn to manage.

PANEL 4. A hand holds a phone showing a male podcaster at a microphone.

MAN: Nobody feels worse than me about what happened — but we can’t ruin these young men’s lives!

KICKER. The podcaster speaks with Barry, the cartoonist.

BARRY: What sort of thing would “ruin their lives”?
MAN: Being expelled. Or being publicly criticized. Or made to switch dorms. Or to switch a class. Basically, anything he might notice.

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Cay @caymanwent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let’s be real they’re using “furry” as a visibly queer subculture as a stand-in for queerness at large. Their goal has been to remove queer people from public life, and they’re testing different vectors to do so. Hence the all caps “MENTALLY ILL,” which is how they want to reclassify all queers

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20h

22 hours ago I did not realize the literal president of the Unites States would go and claim the scourge of generative AI can only be referred to as "Super Intelligence"

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 20h

Immigration is mentioned 4 times in Burnham's conference speech. The first 3 repeat the idea that we "lost control" over immigration, or that control was "weakened", and the fourth says that we need to work with the EU on immigration. Nothing about the positives of immigration or immigrants' rights.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Abbiistabbii @abbiistabbii.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Transphobes want a world where you are legally forced to be transphobic.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026

Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims

Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.

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Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget

Sure, seems safe.

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Ringer @mmmatch.es · 29/09/2026

Normalcy is a race to the bottom, a pointless act of stripping yourself of anything that makes you even slightly unique in a futile effort to appease the unappeasable

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David J Bradley @davidjbradley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are we meant to think that's bad?

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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a card-carrying sayer of "it's more complicated than that", sometimes it's not!!!!

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Genuinely, this is what bothers me the most, it's fundamentally changed my relationship with art where I'm greeting it initially with skepticism and scrutiny, I never want to feel that way about art.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026

If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad.

The "Jason Figured it Out" meme except instead of Jason, it's Third Way

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Third Way's narrative seems to be that Republicans have gotten more extreme while trans advocates have moderated. I don't agree that trans people were too extreme or that we've moderated besides being sidelined in the debate over our own lives, but if that's how they want to save face, okay.

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a huge shift. The data is so clear even Third Way is on board. Strength and clarity beat “heterodox” mumbling and weakness every time. Hopefully next time we have this debate Dems can skip over the years of running ads that help Rs.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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cornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 29/09/2026

you should be forced out of politics entirely if you use the term "political football" when talking about someone's human rights. It's not a political football. you're just bad politicians who don't believe in anything. You're fence sitters with arses full of splinters.

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Microplastics Inc. @microplasticsinc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the journalistic equivalent of telling ghost stories around a campfire with a torch under your chin. Risible.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember this guy. He has a history of citing Leviticus 20:13. That’s the Bible passage that calls for gay men to be “put to death.” Those are his views and we mustn’t discriminate against him for holding them, apparently.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash

Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)

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alexis @dormin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

more of you should do this btw

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 29/09/2026

Folks, I'm happy to announce my next game will use up all water, destroy humanity in a global blaze, & lose $8 billion weekly. IPO starts at a 20 gazillion euros valuation based on me counting the amount of zeroes wrong. Upon checking the prototype I realized bigger number is better. Supersentience.

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 29/09/2026

1. came out over a decade ago 2. ported to many many platforms 3. owned by microsoft, though it wasn't when it was originally released 4. beloved by many games who are still to this day making mods for it the facts don't lie: Skyrim is a Doom

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?

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eevee @eev.ee · 29/09/2026

discord should sell Double Nitro that lets you turn off everyone else's nitro stuff. hire me for more good ideas like "don't run ads for sports gambling"

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Lydia Hekataia @frogmother.net · 29/09/2026

Trans athletes should be accepted, and should be able to win and succeed just like any other athletes, and a trans athlete winning every so often is not evidence that there's an underlying truth in banning them.

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