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Eldelbo

@eldelbo.bsky.social
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Scottish. Dad x 4. Business owner, somehow. Into reason, science, art, architecture, politics, the Jags (yes), Lego, books, retro games. And cheese. Despise hate. Into tolerance and learning every day. And beer. Perpetually confused, pretending otherwise

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Statement from Virginia Giuffre’s family: “Our broken hearts have been lifted by the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty... He was never a prince. For survivors, everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Thank you, Mr. President.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
You misspelled "BORED".
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/12/2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
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Eldelbo @eldelbo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
> GO UP LADDER I do not understand 'go up' > USE LADDER Use ladder with what? > CLIMB LADDER You climb the ladder > LOOK You are in a museum gallery. It is dark, but a display case glints in the dim light. > EXAMINE DISPLAY CASE It's full of jewels! > PICK UP JEWELS You take the jewels.
Bbc news screenshot 'police focus on ladder placed against side of the Louvre'
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Neo-Nazis now brazenly stalk our streets. They have been emboldened by the behaviour of malignant politicians who have relentlessly demonised refugees and migrants My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...
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Neo-Nazis now brazenly stalk Scotland’s streets … blame malevolent politicians
Language and behaviour which was once taboo is now normalised. I’m old enough to remember the National Front marching on our streets. Back in the…
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The explosion of anti-trans legislation was a coordinated campaign, and understanding this is critical to debunking the idea that this was some sort of organic rejection of trans rights. No it wasn’t. This was hundreds of millions of dollars of effort to use us as a wedge with fascism as the goal.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
And let me be clear -- I wish on JK Rowling everything that she wishes upon trans people.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
PROVOKE AND PUBLICISE Tomorrow in the Houses of Parliament the transphobes will attempt a “Provoke & Publicise” action. Provoke and Publicise was originally developed as a tactic by racist segregationists in US states like Alabama & Oklahoma to try and stop the civil rights movement there… 1/7
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a cartoon drawing of a transgender flag against a yellow background
Alt: a cartoon drawing of a transgender flag against a yellow background
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Obsolete Dogma @obsoletedogma.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
For some reason, I was just thinking about how Trump’s former chief of staff tried to warn us right before the election that Trump was a fascist who wanted to rule us like a dictator … and the New York Times put that story on page A12
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Amy Résistance @amooshik.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Unquestionably accurate.
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Eldelbo @eldelbo.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
JFK and The Untouchables were excellent movies, I believe. Both very far from factually accurate (especially the former), but arguably great movies. Open Range was also pretty good. Dances With Wolves was massive at the time. Watched it recently and thought it no more than OK...
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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Oh, no biggie, just the President of the United States having a chuckle over D Day, suggesting that it was not a good day for Germany. Merz corrected him— actually, no, D-Day marks the LIBERATION of Germany from Nazi dictatorship. A good day. Sir, for the love of goddesses, READ A HISTORY BOOK.
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
A trans woman graciously marks her last day in the Air Force after Trump’s ban on transgender soldiers serving in the United States military. Americans are not any safer with this hateful ban. Trans soldiers are real soldiers. They are HEROES and SHEROS!
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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JohnNicolson he/him @johnnicolson.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Court ruling on legal definition of a woman misinterpreted Lady Hale says: “…there is no such thing as biological sex & plenty of things to quarrel with about the judgment”. But the main concern is the “very binary reaction that there has been to it”. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...
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Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says
Speaking at book festival in east Sussex, former supreme court president says reaction to judgment ‘very binary’
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Here is a thing you can do to support trans people today. Find your reps' info at reps.fyi or 5calls.org.
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 20/05/2025
I still can't get over how a group of trans women did a topless protest against the segregation of trans people, and the "Gender Criticals" are convinced that some of the protesters are cis because of how they look You couldn't write a better argument. Unbelievable
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
OTD in 1944 Soviet deportation of Crimean Tatars began. On Stalin's orders, over 191,000 were forcibly sent to Uzbek SSR. 8000 died en route & 88,000 died with 3 years. Imagine mass deportations happening in 21st century...
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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‘I’m from Glasgow – the swearing came naturally!’ The full uncensored history of The Thick of It
It was the political satire that gave us omnishambles, pet asbos and the terrifying Malcolm Tucker. Two decades on, creator Armando Iannucci and stars including Peter Capaldi and Rebecca Front lift th...
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Great idea!!
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18/05/2025
Look what Gary Lineker said to Oliver Brown and the Telegraph about trans people...
Full page interview with Gary Lineker. The headline is "Trans people are some of the most persecuted on the planet"When The Rest is Football tried a public question-and-answer experiment last November, Martina Navratilova, Sharron Davies and hundreds of other women asked him what he thought of the FA banning a teenager – revealed by The Daily

Telegraph last weekend as Cerys Vaughan – for asking a transgender opponent: “Are you a man?” Even under pressure from a nine-time Wimbledon singles champion and a celebrated Olympic swimmer, he neglected to engage. Why?

“Ugh,” he sighs, slumping so far forward in his chair he nearly hits the table. “You can’t cover that subject properly in a post. It’s too nuanced. I don’t actually think, in terms of sport,

that it will ever be a real issue. Sport, as it’s already doing, will sort it out and work out rules. Like they did in boxing, when they realised they couldn’t have heavyweights against little fellas.”

Is it not blindingly obvious, however, that sport will not simply “sort it out”? It has taken many determined female campaigners a punishingly long time to undo the damage of gender ideology, compelling sports to prioritise fairness for women rather than vacuous mantras about inclusion. Amid broad acceptance that the rights of half the population should trump the view of a small, vocal minority of men that they are entitled to colonise women’s sport, Lineker makes it clear where his sympathies lie. “They’re some of the most persecuted on the planet, trans people.“You’ve got to be very careful not to have bigoted views on that. I genuinely feel really badly for trans people. Imagine going through what they have to go through in life. Is there even any issue? It’s the same swimmer, the same weightlifter, the same boxer. They’re the only people I ever see.”

Lineker’s perspective here is myopic. The three examples he raises – American swimmer Lia Thomas, New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, not transgender but permitted to win gold as a woman at the Paris Olympics despite sex tests indicating the presence of male chromosomes – are indeed well publicised. But they are far from the only ones he could cite, with a recent report by Reem Alsalem, the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, documenting how governing bodies’ failures to act have led to more than 600 female athletes around the world losing 890 medals in 29 different sports.

In his eyes, only cases at elite level matter. “We’ve got the Women’s Euros in the summer. Let’s see if there’s one issue – I don’t think there is. Are you telling me that there are many people who pretend to be women just so they’re going to be good at sport?”

The desire of some males to receive affirmation as female can be a powerful motivating force, I argue. “It’s so complex,” Lineker says. “I see both sides to a degree.”
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Natalie Washington @transsomething.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Oliver Brown, who has repeatedly behaved disgustingly even by the standard of GC journalists, was clearly*desperate* here to get the opinion he wanted out of Lineker, and is clearly enraged that he was just completely normal about his opinions
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“In my country, we are fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted... Art is the crucible that brings people together. Art looks for truth. Art embraces diversity. That’s why art is a threat. That’s why we are a threat to autocrats & fascists.” Robert De Niro • Cannes 🎬 1/3🧵
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Nurse Teri 🇺🇦🇬🇱 👩🏽‍⚕️ 👊🏼 🐸 @nurseteria.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
After 6,000 people died from whooping cough in 1932, three women stepped forward to find a vaccine. When it was ready for testing in 1934, parents volunteered their children in droves, hoping to protect them from the deadly "100 day cough." Today, the vaccine saves half a million lives a year!
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
extraordinary that Thames Water executives are getting *new* bonuses, this time as a result of the £3bn rescue loan from the spring - which loads the company with interest rates of nearly 10% via me and Gill Plimmer www.ft.com/content/1f6d...
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Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan
Utility’s chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals ‘picking off’ staff
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Claire for Ukraine 🇺🇦💙🦋🌊 @claireforukraine.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Ivan presents Car for Ukraine trucks 625-630. Amazing effort thanks to friends of Ukraine. For more of these donate here... car4ukraine.com/campaigns/ea... youtu.be/CMp8etcg9R8?... #Nafo @lazerpig.bsky.social @ricktheukrainian.bsky.social #russia #Zelenskyy #BlueWave #BlueCrew #Democrat #Taurus
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Trucks 625-630. Happy May 9 Victory Day ;)
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I’m so tired of the incompetent tomfuckery. He caved. He created the problem and now they’re trying to sell this like it’s a win—because ports were EMPTY. Lowering tariffs for 90 days doesn’t create economic stability—it does prove how stupid he is. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/b...
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I searched for 'synonyms for 'bribe' and this article came up. weird. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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White House and Qatar discuss transfer of luxury jet for Air Force One
Qatar says a deal for
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Meidas Rick ❌🚫🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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LazerPig @lazerpig.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Expect the various bots to push the shoot down of an India Rafale pretty hard. About how much it sucks, that its expensive garbage, something something France etc An Indian Rafale shot down a J-10 and China wants you to forget that happened.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 09/05/2025
Inevitable 😂 wait till the new pope walks down some stairs, that'll get them all going
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CCscott @ccscott.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
At last, moral leadership from an American who now leads much of the world’s faithful. No wonder we are all profoundly hopeful.
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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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