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Emily Shepherd 💚

@emi.ly
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Rabid Linux fan girl. IPv6 advocate. Serial opinion haver. Proud member of the Green Menace 💚 Hope is here. 🔐 E4BE 06C4 3A99 7EC4

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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 15h
How did you get this picture of me?
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 28/09/2026
Gotta love the police and their famous propensity to never do anything stupid ever (/s)
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 28/09/2026
Those, and it being more of a faux pas to point out that a member of commons is lying, than it is for a member of commons to actually lie. The Speaker told off 2 MPs (one of which he suspended!) for pointing out that Starmer was lying about Mandelson. No punishment for Kier for the lying though!
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 28/09/2026
"fell short". God British people are so polite about literal genocide, it is sickening.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 28/09/2026
Ah yes, those famously anti-Semitic Jewish human rights barristers. (/sarcasm). When will @andyburnham.bsky.social see what a farce the @labouruk.bsky.social has become and reverse this?
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 27/09/2026
So gross that @labouruk.bsky.social are planning to authorise drilling after the election. They know the electorate don't want it. They know it's wrong. They know it won't lower our bills. But they'll to do it anyway. Because we don't matter to them. Profits do. Vote Green 💚
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 27/09/2026
Yep. "Left" wing people, or LGBTQ+ sub groups, in the major parties are just PR tools for the party machine these days. And centrists and life long party supporters keep lapping it up.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 27/09/2026
Damn, sure wish trans people had warned everyone that the same rhetoric used to attack trans people would be reused to attack other people too. Transphobia. Misogyny. Racism. Classism. Ableism. Homophobia. Islamophobia. Anti-Semitism. It's all the same thing and they all follow the same playbook.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 25/09/2026
Met police commissioner will be briefing the press about the dangerous mob and abuse faced by the met by concert goers because one of them didn't doff their cap to an officer or something.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 25/09/2026
Would be incredibly funny if he says "I support Palestine Action" and the police storm the stage while the world watches. That could be a real "wait, what is the UK doing?" moment for those that are looking the other way. ...if it were to happen, which I suspect it will not.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 25/09/2026
Agreed. Sadly there are plenty of people who will act in pretty bad faith indeed on this topic.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 24/09/2026
Activist you say? We see you, Guardian, you gross little weasels you.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 24/09/2026
> where the difference in skill level can be large. Says who.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the uk has shown were backing off trans rights takes you & it's horrific my latest for new republic newrepublic.com/article/2155...
newrepublic.com
Centrists Won’t Tell You Where “Moderating” on Trans Rights Ends Up
The recent example of the U.K. Labour Party shows that “compromising” rarely stops at some acceptable midpoint.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 24/09/2026
Maybe centrists will start paying attention more now, now that it's affecting them too.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 24/09/2026
"There is much more to do" Understatement of the century.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 23/09/2026
My comment on your post is just a distraction from the fact I also liked your post.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 23/09/2026
It's ok. I heard the boat was trans. (/sarcasm)
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 23/09/2026
They'll continue to not do anything after that point too. Those legitimate concerns are looking really quite legitimately concerning.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
That was the moment he went from plausibly just a complete naive idiot to an out and out selfish worm.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
I don't think I can debate you anymore. I don't understand how you can see what is happening in Gaza and just throw your hands up and argue that we have to debate the causes before we can just... stop... doing it. God this is sad.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
I'm really sad reading you say this. Acknowledging the devastation but then whatabouting about who's doing the bombing, who's denying aid from getting in, who's killing people at help points, who's keeping power cut off, who's stopping aid ships from getting in. Come on, please.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
Also the status quo at that time was silly long waiting times (although shorter than today), absurd hoops to jump through for health care, and GPs who could just go "nah" at a moment's notice. But yeah, compared to today, those genuinely were the good ol' days.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
I am sorry but it is deeply insincere to say that simply point out that the state committing war crimes and genocide is uncompassionate against that state. These aren't random accusations. The evidence is right in front of us all. It cannot merely be denied - that's not acknowledging reality.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
Baseless accusations might not be, I suppose. But Israel is very plainly committing crimes in Gaza. That is really quite undeniable at this point. It has been concluded by human rights org after human rights org. We can see the dead, we can see the famine, we can see the suffering.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
I think I'd echo what some others have said. I think it is a worthy academic exercise, but I don't think I'd have the ability to read it myself. So while noble and useful, I'd have to be honest and say it probably won't be something many people would buy, trans, transphobic, or centrist.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
Let's calm down the tone please. As I have explained, you brought up the events three years ago. I don't know what further to tell you on that and I think you know you are meta-arguing rather than addressing the things I'm saying.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
Israel is not at war. Gaza is meant to be a protectorate of Israel. They don't recognise Gaza as an independent state. By their logic Gaza is Israel. They can't have it both ways. Either Palestine exists and they are at war with it, or it doesn't and they are just murdering people in their own land.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
You can go back as far as you like. It doesn't change what it happening TODAY. Today there is a genocide going on. Against the Palestinians. And that is wrong. Jewish people being killed and genocided in the past and ongoing antisemitism today is also wrong. Compassion isn't a zero sum game.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
I haven't narrowed anything. I've stated that Israel is inflicting a genocide on Palestine right now, and you responded by expanding the frame back three years to Oct 7th, to imply what is happening isn't Israel's fault. I merely responded in kind to that to explain that that isn't a valid point.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
Israel as a state is engaging in genocide. That's not selective. The state is doing that. As is the UK, as is the US. We are all complicit, and it is gross. I don't do as much as I should, quite frankly, to fight back against this, but I am doing what I can for the moment.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
That is silly. Hamas did not initiate the war. I am not defending Oct 7 but to act like this all started there 3 years ago is ridiculous. Israel has been occupying the West Bank, illegally, for years. Israel has been pushing and controlling the border of Gaza, illegally, for years.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
It is also, I must say, silly to say I'm focusing on the Jews. Israel has a lot of Jewish people in it, sure, but I'm angry at the *state* of Israel. I couldn't give a fig what individuals' faith or ethnicity is. I am angry at our Western politicians, many of whom aren't Jewish, in equal measure.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
Israel - and those that back it (the US, the UK and the many others in the West) - is the primary reason for their plight right now, yes. That is very clear and it's absurd to claim otherwise. I do not focus on them because they are Jewish, but because of what Israel is doing. It is wrong.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
while*
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
Well, you can't just focus on helping the Palestinians without ignoring Zionism, given that it is Zionism in large part that is driving the horrendous treatment of the Palestinians. It would be naive and pointless to do that. The issue needs to be tackled head on.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
Sheeran's brand of idiotic naive centrism and "why can't we all get along"-ism is the perfect summary of why we are in the mess that we are in now. Standing side by side with bigots and fascists enables bigots fascists. Congrats, Ed, on being the king of centrism. What a loser.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
They did actually refer to the explanatory notes once. A piece that was explicitly talking about an example trans woman: "an applicant who was born a male would, in law, become a woman for all purposes." The UKSC misquoted it as being about a trans man and drew their conclusions from it anyway.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
Apparently there wasn't one. The concert just started two and a half hours later and went straight to Sheeran cold. Quite funny.
yahoo.com
Ed Sheeran Moves Philadelphia Concert to 8 P.M. After Loop Tour Support Acts Exit
Ed Sheeran’s first U.S. concert since his Loop Tour lost its remaining support acts is now officially scheduled to begin much later than originally advertised. ... Read More
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
It was kind of incredible how much it looked like he was reading from a teleprompter. I mean, he might have been looking down nervously, I suppose, but gee whizz the optics of his whole speech were poor.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
It also called the explanatory notes of the Act - which quite explicitly illustrated what the intention of the legislators at the time actually was - "mischief" and proceeded to use that conclusion to completely ignore them.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 20/09/2026
I personally believe she should be completely ignored - her intervention was just that. A distracting intervention. Our focus put on the Palestinians instead. People should put their effort into boycotting Kraft-owned stadiums, and protesting their Governments' complicity in the genocide.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 19/09/2026
Pink is not above criticism in all of this, that is plainly true. Having said that, I agree that going after her specifically is pointless and silly. There are way worse actors in all of this, and we should be focusing on them, and the real victims - the Palestinians facing death and oppression.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 19/09/2026
People don't randomly repost stuff they don't agree with (unless they are quote posting it to comment on it further). That is equally disingenuous to suggest that because she didn't write it she's completely innocent. What she reposted denied the genocide was even happening. It was revolting.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 19/09/2026
(*Yes, there are ass-hat anti-Semites, and I have absolutely no doubt she's faced that, and quite likely more recently, because social media is awful. But the meat of the criticism, which the majority of people are raising, is not that, and it is disingenuous to suggest all of it is.)
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 19/09/2026
I saw your post about Pink's comment but it doesn't make any sense. She's facing criticism because she kicked off over a completely fair thing he said. Her response doesn't address any of that. "I'm Jewish" isn't a meaningful response when the majority* of the criticism isn't because she's Jewish.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 19/09/2026
"Why ask me". My guy you started this thread - I was responding to what you claimed you were "curious" about. You asked.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 19/09/2026
Based and cool.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 19/09/2026
Utterly gross to see this level of hatred openly on display.
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 19/09/2026
Hey @kateosbornemp.bsky.social - please don't post images without alt text. You represent your constituents without 20/20 vision too!
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