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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today I learned that the Scottish Greens have defined Zionism as racism for the past eleven years, with seemingly much less controversy than GPEW is experiencing.

Screenshot of text: "We condemn Zionism as a racist ideology based on Jewish supremacy in Palestine, as well as the related ideology of Christian Zionism. We oppose Green Zionism, the ideology of Green parties in Israel, which is an attempt to fuse Green values with Zionism."

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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't use social media any more because I think it's evil. but briefly back to say the labour party destroyed my life, please don't vote for them ever again 🙏

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Members of the Patriotic Alliance are stopping cars with non-white people in them and harassing them like this. This is a hate crime, arrest these people.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Increasingly feels like all politics is now each side accusing the other of racism.

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

notable both that this is happening and is being pushed by popular GC accounts

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Mental health nurse Amy Gallagher is bringing an employment tribunal against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust claiming racial harassment, belief discrimination and victimisation. While undertaking
psychotherapy training with the Trust, Miss Gallagher says she raised concerns about aspects of teaching on race, including material concerning "whiteness", "white privilege",
"white fragility" and critical race theory.

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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Labour: “we must reunite progressive voters to win the next election” Also Labour: *bans trans women from its women’s conference*

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Powerful unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans ban

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Personally speaking, I wouldn't have split the word like that...

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The writer turned anti-trans activist JK Rowling's FAQ is raising a lot of questions already answered by the writer turned anti-trans activist JK Rowling's FAQ.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There used to be this whole bit in the centrist/moderate bible about how you shouldn't, you mustn't, blame the voters. Seems to have been memory-holed around 2017.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Substacker Benjamin Ryan claims people on BlueSky are "enraged" by a statement from his fellow anti-trans activist JK Rowling's agent.

Benjamin Ryan describing mild amusement as "people enraged".

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Lily Wachowski is so cool. Most celebrities use high profile interviews to be like "it was such a pleasure to work with so and so on such and such" and she's like "JK Rowling funds trans genocide and Elon Musk is a fascist misrepresenting my work to destroy the planet" Let her make more movies.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As with whatever else the government and the opposition parties and the media and the courts and business leaders all say and do these days, the defeat of the Assisted Dying Bill tells us that the animus of the ruling class is cruelty, is to induce as much suffering as they can.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A lot of MPs will be annoyed that they didn't make this list - what an incredible badge of honour for the next election.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Green Party appears to have opened itself up to significant legal liabilities by this unwarranted suspension.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Things my parents bought me when I was three. #britishcomics #1980s

Cover of Eagle #2, April 1982, with horrific alien Doomlord zapping three blokes to a painful death

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 20/08/2026

jon ronson has written a book about men who go crazy online and he's dedicated an entire chapter to graham linehan. graham is not going to like the observer review.

Ronson’s account of Graham Linehan is another harrowing tale of a man’s life ruined by the internet. Linehan was a beloved comedy writer, co-creator of Father Ted, and a prolific presence on Twitter, where he was well liked and respected. Then, in 2013, something began to shift, when an episode of his sitcom The IT Crowd, first broadcast in 2008, was repeated. In it, a man discovers his girlfriend is transgender and a brawl breaks out between the two. Viewers did not like the display of violence nor the supposed implication that the trans woman was “really” a man, underlying maleness bursting forth uncontrollably once she is angry.

Linehan responded to criticism with polite bafflement, then defensiveness, and finally overt anger. He began to research transgender issues and developed a singular obsession with the topic, which has since gone on to comprehensively destroy his career and personal life. Linehan, who believes trans activism and indeed ordinary trans existence pose an existential threat to women, talks of little else (except, these days, a fervent pro-Israel stance). He tweets near-constantly, cloaking his obsession with supposed concern for the wellbeing of cisgender women, but he does not balk at aggressively insulting those women who disagree with him.

Linehan’s self-ignited ruin stopped being satisfying for even his opponents to watch a while back, and now is only profoundly depressing. Ronson was once a good friend, but in refusing to endorse Linehan’s beliefs about transgender issues, he was added to his long list of his enemies. In The Castle, Ronson speaks to him directly, having been attacked countless times on Linehan’s social media feed. One thing that becomes clear, beyond the truly abject state of Linehan’s wellbeing, is that he is able to persevere with his campaign because he has convinced himself he is battling the greatest danger currently at play in the world. At one point he suggests that there are so many fewer serial killers nowadays because all the sociopaths have migrated to the internet in order to argue with him about trans issues instead. It reminded me of religious protesters screaming at me in Dublin once, as I walked into a reproductive-rights clinic that provided information about abortion. I was furious, but then forced myself to think about how I would feel or act if I truly, earnestly believed that every abortion is equivalent to the murder of a child. That might, indeed, drive me mad.

The Linehan chapter is brilliant: insightful, candid and moving. I’m still not convinced that any broader crisis of masculinity or male purpose had much to do with Linehan’s downfall, though. He wasn’t at a loss or empty of purpose when he began his campaign. He didn’t turn to vitriol because he didn’t have anything else to do. His case is, if anything, notable for involving a man with an enviable life and abundant success throwing it away for reasons that to many in the outside world may seem obscure or deranged.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I compare again to the Salt Path: no-one went “we got tricked! It must be that feminism has gone too far!” But if an organisation swallows a tall tales from a - gasp! - black man, wow, must be antiracism going too far. We can’t possibly have been gulled by one of *those*.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This just feels sociopathic. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Text screencap: Akua Reindorf KC, for the University of Cambridge, suggested Evans’ emotional testimony in court about the suicide of a former colleague amounted to “crocodile tears”.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As with IDAHOBIT, it will be interesting to see the message "please come - don't use the toilets" in action. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

London launches bid to host WorldPride in 2032

If successful, the festival would coincide with the 60th anniversary of London's first Pride march.

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Fyr Ebyrth @theyoungcrone.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

metro.co.uk/2026/07/29/m... Because they know that transphobic govt capture has nothing to do with protection… Say it loud.

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Major unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans ban

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I get by perfectly well on three hours sleep a night. Six hours in the afternoon and three hours at night.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's probably far too much to hope that Burnham will get rid of the Blairite imposition of "Labour Party Chair". The actual Chair of the Labour Party is Shabana Mahmood (until the next Conference).

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If Burnham fails, Labour is going to need a truly fresh face, someone who is guaranteed to be loved by ordinary people and is completely untainted by the Westminster bubble and I think it has to be Steve Rotheram's grandbaby.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

They're all going on about how Burnham is the fifth PM in four years, but it actually feels like he's the first PM since Johnson. Truss, Sunak and Starmer were just so fundamentally unsuited.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Can't believe Binface will have to share a stage with thirty-three ridiculous joke candidates.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

People really misunderstand what Blue Labour is. It's not the Old Labour Right, bar a few outliers who were so far out BL can't even reach for them as antecedents. It's not old Labour of any sort. It's the communitarian strain of Blairism, and before that the communitarian strain of Thatcherism.

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“We haven’t changed the law, trans people never had the rights they claimed to,” they say, whilst completely rewriting the code that has explained how the law has worked for the last 15 years. Every sentence these fuckers say is so easily disprovable, and nobody will hold them to account.

Part of a statement from the EHRC regarding the new Equality Act Code of Practice:
The Minister will also now take the necessary action to revoke the 2011 code and bring the new code into force as statutory guidance.
At the point that it comes into force, we will formally publish the code as the statutory code in English and in Welsh.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

At this point, JK Rowling has spent more time and energy writing about how much she hates a vulnerable part of the human condition that never did one goddamned fucking thing to harm her than she ever did writing Harry Potter.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Both are, at this point, crazy and evil people, but the thing about J.K Rowling that I find striking is that there is a visibly hedonic quality to her online viciousness that you don't really see in someone like Elon Musk. (Though not for the latter's lack of trying.)

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As Starmer's time in office comes to an end I think we can say that, while there are few things he knows about and even fewer things he cares about, when it comes to having people punished for holding up signs he wrote the book and he wrote it from the heart.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 15/07/2026

Starmer is the most anti-LGBTQ Prime Minister since Thatcher, and he leaves power with a legacy of cowardice and appeasement in the face of authoritarianism and bigotry. He hasn't stopped at just appeasing the far right, he has actively enforced their hatred on their behalf.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

On one hand, we're told Anne Widdecombe was a plain-speaking & principled politician, so worthy of admiration even if one didn't agree with "everything she said". On the other they say she was only homophobic in public and had gay friends; which surely means she was not plain-speaking & principled.

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This will damage relationships, damage attendance and attainment, cause some children to drop out. It is "safeguarding" guidance that will directly harm a vulnerable minority of children. Trans children deserve so much better than this.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Clacton candidate idea: Nigel Garage.

Photo of a man balancing a car on his head.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

You can't say trans people weren't represented at Starmer's Pride reception.

A screenshot of a video of the Downing Street Pride reception, showing someone holding a trans flag fan and the word "aggravated" caught from subtitles of a speech.

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

And so Penelope Keith passes having never faced justice.

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NJ @nojusticemtg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Not always you get to dismiss an entire article in the first paragraph - because Keir Starmer *did* get a £4m donation from Quadrature Capital and he *did* appoint a best pal of a sex trafficker to high office. He's very much cut from the same cloth as Farage and Johnson

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

so a friend on a mailing list I've been on forever said he couldn't understand why so many people had wanted Starmer to stand down when he was obviously so much better than those who came before. I did my best to explain

Starmer is not only incapable of making difficult decisions, he seems not to understand it's his job. I've had it from multiple sources that he gets angry when officials decline to say which course of action is better, even though sometimes it's not clear which is better, it's a trade off, or all options have risks. This is why there is no coherence to our immigration or tax policies.

Starmer refuses to meet MPs unless it's absolutely unavoidable. He doesn't like ministers who promote their own ideas but doesn't seem to have any of his own. He has utterly failed to articulate how he wants to change the country or what he thinks his government is for.

He has presided over policies that have taken rights from protestors, migrants, refugees and trans people. He has made speeches and pursued immigration reforms intended to impress the far right, who are never going to vote for him, while alienating his own voters.

He has seemed entirely disinterested in the fact the higher education system - which is a competitive advantage, a major export industry and a huge plank of regional economies, all at once - is collapsing.

And on multiple occasions when coked up racist thugs have been committing acts of violence and mass civil disorder on our streets, he has been, at best, reluctant to get in front of a camera and say these people are racist thugs who will be punished by the full force of the law. Pensioners who support the Palestinians, by contrast, he is happy to throw away the key.

Oh, and there's the small matter of last month's election results which suggest that under his leadership Labour is genuinely on course for extinction as a party less than two years after winning a huge majority.

Obviously this government's politics is much closer to mine than any of the Tory administrations since 2010, but measured in terms of ability to actually do many of the jobs that being prime minister involves - making decisions, managing his MPs, articulating a vision and then moving Britain towards it, running the fucking government - I think it is entirely possible to argue that Starmer is worse than any of his immediate predecessors except Truss.

Andy Burnham is, to put it mildly, a deeply flawed politician. It's possible this gets us nowhere. But I find it extremely hard to envision how rolling the dice could make things worse.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Four more winners for me that month: BRAVE & BOLD 143 - the return of the Human Target (and my first encounter with him). A delight! DETECTIVE 479 - finale to the terrific Wein/Rogers Clayface story. DEVIL DINOSAUR 6 - Kirby's version of the Garden of Eden. This is where the series really...

BRAVE & BOLD 143 - cover art by Jim Aparo

DETECTIVE COMICS 479 - cover art by Marshall Rogers and Dick Giordano

DEVIL DINOSAUR 6 - cover at by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott

INCREDIBLE HULK ANNUAL 7 - cover art by John Byrne and Bob Layton

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Lambeth Green Party @lambethgreenparty.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The new EHRC code of practice will exclude and harm our trans communities. Lambeth's Green councillors are calling on local MPs @helenhayes.bsky.social @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social Steve Reed and Florence Eshalomi to oppose it, sign EDM 240 against it, and stand with Lambeth's trans residents.

As elected representatives of Lambeth council committed to equity, inclusion and justice, we call on you as our local MPs to support your trans and intersex constituents and restore their rights to the fullest, enabling them to thrive in our community.

We ask you to oppose the recently tabled EHRC Draft Code of Practice, which risks further isolating trans and intersex people from public life, and “empowers those who want to exclude trans people from services and spaces and makes life harder for those who want to support trans people.” (Gendered Intelligence).

If you have not already, please sign and support Early Day Motion 240 tabled on 1 June 2026.

We ask for the proper restoration of health and mental health service provision, with actionable targets to reduce waiting lists, so that trans and intersex people can lead healthy, happy lives. 70% of trans people have experienced significant depression.

We call for an immediate overturn of the damaging 2025 Supreme Court judgement

We have a duty to ensure that our residents can live in our borough without the threat of intimidation, and we are concerned that the current proposals threaten the right to a private life, and to access all the opportunities that Lambeth has to offer. We call on our local MPs to fight this harmful legislation, reduce this stigma and protect those who will be victimised by these changes.

In our manifesto, we confirmed our commitment to the trans community. The Lambeth Green Group will continue to campaign for justice for our trans, non-binary and intersex residents, and seek to improve their lives across our administration.
Signed by Lambeth's Green councillors

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Alongside colleagues, I have tabled a motion to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. We cannot support it, and we have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240.

Motion to reject the EHRC's
Code of Practice
Alongside colleagues, I have tabled a motion to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations. We cannot support it, and we have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it.
This motion is currently the only available mechanism through which Parliament can reject the EHRC's Code of Practice; if it is debated and passed within the 40-day scrutiny window, it would prevent the Code from being issued by the EHRC and coming into force.
Please email your MP asking them to sign
EDM 240.

The Code will exclude trans people from services and facilities that they have long used without issue, putting them at increased risk of harassment and violence, and effectively pushing them out of public life.
It ushers in an era of enforced segregation for trans people, the policing of which will be outsourced to service providers, including businesses, charities and public bodies.

In the statement to the House of Commons yesterday, the Minister even suggested that where members of the public are unsure of someone's gender within a single-sex facility,
"most people will have the common sense to step in where necessary or, if they are concerned, to alert a member of staff."
Meanwhile, this guidance does not give clarity and confidence to organisations that want to be trans-inclusive. Its impact also extends beyond the rights of trans people.
The government's own Equality Impact Assessment warns that "women who are considered masculine may face greater scrutiny" and that disabled people could face adverse impacts.

The Code represents a profound rollback of rights, which will affect trans people directly and erode the principles of inclusion, dignity and equality upon which all our rights depend.
This guidance must not become statutory; the government should withdraw it and instead legislate to clarify and protect trans people's rights, privacy and inclusion.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 27/05/2026

I saw that M&S employee video and while good for him maintaining composure, it's wild we have accepted filming strangers without their consent as a normal part of life now.

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 22/05/2026

I was very open in my conclusion after the Holyrood election that it was a good thing for my community that Scottish Labour and Anas Sarwar lost hard. I *should* be scrupulously non-partisan, aye. But Labour *should* be the party of equality, not the most queerphobic government of my lifetime.

What a disaster for Labour. Two years ago Anas Sarwar thought he had First Minister in the bag. Now he shares a unique bond with Jack McConnell: the only Scottish Labour leaders to lead the party into two successive losses of seats at Holyrood. And here I will have my one true break with non-partisanship to say: good. As a member of Scotland’s LGBT community, a gay man with a trans best friend, I am relieved a man who (along with his party) so completely and utterly betrayed us will not lead this country.

Anas Sarwar threw queer people under the bus and published an actively trans-segregationist manifesto, which drove several of Scottish Labour’s most dedicated partisans to advise not voting for the party. He did all of this to build bridges with a bunch of terminally online bigots who have no real presence amongst the electorate at large. And for what? To crash and burn regardless, having utterly alienated a huge number of progressive voters.

If you blanche at me saying things like this, maybe consider being more appalled by the hate campaign that Labour have completely capitulated to.

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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Ella Baron @EBaronCartoons on the EHRC’s transgender code of practice @Guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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Gregg @gcgsmith.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Given his impending departure, the trans toilet ban will surely be the only legacy for Starmer and his version of Labour. Alabama Starmer.

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