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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 30/09/2026

And now on a streetcar in Seattle for the first time in my life, I’m pretty sure. Really the most surprising bit of Seattle public transit is that I’ve never been on the monorail.

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sarah margaret @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I gotta say the Cornell case has really been leaving me sick and burned out And I kind of don’t vibe with a lot of the men posting about it in a “gasp - I can’t believe this” way I can believe it. It’s like a normal thing to happen. It’s the reality that we’ve had to live in this whole time

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 29/09/2026

i love how this perfectly describes half the compiler developers i know… and doesn’t at all describe the other half

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 29/09/2026

Heading up to Seattle for a few days (arriving tomorrow), and then onto Vancouver for the weekend on Friday. If anyone wants to meet up, hmu?

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It’s insane to me that Harry Potter fans care more about protecting a fictional grave than they do protecting trans people and their rights.

Independent: Harry Potter fans force diversion of £430m giant pipeline to protect Dobby's 'grave'
Harry Potter fans' outcry meant the project to transport energy from the UK to Ireland had to be diverted

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 03/08/2026

this reminds me that i should polish the rest of my boots…

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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

the timeline— trans people: fine whatever if you’re going to be so weird about us, let’s talk about it channel 4: we’ve set up a debate where the audience are encouraged to shout PENIS! at Munroe Bergdorf whenever she talks trans people: yeah okay we’re not doing this again

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

a lot of people really do say ‘twink’ because they’re not allowed to say ‘faggot’ any more

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 25/05/2026

All this because a human rights lawyer doesn‘t want to use the Commons majority he has to correct the Supreme Court with legislate.

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

And for those of us with GRCs, we’re between a rock and a hard place: we’re no longer our gender in the EA, but still our gender in the GRA. If I were to marry, I’d be legally female at the ceremony, but when I needed the toilet at the reception, I’d be legally expected to use the men’s.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

frustrating to have to re-up this again, but this essay has all the necessary facts to counteract today's news: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...

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Trans People and Sports: Everything You Need to Know

I have been writing about transgender people and issues for over twenty years now. For most of that time, I never felt the need to pen a…

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 27/03/2026

Self-harm, but actually it’s just reading the comments on the IOC re-introducing genetic tests for women’s categories

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Erika is still using women's toilets 🖕(she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erristarling.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Someone tell Shabana Mahmood that the European court of human rights exists LITERALLY to tell governments when they're exploiting human rights, and this is not, in fact, a case to leave the ECHR, but a case for the government to go "oh shit, we fucked up" As I said she's cartoonishly evil

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 05/10/2025

“on a train” would be the reason to not plug it into a car’s USB port

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 03/10/2025

I’m just wondering what I’ve missed of the latest drama, because very little of what I have seen would surprise me of any other business leaders of companies whose users are not its customers.

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 03/10/2025

(And like, it’s entirely plausible I’ve missed some part of this drama that has fuelled those comments, but what I’ve seen is mostly normal capitalist power dynamics — the people with significant control over the business care little for those they serve.)

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 03/10/2025

re: all the Bluesky drama, I see a bunch of people claiming “of course there’s no compassion, of course there’s no equality, they’re all tech people”… And like, I’m not saying we’re all good people, but: isn’t this just people with power and capital? Are tech people worse than most C-levels?

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 24/09/2025

Are we sure medical billing aren’t a terrorist cell?

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 23/09/2025

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is

the album art for the upcoming 10 year anniversary edition of Carly Rae Jepsen's EMOTION with expanded tracks

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

“There’s an old Jewish tale about a rabbi who assigns a person who has spread harmful information around their small village to rip open a pillow and let the feathers out. Then, his punishment is to gather back all the feathers. It’s impossible, he complains. The rabbi says that’s the point.”

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On Charlie Kirk and How the Media Helped Perpetuate a Trans Boogeyman

The US loves creating a boogeyman for violence that distances itself from that violence.

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 14/09/2025

When we talk about systemic victimisation this is what we mean.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/09/2025

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sac…

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

When 100 thousand trans people rallied in London it was only worthy for the "local news" section.

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 06/09/2025

Is there anywhere good to get a corset in the #SFBA, especially as someone with a relatively small waist-to-hip ratio, and as someone who has never bought a corset before?

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

since Bluesky is chock full of Newsom-stan-bots insisting that "Dems should compromise on trans issues", I will re-up my November essay about why this is not only immoral & unempirical, but BAD POLITICS. Dems WILL LOSE if they do this, here's why (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ...

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Should Democrats Throw Trans People Under the Bus?

Here’s Why It Would Be Bad Politics

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 23/08/2025

I presume I have a copy of it somewhere, but recreating it wouldn’t be hard! Though looking at it does make me think of all the half-written blog posts I equally have somewhere…

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phantasmAgaric 🍄 @lalonde.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

i think what bothers me most about how "terf island" has been used is that it implies there's some unique essential characteristic of the uk that's allowed trans rights to be rolled back so thoroughly. this can and will happen anywhere we let it

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

One of the first things you learn about trans competent primary care is how many of us routinely develop PVD, UTIs, and kidney stones from avoiding or not having access to bathrooms. As a fun bonus, the disinfo machine then uses this high prevalence to make mendacious claims about HRT.

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 08/08/2025

The sanitizer always worked on parser or treewalker tokens (I think we changed which at some point?), which were I believe always bytes for pure ASCII or unicode for anything else, which doesn’t quite follow with that.

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 08/08/2025

Right, I understand fine *what* it matches, I just am unclear on *why* we’re doing that! I mean stripping controls isn’t the wildest thing to do, I just want to know if there’s some specific browser behaviour (quite possibly now very historic browser!) that led to this being included.

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 01/08/2025

And to be clear I very much doubt Itch has enough volume to do anything *but* go to a high-risk processor, though they do at least have data on historic chargeback rates which helps any negotiating position wrt rates.

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 01/08/2025

This is… intriguing. As far as I’m aware, Stripe is still one of the payment processors used by OnlyFans — of course, some of this is volume, but also we don’t know how bespoke OnlyFans’ contract is (what rates are they paying? are they obliged to do cascading payments?).

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 01/08/2025

See also: all the Mission Winnow stuff.

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 01/08/2025

The damning thing here, really, is using AI to select which submissions to pay attention to. (And okay, that may well be just rebranding of old ML stuff, but who knows.) A random sample would be just about defensible. A selected sample is absolutely not.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Alex Parmar-Yee said the EHRC’s claim that it would seriously consider the submissions in just a month is “simply not credible.” “This is an emergency, and we urge people to tell their MP now – this isn’t how we should make decisions about fundamental rights.” www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/31/e...

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'Rushed out' EHRC trans toilet guidance could be sent to govt as soon as August

An EHRC representative has claimed its trans toilet guidance could be finished and sent to govt by August, court documents have shown.

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 01/08/2025

So why does #Dublin Luas’s Cross City Green Line extension run on a loop around via Marlborough St rather than just go down O’Connell St in both directions? With the central division it looks wide enough for trams to turn, albeit not very fast…

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 29/07/2025

Does anyone have recommendations for what to do in Dublin? Here till Saturday, and while I have plans to do a bunch of the normal touristic stuff, I don’t have that much planned.

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 27/07/2025

Do I know any (by birth) British trans person who has acquired a GRC while living abroad, but where there was never any change of legal sex abroad?

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Ríon_Ann🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The U.K. “online safety” act has had the consequence of censoring LGBT content and forums. This makes trans kids *less* safe. It means we can’t access any information about our community, healthcare or our lives without going through our parents. Together with Labour’s other policy of banning

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 26/07/2025

This country is so deeply… cursed. I have incredibly mixed feelings about digital credentials and the slippery slope of “well now it’s easy to require strong guarantees”, but in a country where so many sites now ask for photos of identity documents via unknown third parties, it doesn’t feel so bad…

A screenshot of the Bluesky app, with a banner at the top:

The laws in your location require you to verify you're an adult to access certain features. Tap to learn more.

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 25/07/2025

Every time I get onto the Heathrow Terminal 5 station platforms, my brain says they’re north/south. Except I know they’re not, and I can’t never figure out where I get rotated by 90°.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/07/2025

This is conversion therapy by gauntlet. I can't imagine being 14 being interrogated by a panel of adults for hours over my gender. This is torturous. What other healthcare is subject to this?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

There's a real attentional trap that all protest movements face and have faced for a long time. If you pull off protests that are polite and civil, even if large, they will struggle to get coverage. Reporters will dismiss them as not newsworthy.

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Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️ @gsnedders.com · 07/06/2025

(can’t find any evidence of anything requiring it — or anything requiring them to issue driving licenses!)

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