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JP Asher

@jpasher.bsky.social
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Somehow a streamer / 🌀 Dreamcast / Luton Town fan / veteran / former journo, newspaper editor, PR / languages: English, français, tiếng việt, עברית, português, Nederlands, 日本語 / she/her / 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 / twitch.tv/jp_asher

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
what it ultimately boils down to is that trans women may never be allowed to win or be the best at anything.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026
I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...
store.steampowered.com
Dressmaker on Steam
Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.
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JP Asher @jpasher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why are you trans? Wrong answers only I heard Ebeneezer Goode by the Shamen, decided that if “Es are good” I should give it a try, and never looked back
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Darlin Slimeball @xodarlin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Final Tantasy Tactics

Gaffgarion saying, “what is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?”
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Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Israel's GovMaps has now removed this imagery from its map platform. soaratlas.com/maps/asia-is... Here it is, in the full original resolution. The fidelity of aerial imagery really highlights the complete destruction. Thanks to @soaratlas.bsky.social for hosting the imagery.
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JP Asher @jpasher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Glad to see the PM taking a stand for the TRUE victims of discrimination in the UK today… … beer-drinkers at men’s football matches. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham brands ban on football fans drinking alcohol in stands as 'discrimination'
The prime minister opposes the law - in place since 1985 - and believes there is a case to remove it.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Andros Townsend got run over" "What?" "Andros Townsend got runover"
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Years of discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community, continuing homophobia and transphobia, all coupled with ageism. Older LGBTQIA+ facing ongoing discrimination/ stereotyping/judgment. Things were meant to be better by now. Instead they just seem to go backwards. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Adam Porter, a housing development manager from the LGBT Foundation charity, says he regularly meets older members of the community in exactly that situation.

"It's very common for people to hide things if they have a carer visiting their home, for example hiding their wedding photos or taking down a trans flag," he says.

"In the case of someone moving into a care environment, that means hiding who they are in their own home, for what could be the rest of their life."
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JP Asher @jpasher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Shenmue Shenmue2
Alt: Shenhua in Shenmue II, outside her house
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2026
I've been doing trans rights related work for a decade and I don't think I've ever had so many friends in community in crisis. People are cracking under the weight of the despair of the current moment. I don't know what to do at this point. It's all so incredibly heavy.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Espuki Fonzu | COMMS OPEN @fonzu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just want to say this is an all-time great headline
It was east London’s hottest lesbian bar. Then a straight builder from Essex was forced to run it
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/09/2026
So utterly depressing and soul destroying to be the target of unrelenting institutional hate while being told it's not even happening.
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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026
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JP Asher @jpasher.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Did that Accent Oracle thing. Took it five times to be sure. Four times out of five it said “South African (Afrikaans)” and guessed confidently that I was from the Cape Town metro area. I have a kind of British/Zimbabwean accent so South African is a decent guess, but I’ve never been to Cape Town.
BoldVoice claims with 99% certainty that JP’s accent is “South African (Afrikaans)”, with 81% certainty for Cape Town, 13% for Johannesburg–Pretoria and 6% for Durban. The other 1% was for Netherlands.
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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is not a protest, this is a political action and should be treated as such www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest
Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.
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Daisy Ons Positifs @daisyletourneur.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Extrait de ma nouvelle fic "les tentacules de la créature se glissaient entre mes jambes avec une sensualité étonnante malgré leur nature métallique. Avec ses appendices fermes et doux a la fois, elle me faisait découvrir des plaisirs inédit... Soudain je l'entendis murmurer "Go go gadgeto chapeau"
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Aidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you're incensed by @channel4.bsky.social's "The Great ADHD myth," they also made "Trans Kids: Time To Talk" in 2018, and the host of that shitshow subsequently founded Genspect, an org that recommends removing your kid from their friends, school and even moving house if they are trans. 1/
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Christian Radnedge @christianrad.com · 13/08/2026
"What would be your first words in Parliament?" "Hello." Ah, fair play to the guy, this has been fun.
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skinskin @skinskintainan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
bluer than blue 3 #art #photo #photography #sky #clouds #tree #twilight #Tainan #ECK ©️skinskin
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Cammy Croft @cammycroft.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
my fanart for my favourite franchise, Ghost in the shell and i love love the new show so much, pure Shirow Masamune bs🥰🥰🥰 #攻殻機動隊 #theghostintheshell
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I mean obviously Stephenson’s idea of how the trans segregated would work and be policed is through social shame. There’s no legal doc to prove one’s “biological sex” to ask for but you Can Confront a suspected trans person and hopefully shame them into compliance
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JP Asher @jpasher.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
After numerous attempts I finally actually won Centurions, with 103 points The immortal team was: Gross Guehi Dier Trippier De Bruyne Maddison Ozil Lookman Semenyo Calvert-Lewin Woo.
The team screen on Centurions, showing the winning team of Gross 17/18, Guehi 25/26, Dier 21/22, Trippier 22/23, De Bruyne 16/17, Maddison 18/19, Ozil 16/17, Lookman 20/21, Semenyo 24/25 and Calvert-Lewin 23/24The team grade screen, showing team grade A+, manager grade A+, team quality and expected points 100.0, management skill 0.5 points below optimal and season luck 25.9 points above averageThe Centurions team screen, table and results, showing my team with 103 points at the top of the Premier League after a record of 33 wins, four draws and one defeat. Second place was Liverpool 17/18 with 30 wins, three draws and five losses, for a total of 93 points. My team's one defeat during the season a 2-1 loss at home against Chelsea 19/20, and the four draws were at home against Brenford 25/26, at home against Manchester City 17/18, at home against Liverpool 17/18 and away at Manchester City 17/18. My team won all other matches.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/07/2026
Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
amnesty.org.uk
An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026
Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/07/2026
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
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Tracker_TD @tracker-td.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
now reopening SEGAWorld Trocadero is a policy I can get behind
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18/07/2026
83,000 people attended Belfast Pride last year. Last night, I was at the launch of this year's Pride. Everybody who spoke, spoke of the desperate need to protect trans people. Meanwhile, the LGB Alliance disco each year gets about 100 people if they're lucky.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is actually CRAZY work - we are more anti trans than several countries including the US, which are arguably not even liberal democracies
Views on Access to Facilities
Matching Gender
Identity
By Country
0. How much do you agree or disagree with the following?
Transgender people should be allowed to use single-sex facilities (e.g., public restrooms) that correspond to the gender they identify with


(Great Britain is at bottom of list of 26 countries)
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2
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Mikeado @mikeado.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Big scrap at Altrincham v Wythenshawe friendly last night. Abandoned before half time. One lad's mum ran onto the pitch to tell him off for getting involved FFS
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Joy🏳️‍⚧️ 又 ($2,633/3,000) @joy.sprouts.social · 12/07/2026
Long ago when the four nations lived in harmony.
Game cube, Dreamcast, Xbox, PlayStation 2 signage at a 2001 convention
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What the hell is this? They should have lost by 30.
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 01/07/2026
From the Trans Exile Network. Please share.
Key points:
1. A legal change of sex/gender is no longer recognised as valid in the UK.
2. Any sexual contact between a trans person and a non-trans person can be regarded as a sexual assault or rape, due to a lack of consent, unless the trans person discloses that they are trans first.
3. It is official State guidance that if a trans person uses a facility for the sex they identify as, the business is likely to be committing discrimination against non- trans people and guidance stresses that this may be harassment of the non- trans person; this can be a crime as well as a civil wrong.
4. Trans women are being moved from female prisons to male ones, irespective of whether they have had surgery, or other factors.
5. The Government has advised that signs be put up on doors, informing people of the restrictions on sex-specific spaces (in effect "no trans' warnings).
6. The Government has advised that people may be questioned about their presence if they are believed to be 'transgender' based on their physical appearance. There are no documents in the UK which are regarded as proof of sex.
7. The UK police have introduced a policy that searches of trans people must be done by an oficer of the same birth sex. For example a post-operative trans woman may be searched by a man.
8. In an emergency or for routine treatment on the National Health Service trans people must not be placed in single sex wards other than their birth sex (eg a post operative trans woman must be on a male ward).
9. rans women no longer have the right to equal pay with men and corre spondingl trans men no longer have a right to equal pay with women.
10.For visitors entering the UK for sports, association or club activity, whether amateur or professional there is a risk of issues over venues and competitions being obliged to exclude trans competitors or treat them in a way different from their home countries
A copy of the Travel Advisory is attached
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Max58 @max58.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Dormin #ShadowOfTheColossus
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I’m a trans woman in my forties. Growing up without social media—and during Section 28—I knew nothing about transness and I knew no-one like me. I almost didn’t make it; I dread to think how many didn’t. You can’t tell me that returning to this state is not an intended effect of this proposed ban.
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 14/06/2026
This is terrorism. Threatening a minority for existing in a public space should be an arrestable offence. Of course they just took a random photo of police and security conducting completely unrelated business in the shopping centre. Their behaviour here is intended to be intimidating/threatening.
TERFs intimidating people outside Victoria Centre with transphobic signs.
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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Happy Pride month, everybody. I'm celebrating it the only way I know how: by publishing a 12,000-word report about how LGBTQ+ content is censored within video games across the world. You can read the full paper below 👇 videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/trapped-in...
videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com
Trapped in the network: the rise of LGBTQ+ censorship in games and what we can do about it
Trapped in the Network is a new report from Video Games Industry Memo which explores rising censorship of video game content related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and all other sexual ...
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
an hour after this was posted, a labour minister told parliament that customers should "alert member of staff" if a trans person walks into the "wrong toilet"
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Steph Richards She/Her @stephrichards.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
THREAD: I AM NOT GOING QUIETLY: The EHRC’s New Draft Code is erasing my human rights. I am 74 years old, and I am watching my human rights being stripped away in real time. 1/17
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Garnish Alexandros 👑🕊️✨ @bhujerbah.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
People can say what they will, but the Sega Dreamcast is and will always be one of the best consoles ever created in human history
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 25/05/2026
The funniest thing about the Reform Makerfield candidate saying "I'm sexist, sorry but I am" is that *four days ago* the Daily Express rejected Burnham on the basis he was anti-women www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
its incredible that after all of this shit there are still people that can treat it like it's fucking gossip girl or whatever
Dan Duggan, New York Giants beat writer, at the Athletic, in a piece published on Sunday, May 24 2026 writes 

I don’t care that New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart introduced President Donald Trump at a rally in New York on Friday. I’m not saying that to avoid taking sides on a controversial topic. I genuinely don’t care about politics or others’ political views. When I turn on cable news once every four years on election night, I have no idea which channel CNN or Fox News is on my TV. If anyone wishes to judge my apolitical outlook, I couldn’t care less.
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