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Bubble bath enthusiast; dog lover; tea drinker. She/They

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 13/10/2026
Really don't think people outside the UK really understand how culturally and politically mainstreamed transphobia has become here.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026
Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Destroying one of the UKs most successful sectors just to be racist.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/10/2026
The shameless abuse and violence against trans people by these so-called "medical experts" continues to this day, unabated, because the vulnerability of the trans population is downplayed and the harms against us go unreported and unpunished. We are positioned as aggressors even as we are discarded.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
I'll give you the short version: they sponsored & supported the most influential AIDS denialist group of the 2000's, resulting in national policies in South Africa that caused an estimated 330,000 deaths there. They have never apologized or acknowledged what they did. medium.com/the-monthly/...
medium.com
The Foo Fighters’ AIDS denialism should be on the record
By Martin McKenzie-Murray in The Monthly
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.
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Karen @karendotscott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What a hero. This is just getting worse and worse for the government. They simply cannot win here. De-proscribe PA and blame the last lot - it’s a common enough tactic!
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 23/09/2026
Andy Burnham now presides over the return of Section 28. No mainstream news outlet has asked him about that.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There’s going to be a lot of this stuff now, so the words you need to keep in mind are “permission structure”.
Josh Glancy @joshglancy • 13m
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Alan Milburn and Pat McFadden are creating a permission structure for Labour to make welfare cuts. When the time comes, they must take it, or watch Farage/the Tories do it their way
My @thetimes
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 21/09/2026
I’ve been releasing music DIY for 25yrs and I believe that should always be a viable option for artists. The double sale of Bandcamp was a wake up call so earlier this year, I joined Subvert.fm, a member-owned music distribution platform. As a co-op, Subvert can’t simply be sold to investors. 1/
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Labour Women’s Conference is being boycotted by several unions - including Unison - because it is transphobic.
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Labour Women’s Conference faces boycotts from major unions over trans exclusion
The annual Labour Party National Women's Conference is facing boycotts from major affiliated unions over the exclusion of trans women.
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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)
a white man, a jamaican woman, an african man, and a black man walk into a restaurant....
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Karen @karendotscott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good sense prevails, thankfully! Nuts that we got here in the first place! www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
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UK court clears woman of voicing support for Hamas in university speech
Sarah Cotte said her comments were not in support of Hamas, but in support of Palestinians' right to resist.
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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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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
This is why I do not and will not subscribe to your Substack.
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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fiscal rules and the Office for Budget Responsibility date back to 2010. They did not exist before George Osborne invented them to drive his austerity agenda. They are not some immutable part of governance, set in stone and older than the hills. They are 16 years old and preceded The Decline.
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Laura Platt 🌈 @lauraplattmusic.com · 02/09/2026
If you're angry about this, please turn that anger into direct action and make sure to donate to or share Sion's top surgery GoFundMe - gofund.me/3198c13de
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Donate to Support Sion’s top surgery, organized by Luned Jewell
Hi, my name’s Luned and my sibling Sion (they/them) is a trans non-binary person seeking commu… Luned Jewell needs your support for Support Sion’s top surgery
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Karen @karendotscott.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Me too though I’m not expecting much. It’s just exhausting at this point…
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 02/09/2026
Do not speak to the BBC if you are trans. Just don't do it. Tell them to go fuck themselves. Even if you know the reporter and they are not an ass, tell them to go fuck themselves anyway because they work for the BBC and their editors will do this regardless of the journalist's intent.
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Karen @karendotscott.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m reading Cannery Row. Jesus Christ is it amazing. So great to live in a world where I can be almost 50, have been an avid reader my whole life & have barely scratched the surface of the surface of spectacular books out there.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’
Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti
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Karen @karendotscott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Bet.
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Karen @karendotscott.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
OK, definitely the wrong people . Christ. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
theguardian.com
Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80
A prolific performer across stage, screen and TV, the actor starred in Legend, Clue and It, but will always be associated with the flamboyantly camp rock’n’roll musical in which he made his breakthrou...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A year ago I wrote one of my most popular posts: "the financial crisis theory of everything". It looks at how the 2008 crash led to Trump, the rise of the radical right, Brexit, the war in Ukraine etc... I've taken off the paywall so it's now free to read. samf.substack.com/p/the-financ...
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The financial crisis theory of everything
Last month there was a fascinating poll from More in Common asking people to pick the main reason Britain is “on the wrong track”.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"The (mistaken) idea seems to be that any hypothesis—no matter how bigoted—can be safely postulated and tested (...) [But this] overlooks two important false assumptions: that hypotheses themselves are value neutral, and that we have unlimited resources to debunk misconceived ideas."
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Go on! Tell us the one about the so-called ‘human rights organisation’ that backed down from supporting a vulnerable minority, just because some bigot threatened to sue them. Yeah, that one always gets everyone rolling in the aisles.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Again, let’s recall what type of person gets appointed as an anti-extremism advisor, after long years of indulging this rubbish
TERROR VISION
THE government's "independent" reviewer of terrorism legislation has used a speech at a right-wing think-tank whose funders include arms firms and energy companies to call for new counter-subversion laws to limit political dissent... including anti-war protests and
"extreme" environmentalism.
In a speech last week at the Policy Exchange think-tank, Jonathan Hall KC expressed concern that such dissent could be exploited by foreign agents to cause "long-term damage to the national security of the UK" , such as a "loss of
trust in a government trying to raise defence spending
Hall is meant to be an independent voice to help make anti-terror laws "fair, necessary and proportionate".
. But his counter-subversion call
extends far beyond existing laws, identifying areas where he belleves bad foreign actors could cultivate domestic dissent in the UK. These range from "contentious foreign policy issues such as Gaza", "extreme" environmentalism he hiding?
inoss reasoning - and what is
'Old Sparky'
and, er, "Scottish independence", to presenting
"masculinity" as "toxic"
questioning "the very
definition of woman" and trying to make "white people... ashamed and non-white people aggrieved".
He admitted that previous MI5-led counter-subversion had been dropped because it was linked to McCarthyism and "unjustified infiltrations of domestic protest groups" by undercover cops, but argued that "allowing judges to decide" on how new laws are applied would prevent abuses.
Policy Exchange has a history of promoting anti-protest laws; and its backers include companies potentially facing just the sort of protests Hall links to "subversion" - arms firms Northrop Grumman and Boeing, or energy firms Southern Gas Networks, Octopus Energy and Drax. His call for tougher laws on national security to "save democracy from itself" gives a green light for more authoritarian measures by government - and authoritarian measures by government-and security forces and suggests a watchdog stra…
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This was document freely available and free to distribute. Lets preserve it the old fashioned way: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:eb3e6f89f9c71404643bc7b9bb6d74963017dda9&dn=Report_A_growing_threat_the_anti_rights_movement_in_the_UK_July.pdf Pop that into your friendly torrent program, no host to dmca.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...
dn711306.ca.archive.org
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Lazzie BOO!! 😱 @lazzieb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
this year, Dr Beth Upton was hounded out not only of her job - after vindication at tribunal - but the country, by the press & Gender Critical eradicationists as a single body. they kept publishing, implying she had ripped off the taxpayer when the NHS trust backed her. this is their murderous MO.
Screenshot from 'Mail+ Editions'

A photograph is featured of Dr Beth Upton wearing her hair down over an autumnal scarf and brown coat.
Caption reads:
Tribunal evidence: Dr Beth Upton accused some female colleagues of being 'bigoted'

Headline:
Now trans doctor walks away from NHS... and a legal battle that cost taxpayers £320,000

Lede:
Medic at centre of female spaces row with nurse quits job in A&E

By Elysia Taylor-Hearn

FEBRUARY 16, 2026

THE transgender doctor at the centre of a...
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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Worth noting here that Benjamin never went to Cambridge. He was offered the role of visiting fellow at Trinity before the right wing press demonised him, and the college reneged. Nothing changes
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19/08/2026
He names loads of journalists and guess how many are vocal and prominent GCs? A long but important read.
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Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The only functioning democracy in the region says…
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 17/08/2026
This doesn't just happen. This isn't caused by baseline ignorance or racism. It's because they've been relentlessly told this is the case by our media. Regulate the fucking media. They are the root cause of literally all of this mess. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Public in England and Wales wrongly think most killers are minority ethnic
Research from King’s College London finds that Reform voters’ perceptions were furthest from the truth
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 08/07/2026
Not only is the uk's media completely ungovernable and free to target anyone they please, true or not, they also refuse to report on the wrongs of a major section of society that is tearing it apart. As I've said for years, until the UK media changes, nothing else will.
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jimspriggs65.bsky.social @jimspriggs65.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Another famous victory for our disgusting UK press. Damn them to hell.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The EHRC have been giving privileged access to gender critical campaigners again today. I will say, I do find it interesting how much these campaigners are now vocally aligning themselves more with Christian nationalists.
Darlington Nurses Union on Facebook: We and our lawyers have met with Chair of the EHRC Mary-Ann Stephenson to raise our concerns relating to the implementation of the Supreme Court's ruling, NHS Trust policies, and the treatment of professionals holding Christian and gender-critical beliefs.A representative of the Darlington nurses with Mary-Ann Stephenson, chair of the EHRC.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
To be very clear: if this was just “compliance with the law”, then there would be no need for a radicalised wingnut zillionaire to offer every wacko with free time on their hands funding to bring lawsuits against the NHS.
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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
You heard that a big meta-review of ChatGPT effects on learning got retracted? Here's a short thread of studies unpacking why it - but also many other AIED studies - should not be trusted as guides for policymakers or educators. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/i...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
NYT stating this like it’s normal when it’s absolutely berserk.
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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I wish my country would spend a small fraction of the energy it wastes on worrying about who pees where in M&S on ACTUALLY making things safer for women.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yes: it has been the locked down mainstream political consensus for most of a decade that the far right are correct about migration, that their freedom to behave as badly as they want is of paramount concern and that if action is required, it is in harsher crackdowns on their detractors.
The government and Home Office again placing the right to protest and 'legitimate concerns' front and centre in their response to the attempted murder of people based on the colour of their skin.
Sunder Katwala (sun... @sunde... • 9h
This is a really inadequate Home Office statement in these circumstancds
It empathises with this protest as expressing legitimate concerns, singles out violence against police, and simply fails to say "violence threatening asylum seekers, migrants & other minorities is shocking + wrong"
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A playbook repeated from Turkey to Norway to Belarus. Rather than recognising it Europe’s right took an opportunity to pile on to a centre-left leader they resent: domestic troubles aside, Sanchez has outperformed them on economic growth while seeing a green energy switch pay off
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Curse of the Libby Dead @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Who remembers how pleased with itself the BBC was its "exposé" about asylum seekers faking being gay
Migration about her own experience with the Home Office, “I had scars and plasters from the violent attacks back home, but still the Home Office didn’t believe I was a lesbian.”
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Your Scary Ad Here @cooluser354.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
bsky.app/profile/dhot... Amnesty will soon capitulate to the christofascist allies of gender critical terf ideology, why should anyone support them?
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 29/07/2026
An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price. www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
lgbtqnation.com
An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price.
Kirralie Smith admitted in court she didn't have any evidence to back up her claim about a trans woman injuring two cis women.
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