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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I saw this post and wanted to address it. If you look at social media today, you’ll see good, empathetic people admitting they are losing hope. They look at climate change, rising authoritarianism, and corporate greed and feel entirely powerless. If you feel this way, I want

I hate to broadcast this on social media, but I know l am not alone when I candidly state that l am losing the will to live. In my 53 years, I have never known a time when I could not locate a semblance of hope until now. It's only a feeling, but an
uncomfortable one, one that makes me feel powerless. The future of the planet, genocide, the threat of being ruled and surveilled by tech overlords, the corruption, amorality, the lack of empathy, fascism on the rise globally w/GOP in support.

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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We are being tested to see if we will fold. We won’t. Rest when you need to, log off when it’s too heavy, but never, ever give up hope. That is exactly what they want. Let's keep moving, keep fighting, and keep looking out for one another. It might

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The intense harm that this causes, ignoring all science and medicine, to appease a few rich bigots and Spectator columnists. Trans kids exist, have always existed, will continue to exist. You can help them or harm them. This cowardly government has chosen the worst harm. Forever shame.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You may think I post too often about trans people? Tough. I want them to have lives of joy and freedom and safety and love. But until all of us are free, none of us are free. Protect queer kids. Protect trans kids. Rights can taken away in an instant. That’s why I shout.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

…contextualising the media attacks on Jason Arday…

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

1/ My great-grandfather was conscripted into the Wehrmacht. His diaries say he loathed Nazism and antisemitism. He marched anyway. I still have his mess kit and I take it camping. Both halves of that are load-bearing and I would rather hold them than pick one. 🧵

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Our rapid disillusionment with political leaders is treated by much of the media as some kind of pathology. But what I see is these leaders backtracking on their promises, dashing people's hopes and serving the ultra-rich ahead of the rest of the population. Why wouldn't we be disillusioned?

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let’s say this plainly - a deadly combination of corporate greed and war is driving us towards global food shortages where the poorest people will starve. We need politics to step us back from the brink, invest in renewables not weapons, food not bombs. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

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Grim signs the globe is about to run short of food

Just as the global economy was adjusting to higher fuel prices, a new inflationary wave is about to hit. This time, the shortages will involve food and the poorest nations will be the worst affected.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

HG Wells is alleged to have remarked "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race”. You could see this shocking chart as an index of civilisation. A country which gets this issue so badly wrong is likely to fail in many other ways.

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 20/08/2026

Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight

A very very old photo taken with one of my first pocket cameras. An endless field of flowers fading away into a sky of blue clouds

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/08/2026

We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇

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Jason Arday Letter | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 28/07/2026

Jason Arday is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge's history – and now rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with untrue accusations of plagiarism. Not on our watch. Add your name in solidarity with Jason here: goodlaw.social/jg0w

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Ein Angriff auf dich ist ein Angriff auf uns alle.

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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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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 26/07/2026

Theres a lot of loud hateful voices, but days like this prove there's way more of us than them. Here are messages from Trans+ Pride to the community and allies 🏳️‍⚧️

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The greatest global threat to both peace and a habitable planet is the government of the USA. It has been so for a long time, but Trump has nixed the deniability. We should stop treating it as an ally that has mysteriously gone astray and start treating it as a hazard to be avoided and contained.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 22/07/2026

Sex Matters is a charity that loves to hate trans people. And your tax money is paying for it. The stuff they spin isn’t just false, it’s dangerous. So we reported them to the Charity Commission with a dossier of evidence on their staff & trustees. ✊Help us fight back: goodlaw.social/anrx

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.

These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need.

In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It tells you everything you need to know about the state of British society when the Anne Frank Trust has to step in because of the dehumanising attacks on the LGBT community. What a disgrace we’ve become

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Katie Hopkins has been visiting the hateful Moygashel bonfire, where last year they burned effigies of refugees on a boat, and this year they are burning a mock up of a mosque. She is running an event in The Europa Hotel, owned by Hastings hotels, this coming weekend. Let them know your thoughts -

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Look after yourselves this week, in our record-breaking heat. And don't let this or any government backtrack on its climate commitments: both to prevent the worst and to help us adapt to the escalating impacts to which - unfortunately and infuriatingly - we are now committed. #35YearsOfFailure

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

History shows us there are 2 options when faced with a rising far right. 1. Deal with it quickly and decisively. 2. Let it win. The great majority reject it. But it doesn't need majority support: just enough thugs to intimidate everyone else. Weakness and indecision by government let it rise.

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

BREAKING: Indigenous white people commit riot and arson. Incompetent indigenous white police fire water cannon. Indigenous white politicians who fucked up our economy discuss "legitimate concerns" in lying newspapers owned by indigenous white tax evaders. Immigrants somehow remain the problem.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The latest installment of a story that just gets grimmer and grimmer. If you thought such appointments ended with the Tories, you'll be sorely disappointed. www.ft.com/content/747e...

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Top health official had close ties with Palantir partner at time of NHS contract

Scrutiny of Samantha Jones, permanent secretary at the Department of Health, comes amid pressure for ministers to use break clause in key contract

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Louis Redux @louisredux.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I am significantly unimpressed with this racist country right now. It's tough to remember that there is a grieving family at the heart of this. A life lost. A young man destroyed. That's the important bit. This family. This kid.

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Nightmareliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 03/06/2026

MPs standing up for trans rights are likely to face, in one way or another, angry pushback from anti-trans campaigners. I think it's important that they hear from trans people and our allies, too. That we appreciate their support. That it matters. Don't let the only thing they hear be anger!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds

Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 01/06/2026

“The police are supposed to protect and serve, but too often women are ignored and abandoned. We can’t stand by while more women lose their lives to male violence.” Join us in supporting Michaela Hall’s family to hold the police and probation services to account: goodlaw.social/he9u

On the night she was killed, Michaela called a friend in fear for her life. When she screamed and dropped the phone, her friend called the police. They knew who they were dealing with. They knew Kendall’s history of domestic violence. They had been to the house many times before.

But when the officers arrived, nobody answered the door. They checked the garden and tapped at the back window. And then they left.

They knew Michaela was in immediate danger. They knew they could break down the door to save her life.

Instead, they walked away – leaving Michaela inside.

When the state knows someone is at real and immediate risk of serious harm, it has a duty to act. The police failed to meet that duty.

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

If the heat bothers you, plant a tree. 🌳 If the water bothers you, plant a tree. 🌳 If you like fruit, plant a tree. 🌳 If you like birds, plant a tree. 🌳 And if you like life, plant many trees. 🌳 Please plant trees—plant hope. 🌳

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

How do you turn people off the green transition and deliver them to the far right? Through #ClimateAuthoritarianism. The government seeks to coerce, not to persuade. And it's turning a planning system based on consent into one based on decree. This week's column.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Britain’s green transition should belong to everyone. Why is Labour so intent on stopping us having our say? | George Monbiot

Tearing up planning and using protest laws to criminalise local people – this isn’t how to build the broad consent needed, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 26/05/2026

Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight

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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 24/05/2026

really good, and stresses the point that what’s being done to trans people in the uk is being done by a small elite cohort with no democratic mandate whatever

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

‘Total gridlock’ at Dover as 8,000 travellers face new EU border checks. Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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‘Total gridlock’ at Dover as 8,000 travellers face new EU border checks

Travellers are facing long queues on what is expected to be one of the hottest days of the year so far

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 22/05/2026

This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.

Cartoon Separate But Equal from the Guardian.
Link to access provided alt text:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/22/ella-baron-on-the-ehrcs-transgender-guidance-cartoon

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I feel strongly about this, plus it's personal (Brexit has affected my family profoundly). This petition seems to be doing well, but could do with more shares and signatures if you're eligible (British Citizen or UK Resident) and feel strongly about this too. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK

We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"Our community is scared and exhausted but we are fighting back." It's important that all of us who stand with the LGBTIQA+ community support the Good Law project in their appeal against the high court decision. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

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Sian Berry MP responds to EHRC single-sex space guidance - Green Party

Sian Berry MP said:“While some consideration seems to have been given to the utter impracticality of implementing the previous version of this code, under the demands of the Supreme Court judgment, th...

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TransHealthNow @dadtrans.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The Samaritans are calling out a 40% rise in suicidal Trans people using their services due to this Labour Government & their anti-Trans legislation. @andyburnham.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social Segregation kills. www.samaritans.org/news/samarit...

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Samaritans responds to EHRC guidance after 40% rise in calls following Supreme Court ruling

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Anne Trans+ Healthcare 🏳️‍⚧️ @annehealthcare.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A message from Susie & Lizzie, co-founders of Anne Health:

Yesterday the Equality and Human Rights Commission published its revised code of practice. We want to be honest about what this is: a significant rollback of protections that many trans and non-binary people have relied on, and a moment that will be felt deeply and personally by so many in our community.

We know the legal minds who are part of and who support our community are already working hard to understand the full ramifications. That work matters, and we're watching it closely.

But right now, we just want to say this:
We see you. We love you. And we are not going anywhere.
To every trans and non-binary person feeling the weight of this today, your pain is valid. The sense of betrayal is real. Please look after yourself, and check in with your trans and non-binary siblings who may be struggling.

Trans people have always existed. Trans people will always exist. Anne Health was built for you, by people who stand beside you — and we will continue to fight alongside you, in every space we occupy.

With love,
Susie & Lizzie
Co-founders, Anne Health

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Nightmareliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 21/05/2026

Esse House can send you a radar key for a small donation. Worth considering 👇🏻

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.

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