Sign in

KD Smith

@kd-smith.bsky.social
7.1K followers 865 following 6.7K posts

I love animals, knitting, gardening, clean air, chick peas, photography and tractors. Ancient feminist. She/Her. Was once a cat, or maybe a mouse? Instablock Covid-deniers and bigots. Naw to AI. Capybaras forever! campsite.bio/wild_strawberry

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by KD Smith
Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 14h
There are multiple state and local laws in place meant to limit collaboration between federal immigration agents and local IL cops, CPD included. But as has now been reported on by multiple outlets, local law enforcement in IL has repeatedly assisted ICE anyway.
injusticewatch.org
Illinois promised to protect immigrants. Local officials helped deport them anyway.
In over a third of Illinois counties, cops, sheriffs, and even prosecutors helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office, despi...
25519
Reposted by KD Smith
Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 14h
It's eugenics, but it's also something stranger than eugenics, because, yes, chronically ill people are more susceptible to communicable disease, but it's not like anyone is immune. They are advocating to make everyone sicker. "Murder-suicide" theory of fascism as yet undefeated.
34416
Reposted by KD Smith
Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 13h
Viktor Orban travelled to Belfast yesterday, appearing alongside the Northern Irish anti-abortion group Precious Life, "celebrating" preventing Belfast City Hall from joining"International Safe Abortion Day" Precious Life's former director, Jim Dowson, is a far-right extremist with ties to Hungary.
Catholic Arena
@CatholicArena
Viktor Orban was in Belfast last night at City Hall

Precious Life and other prolife groups were celebrating after successfully preventing City Hall from being lit up to celebrate 'International Safe Abortion Day' 

📸 Precious LifeAnti-abortionist resigns from job
Anti-abortion poster The anti-abortion campaign has come in for criticism

The leader of the controversial anti-abortion group Precious Life is reported to have quit his job because of his views.

Jim Dowson, 33, who has admitted previous involvement with hard-line loyalist groups in the west of Scotland, was told he should curb his activities or face dismissal. Notorious far-right extremist returns to Scotland to fund growing anti-immigration protests
Jim Dowson has spent the last 20 years fundraising for the far-right in ­Scotland, Northern Ireland, Hungary and the US.
315167
Reposted by KD Smith
404 Media @404media.co · 14h
The Trump administration is using a program from the 1980s to force cities around the country to funnel their ongoing Flock, Axon and other ALPR data into federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...
317387
Reposted by KD Smith
Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 13h
The picture for LGBTQ+ Americans has changed in recent years, and for trans folks the change has been the most extreme. That's the upshot of a new report, out today from the Movement Advancement Project. More from @billiejsweeney.bsky.social here: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
assignedmedia.org
Wave of Anti-Queer Extremism Is Charted in New Report - Assigned Media
Movement Advancement Project illustrates its speed and “near laser” focus on trans people.
16222
Reposted by KD Smith
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026
If a politician crying on a stage in a speech he would have planned meticulously is all you need to jump back on board the Labour train, you were never really off it and care more about performative politics than actual cruelty.
825343
Reposted by KD Smith
Kris (he/him) @portlandkris.bsky.social · 16h
This is such very excellent news.
052
Reposted by KD Smith
Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 19h
Moreover, it remains an open question what pro-trans Labour members believe the 'problem' even is. Given their tactics, rhetoric, and lack of success, it's easy to argue they see the problem not as being 'Labour transphobia' but 'Labour's poor reputation'. Mixed motives make dubious allies.
181
Reposted by KD Smith
Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 19h
The key words here are 'trying' and 'problem'. What trans folx and allies in Labour have tried has been so minimal, so ineffective, and so incommensurate with the scale of damage done *by their own party* that it strains credulity to argue they deserve credit merely for the attempt.
1121
Reposted by KD Smith
Katie Neeves - Cool2BTrans - Trans Ambassador @cool2btrans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trans kids are no longer safe in UK schools! Please watch my video about my friend's 13-year-old transgender daughter who has been forced to leave school and be home-educated, due to transphobia, DIRECTLY brought about by new anti-trans guidelines for all UK schools. youtu.be/2oQKPYs4k58
youtu.be
Trans kids are no longer safe in UK schools
YouTube video by Cool2BTrans
38235
Reposted by KD Smith
Bertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 19h
While Labour is putting AI more and more at the forefront of the NHS, research shows that it gets 80% of first diagnoses wrong. How is this progress? It is dangerous. www.academicjobs.com/es-eu/higher...
academicjobs.com
AI Diagnosis Failure 80%: Europe Unis Respond | AcademicJobs
Explore the JAMA study on AI's 80% primary diagnosis failure and how European universities like Oxford and Imperial are innovating solutions in medical educati…
284
Reposted by KD Smith
agirlintheshed @agirlintheshed.bsky.social · 19h
Afnan is doing her best to support the children in Gaza, you can help her here: tinyurl.com/AfnanEducation and by sharing, tysm x
tinyurl.com
Help Afnan rebuild education in Gaza
My name is Afnan. ​I'm a teacher... My passion for life has always been within the walls of the classroom. Before the War, I spent three continuous years entrenching myself in my educational instituti...
063
Reposted by KD Smith
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19h
Or you could just get a library card and read it for free on pressreader.com
57111
Reposted by KD Smith
Space Yak 🇻🇪🇨🇺🇵🇸 @spaceyak.bsky.social · 20h
A major reason we're discussing the triple lock now is that wage growth has been so shitty thanks to austerity so the state pension rose far faster than earnings.
074
Reposted by KD Smith
Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 20h
It wasn't just the funding cuts either, at the same time David Cameron decided to switch more services from central to local government, telling them they had to do more with less
2205
Reposted by KD Smith
M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 20h
Why is this ruinous and uncorrected tory austerity rarely discussed?
During the 2010s, councils' overall core funding per person fell by 26% in real terms, on average, with higher council tax revenues only partially offsetting a 46% fall in funding from central government. But these cuts affected areas differently: in the most deprived tenth of councils, funding per person fell by 35%, compared with 15% in the least deprived areas. Councils in the North and London were also relatively harder hit.
78028
Reposted by KD Smith
Heather Herbert is Baking Bread. @heatherherbert.uk · 20h
Fur coats don't trickle down. And they never have
081
KD Smith @kd-smith.bsky.social · 20h
Flashback to 2021. Democrats controlled White House, Senate and House. As they squandered every chance to fix damage wrought by the GOP, party faithful were duped by every "hopeful" word from their leaders. Dem politicians still miss every chance to stop GOP rot as the party marches further right.
130
Reposted by KD Smith
Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 22h
Look we do need people badgering labour on trans rights but all its doing is slowing or stopping the decline, not restoring fuck all. The ONLY way labour will ever codify trans rights is just like the last time, when forced to by a court. Its not gonna be your meetings with them
512813
Reposted by KD Smith
Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 22h
For clarity, when the CPS says there is “no appellate courts authority” concerning trans or non-binary defendants, it means this: The Court of Appeal has NEVER ruled that the law works the way the CPS now says prosecutors should apply it to trans people. They're making it up as they go!
1143
Reposted by KD Smith
Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 22h
These people have literally never experienced humanity in a normal and relatable way
27012
Reposted by KD Smith
Adam Pelling-Deeves @adampellindeeve.bsky.social · 23h
I have a horrible feeling this is all just campaigning for the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, and will be memory-holed on October the 9th.
2423
Reposted by KD Smith
Alex B @alexfail.bsky.social · 23h
I remember the 2015 leadership election when the Guardian was going all in for Burnham and it basically feels like the commentariat have now finally got what they want and want and are acting like the last 10 years didn't happen.
082
Reposted by KD Smith
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h
Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”
571299376
Reposted by KD Smith
Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/09/2026
This is a photograph of the edge of one of Saturn's rings, looking down from above. Those spiky dark shapes are shadows. Shadows of giant towers of ice and dust grains clumped together that rise up to three *kilometres* above the 10-m thick rings.
A series of bands cross the image from left to right, brighter at the bottom and darkening towards the top. A band of empty space is at the top of the image. About a quarter down from the top is a complex pattern of jagged, spiky shadows cast onto the rings. The icy towers casting the shadows are seen here at a highly oblique angle.
16459131
Reposted by KD Smith
haxar.bsky.social @haxar.bsky.social · 22h
Nice to see John Carpenter's The Thing getting political though.
071
Reposted by KD Smith
Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 22h
For anyone in Belfast City Council - these AI photos were posted by a Belfast City Councillor to inflate crowds at a damp squib political event and to deceive the public.
075
Reposted by KD Smith
Dreamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 22h
Your infrequent reminder that segregation is always bad. Always. No exceptions.
1283
Reposted by KD Smith
Dreamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 22h
Call me cynical, but an incumbent government with a massive majority trying to sell itself on a message of "hope" is, IMHO, a sign of massive failure to achieve anything (positive) of substance in its first two years. Which means... I'm not buying it. And not just because of the transphobia.
0142
Reposted by KD Smith
Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 22h
'All of them, and now Andy Burnham, signed up to the belief that the purpose of government was to meet the needs of the financial services sector, and not the people of this country.' www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...
taxresearch.org.uk
It is time for people of courage to walk away from Labour
As I say on fiscal rules in the glossary to this blog: Fiscal rules are targets set by governments to limit borrowing, debt, or deficits over time. They are presented as if they are neutral, technical...
083
Reposted by KD Smith
Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaciem.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
I was at UT at the same time as Jon Hamm and I remember the news articles. I've never understood how he has a career. Apparently him having to defend himself in a few interviews over the years is way too much focus on the mistakes of his youth, though.
0161
Reposted by KD Smith
Ed Timbrook @edtimbrook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s wild … At Florida A&M university they literally hazed the drum major of the band to death. He was the captain of the marching band and they killed him. This is a true story! 
1111
Reposted by KD Smith
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is also why I hate Jon Hamm. He beat and tortured a freshman in the process of hazing that included dragging him around by his genitals that were looped around the claw of a hammer. The pledge suffered severe injuries and dropped out of school. I can’t get over that
451252106
Reposted by KD Smith
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
322579455
Reposted by KD Smith
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too
563232438
Reposted by KD Smith
Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 22h
If it wasn't for Zack Polanski Wes Streeting would probably be Prime Minister. But either way, if you believe in even vaguely left wing policies, it makes sense to keep up pressure from the left. Burnham will certainly be getting pressure from the right wing media, Reform and billionaires lobbyists.
2234
Reposted by KD Smith
Bex @bexg93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Liberals after Burnham's milquetoast speech
static.klipy.com
Fell For It Again Award
ALT: Fell For It Again Award
183
Reposted by KD Smith
Dreamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 23h
Yet more proof that tech bros and their apologists have no soul, no understanding of the human condition, no appreciation of the value of creativity to its creators and to humanity more generally. They’re empty husks. I reject their mechanised slop, in its entirety.
2154
Reposted by KD Smith
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026
I don't mean to be that person but this is a Labour event and Labour are the government and Labour appointed the chair of the EHRC and Labour could stop this all any time they wanted.
1341181
KD Smith @kd-smith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Disturbing but important read. Content warning for sexual violence and institutional misogyny.
031
Reposted by KD Smith
Diana Parker-Kafka @dianaparker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I learned in this piece that Cornell refused to give the survivor a refund of her tuition so she could transfer to a safe school after the attack. Many people need to be named and fired or the school should be shut tf down.
084
Reposted by KD Smith
Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you are invited to her gallery opening
A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.
343119491
Reposted by KD Smith
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hey, i haven't had blood testing in over 2 years. i've been putting it off bcos of the cost. if you can donate or repost id appreciate it. thanks. 🤍
gofundme.com
Donate to help sloane with medical costs, organized by Sloane Lysbeth
hi, my name is sloane. im a transgender woman living in england. im currently … Sloane Lysbeth needs your support for help sloane with medical costs
791103
Reposted by KD Smith
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Israel Bombs Newly Built Water Desalination Plant in Gaza 🎥
unicornriot.ninja
Israel Bombs Newly Built Water Desalination Plant in Gaza - UNICORN RIOT
Israeli airstrikes destroyed a newly built water desalination plant in Gaza City on Aug. 24, 2026, see the video here.
27244
Reposted by KD Smith
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How Burnham is going to try and balance proposals for a National Care Service, while supporting Mahmood's immigration policies is going to...interesting, and by "interesting" I mean fundamentally unworkable. It just cannot work with the hostile immigration policies being pushed.
311233
Reposted by KD Smith
M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There’s a lot of saying but not much evidence of doing Ian
5475
Reposted by KD Smith
Restating the obvious… @norcalgardenofeden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Before investing in your child’s future: pick their ass up off the frozen ice…
011
Reposted by KD Smith
Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lost in the discourse about where Dems are is the fact Republicans know the anti-trans ads aren't helping them but, as Terry here openly admits, hurting trans people is all they have left. They'd use their dying breath to ruin one more trans kid's life.
4696202
Reposted by KD Smith
M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You’d never know that the vast majority of crime in this country is perpetrated by cis white straight men
1369