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You probably think this is a touch of hyperbole. If you do, that just tells me not only are you not paying attention, you are actively ignoring all the trans people this has happened to. This is life in the UK as a trans person in 2026.

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Tuta @tuta.com · 14m

Meta doesn’t just want to know what you post. With Muse, it also wants to access what you do. Meta is advertising that its AI agent Muse can: 🚩 Answer your emails 🚩 Make purchases 🚩 Manage your online accounts But would you really hand Zuck's company the keys to your digital life? 🔑

Muse app description, data linked to you: Health and fitness, purchases, financial info, location, contact info, contacts, user content, search history, browsing history, identifiers, usage data, sensitive info, diagnostics.

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KD Smith @kd-smith.bsky.social · 1m

Mate, politicians can't just pick and choose which issues to comment on and ignore others if they want to be taken seriously. If a Labour candidate refuses to say anything about this issue, it suggests they will just toe the party line on other issues as well. Do we want all our MPs to be clones?

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 30m

I've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 1h

Don’t you think the Christmas culture wars start earlier every year?

Of course it’s the Daily Telegraph: Christmas cards rebranded 'winter cards' in school's inclusivity drive.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1h

Dozens of students dragged rubbish bins into position outside a high school in northeastern Paris early on Thursday, erecting fresh barricades before police moved in with tear gas as France’s nationwide protests show few signs of ending.

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Police fire tear gas at a barricaded high school in Paris as school protests show no sign of ending

Students in northeastern Paris gathered Thursday to protest outside a high school, with police responding using tear gas.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2h

In one set of trials of shock gloves carried out by the US Army in 2024, the electric gloves caused “overwhelmingly immediate” pain to soldiers. They then reported that “just seeing the glove” frightened them into obedience.

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Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers

After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.

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Sway @sway.bsky.social · 17h

No member of the Labour Party is a trans ally. By remaining in the party or voting for them they’re complicit in this governments genocide. So this is no surprise at all.

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me with ME 🇬🇧 📷 🍂 ❤️☮️ 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦 @me-with-me.bsky.social · 17h

I was thinking this year we would make the effort, physically & financially, as a disabled family to go to London for the first time in decades & show our son the Christmas lights, especially with the new pedestrian area. Well I guess Sadiq’s support of transphobia just saved us £400+.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2h

If we do not immediately eliminate the death penalty in the United States we are not only a barbaric nation but a willfully vicious and bloodthirsty one with a "pro-life" court whose hypocrisy puts Robespierre to shame.

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Christa Pike, Confused After Failed Tennessee Execution, Is at Center of Legal Storm (Gift Article)

Her awareness and condition deepen ethical and legal questions after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her for murdering a classmate decades ago.

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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 17h

”Identification of cattail and woven fragments of high-quality wool within these masses suggest the remains of pillows, mattresses or linings that may reflect practices of furnishing not just burials but also domestic bedding practices“

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Lysistrata’s Stone Phallus @lubottom.bsky.social · 3h

I’m glad Curtis Yarvin posted this as it seems to have a lot of ppl on SM learning about this dark influence over the US govt & tech leaders,who have unmitigated power which is growing all of the time, for the 1st time. His work is very clearly the “intellectual” basis for Trump’s second term.

Screenshot of a post on X by Curtis Yarvin (@curtis_yarvin), with a blue verification tick, reading:

“What if OpenAI solves the Jewish problem”

Yarvin quotes a post by roon (@tszzl), also verified, reading:

“unified field theory / quantum gravity within the next 12 months?”

Yarvin’s post shows 25 replies, 16 reposts, 258 likes, and 9,000 views.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 2h

Friends, please do go and write reviews of this on Amazon pointing out that it's AI plagiarised shite. Many thanks.

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Charlotte L 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @lotternine.eurosky.social · 2h

Can all similar Bike Tories please follow suit?

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

#OnThisDay, 8 Oct 1952, USAF 2nd Lt Nurse Abbie Sweetwine uses military triage at the Harrow and Wealdstone train crash in London. She saves lives and paves the way for the UK’s use of paramedics. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Abbie Sweetwine preparing a plasma infusion at the site of the crash. She is a black woman, surrounded by white men.

A photo of the Harrow and Wealdstone crash, showing three passenger trains that had run into each other. There is debris two storeys high, and people searching the wreckage.

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Cora Leder @bioarchaeology.bsky.social · 4h

"Nazis are a makor force opposing scientific anthropology", says the guy who writes the Nazi chapter making Nazi arguments.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 13h

Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.

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KD Smith @kd-smith.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, but the Mayor of London has a lot of influence. And if Westminister Council decided this was a brilliant idea, he doesn't have to take part in it. Could even express concern about it. He's not like the Lord Mayor and just a figurehead.

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KD Smith @kd-smith.bsky.social · 2h

I'm convinced all these HP co-marketing deals on everything from toothpaste to underpants, the freebies, etc. are loss-leaders for JKR's empire. But, but she thinks flooding the zone will make up for the toxicity of her brand, and generate more cash to fund the elimination of trans people. Vile.

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KD Smith @kd-smith.bsky.social · 2h

There is a thing called "planning permission."

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whatdowewant.bsky.social @whatdowewant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Please stop making us Jews into the eternal victims. Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism. If you chose to be a zionist then that is a choice. Just as Germans made a choice once upon a time. Just as Reform voters make a choice

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KD Smith @kd-smith.bsky.social · 3h

If there will be a political alliance in future, it will be between Labour and the Tories. As in the US, UK centrists are so keen to get back to the "old days," they'll delude themselves that allying with the far right is better than giving the time of day to progressives. 😣

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KD Smith @kd-smith.bsky.social · 3h

Labour has a track record of coalitions with the Tories in Scottish councils, to stop the SNP or SNP and Greens being in control. They go into coalition with the Tories in Westminster before they will ever entertain an alliance with the Greens E & W.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 5h

"Young adults consider ordinary conflict to be much worse than it once was" Yes. Correct. "Ordinary" used to cover a lot. Vetting who you date. Cutting you off until you obey. Throwing out the trans kid. We stopped tolerating it. That's not "concept creep", that's progress. 🧵

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 17h

Some nice throwing on a rainy day. These gourd neck vases are maybe my favourite shape to throw, it’s a nice technical challenge 💕

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 5h

Again, I don't think anything shows the absolute moral cowardice at the heart of the Western political establishment than the fact that nobody can point out how close this guy is to American government power because we can't risk upsetting the Americans.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 7h

Andy Burnham delayed announcing more fossil fuels from Rosebank until after the Holborn & St Pancras byelection. He only did this because he is definitely going to carry out more drilling.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4h

Rubio's Athens speech was unabashedly white supremacist. Astonishing to me that reporting references his invocation of the Spartan "300" without noting the fetishized role the idiot movie--a fiction based on a fiction, a comic book--plays for the murder-minded wing of the Right.

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 12h

holy shit this might be one of the most offensive cartoons i've ever seen

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 16h

Pregnancy is famously a highly abstract theoretical social philosophy experience, with no connection to the concrete material reality of one's life.

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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah that shit really doesn’t fly in yarn spaces, which apart from a few Facebook groups which are really weirdly conservative and racist are generally quite queer spaces

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Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 14h

Green Party speaks for those without a voice. That's what green politics is all about.

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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 14h

Very similar vibes from AI and Harry Potter at the moment in that I do not like them, I do not want them, I am actively trying to avoid them, yet every single company and organisation in the world seems to be trying to force them on me

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In May of this year, over 80 clinicians, researchers and academics signed an open letter. In August, Medical Director James Palmer finally responded - yet many of the experts’ most significant concerns remain unaddressed or even acknowledged. This is what they said:

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 14h

Meanwhile, WHO demonstrating that the anti-PPE pseudoscience types and the anti-vax pseudoscience types are just two different tables at the same country club - fighting over who's in charge, but united in making sure no one competent gets any authority.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Everyday you read of a new story about conditions that reflect or will predictably lead to failure and/or corruption. Giving orgs without capacity vast infusions of new resources typically does not work well.

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KD Smith @kd-smith.bsky.social · 14h

I've only ever heard the, "it can't be antisemitism, Arabs are semites, too" line from white people who are perhaps well-meaning but ignorant, think they're being clever, or trying to be provocative. That it's a stupid, insensitive remark is probably why it was left on the cutting room floor.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

ICE is slamming far northern Illinois for a second day in a row. Rapid responders in Rockford say federal agents detained a group of roofing workers this morning—eight men all the way from Minnesota. Volunteers are currently trying to locate their families. From a local immigration attorney:

From Sara Dady Facebook page

Image of black pathfinder SUV

Sprayed plates like on this vehicle currently parked at the Radisson on Bell School Road in Rockford are illegal. FLOCK can't read ICE's sprayed plates but can read law-abiding drivers' plates.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 16h

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”

JULIET SAMUEL
Kemi Badenoch invites excellence back to the party
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Unapologetic embrace of dynamism and distinction shows the Tory leader is serious about moving on from mediocrity
Juliet Samuel
Wednesday October 07 2026, 6.50pm, The Times

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nbrockmann.bsky.social @nbrockmann.bsky.social · 16h

Her comms director, Craig Beckman: “I spent quite a lot of time explaining…that this isn’t her fault. *Just because she put herself in a vulnerable position* doesn’t give a man an excuse to … assault her.” Never beating the victim-blaming allegations, jfc. Could’ve just left out that whole clause.

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