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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 20h

Sorry but this made me laugh. The same folk offended by this t-shirt are the same ones who laugh at stories of refugees drowning in the Channel so forgive me if I don't take them seriously

Post from the Scotsman's FB page with the caption "Teaching union boss criticised for 'deeply offensive' pro-trans t-shirt at SNP conference"

Beneath is a photo of a white male with brown hair wearing a navy shirt underneath which is a white t-shirt featuring the slogan "PROTECT THE DOLLS".

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 16/10/2026

This country seriously would rather children be murdered en masse at school than be trans. A single trans athlete competes in sports and hundreds of laws are introduced. Children are murdered on a daily basis and it's a fact of life. THINK ABOUT THAT FFS.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Sending the biggest love to all of my trans siblings today, after an absolute avalanche of yet more horrific policies of exclusion and humiliation, on top of all the other ones we’ve seen over the last year. I’m here for you, and I won’t stop fighting for you.

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All My Love For You

Alt: A cartoon of a tub of hearts being poured onto a cute little character. The tub is labelled “all my love for you” and the little cute character is labelled “you

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

y'all... 🤭😭

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I genuinely cannot take you seriously if you use the term “purity politics” to describe people who may have to consider voting for a candidate that wants to remove their or their child’s right to medical care.

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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Fuck you If the things you require me to sacrifice "for the greater good" are my healthcare, my safety, my bodily autonomy and my right to exist as an equal human being in your society, then it's not the good at all, and your party can burn to the ground and the nation along with it.

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naffdoodaa.bsky.social @naffdoodaa.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Because it's a probabilistic pachinko machine. Just because the penny looks like it's falling with intent, it doesn't mean the pins are sentient. But sure. Let's pretend for a moment it is. I'll just walk you through the life cycle of an LLM.

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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 15/10/2026

“oh you hate capitalism but you have a smart phone? you eat fast food?” those are products of labor, not of capital. capital doesn’t produce anything. it controls, exploits, and consumes. there is no ethical qualm existing and operating within capitalism. there is no choice otherwise.

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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 15/10/2026

the reason everything feels kinda shitty right now is late stage capitalism. it’s the vampiric wealthy class leeching us. products get worse while prices go up.

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Princess Pretty Girl @princessprettygirl.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

brooooo turns out living a life where you make yourself take up the least amount of space isn't actually considerate to yourself or those who care for you because you just end up being small living a small sad lonely life

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 14/10/2026

I built a thing. I LOVED making it. It's called TinyLittleOffice. It's a web office suite (word processor, outliner, decks, spreadsheet, calculator, drawing tool, diagram maker, animator, calendar, trip planner) that stores the docs in your URL. tinylittleoffice.com?c=hgmcggn#/v...

tinylittleoffice.com

This Link Is This Document

QR code:…

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Godzilla Minus One is incredible That’s all

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wendell the sweetbitter unmanageable creature @wendellwrites.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

i think the entities with flock contracts are about to discover they were never the company's real customers, and the stakes for people with the cameras in their area have gotten even higher.

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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 12/10/2026

Amazing complaint from @coramcgladdery.bsky.social raising some important points. I’ve also raised a complaint asking which part of the meaning of "Protect the Dolls" the BBC doesn't want to promote.

"I’m complaining about the BBC blurring “Protect the Dolls” on Bethany’s T-shirt during Saturday’s Strictly Come Dancing broadcast after deleting and reposting promotional footage that avoided showing the message. Apparently, even a message of solidarity with trans women was too much for the BBC. A spokesperson defended this, stating “appropriate steps are taken to reduce the inclusion of any overt branding or slogans”. But this isn’t branding. It’s a message of solidarity with transgender women, and the BBC knows exactly what it means. In a December 2025 article, the BBC itself described the phrase as calling for “the safety, visibility and respect of transgender women against anti-trans rhetoric and violence”. Those are your words, not mine. So which part of that message does the BBC not wish its audience to see? Our safety? Our visibility? Our right to be treated with respect? Let’s call this what it is: trans erasure. A message affirming the visibility and safety of transgender women has been deliberately obscured. At a time when trans people face relentless hostility, the BBC has chosen to hide a message of solidarity rather than let it be seen. Hiding the message doesn’t make us disappear, but it does raise serious questions about whose visibility the BBC considers expendable. A generic reference to editorial guidelines isn’t an adequate answer. Would the BBC treat a message supporting another marginalised group in the same way? If not, why are trans women being treated differently? I want the BBC to identify the specific editorial guideline that justified this decision and explain why a message advocating our safety, visibility and respect was considered unsuitable for broadcast. The BBC knows what “Protect the Dolls” means because it’s already explained it to the public. So why, having acknowledged the importance of our safety and visibility, did it choose to hide a message calling for precisely that?"

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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 13/10/2026

The BBC has already responded to my complaint from yesterday, via copy and paste. This is unacceptable. I’ve raised a complaint in response to demand that my complaint is adequately addressed.

"Thank you for contacting us about Strictly Come Dancing regarding the blurring of a message on a T-shirt seen in a training room clip.

As is standard practice on any entertainment show on the BBC and in line with our editorial guidelines, appropriate steps are taken to reduce the inclusion of any overt branding or slogans that may be present, regardless of the wording or statement in question.

Thanks again for getting in touch. We’ve shared your comments with the Strictly team and with senior BBC managers through our complaints reporting process.

If you’d like to understand how your complaint is handled at the BBC, you might find it helpful to watch the short film on the BBC Complaints website about how the BBC responds to your feedback. It explains the BBC’s process for responding to complaints, what to do if you aren’t happy with your response and how we share the feedback we receive.

Kind regards,

BBC Complaints Team
www.bbc.co.uk/complaints"

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Your response acknowledges my complaint but fails to address it. You've repeated a generic statement about editorial guidelines while ignoring the points raised.
I didn't contact you to hear your branding policy repeated back to me. I complained because the BBC blurred a message supporting transgender women's safety, visibility and respect.
In December 2025, the BBC described "Protect the Dolls" as calling for "the safety, visibility and respect of transgender women against anti-trans rhetoric and violence". Which part of that message does the BBC not want its audience to see?
You claim to remove "any overt branding or slogans" regardless of wording. Yet Carlos Gu wore a T-shirt repeating "Feminist" during week one rehearsals. As a feminist, I'm glad he wore it and support his right to do so. But if the policy applies regardless of the message, why was his shirt acceptable while Bethany's was blurred? Your explanation isn't consistently applied. Explain why.
This also sits within the BBC's wider record on trans issues. A Good Law Project-commissioned poll found 70% of trans respondents considered BBC News's reporting about them hostile. TACC has documented patterns in UK media coverage of trans people and our rights. The BBC has helped sustain hostility towards trans people. Against that background, hiding a message calling for our safety and visibility raises serious questions about its role in our erasure.
Your response has addressed none of this. Sharing my comments with senior managers doesn't answer my questions.
I expect a substantive response identifying the exact guidelines that justified blurring Bethany's shirt, explaining the apparent inconsistency, and addressing the impact of suppressing messages of solidarity with trans women.
The BBC knows what this message means. It explained it publicly, yet chose to hide it. Why? Answer the complaint I actually made, rather than repeating a generic statement that evades it."

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

it's a fucking religion. almost everything they do is premised on the notion that they are creating a god that will save them. these are not serious people and they shouldn't be trusted

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/10/2026

And with that we have our first dead AI startup

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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1. The independent Taskforce — commissioned by NHS England, backed by government — concluded ADHD is under-diagnosed, under-recognised and under-treated in the UK. Not over. The press has reported the reverse of the finding www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

thetimes.com

ADHD label ‘risks lifelong harm to children’ as diagnoses surge

Landmark government review warns of a ‘tipping point’ as figures show the proportion of youngsters with an autism diagnosis has risen 40-fold

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

i have now seen the straight pride flag for the first time and my jaw genuinely dropped. you're right heterosexuals, strict binarism, black and white thinking, is a kind of imprisonment, 10/10 no notes

straight pride flag, six thick horizontal stripes alternating in black and white

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

‘Protect the Dolls’ is a term meaning ‘take care of trans ppl’. Its origin is due to the campaign of persecution & violence aimed at this vulnerable part of the Gay community. LGBTQ ppl nationally, & internationally, have been flagging that UK state TV is actively transphobic, for years. More proof!

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Slice of Fox @michaelwi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“What have you got against the bbc? I understand the anti-trans rhetoric from the news side but the entertainment side is fine. It’s not like they’d upload something then edit it to remove any pro-trans messages………oh”

Strictly Come Dancing's Bethany
Antonia's trans ally T-shirt edited out of show by BBC

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

What is it about this message that is so terrible the BBC felt the need to censor it?

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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt

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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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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 10/10/2026

It's like looking inside a Kaleidescope and saying "I saw towering spires more complex than any human design, this must be a new autonomous architecture" but it's just a chamber of mirrors and lenses around the material world it is reflecting distortedly.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

2. But Anthropic researchers say they see patterns that suggest that Claude can. The employees at Anthropic are telling themselves stories based on the words they input into the software and the words that come back out. >>

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 09/10/2026

Look how talented my friend is! And buy her pots! (I have always wanted to learn how to do this, but I have no money nor time haha)

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A public execution (of a disabled man no less) is a giant leap into fascism. This is not something Democratic societies do. It’s a show of cruelty and force designed to scare people… and it won’t deter crime. If anything it’ll backfire and encourage copycats. Shameful on every possible level.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Managed to get the #BBC to admit that it made a serious error in its reporting about trans healthcare, when in *two separate articles*, it misquoted NWJCC to claim patients of the Welsh Gender Service were referred inappropriately. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #BBCBias

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

JFC WHY MUST Y'ALL TURN EVERY JAB AT TRUMP & GOP INTO A BACKHANDED JOKE ABOUT TRANS PPL?!?

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

...the "haha, Republicans are sometimes hypocritical" jokes died with Daily Show circa 2000s. authoritarians are hypocritical all the time & they're not ashamed of it!!! much like the "GOP love gender-affirming care" jokes, there's no reason to evoke trans ppl here unless you want to mock us

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 08/10/2026

Transphobia looks like: - using the terms "Biolgical women" and "Biolgical man" - using the term "trans-identified" - Accepting the segretion of trans + people from their cis peers - Deliberately misgendering a trans + person - Deliberately using their pre-transition name

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/10/2026

Please don't forget about us trans people. Facing the worst attack on our rights in this country due to Labour's current transphobia. Don't forget my community. That's all I ask. Please.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 06/10/2026

every "pride" Democrat org: "For party leadership, the caucus is simply a recruitment and sales team. The job, in their eyes, is not to represent the LGBTQ+ community to the party, but to sell Democratic candidates to the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of the harm those candidates may cause."

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 05/10/2026

Man is surprised when thing that happens every day happens today

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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Exciting new historical work on Rosalind Franklin continues to appear. This is a neat bit of sleuthing by historian @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and crystallographer Brian Sutton. Here's the DOI to the actual article (it's OA): 10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7 The main finding is an x-ray image of exactly

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Chris Barrus @quartzcity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Every site with user generated content is now a social media platform for AI-powered bots. All of them. Today, any site that is not explicitly anti-AI will be completely dominated by AI." 5mag.net/features/galax…

5mag.net

The Internet Is Over: How bots destroyed a new platform in just 60 days

The dead internet theory has new evidence to back the idea that the internet has been over and done with for awhile, but nobody bothered to tell us.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"

politico.com

Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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