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Psychology PhD @ University of Sheffield | Research interests: intergroup bias (& weight stigma), social identity, behaviour change, cyberpsych | also writer, worldbuilder, "activist", procrastinator | @altelectionsuk.bsky.social she/her 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 | views my own

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👻 LiliBOO! 👻 @lilitou.bsky.social · 23h
It keeps setting me off - I'm being told I have to vote Labour to defend a liberal society that Labour itself refuses to defend Labour won't defend my trans self, immigrant friends & family, HE colleagues, disabled students That matters most to me, but Labour's golden boy couldn't care less!
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Tamar but spooky @heartinamber.bsky.social · 23h
The UK could have avoided shooting itself in the face in the first place, but people like Andy Burnham couldn't bring themselves to defend Eastern Europeans and so we are where we are
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👻 LiliBOO! 👻 @lilitou.bsky.social · 23h
Great points in general, but one thing I want to say is: a PM (especially an ostensibly progressive one!) should not be talking to GB News. Do not legitimise an obvious far-right propaganda outfit with recognition that should be reserved for actual broadcasters.
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hate to sound bitter but can you imagine how much we would have saved if the Tories hadn't banned onshore wind in England and actually utilised the low interest environment to do some infrastructure spending
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M☿th @monroetempleton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham will make progressive noises for shit policies so 35 year old men who exclusively speak in Simpsons memes and think intersectionality is a fancy word can call you a cunt for not accepting the government's decision to terrorise you is Good, Actually
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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The hard truth is we have implemented every centre-right nostrum, from slashing local government through conditionality of benefits to junking resilience measures for society and the economy - and as many predicted, it all turns out to be very costly in the long run.
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today is Andy Burnham’s first party conference speech as PM. We’ve taken your messages from the mass lobby on tour to Labour conference in Liverpool, with our friends at @transactualuk.bsky.social and @scottishtrans.bsky.social We aren’t going anywhere.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This notion of bigoted beliefs being a protected characteristic like gender or race is just absolutely barmy. Those of us who’ve experienced genuine discrimination for who we are know there’s no comparison, and the political and legal collusion on this stuff is disastrous.
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👻 LiliBOO! 👻 @lilitou.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Insulting that Burnham’s first intervention on matters of discrimination is… not being able to drink at football? Silence or capitulation on transphobia, sexism, racism, anti-migrant sentiment and ableism all being at record levels? He’s completely unfit for the current moment
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Underappreciated, and I have no idea why, the extent to which Labour's collapse in Scotland and Wales means it's now 50-60 seats harder for them to win a majority.
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Feminist Greens (GPEW) @feministgreens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A joint statement from Green Party groups in response to the recent organised far-right activity. Signed by: Black Feminist Greens @disabledgreens.bsky.social Feminist Greens @globalgreens.bsky.social @jewishgreens.bsky.social Latinx Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk @younggreens.bsky.social
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The BBC is complicit
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M☿th @monroetempleton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Genuinally insane country where this is permissable but saying four words will get you a loss of civil rights and thrown up in front of the Old Bailey terror charges
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👻 LiliBOO! 👻 @lilitou.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think much like “legitimate concerns”, ”there has to be fairness“ is just something that functions as a thought-terminating cliche among Labour politicians - it’s not actual engagement with the issue, it’s an excuse to leave the conversation on it to talk about smth else
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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The system is currently very unfair (to immigrants and their families, not to anyone else) as is. The Labour government wants to make it even more unfair, to a degree we've not seen since I moved to the UK. But they keep telling us they want "fairness" (for whom?), because they think we're idiots.
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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Many Labour politicians love saying that the system has to be "fair" — and then hitting you with very xenophobic policies — but, if they really believe it, they should be explicitly against earned settlement. Not hiding behind empty words.
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alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The only choice in Holborn and St Pancras to oppose the ILR changes, which are tantamount to mass deportation, os the Green Party
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think once again we are overlooking one thing WE ARE PEOPLE AND NOT JUST MERE ECONOMIC UNITS* (*even if you reduce us to economic units, we still surpass the locals in terms of contribution so maybe kindly fuck off)
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Genuinely cannot believe this tone from a VC who has just announced that hundreds of jobs are going to be lost
Professor Mathieson said: "We are extremely disappointed that, despite ongoing discussions, the University and College Union has given notification of five weeks' strike action, which will unfairly and deliberately target students' first semester of the academic year.
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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 17/09/2026
this is probably the worst language i've seen a democrat use. saying "transgender ideology" is straight out of the right wing playbook. this is looking more and more like Labour, so I don't want to hear any more shit about how even the transphobic democrats broadly support our rights.
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👻 LiliBOO! 👻 @lilitou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
UK govt when Scotland, Wales & NI request independence referenda: absolutely the fuck not, the Union is sacred, how dare you, actually UK govt when a tiny English village holds an illegitimate “referendum” to be more racist: we respect the result, we are listening, and we are learning 🙏
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
There really is a simple solution to migration. And its to be fucking normal about it and stop being a nationalist racist
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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
People in the mainstream parties of the centre will really be like "you believe in taking an uncompromisingly hard line against fascism? That pales in effectiveness to my strategy, challenging it in the marketplace of ideas" and then not challenge it in the marketplace of ideas
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There's nothing 'uncomfortable' about it you weirdos.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Should have guessed that the thing that would eventually kill off the right's interest in grammar schools would be non-white kids doing too well in the 11+.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
While the "protect women and girls" far right lot will be silent on this, it also shows up the issues within an ever increasingly hostile and draconian asylum system where people are fearful of being flagged in any way in case it affects their claims. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Female asylum seekers report being sexually assaulted by British men
Women say they are too fearful to pursue criminal prosecution of rapes, for fear of having their claims refused
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's far from the only explanation but I do think the institutional politics machine basically selects for cowards with no proper political beliefs, always looking to triangulate, and therefore they are genuinely unable to condemn blatant fascism
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Abi Wyllie @awyllie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Very excited to share my first first-author paper! Big thank you to my co-authors @cvonbastian.bsky.social and @alonzivony.bsky.social 😊 If you are interested in familiarity, attention and memory research, you can read our paper using the link below! 😄 link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The UK economy has three major industries: Warhammer, Onlyfans and Little Alex Horne
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The wealthy countries seem to have a core of 15-30% of their voting populations who *just fucking hate foreigners*. This section of the electorate are for various reasons disproportionately well represented among the ultra-wealthy and thus are able to secure some favourable media coverage.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
British universities are both thinner and greedier now. They’re thinner in that they’re doing less and offering less (fewer courses, fewer modules, fewer assessments, fewer staff, far less student and staff support). They’re greedier in that they demand more of both students and staff: more money…
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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Beloved local bookshop Category Is had their window smashed at the weekend; we are running a fundraiser with all ££ going to help them get shutters. One off mashup of two popular tours, Queer Glasgow and Radical Print Cultures. Tickets £20-£25-£30 if you fancy it! www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-glas...
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Queer Glasgow x Radical Print
Fundraiser for our pals at Category Is Books
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
we’re all agreed the bacon sandwich thing was antisemitic now, right
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Do not talk to Jews like this. Ever.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My impression is this is pretty typical, and its another thing that persuades me that... to be honest... The Cosmopolitan Way Of Life is simply superior. The people throwing the authoritarian temper tantrum are simply those ignorant of its benefits.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/09/2026
There's a constant insinuation that Ed Miliband is not a 'real Jew', and it seems very bad
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👻 LiliBOO! 👻 @lilitou.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you can't talk about immigration then why has that been the #1 issue politicians talk about for my entire adult life? This take is at its core a complete rejection of reality as it is (a Western politics defined by anti-immigration pandering for decades), in favour of an imagined excess of woke
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
They do not want justice, equality, or prosperity, any of those goddamn things, and you cannot buy them off. Their sole animating emotion is spite.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Of course a racist thinks that he and his countrymen should be allowed to hoard the wealth of their country and deny it to incomers. That's intrinsic to what they are, which is to say, bad people.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The thing is also that the far right's voting bloc in Europe has perfectly coherent and logical opinions if you simply believe them when they say that they are bad people who like bad things.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026
Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 05/09/2026
Dover is one of the most heavily policed places in the UK. It's a two hour's drive from London, where the Met has more significant anti-crowd capacity than any other force in the UK. Letting a group of fascists act as they see fit is a choice they have made One they don't make for peaceful protest
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
‘Utterly condemns’ ‘appalling’ ‘disgraceful’ ‘criminal’ when it’s some chalk calling for trans rights, but when it’s masked far right thugs intimidating people, it’s a mere ‘disruption’. We see you. Labour are a disgrace.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Can we please compare this to the response to some chalk on some statues saying ‘trans rights are human rights’ lol?
Home secretary calls damage to statues disgraceful
IRANS
RIG
ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
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A statue of former South African prime minister Jan Smuts was targeted by vandals
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Updated 21 April 2025
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has called the vandalism of several statues in Parliament Square, including one of women's votes campaigner Dame Millicent Fawcett, "disgraceful".Ch Supt Stuart Bell, who was leading the policing operation for the protest, said: "It is very disappointing to see damage to seven statues and property in the vicinity of the protest today.
"We support the public's right to protest but criminality like this is completely unacceptable."
A spokesperson for Women and Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson, speaking on the damage to Dame Millicent's statue, said she "utterly condemns the appalling defacement of such an important national monument to the fight for women's rights"
"There is no excuse for this disgraceful criminal damage."
The Met confirmed it is also dealing with a number of complaints from the public about signs and images shared on social media that were reportedly displayed at the protest yesterday and "action will be taken if there are signs displayed that breach of the law"
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"masked fascist paramilitary seizes port" just isn't the sort of thing the uk media would ever say, is it
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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
To confirm - they don't have evidence that even 1 person was referred inappropriately - they don't have evidence that even 1 person underwent surgery inappropriately - they don't have any evidence of safety concerns - healthcare for trans people has been completely banned until further notice
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The fact is if we allowed people to transition via an informed consent model, and followed the gender affirming model for trans youth (which has been massively misrepresented) it would make so many people’s life so much better.
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