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@melissaess.bsky.social
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Queer woman 🏳️‍⚧️ occasional Lawyer & ex-solicitor, Wicca, Toyama-Ryū & HEMA practitioner 🤺 , Shutterbug 📷, Anarchist 🏴, I’m a lover and a fighter. Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer

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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 19h
what’s a tv licence? I know what one is, obviously, but why would I waste my money on the bbc? Why would anyone for that matter? I couldn’t care less if they disappeared tomorrow.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This summer: Thousands of deaths from extreme weather. This weekend in the media: What's the point of the Green Party? This morning from the Labour party 👇
Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
fuck the bbc
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the attacks on @zackpolanski.bsky.social are sadly just predictable. The establishment are afraid…
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Farage went on (doesn’t he just) “Be in no doubt, there are bots online, they come from Russia, they come from India and elsewhere, that do try to influence our thinking…” like £72m quid doesn’t try to influence thinking? total wankspangle
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
they are unreasonable perverts
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The new EHRC is discriminatory & excludes trans, non-binary & gender diverse people from swathes of public life, including their working lives. The law must be changed. The EHRC guidance is unworkable, is absurd & it is cruel" Maria from the @cwunews.bsky.social at #TUC26
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’ve just been tailgated by a child with a beard driving a Seat Arona for the sheer temerity of driving under the speed limit. He went as far as to follow me onto a slip road and then dangerously rejoin the carriageway. Men, why?
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
stonkingly good letter
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
didn’t see that coming lol
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Important to remember today: If ANY Labour MP talks about “respecting” the Supreme Court misjudgement, they are *lying* to you. Parliament can overturn ANY SC decision & the government can amend the Equality Act to include trans people. The SC misjudgement still stands because Labour WANTS it to.
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Supreme God Botherer’s Court”, so going to use that from now onwards 🫢
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
even Adrian Ramsay, the “bicycle tory”?
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
well he has lied about being carried by firemen on 9/11, so nothing that comes out of his mouth can be trusted
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
tbh, I’m here for the sea witch stuff 🌊
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s quite funny watching Israel throw its teddy in the corner, shutting the UK’s consulate in Jerusalem etc, because they’ve (finally) been called out by the UK over illegal settlements…..
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Note how the moral panic about blocking the roads disappears if it's the far right doing it
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just Stop Oil planned to block a road, they got 21 years. Far Right masked thugs actually blocked roads. Not one arrest, nothing.
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Strength through Unity, Unity through Faith”
reform conference
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Who needs a russian cell causing disruption when we have the far right, masked men etc
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
yeah, funny how these fash types bleat on about face coverings at anti fash protests. They are fucking hypocrites the lot of them
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Norsefire’s conference is going well then, rumblings about a declaration of what could be martial law to distract from Farage’s dodgy deals
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good old Reform Blaming everyone but themselves, as usual
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
channel4news.substack.com
Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My sparring safe Katana from Sigi Forge has arrived. As the cotton wrapped handle is a lovely crystal white, I’ve named it “Sigi Stardust”
a sparring katana, in steel grey with  white handle a sparring safe katana in steel with a white handle the tsuba (hand guard) on a sparring safe katana
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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I just hope I live long enough. It’s utterly obvious that that the Supreme Court Judgment in FWS v Scottish Ministers (1) entirely misinterpreted the will of Parliament and (2) is the most defective and legally absurd Supreme Court judgment of my legal career,
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
employers mean to give to their employees?
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If a service provider or employer blindly complies with the EHRC “guidance” without showing critical thinking, then they are buying into the same old tropes that gay men were and are still subjected to. The EHRC guidance implies trans women are a “threat” and is that really the message
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Still more backbone than the service providers, and employers, who collaborate with the EHRC and terf groups.
a sardine tin containing scraps including backbones
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 23/08/2026
1/🧵 The moment the EHRC begins “enforcement” against trans-inclusive service providers is the moment it gets to Strasbourg. Mary-Ann can say whatever she want; I dare her to actually enforce it. This relates to effective domestic remedy.
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
giving an interview to a right wing paper that promotes the view of one protected characteristic over another is not what I’d expect from the head of an equality watchdog. I wonder what MP’s on the Equalities Select Committee think?
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
did it include selling out trans rights, like Starmer did?
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I have to say, that having no faith at all in our justice system system, I’d tell the jury service that my conscience would tell me to acquit regardless, and see if they still want me to participate in their charade. The Supreme Cunts beat any sense of justice out of me.
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
it’s just uber gas-lighting
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’m quite sure that FWS was pre-determined as part of a trade deal between the UK and US. There is no other rational explanation.
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 21/08/2026
Judicial independence is important. It extends beyond the mere separation of powers to include independence among the judges themselves. We must not allow Supreme Court judges to “set the tone”, nor should lower courts be left to divine their policy views.
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 02/06/2026
It’s so out of place it is professionally negligent to suggest that. I said we have a 60% chance of reviving Croft v Royal Mail. But for the civil service? It’s 100%.
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 02/06/2026
Sorry, but there’s absolutely no chance the Crown can tell a civil servant with a GRC not to use their preferred facilities. The same goes for the NHS and other public sector employees.
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Lyra 💕 @lyra-scotland.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sorry to post the hellsite but I think something interesting is happening with JKR. She is getting defensive because she does not believe in race realism but the comment replies to her are her for not defending race science and pointing out the contradiction xcancel.com/jk_rowling/s...
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"As far as I understand things, he certainly argues that he is not a racist. So do his supporters. 

I'm wondering if J.K. is letting herself down here. Perhaps she can actually argue her case, rather than use the "No argument" tactics of the Trans lobby"

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"I read Cofnas's 2024 Substack post, which is summarised (I believe fairly) here. In my view, Cofnas's 'race realism' is racism. Full link below." (this is followed by a screenshot of the substack post that JKR correctly identifies as racist bs)
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 21/08/2026
Seeing the supreme court kicking and screaming as we trannies drag them through the mud is a pleasant sight.
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Bridget Phillipson 1. Enables biggest push by men’s rights groups to push towards tackling women’s bodily autonomy using trans women as a battering ram. 2. Complains about the rise of misogyny. Is she completely fucking stupid?
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
*misguided toilet policy
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
supreme cxnts
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 20/08/2026
"...toilet facilities labelled with a 'female' sign remain available to cisgender women, trans women, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience. Similarly, facilities labelled with a 'male' sign remain available to cisgender men, trans men, and others..."
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Quakers reaffirm commitment to trans inclusion in the wake of EHRC Code of Practice
Quakers in Britain has refreshed and reaffirmed its commitment to providing trans-inclusive facilities across its buildings.
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
no excuse for other service providers not to consider this. Yes I'm looking at you local authorities
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I hear you
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I find it hard to believe that Bridget Phillipson engages her brain before opening her mouth….
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“please help support our important contribution to independent journalism by buying a subscription” nah, I’m good thanks
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
she remarkably thin skinned for someone so dense
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Melissa @melissaess.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
controversial view, anyone supporting trans exclusion or segregation in the workplace is a scab
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