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Molly Maclachlan

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Scottish amateur writer/streamer. My posts are often bad. 🏳️‍⚧️ she/her YouTube: www.youtube.com/@mollymaclachlan Website: mollymaclachlan.github.io/website AllPoetry: allpoetry.com/Molly_Maclachlan Here be trans rights. #TransRights

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 03/10/2026
"We see our power, and we are using it" @greenpartyhan.bsky.social
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 03/10/2026
EVERY UK MP needs to read this You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this.
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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is NO responsibility upon a complainant to establish whether their partner is trans. So they don’t have to ask. But our silence can potentially become the “deception”. What a fucking grotesque allocation of risk.
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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yet apparently trans people are expected to navigate their intimate lives beneath the shadow of a prosecutorial interpretation of criminal law that the CPS itself acknowledges has never been determined by the appellate courts. Oh, and the CPS is crystal clear about something else:
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22/09/2026
The police continue to be the danger they want you to think trans people are [Mail]
‘I know the law and you need to say yes’
Court told what drunk WPC allegedly said to female victim before sexually assaulting her
Daily Mail22 Sep 2026By Jack Hardy
A FEMALE police officer told another woman ‘I know the law’ before sexually assaulting her, a court has heard.

Fiona Anderson, a police constable with Devon and Cornwall Police, is on trial accused of two counts of sexual assault in 2018 while she was visiting Cardiff.

Anderson, 33, is alleged to have performed a sex act on the other woman without consent, while she is also accused of touching the alleged victim’s intimate parts without consent. She denies the charges.

The two incidents reportedly took place in Cardiff while the defendant was off duty.
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Daniel McElroy @danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We’re just in a position where the far right are trying to murder people on the streets or at sea and the government have had almost nothing to say about it. It’s all on fucking video you can watch them do it!
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The 13 Ghosts of Hangry Dad @hangrydad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Difficult decisions like "give up a few freebies and get our rich mates to contribute more, or further immiserate the already vulnerable"?
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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bleakly, grimly hilarious that people my age have been hearing this exact same tune on repeat for very literally our entire voting lives now. I'm 40. My daughter starts seconday school next year.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...
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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯
Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to financethemselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria
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paul @ptfen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
if you connect your LLM to the internet and it does crimes, you are responsible for those crimes
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i thought i was being corrupt in secret.
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i've spent six years now watching my country succumb to irreversible fascism and it began with our liberal party saying trans ppl should be banned from sports. we now have red fascism and blue fascism with no real difference besides pr and branding.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026
also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026
on some level, you have to accept that yes, people are reacting emotionally without doing detailed research but really you can’t blame them or stop them. this was some bullshit not a single one of us had to think about three years ago and now it’s making shit worse in like most daily interactions
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026
people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Sam Altman has literally said this out loud. He wants to sell “intelligence”. He doesn’t mean “AI intelligence” They want to steal all our knowledge by burning our books for the AI, make us unable to think criticallly to rediscover our own humanity, & force us to pay for shitty AI “intelligence”.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Don’t use pronouns for AI. It is not a person nor ever will. Sam Altman isn’t making the god computer of his wet dream nightmares. They’ve made a shitty tool built on theft thats destroying the planet & is meant to lower human critical thinking while given military weapons by rich idiots.
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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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Help the Greens protect trans members | Good Law Project
The Greens took action to protect trans people. Now the party is facing legal action – so we’re defending them in court
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There has been a noticeable lack of serious reaction over Turkish persecution of LGBTQIA+ community from the global community. As in many other countries, Türkiye tries to mask persecution by claiming being LGBTQIA+ isn't illegal and then using "obscenity laws". www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists
Protesters teargassed as minister claims widespread raids and arrests under obscenity laws were to ‘protect families’
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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When you start bargaining which percentage of the people you can sacrifice to stave off fascism, you've already lost to fascism.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trans women in sport: This table shows how massively out of place the UK is in Europe. The UK is the only country that bans trans women from most sport. Even recently-fascist Hungary is fairer than the UK. Britain is a transphobic outlier.
Trans Legal Recognition and Amateur Sport in Europe
Adult amateur women's competition • September 2026
Country
EU
Recognition
Equality-law sex


Adult amateur women's category

Football
Hockey
Cricket
Netball
UK 2024







UK 2026















Belgium







Denmark

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Finland
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Germany







Iceland







Ireland







Luxembourg







Malta







Norway

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Portugal

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Spain

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Switzerland

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OTHER LEGAL RECOGNITION







Ancona

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Austria

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Bosnia & Herzegovina







Bulgaria







Croatia

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Cyprus







Czechia







Estonia







France







Greece







Italy







Latvia







Liechtenstein







Lithuania







Moldova







Montenegro







Netherlands
Poland







Romania







Serbia
Slovenia







Sweden







Türkiye







Ukraine







NO / VERY LIMITED RECOGNITION







Albania







Armenia
Azerbaijan







Georgia







Hungary







Monaco







North Macedonia


スズズズメ




San Marino







slovakia







Broad legal recognition
Partial / very limited

No functioning domestic route


Specific sport exclusion


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Sport: adult amateur women's competition. HRT/estosterone eligibility requirements count as not excluded.
UK 2024/ UK 2026 comparison reflects the pre- and post-2025 Equality Act interpretation.
Sources: ILGA-Eurooe (2026): national aovemina-body policies: UK Supreme Court 120251 UKSC 16: EHRC Code (2026)
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Molly Maclachlan @mollymaclachlan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is incorrect and a dangerous thing to make people believe, but then again, that's probably the intention. As usual, the vast majority go headlines posed as a question can be answered, "No".
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Spooky SazCaz @sazcaz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's dogpiling if we confront the people telling us to enjoy the camps abut it's not a threat when people tell us that we're going to the camps. Oh but we have their sympathy. Aaron, I wouldn't wish your sympathy on my worst enemy. You are the Ed Sheeran of Bluesky. Terminally spineless
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Still can't believe Ed Sheeran tried to pull the "there's kids at my show" to the dude who's message was "stop killing kids"
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Adria @adriaandthepriors.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Pay attention to the wording- “aid in the region”, not Palestinian people. You’re not going to charity-wash your way out of this, you twats.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!! NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate. We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
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Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Scottish Government minister who has "just transition of transport including reduction on car miles" in his job remit has just made that objective all but impossible, in one low-profile written answer.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.
Worries about vaccination rates in dogs
As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs - and their owners
- becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in nationally representative
sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The British press has been extremely hostile towards Amnesty International, Medicins Sans Frontiers, Oxfam and others for decades because *they offer rival narratives that the public might listen to*, and that is not acceptable, to them.
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Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Another day, another monumental failure to tell the truth about the far right threat facing this country. This was an explicit case of targeted racist harassment, but we get an article full of excuses like "protesters wrongly believed", both from the BBC and a local MP. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants
Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
the fact that i'm learning about this (as is the case with the majority of trans-positive demonstrations in the uk) via social media while the mainstream press completely ignores it is so infuriating, but thank you sophie for reporting
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
the UK is in such a dire situation because for decades every government we've had has blamed the failings of neoliberalism & austerity on migrants, & the entirety of the mainstream press is happy to play along
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When Adolf Hitler came to power he released his imprisoned supporters from jail, ripped up labor laws protecting workers and crushed social security programmes in return for tax cuts for the rich... See any similarities?
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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 07/09/2026
fuck off then
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is literally AI blackface. Yikes.
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nadezhda the cockroach 🪳 @antiwhimsybrigade.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
in the past, if you had a script so racist that no black actor would act in it, you got a white actor to do blackface. this is essentially the same thing except it doesn't reveal which white actors are hateful or slimy enough to get out the shoe polish.
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nadezhda the cockroach 🪳 @antiwhimsybrigade.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
he's saying the quiet part loud here, ai allows white filmmakers to control racial and ethnic minorities in an attempt to make them appear complicit in their own racist slander. paul schrader likes ai because it allows him to have a black actor that he owns.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A Reform government would force schools to sing the National Anthem and if they don't oblige parents will be encouraged to report them to the authorities. Yeah that's not like really scary and authoritarian schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-there...
schoolsweek.co.uk
Reform: 'There will be consequences for not singing anthem'
Braverman believes parents will tip her off if heads don't follow her anthem and hymns rules
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Gotta say I'm beginning to doubt the democratic credentials of these radical right lads who keep doing crimes
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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 05/07/2023
I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This summer Britain burnt. 3000 people died from the heat. Yet this Government is drilling for more gas, despite scientist warnings & it won't make a difference to bills in the UK. We need to double down on renewables, not bend to the wishes of fossil fuel bosses. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jackdaw gas field set to be approved as soon as mid-September, sources say
The government is set to give the go-ahead for the gas field off the coast of Aberdeen, the BBC understands.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Electoral Commission appears to be straightforwardly wrong about its role and responsibilities in law as the regulator when it says publicly "Information about any potential attempt to evade the controls on donations is for the police to consider". It is the core job of the Electoral Commission
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You see a lot of Reform stans defensively posting "well what about all the dodgy cash LABOUR get hmmmm?" and, like, guys, I don't know what to tell you...I can't stand the Labour Party. But thank you for admitting you think it's bad and wrong and illegal when politicians receive janky-ass donations.
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients. Please sign and share
petitions.senedd.wales
Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients.
We call on the Senedd and Welsh Government to direct the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) to: Immediately unfreeze scheduled and approved gender-affirming surgeries for patients who have already completed assessments. Ensure that any ongoing clinical review is conducted concurrently without disrupting active, established patient care. Publish clear, transparent Terms of Reference and a strict timeline for the independent review of the Welsh Gender Service.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"There is nothing to investigate but you guys are leftist twats for asking about the investigation we are holding into the two guys who did nothing but who quit anyway even though they have nothing to hide because the nothing they did was something but that something was ok"
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