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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Caravaggio's birthday was yesterday so happy belated birthday to a certified badass.

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Ghost Planet @ghostplanet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Attention all Cartoon Network fans! The earliest form of Dexter's Laboratory has popped up on the Internet Archive! Dexter is pretty different but Deedee really isn't archive.org/details/chan...

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Changes (1992)

Changes is a 1992 American animated comedy film directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. The film revolves around a young girl causing chaos in her brother's science laboratory. Made while Genndy Tartakovsky...

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Utter scumbags. These cretins need to spend the remainder of their lives in jail.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

so the exact scenario all of us opposing this have warned about for the last 2 years

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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think it just means we need to be punching more Nazis. Spider-Man knows the deal.

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

These people are traitors. They deserve to be treated as such.

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Let them. Don't rescue them. The world would be a better place.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Extreme right-wing protesters are in a stand-off with the RNLI in Portsmouth. The group, led by Danny Tommo, are waist-deep in the sea and threatening to go "under the water" if police try to arrest them. Six lifeboats monitoring. Volunteer rescuers giving up their evening for this.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I wpuld like to imagine, if all of my oldest and dearest friends told me that I was doing something hurtful to people, I would have the good sense and humility to stop. Shame Linehan is such a fucking idiot.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s not really worth reading Graham Linehan’s whole piece, but I’m trying to imagine how you could quote this message from a friend and think it reflects poorly on him, not you

He deflected. "I'm sorry your wound is so deep that you can't find a way to heal and resume a more varied life," he wrote. "You can still be as GC as you like, but it will be a hell of a lot better for you and for everyone if you manage it." Not a word on whether I was right. Just a suggestion that the fact I was still saying it, after everything it had cost me, was the symptom that needed treating.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/08/2026

Trump Pushes To Rename Sexual Attraction To Children ‘Americaphilia’

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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I suppose no surprise , but the anti trans movement sure reveal more about their “values” every day - first they came for the racists and I said “leave the racists alone because…”

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@MForstater • 1d Academics can sign this open letter opposing Ghent university's punishment of Nathan Cofnas for whistleblowing about academic misconduct.
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Letter opposing punishment of Nathan Cofnas for whistleblowing
Dear Professor Petra De Sutter,
As academics, we are concerned that Ghent University's disciplinary proceedings against Dr Conas appear to constitute retaliation, at least in part, for publicizing academic misconduct that occurred in British universities.
An essential component of academic freedom is the ability to scrutinize the scholarship of other academics, regardless of their position or status. This must include the freedom to provide evidence of academic misconduct, such as plagiarism and fabrication. The pursuit of truth depends on rigorous self-policing by academics.
We are also concerned that the University appears to be treating threats to academic freedom, whether from its own staff claiming distress or from external actors announcing boycotts, as grounds for disciplining the very individual targeted by those threats.
Therefore we urge Ghent University to protect Dr Conas from being punished for exercising his academic freedom.
Signatories
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

the guardian describes decades of peer reviewed medical science, study, and research as an ‘orthodoxy’. they did the exact same thing with gender affirming care. this is the same playbook. get a right wing quack to cast doubt and then have a bunch of columnists present it as reasonable.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

gonna repost this, because it feels like most of the commentary about this incident has still totally failed to register that the arday story literally began with a white supremacist, sore about being sacked for being a white supremacist, targeting a black academic for heightened scrutiny

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

They won't reflect. The onky thing that might make people think twice before doing this again is manslaughter prosecutions against every editor who published the story. But there's not a chance that will ever happen.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Checkmate, Nige.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If I caused a £430m infrastructure project to be diverted, potentially damaging a Bronze Age site, just so a bit of beach picked by a location director for the film adaptation of kid's book written by a lunatic would be undisturbed, there wouldn't be enough soap in the world to wash the shame off.

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Surely the correct course of action here is to seize and destroy the equipment and throw the invaders into the sea. Or at least prison.

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En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I ordered "No Stick Pans" off of Amazon, but they sent me "Gnostic Pans" that just tell me the food I'm trying to make is a false reality constructed by the hated Demiurge.

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Also, while I'm on the subject, how many of these women Kathleen is so scornful of worked in public facing roles during the pandemic and had to deal with multiple COVID infections and are now suffering the after effects?

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In the last few days the UK media has set its sights on ADHD and now on those using mobility aids. These people are absolute monsters. What business is it of theirs? Why should the disabled have to justify themselves to these absolute fucking ghouls?

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 05/08/2026

Please share.

genderedintelligence
Remember:
If vou do not feel safe. leave. Your safetv is more important than making a point
Avoid conflict. You are under no obligation ta respond to someone who tries to stop you from using a basic service
Document your experience. The law is not settled in this area, so if you are excluded, record your experience
It is not illegal to use facilities like toilets in line with your gender, and you should not face any police action
See our co-developed guidance for more information or how to check single sex space polices, what your rights are, and how you can respond when challenged
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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm fascinated by this new form of PR that's emerged with LLM companies where they leak stories like 'our product spontaneously assembled an army of domestic appliances & announced it would exterminate the lowly hairless apes - we barely managed to pull the plug' to imply it's really powerful

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 04/08/2026

Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It really is utterly depraved that giving a true account of a dead person's life is apparently "uncivil". If you don't wish to have people celebrate your demise, don't spend your life doing incredible harm to those weaker than you. The world is a better, safer place without hatemongers like in it.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

As Rod Liddle has died, I notice this column I wrote in 2019 about his attacks on people with M.E. is on the most read again. Rebekah Brooks, of News UK, described Liddle today as “provocative”. In reality, he spread lies about very sick people for cash. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Rod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be | Frances Ryan

Whether it is ME patients or another target, huge swathes of the media have normalised hatred of minorities for years, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

You'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant

'“When my ADHD diagnosis was removed, it was a relief’
Rates of conditions such as ADHD and autism seem to be ever growing, but some adults diagnosed in childhood are happy to be free of their labels”

Excerpt From
“‘When my ADHD diagnosis was removed, it was a relief’”
The Times and The Sunday Times
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This material may be protected by copyright.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Journalists, if you cover anything Potter related you're actively harming trans people. There's no middle ground, no 'but my childhood'. In a decade or so the mainstream opinion of this evil monster will be in line with Anita Bryant.

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Words cannot express how much I truly detest these people. Truly cartoon villain levels of shitbaggery.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/07/2026

If Amnesty is afraid to call anti-rights groups anti-rights, they are no longer fit for purpose.

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Austerity caused 300,000 deaths in the UK. Mismanagement of the COVID pandemic killed over 100,000. Brexit impoverished the entire country, most likely for a generation. Pandering to a media and politicians who endorse these policies is nonsense. They have zero moral superiority. They are scum.

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𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱 🦋 @totr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"no, we should reduce all political discourse to the level of a screaming baby wearing a blindfold" fucking dogshit take

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i think some people have negatively polarised themselves and posted
themselves into having to defend clearly nonsensical things. it is
obviously absurd for a party leader to share a post with their political
opponent's name next to a guillotine. he isn't a 19 year old twitter user
any more.
12:33 PM - Jul 28, 2026 @) Everybody can reply
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Domi / Jimmie @domilovesdice.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Tzimisce: Unethical?! That’s my greatest work of art!

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Your regular reminder that if you engage with anything to do with Rowling, you are helping to finance a campaign of hate and erasure against trans people.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 24/07/2026

Oh, we're putting tariffs on countries that don't do enough to stop slave labor? Can we tariff ourselves? Because the US has the largest slave labor population in the world! Again, periodic reminder that our slave labor population is larger than the workforce of Norway. Not a typo.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

On the eve of London Trans Pride, I want to share that the DHSC has already replied to my letter to Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State for Health and promised a response to my Streeting Files very soon. The answers were ready to be sent, but now need clearance from the new team. Watch this space.

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Meeting Streeting

I met with Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and James Palmer, Director of Specialist Services for NHS England on 17th March 2026.It was with some distress that the moment I left the room m...

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Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

From Gina Martin

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I genuinely cannot fathom who this movie is for. We have several very good adaptations of A Christmas Carol, including one with muppets that is perfect. I can guarentee a theatrical re-release of that would outperform this at the box office any time.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 16/05/2026

Guys. The Ancient Greeks weren't white. They were more like cephalopods than modern humans -- their skin was bioluminescent and constantly shifting its color. And they didn't live in in idyllic seaside villages; they could only survive near deep-ocean vents. They DID have Matt Damon accents, though

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Ben Mortimer @montimer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Labour currently have 403 MPs and 216 peers. I don't understand why, with that in mind, we're seeing the same 12 people rotated through jobs. How much change can there be when Burnham is surrounded by the same people who so badly fucked things up when Starmer was in charge?

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