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Rational romantic mystic cynical idealist | Never be cruel, never be cowardly | He/him | 🔸🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I thought this until I saw them live
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people
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Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people
Motion passed at party conference calls for new approach to implementing ruling that legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex only The Liberal Democrats have rejected official guidance by the equalities watchdog on how organisations should implement the supreme court ruling on transgender people, calling it “discriminatory and unworkable”. The motion, passed overwhelmingly at the party’s annual conference in Brighton, makes the Lib Dems the first of the big three parties in parliament to call for a new approach to implementing last year’s ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex only. The Greens have previously done so. Continue reading...
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I keep recommending Blindsight to people at the moment, it has a LOT to say that’s relevant to the great AI debate
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A good list but also… a predictable list? Gotta admit I went in looking for new discoveries and it was the just the usual suspects.
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I got a long round of evil stares from the middle aged lady I asked to turn off her phone *in the Prince Charles cinema* about 15 mins in to a sleepy Friday afternoon showing of One Battle After Another. It’s a special kind of wtf to go out your way to a famous cinephile venue then start scrolling
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Something has definitely changed about cyclist behaviour in London since the pandemic, e.g. red light jumping went from a relatively rare behaviour that got dirty looks to what often feels like the default. I have wondered if it’s that people don’t know they’re not meant to.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My One Simple Trick for earworms is to listen to a different earworm and hope it dies away more quickly than the first one
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"What about Tumblr users?" "They don't care who's running the country so long as he's got massive tits."
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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
At 11.30pm - they predicted Burnham would get over 50%, would beat Josh Simons majority and that Restore were underperforming. They are unparalleled.
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This is the World Cup content I'm here for.
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Marie Goldman MP @mariecgoldman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This is unworkable and a huge step backwards for human rights. I will be calling on the Government to urgently rethink this before it's too late.
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Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space · 13/05/2026
One thing I truly believe is that no one in the LGBT community should let Wes Streeting get away with saying he's the "first out gay prime minister" because we do not claim him.
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
TH politics (I live there) is more complicated than short posts cater for, but basically he’s an unscrupulous hard left populist with a very active base. Greens did ok, but did enough damage to Labour to let Lutfur’s lot in through the gaps.
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
For god’s sake Labour the answer to Keir Starmer is not Wes Streeting. There is in fact no problem in existence where the solution is Wes Streeting. You and we will just be back where we are now in a year’s time.
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
As I said in 2021: It is too early/the perfect time to state that Keir Starmer is the future of/death of the Labour party which must continue what it's doing/disband and start again to win the support of/hatred of the working class/Tory voters
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
But that is exactly how Labour divide the electorate. “You’re either Labour or you’re wrong. If we tell you you’re wrong you will realise you should vote for us.”
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Sorry I didn’t manage to get along to see you, next time!
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Now, how long are you here for and how much free time do you have?
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
!! this literally happened to us a few weeks ago. Although ok a 15 year old hob. I blame tiny storage squeezed inner London kitchens.
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joesferatu @24fps.myatproto.social · 13/03/2026
we have a nuclear power station in the sky and can make batteries out of salt but if 21 nm of water get closed we have a global energy crisis idk bruh, i am not a scientist, but this seems dumb as ballz
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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Huge thanks to @eddavey.libdems.org.uk for joining @jolyon.goodlawproject.org and others on the Trans Mission stage to reaffirm the @libdems.org.uk party's long-standing and fundamental support for Trans+ rights. 🧡 goodlawproject.org/jo-maugham-t... #transrights
A screenclip from The Good Law Project with the text:

"But Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrts, also came and met with us, and appeared on the Trans Mission stage.  His, and the Lib Dems', commitment to trans people is no less secure and no less profound."

Below is a picture of Jolyon Maugham talking to Zack Polanski back-stage on the left, and one of JM talking with Ed Davey on the main Trans Mission on the right.  In his picture, Ed is midway through gesturing with both hands while addressing the crowd.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I've been asking Democracy Volunteers, the organisation who said they saw family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election, if they would give details about evidence or methodology. They have now released an updated statement - which is still quite vague. democracyvolunteers.org/family-votin...
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Democracy Volunteers ‘Family Voting’ and how to prevent it in Future Elections
Democracy Volunteers has been observing elections in the UK for 10 years. We have seen ‘family voting’ across the UK and we think it is important to explain more about it and how it should be possi…
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This should be used in every academic politics class and every activist training session. Whether we like it or not this is how politics works in the real world, outside the hyper engaged 10%. (I’m unclear if Owen understood the lesson.)
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The booke of love ys long & boringe No folk kan lyft the damned thinge Crammid ful of charters & lore & rubrics And ynstructiouns for daunsing - But Ich? Ich love it whan thou readest to me; And thee, thou kanst reade me eny thinge. ("The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields)
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I’m always astonished at Who fans who complain about this stuff, given the show has been visibly winging its canon for so long that that the randomness itself is now essentially canon.
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
But also a policy created illiberally - it’s been defined and announced by fiat by party HQ, rather than debated and decided at Conference as these things are meant to be.
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Yeah this was basically me as well
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
We had this for hangover breakfast today and my god you saved our lives
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The HAIR, omg.
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The songs that hit me hardest in 2025, a mix of scuzzy indie, techno, pop, folk and chaotic rock. Best listened to on shuffle.
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2025 Great Songs
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Same
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The Canary Wharf Waitrose requires the same thing
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I dunno, now might be quite a good idea tbh
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I have eaten the plume that was of ta tante and which you were probably saving for a French phrase book Forgive me it was delicious also your postillion has been struck by lightning
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
There’s still Hiyacar. They let people borrow each other’s vehicles as well as having some of their own, we’ve been using them for years since we gave up having a car (in zone 2) www.hiyacar.co.uk
hiyacar.co.uk
Car Sharing in the UK | Peer-to-Peer Car Rental | Hiyacar
Discover safe, quality peer-to-peer car rental. Rent a fully insured car from trusted neighbours or list your vehicle to make extra money. Sign up now!
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Hiyacar still exists
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
25 years today, and every one has been better than the last
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Kept everybody alive in ME2 IIRC (it was a while ago), unity in ME3, romanced the jock all the way through :)
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Whereas I just finished playing Mass Effect (LE) for the first time, 4 years after I started playing it. Loved it, I’m just a slow player.
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
If Mike Dixon emerges and sees his shadow it’s at least another 6 weeks
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Used to love his writing but can’t be dealing with his transphobia
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 02/11/2025
This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
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Graham @mr-trajan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
This is also why the right wing don’t like the arts.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Bless those who think the Home Office can successfully carry out a huge IT procurement exercise for digital ID cards for implementation before the next general election.
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I quite like immigration.
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