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The irony that the BBC blurred out the Protect the Dolls slogan on a Strictly contestant’s tshirt for their social accounts as “political” but will happily dedicate a two-part doc to the woman who uses her billions to fund lawsuits to persecute transgender people www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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Two-part documentary on J.K. Rowling announced by BBC Factual and BBC Scotland

The documentary will use her life as a lens through which to explore three decades of profound social, political and technological change

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Robin June @celestialrobin.bsky.social · 12h

The whole thing is fab, but that bottom left pane is just 🤌😂😂😂😂😂

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Erin @msgreent.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I kind of want to try cogar.ie but they don't seem to have a browser option yet. 🙁 Not that I'm anywhere near ready for interacting in Irish.

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Cogar - Bígí páirteach i dtodhchaí na Gaeilge.

Ardán sóisialta nua do phobal na Gaeilge

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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

@lucympowell.bsky.social and andy burnham are trying to eradicate transgender ppl. the purpose of gender affirming care is to avoid these outcomes. every expert will tell you that. labour know their policies are killing ppl. it is deliberate. they are murdering us.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The huge number of deaths by trans people under the care of NHS gender clinic shows that it is time more people with lived experience become involved in governance and oversight of NHS gender clinics. It is also time the NHS was forced to maintain proper patient records.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every cis person needs to read and understand this.These decisions aren’t taken lightly. Our Labour government is effectively making political refugees of trans ppl and their families who flee and seek safety overseas. It’s shameful. They can stick their dignity and respect where the sun don’t shine

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Exactly this. Arguably, the racists are already having their turn.

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The supposed party of the working class when they restrict their women’s conference to the most privileged women only and nobody shows up: 😯

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17/09/2026

The Dems are doing exactly what Labour did before they were elected. One by one a few stick their head up with some anti trans nonsense and the leadership say nothing because they don't want to rock the boat. Their supporters tell you not to worry, it will be fine when they are elected...

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is the problem. Most cis people don’t believe that “nice” Andy Burnham is the most transphobic Prime Minister the UK has ever had, yet in just two months he has introduced transphobic segregation and Section 28+.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 12/09/2026

flawless example of how labour aren't fighting fascism. andy burnham enabled this donation to reform and he did it bcos he, and his cabinet, were terrified of losing their own bribes and backhanders. this government is what happens when you give small minded ppl power.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Green's Baroness Bennett points out that Palantir did not have any experience in health data and only got NHS contracts after being introduced by the now disgraced Peter Mandelson Making the case that data ownership should be with the NHS, not with external parties

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It is really sad to see @fiercemum.bsky.social leaving the UK because of Burnham’s transphobic policies. They are a great academic who has published some groundbreaking work relevant to life in the UK today. A very great loss :-(

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Erin @msgreent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A lot of people saying similar things. But I'm ready for a new spin through Ocarina regardless.

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Erin @msgreent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It does look incredible in places but I think they may have cranked up the plasticy glossy look way too much especially in the character models. Past versions of this game had a kind of atmospheric grungyness to them thats lost here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFf...

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct 9.8.2026

YouTube video by Nintendo of America

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Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The polling company JL Partners featured in tonights Channel 4 News Exposé on Reform is the same one used by Sex Matters and LGB Alliance . JLP are linked to American Christian investors that hope to shape UK policy.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/09/2026

Watch Reform bigwigs, including Farage, admit a load of illegal shit that carries prison sentences to an undercover reporter

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 03/09/2026

Glad they asked for a timeframe for service restoration, and whether NHS England directed or influenced it. 👍👍👍

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 02/09/2026

I will be at TSA's mass lobby next week, helping out with all your legal and policy questions. With MPs back from recess, and a new government promising change, now is the moment to make ourselves heard. Join us - Wednesday 9th September, 1-5pm. Fill in this form, and I'll see you there!

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 02/09/2026

Do not speak to the BBC if you are trans. Just don't do it. Tell them to go fuck themselves. Even if you know the reporter and they are not an ass, tell them to go fuck themselves anyway because they work for the BBC and their editors will do this regardless of the journalist's intent.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have never seen a moral panic grip a country so quickly or thoroughly

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 28/08/2026

🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...

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NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect

Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place

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Hellrosser @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

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Erin @msgreent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Didn't take long until the mere sight of Burnham inspires the same nausea that Starmer had on me.

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Erin @msgreent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

All the social media cisgenders sharing Dolly being wholesome about trans people but never bothering being wholesome themselves.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I don’t doubt it’s radicalising but for real: the PM from the main left party spent five years doing black-clad, billowing flag speeches about crushing the left and then about our squalid, damaging immigration. The toothpaste was squirted out of the tube at the highest level, all over the populace.

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I think we still underplay how much this has to do with X. It remains the main platform used by politicians, commentators and journalists, it was bought by Musk precisely for this purpose, and it's worked
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I know it's not very cool and I-told-you-so of me, but I never thought we'd see this level of open racism in the dead mainstream of the UK in my lifetime. Of course we were aware of The Warning From History and stuff, but it's so jarring to see it unfold.
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You can go on there now and see very senior journalists constantly on there promoting their very serious interviews with the prime minister, to next to zero engagement, whilst getting their feeds smothered by ultra viral Tweets by actual Nazis. Of course this is having an effect

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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Think it’s clear a lot of people who think he deserved to go and that’s so dire

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 20/08/2026

jon ronson has written a book about men who go crazy online and he's dedicated an entire chapter to graham linehan. graham is not going to like the observer review.

Ronson’s account of Graham Linehan is another harrowing tale of a man’s life ruined by the internet. Linehan was a beloved comedy writer, co-creator of Father Ted, and a prolific presence on Twitter, where he was well liked and respected. Then, in 2013, something began to shift, when an episode of his sitcom The IT Crowd, first broadcast in 2008, was repeated. In it, a man discovers his girlfriend is transgender and a brawl breaks out between the two. Viewers did not like the display of violence nor the supposed implication that the trans woman was “really” a man, underlying maleness bursting forth uncontrollably once she is angry.

Linehan responded to criticism with polite bafflement, then defensiveness, and finally overt anger. He began to research transgender issues and developed a singular obsession with the topic, which has since gone on to comprehensively destroy his career and personal life. Linehan, who believes trans activism and indeed ordinary trans existence pose an existential threat to women, talks of little else (except, these days, a fervent pro-Israel stance). He tweets near-constantly, cloaking his obsession with supposed concern for the wellbeing of cisgender women, but he does not balk at aggressively insulting those women who disagree with him.

Linehan’s self-ignited ruin stopped being satisfying for even his opponents to watch a while back, and now is only profoundly depressing. Ronson was once a good friend, but in refusing to endorse Linehan’s beliefs about transgender issues, he was added to his long list of his enemies. In The Castle, Ronson speaks to him directly, having been attacked countless times on Linehan’s social media feed. One thing that becomes clear, beyond the truly abject state of Linehan’s wellbeing, is that he is able to persevere with his campaign because he has convinced himself he is battling the greatest danger currently at play in the world. At one point he suggests that there are so many fewer serial killers nowadays because all the sociopaths have migrated to the internet in order to argue with him about trans issues instead. It reminded me of religious protesters screaming at me in Dublin once, as I walked into a reproductive-rights clinic that provided information about abortion. I was furious, but then forced myself to think about how I would feel or act if I truly, earnestly believed that every abortion is equivalent to the murder of a child. That might, indeed, drive me mad.

The Linehan chapter is brilliant: insightful, candid and moving. I’m still not convinced that any broader crisis of masculinity or male purpose had much to do with Linehan’s downfall, though. He wasn’t at a loss or empty of purpose when he began his campaign. He didn’t turn to vitriol because he didn’t have anything else to do. His case is, if anything, notable for involving a man with an enviable life and abundant success throwing it away for reasons that to many in the outside world may seem obscure or deranged.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 20/08/2026

this is like when C4 did that hitjob on trans ppl and lied to all of the trans ppl who participated. they have form for this shit.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 20/08/2026

These are the specific claims that the Guardian pivoted to smashing him on after he resigned from Cambridge.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Important THREAD about the disturbing parallels between the one-sided anti-ADHD media circus and the one-sided anti-trans children media circus.

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Erin @msgreent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Guardian here doing that phoney coverage where they pretend to be coming from a neutral position but ultimately being persuaded by these 'experts'. Trans people have seen it all before. Even literally from other Ch 4 documentaries. Nobody mentions the think tanks and the scumbags driving this.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

BREAKING: Guardian's Katharine Viner was warned Arday was at risk - yet published anyway Author Kelechi Okafor has released a series of internal emails showing the Guardian knew how vulnerable Arday was - yet ignored the warnings. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

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BREAKING: Guardian's Katharine Viner was warned Arday was at risk - yet published anyway

Author Kelechi Okafor has released a series of internal emails showing the Guardian knew how vulnerable Arday was - yet continued anyway

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The British Media Vs. Plagiarism

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
British Journalists are relaxing on lilos in the sea. Someone on the shore yells “Hey Guys! An academic got accused of plagiarism”

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One of the journalists sticks out their tongue and says “Pffft. Wake me when there’s a real story”

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Person on shore “He was black”

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The sea explodes as a tidal wave of British Journalists erupt into the air, manic and desperate to report on this now vital for some reason piece of news

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Erin @msgreent.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Labour will be happy about Reforms crazy policies because it will make their own policies look slightly less unhinged by comparison but will still end up killing people and destroying peoples lives.

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Erin @msgreent.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The way that Owen Jones just gave up on transphobia. One of the few people who had a platform and was willing to get our side of the argument out there. He just doesn't seem to give a fuck anymore. 🤷‍♀️

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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"Jason Arday's research explains exactly what happened to Jason Arday." "He already wrote what happened to him. It's peer reviewed" - @alltimeisaac.bsky.social

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