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Maybe not that deep and I love the whole album but the title track always gets me with the bounciness. 🎶 If there was a better way to go then it would find me I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine 🎶

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 8h

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 1h

“Mary-Ann Stephenson, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said criticism of its updated code of practice had made the "real alarm" felt by trans people worse by wrongly suggesting they had lost protections or would face sex checks.” Has she read her Equality Impact Assessment?

Summary of EHRC EIA
EHRC acknowledges that there are potentially negative impacts for those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment from the updates to the Code as a result of how service providers implement
FWS.
They state that whilst this may have a negative impact on trans people with a GRC (current or future certificate holders), their view is that it is important the guidance accurately reflects the correct legal position.
EHRC note that these updates reflect the law and will facilitate a better understanding of legal obligations and entitlements. These changes aim
to mitigate the risk of unlawful discrimination or harassment by helping service providers balance the benefits, needs and impacts across potential user groups. Subsequently, this will assist providers in determining whether separate or single-sex provision meets the proportionality test. They state they sought to limit any negative effect in accessing services for those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment by advising service providers to consider alternatives and mitigations to separate and single-sex services.
OEO additional impact assessment
As set out in EHRC's ElA, the updates to the Code are expected to have a significant impact on people with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment. In addition to the concerns detailed in that EIA, there are further impacts to note as follows.
Exclusion: The updated Chapter 13 provides guidance on when it is lawful to exclude trans people from services aligned with their acquired gender (e.g. domestic violence refuges, hospital wards, and changing rooms) based on their biological sex. It also covers competitive sport which may leave trans people with access to sport. Chapter 12 also provides guidance on restricting membership to an association based on those sharing one or more protected characteristics. Some organisations such as the Women's Institute and Girl Guiding have already made the decision to restrict…

'Double exclusion': It is possible that trans people could be barred from both the space aligned with their gender (because of their sex) and the space aligned with their birth sex because of possessing the protected characteristic of gender reassignment), effectively leaving them with no service at all.
Alternative provision: While the Code states it is "unlikely to be proportionate" to leave a trans person with no service (especially for essentials like toilets), providers may lack the funding or space to offer
'third-space' or gender-neutral alternatives.
Involuntary disclosure: New guidance explains how service providers can request information about an individual's sex at birth. This may force trans people to "out" themselves in public or professional settings.
Similarly trans people have expressed concern - as in the Good Law Project litigation against EHRC - that having to use disabled toilets will
'out' them.
Policing of gender: Potential 'policing' of gender presentation, which could lead to increased harassment for trans people and cisgender people who do not conform to traditional gender stereotypes.
Safeguarding risks: Concern that excluding trans women from female services could mean they have to use male services, where they could face a disproportionate risk of violence and sexual assault (although this will depend on the nature of the service in question).
Relations between groups: The debate on single sex services and the treatment of trans people is particularly divisive at this time. The Code of Practice may exacerbate these tensions. This may be somewhat mitigated through careful communications surrounding the Code's publication.
Our assessment is therefore that the likely impacts on gender reassignment as a characteristic are negative, in relation to each of the 3 limbs of the PSED. Mitigating factors are the ability of service providers to create 'third-space' provision for trans people, and the guidance in the Code on when it is, and is not, p…

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2h

"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is reportedly taking Thames Valley police to court over his arrest in connection with the Jeffrey Epstein files." [Times]

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2h

Sonia Sodha in The Times crying about banning conversion practices

Conversion Practices Bill is a licence for trouble
Prime minister needs to ditch toxic legislation that threatens the rights of women and parents
Sonia Sodha @soniasodha

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. A maxim that has been embraced by campaigners for men to be able to intrude into female spaces and for children experiencing gender distress to be pushed down a risky medical pathway, all under the misleading banner of “trans rights”. These campaigners have lost some important battles. Their strategy of bullying female opponents out of their jobs and public life ran into problems when the courts made clear that this was unlawful discrimination. Then the Supreme Court clarified that men are never women for the purpose of using female-only facilities and services.

Meanwhile the medical consensus is finally shifting to an understanding that children experiencing transitory gender distress, often a product of other issues, should be able to access exploratory therapy rather than puberty-blocking drugs.

Now gender campaigners have opened a new front, pushing for legislation to ban so-called “conversion practices”. This innocuous-sounding but dangerous Trojan horse is designed to override legal protections for single-sex spaces and to threaten parents, teachers and healthcare professionals acting in children’s best interests. Worst of all, it was adopted in Labour’s 2024 manifesto, a quid pro quo for the party dropping self-ID.

There is a long and terrible history of same-sex-attracted people being subjected to conversion practices such as electroshock therapy and corrective rape. These practices are thankfully rare, and importantly already criminal.

As is anything constituting harassment or physical or sexual assault under criminal statute. Indeed, the minister who led the Lords debate simply listed a number of existing offences as justification for the bill and when pushed was unable to provide concrete examples of practices that should be — but are no…

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

I’m gonna put my fist through a wall

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Gene Haunt 👻🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 15m

There are so many things I find bewildering about Other People in this country but the sheer level of ignorance and vagueness about Ireland, its politics, history & relationship to Britain is one of the worst. It's only over there! It's been a whole thing in British politics for centuries!

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 46m

At a certain point you see stuff like this and think "just do it already" because it's been the logical endpoint of all the hysteria around any left-of-Labour or pro-Gaza candidate after the last election. They want to make voting for anyone left of Labour illegal. Do it already and let's dance.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13h

Like, one of the live political issues of the last few weeks has been “can black people ever be British?”, and we’re supposed to be terrified of Zack Polanski? It’s just not serious, it is orange wig, red nose clownshoes horseshit.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13h

Sonia is a reactionary crackpot who is paid to write hit pieces on progressives for a very, very right wing Murdoch newspaper. What is she talking about, here? You openly despise most of the left, you don’t get a vote here!

Sonia Sodha ® @soniasodha
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Hope the Green conference today is proving a bit of a wakeup call to those who dream of a progressive coalition. No such thing as a progressive coalition with these cranks.

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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 14h

I’m seeing all these comments from men on different social media platforms about not fighting off rapists to help strange women and like…I hate them lol Every time I’ve ever needed help it’s always been another woman who has helped me.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17h

Sort of weird how we never talk about the EHRC as a political battering ram that's brought out *specifically* when a party threatens white people's pet settler colony or centrist's jobs.

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 15h

Freedland has, admittedly due to necessity, condemned the "bombardment" of Palestinians. Elledge hasn't even done that. Judging by everything I have seen Elledge has no objection to Israel committing genocide.

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 15h

Elledge has not once used his bluesky account to condemn the genocide in Gaza. He has however repeatedly condemned anti-Zionists and he is doing so again.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social
Brentwood School Private School

passing the "zionism is racism" motion on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street is a bit on the fucking nose isn't it

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Pointy @euclideanpoint.bsky.social · 21h

If you follow me and are a guy or someone who ever hangs out with guys, can you do me a favour? Read this:

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dog botherer @dogbotherer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

worth mentioning that Linehan is so proud of the “groomer” slur (which he mostly deploys against anyone visibly LGBT+), that when larger right wing accounts started using it he initially got pissy that they were taking credit for an insult he believed he had coined.

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dog botherer @dogbotherer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Russell T Davies keeps a knife by his door because of a stochastic terror campaign led by disgraced bigot Graham Linehan

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18h

If I didn’t want to be seen as racist, I probably wouldn’t be reheating some of the spiciest 1930s conspiracy theories about Bolshevik intellectuals conspiring with the lesser races to sap and undermine the fatherland. But what do I know, I am not a Spectator columnist.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18h

Amazing skills here, disproving that whole “is racist” thing

Noa Hoffman • @hoffman_noa
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Stage one of the Islamist assault on the Green Party is now complete. Let's see how long Polanski lasts before they come for the leadership. As has been warned a million times, these Islamic extremists were never going to stop until a policy of dismantling the Jewish state (the ultimate force against Islamism)

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 30/09/2026

I'll be running a free creative writing workshop on climate crisis fiction on Halloween in Kildare. Please do share the link around and come along if you can: kildare.spydus.ie/cgi-bin/spyd...

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 20h

Trans people are subjected to abuse and threat every single day, and moderators are, like, ‘Meh! Suck it up!’ But the moment they are subjected to it themselves, THEN they do something about it. It’s always the cis way of throwing us scraps of protection, only when it affects them.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21h

anyways, i propose that we ban everyone from saying other users should enjoy concentration camps. i think this would be a positive move towards a safer website.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21h

this was the most foreseeable outcome of all this and why i sarcastically told the mod team to enjoy the camps 17 days ago. i knew they would see it differently when directed at themselves, everyone always does.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21h

but because Aaron has decided trans people were acceptable targets, he wiggled around having to take massive action to clean up the transphobia of this place.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21h

The path to today was laid the second he made an insane decision like "telling a trans person to enjoy the camps is not a threat." the second he said that, his mod team became fair game for these statements. because they are inherently threats, towards trans people or not.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/10/2026

It took like a week for him to change his mind on the "enjoy the camps" thing. All it took was people saying it to the mod team instead of trans people.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 22h

Your reminder that Brenda Power is an adjudicator for the International Protection Appeals Tribunal which currently has a number of appeals before it from transgender Americans

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 22h

Badenoch is seriously unhinged. She is everything Truss was, but turned up to 11, and messianic in her isolationist beliefs that the UK must sever itself from Europe, and become more like the worst that America has to offer.

DeSantis, who is expected to challenge Donald Trump for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election, met Badenoch and foreign secretary James Cleverly on a visit to London this week.
I/ They call it
'national conservatism' but it's a divisive, far-right movement.
Why are Tories embracing it?
John Harris
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In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, DeSantis said Badenoch had offered her support for his "war on woke", which has included a bitter legal battle with Disney after the company questioned a Florida law aimed at limiting discussion of homosexuality and gender in schools.
DeSantis said: "She complimented what we are doing in Florida. She committed that it is what they are trying to do in Britain.
"She pointed out, and I think it's true, that some of the woke has been exported from the United States.
"I commend her and her efforts to make sure that this is not corrupting British society"
His staff tweeted a picture of him and Badenoch, describing them as "two great conservative fighters on a mission".
Some of DeSantis's views would be considered far outside mainstream UK politics - he recently signed a law to ban abortion in Florida after six weeks of pregnancy, for example.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I really wish RFK Jr would stop telling parents dreadful lies about the HPV vaccine—he says it increases the risk of cervical cancer, which is a horrific and dangerous lie He loves fearmongering He has made a fortune suing the HPV vaccine maker; ALWAYS follow the money & conflicts of interest

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social @equalityhumanright.bsky.social This is what the anti trans rhetoric that has been fostered with your ‘guidance’ does: it has real world consequences. Here was a trans woman, who was simply on a train, minding her own business, and she has been subjected to verbal abuse.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/10/2026

"A ten-year contract signed in 2015 gave the Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) preferential access to land identified for development by Manchester city council.""

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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Being a ‘good guy’ doesn’t usually mean saying the *right* thing and then getting praise, but saying the *difficult* thing that prompts an uncomfortable silence. Follow-up post: how to be difficult www.girlonthenet.com/blog/how-to-...

girlonthenet.com

How to be difficult | A guide on challenging creep chat

Being a 'good guy' doesn't mean saying the right thing and then getting praise, but saying the difficult thing that prompts an uncomfortable silence.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"He wants to damage a historical building" will get a crowd with pitchforks before a rape ever does

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026

The Orange Order, and the police, have got this all so badly wrong and every person in the country could have told then that before it had to happen

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LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk · 03/10/2026

Statement on the presence of Elaine Miller at Conference:

Earlier this week we learned that a conference fringe meeting (Sunday 9am Women's pelvic health: the massive, hidden environmental cost) was due to be addressed by a notorious campaigner against trans rights, Elaine Miller. We understood this to mean she would be at conference in person. With our friends in Trans Greens and Trans Young Greens, we wrote to the party to say: “Her presence at Conference would go against the policies of trans inclusion held by the Green Party of England and Wales, and that the platforming of a renowned and vocal transphobe would represent a serious safeguarding issue for our trans, non-binary, and intersex attendees. The presence of a speaker with such a notorious history of disrupting democratic processes would constitute a serious risk of intimidating trans members out of participation in the democratic processes of their party.”

We said that “We expect the party to uphold its duty to protect trans, non-binary, intersex, and gender nonconforming members” by not allowing this to happen. Sadly, as of Saturday morning, we have received no reply nor any acknowledgement beyond an automatic mailbox response. We now understand that Elaine Miller’s appearance will be via Zoom. This is a relief for many of us who are at conference. The title of the meeting is a serious and important issue relating to healthcare. However we cannot accept the platforming of a notorious campaigner against the rights of trans people.

We told the party that if we did not receive assurances we would discuss with our members what steps to take next. So here we are, asking you our members to let us know what you think we should do, at conference and afterwards, to defend and protect members and to ensure that those who campaign against queer rights do not find a platform in our party. We are at stall 12, come and let us know your thoughts. Or share them with us on our socials.
Bluesky: @lgbiqagreens.bsky.social
Facebook: LGBTIQA+ Greens
Instagram: @LGBTIQAGreens
Your LGBTIQA+ Greens committee

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean, look at Jonathan, who is saying much the same shit today that he was saying in 2002, completely unaffected by any events occurring in reality. Whom is it there, who is mainlining ideological insanity straight into the bloodstream?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I reiterate that it is *incredible* to look at four years of totally open genocide and destruction, and come away with total certainty that it’s the people saying this is criminal, bad and extremely racist, who are wrong and hateful.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Vile transphobic bigot Bridget Phillipson is leaving trans women survivors of domestic violence with nowhere to go. Trans people are particularly vulnerable to domestic violence & this disgusting government taking away support is putting lives in danger. Statement by @galopuk.bsky.social.

If the UK Government's position is, as the Minister for Women and Equalities, Bridget Phillipson, said on Sunday, that trans women should not be allowed in women's refuges, then it's their job to ensure trans+ people have accommodation they can access. Anyone who is escaping abuse and violence deserves a safe place to go.
But the Supreme Court Ruling and the EHRC's updated Code of Practice has put trans+ victims and survivors in a dangerous state of limbo with no clear guidance on what services they can turn to.
Over the last year, it has been virtually impossible for our frontline services to find anywhere safe for trans+ victims and survivors to go. Despite the fact that trans+ people are at particularly high risk of experiencing abuse and violence. We need direct action now from the UK Government to support trans+ people to find safe accommodation.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm the token expert voice saying that inconsistencies in victim's narratives are common in an otherwise brutally bad piece of journalism full of tropes about how not to report on sexual assault.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And that led to my words appearing in a victim-blaming article written by a journalist I have never met about how Jane Doe's story was "inconsistent."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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My Queer Heart @myqueerheart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There was a welcome moment on HIGNFY where they said that a sexual abuser shouldn't be US President. It'd be good if the BBC could mention that on their serious politics shows too sometimes.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But she had, in fact, warned the investigator about the gaps in their first meeting. They didn’t write it down. And then they blamed her later and used that as an excuse to keep her perpetrator on campus.

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