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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 4h

Always find it astonishing how noticeable the Great Leap Forward is.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This government has made life dramatically harder for trans children and their families. The human costs are enormous. Cal is not the first parent I know that has made the gut wrenching decision to leave the country. Read this then start fighting for a world where trans kids can live and thrive.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Labour's immigration/asylum policies are profoundly racist and xenophobic. They embolden far right, undermine international law and violate basic human rights, while being even more hostile than the previous government. They can't be tweaked. They need to be scrapped. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Angela Rayner criticises worker visa plans on eve of Labour conference

The housing secretary says the government's plans to change wait times for permanent residency are unfair because they "change the goalposts".

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ive worked hard all my life. Ive got a great CV and references. And still.. crickets. Luckily my dream employers were as happy to meet me as I was to meet them. I get to lead the brilliant Allsorts Youth. But I had to get LUCKY. Employers👏do👏better👏

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

After a couple of months, re-entering the job market as a 51 year old queer woman, and newly disabled to boot was HORRIFYING. No shortlisting, no interviews, and for jobs I was overqualified for. I was scared Id never get another job!...

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🧵Must read on discrimination against older jobseekers 👇 i gave up my job to give myself breathing space after cancer treatment and the deaths of my dad and brother (yes in the same 6 months)...

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lots of nonsense gets brought up in Parliament. Some end up having negative consequences, such as when this is placed into context of how barbers and beauty salons are already framed in terms of immigration and how this could be used to fuel further attacks on the rights of people working in them 1/

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We are grinning ear to ear because 1) everything ran smoothly 2) we love each other. 3) its finally nearly 🍷o'clock (pic taken at 6:30 I think). There were SO many feelings at the lobby, but love and respect - for ourselves and each other - was everywhere. This is movement MADE of love. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🧵Yesterday hundreds of trans people, family and friends queued for *hours* to exercise their democratic rights -lobbying their MPs to stand up for trans people's right to live as free and equal members of society. This is me and my wonderful friend Alex after a day of running (another) mass lobby 👇

Two women smiling broadly with their arms around each other holding up small signs. One says "Mass Lobby for Trans Equality" the other says "Trans people deserve real equality". The woman on the left has short grey hair, and is wearing a short sleeved light blue shirt. The woman on the right has long black wavy hair, and is wearing a red t shirt and a high vis.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 10/09/2026

This photo by David Bird shows the huge line of trans + people and allies outside parliament yesterday.

A huge line of people waiting to enter the Palace of Westminster for the 2026 trans lobby of parliament.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thank you so much to the hundreds of trans people and allies who joined today's mass lobby! The queue stretched across both sides of the road outside Parliament, and so many MPs participated in meetings and responded to green cards. Together, we delivered a powerful message for change 🏳️‍⚧️

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When your ideal date is running a mass lobby for trans equality @transsolidarity.bsky.social 😂

Two women in a car, smiling. Passenger has short hair, glasses and a pale blue shirt, driver has short hair and a black linen shirt.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today’s the day: Are you feeling mass lobby ready? Tag us in your best #transontrains pictures and we’ll see you soon!

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Organising - why bother? Lots of despair from trans folks on the tl and other places of late. Things are horrible and scary. I also think we’re doing brilliantly at fighting back given the asymmetry of arms at play. We are so deep in a pit at the moment in terms of trans rights in the UK.

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This week, trans children all over England are starting the school year in schools that have been told to segregate them from their friends and peers. If they are brave enough to do that, every single cis ally should be brave enough to show up at a lobby for trans equality 👇👇

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Please read, and consider that it is a failure to act by cis "allies" that has left trans people in the UK in this direction position.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of the things us an industry need to stop doing is perpetuating the 'they say this on social media, but they're a sweetheart in real life' about awful people I've had other journos say this to me about some of the most pernicious grifters over the years, some of who crossed many lines this week

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Its (finally) raining, so my children are cool and still fast asleep, my world smells and sounds *amazing* and I just learned the word "petrichor" ❤️

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.

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Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists

More than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I can see that. My own experience is that the focus on in person working of all kinds is still very strong, and excludes me from lots of things! Hybrid obviously solves for this :)

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

They took a bit of getting used to! But the accessibility gains are more than worth it in my view :)

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Waking up to our extraordinary annual water bill and sitting thinking about all of the other 4 person families who simply cannot afford a bill like this. Water is a basic human need. It should be free to all.

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Really recommend watching this @jamellebouie.net vid. Much of it very much applicable to the state of journalism and politics here in the UK...

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 06/08/2026

I've been using a rollator for the past few days and it's been really helpful. I've been able to stay out longer, go more places, and paid less for it in pain and fatigue afterwards

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The biggest change I can see is in parents, who are much less likely to be aware of their children's usage of social media post ban. IE they are more checked out, and are assuming the ban 'works' (it doesn't) 👀. Read the (not "buried") report in full here: www.esafety.gov.au/sites/defaul...

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🧵3 month assessment on the Australian social media ban is in: very little change, and no change in practical outcomes for children and young people - no mental health or family relationship improvements, no differences in leisure time, same degree of harmful access, like loosing sleep to scrolling 🚨

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Great thread (and even better linked essays) on the evangelism of AI in big tech

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Hornier for trees than you would expect:

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is actually CRAZY work - we are more anti trans than several countries including the US, which are arguably not even liberal democracies

Views on Access to Facilities
Matching Gender
Identity
By Country
0. How much do you agree or disagree with the following?
Transgender people should be allowed to use single-sex facilities (e.g., public restrooms) that correspond to the gender they identify with

(Great Britain is at bottom of list of 26 countries)

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Youthwork changes lives and it saves lives. Across the UK, LGBTQ+ youthwork organisations live hand to mouth. Supporting LGBTQ+ youthwork is one of the most practical things you can do that directly helps trans kids survive and thrive. Please give, and encourage your network to do the same.

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

None of these float your boat and you want to find a youth group in your area? Great! Online search is your friend, or you can use this LGBT Consortium members list www.consortium.lgbt/member-direc...

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

How about Gendered Intelligence? In person youth work in London and Leeds plus online groups 😁 You can donate to them here: genderedintelligence.co.uk/donations

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Ways to give

Regular donations enable us to continue our services for our youth and community members, educate wider society and stand up for trans rights.

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Our work has never been more necessary and our funding is always precarious. Set up a monthly direct debit to help keep trans kids youth clubs and safe spaces running. My own organisation, @allsortsyouth.bsky.social works across Sussex. You can give to us here: allsortsyouth.enthuse.com/profile

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Allsorts Youth Project

About us At Allsorts, we value youth voice, empowerment, equality and inclusion. If you are like us, you believe that all children & young people should be supported and free to be themselves. Who are

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🧵Aug: the Code of Practice comes into force. Sept: safeguarding and RHSE guidance in English schools. The net result will be pervasive segregation of trans children and young people that cuts across every part of their lives outside of the home. So: I'm asking you to donate to LGBTQ+ youthwork now⬇️

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.

These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need.

In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Not getting the whole 'Politician consistently voted against abortions and LGBTQ issues but they were *lovely* to their gay friends, of whom they had many' thing.

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