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Ruth Pearce

@notrightruth.bsky.social
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Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian. ruthpearce.net

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
seriously just incredible musical and lyrical depth, back to back bangers
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly a good result for Labour, but it also doesn't strike me as a terrible result for the Greens. Vote share held up from the local elections in a constituency that was never really a target for them
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's been three years since I first heard Wallsocket - as of this morning I'm still discovering new things about the brilliant music on this album, and developing new theories about the storyline. An absolute masterpiece. Concept album of the decade.
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Wallsocket
Listen to Wallsocket by underscores #np on #SoundCloud
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Logan @bulklogan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wendy Carlos in front of a synthesizer with 50 bazillion wires and knobs
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
destroy power!
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Noah Pevie @noahpevie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Next trans-oriented book on the reading list is: Understanding Trans Health by @notrightruth.bsky.social! Two chapters in and enjoying it so far! ✨🏳️‍⚧️
Photo of a hand holding a book titled “Understanding Trans Health” with a scenic nature background
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So yes, it enables you to code faster, but then all the extra finding and fixing mistakes cancels out that advantage.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is what rigging in a democracy-turned-fascist ethnostate looks like. Even as Opposition parties & other groups protest the regime's vote rigging and mass disenfranchisement of Indians in Delhi, the BJP happily turned a by-poll in my state into a one-party election in their favour.
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Ground report: Muslim voters stopped, Opposition arrested, journalists blocked in Bengal bye-poll
In Rejinagar, Scroll found that the police were intimidating Muslim voters, detaining Opposition workers and stifling journalists.
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Everything is Gender:
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The UG students where I work have no 'choice' over the modules they study, Jo. Back in my day I had a wealth of options. These students – who are lucky to study there at all since we don't recruit in history anymore – do the modules they're given.
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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wrote something a while back about imperialism and claims to meritocracy. The same thing happens over and over because it's always about power. jonn.substack.com/p/rhiannon-g...
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Rhiannon Garth Jones on lessons from Rome – and why they’re bad
A guest post from the author of "All Roads Lead to Rome: Why we think of the Roman Empire daily’.
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still in Pittsburgh @pdpittsburgh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.equator.org/articles/bra...
When politics is colonised by the attention economy, then public discourse becomes a constantly shifting sea of outrage. Today, this; tomorrow, that. It is a state of affairs entirely inimical to emancipatory politics, which is predicated on bolstering people’s capacity to take decisions about their collective fate and participate in sustained efforts to change the status quo. Trump keeps us busy with headlines and late-night posts, while the real work of destruction goes on in the background.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This analysis of the far right in Brasil is spot on - and to me it also describes the politics of ressentiment in the UK and the US as well. It is just that in these two countries, it is targeted at migrants. www.equator.org/articles/bra...
Ever since Brexit and Trump, when the political weather changed so dramatically, the left has responded with two narratives: we either paint the far right as a revolt of the elites without a real popular base, or as a revolt of the left-behind, of a working-class betrayed by liberal elitism.

Neither of these narratives persuades me. Rather, I believe the contemporary far right is a cross-class phenomenon. One way to understand it is as a movement that brings together an underclass that has given up waiting on the promises of modernisation – formal work, accountable institutions, real equality before the law – and an elite who no longer even pretends those promises are on offer.

Between them lies the hardest core of true believers – not the largest group statistically, but the most passionate – which I call, borrowing a phrase from Orwell, the “lower-upper-middle class”. These are people who fall between two stools: they have a good standard of living but lack the assets or social capital of the true elite. They are not only haunted by the fear of downward social mobility, but also threatened by any minor upward mobility achieved by those below them, as during the Pink Tide in Latin America, when the poor became less poor – began attending university, travelling internationally and so forth. This generated a feeling of resentment that was easily instrumentalised.
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s us!!
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
snopes.com
Pope Leo XIV didn't once urge people to 'be woke'
"To be called 'woke' in a world that sleeps through suffering is no insult - it is Gospel," a meme featuring the quote read.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026
You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026
i know it's one of you | patreon.com/lubchansky
PANEL 1: A GRIZZLED MAN pacing in a grey hallway on a spaceship. He's wearing a boiler suit and holding a knife.
GM: NOW I KNOW ONE OF YOU BASTARDS IS A SECRET "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" SENT HERE TO KILL THE REST OF US.
GM: AND *WE AIN'T LEAVING THIS ROOM* UNTIL WE FIND HIM…AND KILL 'EM!

PANEL 2: Three more CREWMEN respond.
CREWMAN 2: I- I TOLD YOU SIR, I'M A HUMAN! FLESH AND BLOOD!
CREWMAN 3: ME TOO! I SWEAR!
CREWMAN 4: HEY, HOW DO WE KNOW *YOU* AIN'T IT?

PANEL 3: Back on the GRIZZLED MAN, who pricks his arm with knife, dripping a small amount of blood.
GM: PLEASE.
GM: HOW ABOUT THE NEW GUY. YOU'RE AWFULLY QUIET.

PANEL 4: Just to the right of CREWMAN 3, a COMPUTER MONITOR is on the table, with a pixelated emoticon smiley face on it.
COMPUTER: Hello there! It seems like you're looking for who the computer might be – I bet I can help! Let's all take a look at the facts together.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Eight of us, members of Kaos GL’s executive and supervisory boards, along with an independent woman journalist friend of ours, have been on the Sincan Closed Prison campus for some time."
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Jailed trans rights activist Janset Kalan: Remember trans prisoners
Kaos GL board member and trans rights defender Janset Kalan answered bianet’s questions from prison.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Türkiye's government is violently cracking down on LGBTQ+ civil society, targeting trans women especially. Among the groups attacked are Kaos GL, who previously translated and republished some of my work in their journal. I am grateful therefore for this statement of solidarity from @ucu.org.uk.
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UCU condemns Turkish state crackdown on LGBTQ+ people and civil society
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am not personally involved in this project, but know one of the researchers and feel she is pretty sound.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Are you: - a trans woman or a non-binary person with a prostate? - aged 40+? - on oestrogen and/or post-op for bottom surgery? - based in the UK? The TransPRIDE study invites you to participate in research to inform better trans-inclusive prostate care! transpridestudy.org.uk
Recruitment poster with text that reads as follows. Trans or non-binary?
Join us in research led by and for trans people to improve our healthcare. 

TransPRIDE (Trans & non-binary Prostate specific antigen Reference Interval
DEtermination) is a research study to help find the normal levels of the PSA blood test in trans women and non-binary people with prostates.
Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is a blood test that helps detect prostate
problems including cancer.

It is lowered by gender-affirming hormones and surgeries but we do not
know the expected normal levels for trans women and non-binary people.

Knowing the normal PSA blood test level will help doctors to find and treat prostate cancer more quickly in this population.

We are looking for 500 trans women and non-binary people aged 40+ who have been on feminising hormone therapy for at least 3 months, and/or had any kind of bottom surgery, to take part.

Participation involves a blood test for PSA and hormone levels, and short
questionnaires.

Blood test results will be returned, and participants are given a £25 gift
voucher for their time.

For more information visit: transpridestudy.org.uk
Or contact: bartsctu-transpride-study@qmul.ac.uk
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I've been tweaking someone else's photos of some William Brassey Hole murals, and that reminded me of the time a collie named Merlot came to visit the murals in Pollokshields, and I think we should admire Merlot again.
A small collie with an infinitely appealing expression in front of a mural showing animals being blessed. Merlot is already blessed, and Merlot knows this.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Good News for the UK @goodnewsfortheuk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Glasgow Women’s Library marks 35 years with exhibition of 35 significant objects #GoodNews #UK
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Glasgow Women’s Library marks 35 years with exhibition of 35 significant objects
To celebrate its 35th anniversary, Glasgow Women’s Library has curated an exhibition featuring one object from every year of its history. By sharing personal reflections from staff and volunteers on these items, the display highlights how the library has grown from a grassroots project into a vital
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bleak stuff here: the fascist international in country after country judging that they don’t even have to pretend any more that they aren’t farcically corrupt criminals, and they may well be correct.
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
TransActual is working with Dr Kat Gupta, a researcher in Politics, to examine how trans people and our supporters responded to this consultation. Please visit transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/09... for more information.
Text reads: Did you fill out the 2025 EHRC consultation on the revised Code of Practice? 
Are you trans, non-binary or supportive of trans people? 
Are you over 16? 
Do you want to include your consultation response in a research project? 
Visit our website for more details.
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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes! Fight more, win more!
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ok, so i wont repost the massive Sandie Peggie V RCN tribunal thread again, i'll just add a few choice nuggets from GC Lawfarepalooza here. The last couple of days brought the actual RCN rep out for evidence. It was clear, concise and simple to follow.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/09/2026
Lord give me incremental change, but not today
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/09/2026
🚨 We need to hear from YOU Have you had a problem accessing gendered services since April last year, outside of school and the workplace? Are you a service provider worried about remaining inclusive? PLEASE let us know through this form - and share widely goodlaw.social/mzb3
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026
The UK right's current political project is to co-opt the language of antidiscrimination to make bigotry legally unimpeachable.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/09/2026
Colleagues at Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Caledonian are all on strike today over job cuts. Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Solidarity from Glasgow!
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash
Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the world is a rough place these days, but there are tiny glimmers of light everywhere if you know where to look for example, my sister just texted that their youngest decided to take up the trumpet and was honking away all evening in the garage, driving them nuts, and that did bring me real joy
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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32.7K Likes
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The British state is however, hell-bent on protecting a right to march through a community that said no for 30 years. [...] Orange marches are provocative in their very nature. Their entire purpose is to tell Catholic communities and women, this street is ours."
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
lol let's talk about how tradwives were a scam to begin with, since they performed financial dependence even though they were financially independent. 🙃
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The snails They destroyed their cage Yes YES The snails are out
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
same, not gonna lie
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Calling any and all clinicians, researchers, and academics working in gender care, paediatrics, or related fields of healthcare, medicine & science! I have an important campaign you may be able to help with, regarding 🏳️‍⚧️ healthcare 🙏🙏🙏 If you’re interested let me know & I will DM you full details
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🔥🔥🔥
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m helping Dr Kat Gupta with this project! We are delighted with the number of responses we’ve had so far, and anyone else who would like to participate is very very welcome! Participation is super easy – pretty much just need to fill in the consent form!
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The UK choosing racism over prosperity, again
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