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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It was Streeting's treatment of trans people that led me to leave the Labour Party. I couldn't watch my trans siblings being thrown under the bus.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Have you seen this fake piece circulating? Just this morning on FB. Have reported.

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Letter of the day (in the Times)

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

In the absence of a response to a polite request for a link to the thing you might have to "go through all again", (a willingness to listen and learn): Maybe London creates more GDP *because* of all the funding and centralisation? And in the world I want, money is spread around to those in need.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Probably not, but a link to something might be helpful.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Another political question would be: why should anyone in the regions vote Labour if a Labour government fails to put right years of funding inequity? Surely, it's not just about the money?

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

... and this is why we need PR.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Yes, I thought (knew) it was! Just couldn't miss a cheap joke. I quite liked the word 'invert' when I was younger, especially when contrasted with 'pervert'. Perverts have been corrupted, whilst Inverts have always been like it. :-) #ProudInvert

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Also, law isn't about "fairness", unless you're making laws; it's about interpretation mostly. Most of us "divergent" souls have to become experts in our own self-defence, of course.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Hi Robson, I hope you're using invertebrates, rather than "inverts"! Or perhaps you have lots of gay people standing round the pond, watching. If so, I'd be up for it. :-)

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Worth it for the beautiful Georgian script alone.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Between 2011 and 2023, 816 care homes in England were forcibly closed by the regulator for poor standards and harms to residents. 804 were owned by for-profit entities. 30% -40% of fees vanish in profits, leaving less for services. Profits and care don't mix.

ox.ac.uk

New analysis: most care homes closed by industry regulator are run

A new analysis led by researchers at the University of Oxford and funded by the Nuffield Foundation has found that virtually all care homes forced to close in England by the Care Quality Commission

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

OK. Thanks. It just *feels* _so_ wrong.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

👎 You might as well chop the hands off thieves as well.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

He'd insist you went back to Transylvania though.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2025

92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents. Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

My father said the same thing. It was only later he told me that his childhood best friend was in Japanese PoW camp in Hiroshima. He survived the bomb because the camp was underground in a mineshaft.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

What if the council's all at sea?

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

The cat sought asylum, I suspect.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The opportunities for civil disobedience are legion! If only the LGBT+ community had a talent for creativity. Oh, hang on... Hold my boa.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

OMG. Buy some cushions together.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It looks very much like a Sheela na gig.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I was once called a “bug-busting boffin” in the local press. 🥸

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Free market, love. Free market.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

… and Boris Johnson was born in …

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Do you know what age we stop falling over, and start "having a fall"? I fear it's approaching.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Aha. I forget that gaming is multi-player now! It's good that he gets to talk/play with his friends.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Unless it's gaming? 😬 Screens are like addictive drugs!

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Ah, OK. That's a shame, in a way. Bug I suspect an hour on your own at the allotment must be pretty rejuvenating!

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Do you get any child labour to help? :-)

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Really? FFS. "Apparently" - so it MUST be true then.

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Where's this dashboard from, please?

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Is this the "special relationship"?

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Peter @opentelemark.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

To be fair, most of them are nice people trapped in a system that makes them be there, and encourages them to posture in that way. I am SO glad to be out of it.

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