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Paul Barnett

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grumpy woke git 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇲 he/him "If you let yourself be defeated by them, just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you, there won't be any methods *but* Nazi methods!" The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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Paul Barnett @pbarn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
With trans rights under attack as never before, we need to show our support for the trans community. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a
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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
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Paul Barnett @pbarn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Trans children are being denied gender affirming healthcare, so we’re stepping in to support them. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/37c8ea
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Help fund healthcare for trans kids | Good Law Project
This week, the families of trans kids receiving gender-affirming care at a Brighton medical practice were notified that their children’s treatment would be withdrawn in a matter of weeks.
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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Daily reminder that you can't beat fascism without anti-racism, and you can't do anti-racism without prioritising the needs of communities affected. And you can't prioritise the needs of communities if you don't prioritise the needs of everyone who is marginalised.
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Not every bit, *worse.* I think there are a number of issues right now (immigration in particular) about which Brits are reassuring themselves “oh well, at least we’re not America.” But often what’s being proposed and implemented in the UK is more extreme than anything in the States.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 29/05/2026
As a human rights lawyer representing survivors of domestic and sexual violence for 15+ years, I've learned a hard truth. Women are not safe around men. This is a documented, data-driven, empirically supported fact our society has spent generations refusing to confront. Let's Address This.
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Women Are Not Safe Around Men
This is a fact. The data is unambiguous and the solutions exist. The only thing missing is the will to act.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!
Uggi the dog next to my hand, holding a copy of Dead Weight Two copies of Dead Weight with teethmarks
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
the hottest trend of 2026 is feeding yourself into a machine you don't understand, and which doesn't understand you nymag.com/intelligence...
It is made clear to you, if you didn't already know, that installing OpenClaw is basically a giant, intentional self-hack: a way to see what AI models now capable of manipulating software tools, most notably in tools like Claude Code and Codex, might be able to get done if given the keys to a civilian-grade email-and-document machine.
You're asked to choose how you'd like to talk to your bot, and because it's the app mentioned in most of the online testimonies, you choose Telegram, which from experience you mostly associate with scams, spam, and, lately, the AI propaganda of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran.
This is your bot, which is to say your computer, which is to say, well, ChatGPT in a costume with prosthetic hands that can touch your keyboard and move your mouse. It asks you to assign a vibe, give it your time zone, and describe what sort of personality it should have. It all reminds you of setting up a video game. You tell it to be matter-of-fact and concise. You spend a while installing plug-ins that allow OpenClaw to actually take action on your machine, and "Skills," or, essentially, written, repeatable instructions for the agent. In order to set up OpenClaw, an AI chat interface for your computer, you spent a lot of time in the command line, which is how people had to interact with computers before you were born. You note that we've moved from issuing commands to computers to clicking on computers to, now, chatting and haggling with computers, which doesn't sound as obviously empowering as you wish it did, human-agency-wise.You search X, a political influence project run by Elon Musk where people also talk about AI, and where OpenClaw has for some time been a hot subject. An anonymous account called Big Brain AI - bio: "Learn not to get left behind when AI takes over" — is quoting an interview with OpenClaw's founder. "If you don't navigate them well, if you don't have a vision of what you're going to build, it's still going to be slop," the founder says. Big Brain editorializes in LLM voice: "The agentic trap is what happens when you remove yourself from the process too early." You're failing your own system, in other words.
Skill issue. You're NGMI. In response to Big Brain's post, the head of start-up incubator Y Combinator, who has Sam Altman's old job, chimes in. "This is 100% correct. I experience this 10 hours a day now."
I'm turning my OpenClaw into a Vannevar Bush Memex. It's just going to remember everything I care about and read and it will become my second brain.
Books, writings, research, all of it will be in my personal knowledge wiki and usable for helping me think. pic.twitter.com/lcfxMRnfTq
- Garry Tan (@garrytan) April 7, 2026
You grant that you might just be out of your depth here. But you're also curious if he has people in his life who can check to make sure he's okay.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.
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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Sucks to be in a culture where shows about the manosphere get money and attention, but resources that provide feminist, inclusive, and entertaining content, that young men like, don't get money or attention. www.bishuk.com/support/
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Support BISH - One of the best sex and relationships education resources online
I'm reliant on wonderful people like you to chip in to pay me to run this website. Crowd-funding is hard, but it keeps it independent, free, ad free, and run by a human.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 21/02/2026
We want to support Girlguiding and the Women's Institute to remain inclusive. We think the law is on our side, and we're offering to cover all their costs. But we need you to tell them how important trans inclusion is to you 👇
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Help us support Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute to remain inclusive | Good Law Project
We’re offering to defend the Women’s Institute and Girlguiding against trans exclusion
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Paul Barnett @pbarn.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
If you can, please consider donating or sharing the GoFundMe link, thanks gofund.me/e673d6259
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Donate to Protect Addi From Forced Removal, organized by Holly M
On Sunday 15th February, my wife Addison was detained for 21 hours by UK border control at t… Holly M needs your support for Protect Addi From Forced Removal
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"Conservatives have created this hostile environment.. we should welcome people wherever they come from.. the UK is better because of immigration.. Lab has been a bit scared of making the positive case for immigration.. we need to turn that round" The most duplicitous politician in my lifetime
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Paul Barnett @pbarn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Trump announces that Popes now being manufactured in America thanks to tariffs
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🧵 Labour UK has set about persecuting & now effectively criminalising trans & non-binary people. Suddenly they are sending gaslighting mails like this. There is no difference for Queer ppl between Labour, Reform or the Torys. Vote Green, LD or Monster Raving to tell them to stop. [1]
I am going to be honest with you: I know not all of you are feeling fully enthused by the Labour Party at present. But surely we can agree - the alternative is so much worse.
Sometimes we have to vote against what is wrong rather than wait for something that feels 100% perfect. It is not exciting. It is not always inspirational. But it is the right thing to do.
As the saying goes: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
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Paul Barnett @pbarn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
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Billie Gay Jackson @billiegayjackson.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
NEW: Trans people across the country are having their HRT prescriptions refused or withdrawn by GPs - sometimes years after starting the treatment www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...
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Trans+ people finding it harder to access lifesaving treatment
Reports of treatment being refused of withdrawn are on the rise – and no official figures exist to track the issue
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Gregg Wallace taking charge of his own PR.
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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
If you enjoyed the novelty / indignity / absurdity of the Jake Paul V Mike Tyson fight, please enjoy this 5,000 word blog about the time in 1882 that Sugar Goodson, 26, fought Jack Hicks, 55, in an old chapel. Content warning: Stephen Graham being HARD grapplingwithhistory.com/2024/10/07/h...
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Henry ‘Sugar’ Goodson’s Single Ocular, And An Exploration Of The Bosh That Was Written About The So-Called Prize Fight In A Chapel
The number of eyes in Stephen Graham’s head probably wasn’t the first thing you noticed about him when Empire magazine published exclusive first-look photos from the forthcoming TV series A Thousan…
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Making a new block list explicitly for TERFs Very explicit transphobia (and liking explicit transphobia) is the only reason I will add someone to this list. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
No one should spend 12 years in jail for stealing a mobile phone. Its unthinkable. If you are not yet familiar with the shocking #IPPscandal, one of the most cruel & monumental injustices of the last half century, please watch & share this jaw dropping film youtu.be/nkBs2D0Wz_g?...
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🚨 No one should spend 12 yrs in jail for stealing a mobile phone! It’s unthinkable! #IPPscandal
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/11/2024
Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
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