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Laura Moodie MSP @electlauramoodie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Scotland’s land, energy and water belong to all of us, not tech billionaires granted privileged access to the King ❌👑 While communities fight to be heard, AI chiefs get the red-carpet treatment at Dumfries House. Decisions about Scotland’s future must be open and accountable to its people 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Too many Democrats concede as "fact" the stereotype-driven propaganda that far-right groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom have promoted: that trans athletes at all ages and forever have a competitive advantage and that safety, even, is at issue. A long body of research disproves these claims

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 10/09/2026

Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another. But it doesn't have to be this way. These books offer a humane approach to trans athletes:

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Let Them Play: How Welcoming Trans Athletes Can Improve Sports Culture for All

Three recent books press us to understand the humanity and lives of gender-expansive athletes.

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South Lanarkshire Greens @southlangreens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We are out in Strathaven this Saturday and Sunday for our action weekend, come and help campaign for Michael Grant in the Avondale and Stonehouse by-election

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Zack Polanski rings the alarm on the security service report in food security impact of climate change. Starmer tried to bury it. Burnham still sits on it. Only the Greens are bold enough.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

imagine being a teenager excited to visit a faraway country and play cricket, and you find yourself hiding in your hotel room hoping the thugs knocking your door don’t try to break it down then imagine being an asylum seeker put into a hotel room hoping the same thing we should be so ashamed

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For sure. It was profoundly meaningful!

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 10/09/2026

As a parent of a trans kiddo - medical care for trans care is clear, has medical recommendations, and does not need you sticking your nose into the business. The only debate is an existential one. Either you support trans people, or you think they don't deserve to exist. Everything else is noise.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Almost all gender-affirming surgeries for minors are breast reductions for *cis boys*. Yes you read that right, *Boys who are not trans* @jamestalarico.bsky.social in his ignorance & cowardice wants to ban the tiny number of IDENTICAL operations performed on trans boys. This is transphobia.

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James Talarico (@jamestalarico.bsky.social)

Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people.

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Marty Hades 🔥💀 @smartypantsmarty.com · 10/09/2026

This is a great letter 👇

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The idea that we are fundamentally averse to the idea that machines can think is BS. Human beings are actually very much inclined to believe machines can think. Our sci-fi sense of wonder is being exploited by charlatans. We do not accept PR and propaganda that are wholly unsupported by the facts.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Important to remember today: If ANY Labour MP talks about “respecting” the Supreme Court misjudgement, they are *lying* to you. Parliament can overturn ANY SC decision & the government can amend the Equality Act to include trans people. The SC misjudgement still stands because Labour WANTS it to.

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I really miss coaching. It kept my discipline attached to my desire to be a good coach. I was so fucking fit because i wanted to teach well 😭

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yeah, absolutely ‼️ The whole "gifted" terminology implies a lot of suboptimal bullshit. It attaches expectations that can only be disappointed or followed like a soldier. Maybe that's why I'm so antiauthoritarian 🤣

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Think my priority will be on regularly stretching, Vo2 max, and mobility strength training 🫡 More of a slow incline/long term endurance routine

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've been very off my fitness game for the past year and a half, and this is the first time since then that I've committed to following a fitness routine again! I'm not as good as I used to be 😭 Don't lift as much and my VO2 Max suffered but its getting better!!

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Also I am proud of myself for having gone jogging regularly for the 4th week in a row now 😌 small but substantial win!

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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Extra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This autumn our workshops will be focusing on what is perhaps one of the most important, yet often overlooked, elements of writing — craft! So much about the writing life is mythologised, opaque and gate-kept, it can be easy to forget the value of writing sentences that work.

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is a Big Thought° i had after admitting to myself how terrible i am at chess 😭 even after chess clubs! And my mathematical reasoning is legitimately underdeveloped af but i cant be arsed putting effort in 😭 this is gonna be my cause of death one day

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Y'a gotta practice logical reasoning and conclusioning in a variety of fields to train neuroplasticity; Analytically, creatively, emotionally, physically, theoretically, etc

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Calling kids "gifted" is suboptimal for so many reasons, but here's the biggest imo: - Treating a skill of logical reasoning as a gift, as granted, can make you neglect it. - You may even enter a studious field/ métier, but neglect your logical reasoning skill outside of your specialty

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 09/09/2026

"Nearly two thirds of asylum case rejections overturned on appeal" [Times] No appeal system should have a high rate of success like this unless the system, as we see with benefits, is designed to reject legitimate claims.

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The transphobia to antisemitism pipeline at the BBC One of the BBC's most committed anti-trans activist presenters, live on air accusing a Jewish man of not being Jewish enough for his liking

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Israel announces it is banning these MPs in order to retaliate against the UK settlement ban. (You have to admit it is objectively quite funny)

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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📣Applications for SHS funding now open! ⏰Deadline 1 October! 👉Applicants can now apply for either a Small Research Grant or an Event and Activity Grant. Both schemes are limited to SHS members. Read more and apply here: socialhistory.org.uk/funding/

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Funding

The Social History Society currently administers three funding schemes. Our Small Research Grants provide up to £1000 to support direct research costs incurred by members of the Society. Our Events…

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I also think Link looks too realistic 😭 give my boi some art style

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

They did really well on the redesign and adapting the original game but i wonder if its gonna be creative in its quality of life improvements and puzzles hopefully #ZeldaOOT

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Threads of Time" lmao call it heros journey or heros diary or some shit 😭 how uncreative

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Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It somehow seems to have passed Lewis by that children need adults to care for them. Maybe children aren’t at as high risk from Covid as adults, but keeping schools open is of little benefit to poor and vulnerable kids if it kills their parents, grandparents, foster carers, teachers etc.

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One of my favourite horror games is probably "Layers of fear". The fear of losing your senses and abusing people you care about is scary to me! The atmosphere is alright too! Silent Hill is really good in the regard of both the reality of the fear and the atmosphere! So good i cant replay them.

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Alan Wake is thoroughly categorised as "comfy horror" to me. The atmosphere is immersive and spooky, but the fear isnt real to me, and the spookiness is a creepy aesthetic, which gives me a comforting chill!

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ive heard "i dont understand horror in books. How am i gonna be scared when reading?" Too many goddamn times!!!! Books, if they draw you in, can really freak you out!!! Its good for you!

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

How does it resolve? If my character dies its hardly relatable - unless someone where to find the body in some creepy way. But if i make it out, what price do i have to pay? My sanity at the least? My trust?

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Is the horror comforting: (Spooky aesthetic: a white ghost appearing? A cryptid?) And is it real and inexplicable: (A whisper right behind me, roots tangling around my ankles, losing the path, sudden silence, a scream, the smell of blood)

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Relate to it again, make me feel the wind on my exposed neck and arms, the chills from the cold, the uneven and muddy ground, the heaviness of my bag, my quickening heartbeat...

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Relating to the protagonist creates atmosphere. It pulls you in. The spookiness can be in the way the trees creak, or hearing something move in the thicket, or seeing a silhouette in your peripheral.

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I.e: - I am scared of having to walk through the woods at night. When would I have to? After a party perhaps, going home? Staying out too late and missing the last bus? A controlling parent/ a worried partner/ a scared kid waiting for me at home so I have to hurry?

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I tried Masterton but I really didn't like his writing. It wasn't immersive, i didnt feel like I related or was in the story enough to be scared of the mediocre fears I was made to feel. I give a book 100 pages at least, but I had to put it down.

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've not been much of a reader, not as much as id like anyway, but I cling to it where i can. From King to Darcy Coates, to M.R.James, they are so different and yet so good in their own ways! The prose is so individual, and yet I find myself immersed and terrified!

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

TheGoodLaw project perhaps too

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Do you have recommendations for good journalism? I know in Scotland, theferret.scot is a good investigative newsletter, but thats it for me

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The Ferret

Our journalism changes things.

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you want to trash the media that is bought and used to perpetrate propaganda, please also includes alternative media sources for people to turn to in their stead! For example, - The Ferret Newsletter - QueerAF newsletter www.theferret.scot www.wearequeeraf.com

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The Ferret

Our journalism changes things.

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am sorry you experienced this amount of hate and threat to your person. It's despicable and inhumane.

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Phia's tats @phiastats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Traitor" is an interesting word choice. He expects loyalty - to white supremacy, patriarchy, and patriotism. There is no "care" for women and children. Only possession. He is writing this threat almost like a fantasy - he is scared of someone else possessing and abusing women.

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