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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4h

this is insane at every level; the UK's determination to institutionally harass trans people is deeply evil.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10h

The neat part is that these ordnances on sex are largely unenforceable and deliberately muddled and it often comes down to individual cases. These policies basically allow for stochastic harassment and empower people to bully and exclude anyone they perceive as trans without fear of repercussion.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10h

"we should segregate trans people because their presence is upsetting to cis people" coming from a member of government is very cool

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

ever since i was awake i've always wanted to go back to sleep

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 8h

🚨 BREAKING We finally heard back from the Court of Appeal in our challenge to the EHRC's interim guidance. We've got an oral hearing to decide if we'll be given permission to appeal – hopefully by the end of this year.

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EHRC guidance: We’re heading to the Court of Appeal

Our challenge to the EHRC’s transphobic interim guidance moves forward

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 23h

at what point do we accept that issues polling is just ‘how well have the media convinced the public that X’

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15/10/2026

Just had a heads up a raft of civil service departments are sending out anti-trans directions, including the MoJ, HMRC, DfE. DSIT trying to force it through in NI from what I've seen despite the Equality Act not applying here.

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 15/10/2026

🆕🚨 NHS England guidance says: 🔴 Trans people must be placed on wards "in line with their biological sex" 🔴 Trans people can be segregated to private rooms to protect the "dignity" of other patients Full explainer out in our newsletter Sat 📨 wearequeeraf.com/subscribe Here's what we know now 🧵

Date published: 15 October, 2026
Date last updated: 15 October, 2026

Privacy, dignity and safety in hospital accommodation

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Foreword
1. Purpose
2. Ensuring privacy , dignity and safety for all
3. Delivering same-sex hospital accommodation
4. Equality, protected characteristics and hospital accommodation
5. Responsibilities for same-sex hospital accommodation
6. Frequently asked questions

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Lyra 💕 @lyra-scotland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The BBC here tells a damning lie by ommission "NHSE data shows that the number of breaches of the previous mixed-sex accommodation guidance has been growing every year since 2021" In this article it implies trans women- this stat is actually for CIS ppl. Trans women would not be counted in this

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

happy bare minimum Friday to all who celebrate

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Collecting data helps us understand the situation for trans people in the UK and work to improve it. Respond to our Trans Lives Survey 2026 transactual.org.uk/trans-lives-...

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Trans Lives Survey 2026 – TransActual

This survey is the 3rd Trans Lives survey, hosted by the non-profit organisation TransActual, and providing vital information on the experiences and views of trans people in the UK. Your answers will…

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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Water firms made £340m+ from it. Works can’t remove most chemicals in contaminated Heathrow wastewater. PFAS anyone? It ends up in rivers, seas, farmland. With River Action I built a database of 26,000 consents to show the scale. And mapped it: watershedinvestigations.com

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WATERSHED Investigations

Independent not-for-profit investigative journalism in the public interest. WATERSHED partners with national and international media to run high impact articles and investigations focusing on all aspe...

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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thought the sewage scandal was bad? Think again. Sewage works are also a major industrial waste disposal route. Power stations, airports, hospitals, landfills: ~608bn litres last year. No independent regulator. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Revealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies

Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

little #SciArt doodle of a purple pink dung beetle, rolling around an orange piss flier, what is supposed to be AI (I can't really replicate nor do I wish to replicate that style), with the text above/below saying "your AI flier looks like shit"

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 23/07/2026

166 MPs including 8 out of 11 members of the equality select committee

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 20/07/2026

If you opt to keep Shabana Mahmood in her role as Home Secretary you are telling everybody on the left that you are not interested in actually learning from what Starner did wrong and quite like a lot of it.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/07/2026

It's so difficult to get cis people to understand the jk Rowling thing isn't that she doesn't like us so you should punish her. It's if you give her franchise any kind of support you are contributing to trans people being excluded from society

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

By the time Sizewell C is built, peer reviewed published research reports the nuclear station will almost be entirely cut off by climate driven sea level rise storm surge at least once per year. 'Rock shipped from Norway to protect Sizewell B during Sizewell C build' www.eadt.co.uk/news/2627134...

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Rock shipped from Norway to protect Sizewell B during Sizewell C build

Norwegian rocks are being delivered to Sizewell C at Leiston, Suffolk, to provide temporary flood defence protection for neighbouring Sizewell B

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Jack-O-Lantern 🎃 wear a mask @popqueengerard.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Go get vaccinated!! Tell the young people in your life!!

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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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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions

• Durham University
• Newcastle University
• Northumbria University
• Lancaster University
• University of Cumbria
• University of Lancashire
• University of Liverpool
• University of Manchester
• University of Huddersfield
• University of Sheffield
• University of York
• Loughborough University
• University of Lincoln
• University of Nottingham
• Aston University
• University of Birmingham
• University of Warwick
• King's College London
• Kingston University
• Queen Mary University of London
• University College London
• University of Oxford
• University of Portsmouth
• University of Surrey
• University of Bath
• University of Bristol
• University of Exeter
• University of Plymouth
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow
• University of Strathclyde
• Cardiff University
• Swansea University
• Queens University Belfast
• Cranfield University

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
14 July 2026
UK Universities Betray Public Trust by Joining MoD's 'Battlefield Advantage' Alliance
Without Debate
A coalition of campaign groups has accused UK universities of quietly integrating themselves into Britain's defence infrastructure after 35 institutions signed up to the Ministry of Defence's Defence Universities Alliance (DUA).
The Ministry of Defence says the alliance aims to "reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security", strengthen links between universities and the defence sector, and translate research into "battlefield advantage".
Campaigners say the move represents a significant shift in the role of higher education and has taken place without meaningful public debate.
Among the founding members are the University of Oxford, University College London, King's College London, the University of Manchester, the University of Edinburgh, Cardiff University and Queen's University Belfast.
"We are witnessing the formal incorporation of Britain's universities into the defence ecosystem," said Jinsella Kennaway, Founder and Executive Director of Demilitarise Education.
"The Ministry of Defence is explicit about its intentions. Universities exist to advance knowledge and foster critical inquiry, not to become pipelines for military research and defence recruitment.
Students and staff deserve to know who agreed to this and why."
Campaigners are calling on all 35 universities to publish the governance documents and board minutes relating to their decision to join the alliance, and to explain whether staff and students were consulted.
Many UK universities already maintain relationships with major defence companies, including BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, Leonardo, Thales, Lockheed Martin and QinetiQ. Critics argue that the DUA formalises and accelerates the integration of academia, industry and the state.
The coalition warns that, at a time of rising defence spending, universities risk becoming increasingly aligned with governme…

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

12 people have been arrested as part of an investigation into a suspected extreme right-wing terror plot against an Islamic gathering in Suffolk The UK Ijtima, which hosted 15,000 Muslims for a programme of talks and discussions, was closed and evacuated by police on Sunday

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What if our economy and our legal system were structured in such a way that someone writing an outrageously successful children's story would ultimately empower them to start shaping society around them in line with their own political obsessions and personal vanities. Would this be good

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It's class how British libel laws basically mean that you can get anyone to retract anything they say about you or anything you're involved with ever as long as you are rich enough. This is free speech, to me

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

BREAKING: gov't announces inquiry into death of 7 year-old Zane Gbangbola, who passed away following floods at his family home. Surrey Fire & Rescue Service recorded hydrogen cyanide in the property + immediately evacuated the house + neighbouring homes: questions-statementshttps//share.googl...

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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O'Brien in DS9 "He was more than a hero. He was a union man"

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

abolish the Home Office

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Over 2,700 people have died from heat related causes in the past two months. 1 in 20 deaths in Luton are caused by air pollution and still Labour ignored environmental reports and steamed ahead with the Luton expansion. Time they realised we are in an enormous climate emergency.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

These deaths are on the hands of politicians who failed to act over years. Putting profit over our safety refusing to take action - now failing to protect us from its impact. We need maximum working temperatures. Insulated homes. Cooling in schools, hospitals and care homes.

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scribbleghoul @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I really, really need y'all to read this subthread about Facebook and whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13/07/2026

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If you’re ever wondering whether person (x) is reasonable or whether they’re just a hooting wingnut crackpot, then I have always found “do they have serious, very aggro beef with Amnesty International” is one of the best indicators.

The National •
@scotnational.bsky.so... • 1d
NEW: JK Rowling and other gender-critical campaigners have reacted furiously after a report from Amnesty International called them 'anti-rights' organisations
The author has accused human rights group Amnesty of believing women don't deserve rights in response

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The Section in the anti-trans schools “guidance” that says trans children shouldn’t be allowed to socially transition because doing so might upset the other pupils. This is a millimetre from saying children shouldn’t come out as gay/lesbian/bi at school for the same reason. Read The Poem.

pupils.is

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s another day of Israel doing what Israeli culture is best at, destroying life

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.eurosky.social · 09/07/2026

"...is coming" "...may soon enable" "How long this will take is as hard to predict today as it would have been in 1790. It could be 30 yrs, 30 mths or 30 wks." That is a shameful mess. Ah wait: "The author used OpenAI GPT-5.5 for research, discussion & editorial suggestions" ChatGPT y'day:

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Trying the new voice update

YouTube video by Husk IRL

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The petition for a televised emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis how now passed 32,000. At 100,000, we secure a Parliamentary debate. Please sign and share. It only takes a moment. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... #TimeToStepUp #NationalEmergencyBriefing

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Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks

The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...

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mseviechops.bsky.social @mseviechops.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.

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Lisa Severn @lisasevern.uk · 09/07/2026

Dear Labour party @labouruk.bsky.social I still, all these years later, hate Thatcher and the Tories for section 28 and the opportunities they stole from me Today, as you introduce actual segregation of people like me, be sure that I will hold you in the same visceral contempt I will not comply.

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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Trans people in the UK can get help getting travel documents from @essehouse.bsky.social They can also help those at risk of homelessness, or who are in an unsafe living situation.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 08/07/2026

We are suing Ofcom's for its failure to tackle hate and misinformation. We can't bring the case without your support. Donate here 👇 goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

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Force Ofcom to stop TalkTV broadcasting misinformation and hate | Good Law Project

Ofcom is letting Rupert Murdoch’s TalkTV poison public discourse with transphobic lies and fake climate news, so we're taking the regulator to court

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

On my way, Clacton.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

On balance, I think monetising people sending themselves slowly insane was a bad move.

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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Spud the Highland cow said trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️

Instagram post from the account @dumblefarm. The photo shows a small and fluffy brown Highland cow draped in the light blue, pink and white colours of the trans pride flag. The accompanying text in the post reads:

“Spud says Happy Pride. All of us here at Dumble farm are happy to say we support the LGBTQ+ community not just in pride month but year round and always aim to make our farm a happy and safe place for anyone visiting.”

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Abolish the Home Office

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

a computer can never be held accountable

therefore a computer must never make a management decision

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Food prices could rise 170% by 2050 due to the climate crisis. People are already struggling to put food on the table while farmers and workers can't make ends meet. We need urgent action. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Zack Polanski warns Britain’s food system is ‘close to collapse’

The Greens have called for a £1,000-a-month basic income for some agricultural workers

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