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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 07/10/2026

The idea that ambiguity in communication is what causes men to rape is another one of those fictions we indulge in as a society to obfuscate how sexual assault is more or less a game to men, how groups of men encourage and enable each other and how it forms the basis of their social standing.

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DAVIEWoOOoO 👻 🎃🕸️ @daviemoo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Most of all, it fits with exactly what I’ve been saying for years. If your issue with trans women in particular is that you think they’re men and men are bad and evil and abusive, you’re looking at people who act nothing like cis men and getting angry at them for what cis men do.

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DAVIEWoOOoO 👻 🎃🕸️ @daviemoo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And I’ve no doubt this will piss people off but look around. We’re still debating what Zionism is and means and it doesn’t work because some people don’t think it is racist, and some people do, and some people hate Zionism but not Jewish people and some people hate Jewish people.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Called it. He knew. It served his purpose. He wanted his casus belli. He wanted it to go far enough that he'd have popular support for the extermination he has openly yearned for.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

Look at the peak in anti-LGBTQ legislation. It coincides with a decline. The correlation there is pretty direct.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And i mean this has always been how this moral panic has gone that its mostly an obsessed well connected well funded horde pushing the politics along and the politicians going along with it cause its along their ideology and easier to just let it happen

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Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

S.Peggie loses on every point apart from the administrative failures of NHS systems. GC lawyers have wasted NHS time and resources for a vanity project with net-zero result for them or Peggie. The aim is never to win legally but use the story to lobby politically through media.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s never tough choices about removing subisidies to the banking and fossil fuel industries is it

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A glimpse at how hateful transphobic propaganda is stoked on X. Prologue: A Finnish doctor and anti-trans campaigner co-authored a paper five months ago🧵

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"what if AI becomes sentient and decides to kill us all with a bioweapon???" i dunno man, what if humans can use it to generate so much slop wearing journalism like a skin suit that it becomes impossible for regular people to comprehend material reality? cause only one of those is already happening

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a footnote, if a mechanism exists to deprive ANY group of civil rights—no matter how reviled they are, and by however many—then that mechanism WILL eventually be weaponized against YOU. You do not have to be trans or pro-trans to be against deprivation of anyone's rights. (PS: I am pro-trans.)

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it’s almost like ciswomen aren’t inherently athletically inferior to cismen and maybe the Trans Threat In Sports has been hallucinated by 37 bigots with bullhorns

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026

Jeff Bezos and I are very different people. For one thing, he is a sociopathic billionaire who built his fortune by monopolizing bookselling while I am a penniless author of books. He was born in 1964 and is 62; I was born in 1971 and am 55.

A mason jar of piss with Jeff Bezos's laughing head submerged in it.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026

The belief that bots can teach your kids or counsel your psychological problems or look after your health is perfectly consistent with the belief that you're more-or-less a bot, and also that the teachers, doctors and shrinks you rely on are *also* basically bots: pluralistic.net/2026/07/28/h...

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Pluralistic: Discernment (28 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Chase Burke @cburke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Stupid Republican hayseeds always voting against their own interests... Nooooooooo! Why are you voting for your own interests? You have to vote for a guy that hates you in case he magically doesn't somehow!"

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s all just a lie. I get so annoyed when I hear democrats say “well parents have real concerns…” no they don’t. Real concerns are addressed by knowledge and data. Prejudice is not. If knowledge doesn’t change their position, they’re just bigots.

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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

there is an uncomfortable truth that i think a lot of people like to avoid because it makes political discussions over trans people fall apart and it is that the 'progressive' parties (labour, dems etc) aren't abandoning us for political points they just want us dead too

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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

'...it’s not that public opinion shifted, it’s that billionaires started pumping out negative propaganda against trans people.' That's the key. Telling bigots that they're heroes for being shitty to people who don't need any more shit in their lives was the game-changer.

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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 08/09/2026

“By that standard, any medical recommendation becomes ‘authoritarian’. Any standard set by any licensing board becomes ‘authoritarian’,” said Craig Konnoth, calling it a "broadside attack on the scientific establishment more generally -- and trans rights are being used as the vehicle to do this.”

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‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department report

HHS releases report linking ‘gender ideology’ to political violence – a study scientists say was poorly conducted

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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Where’s the outrage about spoiling holidays, blocking ambulances or people going to funerals or appointments, or working class people struggling to work? Oh - of course - these masked morons aren’t a threat to oil and defence industries. I’m frightened of the direction UK is heading.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

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brie skull emoji @brie-skull-emoji.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the Male-Grievance Grift-o Sphere going after popular stuff might seem like a tactical error at first but it's designed to put vulnerable/stupid men into a siege mentality by making it seem like all of pop culture is out to get them. it's an attempt to isolate

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Angharad @angharad.tech · 30/08/2026

If the first paragraph of this story had one word changed: "The only [heart] clinic in Wales has cancelled all of its operations over concerns that too many people were being referred for treatment." the absurdity of the "concerns" would be obvious. People are being treated! The horror!

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You know, I do think that if I was a British "journalist" and my entire cohort had spent a week denying a young black man's achievements, only for it to turn up that there were newspaper articles confirming them that other, less shit journalists easily found, I would just shut my fucking mouth.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My next book has a whole section on the psychology behind "People becoming successful by simply lying about already being successful then charging other people to learn their 'secrets' about how to become successful". This would make a perfect case study, but I doubt the legal team will go with it.

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Lawvers for Andrew Tate have had to admit in
court that he is not a citizen of Estonia as he
previously claimed.
Much of his wealth and status is fabricated, they
said in attempt to convince the court he and his
brother are not a flight risk if released on bail
That included his claims to seven passports.
"The Tates are engaged in several businesses
teaching men how to earn money. It is in their
interest to portray themselves on social media
as uberwealthy." 1/3

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"The (mistaken) idea seems to be that any hypothesis—no matter how bigoted—can be safely postulated and tested (...) [But this] overlooks two important false assumptions: that hypotheses themselves are value neutral, and that we have unlimited resources to debunk misconceived ideas."

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23/08/2026

They'd prefer to help the right crush the left than help the left make things better isn't just something lefties say to fill up their weekly word quota...

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026

💯 You can tell when you see how fast Cofnas did publish an op-ed in the WSJ after his suspension and also how fast was the punditry to uphold him. It was a coordinated social execution. And it's only the beginning. 👇

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In all my years working with trans inmates, I have never once heard anyone use the term "v-coding." Instead, they describe being bunked with known sex offenders and left unattended by corrections staff for engaging in any form of self-advocacy.

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 19/08/2026

the fact we have *MULTIPLE* vaccines for different types of cancer in the works and proving successful is honestly game changing. this is going to save countless lives and the fact that this is built off of mRNA research from covid vaccines!!!!!

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/08/2026

Yes, I just was going to say that when a person with a conflict of interest makes a claim, to take those claims at face value is bordering on a form of misconduct itself...

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Aidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I will never in my life understand how Dr. Jones, a seemingly clever "gender critical" activist, hasn't copped on that "gender criticism" is bigotry all the way down, including in her brain. They aren't "making" what we said about GCism true, what we said about GCism was simply true.

I think ‘Operation Make Everything the TRAs Said True’ is now reaching its apogee.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed

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Lyra 💕 @lyra-scotland.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

These strongly worded letters sometimes work in democratic countries as the press picks them up shares the message and then the people demand change. This however is the UK and no mainstream newspaper will mention it. Though it absolutely would get a million articles if it said the opposite.

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm not saying J.K. Rowling is a fascist. But I'm saying fascists think she is.

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Faïza @fayza.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026

The "perfect victim"myth is precisely what drives liberal into compromising with fascism, since they believe there has to be a good reason that justifies fascism, meaning that the victims of fascism are at least partly responsible for their misfortune. You can clearly see that in action with this

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Cover for Gil Duran's forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy." Red background with computer circuitry, words in black and white letters.

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Peter @peter.polari.com · 15/08/2026

The hypocrisy.

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