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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
FWS win on prisons guidance in Scotland. Prison accommodation to be required for men and women based on biological sex. ECHR arguments considered and confer no right to be housed in prisons of the opposite biological sex. Not a surprising decision.
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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Andy Burnham confirms he is your private dancer, a dancer for money, and will in fact do what you want him to do.
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Rich @rich-bryant.uk · 12/06/2026
This is glorious
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Alastair @purplepangolin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
You love to see it. Get cracking on the rest of the cases
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 23/05/2026
My neighbour, as a young man, did IT work for the Conservative party that included some stuff at David Cameron's house, when they were in opposition. Somehow, Cameron ends up on his CV as referee. Cameron *as prime minister* took a phone call to say that he was a good guy and should get the job
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Alastair @purplepangolin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This should not be a shock to anyone that paid attention to the supreme court judgement. Wishful thinking and bad advice from Stonewall has a lot to answer for
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 22/05/2026
I have not yet seen a pic of Paddington leading Cronus off to the underworld and honestly, team, I'm disappointed in you all.
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Alastair @purplepangolin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
@showerabsolute.bsky.social HT likesmokenoakum from the other place #eurovision
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
‘As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a tree surgeon’
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Indeed. Government's proposed ILR changes are wrong morally & politically - that is the main point. But from purely *economic* perspective, they're likely to be self-defeating - the migrants most likely to be deterred from coming/staying are high-skilled/high-paid, because they have other options!
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Alastair @purplepangolin.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
www.generationtechblog.com/p/trans-iden...
generationtechblog.com
Trans identification really is in free fall: New data
And so is nonbinary identity.
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Alastair @purplepangolin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Paging @showerabsolute.bsky.social
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Tracey Binnie @traceybinnie.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Bellenden Gardens in Edinburgh would like a word
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Binyizdabbalah @binyizdabbalah.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
RFK dislodging some week-old panda gristle from his jaw as he works out how long it would take to stuff the lifeless Trump in his trunk, joint him and burger him.
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Takes time and effort. Yes. It does. The time and effort involved is meeting the humans. Other humans. Understanding why certain communities do what they do and their representatives say what they say
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The QuaterJohn Ixperiment @frogalapeche.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
Bridget with The Beatles on Abbey Road.Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic.Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse).The Girl With The Cat Earring
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Genuinely think everyone in the Anglosphere and everyone in the States who has escaped this method should be aware of this, just as a reminder that a lot of the time, people's weird reading of your posts aren't their fault, they are the victims of a terrible way of teaching kids to read!
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Alastair @purplepangolin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Excellent news. About time www.thetimes.com/article/6475...
thetimes.com
Athletes face new biological sex test for World Championships
Anyone competing in female category at World Athletics Championships faces SRY gene test, which determines if someone is biologically male
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Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Well no one else was going to write it
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Alastair @purplepangolin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Unhinged comparison of the day
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Natalia Antonova🇺🇸🇺🇦 @nataliaantonova.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I hope your grandmother has a great time!
Joke advertisement for a pegging event at Westside Library. The game is with pegs! It’s grandmother’s favorite once a year event!
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Reem Alsalem @unsrvaw.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I welcome the decision by World Boxing to introduce mandatory sex testing, which is in line with the recommendation I made in my thematic report to #UNGA79 (A/79/325) worldboxing.org/world-boxing...
worldboxing.org
World Boxing to introduce mandatory sex testing for all boxers - World Boxing
World Boxing will introduce mandatory sex testing, to determine the eligibility of male and female athletes that want to take part in its competitions. The introduction of mandatory testing will be pa...
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Alastair @purplepangolin.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
media.tenor.com
a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie looking up at the sky
ALT: a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie looking up at the sky
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Alastair @purplepangolin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Congratulations to ForWomenScotland and their victory in the Supreme Court today. Brings much needed clarity to the legal position on single-sex spaces after years of misrepresentation by Lobby groups #SupremeCourt
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Essentially every politician has a problem they dream of going into politics to fix, whether small or massive. And mostly what marks out good governments is they accept they need to solve the problems in front of them, not the ones they hoped to fix.
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Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
It’s so funny that half of Bluesky was like “yes we must kill all the CEOs and then dance in their blood” but Jesse Singal’s mere presence is what led to the dumb company actually having to be like “let’s discuss moderation”
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DavidPGCSE @coldsoresteve.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
And you'd write 4000 words in a national newspaper defending them, you're both arseholes
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James Gillespie @jamesgillespie.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Lmao, she blocked me and I haven't even interacted with her and I've no idea who she is. This app is like a convention of the cringiest people on pre-Elon Twitter.
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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My favourite genre of Bluesky (and I am sorry) is people who've been here for ages and agitated for more people to make the move now posting that they don't like it since it got busy.
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Story of how 2 accidental nursing errors led anti-vax RFK Jr to end up killing 80 people in Samoa.
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ben smoke @bencsmoke.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Statement from The Met pulling Heaven’s alcohol license under horrifying conditions. I hope the woman is getting all the support she needs and everyone involved in attacking and ignoring her never know peace.
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Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Important Bluesky milestone: first time I’ve seen that someone did a skeet controversial enough to cost them their job. Maybe this place CAN replace Twitter.
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David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Supert***skii's joined with a post plagiarized from this morning's popbitch.
Robert Jenrick is MP for Newark, the only constituency in the UK which is an anagram of 'wanker'.

(Actually I just pasted the alt text from popbitch as even the comma is the same.)
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Gwdihŵ 🦉 @youwouldknow.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Just successfully shamed someone blasting shite videos on the bus into putting in headphones
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DavidPGCSE @coldsoresteve.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Thus really looks great @moderation.bsky.app
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Huh. Weird. My “I dressed as a Nazi to my ex girlfriend’s fancy dress birthday party at the polish war veteran club” story got lost on Twitter. Guess I have to write it out again for Your judgement and entertainment
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Well, now I simply have to share this:
youtu.be
"Fan" Star Trek Original Series Clip to "Common People" by William Shatner
YouTube video by LordRicco666
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Describe your in-person social skills with an image.
Yer man from Chernobyl saying he was in the toilet when everything went tits.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 19/05/2024
UK philosophy PhD students, take advantage of this precious resource to top up your funding. July 14th is the due date. Thank you RiP and Mr Jacobsen for this much needed help #philsky
royalinstitutephilosophy.org
Studentships and bursaries - Royal Institute of Philosophy
In accordance with the deed of trust made by the benefactor Mr. Jens Jacobsen, we offer Jacobsen Studentships for research in certain parts of philosophy.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
The guy at the restaurant last night was refusing to park our cars unless they were electric or hybrid. How green was my valet!
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𝕭𝖆𝖙𝖋𝖎𝖘𝖍 🦇🐟 @batfish.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
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Berks of DeFrights...or Something. @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
Me: “well, at least they can’t make Weston any more shit. It’s reached rock bottom. They can’t make it any more depressing. It’s impossi…” Weston: “hold my Wetherspoons beer…and then a bit later I’ll grind the pint glass into your face, too”
Before and after pic of a floral clock from Weston-super-Mare. A piss stained Mos Eisley of a town, pockmarked with shit decisions, and throttled to death by badly designed and built housing estates. Anyway, they found a way to erase some more colour and concreted over the large floral clock that sits opposite a beautiful art deco Odeon that’s about to get fucked in the [redacted].
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Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · 10/02/2024
I don’t want to overstate anything but this was the worst decision in the history of sport.
The ball on the ground in the Scotland France game.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
*runs in, breathless* PENNE LANE
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Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
I wrote about the nerve-shredding experience of relying on an 81-year-old to defeat Donald Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
theatlantic.com
Biden’s Age Is Now Unavoidable
Joe Biden looks like he is turning into a statue of Joe Biden.
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