Reposted by J BOO👻 MRob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 18hNo one seems to care, but these were the UK's submissions about hospital use in I v UK in *2002*. I get that the UKSC is big on reading ECtHR jurisprudence as narrowly as possible, but it really does strain credulity to think there is no Art 8 violation . 922365 223
Reposted by J BOO👻 MJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 16/10/2026The Forstater judgment kind of broke equalities law. What do you mean transgender people have to accept that some of their colleagues might not "believe in" them? 16607161 607
Reposted by J BOO👻 Mphyphor @phyphor.one-dash.org · 16/10/2026Imagine saying that you don't believe in diabetes, or blood-sugar values. Imagine saying that you believe that there's no such thing as someone being left-handed, that the "identity of being left handed" doesn't exist. Would these philosophical beliefs be protected under the Equality Act (2010)? 0194 19
Reposted by J BOO👻 MMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/10/2026no offence but why is the British public being asked about my medical diagnosis, would it also like to check out my ankles and my elbows to decide whether I really have hypermobile joints, should I cough on them next time I have a cold so they can confirm that I'm ill 651089223 1.1K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Many years ago, i had a serious mental health crisis and was hospitalised for it. The care was actually really good and that week on a womens ward did in fact save my life. Had i been treated as the nhs now says i should be, i would have in fact, only been pushed deeper into my suicidal crisis 121015197 1K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Trans people, from schools as young children to the hospices they die in will now suffer indignity and discrimination at every term thanks to Labour. Going swimming, clothes shopping, to local organisations, to work, when they’ve been assaulted - all off limits for many people now 316257 162
Reposted by J BOO👻 MBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026theonion.com/man-who-drin... 886493940 6.5K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MChristopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Good example of the utility of conspiracy theories on the right: even tho it was the stupidest, easiest-to-debunk of stories, Fox News still gets to step in and insinuate that Talarico must be hiding *something* 1717834 178
Reposted by J BOO👻 MCrowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026this line of argument reminds me (a wizened crone) of when the cops were accused of institutional racism, and I found myself having to explain the difference between saying a person was racist and that an institution produced racist results 1517 51
Reposted by J BOO👻 MAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026they did the thing 254162533720 16.3K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MMatt Round @mattround.com · 09/10/2026Product idea: caps lock key with Brian Blessed’s face on it 17504106 504
Reposted by J BOO👻 MSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 28/10/2025It's VERY funny watching the rightwing press i.e most of the press having to pretend that they used to actually really respect the Green Party and had a lot of time for them but NOT ANYMORE. Yeah guys chinny reckon itchy beard 735931 359
Reposted by J BOO👻 MJoe Twyman @joetwyman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026As we approached 3am I, for one, was delighted that my Licence Fee had not been spent on a paid Zoom account. 29115 91
Reposted by J BOO👻 MJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes 871038242 1K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MTom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Both cringeworthy and ignorant. Great. 121 2
Reposted by J BOO👻 MJames Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I dunno man, maybe you could concentrate on producing good and interesting things people want to watch rather than trying to out-banal the lowest common denominator crap hosed at us everywhere else? (And make using BBC Sounds a less excruciating experience?) deadline.com/2026/10/bbc-... 57719 77
Reposted by J BOO👻 MMetal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 08/10/2026emo / post hardcore was better when it was about property developers and so on instead of some girl at school 132 3
Reposted by J BOO👻 MA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious. 5164381786 6.4K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MKate Watson @loreandordure.com · 03/10/2026This is the lesson that the Biden admin failed to learn and that UK Labour is also flailing about horribly at: 531190 311
Reposted by J BOO👻 MDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 262185644909 18.6K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Aside from everything else, all this "non-whites can be British but not English" stuff is very obviously just...moving words around? It only sounds like a distinction because "English" just happens to have the more nebulous word "British" nearby, but both are very obviously racially neutral terms?? 1626732 267
Reposted by J BOO👻 MBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/10/2026Viral reports this week suggested new Google satellite imagery showed unseen destruction in Gaza. But the imagery actually depicts the scene in February 2026. Bellingcat has obtained satellite images from September that show how the destruction has continued. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...bellingcat.comViral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcatEarlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. But the images weren't entirely new. 3411246 411
J BOO👻 M @pygmyputsch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026World's most evil company tells new hire to "just lean into it, have some fun!" 010 1
Reposted by J BOO👻 MTHE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/09/2026“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi... 21295182 295
Reposted by J BOO👻 MAlf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm so very sad to hear of the death of Esther Ranzen who played an important role in reuniting me with Nicky Winton - the man who saved my life. It's so desperately sad that she couldn't choose assisted dying as was her wish. 291519220 1.5K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”. 231397504 1.4K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope." 482524716 2.5K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MMelissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We should let people dream of something besides labor 9635133 635
Reposted by J BOO👻 MLuca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I await the first time a politician proposing some nuts new immigration restriction is asked what is otherwise the media’s favourite question: how are you going to pay for it?? 218966 189
Reposted by J BOO👻 MKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 27/09/2026Just for once I'd like one of these "why I quit Britain" pieces to say "I hate poor people and I want to keep all my money, it's all miiiiiine, screw you guys"static.klipy.comMr Rogers' Unexpected ResponseALT: Mr Rogers' Unexpected Response 1754573 545
Reposted by J BOO👻 MMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It's been happening forever, and will happen forever, that rich people fuck off to lower-tax areas and frame it as political defiance of some law they personally don't like. 'Seatbelts in cars make it impossible for me to deliver wealth.' 'Without smoking in pubs, how am I meant to...' 831664 316
Reposted by J BOO👻 MRobert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 25/09/2026it rules that we have to perform servility to beg for the opportunity to sell our labour below its value 0201 20
Reposted by J BOO👻 MMichael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Stewart Lee: At this rate, we'll be staging public drownings of migrants, to address 'legitimate concerns' www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-lee-col…thenerve.newsStewart Lee: Why don’t we stage public drownings of migrants, to address people’s legitimate concerns?The collapse of compassion in post-Brexit Britain suggests it’s now time for Roman-style lethal spectacles. The alternative – stopping malign global influences from destabilising our society, say – s... 0196 19
Reposted by J BOO👻 MM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I really hate the phrase “economically inactive” as if pensioners and others who can’t or don’t work aren’t literally contributing to the economy by buying stuff like food and goods and paying VAT on it etc 1421956 219
Reposted by J BOO👻 MDan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026[sees a guy eating a sandwich] nice to meet a fellow bread head! yeah, i can’t go a day without a slice or two haha. got a pretty sick toaster setup at home, thinking about upgrading to four slots – heard good things about breville’s 2026 lineup. entry-level marg is so tasty now, 325046 250
Reposted by J BOO👻 MEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is a particularly baffling line of questioning given that we know exactly where the empty, used dinghies go: they are either destroyed, or in some cases held by the Home Office in an evidence facility near Dover. You can go there and see them through the fence. There's no secret here. 36512 65
Reposted by J BOO👻 MJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/09/2026Don't know what to say anymore 6494101 494
Reposted by J BOO👻 MAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If the awards are all white, it's because white people are better. But if they're not all white, that's racist. bsky.app/profile/mari... 421305176 1.3K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Determining your cheese preference based on which is not halal is a strong contender for the quintessence of GOP ideology. It's irrelevant to them, no reason for them to think about it at all, but they don't have personalities, they're simple reactionary creatures governed solely by bigotry. 251051211 1.1K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MDr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This. To think otherwise is to condone wage theft & exploitation. No, the money doesn't need to come out of your also-tiny paycheque. The billionaire class spent decades robbing people, the planet, and infrastructure, buying politicians to order to re-write laws to normalize abuses like this. 07025 70
Reposted by J BOO👻 Mthe hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too 633636673 3.6K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MPeter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s a bumper day for grumpy old rich guys being granted prominent media platforms to complain about Britain. They don’t have any fresh insights, let alone any solutions. Pub bores in private jets. 67816 78
Reposted by J BOO👻 MPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Crackdowns! Get yer crackdowns here! Nothing works and everything is shit and expensive but we got crackdowns by the dozen, two for one on crackdowns! 2318 31
Reposted by J BOO👻 MJonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026a tale of two 15-year-olds. on raheem sterling, jj gabriel and football's army of child labour www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comRaheem Sterling’s bleak tale a reminder of absurd path young footballers face | Jonathan LiewThe winger was one of the first big-money academy transfers, part of a child labour market that has barely been questioned 715150 151
Reposted by J BOO👻 Mweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026You'll never work in this town again. Or any town. You've won the lottery! 2564355 643
Reposted by J BOO👻 MJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight 721800537 1.8K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MPatrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026this is, in part, why I have always baulked at the phrase "preferred pronouns". A preference implies options. It suggests that I'm using your pronouns out of politeness, rather than because I believe them to reflect who you are. 09622 96
Reposted by J BOO👻 MLazzie BOO!! 😱 @lazzieb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026guys the UK gender clinics -𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕪- required trans people to use the facilities for their target sex, for two years, before they were given any access to healthcare. rationale is not where these people go looking for answers. it is solely about their bigoted priors. everything comes after that. 51178275 1.2K
Reposted by J BOO👻 MPatrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I ran a marathon to raise money for MSF. Attacks on MSF and RNLI and Amnesty are what fascists literally do. They want to devalue all humane effort, all care for fellow man. These are dangerous, dangerous times. 5336128 336
Reposted by J BOO👻 MJenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Also worth noting that Cass referenced the ‘research’ of Wæhre in her report that now drives UK NHS policies & anti Trans efforts of the UK Govt ,so it’s very important this is followed through. The Cass report is now being referenced by other Govt’s to justify their anti Trans decisions / policies. 07717 77
