Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialAbigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 9hThe thing a lot of cis Brits ignore is that there is no “dignified and respectful” way to ask trans people to segregate ourselves: it’s inherently insulting and degrading. So if you do that in a workplace you piss off not just your queer employees but also anyone who knows and loves a queer person! 468586 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialMike Corbett @mikecorbett1.bsky.social · 7hI am pleasantly surprised to see accurate reporting of what I said. Not replicated everywhere, though… www.kentonline.co.uk/news/nationa...kentonline.co.ukBBC ‘censored’ trans-rights slogan T-shirt, union official tells SNP conferenceMike Corbett of the NASUWT teaching union hit out at the broadcaster during a fringe event at the SNP conference. 083 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialSarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 7hLabour is still living off it status as a symbol of what it used to represent. Liberals, particularly FBPE, are eagerly awaiting the return of a real Labour Party like UFO or doomsday cultists waiting for their leader's prophecies to materialise. "Dignity and Respect," they chant. 0413 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialThe Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 9hThe upcoming budget must put ordinary people’s interests before those of fossil fuel shareholders. Make polluters pay. 9281109 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialTom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 14h1/ Very good news. @mothinali.bsky.social sued GB News presenter Alex Armstrong & "social media commentator" Bernadette Spofforth for defamation after they told inflammatory lies about him. Both have apologised and agreed to pay substantial damages. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDamages for Green Party deputy leader over Harehills disorder claimsMothin Ali is handed damages over claims made by a TV presenter and a social media commentator. 613952 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 18hWhere on earth are White British people getting the idea that they can refuse to be treated by medical professionals of a different race, in a country where a sitting MP openly says, "We should deny trans people normal, expedient healthcare because my mother is a bigot." It must be the Russians. 516026 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialSpooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 17hIt is a fact that in the UK it is more offensive to be called a racist than it is to actually say and do racist things. 3329 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 17h🚨 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.goodlaw.socialEHRC guidance: We’re heading to the Court of AppealOur challenge to the EHRC’s transphobic interim guidance moves forward 14630132 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 17h🏳️⚧️ UPDATE 🏳️⚧️ Our challenge to the EHRC’s transphobic interim guidance moves forward. We will have a hearing at the Court of Appeal by the end of this year “if at all practicable” 👇 goodlaw.social/fwdtgoodlaw.socialEHRC guidance: We’re heading to the Court of AppealOur challenge to the EHRC’s transphobic interim guidance moves forward 916967 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialAlan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Waldron on hate speech essentially explains how the UK goes from a columnist being sacked in 2015 for calling on the navy to shoot immigrants on small boats, to Reform MP and former Conservative Cabinet member Robert Jenrick making the same call in 2026. 02815 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialRob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 15/10/2026This gives the game away. You're meant to pretend that people are only upset about someone's gametal soul staring at you, but actually they just think trans people are icky. 38913 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/10/2026"I had to stay with my Mum in an emergency ward because my mum might have been scared by a trans person being there, who may or may not have actually been trans." Is the sort of moral panic logic that should be inexcusable from our elected officials, actually. 1139576 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialRob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I have come around to the view that FWS was a humiliating decision for the UK Supreme Court. Less for the outcome reached, and more because of the way they reached it. (The outcome was wrong too but in itself not humiliating.) 6234 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialAshleeee 🌊🪭 (ᯟ︿ᯏ)” @reactiveashley.cat · 18h1/🧵 Yes, the Supreme Court and the transphobes’ lawyers invented both a label, “certificated sex”, and an idea of what certificated sex means. They also reused the label “biological sex.” 37111 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialAshleeee 🌊🪭 (ᯟ︿ᯏ)” @reactiveashley.cat · 17hbtw NHS England no longer exists as a quango. It has been merged with the DHSC for more than a year now. Don’t let them evade responsibility. Headlines should read Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper order segregation. 424592 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/10/2026Feels really great to see people waking up to the calamity that is CoreWeave, even if it is far too late to stop it from hurting the average investor conned into buying it 735651 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026what no way cant believe this 01522342 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 23hAbout the worst possible environment for a data center company to go public in. Only reason you do this is exit liquidity for investors 832956 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialKenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC 2084179905 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialDungeon Crawler Cass @cassterix.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Actually go fuck yourselves. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...independent.co.ukBBC licence fee to be extended with ‘YouTube tax’Exclusive: A government white paper set to be published before Christmas is expected to include plans to extend the licence fee to cover YouTube, Netflix, Amazon and Disney Plus 40514105 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialSarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 20hEven America doesn't have a national single sex spaces ban for trans people. The UK is alone among the First World in having this. Under a "Labour" leader who poses as a progressive. More countries get self-ID for trans people every year. The BBC never reports this though. Why? #r4today 0212 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialIo Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Once again, the British state is claiming that a law meant to prevent discrimination instead requires it. As I wrote last May, that is absurd. Go search Hansard for ANY evidence that THIS was the intended effect of the 2010 Equality Act. I won't hold my breath. iosphere.beehiiv.com/p/1-a-very-b...iosphere.beehiiv.com#1: A very British bathroom banThe British government is stumbling towards a policy every bit as radical as North Carolina's infamous bathroom law. How did this happen, and why? 17725 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialLGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk · 15/10/2026The NHS's revised guidance on single-sex wards is cruel, unworkable and LGBTIQA+ Greens calls on Labour to withdraw it and reform the Equality Act. 823383 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/10/2026democrats will throw you under the bus and then get mad at you for not being on the bus 595378987 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialWar-Bird: CEO of Freedom @warbirdactual.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Reminder this also applies to Scott Cawthon and Five Nights at Freddy’s. 16590904894 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialRuthi Brandt @ruthibrandt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Maybe the Green Party should issue an ultimatum to local Labour that they formally disown their party's anti trans policies and obsession with small boats? 🤔 323050 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialSian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I have already heard from trans constituents who are avoiding essential NHS screening and treatment for fear of being treated without respect and dignity. Ministers told me: “the revised guidance will support the privacy, dignity and safety of all patients” How exactly does this do that? 36691222 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialDr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 15/10/2026This wouldn’t have been possible without the support of our hugely transphobic government. Blood is on Burnham’s hands, and on the hands of his Labour Party, as well as the NHS. 610824 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15/10/2026Should is not must 2494 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialAbigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The NHS is already one of the biggest perpetrators of anti-trans violence in the UK. This new guidance, which refers to trans people using slurs, demands that we be segregated and abused. I’ve said it before: senior NHS managers must be sacked and punished for what they’ve done to us. 3236571051 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialKieran🏳️🌈 @diptripping.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026Telling who’s commented relentlessly on the Zionism is Racism motion and yet it’s crickets when it comes to yet another horrific transphobic policy from Labour 215941 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity. 98129443807 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Slavery was and is a real thing that has brutalized hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, if someone tells me a fucking chatbot is enslaved I'm immediately throwing hands. It's not cute, it's not intriguing, it's an insult to real people who suffered and suffer now. 293852857 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialSammi Narramore @narramoreart.bsky.social · 15/10/2026TransActual has released an initial statement about the new NHS guidance on single sex wards, and staff facilities. Likely a further statement to come transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/10...transactual.org.ukPress release: NHS England’s ‘single sex’ wards policy “putting politics over patient care” – TransActualWe are taking time to consider the new guidance in depth so we can understand all of the likely impacts on trans patients as well as on healthcare systems. We will share our detailed analysis as soon as possible. 23711 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialKieran🏳️🌈 @diptripping.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026Where are they all? Where’s the widespread condemnation? The in depth analysis? The horrified takes? Where is it all?? 1112 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialCN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Striking how ideologically-captured the BBC has become when looking at its reporting on trans hospital changes, and just how much heavy lifting 'biological sex' is doing. Explaining that a woman with a vulva, breasts, and typically female hormone profile should be put on a men's ward? Difficult... 9575154 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialAshleeee 🌊🪭 (ᯟ︿ᯏ)” @reactiveashley.cat · 15/10/2026been waiting for this fast train to Strasbourg. but yes this will kill people. 1113828 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Again, there was almost no public element in this: no organic surge in public opinion to demand it. It was simply imposed upon Britain by the world’s most hateful and poisonous media outlets, by leaning hard on our ever-compliant political leaders, who are always happy to say yes to the tabloids. 11410123 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialDAVIEWoOOoO 👻 🎃🕸️ @daviemoo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026“How the greens began to register in British politics and the political establishment got more angry about Zack Polanski existing than the establishment parties failing us for decades” 05311 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:ft.comUkraine blindsided by Starlink restrictions and intelligence gapsMoscow ignores Donald Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ while Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network 652564389 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 14/10/2026The BBC doesn't want you to see this, but we do 🏳️⚧️ Our exclusive Christmas cards are available now, ready to fight hate and bring hope! 👇 goodlaw.social/ac3c35 1321172 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialFinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 15/10/2026In a culture that sexualises male sexual violence against women, we must expect sexual violence to occur consistently and largely with impunity. Rape hints: rape or the threat of it, is an everyday, sexualised trope in many films, adverts, TV. It's become normalised, but normal it is not. 151 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialPumpkin Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Something very on-the-nose about the UK state banning a book called 'Normal People' 114524 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15/10/2026Investigators have subpoenaed relatives and examined immigration records, the newspaper reports.aljazeera.comTrump administration seeks to strip Ilhan Omar of US citizenship: WSJInvestigators have subpoenaed relatives and examined immigration records, the newspaper reports. 168848 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialNatasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Update - after being recommended it on here I am currently reading Ruth’s book ‘strongmen’. As much as it’s a very necessary read, it is TRULY depressing how many parallels there are between many current politicians’ approach to getting power and dictators of the past like Mussolini and Hitler. 55310 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialFoxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 14/10/2026 665027830 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialLaura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Eritrea has open ended conscription for all citizens aged 18-40. Attempts to evade (like leaving the country) are severely punished. That's why most asylum applications are granted. 013859 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialVictoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 14/10/2026A Reform councillor has been recorded calling for King Charles to be decapitated because he “is a Muslim”, while another one said of Asian people: “drag out of their homes, stick them on planes and **** them off to Pakistan.” It’s part of an undercover investigation by ITV Exposure 136748284 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.social404 Media @404media.co · 14/10/2026Men find yet another way to film and harass women without consent, this time, using a remote controlled robot to push against a "16-year-old girl's buttocks", and this is how the most well-resourced news agencies cover it: Read *our* piece here: www.404media.co/theres-nothi... 481202459 0
Reposted by @rachderbythefurby.bsky.socialZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I said in my speech to conference, the RNLI are the best of us. For those lucky enough to have parents volunteering with RNLI, I hope they feel nothing but pride in their parents. 761854501 0