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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 9h
The 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!
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Mike Corbett @mikecorbett1.bsky.social · 7h
I am pleasantly surprised to see accurate reporting of what I said. Not replicated everywhere, though… www.kentonline.co.uk/news/nationa...
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BBC ‘censored’ trans-rights slogan T-shirt, union official tells SNP conference
Mike Corbett of the NASUWT teaching union hit out at the broadcaster during a fringe event at the SNP conference.
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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 7h
Labour 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.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 9h
The upcoming budget must put ordinary people’s interests before those of fossil fuel shareholders. Make polluters pay.
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 14h
1/ 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...
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Damages for Green Party deputy leader over Harehills disorder claims
Mothin Ali is handed damages over claims made by a TV presenter and a social media commentator.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 18h
Where 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.
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 17h
It 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.
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Jess 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.
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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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Good 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/fwdt
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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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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Waldron 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.
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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This 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.
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Tom 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.
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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I 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.)
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 (ᯟ︿ᯏ)” @reactiveashley.cat · 18h
1/🧵 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.”
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 (ᯟ︿ᯏ)” @reactiveashley.cat · 17h
btw 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.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/10/2026
Feels 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
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
what no way cant believe this
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23h
About the worst possible environment for a data center company to go public in. Only reason you do this is exit liquidity for investors
Nscale is seeking to raise up to $3 billion in an initial public offering as soon as this month, just as investors are growing increasingly wary of the risks of this Al buildout. Another prominent neocloud, CoreWeave Inc., saw its shares tumble 15% on Wednesday and the cost of protecting its debt against default soar to a record on Thursday, with swaps pricing in a more than 60% chance of default within the next five years. Last week, an Australian data center firm abandoned plans for its IPO after would-be investors turned skittish. Nscale will need to persuade investors that it has a more promising business model and reassure them of its ability to deliver data centers smoothly, despite challenges in places like Glomfjord.
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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I 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
BBC screengrab from within their Russell Brand trial coverage.  Image of Brand in 70s-style aviator glasses, with earpods in, blank expression. Long dark wavy hair, black and grey beard, dark unbuttoned shirt. All on a fire red/orange and black background
BBC logo top and centre, underneath a subdeck reading: Fame Under Fire. Then the headline 'Russell Brand On Trial'. 
The words 'fire'and 'trial' are coloured to look like they are glowing orange at the bottom
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Dungeon Crawler Cass @cassterix.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Actually go fuck yourselves. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
BBC 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
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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 20h
Even 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
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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Once 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...
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#1: A very British bathroom ban
The British government is stumbling towards a policy every bit as radical as North Carolina's infamous bathroom law. How did this happen, and why?
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LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk · 15/10/2026
The 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.
The NHS revised guidance does not offer privacy, dignity or safety to trans people. 
Placing trans people on the incorrect “same-sex” hospital wards by default is wrong and unworkable, which is why it also states exceptions for clinical need and a mention of alternative provision. 
This is a continuation of the incomprehensible interpretation of the Equality Act 2010 that the supreme court ruled for. We call on the Labour government to withdraw this guidance and reform the Equality Act to end the policing of trans people in single gendered spaces.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
democrats will throw you under the bus and then get mad at you for not being on the bus
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War-Bird: CEO of Freedom @warbirdactual.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Reminder this also applies to Scott Cawthon and Five Nights at Freddy’s.
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Ruthi Brandt @ruthibrandt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Maybe 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? 🤔
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I 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?
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 15/10/2026
This 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.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15/10/2026
Should is not must
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The 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.
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Kieran🏳️‍🌈 @diptripping.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
Telling 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
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Being 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.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Slavery 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.
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Sammi Narramore @narramoreart.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
TransActual 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.uk
Press release: NHS England’s ‘single sex’ wards policy “putting politics over patient care” – TransActual
We 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.
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Kieran🏳️‍🌈 @diptripping.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
Where are they all? Where’s the widespread condemnation? The in depth analysis? The horrified takes? Where is it all??
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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Striking 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...
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 (ᯟ︿ᯏ)” @reactiveashley.cat · 15/10/2026
been waiting for this fast train to Strasbourg. but yes this will kill people.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Again, 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.
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DAVIEWoOOoO 👻 🎃🕸️ @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”
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Leaving 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.com
Ukraine blindsided by Starlink restrictions and intelligence gaps
Moscow ignores Donald Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ while Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 14/10/2026
The 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
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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
In 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.
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Pumpkin Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Something very on-the-nose about the UK state banning a book called 'Normal People'
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15/10/2026
Investigators have subpoenaed relatives and examined immigration records, the newspaper reports.
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Trump administration seeks to strip Ilhan Omar of US citizenship: WSJ
Investigators have subpoenaed relatives and examined immigration records, the newspaper reports.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Update - 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.
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are just coming home, arriving at their parking spot to find that the car next to their spot is parked just on the border painted between the two parking spots.
Blue: Ugh, the neighbour has parked right onto the divider line again.

Blue frowns behind the wheel, while Green sits on the passenger seat, looking unbothered.
Blue: Would you mind getting out of the car so I can park?
Green: Sure.

Having parked his car right next to the line as well, Blue peers out of the driver's seat. Green is standing outside, observing the parking job.
Blue: Am I still in our spot?
Green: Yep, you're in.

Blue's car is now parked right onto the border of the parking spot, so close to the neighbour's car that it would be impossible for the neighbour to open the driver's side door. Satisfied with the work well done, the foxes leave.
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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Eritrea 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.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A 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
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/10/2026
Men 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...
The English coverage by even well-resourced outlets like CNN, CBC, and the BBC have almost no information beyond the police press release, which is lazy and stupid, because it is possible to figure out everything that happened here with three seconds of clicking around the internet. The Associated Press wrote that the entire phenomenon is "new territory" for the police, which, I'm sorry to say, men using tech to harass women on livestreams in 2026 is not "unusual" or "new territory" and hasn't been for many years.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I 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.
Children of RNLI lifeboat volunteers are bullied at school because their parents rescue migrants in the English channel
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