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Kate

@rebelraising.bsky.social
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Loudmouth, queer, feminist, mother, Green, mental health worker, compulsive volunteer. Fan of public transport infrastructure. She/her. In Scotland.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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thisisradio3dom.bsky.social @thisisradio3dom.bsky.social · 9h
You have to really feel for the woman who, for nearly 20 years, protested outside RAF Greenham Common, if they had just turned up with 5lt of petrol, it would have been over in a week.
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 10h
Pitch me again why there is a public clamour in the UK for an Iron Dome rather than Sure Start centres? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Rise in babies in care proceedings raises fears of unnecessary adoptions, experts tell BBC
With better support, many babies may not have needed to go into care, File on 4 Investigates is told.
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 11h
Okay. You're a transphobic obsessive bent on ruining (and ending) trans people's lives and opening the door to the Christian right reversing all progress towards women's rights.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 12h
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 12h
I’ve said this before, but it’s sort of insane that no British political party is willing to champion Games Workshop, one of the country’s most successful, British born and run companies, and would much rather simp for Palantir or OpenAI
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is incredibly telling, to me at least, how Cameron and May were more progressive on trans rights, and yet even those areas of recognition are being rolled back/completely destroyed by Labour, yet trans and non-binary individuals are ignored, talked over, and told to shut up and support Labour.
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 13h
As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 12h
The Zionism is Racism motion is such a perfect way to fuck the progress GPEW has made (and by contamination, all the UK's other Green parties) that if there weren't plenty of fucking idiots in the party aching to do it anyway, you'd have to suspect a psyop.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13h
'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 16h
Remember my article last week with the Naomi Klein quote that cities are inherently anti-fascist? This is part of that idea.
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Absolutely fuck the EHRC and Stephenson in particular. And solidarity to the trans folks fighting back on what absolutely, obviously, is an erosion of rights they've had for decades.
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I would guess - as a member of the Scottish Greens who have the same system - it's not so much entryism as unengaged members sticking their noses in for the one thing they've heard of. It's not *better*, but it's different.
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every decade or so, we go through this. Waves & waves of women sharing their stories of sexual assault & harassment after an especially horrific case hits the headlines, such as the Cornell 7. And every decade or so, what changes besides collective retraumatisation? open.substack.com/pub/feminist...
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Essay: #IBeatMyAssaulter
On “Optimal Violence” and Trickle-Up Retribution
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Me on One Of Those Days. There's going to be trouble even if I have to cause it myself
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 03/10/2026
I am not very worried about about the Tory Tapestry’s misuse of “doth”. What worries me much more is this sequence of panels which seems to show a small boat full of brown-skinned people followed by a plague of rats running riot and then a lot of dead white people labelled tax payers.
Detail from Conservative Party mock Bayeux Tapestry showing 1. A boat full of brown skinned people. 2. Enormous rats chasing cats. 3. White-skinned “tax payers” dead in the streets.
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Watching #CelebrityTraitors back and the offspring notes that Maya is dressed as a Great Big Crab Man
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
And here again is my favourite ever Batman poem...
Batman’s aff his nut
Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat
Batterin guys
I was lit at:
“Mate, I’m worried aboot ye
I know your ma and da died
But everybody’s ma and da dies
And we’re no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws.”
And that was when Batman went
“Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
Like having a big mad base under your hoose?
Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor
that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?”
And that’s when I was lit at:
“Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.”
And that’s the Secret Origin of Robin
And everyone else.
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I would watch the comedy caper series of Maya Jama doing increasingly extreme crimes to get her idiot uncle Richard out of the trouble (with the Mob?) that his big mouth got him into #CelebrityTraitors
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Disability doesn’t care how old you are. Specialist food is no cheaper if you’re 19. Employers don’t lose their prejudice if you’re 21. This is blatant intergenerational inequality from Labour. Younger disabled people of all severities deserve better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ross Kemp in full hypochondriac mode. If they kill him to frame Bella I will be quite angry though. #CelebrityTraitors
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Quite pleased that Blunt has chosen his troll persona for this gig #CelebrityTraitors
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We already have a "he's an old white male big celeb he must be playing 4d chess, not being a complete tit" vibe will they never learn #CelebrityTraitors
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Shahan Miah @shahanshahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've just declared myself as a traitor by mistake #CelebrityTraitors #TheCelebrityTraitors
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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 01/10/2026
What happens when you create a high-traffic neighbourhood by removing the modal filters on the Braid Estate… SUVs end up on their side Junction of Braid Rd and Hermitage Dr. Around school pick up time, Thursday 1st Oct
A black SUV on its side with the underside visible. A police car in the  foreground and an ambulance in the background. A police officer stands in hi viz beside the SUV. The pole of a zebra crossing can be seen in the foreground The same as the first picture, but zoomed in on the overturned SUV
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 01/10/2026
Senedd Members have rejected a Reform motion calling for the Welsh Government to scrap default 20mph speed limits
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Senedd Members reject Reform bid to scrap 20mph speed limits
Ella Groves – ICNN Senedd Reporter Senedd Members have rejected a Reform motion calling for the Welsh Government to scrap default 20mph speed limits. The proposal was defeated by 51 votes to 37 follow...
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Curse of the Libby Dead @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think most of the people who were involved with the New Labour project are sociopaths www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Employers should teach primary-age children about work, Milburn says
The author of a major report into youth activity in the UK says children as young as four should be learning about careers.
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Honestly, if you believe the death penalty should exist, then you're a sick fucker with a torture fetish. This is always how it's been.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/10/2026
You don't need to trip over yourself to tell lesbians that "it's okay to sleep with men!" Every institution, cultural norm and social pressure is constantly telling us it's okay to sleep with men. Most of our families would be ecstatic if we slept with men. We got the message. It's fine. Shut up.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So I just got two identical copies of an NHS appointment letter delivered by a delivery company at 9.15 at night. Apparently they give them the letters at 6pm. What the fuck?
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope this leads to some actual punishment for the decision makers, not just lower ranked scapegoats. (Read Pete's book for why this needs to be the moment that commercial interests and their government enablers are brought to account and their peers scared into giving a shit about human lives.)
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine.
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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A glitched version of Romesh asking "What has the BBC done for you?" advert
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Again, people want robots to do the boring stupid bits of their jobs and lives so they have more time for human connection and art.
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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
10/10. No notes.
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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 29/09/2026
If you want care to be about people and not profit, you need to boot every private care company out of the sector - which is most of it
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Anthony Cunningham @sqferryman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scientists discover that the shortest observable interval of time occurs between one of the fash being charged and their appeal for defense funds.
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh I'm sorry is there a *maximum* age of criminal responsibility now? And exempt professions/levels of fertility? Or perhaps is the whole proscription and mass arrests situation bullshit state violence?
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Without reading the article, I'm already wondering whether the answer is "millennial fathers"
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The "fuck up the left" infiltration operation that the Christian right are doing via transphobia is genuinely impressive.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m a dual national. I’m not planing on committing any crimes anytime soon, let alone ones with a sentence of 5+ years, but if I ever did I’m not sure why my second passport should disqualify me from facing the same British justice system as everyone else and instead strip me of my citizenship
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Oh don't do yourself down, of course you can do it!" "I'm not doing myself down, I'm explaining that I have a disability." (Every time I need to perform a motor skill in front of someone new.)
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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
People are very resistant to the idea that patriarchy is about a relationship to power. Is every man abusive? No, plainly not. But patriarchy affords them the ability to misuse their power in a way that people of other genders cannot. So the more power they accumulate, the greater that temptation.
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tell that to your pals soft soaping attempted murderers in the Channel, Chris.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires
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Malcolm Wood @woodmally1979.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Huge congratulations to @mayor.nyc.gov for imposing Shania law in New York. Though the Republicans are complaining “That dont impress me much”
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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The likely outcome of a mentally healthy population is revolution
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