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Even so I can get good and busted on a 14% hill nearby and descend so fast my eyes water, I'm kinda happy with the bullshit WiiSports aesthetic of watopia as an escape from realism.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 4h

I think I'm less interested in more realistic indoor cycling on account of I have the Peak District about 15 miles east of me and I can have a real hill. I kinda got put off of checking out TPV after trying and hating tacx trainer

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 5h

Coming back a few days to say, wow, zwift is not just marginally but categorically in a different class altogether. Can see why they demand more money

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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 6h

This is an incredibly useful way of putting it. I recently explained to a friend that it feels like my brain is a kind of harmful toxic sludge that I need to do my best to protect people from. The framing below makes me realise this is almost certainly some variety of internalised phobia on my part.

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Q. McLamore @ghawinriver.bsky.social · 6h

Corollary to this: right-wing groups oppose "Indoctrination" in education not because it's indoctrination, but because they're not doing it. They view it as the primary function of any education system; as a tool to maintain desired social order.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11h

GC-ism is deeply entwined with science denialism because the basic medical facts of transsexual people's lives are something they have to reject outright in favour of ontological sexed souls.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17h

Sodha supporting torture on the basis of "protecting women and girls". Yeah, there really is no low which transphobes won't go to when attacking trans and non-binary individuals.

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Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 23h

What the hell, why they have "no treament" isolation rooms??

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 18/10/2026

She was murdered by transphobia 😥😥😥

Joelle was admitted to the Wolverhampton NHS Trust suffering from an aggressive but highlv treatable form of lymphoma. Although a bed was initially available on the cancer ward, hospital staff moved her to an isolated side room upon realizina she was a trans woman.
Joelle and her family explicitly pleaded with hospital staff to place her on either a standard male or female ward so that she could immediately start emergency treatment. However, adherence to recent policies regarding single-sex hospital spaces meant she was kept waiting for a separate single- occupancy room. She spent 16 days in isolation without appropriate cancer pain management or chemotherapy. By the time emergency chemotherapy was finally administered, her condition had deteriorated severely, and she tragically passed away.
The Trans Legal Clinic is pursuing two primary legal routes:
• An Article 2 Inquest: To force a forma investigation into the systemic NHS quidance failures and administrative delays that directly contributed to her death
• Clinical Negligence Claim: To demanc formal accountability from the specific trust involved for failing to manage her pair and delay vital emergency treatment.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 18/10/2026

The cultural and social messaging of gendered roles, male supremacy and the feminine being inherently degrading are perpetuated and imbibed by everyone irrespective of gender and orientation! Boys and girls don't get taken into separate rooms and given different scripts!

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Byrd - FN: Remembering Out Now! @byrdbrnz.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

This goes triple for the era of parasocial relationships. You *can* have meaningful online relationships, yes, but not everyone that you interact with is a friend. Friend-ly maybe, but not friend. Figure out what it means to be a friend to you, gatekeep people who don't meet that minimum

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Byrd - FN: Remembering Out Now! @byrdbrnz.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

It's ok to say "this is me, that is you, and I don't really like this thing you did/said." Acceptance in a social space shouldn't depend on unquestioning trust. You need to prove you meet minimum requirements of GSF1 and then pass through individual gates to arrive at being friends, imo

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Byrd - FN: Remembering Out Now! @byrdbrnz.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

This also, imo, dovetails nicely into social fallacy #2: Friends accept me as I am You have to have boundaries with friends. You have to gatekeep yourself from people. Not everyone is your friend in a social space, not everyone should be your friend.

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 18/10/2026

It lets everyone pretend the outcomes are "natural" and inevitable rather than an expression of the values of everyone participating in upholding said social space. Much of liberal politics boils down to obfuscating these dynamics and painting acknowledging them as gauche if not outright bigoted.

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Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing · 18/10/2026

As one of my favourite podcasts always says "The social is predicated upon its exclusions". Every social space has a set of behaviours it finds permissible and desirable, not acknowledging that explicitly just makes the enforcement invisible and lets everyone wash their hands of the consequences.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/10/2026

Am so jealous of everyone at the roller derby global champs. The online stream mugged me off with DRM that breaks streaming from my phone to my TV that I could trivially crack if I wanted to but I really want to support this sport. Fuck sporfie streaming.

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Without Pity @withoutpity.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Final day! Lead change in the 5th place playoff.

Rainy City take a 4 point lead over Toulouse near the end of the first half.

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Without Pity @withoutpity.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

We are in Malmö for the @wftda.bsky.social championships.

Night photo across Malmö from the upper floor of a hotel.

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Rose Norah @bubblegumpunk.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

I love employing my differential of social capital to send orange wearing, drunk, normie dudes away from the *Mosh Against Monarchy* show on king’s day when I’m working the door there actually. Not your night here buddy go bother someone else

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Anyway the woke mob basically cancels Coughlin and, yeah, good for the woke mob really

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

The student nor the class were pro-Coughlin. But they - that generation I mean - have imbibed the “all viewpoints *must* be aired and that’s basic classical liberalism!” in a kind of Triggernometry way I don’t think is good.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Did a class on Charles Coughlin’s 1930s anti-Semitic broadcasts. Student (a good one, no shade) argued he should have been allowed on air because free speech. I pushed back: “that protects him from being arrested, it doesn’t guarantee him radio airtime.” Which the class hadn’t quite considered.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

You can either include bigots and abusers, or you can include their victims. Pretending to wash your hands of the decision is just a cowardly and liberal way of choosing the first one.

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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

When I was squatting, there was a divide between squats that felt that they couldn't stop anyone from moving in, and squats who felt that they could exclude people whose behaviour harmed others. The first group were terrible places to live and quickly lost most of their non-terrible people.

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Saraarrgh Clarke @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

I'm fully convinced "social capital" is pretty much always a backdoor to "working class is when cis het white man so you're actually being bigoted by sticking up for anybody else."

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 18/10/2026

At some point you have to actually decide you have the conviction to stand up for your own beliefs and refuse to entertain every contrarian out of a misguided sense of impartiality that isn't truly impartial. You have to actually believe you're right to be righteous.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 18/10/2026

This is the most fundamental fact about advocating for marginalized people that everyone gets wrong. You have to be willing to exclude the people and viewpoints intent on dehumanizing you. Making every "inclusive" space a battleground undermines its own goals.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/10/2026

Gatekeeping isn't all visible to everyone equally, particular fringe community gatekeeping is particularly stigmatised because it is less familiar and less widely accepted.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/10/2026

...gatekeeping reveal a kind of salient exemplar effect. See also the way that many people who declare themselves to be against violence are also pro cop and support socially normalised forms of coercion.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/10/2026

There's also something to be said here about the ways in which normative spaces where eg refusing to play by the rules of association football will get you kicked out aren't seen as gatekeeping, but subaltern social spaces where refusal to respect community codes of conduct are often labelled...

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/10/2026

There are strategies for this. They can involve denial of space for anti social organising and distribution of space for mutually incompatible but otherwise pro social community.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/10/2026

The disagreement is therefore a contest over who gets to use which space and how they get to use it. It isn't just the punk bar avoiding becoming a nazi bar. It's all spaces and the need to proactively create spaces that are pro social and complementary to human wellbeing.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/10/2026

This is also not a counter intuitive fact in the least. You can't play football if people insist on playing cricket in the middle of the field. Exclusive space needs to exist and exclude counter productive activity for other positive things to happen. It is a universally understood thing.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Yes, there is unfortunately no substitute for having and advocating for the actual politics you want to see.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18/10/2026

"A BBC spokesman said: “Since 2018, the BBC has offered a six-month secondment opportunity for up to two Civil Service statisticians to work for BBC News’ head of statistics. All BBC journalism and editorial decisions are made by BBC journalists and editors...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18/10/2026

"THE BBC has been accused of breaching impartiality rules after civil servants embedded in the broadcaster were tasked with writing articles and fact-checking contentious issues, The Telegraph can reveal." [Sunday Telegraph front page]

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/10/2026

There are certainly ways in which certain structures inevitably lead to tyranny (monarchies, capitalism etc) but yeah it's not clear there's a clear single set of rules that only leads to a free society

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/10/2026

We need to be able to distinguish what function gatekeeping serves, not have a general moratorium in it

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/10/2026

This is why at the extreme end white nationalists often latch on to Safe Space policies by trying to create white pride communities and using liberal language to justify them - they recognise these things are power building for minorities and they can neutralise that by imitating it.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/10/2026

Yes people wield social capital in this way. Social groups adhering to particular ethical codes of conduct also wield collective refusal and joint preference for association in this way. My point was "gatekeeping" is ethically speaking not the relevant component of this, the power structure is.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/10/2026

Gatekeeping isn't inherently good or bad, it's an activity which is subject to political contest over who gets to use space how. Spaces that are safe incubators for minority welfare and spaces for preserving dominant social hierarchies both depend on it and we need to be able to tell the difference.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/10/2026

Hahahaha. Yeah because the key example I gave in favour of gatekeeping wasn't precisely how an anti bigotry space was not only created but had successively been defended against bigot entryism which has repeatedly tried to use liberal anti gatekeeping pluralism to justify "differing opinions".

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 18/10/2026

‘It seems men gain respect over their careers, while women continue to report “‘I have all these accolades, and I have all this stuff, and [yet], I have to keep proving myself,’” Spoon explains.’

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

it seems to shock the New Zealand government that Peter Jackson, Taika Waititi, and the Conchords etc all emerged from the same city in the same span, which coincidentally is when Wellington rent was dirt-cheap and there were heaps of empty industrial buildings around

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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

There are approximately 8,000 WW2 veterans alive today.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 16/10/2026

The AI gambit, the trans and immigrant panics, the enslavement of media to oligarchical interests---it's all about retrenching epistemicide and making it so marginalized populations can never educate, organize and advocate for their advancement ever again. And the UK is leading the charge.

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