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Sophie Bane

@sophiebane.bsky.social
273 followers 961 following 147 posts

Usually to be found in a book, wishing I was in a book or attempting to write a book. Proud Brummie. She/ her.

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026
I implore all cis people to read this.
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“After the 51-year-old British author's lifeless, rain-drenched body was found on the moor, the manner of his demise was not entirely certain, but one look through the camera roll on his phone offered several clues.”
A dappled cow getting all up in my grill.A rain-wet pony inspects my body, trying to work out if I am till breathing.A donkey marching towards me, annoyed, because I have told it the song 'Cannonball' by Damien Rice is fucking awful.A sheep looking at me with doleful eyes after I made an allusion to its weak ancestry.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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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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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Guy guys we just gotta keep going soon we’ll change the tide of the trans segregation and trans section 28 party i can feel it in the air Remember that fake conversion ban? That was Nearly good! So close i can smell it Soon they’ll even dare call us women again Just one more meeting bro
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026
I don't mean to be that person but this is a Labour event and Labour are the government and Labour appointed the chair of the EHRC and Labour could stop this all any time they wanted.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🤡 Moms for Liberty - Gaea Powell, a hard-charging MAGA activist & fierce advocate for "election integrity" - found guilty of nine counts of election fraud by jury
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The capitalist injustice system has created incredibly powerful men who will never see the inside of jails or prisons. Sad truth.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Once again: this is the most widely covered employment tribunal I think i’ve ever seen
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.
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Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Janice Turner has no background or training in medicine, neuroscience, psychology or psychiatry.
Janice Turner: Is your ADHD diagnosis really helping you?
A huge increase in those claiming the condition as well as receiving Pip to cope with it risks creating a lost generation
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Men have NO business telling women anything about their bodies or abortion. This woman ATE him up.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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A series of tweets that reads "we didn't have a measles outbreak until we let in four years of millions of people pour over our border" 

"I live in Honduras. We vaccinate" 

"I live in American we can choose if we want the shot or not" 

"I know and that's why you have measles and we don't"
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The total weaponisation of the poppy over the last ten years by the right is undoubtedly one of the more unpleasant and depressing elements in our national pantomime. It's become a de facto nationalist symbol.
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just 4 months after the local elections, Reform UK (RefUK) have lost 158 of their local councillors: -55 resigned -42 went Independent -28 defected -24 were kicked out -5 lost their seats -2 disqualified -2 suspended. Appalling record - and a waste of taxpayers’ money!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Barbara is fun
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
tonymurray1964 You see, Richard, your problem is that Reform is, basically, a bunch of horrible bastards doing horrible bastard things in a conspicuously horrible bastard way. In general, people don't like horrible bastards. I hope that's cleared things up for you Richard, you horrible bastard.
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/09/2026
lol smite
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Save America Movement @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This administration would be so funny if it wasn’t so historically embarrassing and destructive. America deserves serious leaders.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The perfect response. And they still don't understand how tariffs work. Or anything else for that matter. 🙄
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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A screenshot of a Tumblr post about scientists wanting to tell people about their science
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Man, it's a good thing Ed Sheeran decided to steer clear of politics, that worked out well for him
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Imagine them saying they’re going to limit cancer diagnoses
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The dumbest thing about the whole Ed Sheeran thing is he identifies as a "culturally Irish" musician, and is seemingly touring with half of Ireland, and yet somehow had no clue that Irish musicians have been the single longest and loudest chorus of voices in Europe about what is happening.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel kicks ass. A way better celebrity than Ed Sheeran.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
US Senators get paid sick leave and healthcare for life Mitch McConnell disappeared for 90 days and never had to worry about getting a paycheque or paying his medical bills Senators should be given exactly what they give their constituents. In Mitch’s case, that’s no healthcare
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran’s band just quit the Ed Sheeran tour.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Guidance from @goodlawproject.org about trans kids in schools. The Equality Act still applies and it would appear that @lucympowell.bsky.social’s transphobic schools’ guidance may be unlawful in many instances.
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It’s still unlawful to discriminate against trans kids | Good Law Project
Back at school, some trans kids and their families are being threatened with discrimination. But trans kids still have rights – and schools must protect them
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 14/09/2026
I've been thinking about this a lot because of all the talk about how Dolly Parton "didn't take sides" and I think she's proof that if you don't want to talk about politics you don't have to, but she took sides with her money & her actions and her side was pretty clear. So is Sheeran's, I guess.
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