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StoneyCat ≅ 🏳️‍🌈💚🏳️‍⚧️ @stoneycat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎶 October Music Challenge 🎶 @joesimpson66.bsky.social @lynnscarfe.bsky.social @suemgriff21.bsky.social A month of Creatures! - in the Artist, Title or Lyrics And as it's Spooktober, feel free to choose scary or fictional creatures as well the cuddly variety All welcome to play No wrong answers 😊

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Karen C Kaye Ⓥ @kaye1965.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa... Let’s help @reecedinsdale.bsky.social save this glorious building, and help protect the arts to help children and people with a passion for the arts flourish, because let’s face it, if we don’t……………..who will?

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Save Square Chapel for the people

Square Chapel has a strong history of supporting community events and professional performances and is a popular venue in the local community.  Square Chapel was a popular arts centre with good ...

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 28/09/2026

The Liberal Dems have voted to reject the EHRC Code of Practice - which recommends the segregation of Trans+ people from most single-sex spaces Read more in our newsletter 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-the…

Lib Dems approve motion to oppose the EHRC Code of Practice as Labour is set to face protest over exclusion of trans women at its women's conference.

The Liberal Democrats have voted to reject the EHRC Code of Practice, which recommends the segregation of Trans+ people from most single-sex spaces, as "discriminatory and unworkable".

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StoneyCat ≅ 🏳️‍🌈💚🏳️‍⚧️ @stoneycat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can rewind this in BBC sounds if, like me, you've only just seen it.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 27/09/2026

If there is any doubt that LGBTQ rights have backslid, all you have to do is compare the reactions to Conchita Wurst winning Eurovision in 2014 to the absolute fucking hysteria that would greet the exact same performance today.

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Richie Daiches Barlow @thedogwalker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I had lunch with a friend yesterday, a former music teacher, violinist from Halifax who’s been retired for fifteen years. He used to play concerts at Square Chapel, loved every minute he played & said he would love to play there again. We must #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax.

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Jarl Graham Kirk. Photo of me 1965 @grawitmik.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reece needs a petition signing here's the link. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa... Also an email to Kate Dearden MP for Halifaxx kate.dearden.mp@parliament.uk

megaphone.org.uk

Save Square Chapel for the people

Square Chapel has a strong history of supporting community events and professional performances and is a popular venue in the local community.  Square Chapel was a popular arts centre with good ...

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StoneyCat ≅ 🏳️‍🌈💚🏳️‍⚧️ @stoneycat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just in case anyone is unable to access it, here's how you can help #SaveSquareChapelArts (Hopefully links will still work in the ALT Text but I'm not sure)

How you can help:

Sign the petition - https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/save-square-chapel-for-the-people

Like the #SaveSquareChapel Facebook page - www.facebook.com/groups/792190233253161

Write to Write to the Halifax MP - Ask for Help or Get in Touch! - Kate Dearden MP for Halifax

Write to the Arts Council - Contact us | Arts Council England

Make a noise until this arts centre is saved and in the right hands!

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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

The reason this was such a high profile case was two fold: 1) To demonstrate to trans people that even if you are utterly blameless, the gender cranks will object to you being employed 2) To demonstrate to businesses that there is a hefty cost to employing trans people, critters Will try to sue

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

HOW THE ANTI-GENDER MOVEMENT SPREAD ACROSS EUROPE “From 2017, a new and distinctly British phenomenon emerged: a well-resourced so-called “gender critical” movement, framing opposition to trans inclusion not as religious conservatism but as feminist defence of women’s “sex-based rights””

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The Hate Review: United Kingdom

How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe

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StoneyCat ≅ 🏳️‍🌈💚🏳️‍⚧️ @stoneycat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#SaveSquareChapelArts 🙏 Every time I see Reece post about #SquareChapelArtsCentre I feel a little more hopeful. This beautiful venue needs to reopen, and when it does, I'd encourage you all to visit. Please read and share this 👇

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can you help us reach more people than ever before? Respond to our Trans Lives Survey today, and share on your social media, so we can get a full picture of the experiences and views of trans people in the UK. form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3

A pink and blue graphic with a black and white cartoon of some people on the bottom.

Text reads: TransActual is launching its biggest survey for the trans community yet!

TRANS LIVES SURVEY

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We want to hear about your experiences as a trans person living in the UK.

It's quick, anonymous, and will help us campaign for our community!

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Researchers, academics, charities, NGOs, industry, policymakers and members of the public can submit published literature. Do not submit personal accounts or unpublished work. Deadline: 23:55, Tuesday 20 October 2026 @transactualuk.bsky.social @natacha.bsky.social @fiercemum.bsky.social

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

UK government is calling for evidence on puberty suppressing hormones for children and young people with gender incongruence. It’s asking: what research has emerged since 2023. How has the evidence base changed? What makes the evidence hard to generate, evaluate and use in clinical/policy decisions?

post.parliament.uk

Puberty-suppressing hormones for children and young people accessing gender identity services

How has evidence on puberty suppressing hormones for children and young people with gender incongruence evolved since 2023, and what challenges affect its interpretation and use?

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is Far Right thug Danny Tommo filming himself committing the offence of Aggravated Criminal Damage with the optional (Threat to Life) on top. The maximum sentence is Life. Tommo even helpfully declares we are in English Waters now as he swings the knife. Oh dear Tommo.

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 21/09/2026

Asked why Burnham has been so quiet on Trans+ rights, government told us it's been improving LGBT+ healthcare - despite reduced gender-affirming care and waiting lists stretching beyond 200 years

wearequeeraf.com

Speak up on Trans+ rights, Andy Burnham urged after 1000-strong mass lobby

“We’ve heard almost nothing” from Andy Burnham on Trans+ rights say the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance said after 1,000 people signed up to lobby MPs about the segregation in the EHRC Code of Practice

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s time to stop adhering to a decade-old referendum that caused us nothing but problems. An increasingly volatile world now changes faster, year on year. The days of Empire are long gone. We cannot survive alone. We need the power/safety of our neighbours. Unity not isolation.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🔥 This video is approaching 1 million views collectively across social media. Pretty please use this tool to write to your MP - whoever they are - it all counts. And then share this link everywhere to family, friends, groups —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...

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Karen RH @karenrh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#savethesquarechapel Thank you for believing in it Supporting all the way. Halifax needs it

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Astral Annie @annieconboy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A great cause to get behind if you support creativity being open to the next generation or three 😁

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Tony S @tonymellotron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Square Chapel Arts Centre is, along with the Piece Hall, one of the very best features about Halifax. It's so heartwarming to see the efforts Reece Dinsdale is making, along with growing support, to keep it going into the future. Especially at a time when we need arts and culture more than ever.

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

George Formby refused to perform to a segregated audience in apartheid South Africa. Just something to think about.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And Betty White refused to remove a Black singer and dancer from her show in the 1950s despite southern states insisting. Another thing to think about.

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here's a good guy, trying to do a good thing. Let's give his efforts all the support we can!

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The cogs are still turning in my attempt to put #SquareChapelArts (Halifax) back on its feet. 🙏🏻 I’m flabbergasted by the offers of support & levels of backing I’m receiving. What sort of society are we if we fail to champion the arts & culture? Thanks, you good people. Stay tuned!

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tonight sees the last of the four episodes I recently directed. Hope you enjoy. 🙏🏻 I’ll be back again next year with some more. 👍 #CoronationStreet

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Lived Experience Narratives in Dementia programme wants to improve support for trans+ people living with dementia and their carers via a digital tool that shares dementia stories. If you are interested, please visit www.dementianarratives.org or email LEND@nottingham.ac.uk

Who we'd like to hear from: trans & non-binary people living with dementia, partners, family members, friends, chosen family, current and former carers, trans and non-binary people with experience of dementia (at any stage of the journey)
Why take part?: improve dementia support for trans and non-binary communities, ensure people's stories and experiences are represented, highlight the challenges and barriers trans people can face in care and support, shape furture dementia research and services.
What will happen?: You will be invited to take part in a friendly, relaxed group discussion with other trans people.
We want to hear about: your experinces of dementia, support that has helped (or not helped), challenges you have faced including in health and social care, what good and inclusive dementia support should look like for trans people.
You are in safe hands - we are committed to creating respectful, inclusive spaces where your identity, privacy and lived experiences are valued - you decide what you share.
There are too few trans voices in dementia research, help us change that - together. Your voice. Your experience. Better dementia support for all.
Interested? To find out more or express interest, please contact: LEND Programme University of Nottingham (email: LEND@nottingham.ac.uk). We welcome people at any stage in their dementia journey.
LEND (Lived Experience Narratives in Dementia) is a research programme funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research.

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Age old adage. 🤷‍♂️

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The NHS Wales JCC subcommittee on Quality, Safety and Outcomes have now released their “Incidents and Concerns” report that was considered at the August 26 meeting, following which all Wales gender reforming surgeries were immediately halted. jcc.nhs.wales/committees/q... 1/

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’ve pulled together a Google doc with the information I currently have about this Wales Gender Service situation. Feel free to use the info for any letters you’re writing/complaints you are making. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Info re Welsh Gender Service

Info re the Welsh Gender Service and cancellation of surgeries Rough Timeline 2022-2026 Freelance journalist Nick Wallis has been hanging out in gender critical circles for at least the last four y...

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

To whom these things matter… another episode ’like what I directed’ on the telly box this evening. Tuesday and Thursday’s episodes, too. Enjoy! 🤞 x #CoronationStreet

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StoneyCat ≅ 🏳️‍🌈💚🏳️‍⚧️ @stoneycat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You know how sad your life is when you actually cry cos it's rained on your washing, again. Smh.

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You've probably already seen it, but if not, please enjoy the cuteness of a tiny bat being washed with a cottonwool bud as it's definitely the nicest thing I've seen today.

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