Reposted by TedA Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 18hWhat is the rate of “false” diagnosis? What is the actual harm done? Especially when the main intervention is “understanding and reasonable adjustments”? Or is this just the transphobic moral panic collecting another set of victims? 4040290
Reposted by TedScuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 14hI tell what is over-diagnosed: Legitimate concerns. 05021
Reposted by Tedthe pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 13hIf only Caroline Lucas had been as popular with journos when she was party leader as she seems to be now that she's mostly sniping from the sidelines 27616
Reposted by Tedelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 20hAs others pointed out, Farage lost multiple times before having a single victory. And every loss was accompanied with a media discourse playing up his influence. They kept that up until he actually won. 020848
Reposted by Tedflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19hA result that brings no good news for anyone except political hacks, I think. The Greens can take a chunky vote but nowhere near enough; the public can be easily shitehoused back into the holding pen. The times, they aren’t a-changing. 1214730
Reposted by Tedflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17hThe EHRC are stupid enough to do a blow-by-blow repeat of their previous shenanigans. I say: Yes, please do this - launch a deep investigation. Do it when our fugee-hunting Home Secretary is on TV, while Jeremy Vine asks callers whether black people can be British, while fascists riot in the street. 1724062
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Wrong. Utter utter nonsense. We are UNDER DIAGNOSING these conditions. If you look at the actual data on children that display traits for ADHD versus the diagnosis rate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says government reviewThe review, which focuses on younger people, warned there was a risk society was moving from an era of under-diagnosis to over-diagnosis. 120
Reposted by Ted🔻social cohesion enjoyer 🔻 @riversandseas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026a whopping 3% of jewish israelis think its immoral to ethnically cleanse gaza but sure the problem is just netanyahu 727272
Reposted by TedMatt Holland Author Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026ChatGPT reads to my child. Grok tastes all my food. I pay £200 a day for a team of agentic AIs to play video games and summarise movies for me. Claude is fucking my wife 15312
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Some of the sensible centrists on here really seem to think that the Palestinians could simply just vote their way out of being the victims of a genocide. 100
Reposted by TedHK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sorry, what are we doing here. Why are we pretending that 'two states' is a viable option, that 'we just gotta do more sanctions and they'll get the message' is a viable strategy for achieving it, and that the standard, liberal Israeli position is currently still mass expulsion of the Palestinians? 211614
Reposted by TedThe Haunting of Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Have zero time for ex-Greens currently weeping about The State Of Things over the Zionism motion. All ethnostates are bad, yes that includes the dream one you invented in your head that is perfect and simply somehow exists on top of the corpse of Palestine. 213425
Reposted by Tedobseyxx.bsky.social @obseyxx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026People are genuinely more irate about the "ethnic cleansing" they've entirely made up in their head than the *actual ethnic cleansing* that has been taking place for many decades. 1387
Reposted by TedJohn Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I think it’s very revealing of who the Labour Party are now that they want to criminalise this discussion. I’m somewhat ambivalent on the motion itself but the response to it is showing what some mainstream press/politicians consider unacceptable to talk about. www.thenational.scot/news/2660950...thenational.scotLabour MPs report Green party to police over 'Zionism is racism' policyMORE than a dozen Labour MPs have reported the Green Party to Sussex Police and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) over its "Zionism is racism" policy 1723568
Reposted by TedHK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's cool that we're going to run the 'zionism isn't racism and is actually normal' playbook again, while ignoring liberal Israeli politicians who are regularly going on podcasts calling for the permanent expulsion of all Palestinians and that killing children was actually fine, if not good 529468
Reposted by TedSam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Has Polanski peaked?" ask our three intrepid podcasters as they beg seven-time loser Nigel Farage for another cosy chat. 09313
Reposted by TedA.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’s absolutely fucking WILD that this was committed to writing, given that every Muslim and pro-Palestinian who appeared in the media from late 2023 onwards was asked whether they supported Hamas and required to renounce terrorism. 2632178
Reposted by Tedflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I try not to use the term when others are more appropriate, but this is just gaslighting. Most of Gaza is destroyed to bulldozed rubble and nobody who matters is even speaking up about it, because they know what would happen to them and their careers if they do. 34447107
Reposted by TedLaura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm not a Green member and I'm not Jewish, so disregard this based on that if you want, but most of the people I spoke to this weekend at English Green conf who backed the Zionism is racism motion were Jewish. One served in the IDF, another was a child Holocaust survivor 23010
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Don’t think I’ll ever figure out how to take a decent post gym pic for hevy 🙂🙃 010
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Woke up in cold sweats dreaming that I had transformed into the Substance monster 001
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026diss supervision said they were actually interested in my topic compared to a lot of the other ones they're having to listen to 💀 220
Reposted by Tedjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety 3570051626
Reposted by TedTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 18/09/2026The far right are scum and it should be a slam dunk for any government minister to jump on this and describe them this way. 29225
Reposted by TedAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way... 791708565
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Not to be a nat about this but how can a village legally hold a referendum to leave the UK when the Supreme Court ruled against Scotland from being able to hold even a non-binding advisory one? 110
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026As soon as you hear "is that right?" you know the big man's not messing about. Spectacular piece of cinema. 010
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Soon as Hitler sits his cheeks down its just another regular podcast episode 000
Reposted by TedJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"? 5133641130
Reposted by TedCharles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now 5145151509
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Genuinely feel insane at how obsessed people are about this. Don't think I've ever felt a single iota of concern about "small boats" beyond concern for the people on them's safety. 000
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Fuck me. "Those young SA lads were very friendly and polite to us white aryan Germans, don't believe all of the horror stories about Kristallnacht" 010
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Country has completely lost the plot. Hard to see how this will get anything other than worse. 000
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Sometimes I really think a lot of people in politics are just playing pretend. Living out some sort of fantasy. When I was a teenager I was involved in the online micro nation community and this was the kind of stuff we’d do. 010
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"Jew hate of their government" in response to a statement from the Brtish foreign secretary who is (checks notes) Jewish. 000
Reposted by TedElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Can we please compare this to the response to some chalk on some statues saying ‘trans rights are human rights’ lol? 827292
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Ignoring the terrifying alarm bells of fascism thriving in the UK, it is a little amusing that the fascists of the last century were goosestepping in their brown/blackshirts and military boots, while our contemporary fascists are goosestepping in their Nike airmaxes, tracksuits and gillets. 010
Reposted by Tedonlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25. 3729781280
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Nadine Dorris suggesting that Reform are only 18 months old and too naive to fully understand electoral law as if Reform aren't 4 years old since their rebrand from the Brexit Party (2019) which was a breakaway from UKIP (1993). 92213
Reposted by Tedsianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Nadine Dorries said on C4 News that Reform UK has only existed for 18 months… and so Orr and Jukes were naive and might not have known the law. Reform has been going since 2022! Which was 4 years ago! And the architecture existed as the Brexit Party! And Jukes has been around for ages! 223334
Reposted by TedHK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Are we going to get the 200 articles on James Orr then? Maybe read and interrogate the footnotes of his doctoral thesis? Is Cambridge going to have to issue out statements about its hiring standards? 12815252
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is our national broadcaster. Sick of the majority of news stories being about refugees these days. 000
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This has been tried multiple times, under different FMs and PM combos, under different WM and SP party make-ups, while the polling teetered between 48% to 52% either way. Why do we think this is the way to go about getting independence? 110
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Keep seeing tiktoks of people complaining that the job centre doesn't help you find or apply for jobs anymore. Rather than it being the case that they're just not interested in helping people find work and more the nature of finding work has changed significantly. 100
Ted @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026What are we even doing here fellas? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAsylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office bookletThe nine-page booklet covers issues including respect in public, sex and consent, and gender equality. 000
Reposted by TedPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Liberals are still, in big 2026, after decades of this stuff, still, *still* operating as if you can simply find an accommodation with the far right's death drive. These people are, to reiterate it again, either lying and obscuring their far right sympathies, or *deeply* fucking stupid. 28634138
Reposted by TedMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 16/08/2026Various people have pointed out that contrary to @goodlawproject.org we do not need a new public inquiry, because the issues have not substantially changes since the first lesson inquiry. This is what came up the first time. 39225
Reposted by TedAsh @queerash.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Reform: We're going to leave babies outside so only the strong survive to become our elite warrior class BBC: Reform will save NHS 100 TRILLION Pounds 2526149