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Ziedrich Pengels

@thebigzeo.bsky.social
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I’m a PhD student studying far-right radicalisation in speculative fiction fandom - Dirty Pinko Commie - Transsexual - Trekkie - Historical Fashion Nerd (They/He) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🖖 And yes, the accursed tattoo still burns when she tweets!

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“This Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children. They have step by step dismantled every protection that supported my daughter […] At every point when the Labour Government could have made something better, they have turned around and given her another kick.”
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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...
growinguptransgender.com
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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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This!!! All those people saying they’re “furious on our behalf” and “100% have our backs” melt back into the woodwork as soon as Burnham turns on the waterworks and offers them some blatantly hollow promises!
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s almost like they just want to pay lip service to trans rights while continuing to crack down on our community
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I guess wanting trans people to be allowed to exist in public life, disabled people to be able to afford to live and refugees not to being hounded by racist mobs is “perfectionism” now.
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Curse of the Libby Dead @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I dunno, maybe making pensioners poorer will actually increase the burden on social care
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You don’t miss it, when new marching orders get sent out
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My amazing partner got me RNLI commemorative plates for my birthday and they go so fucking hard. Look at this!! Being a lifeboat volunteer is legit one of the coolest things anyone can do, as proven by the way fascists are currently attacking them!
Lifeboat commemorative plate Three Lifeboat commemorative plate
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Whats imposed wait time before any healthcare but rationing healthcare Disgusting
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just saw an armoured 4 by 4 police car zoom past my bus. There is literally zero reason police could need an armoured car, this shit is scary as fuck!
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I guested on a podcast y’all, talking about the speculative fiction influencing Silicon Valley technofascists. It was a lot of fun, thanks FTL for having me on!
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it is incredibly fucked up that the UK government and police consider it a much worse crime to wear a t-shirt or wave a placard with 'palestine action' on it than to block ports and attack lifeboats
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
Remember 3 years ago when sex mattresses brought out their wishlist of what should be in the guidance, and then mysteriously they got pretty much their every wish? And now no one in the media wants to mention that? Image from @erininthemorning.com article at www.erininthemorning.com/p/biological...
Sex Matters argues that this means

1 Schools cannot impose a "taboo" on references to any child's actual sex

2 Children's actual sex must be known by everyone in the school environment

3 Writing, communicating and enforcing sex-based rules necessarily rules out "preferred pronouns" or allowing trans-identified children to wear the uniform of the opposite sex.

sexmatters
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bus driver saw me sprinting still two blocks away and waited at the stop, fucking legend 🫡
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The vast majority of our media has been complicit in normalising fascism - “gentle centrist celebrities” have told us not to overreact and now people who volunteer to save drowning children are in fear of their life (and I think of all those bullshit “free speech” comedians who’ve helped too)
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Speaking about trans rights in the UK feels like screaming into the void. The most horrific things are being done to our community but nobody outside of the community will even bother to mention it.
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So called “Self help” has always been a palatable way to package regressive conservative ideology. This isn’t a new phenomenon, just look into the history of grifters like Napoleon Hill!
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“…and warned that people are becoming afraid to speak their minds.” Say two men who, just in this one article alone, have spoken their minds more than any trans person ever can in the mainstream media.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
'attack a minority who typically vote for us, piss off our own base, & just hope we attract more voters across the aisle than we lose' is a risky galaxy-brain tactic to try when there's 'record high fuel prices' sitting right there. but they know this, of course. they simply don't want progress
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It takes a toll.
4 frame comics. first frame shows espresso in a portafilter. second shows a coconut milk carton and a cup to foam milk with a thermometer. 4rd frame shows a small espresso machine making espresso. 4th frame shows a foamy cappuccino in a promotional Frozen the Musical coffee cup. The text, spread over the four frames, reads :
I wish that I could give cis
people a glimpse of what it
feels like. 
to be villainized and
dehumanized in the media
every day.
to see your existence
being legislated against all
around the planet.
to see friends and
family members vote for
politicians who promise to
make the lives of people
like you worse.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
...I had to respond to the ass-backwards notion that trans ppl are "blackmailing" Dems. it's cis Dems who are blackmailing us, insisting that we vote for trans-exclusionary Dems even though they're revoking our rights & will blame us FOR THEIR BAD DECISIONS... juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
screenshot from linked-to essay that reads:
As I was finishing this piece, I saw a political writer whose work I appreciate by and large suggest that Democrats feel “blackmailed” when trans people start talking about potentially abstaining from voting for candidates like Talarico, Turek, et al. To be clear, he wasn’t saying that we are blackmailing them, just that many people feel this way. And if this is truly how many cis Democrats feel, well, I have to say that’s the most ass-backwards thing I’ve ever heard! Trans people are not in control of what is happening here (we are a mere 1 percent of the population). We are simply reacting to what cis politicians (both Republicans and Democrats) are doing to us.
If anything, trans people are the ones being proverbially blackmailed by cis Democrats, who seem to be telling us: “So here’s the deal, you’re gonna vote for the Democratic candidate who says he’s gonna take away some of your rights. And if you don’t vote for him, then we’re gonna to blame the election loss on you.”
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lauren Boebert calling LGBTQ+ people groomers for years while having multiple lesbian affairs with her own staff
Who are Clarice Navarro, Raven Finegan, and Jeffrey Small? Rep. Lauren Boebert accused of having sex with 3 staffers
Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was accused of having sex with three of her staffers, including Clarice Navarro, in a House Ethics Committee complaint.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 19/09/2026
There are multiple "successful" lefty independent media people who have had to crowdfund surgeries just this month.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a great example of one of the ways AI is actually going to endanger / kill huge numbers of people. Shitty chatbots cause their special sort of brain rot to the people who package intelligence for our shot-callers. They take the bad ideas from there. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Re: Rationalists. I think someone who says that they are able to perceive a God of everlasting cruelty and that you should also perceive this God lest you be punished should be met with extreme suspicion.
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is just creepy, such an overstep of boundaries. You do not in fact own your grown up child, neither are you entitled to digitally stalk them after they move out, get some fucking help.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rowling smoked a cigar and celebrated while a trans woman died by suicide after the Supreme Court misjudgement. Jo Maugham of @goodlawproject.org
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How the Supreme Court tipped Anna over the edge | Good Law Project
Billionaires like JK Rowling have funded a blizzard of legal attacks on the trans community – and her allies in the rightwing and far-right press have pursued a campaign of trans hate, says Jo Maugham
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It really doesn't have to be like this, they could literally wake up and stop persecuting trans people tomorrow, but they choose to make us suffer
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026
Called it. The father was charged with punching the child while the mother did witness intimidation to cover it up. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...
The case was reported to the state in early 2025. Both parents were charged in connection with an incident at the family’s Southborough home in late January of that year, according to court documents. WBUR is not identifying the teenager, who is a minor.

Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty. In setting bail, the judge referred to three prior restraining orders against Kutzko, one of which is permanent. She did not say whether any are tied to this case.

The child’s mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid.”
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 17/09/2026
Ah I see.
Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty.

The child’s mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid.”

“Arlene stated that if you solve this tomorrow everything will be okay and we will not get angry,” the detective wrote.
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fishhhhhhh!
Tabby cat looking weird with his toy fish
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There were nearly three times as many people at the recent trans rights lobby than residents of Piddington
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026
There needs to be an axiom called Younger's law: if you're a parent who runs to Christian nationalist orgs or Fox News to claim you weren't abusive to your trans kid after the state took them away, you are in fact abusive by virtue of nationalizing the story for propaganda.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As someone who does not like Ed Sheeran’s music it feels so good to have a reason to be a hater finally
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Same vibe
Prince Philip looking like a corpse
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Look how big he’s gotten
Curly haired person holding a fully grown tabby cat, he looks kinda mad to be picked up That same person holding a much smaller tabby kitten
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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why is everyone complaining? Mitch McConnell can still vote in the Senate.
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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran is such a fucking gutless coward.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026
And, as I said at the start, none of this addresses the very real harms that LLMs have already wrought, and will continue to do so. We cannot let vague concerns about AI safety escape from what this industry has done and will continue to do. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...
There are, however, things we can do, per former FTC Chair Lina Khan, if we actually had any interest in doing so:

There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.
If LLMs were a toy, they’d be taken off the shelves. If LLMs were a drug, they would be banned. 

I agree that we need to take “AI safely” seriously, but that starts with treating LLMs as normal software run in a reckless and dangerous manner by malevolent entities with little regard for society.
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The foot in the door
four frame comic. each frame has the text on top in white. first frame shows jk rowling. second frame shows trump and erdogan in suits doing thumbs up. third shows the istanbul landscape. fourth shows Talarico giving a speech in front of the podium. text reads:
"protecting the children"
has become the foot in the
door of fascism.
last weekend (sept. 12th-13th),
under the pretense of "protecting
the children," trump's turkish
bestie erdogan led a massive
anti-lgbtq crackdown.
in an extraordinary esca-
lation, legal proceedings were
announced against 160 people.
about 50 activists have been
arrested. associations and
homes have been ransacked
across the country.
so when we hear people who
are supposedly our allies use
the same language as erdogan,
we owe it to our turkish
siblings to call it out.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/09/2026
Some good news today with this becoming TUC policy
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Like, you know there's an internal refugee crisis facing the US with trans people fleeing their home states, right? Can you understand why trans people might be more than a little on edge, stressed, angry because of the way we're treated? Perhaps extend a little understanding and empathy.
advocate.com
Transgender Americans are fleeing hostile red states. Seattle says it’s overwhelmed
Seattle officials say anti-trans laws in red states are driving a queer migration crisis in the Pacific Northwest.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It sends a pretty strong message that liberals see LGBTQ+ rights as an inconvenience to winning elections rather than standing up for oppressed people being integral to defeating fascism
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is why I think the retelling of accurate history is so important. Self ID was dropped by the Tories in 2020 and then Labour in 2023, which was around the time Stonewall was starting to quiet down too.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 13/09/2026
Anyway, the reason people shout at trans people about who they vote for – rather than candidates, or actually significant chunks of the electorate – is because we are people you can easily punch down at. It's that simple. It's purely a power exercise, and feeling like you are doing something useful.
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s fascinating that she can't face the reality the whole section of society is now repelled by her work. Sure a few people will performatively disavow her then watch it in secret, but a much bigger group is so digested by her transphobia they'll never consume anything she created again
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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Since the EHRC segregation guidelines I’ve only used the basement toilets at work, two floors below my workspace because there are no gender neutral toilets in the building and less people go down there so I’m less likely to get a complaint.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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