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Tristan Oscar Smith 🦇🌈

@tristanoscars.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, and general goth nuisance. Lover of all things queer, spooky, and strange. He/him. tristanoscarsmith.com

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Rik Worth 👻 @rikworth.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The reason we’re even discussing alcohol in parliament is because a working class woman who would have been sacked if she ever showed up to work drunk has entered the halls of power and has seen first hand that people who went to private school and run the country don’t face the same consequences.
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Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Just casually ruminating how a certain VC backed this man like his life depended on it till @tristanoscars.bsky.social and I went on telly to suggest he cease that. Not that I think there'll be a real consequence (for this, or his other alleged wrongdoings), but it's a start...
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
By all means do a trans history week but the current Labour government has to be discussed as the current oppressive force in the comparison with history. They are banned from pride for a fucking reason what are you doing involving them with this
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Tristan Oscar Smith 🦇🌈 @tristanoscars.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Claiming delay repay on a £2.30 train ticket feels delightfully petty and I absolutely take pleasure in metaphorically flipping off uk rail
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Thing with all the soft language of dignity and respect and compromise being used to describe loss of human rights, persecution, and segregation, is that it immediately frames any opposition to it as unreasonable and aggressive
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Lisa Severn @lisasevern.uk · 05/09/2025
Any organisation that dares to keep the status quo of the last 20 years because, say, nothing bad has happened is apparently going to be at risk of being sued And thanks to JK Rowling, every nasty bigot in the country will have access to legal funding and unlimited publicity
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Angelique @ladydelancelevee.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Sick of BBC continuously promoting Reform U.K. and ignoring other parties with far more representation? Please sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times
We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for coverage during elections should apply at all times.
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 30/08/2025
What's notable, I think, is that while the cis ally gives us vague generalities about solidarity the transphobe is making concrete proposals about how to do transphobia most effectively.
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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This whole thread is not just heartbreaking but also demonstrates extremely plainly why the Supreme Court's decision was one of the worst rulings of all time, even in just a strictly legal and technical sense with no regard towards the morality of it
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Tristan Oscar Smith 🦇🌈 @tristanoscars.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Autistic mindfulness haters* rise up *and enjoyers too I guess
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I think part of this “dont call em fascist nah mate theyre not really fascists” is wanting to tell yourself that there isnt a major mainstream wave of fascism normalised in your country
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 28/08/2025
I do not have the biological profile of a cis woman nor a cis man. I am trans and my trans biology needs to be recognised by the health service for the benefit of my safety. But for ideological reasons the government have pushed the NHS to prioritise my anatomy as an infant to my anatomy as a adult
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The most important thing to remember through all of this is that these policies are overwhelming introduced as a means to keep track of adults, not to protect kids. They do not give a flying fuck about the wellbeing of children. If they did, they wouldn't be letting so many of them live in poverty.
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Aside from the frothing racism of these people, what is really grim about this is the idea that government are powerless to change culture. If your constituents think these things *they are wrong* and you need to explain why. It's not actually your job as an MP to rubber stamp fascism.
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 14/08/2025
I mean, if I was defending my inclusion in an award tailored for minority groups, I probably wouldn't begin by saying we should be allowed to discriminate against minority groups.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 11/08/2025
Mass revolt from queer authors in the UK after a major LGBTQ+ writing prize longlisted a self-proclaimed TERF. 11 authors and 2 judges have withdrawn from the Polari Prize. One of those withdrawals, that of June Thomas, is newly confirmed by our reporter, @evanurquhart.bsky.social. Read more here:
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Queer Authors Withdraw From Writing Prize En Masse Over Inclusion of Self-Proclaimed TERF — Assigned
A UK LGBTQ+ writing prize seems to be crumbling as the queer community protests the inclusion of an anti-trans writer on the long list. Trans prisoners in Georgia accuse the state of cruel and unusual...
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Tristan Oscar Smith 🦇🌈 @tristanoscars.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I know I should be supporting local pride but it doesn’t have any performers who aren’t white drag queens, won’t let under 18s attend without an adult, and (if what I’ve heard is correct) only pays performers who are famous enough while expecting the others to do it for free 🙃
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Rowan @scatterbones.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
one thing that really gets to me is the amount the guidance talks about preventing “alarm or distress” to cis service users, when not a single ounce of thought has gone into the amount of alarm and distress us trans people are experiencing
It read: “A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from a separate or single-sex service for their own biological sex might be to prevent alarm or distress for other service users.
“A trans man might be excluded from the women-only service if the service provider decides that, because he presents as a man, other service users could reasonably object to his presence, and it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim to exclude him”.
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 08/08/2025
I am so sick and tired of seeing MPs and the media shit themselves over refugees arriving in small boats over the channel. If your initial reaction to seeing these boats is anything other than “those poor bastards, I hope they make it across” then you have failed as a human being.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
So surprise surprise the moral panic was a lie, and the objection is actually to a trans person being in a public space, and having the temerity to have a job.
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Tristan Oscar Smith 🦇🌈 @tristanoscars.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I’ll go further and say if you write or say “unalive” when seriously discussing death, I think you are a black hole of a person who has TikTok clout brain and has nothing of value to say
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
It's an inherently bad idea to put age restrictions on arbitrary sections of the internet, but if they insist on doing it, putting the onus on individual websites to verify the ages of every UK-based visitor is clearly completely unworkable.
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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Fascism at home, genocide abroad, and yet most daily mundanities continue unhindered.
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Ríon_Ann🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺 @redjade.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The U.K. “online safety” act has had the consequence of censoring LGBT content and forums. This makes trans kids *less* safe. It means we can’t access any information about our community, healthcare or our lives without going through our parents. Together with Labour’s other policy of banning
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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
how about instead of tying access to care to "sex" in records you just record info about *people's needs* have a flag for cervical screenings! have a flag for mammograms! it's not fucking rocket science, is it?
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A fucking disgrace
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Rik Worth 👻 @rikworth.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Imagine narcing on delivery drivers. Some poor guy cycling through the rain because I’m too burnt out to cook a basic meal and I’m desperately looking for some little treat to get me to the end of the week. Yeah. He’s who I should be worried is ruining my life. FFS.
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Tristan Oscar Smith 🦇🌈 @tristanoscars.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I’m only 26 but teenagers today exist in a horrific panopticon and any form of socialising or entertainment is either demonised, defunded or so tightly controlled that it can’t be fun. And we wonder why they’re increasingly unable to act right.
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John Earle @skembear.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Video shows appalling police brutality toward anti-genocide 76yo Audrey White – SKWAWKBOX skwawkbox.org/2025/07/21/v...
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Video shows appalling police brutality toward anti-genocide 76yo Audrey White
Footage is shocking even for Starmer’s police state – but not surprising Skwawkbox reported on Sunday that legendary Liverpool activist Audrey White and three others had been arrested f…
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Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Labour government is more fascist than tory government, even tories never went this far
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
A man in Leeds was arrested for having this sign, which is just a print out of a page of Private Eye magazine. Courtesy of the Labour Party www.instagram.com/reel/DMTTMAk...
'PALESTINE ACTION'
EXPLAINED
Unacceptable
Palestine Action
Spraying military planes with paint
Acceptable
Palestine Action
Shooting Palestinians queueing for food
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Tristan Oscar Smith 🦇🌈 @tristanoscars.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Anyone else feel like Pride in 2025 is hollow and empty and just a chance for (primarily cis, and increasingly more heterosexual) audiences to either enjoy a rainbow themed family day out or watch RuPaul-inspired drag shows?
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
JUST VIBINGE YN THE DIGITALE REALME
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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 17/07/2025
OMFG, what a way of finally achieving 'no cops at Pride'
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Tristan Oscar Smith 🦇🌈 @tristanoscars.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The Online Safety Act is going to be another means of forcing trans children into conversion therapy via “safeguarding referrals”, isn’t it?
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mushy @mushbeast.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
my child
a digital painting of a night heron standing with "i'm about to crash the fuck out" in gothic pixel text beside them. it also has 2 stars on the top and bottom of the text
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🎀🥞🪴p̷a̷n̷c̷a̷k̷e̷ s̷y̷n̷d̷r̷o̷m̷e̷☣️🎀🍡❌ idiot doll of agony❌💫 ⚠️porn account⚠️ @pancakesyndrome.xyz · 07/07/2025
so to be clear, Microsoft is using a tool it's embedded into its operating system and many (all?) of its softwares to promote conversion therapy against trans kids, disguised to fool their parents into thinking it isn't purely anti-transition
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
As far as I know Rod Liddle hasn't been spoken to by plod yet, meanwhile the magazine itself has amplified his call for mass murder by throwing in a major UK city, and I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the city in question happens to be heavily associated with the LGBTQ+ community.
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wire mother @echo.northsky.social · 07/07/2025
sounds like they got the Home Office to design NHS procedures for trans kids
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Tristan Oscar Smith 🦇🌈 @tristanoscars.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Pride in 2025 has somehow managed to combine “Family Friendly™️ rainbow themed fair that must hide away anything too queer for the sake of the children” and “brought to you by fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race” in a way that’s honestly kind of exhausting.
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Tristan Oscar Smith 🦇🌈 @tristanoscars.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
A Sonic the Hedgehog meme, using the ‘I want shorter games […] and I’m not kidding’ meme template. He leans back saying “I want more immigration to the UK with safe routes to arrive by and a welfare state that supports them paid for through my taxes and I’m not kidding”
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
immigration is good, actually.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Stop travelling to America. It’s not safe & your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism If you’re American, stop going to Florida They built a concentration camp in 8 days They’ve opted to kidnap and detain thousands instead of housing the homeless, feeding the hungry & providing healthcare
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
New research publication! We've put together a five-year timeline of the descent of the EHRC from a equalities watchdog to campaigners for persecution. Read it here: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...
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What has the EHRC ever done for Trans people?* – TransActual
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
What if you were new to the UK and I told you about a party that: - Supports and arms the genocide of Palestinians - Says immigrants caused “incalculable damage” to the UK - Is rolling back the rights of trans people including toilet bans It would sound far right. The branding doesn’t change that.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
also just on a very basic level, the research described here has literally nothing to do with 'biological sex' and everything to do with social constructions of gender? the literal point of the paper was that it was the domestic treatment of girls vs. boys that led to girls having worse symptoms?
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Tristan Oscar Smith 🦇🌈 @tristanoscars.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
One easy trick to make sure you’re exempted from calls for violence against ICE/Reform/TERFs/the IDF/cops is to stop being part of that organisation. Meanwhile those who these groups target do not have that luxury.
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Tristan Oscar Smith 🦇🌈 @tristanoscars.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
My hottest but niche take on language around transness is that “transmacs” may sometimes be as a way to either include or centre non-binary people but it sometimes really seems like a way to degender trans men. Fortunately this is not a mainstream issue so doesn’t actually matter much, but still.
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