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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I know I said "no longer using this account" but I'll make an exception for this.

No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Closing this account. I am safe but I have concerns about someone (it's not my abusive ex). Anyone who knows me has other means of contacting me, so use those.

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Paul Oldham @tallpaul.org · 04/06/2026

As of lunchtime today this EDM has now been signed by 89 MPs, including my own @grahamleadbitter.bsky.social so thank you for him for doing that. But we've still got another five hundred plus to get on board so contact your MP today.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Point is: this was never a sincere conversation to begin with, but sincere people keep falling for the talking points, and we need to stop treating the weaponisation of survivors' trauma as if it were a remotely good faith argument, rather than a cynical attack on trans people. 10/10

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

All they do is repeat the lie that a trauma reaction is grounds to exclude an entire demographic from public life, and we need to be challenging that idea when it arises, because it is the shorthand for so many other lies about how our society works or should work. 9/-

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

They won't fight to reform our misogynist family courts or get the paedophile-created pseudoscience of "parental alienation" out of custody decision-making. They won't tell you how financial services enable our economic abuse, or that we need LGBTQIA- and disability-inclusive DV services. 8/-

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Whereas the reality is that abuse orgs that have been co-opted to serve the right's aims are happy to leave trans survivors in the street, and the people shouting loudest about toilets and changing rooms have little to say about the big fights survivors are in. 7/-

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

But of course the right (including those who call themselves feminists but have been only too eager to enable a Christofascist power base in the UK on a "better to rule in hell" basis) affect to believe that "But my trauma!" is a rhetorically unassailable point in our society. 🤔 6/

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Whereas when you actually look at the discussions happening among trauma survivors of all genders, and in mental health and disability spaces, the idea of conflicting support needs is being discussed with far more depth and nuance, however imperfectly. 5/-

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The right's way of thinking these days is: "It's all trauma this and snowflake that and trigger warnings everywhere; you can get anything you want by invoking trauma!" and I'm surprised this rhetorical basis for "a [cis] woman could be traumatised" isn't remarked on more. 4/-

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It's a very manipulative attempt to pit what is often one group of survivors (trans people frequently being targets of GBV and domestic abuse) against another in the public sympathy stakes, and relies on a false assumption that the world drops everything to respond to someone being triggered. 3/-

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It has made me increasingly angry to watch people treat "but someone could be triggered by a trans woman" being weaponised when most people having these conversations are not in the least bit interested in the actual work that is being done in the survivor sphere. 2/-

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The idea we must exclude trans women from women's spaces Because A Survivor's Trauma Could Be Triggered is a massive fucking strawman, not just because trauma responses are a bad basis for legislation, but because it relies on the ignoring of survivors' actual collective voice and priorities. 1/-

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The Newromancer @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

“Some women might not be comfortable sharing spaces with trans women!” We settled the question of whether a majority’s personal feelings or beliefs should inhibit a minority’s rights when equality laws were introduced. And the answer is: no, that doesn’t get to happen. They have to deal with it

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/06/2026

happy pride

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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

On Saturday evening as 10,000 music fans moved around the city - PSNI and Home Office Border Enforcement were witnessed waiting to snatch unsuspecting people based on racial profiling, in Grand Central Station, Belfast. This is what a hard border on our supposedly 'shared island' looks like.

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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 16/05/2026

Ahead of the @greenpartyni.org's annual conference today, Mal O'Hara has spoken about growing up gay in Belfast, how a trip to an IRA bombing site ‘altered’ his politics, and the type of union he could ‘buy into’ in the event of a border poll www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Mal O’Hara on how trip to IRA bombing site ‘altered’ his politics... and type of union he could ‘buy into’ in border poll

The party’s NI leader talks about growing up gay, finding freedom in England, the rise of Zack Polanski, and where he stands on a border poll

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Women Help Women is a global telehealth service that supports self-managed abortion by providing abortion pills, mailed in discreet packaging to avoid theft by government operatives, and information about how to use them: womenhelp.org/en/ Please retweet profusely.

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WHW: abortion and contraceptives — Women Help Women

Women Help Women: connecting the personal experience of swallowing a pill to global reproductive rights activism

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

And despite how little the health service here gets relative to what it needs, we have so many staff and volunteers working so, so hard - I've seen the effects of that in several friends' lives these past few years. And Cancer Champions does amazing work too: www.rainbow-project.org/cancerchampi...

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Cancer Champions - The Rainbow Project

Our Cancer Champions pilot project is supported Macmillan Cancer Support to improve health outcomes for LGBTQIA+ people in Northern Ireland.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Sometimes you see a story like this, that ought to cut through all the bigoted arseholery here that masquerades as doing politics. While many of our leaders are doing politics of division, they're not addressing life-or-death problems like that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Cancer: Record number of cases diagnosed in NI

Cancer Research UK says tackling waiting lists must be a priority for the Northern Ireland Executive.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I read that only a third of cancer patients in NI start treatment within 62 days of a GP red flag (target: 95%). In the rest of the UK it's two thirds. And that new cancer jab's not here yet. NI really is a second-class part of the UK and that should never happen with fucking cancer of all things.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

What we see here is something very common: that people treated by the media - inc the BBC - as neutral, dispassionate and reliable are actually deeply embedded in capitalism and all its myths. They are as partisan as anyone else. They sound neutral because what they say aligns with "common sense".

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jeninbelfast.bsky.social @jeninbelfast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A few weeks ago Sinclair stood with self proclaimed neo Nazis in Bristol who waved the Union flag while chanting HH and throwing Nazi salutes. A few days later he went on to meet with Ayran Front in secret and used his platform to promote their group. Is that the "culture" people don't like?

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jeninbelfast.bsky.social @jeninbelfast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Today, Sinclair posted a video of himself harassing a BBC videographer capturing footage of the graffiti which appeared in east Belfast after Union flags were taken down. According to him the flags were taken down because migrants who are being "brought" here don't like "our culture".

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 13/03/2026

Excellent history of trans healthcare, while I didn't go through the UK system, there are echoes of what I experienced at the time. Warning for jumpscare appearance of John Randell,a name that will send shivers down the spine of any trans person of a certain age

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

So this👇 A narrative has been made that trans people, particularly trans women, are ‘dangerous’ and need to be restricted from taking part in society. But this ‘crusade’ to remove trans people will not change the risks women face. If anything, it gives an excuse to control women even more.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

the state of israel, like apartheid south africa, like the jim crow south, like nazi germany, has determined that crimes against a certain type of person, no matter how heinous, aren't crimes because the victims are not people. there is no "but them first" defense of israel that can stand up to it

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I know, I keep promising to sort out a new account and not doing it. Life is a succession of chaoses small and large.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I'm always saying that people in Great Britain need to pay more attention to NI for exactly this reason: sooner or later our problems always become your problems, either in the imitative sense (the Ulsterisation of Britain), or e.g. that you literally have Arlene "cash for ash" Foster in the Lords.

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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This is framed as a normal thing to say, and her credibility on financial matters simply assumed (even though her time in government saddled us with RHI debt), but saying "we need to tax the rich more" is explicitly framed as extremist, absurd, not serious.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Also this is Lansdowne Care Home and when she went in their staff didn't even believe me when I warned them about her cognitive decline, so for god's sake be careful if you have a loved one in there or considering it as an option.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Update: turns out there isn't a specific phone number for East Belfast carers support so have had to ring the main carer service phone number, leave a message and hope for the best.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

And when I say anyone I specifically mean anyone in NI who has some kind of experience with this stuff; social care is totally different here than in other parts of the UK. Don't DM as I cannot access my DMs on here.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I'm about to call East Belfast Carer Support (have not even had my Carer's Assessment yet; they were trying to work out who it should be done by; your own SW cannot do it but Mum was wrongly put in rehab in North instead of East Belfast so that complicates things) but if anyone has ideas email me.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

They dropped this bombshell on a day when my social worker is off and calling the duty social worker for my SW team seems out because the whole point is it needs to be someone that knows me advocating for me.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

They are ignoring info about Mum, about me as presumed carer (she would have care package 4x a day, but Mum has obvious but so far not formally diagnosed dementia, and does not reliably use her walker so needs more supervision, and I can't move in with her), and about the safety of the flat itself.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Not quite the innkeeper, but there's a really moving poem, The Innkeeper's Wife by Clive Sansom, that has haunted me for years. It's such a beautiful little study of everyday lives and griefs and being in proximity to the momentous, unknowingly. fromtroublesofthisworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/t...

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The Innkeeper’s Wife by Clive Henry Sansom

I love this byre. Shadows are kindly here. The light is flecked with travelling stars of dust, So quiet it seems after the inn-clamour, Scraping of fiddles and the stamping feet. Only the cows, eac…

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

For people who've added me on Dreamwidth: I posted an update.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

No worries - I see you and have added you back! 💜

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Hey folks, I often do posts calling for indie developers to link me their games so I can signal boost them. Today I want to do something similar for all trans creatives. If you are a trans game dev, artist, writer, streamer or YouTuber, reply here with a link to your work. Only one rule: no GenAI.💜

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Cool, have a good weekend and we'll speak soon! 💜

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I don't suggest that all of our MPs are venal, self-serving people who don't care. Some are better. But generations of gravy train-riders in NI have taught their successors how to balance in that sweet spot where a mask of caring is just good enough to fool enough of the people, enough of the time.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

But the other reason is that not everyone in Northern Ireland is poor and deprived. Some of us - i.e. the small number who are MPs - are living vastly more comfortable lives than everyone else, and many have an eye on becoming even moreso one day, via a peerage. They'll never rock that boat.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Everyone in Northern Ireland deserves better than the leaders we've got. One reason they don't fight Westminster more effectively on things like the inadequacy of the block grant is that it suits them for large numbers of people here to live in poverty and deprivation. It's a divide and rule tool.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Hey, I've owed you a message since circa my birthday - things really fell apart that week and then chaos descended due to caring responsibilities, but I would still like to do a Zoom hang!

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I'd meant to attend the Disabled People's Parliament thing at Stormont tomorrow, but my mental health has been so bad lately that I've got limited ability to safely engage with public policy from a disability perspective. The COVID inquiry continues to show how little we matter to leaders; end of.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Tonight I am here mainly to scream about this. They are/always were a load of sectarian cunts who make every decision on basis of orange vs. green, though Sinn Fein noticably forget their sectarian loyalties when fucking over trans people because Keir told them to. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Covid decision-making in NI was 'chaotic', says inquiry

The criticisms were contained in the UK Covid-19 Inquiry's second report, which examined government decision-making at the time.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I wanted to set up new accounts, but then life took multiple very bad turns (as in, three fifths of my family have either been in hospital recently or, in my case, are waiting for a bed) so at this point having inadvertently doxxed myself is the least of my worries.

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Weird, now both posts show the new one. This fucking website is so janky. 3/

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