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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The NHS is already one of the biggest perpetrators of anti-trans violence in the UK. This new guidance, which refers to trans people using slurs, demands that we be segregated and abused. I’ve said it before: senior NHS managers must be sacked and punished for what they’ve done to us.
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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manuclearb0mb.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Essential @ahjohnson.bsky.social here; I totally forgot how all the media lost their shit when Trump raided John Bolton which stands in severe contrast to their silence regarding Ilhan Omar theintercept.com/2026/10/15/i...
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Trump Is Targeting Ilhan Omar. Where’s the Elite Media Outrage?
Unlike the raid on John Bolton, which was roundly condemned by corporate media, NYT, Washington Post, and WSJ are silent on Trump’s overstep with Omar.
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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 12/10/2026
If you're a black person accused of academic fraud, the british press and political elite will harass you until you kill yourself. If you're a racism denialist accused of sexual crimes against children, the british press and political elite will *immediately* deploy the wall of silence.
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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Chad @kitation.co.uk · 11/10/2026
About 10ish years ago I was co-running an event to teach coding to women and nonbinary people and the local BBC station interviewed me to help advertise it. It was prerecorded. Every mention of nonbinary was edited out.
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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt
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Pyke Redrock @pykeredrock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gavin Newsom, who allowed this merger to go forward, was credibly alleged of interfering in the state’s lawsuit against Activision / Kotick for sexual discrimination—alleged interference for which his former Chief of Staff is now facing criminal charges over. Just putting that on the table.
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What a Duck @whataduck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
TAS Any%
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What a Duck @whataduck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Using an autoclicker to play Unfair Flips? A victimless crime. The more ethical way, even.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's a handy guide. If the media are saying a politician is doing socialism, they're not doing socialism. If a politician is doing socialism, the media is telling you they're doing islamic terrorism, destroying western civilization, turning your kids gay and in league with china.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Kor Bosch @korbosch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sometimes when you see an image you have an irrepressible immediate association.
Het spel "Wie is het" met alleen vrijwel identieke portretten van clerici, in dit geval de martelaren van Gorcum.
The game "guess who" but with only near-identical portraits of clergymen, in this case the "Gorcum martyrs".
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jess @jessfrom.online · 24/09/2026
 “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
― William Gibson, Count Zero
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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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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
*horrific racist fascist blackshirt actions* UK gov official: first of all, they are correct in their beliefs, however they should trust us to enact the violence and racism, can’t they see how good we are at it Burnham on tiktok : hey kids check out this barm! What am i like eyy up
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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Piddington getting a "we're listening and you have valid concerns" from Nandy is yet another reminder Labour are a far right party. Grannies and vicars holding anti-genocide signs? Terrorism. A village doing far right sedition? Support and indulgence.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Holy shit, I am pleasantly surprised by the news for once? For friends abroad, that’s the UK’s national federation of unions. It’s about time the beast awakened.
leftfootforward.org
TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people
Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is also a genocide btw
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 11/09/2026
It’s been 53 years since the US backed military coup of Allende’s government in Chile. A democratically elected socialist was attacked. the fascist Pinochet took power and then tortured, arrested and killed socialists and teachers and labor leaders around the country. youtu.be/IZVWOWA2Hpk?...
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Allende's Last Words: The First 9/11
YouTube video by PlasticPills
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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
‼️Statement RE my suspension from the Greens. I was suspended for the 'crime' of being a trans woman who ran for a women's place. The "media interest" in my gender was cited as the sole reason for my suspension.
I can confirm that I have indeed been suspended from the Green Party. The only reason given for my immediate suspension is that I allegedly ‘brought the party into disrepute’ by choosing to run for a reserved female space on Green Party Council as a trans woman. In the Greens, suspensions are not a guilty verdict. I was not found guilty of breaking any rules whatsoever. The only actual disciplinary allegations against me are that I allegedly was rude to people on the internet, and that I ‘gossiped’. I was not suspended for any of this.

The only reason given for my IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION was: "EF’s recent election to GPC and the accompanying media interest”. I was suspended just 8 days after being elected, in a secret group chat discussion which included just 13 of the 36 members of GPC. My critics submitted 100 pages of transphobic articles as ‘evidence’, while I was banned from submitting anything in my defence and was not allowed to see the charges. There was no investigation.Because I have not been found guilty of any disciplinary offences whatsoever, the only ‘appeal’ process for suspension involves asking Green Party Council to reverse their decision. This is something I have to do, so please do not email or harass any Council members. That is not going to help anybody, and I strongly discourage anyone from contacting GPC members individually. I do not want you to do that.

Suspension decisions can be reversed if GPC considers that there are ‘mitigating’ circumstances. This can include representations from other party members, submitted as part of the official process.

I have therefore set up an online form where fellow Green members can submit statements expressing support for me and defending me. Please put your name and local party so it is accepted by GPC.

It is my hope that with enough attention and support, GPC will hold a full meeting with a large turnout of all GPC members (rather than a small minority) that will overturn my suspension swiftly.
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
No arrests for this by the way
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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
To confirm - they don't have evidence that even 1 person was referred inappropriately - they don't have evidence that even 1 person underwent surgery inappropriately - they don't have any evidence of safety concerns - healthcare for trans people has been completely banned until further notice
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Stefscribbles @stefscribbles.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
pigeons be like
a comic about pigeons
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The UK isn’t a dispassionate arbiter of justice in prosecuting anti-genocide activists. It has been aggressively colluding in Israeli crimes. That huge conflict of interest is the elephant in the room. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the...
jonathancook.substack.com
Listen: The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs the trials of genocide opponents
Read by Matthew Alford
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Eskart(Commissions open!!!) @eskart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Americans will say things like "We must starve Cuba to death with our embargo. Do not let China rescue them with food and energy" and still think people around the world hate them for their freedoms.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This seems both factually incorrect and disrespectful to say about her given everything she did and when she did it but what you need to remember is that CNN wants you to know it’s good to like her, which you’re not supposed to do if she had strong convictions
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 26/08/2026
The reason why people think Dolly was “politically neutral” is because they don’t understand being political as a series of actions born of commitment to an idea. Being political as defined by the pundit class is to be in front of a microphone delivering sound bytes, it’s something to be devoured
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onion person @junlper.beer · 23/08/2026
nathan cofnas, the man who got jason arday killed, is an explicit white nationalist and race realist who has been cited endlessly in aporia, a propaganda network funded by the human diversity fund, rebranded from the pioneer fund started in the 1930s as an explicit nazi project
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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 21/08/2026
No wonder Labour wants more drilling in the North Sea.
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John Duncan @johntheduncan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
NEW VIDEO!!! I have been getting more and more annoyed at Burnham's cutsey ordinary bloke cosplay so i decided to look at how his re-industrialisation strategy just makes him a merchant of death within global US hegemony. Manchesterism is a death machine! (Link below)
Burnham on a black background with missiles headed towards him. Text reads "manchesterism a death machine"
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Every time the press lads disastrously and culpably fuck up, usually with malice of forethought. Every time, without fail.
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social
A great example of what always happens when the lads are asked to consider their own deep, immediately obvious guilt: like the Iraq War or austerity or Brexit, it turns out it was everybody's fault. And if it's everybody's fault, nobody is really to blame
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Presenter: [The argument was put that DEI advanced people not on merit] Woolley: "There are 975 Professors at Cambridge. How many do you think are black? Paddy O'Connell: "Its a fair question you're asking me. So I am going to say 30%" Woolley: "I tell you: less than half a per cent"
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
You don't hate the British press enough.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A mum in Gaza whose son was disappeared by Israel found out her son is alive after IDF soldiers shared a video posing and having fun in front of him You can’t fix this fascist society with a different PM www.instagram.com/reel/Dbgwd47...
The mum at the top. At the bottom, two IDF soldiers mocking the blindfolded Palestinian
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Michael Pollak @mdpollak.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Every "moderate" group is backed by billionaires, corps & Gulf countries. How do they get the label "moderates?" "Status quo" with heavy irony might be appropriate: the powers who rule under current system who want to stay Usual good piece by @ahjohnson.bsky.social therealnews.com/media-electa...
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The media’s go-to ‘electability’ experts are funded by Wall St., Amazon, and health insurance giants
The media is propping up “centrist” analysts warning voters that the progressive and democratic socialist candidates winning elections are “unelectable.” But they’re not disclosing that those analysts...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
You deal with global warming. Lebanon deals with global warming while having Israel as its neighbour.
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Kay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If you show the demons you are willing to suspend your critical thinking enough to see one thing as a social contagion, they'll try to convince you everything is. There are no real problems, everything is hysteria. The people talking about the problems ARE the problem! If we get rid of them? Peace.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is actually a long standing minor school of Tory weirdness: austerity denialism. Basically noticing that cutting spending to essential services doesn't actually reduce overall government spending, and saying "see, there was no austerity because it didn't work!"
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Sometimes I think about this post and it makes me laugh and laugh and laugh
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Just a general FYI: I get that the CIA and
FBI did some shady and crappy things in the 50s-80s. But if you are using those examples as referents for their (legal) powers *now,* you are showing your ignorance of some major constraints that were placed on them by Congress*
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 26/10/2025
It's a lovely sunny day! If you're out for a walk, please take some photos of memorial benches and add them to openbenches.org We're *very* close to thirty-nine *thousand* benches mapped 😃
Map of Europe showing locations of memorial benches.
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Curse of the Libby Dead @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Just seen this on insta and have submitted a listing for our bar openlavs.com
opcn

WHAT IS OPEN LAVS?

mapping out every unisex loo in the UK

A free, community-built map of gender- inclusive toilets across the UK. A sister project to FiveforFive.
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Every far-right lobby group, every party and every billionaire will have seen Amnesty fold to the GCs and will be rubbing their hands.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/07/2026
Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
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An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026
Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.
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What a Duck @whataduck.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Comic: how rivierkreeften proliferate: (see: rode Amerikaanse rivierkreeft, geknobbelde Amerikaanse rivierkreeft, Gevlekte Amerikaanse rivierkreeft)
Panel 1: situation: there are 7 competing invasieve rivierkreeften 
Panel 2: speaker 1: 7?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal rivierkreeft that covers everyone's use cases. Speaker 2: Yeah!
Panel 3: soon: situation: (screenshot from NOS showing new rivierkreeft) en dat is acht: wéér een nieuwe invasieve rivierkreeft in Nederland
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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Reminder that if Hamas actually bombed a synagogue in Israel, it would lead the news for multiple days. Israel would demand (and receive) billions more dollars in US tax support in response. But it's just the IDF. Move on with your day
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Kay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is extremely bad even for the UK. Even if this gets dropped (which if anything still even remotely functions in our legal system it will), this is sheer intimidation against prospective lawyers deciding whether or not to take jobs defending people being politically persecuted in this country.
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