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Wullie L

@wullie-l.bsky.social
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He/him. Scot living in the East of England. Maths, computing, cycling, science, environmental stuff.

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ticket's bought for tonight's town hall pop up cinema screening of Murnau's Nosferatu, with live cello score. If I was a vampire, newly moved into the area, I'd harvest fresh, but healthy aged, blood by pretending to host a pop up cinema screening of Murnau's Nosferatu, with live cello score.
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,
The Tories said the reduced subsistence allowance would be loaded onto pre-paid card that would not allow cash withdrawals, and would "prevent spending" on alcohol, cigarettes, or gambling.
The party is yet to detail how its proposal would work, but shadow welfare secretary Helen Whately said it would be "a version" of the pre-paid Aspen card issued to asylum seekers living in government-funded accommodation.
These cards cannot be used to make contactless, telephone or internet payments, whilst asylum seekers whose applications have failed cannot withdraw cash.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We have masked militias closing down ports while the press denounces the useless disabled scroungers. Tell me, if you don't think this is fascism, what is it?
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@geoffmcgivern.bsky.social @gmcgiv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Pallonate in Faccia @pallonateinfaccia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🇵🇸 This photograph of a football match amidst the rubble of #Gaza was withdrawn from the Deauville Sport Images Festival exhibition in France following pressure from pro-Israel activists. 👇
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 28/07/2026
"we can't go to universal studios because JK Rowling hates trans people and uses all her money to try to kill them" sounds fuckin' insane, AND YET IT IS REALITY.
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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 10/07/2026
This billboard was spotted in Tennessee. It would be careless of you to post the link to their website on your socials where MAGA folks might happen to see it. You wouldn't want them clicking upon ways that may help them break free. It wouldn't be patriotic to speak against DJT. leavingmaga.org
White billboard with black lettering as seen in Memphis TN
It reads:
Having doubts? You are not alone. 
https://leavingmaga.org/
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If you are in UK & care about LGBTQ ppl, please contact your MP to challenge the insane & unfair guidance on trans ppl accessing everyday places. The guidance breaches human rights law. Every contact helps & this call out has gotten over 50 MPs to sign up. Please help! [MP contacts attached below]
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This strikes me as pretty bad
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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Detained people without lawyers are only given a few days' notice of the intention to send them to France. In this time they need to find a lawyer, who will then need to gather evidence and consider whether there is a claim. Of course court applications are being made only shortly before removal.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We’re peacefully protesting for our neighbors. What does ICE do? Pick us up and throw us on the ground. No arrest, no identification, no process.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I’m officially scared. Because of this ONE tweet being afraid of potential reverberations of right wing political violence from this — something many others have said — I’m now the first result on a website called “charliesmurderers.” This is putting me in genuine danger. What the fuck do I do
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Researchers at Oxford University are recruiting caregivers of LGBT+ youth for a study on stigma & family relationships. It is an online survey that takes 20-30 minutes, and all answers are anonymised. Please visit : psychiatryoxford.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #TransResearch #LGBTQResearch
The poster reads: "We need you! Do you care for a young person who identifies as gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, transgender or non-binary? We are interested in understanding possible experiences of stigma that caregivers of LGBTQ+ young people may go through, and their relationship with their young person. Requirements: To take part you must:
Be a parent or caregiver of someone under 18 years identifying as LGBTQIA+,
Be willing to share your experiences and help us contribute to research,
Have 20 minutes to complete an online questionnaire 
Be based in the UK.
All responses will be anonymised. 
For more information contact: emily.morley@hmc.ox.ac.uk
To take part in the survey, scan the QR code or click this link: ttps://psychiatryoxford.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eQaJ0En1EJtNxAi"
The poster has the University of Oxford logo and a QR code. The footer of the poster reads "Caregiver Associative stigma and relationship to acceptance of child gender identity V1.0, May 2025"
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
When I was announced as the lead in a Doctor Who spinoff in 2023 Graham Linehan tweeted about me for TWO DAYS, tagging the BBC and others to say that I am pro-child abuse and they shouldn't work with me.
newspaper article about glinner. Headline is "I was treated like a terrorist for my tweets, says Linehan"
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I wrote to M&S about the stupid lingerie department story - confirms nobody offered a bra fitting to a teenage girl. The Telegraph and JK can (always) do one.
Screenshot of an email: Hi Rachel,
 
Thank you for contacting us about the article you’ve seen.
 
We want our stores to be inclusive and welcoming places for our colleagues and customers. We have written to this customer and explained that our colleagues typically work across all departments in our stores and customers can always ask to speak to the colleague they feel most comfortable with.
 
We also explained that our colleague was asking a customer if they needed help; they were not working on bra fit or offering this.
 
Thank you again for getting in touch.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/07/2025
Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go! Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.” Ahem. *takes a sip of water*
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🌊 DudeTheyreOnToMe 24:7🌊 @dancinginthestreet.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Remember: if you're on lithium, hot weather and dehydration can change the blood levels. If you know someone on lithium, check on them. Also, if you happen to be bipolar, consistent bright sunlight may trigger a hypomanic or manic episode. Basically, check on each other and support as necessary.
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Dr Caz 🌳🇪🇺 🇺🇦🔸 @drcj.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I don’t condone calls for violence, but there’s something quite disturbing about the juxtaposition of these headlines. How about launching a criminal investigation into the killing of civilians in Gaza, and focusing less on words than actions?
2 BBC headlines:
Police launch criminal investigation into Bob Vylan and Kneecap Glastonbury sets
And 
Israeli strike on Gaza seafront case kills at least 20 Palestinians, witnesses and rescuers say (why both with this last bit, unless to imply that perhaps it’s not true?)
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A bunch of lawyers and polis sat around and discussed the logistics of how to thoroughly dehumanise trans women even more and came up with "Wan polis fur breests and another yin fur boabies."
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 25/06/2025
A meme of US Vice President JD Vance depicted as a baby was held up in the Dáil today by Labour leader Ivana Bacik. jrnl.ie/6743403t
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Ivana Bacik holds up meme of bald baby JD Vance in the Dáil
Bacik said the meme was “amusing” and that the US clampdown on visa’s is “authoritarian”.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 24/06/2025
From when I recovered from surgery until the UK's Supreme Court ruling - about 5 years - I had this amazing period in my life where I really felt free. I dunno how else to describe it. I still had the stress, horror and fear of fighting for trans rights and the grim stuff GCs subjected me to, but...
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.
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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 12/06/2025
Brody King shared a post about what is happening in LA right now on Instagram. #AEW 🤼
Let me be clear

What’s happening in Los Angeles right now is not only morally reprehensible—it’s legally indefensible. This is a sanctuary city, a designation that was democratically voted on and enacted into law by the residents of this city—not by political opportunists grandstanding from a golf course in Florida.

Let’s be clear: being undocumented in the United States is not a criminal offense. It is a civil violation. That means it holds the same legal weight as running a stop sign on a bicycle, setting off a firework after a drink, or selling unlicensed fan merch on Etsy. It is subject to civil penalties—typically a fine—not imprisonment, not detention, and certainly not extrajudicial abduction.

Dragging someone off the street at gunpoint, without a warrant or due process, and forcing them into an unmarked vehicle operated by armed, plainclothed agents is not law enforcement—it is armed kidnapping. And armed kidnapping is a felony—a real one.

So if you’re going to obsess over who is “illegal,” start by looking at the heavily armed individuals violating constitutional protections under the guise of enforcing the law. Because what they’re doing is criminal, not the people they’re targeting.

@josecorella
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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 12/06/2025
We have lost all contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, communications have been cut off. This morning, for the first time in months, we did not receive their morning messages to say, "good morning" and "we are fine/alive". We anxiously await to hear from our colleagues.
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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy".
~ Connor Simon,
Restaurant owner in PA
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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
🚘 FREE DRIVING LESSONS FOR REFUGEES?! If you've seen those headlines and felt a twinge of outrage, you're not alone. But let's take a closer look at who's actually getting these lessons and why. 🧵 1/16
A series of headlines about refugees and benefit claimants getting free driving lessons
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 22/04/2025
My gender recognition certificate application was delayed because the panel wanted confirmation that I'd been using the ladies toilets for two years. You'd think the equalities minister would be familiar with the GRA and the GRC process.
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Renewable hope 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱☮️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @stringofnumbers.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Trump is demonstrating exactly why the British right want out of the ECHR. Take a good look everyone, that’s what they want to do here
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Senator Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov · 17/04/2025
Let’s talk about Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 17/04/2025
I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.
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I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. BRING HIM HOME! Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador. SMART General President…
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Tell your mates about #BrokenVeil. My instagram ads manager thingy has decided to block my account... Fun. So I'm having a bit of trouble getting the promo videos out past Meta's relentless content clamps. We're down to word-of-mouth for a bit while we get the last two eps out... SPREAD THE WORD.
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
She appears to be on her way home, which is good news, but everyone considering travelling to the US should be aware such things are happening. bleedingcool.com/comics/three...
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After Three Weeks Of US Detention, R.E. Burke Is Flown Back To Britain
After three weeks of detention in the USA, British tourist and comic book creator R.E. Burke - or Becky Burke - is being flown back home
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 15/02/2025
Donald Trump says "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law" so, err, that's a green light to plan your insurrection I guess.
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