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@xanderbernhard.bsky.social
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Politics, cats, psychotherapy, queer stuff, horror movies, comics, plants, books, dogs, and anything else fun and ridiculous.He/him. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔻

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18h
“Stop accusing us of spying! We’ve been watching you!”
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This notion of bigoted beliefs being a protected characteristic like gender or race is just absolutely barmy. Those of us who’ve experienced genuine discrimination for who we are know there’s no comparison, and the political and legal collusion on this stuff is disastrous.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Comment on Reddit about this: "My mum tried to send a gift card to someone at the council who had helped her quit smoking. They turned it down because she wasn't allowed to accept gifts." And yet some MPs (and the authorities) think it's totally normal and fine to do this...
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!
(September 23, 2026 at 10:44am)
Fake opinions to argue over…
- Never turn left on a first date.
- Every kindergarten student should have an unpaid internship.
- The periodic table is too sexual.
- Bigfoot should be allowed to vote.
- Having a dream is the same as reading a book.
- You can wear a crop top to a funeral if the deceased person was hot when they died.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...
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xanderbernhard.bsky.social @xanderbernhard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Urgent: the government is soon to decide whether to give the green light to Rosebank, a move that would lock us into decades more climate-wrecking oil. @friends-earth.bsky.social tool helped me ask my MP to say no to new oil and gas – will you do the same? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/deman...
action.friendsoftheearth.uk
Demand an end to climate-wrecking fossil fuel projects
Take action The fight to stop new oil and gas is heating up. And it’s a fight we can’t afford to lose. After a summer of record-breaking heatwaves, climate breakdown is impossible to ignore. Yet Prime...
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If I was a small village in England I don't think I would want to become an international byword for racism
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Notice how, even tho far right figures are claiming to be Christian and attend church, there is no suggestion in media that it’s their religion, or vicars, or the Bible that has radicalised them. Neither is there any suggestion that every Christian has to apologise for them. FUNNY THAT INNIT.
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A group of trans and trans affirming therapists are offering short term therapy at very low cost to any patients in the Welsh trans community who are affected by the suspension of surgeries in the Welsh Gender Service. Please contact alistair@diversemind.co.uk
Announcement offering low-cost short-term therapy to Welsh Gender Service patients affected by suspended surgeries; asks affected patients to email alistair@diversemind.co.uk for support; header text on a pale blue background with a row of raised hands in transgender-flag colors at the top.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/09/2026
@ stephenkb.bsky.social hitting the nail on the head of course. "the Labour Party has now produced two governments whose response to acts of thuggery and intimidation is to reiterate that perhaps the thugs have a point" - as.ft.com/r/97d33f08-a...
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Labour’s muddled migration policy won’t stop thuggery
A government that can’t distinguish between ‘legitimate concerns’ and open racism is only making things worse
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's important to read coverage of what happened in Dover alongside watching footage like this and consider whether the way 'protests' are described accurately depict what took place. This is no ordinary protest.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
2) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Does this mean we will get a third Clacton by-election?
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xanderbernhard.bsky.social @xanderbernhard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Data centres are springing up everywhere, using massive amounts of energy and water. I’ve signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for a pause on new data centres until the government gets a grip on the situation. Will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/put...
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Stop data centres draining our precious resources
Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
i do think it reveals something (bad) about ex-PMs characters when they can’t countenance being in parliament without the big job
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 01/09/2026
This is the decision of a man who genuinely cares nothing for the Labour Party, or its supposed values. Self-interested and inept, to the very end.
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Keir Starmer to stand down as MP
Former PM says it is right time to leave Commons, which will trigger byelection in Holborn and St Pancras
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Alonso Duralde @aduralde.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
When I hit the "X" on your advertisement, the social contract says (or at least implies) that your ad will go away, not that you will open up a new window on my browser with more information about a product I do not want.
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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is climate breakdown. You have been failed by 40 years of oil industry lobbying andpoliticians and media who’ve ignored the terrifying reality of what is happening to the planet. The oil industry and their politicians and media stooges should be held accountable. This is just the beginning.
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 26/08/2026
Everyone loved Dolly Parton, but she loved everyone else first. When you treat people like you love them, they can really feel that.
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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton
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xanderbernhard.bsky.social @xanderbernhard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly was an icon, a diva, and a humanitarian. She modelled being a loving, caring person while staying totally true to herself. And she never lost her sense of humour. She will be so missed. Pic by my great pal Seena Shamsavari seenashamsavari.com
Multimedia painting of Dolly Parton by Seena Shamsavari
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/01/2024
Do I have this right
DAVID AND VIC BECKHAM MEME 

WE'LL NEED OIL AND GAS FOR DECADES
BE HONEST
WE'LL NEED SOME OIL AND GAS FOR DECADES
BE HONEST
I WANT TO SELL OIL AND GAS FOR DECADES
THANK YOU
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xanderbernhard.bsky.social @xanderbernhard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Are you worried about this too? 38d.gs/feka
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Stop these monster data centres before they wreck our neighbourhoods!
Are you worried about this too?
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The purpose of this is an attempt to position Philippson - and by extension Burnham - as “concerned”/“caring” about increasing prejudice and discrimination while simultaneously working hard to increase prejudice and discrimination against trans people. “We’re not really bigoted haters, honest…”
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xanderbernhard.bsky.social @xanderbernhard.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
‘…where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and wetlands have been restored have remained green and lush during the five heatwaves across the summer. In contrast, the surrounding countryside has become parched and brown.’ It’s like man is having a negative effect on the environment 🤔
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xanderbernhard.bsky.social @xanderbernhard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A massive plastic pellet spill is threatening North Sea wildlife 🌊 Coastal communities are stepping up, but we need action. Join us and ask @andyburnham.bsky.social to launch an emergency response & hold polluters accountable! #NurdleSpill #StopPollution action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tyn...
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Tell Andy Burnham: Save the North Sea from plastic pellet disaster
One of the UK's biggest spills of plastic pellets (or “nurdles”) is flooding the North East’s coastline. It could harm wildlife in the North Sea for decades. Thousands of volunteers – including Friend...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/08/2026
FOLKS - when we stop burning fossil fuels, oversizing agriculture and killing nature, the warming of Earth also stops worsening No floppy optimism here; no hollow appeal to hope. The laws of physics that created this problem also govern the fact we can choose to stop it.
Graph correlating cumulative CO2 emissions since 1850 with global warming to 2050, showing historical warming and colored projections for SSP1-1.9, SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5 with shaded uncertainty bands.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
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A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think the ultimate test of this is actually Boris Johnson. Boris *was fired from his first job* for making up stories, only to go on to be hired into a prestigious role at the Telegraph and spend years lying about the EU at Brussels. And I mean literally lying here; not bad punditry.
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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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xanderbernhard.bsky.social @xanderbernhard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Commission an immediate public inquiry to ensure we never see a tragic death like Dr Arday's again. goodlawproject.org/s/533647
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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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xanderbernhard.bsky.social @xanderbernhard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Tragically, Jason Arday has died after a vicious press campaign over the last few weeks. The Govt must urgently launch an inquiry into the rotten culture of the press, and any role it had in his death. Add your name now: hackedoff.org/campaign-actions/demand-an-inquiry-into-the-culture-of-the-press
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Demand an inquiry into the culture of the press
Jason Arday died after being relentlessly hounded by the press. Demand an inquiry into press culture now.
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Political Football @politicalfootball.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The media won't learn or reflect on anything because it was the perfect culture war story that they'd repeat again and again as soon as they get the chance.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
50 green groups write to Andy Burnham demanding he be clear that climate change is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth and others say "the British public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces"
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels
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Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues
Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it
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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The UK is a very normal and well-functioning state where if you have enough money you can destroy the rights of minorities by throwing endless lawsuits at the government until they do what you want
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xanderbernhard.bsky.social @xanderbernhard.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Have you watched Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy? I couldn't believe the extent of what factory chicken farms have been getting away with. Putting profits ahead of public health is unacceptable. It's a scandal, and the Government must step in and take action! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Big Chicken Choking our Rivers
Have you watched Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy? I couldn't believe the extent of what factory chicken farms have been getting away with. Putting profits ahead of public health is unacceptable. I...
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xanderbernhard.bsky.social @xanderbernhard.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’ve just responded to the government’s consultation by saying no to Heathrow’s climate-wrecking third runway. Will you join me and tell the government you oppose expansion too? @friends-earth.bsky.social action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/say-n...
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Stop Heathrow's climate-wrecking third runway
Take action We're in a climate crisis, with out-of-control wildfires in the UK, France and Spain and an ongoing battle to clean up the air in our cities. So why is Andy Burnham's government backing pl...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Imagine owning a cafe and trying to understand what you are being asked to do here. It's simply not possible.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There's been a real failure on the part of progressive leaders this summer to link the weather and Net Zero in the public mind. Most people get it, but the consensus is crumbling and it would be useful to reinforce it.
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