Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Can we take just a few seconds to acknowledge the birth of a new classic meme 211359380
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I don't really know what to say about the fact HM Treasury can't seem to get its head around the fact that heat pump grants are industrial policy not household subsidy. It doesn't signal great depth of policy thinking. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comMinisters preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spendingExclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say 1420969
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦A Bear @helloiamabear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Remember when we queer folks were fighting for marriage equality, how we were told that "You can marry someone of the opposite sex too!" as if that were equality? Yeah, bigotry is uncreative. 095
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Anyone surprised by the mainstreaming of anti-abortion activists in our political culture has simply not been paying attention to the anti-trans movement, their financial backers, and the methods they use to attempt to legitimise themselves. It’s a complete anti-bodily autonomy movement. 03213
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026We cannot phathom how bad the Kate Forbes-Kevin McKenna op-eds on this will be 0338
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The historiography of this will be interesting because the Russian war against the west almost certainly started either in 2008 or 2014, whereas the West took until 2022 to get into gear. And we're not in a shooting war yet. 39222
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Obvious... but great that ex military people with credibility are pointing it out, so that voters can take notice 6467158
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026In case it’s not obvious, this is a setup so he can blame Ukraine for breaking a non-existent ceasefire they never agreed to as a pretext for more pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine actions. 717664
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026When I broke my knee playing my bass guitar I was rushed to hospital for immediate surgery. I kept asking the surgeon what was going on until he finally snapped and asked me why I was asking so many questions. So I told him: "Because you're operating on a need-to-know bassist." 108812
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read. 10585891340
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I’m always surprised to find that my hatred of Trump can rise to new levels. 2566992
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026One of the nice things about Celebrity Traitors is how easily and without fuss absolutely everyone uses Bella Ramsey’s they/them pronouns. See how easy it is not to be an asshole? 1051174
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Given students I’ve been supporting have been forced to turn to private providers (which the Church pays for) because the waiting lists are so insane, the system failure are already here *and it’s not the patients’ fault* 37219
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Managed to get the #BBC to admit that it made a serious error in its reporting about trans healthcare, when in *two separate articles*, it misquoted NWJCC to claim patients of the Welsh Gender Service were referred inappropriately. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #BBCBias 1321654
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I don't want to admit to how long it took me not to see this as a photo of a giant head on the tarmac 1935843
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”. 301149473
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 09/10/2026When Labour descended into transphobia I felt no pleasure whatsoever. In fact I felt horror and fear for what it meant for me and life. When people take partisan glee in that sort of thing in a totally hypocrital way it’s quite a strong signal about the way those people think. 2382
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 09/10/2026One more thing to get off my chest- the refusal was on a judgement call on whether an absence during the pandemic was ‘valid’ Lawyer told us that in the last couple of years case workers have become a lot more likely to refuse such applications. In other words, the refusal was Labour Party policy. 0305
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Rob 🏳️🌈 @rotster.net · 09/10/2026Assuming that by ‘pass’ they mean ‘C or above’ - or whatever the modern equivalent is - I can think of several people I know with PhDs who would have been excluded by this. Our GCSEs do not define us or our ability to learn or our ability to contribute. 261
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026overheard in trongate: "oil rigs gie me the boak". there's your new election motto, SGP 1499
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I knew the ECB were also going with an animal theme but I had no idea that the reverse were going to be EU buildings and one of them being European Court of Auditors is the funniest parody of how the EU works. The Mail would have rejected it as a joke in a Richard Littlejohn column. 4181
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown. 12626274
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Lord Reith would have gutted Dave with a spoon. 411518
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦GT @granitetide.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the common belief that so-called "back office" roles in the public sector are unnecessary is predicated on an understanding of the world of work that's no deeper than "when mummy hides her face she isn't actually there anymore" 327264
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026[Gives up writing satirical fiction] 2559
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Handy Devine 🇵🇸🏴 @almightybob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hemingway eat your heart out 253138762
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026my condolences to gillian mackay, who i genuinely like, for the critical thinking capacity of her co-leader 1111
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Ross Greer thing is frustrating. When you’re in a burning house you run out of the burning house, you don’t say something principled and true about the cause of the fire. 1131
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There are debates about names that are useful - apartheid and genocide for example. They inform us and make us see the world more clearly. The debate about what Zionism is does precisely the opposite. 191
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The problem is, you can't really say "we condemn this thing" and then only explain in the small print that you are using one particular definition of "this thing" and very specifically not any other definitions, even though a lot of other people use those definitions and will react accordingly. 313722
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 05/10/2026GPEW drags itself out from under a bigotry crisis that resulted in the Scottish Greens cutting ties with them. Within a year simply yeets itself off a cliff into the European Greens as a whole condemning them. 2277
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦thepig993 @thepig993.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I love it when Americans who are not football fans have opinions on the sport because it is either this or "abolish offside it's too hard to score a goal" 2173
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026the continued crankery of the English left-of-Labour flank is also, let's be quite real here, downstream of the fact that Corbyn's fanboys and fangirls, instead of ever recognising that they have in fact been huffing paint, invented a stab in the back myth, and I chose those words very deliberately 310816
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 05/10/2026Convinced that mRNA vaccines are gonna go down in history like the invention of antibiotics 15657109
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/10/2026Again: >looking for a new leftist movement >ask the left populist receptionist if their leftist movement is based or tankie >she doesn't understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is based and what is tankie >she laughs and says "It's a good leftist movement, sir" >join >it's tankie 3749
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It is incredibly telling, to me at least, how Cameron and May were more progressive on trans rights, and yet even those areas of recognition are being rolled back/completely destroyed by Labour, yet trans and non-binary individuals are ignored, talked over, and told to shut up and support Labour. 6394114
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026lefty english gentiles can of course attempt to practice what they preach on jewishness and zionism by removing themselves from literally any communal space where they may encounter someone who supports nigel farage 218525
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It is genuinely impressive how badly Polanski has fumbled a generational moment for the GPEW (that he helped create) 5332
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There's a special kind of trauma from the official national equality watchdog specifically become a high profile campaigner against your rights specifically (and cast you as an oppressor in the same breath), which is then called upon by some still as an arbiter of moral authority on bigotry. 08311
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I should also add something else that I'm feeling about all this - as a trans woman who has now left the Green Party, I am struggling slightly in the way that this (bad) motion, is getting wide condemnation (including from many mainstream people who are themselves racist) and there is no/ 17817
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026imo party conferences should only allow online attendance/voting if it is the only way to meet an access need. That one pandemic year the SNP had an online conference, TERFs took over all the office positions then did nothing with them. They effectively halted all equalities work (inc for women). 2225
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦thepig993 @thepig993.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i don't like how normal this is!! 092
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026It's striking how similar this language is to the role-back of trans rights in Britain. 193
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I can’t lie, the reaction of Man City’s ownership in the last week has radicalised me into wanting the punishment to be as harsh as possible. This time a week ago, I thought some of the punishments being proposed sounded excessive. But the lack of contrition makes me think there should be no mercy 38684104
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 04/10/2026This was the breaking point for me. This is a perfectly reasonable and empathetic amendment that respects family ties and Jewish community institutions. It in no way undermined the purpose of the emotion as sold. To vote against it is absolutely unhinged and, in my opinion, openly antisemitic. 36711
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 04/10/2026Me, hearing about a new faction in 1649: 515423
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Between Labour MPs letting their party walk down the transphobia and anti-immigrant pipeline, GPEW MPs letting their party walk down the anti-semitism pipeline it would be nice if *one* major party on the english centre-left and left got its shit together 1172
Reposted by Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Not the main issue but imagine the Scottish Greens will be screaming and banging their heads off their desks as lack of awareness that The Greens are not a UK Party but instead three (3!) independent parties means they end up eating shit as well due to people and policies they have no connection to 1335
