Y'know, one problem I find with Bluesky is that if you're doing any kinda long threads, it requires folks to keep clicking through "Show more replies" and it seems like there's a drop-off in engage the longer a thread goes on, which is annoying. So, upcoming games! Start here and work backwards:

Honestly this is among the most depressing things I've seen in a while. Fundamentally anti-human, pro-loneliness.

If the wealthy can get you thinking about who deserves basic needs and who doesn't, they win. They don't care if you think wealthy people are the ones who don't deserve; establishing that it must be earned is the key. With that done, they can just keep expanding the definition of "undeserving."

Without an option for gender affirmative care, these NHS services for transgender children are nothing but conversion therapy centres. The NHS is now a TERF organisation which denies the existence of transgender children at a time when the evidence of their existence has never been more apparent

So NHS England have confirmed they will not provide trans kids with gender affirming medications. What then is the point in the service? Self-med or services like Anne Health are the only safe option for trans kids. NHS England's gender services for young people are conversion therapy farms.

Actually, yeah. That the media is pulling this response is likely to be good for the Greens, not least because Reform were pretending to be the "Party that will upset the status quo" but they've since taken on board Tories whilst the Greens have *actually upset the status quo*!

How fucking dare he? I hope he loses his seat and never shows his face in public again.

Hannah Spencer's Guardian op ed is pretty inoffensive. Can Labour MPs really not take such mild criticism? You worked as a management consultant for PWC before you became an MP on 30% of the vote - yes, it's probably likely that you're a bit out of touch lol

Has this just happened the day after Wes Streeting wrote that article?

Every single Labour MP whining about being told they’re out of touch is part of a government which is attacking trans people’s healthcare are right to exist based on conspiracy theories and right wing propaganda. It’s only popular in echo chambers yet that’s all they’re acting on…

There's this myth that non-voters are just as aware of and engaged with current events as voters are and that they just haven't found the candidate that inspires them and no, that's not true at all, it's usually that they don't know anything about politics at all, which is the entire challenge.

Thinking about how Hannah Spencer faced threats and intimidation from the far right immediately upon election and recieved fuck all support from the supposedly lovely, down-to-earth, definitely not bigots and sexual predators who are her new colleagues as Members of Parliament

PinkNews platforming Streeting after firing their few remaining journalists so he can lie about his assault on trans rights and gaslight the public about Labour’s war on trans kids and dismantling their healthcare is the end of the site. I’ve been interviewed by them, they’ve used my work. No more.

They’ve gotten so used to feeling superior and righteous as centrist libs in a sea of nazis that when confronted by leftist minorities in ways that actually get to them they just cannot handle it. Criticism from nazis reinforces their sense of self, minorities tear their saviour complex apart

guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center.

"If we work together, if we find common ground, if we mobilise, make a plan and stick together - we can defeat the far-right" Hannah Spencer at the Together Alliance March discussing how we defeat the far right in the local and general elections.

The ban is right. I question where else repeated offending attracts mitigation like this. “Exceptional hardship” is lived daily by crash victims and bereaved families. My sympathy will always be with them—not the habitual road offender. Should we remove this provision? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think everyone would agree that the police and MPs shouldn’t be shoplifting.

This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I wanted to see what this would physically look like on the desk so I made a quick mock-up in Blender

This could have been an opportunity to do actual journalism, to do a line by line debunking rather than publish state propaganda. But that would require a spine.

We are really excited to bring Mimi to the team. Her experience in writing about trans news is extensive and she has done some fantastic work. Unfortunately Pink News shot themselves in the foot by letting her go and we are very happy to introduce her to our team. bsky.app/profile/mimi...

I notice @pinknews.bsky.social haven't posted this article on bluesky, the cowardly shites

archive link You know what's telling about this piece? a piece ostensibly about trans kids? he never once calls them trans kids. He refers to them about a half dozen times and in each instance he avoids affirming them as trans kids and says stuff like "questioning their gender".

A week or so ago I asked what the point of following Pink News on here was. Nobody had an answer. Today, I'm asking again...

No you see support is not being taken away, its just being replaced by alternative sUpPoRt (conversion therapy for your own good)

Ive had PinkNews on my 'only link minimally' for a couple of years, and a total block since they went 'journalist free' the other week. Always been problematic. Use @wearequeeraf.com, @whatthetrans.com , @divamag.bsky.social or @attitudemag.bsky.social instead.

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

Really dreading the 2028 cycle where 75% of the candidates and 100% of the media/professional chattering class will claim that asking candidates to take a position on anything beyond “I am not Donald Trump” is a divisive litmus test that we cannot afford

The first woman excluded by chromosome testing later turned out to have mosaicism (1/2 of cells had XY 1/2 XX) and had to be apologised to decades on. The last had androgen insensitivity and couldn't develop male sex characteristics even if you injected her with enough T to kill an elephant.

One thing that has not been remarked on I don't think is how FWS says trans people retain our previous legal rights if we pass (obviously Patrick Hodge doesn't offer a sophisticated read on theories and practices of passing). But that at the same time you can literally be put in prison for passing.

Polanski was unequivocal – the harassment of his family is a red line — and now the Independent Press Standards Organisation has stepped in.

Horrible chat here from one guy who thinks people getting burned in easily avoidable disasters isn’t his problem and he shouldn’t have to worry about it. Now to take a big sip of coffee and read the Grenfell Inquiry report, to 100% confirm this is wasn’t a common view among key people involved

putting melted chocolate on my pasta, call it Alfreddo

Can we please make @caelan.bsky.social Yagami a thing?

That Jonathan the tortoise had a miraculous resurrection in Easter week presumably means he is the returned messiah.

Well, I think that says it more succinctly and eloquently than I ever could

old twitter really did have some absolute bangers

‘no way to prevent this’ says organisation created especially to prevent this

This chatbot we programmed to verbally suck off MBAs is going to take your job, lmao loser Wild that this hasn't found broad popularity

I don't know about you, but it feels like AI proponents are getting off lightly with the level of scorn directed at them, all things considered. They've earned so much worse. Frankly, I'd like to see Sam Altman criminally liable for the deaths his chatbots caused. As a start.

the thing is I can believe he believes that about himself. He is wrong for all the reasons you laid out and more. But I'd suggest the reason his content leans so pro fascist is because he's just a guy following the money and trends set by those with the money. all of media is like this now lol.

this is the best tumblr post, btw

Tfw you fake your death for a lark but everyone celebrated instead of mourned

“A cis teenage girl lying about being on her period to avoid a sex act she’s uncomfortable with would arouse sympathy. When a trans girl does the same, it’s treated as a serious crime.”