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🎶 I-I-I was bor-rn, Under a wan'drin' spleen 🎵
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rough buddy
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hey can I join your partner program if this post proves I'm incredibly well liked and Internet famous ask anyone pls
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2 days ago
I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why. I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.
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This great thread, I think, nicely ties together 2 recurring points made on
@trashfuture.bsky.social
That fascism is libidinal and that AI is the art style of the new fascism You have your cruel idea, crank it out using AI, have your vicious emotion hit, then forget about it like discarded kleenex
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flyingrodent
5 days ago
Now we’ve finally recognised the government has absolutely fucked it, we need to confirm they have *very specifically* fucked it in their pandering to the far right, who need to be relentlessly opposed with everything in the arsenal of democracy. I welcome people recognising this, and joining in.
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[Steps outside] "heyheyheyyy c'maahn I'm a tiny guy, I'm just a tiny guyy, noo, it's also Christmas, I'm a tiny Christmas boyy with crutches"
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Why did you transition, wrong answers only I was bitten by a radioactive woman
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Phil McDuff
15 days ago
We said for years: don't normalise having these "debates" about trans people and immigrants. Everyone thought they knew better. And now it's absolutely normal to say trans people are deviants and immigrants are subhuman, and we're having debates about whether women can vote.
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Eddie McKenzie
18 days ago
Oh, fuck off. We've been telling you this for years. How about you listen instead of "train" us. EVERY SINGLE female teacher I work with has multiple DAILY tales of this, and they're ignored by management because that's the easiest path to take.
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Caspar: I bring precious gold Balthazaar: I bring sweet smelling frankincense Melchior (dressed in black with thick black eyeliner and black lipstick): I bring embalming fluid Caspar [pinching bridge of nose]: Seriously Nigel? Melchior: I told you it's Melchior now!
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Robin Ince
24 days ago
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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Garry
23 days ago
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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alyson “2026” greaves
25 days ago
man, the collective grief from older trans people at the violent death of the world we briefly hoped was coming, a world in which trans children would be recognised, loved, and helped... yeah.
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Jess O'Thomson
25 days ago
Please stop saying that Peggie lost entirely or that it's equivalent to 11-1 in a football match. She won. The NHS will likely have to pay her damages. She just didn't win on any of the points she actually cared about. It was a minor win for Peggie, but a loss for "gender criticals" on the whole.
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Stephen Collins
27 days ago
(*One of my favourite Nirvana songs)
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Me: [looking up from my newspaper in the Reform Club, shaking my head] When will the Foreign and Commonwealth Office acknowledge the destabilising influence of the balloon-gap between the Commonwealth of Lithuania and Bellorussia?!
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acaballroom bee
28 days ago
this is like the big bad wolf tweeting that the brick house should be abolished so that sovereignty can be returned to individual piggies
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Jess O'Thomson
28 days ago
Mini thread on the ET decision in Peggie Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law. 🧵👇
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Duncan Hothersall
28 days ago
Staggering to watch pretty much every news outlet in the country report that Sandy Peggie has won her tribunal case despite her losing on almost every count, and despite the ruling stating that the Supreme Court FWS judgement does *not* require trans women to be excluded from women's spaces.
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flyingrodent
about 1 month ago
The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.
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Nadia Whittome MP
about 1 month ago
▪️ Lift the puberty blockers ban ▪️ Reject EHRC guidance ▪️ Legislate to ensure single-sex spaces are trans-inclusive by default. Posting this from my speech at the Trans Day of Remembrance vigil, because yet again trans women and girls are being excluded from their spaces.
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Jolyon Maugham KC
about 1 month ago
Police report in respect of the social media activity of Gender Critical commentator Richard Dunstan: a statement from me.
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Statement from Jolyon Maugham KC: Police report | Good Law Project
Concerning the report of a potential criminal offence
https://goodlaw.social/y7q6
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Dr Tom Horne
about 1 month ago
I went up beautiful Dunadd hillfort, the political and cultural centre of the early medieval Scots of Dàl Riata, in somewhat less than beautiful weather to tell you about my new
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Roz Kaveney
about 1 month ago
To be clear, WI and GG trustees will have been told they faced personal liability including bankruptcy for breaching fiduciary duty by involving their organizations in legal proceedings they might well lose. They should be publicly fucking angry and uncivilised about the people responsible.
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Post your favorite "Transformers" character. Wrong answers only.
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about 1 month ago
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Stephanie 🍉
about 1 month ago
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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Will Stancil
about 1 month ago
“What is remigration, which the Department of Homeland Security is calling for?” It’s this:
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lauren
about 1 month ago
if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy
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A friend of mine once pointed out that the only place you're likely to see people fencing outside the olympics is an Episode of Columbo: "Can't you we're in the middle of a bout!" "It'll just be a moment of your time sir" "[Irritated sigh] very well, Captain?" "Just lieutenant sir"
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Послушайте
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about 1 month ago
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈
about 1 month ago
the bbc: biological males who identify as women terfs: the bbc is institutionally captured by 'gender ideology'! who cares if that doesn't stand up to observation? not like it matters whether something is true or not anymore. the entire country is being run from op-eds written by fantasists.
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So we need to talk about test statistics and trans bathroom bans These are the way we measure how effective tests are in medicine So we need to talk about:🧵
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flyingrodent
about 2 months ago
The core aim of the Terf movement - a tiny number of newspaper columnists who melted the brains of middle aged reactionaries - was always to encourage maximum public hostility against transgender people, and give them the impunity to act upon it.
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male to fujoshi transsexual
about 2 months ago
100% what happened. The history of anti-trans politics is trying to design a legitimizing study around a conclusion, massaging the data when that doesn't work, and then just giving up and raw-dogging what they were going to do anyway.
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Talia "Barbara Smith Stan Account" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎
about 2 months ago
"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris
about 2 months ago
#OTD
1867, Marie Curie was born. During WWI, Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" (below) could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.
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Dr Tom Horne
about 2 months ago
🎁🎄Delight your friends and family this Christmas: Get 2️⃣5️⃣% off 'A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain'! Use Promo Code BF2025S at checkout 📚
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She Guevara
about 2 months ago
If any trans person in Scotland, or the wider UK, is the victim of assault and is in need of an escape: contact
@essehouse.bsky.social
Entirely funded by community donations. They have emergency bedrooms, access to trained therapists, and compassionate volunteers on hand 24/7 to help.
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Ain’t No S̶e̶n̶a̶t̶o̶r̶’s̶ Son
about 2 months ago
You know what stops potential detransitioners from making mistakes? A safe, open environment they can explore things Do you know what increases the bad outcome? A closed off, gatekeeping environment that stops people from exploring those things until years after they started questioning
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Better Things Are Possible
2 months ago
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️⚧️🌈♾️
2 months ago
**** Trans Exile Network press releaset 24 October 2025 **** UK and Ireland: 24 October 2025 The Trans Exile Network and the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective write to the Women and Equalities Network in relation to re-opening Human Rights enforcement and seeking questioning of minister
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️⚧️🌈♾️
3 months ago
ANNOUNCEMENT This evening, 14/10/25 the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network have taken the next step in the struggle to restore the human rights, dignity & safety of UK trans people.
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TransActual
3 months ago
🚨This is an emergency🚨 This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life. Use our tool to email your MP:
tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
3 months ago
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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Keith W. Dickinson
3 months ago
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Jolyon Maugham KC
3 months ago
Because of the unforgivably appalling decisions of the Charity Commission, these hate groups, Sex Matters and LGB Alliance, are funded from your taxes.
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Jakub Jaraczewski
3 months ago
I remember being told that this whole fake Brexit referendum is just a strategic move to ensure that the ultra-right wing of Tories and Farage will disappear from the mainstream of shaping British politics for a generation, if not two. Some of the people who told me that still have six-digit jobs.
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Is it just me or do the releases so far from Florence + the Machine's new album seem to be shaping up for a soundtrack to
@junodawson.bsky.social
HMRC series if the adaptation was dark Like the latest one could totally be the outro music for the end of book 2 when [spoiler] brings [spoiler spoiler]
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Ripperoni
3 months ago
TikTok Algorithm update
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Sian Berry MP
3 months ago
I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights.
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