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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 3h

1/🧵 If sexual orientation can somehow vitiate consent, then consider this: if a woman consents to sex only with a man who is recognised as a “Supreme Court homosexual”, after sex he confessed he pretends to be one, could she send him to prison for rape?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 9h

Remember: They can always tell.

Except for homophobic (transphobic, but homophobic using their own framing here) men who want sexual partners that piss them off to be raped in jail. Those men can't tell and must be coddled.

She was jailed for being trans. The sentence is rape.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 1d

She's been jailed - to be raped every night.

She's in a male jail. Despite living as female since she was 13.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Trans woman jailed after hiding male genitalia during sex with man

Ciara Watkin, 21, concealed she had male genitalia and performed sex acts on a man she had been on a date with - before later texting him 'I'm trans, I'm sorry I didn't tell you'

www.mirror.co.uk

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 20h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Andrew James Carter @acarter.bsky.social · 1d

It’s because most people know nothing about autism, which they can exploit.

That means they can frame it as debilitating. They can frame autistic people as dangerous. They can claim *anyone* could be autistic.

They’re manufacturing a pretext to designate any opponent unfit for office.

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 1d

They've done it. They've reinvented "autism is a Jewish plot to weaken the West" from a brand new set of crazy ass starting assumptions.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.

Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Any comment Wes Streeting? Or will you call the coroner a liar as well?

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 2d

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/n...

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 1d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

The regulator Ofwat has ruled that 5 private water companies can raise bills by even more than previously agreed

A reminder that despite promising to nationalise the water industry Starmer dumped that pledge &decided to side with the private companies instead. This is the result

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

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Andrew James Carter @acarter.bsky.social · 1d

Got to wonder how much of that Labour support is built purely on *perceived viability* - people voting for Labour as they don’t think the Greens can win.

That support could *collapse* if polling starts showing consistent Green leads...

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Andrew James Carter @acarter.bsky.social · 2d

Labour are so vocally prejudiced against some groups (immigrants, trans people, etc…) that the sheer passive contempt they hold for people with disabilities often goes overlooked.

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Andrew James Carter @acarter.bsky.social · 2d

Instead of reversing the decline in GP numbers, Labour are somehow going to find 6,229 people “specially trained” at forcing disabled people into poverty.

Excerpt from a report by the Royal College of General Practitioners, published on the 8th of September 2025, reading: “In January 2018, there were 7,254 open active [GP surgeries]. As of July 2025, this figure has dropped to 6,229.”

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

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.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Andrew James Carter @acarter.bsky.social · 2d

Opposing the KKK is now “too controversial” (according to Ubisoft)

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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