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Sam Hain

@astercaster.bsky.social

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🏳️‍⚧️Ⓐ🏳️‍⚧️ VLE specialist, VCO hobbiest, weekend alchemist, tumtum antizionist she/they

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Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · Apr 10

STICKY!
Hey I'm Sam (she/they), I like long walks in the moors, full moons and organising for revolution. I'm probably complaining about trans rights or making weird synth noises otherwise.
Help fund my slot! www.gofundme.com/f/sams-gende...

Bus selfie - in a white blouse with purple shades and hat. My hair is a mix of pink and red. I'm smiling, sticking my tongue out slightly.

Selfie in some hiking gear - black shirt, black backpack, black keffiyeh. Also purple shared and dark red hair.

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 3m

Present a fucking alternative then! Just going "oh other side bad" while doing the exact same thing to try to appease specifically them and no one else is exactly why Labour-style neoliberalism consistently fails to these weirdos. You encourage anti-migrant pogroms and attacks on trans people too!

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 1h

Oh hell yeah Skegway referenced! He was there at the same time as my only famous relative in a sea of filthy peasants, Nellie Cashman! Unfortunately never a mayor (that I've found) but did plenty of Forest Gumping too. Cool lady. Never married, hated skirts, hmm...

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 19h

Feels like an unsurprising liberal PR-stunt, but...it's not co-founding a party with bigots in leadership positions which is what Corbyn did? He recognises our strength as a political bloc at least & there's a lot of space between "not ally" and "enemy". Corbyn won't listen to us, ZM still seems to?

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Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 2d

last train from bratfud, MtaE!

a train platform selfie in black and red with bleached hair and black lipstick, holding a tinnie

on a Northern train, fishnet legs and red docs, a hand a red fingerless gloves with a heart sharpied on holds a can of Guinness

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 3d

wtf no. not even dunkin should be dry like this what the fuck like this is so distressing my voice training is failing and I'm falling back into my accent this isn't even a cruller wtf

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 5d

Oh yeah I get that it's almost certainly just a summary from some of the original sources; but that summary itself will cause an anti-trans bias which will impact someone's initial impressions before deeper digging.

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Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 5d

wow that second one too, hard to claim that is at all unbiased and not meant to stoke hate.

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Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 6d

If by stop you mean conditionally pause one criterion for genocide and go full-steam ahead with all the rest then...oh yeah still no, yeah they just are still doing genocide but they're using more air-quotes about it now.

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 19d

I'm not being hyperbolic. I'm a trans ethnic minority immigrant and work in DEI in state education. Is your answer that I die so you can comprimise or do I need to be more brown to be on the pyre (this soon)?

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 19d

Those against immigration are historically uhh *checks notes* oh right, Nazis. Phew, glad we didn't get played on that one, eh?!

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 19d

So...they think I'm a paedophile leech brainwasher who secretly controls international politics who is trying to destroy their gene pool. Do I... a) call them racist b) comprimise by telling them putting me in a death camp in a legitimate concern but please tax the rich to do it?

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Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 20d

"Appeasing fascists never works" in the stupidest fucking way possible, lol

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 20d

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has hit out at Emma Watson in a lengthy statement on X, saying: “She has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.”

J.K. Rowling Brands Emma Watson “Ignorant” in Lengthy Post Defending Anti-Trans Stance: “She Has So Little Experience of Real Life”

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has hit out at Emma Watson in a lengthy statement on X, saying: “She has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.”

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 21d

how long before organisations rely on the unpaid labour of people seeking indefinite leave to remain as their business model?

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Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 22d

i think my bartender is hinting

a point of sale system with normal "Sale" "Refund" then "New Trans" at the bottom of the list

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 24d

I have worked for years with the homeless and those most at-risk of homelessness, both in the UK and in a place with mandatory ID requirements. I can professionally say - absolutely not, you thick cunt.

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 24d

that another union is striking against "us" and we are voting to side with the strikers against UCU management yet the strike (and abuse of minority staff that caused it) still goes on is so fucking shameful though.

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 24d

Has Budvar stopped sales in Israel or did I fuck up? I found discounted cans in Lidl which had UK outer packaging but the tins themselves had Israeli info and health warning. Is this a BDS win?

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 24d

We've finally done it, Brits just made themselves second-class citizens to the Irish in their own fucking country omfg 😂😂😂

The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 24d

The new IDs have been dubbed the "Britcard"

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Sophie Watson @sizzleleg.bsky.social · 24d

Labour Link members were not consulted when making this decision - a decision to endorse a transphobe, a zionist and someone who has overseen the erosion of our universties in the UK.

There is a reason why I'm supporting @andrea4gs.bsky.social in this unison election for general secretary.

UNISON @unison.org.uk · 24d

UNISON has chosen to back Bridget Phillipson to become deputy leader of the Labour Party

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Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 24d

par for course in recent years; going against member support for Palestine, inviting Streeting to give speeches despite overwhelming opposition. They don't operate as a collective just allow the occassional election.

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Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 24d

things that should be giving me euphoria today - being hot

things that are giving me euphoria today - being cold

fuck you too, September!

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 24d

Pet peeve with this poem is its selfishness, it only matters that he is also a victim. We should be teaching and demanding better than a society of self-aware Ernst Röhms

Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 25d

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 25d

Before then, probably "Clinton should win because he plays saxophone" but I hope that doesn't count 😅

Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 25d

I remember watching the strikes on tv, a bit scared but in awe because my mum was out there fighting for us, figuring out how important it is. Learning that the profits don't just go the workers and thinking that was bullshit.

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Sam Hain @astercaster.bsky.social · 25d

(note: alteratives to austerity, poverty and war are only for landowning cis people. All others will be mulched.)