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God @thegodpodcast.com · 9h

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 9h

UKIP leader says he will use the military to round up Muslims and communists. I wish more people would recognise and name fascism when it’s jumping in our faces with flashing lights.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 8h

Ireland has a population of 5m and we've a waiting list approaching 15 years. Why? Because their mandatory, archaic and traumatic psychiatric and psychological assessments are a deliberate bottleneck to ensure as few people as possible can access healthcare a nurse can do!

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 14h

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Alanah Pearce @charalanahzard.bsky.social · 8h

I’m quite seriously concerned about the economic collapse that’ll come with the AI bubble popping, and I feel like this really illustrates why: so many headlines touting huge numbers and insane productivity for services there is absolutely no market for. Who wants 8,000 extra books a year?

Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social · Nov 25

Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.

Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10h

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 7h

You know, I hadn't made the jump that his obsessing over the Peace Prize was because he thought it was literally his way to get into heaven.

Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 7h

Also he really thought winning a peace prize was his last chance to get in.

In other words, he knows he’s done great evil, even if he lacks adequate capacity for self-reflection to figure out what kind of real amends might start to rebalance the scales in his favor.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 7h

This is why the costumes are honestly brilliant. Ngo, who has never said a truthful thing in his entire life (remember the concrete milkshake?) now has to convince people inflatable Sesame Street and animal costumes are violent terrorists.

Sometimes you just need an image too silly to demonize.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 9h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 13h

Describe the opposite of The Free Press in a sentence

Screenshot of text:

It’s a business story. [Highlighting begins] Everyone in journalism has known for years that there’s been a huge opportunity for a publication that employs the traditional methods of U.S. journalism—reporting, deep sourcing, fact-checking, fearlessness—to subjects that either don’t get covered enough or get covered only from a certain perspective. [Highlighting ends] If creating such an enterprise seems simple

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 7h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3h

Yes, the perpetually dishonest Times is at it again. Today's leader column states "The Supreme Court ruling has made the law abundantly clear" and yet even the Times has no idea what it is. 👇🏻

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 16d

The Times 12 September: the Supreme Court case "had nothing to do with how or where single-sex spaces should be created."

The Times 26 September: "Trans women are still being held in women's prisons despite the Supreme Court ruling that access to single-sex spaces should be based on biology."

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10h

any cop who walks because mamdani gets elected is almost certainly a cop who fears accountability and should never have been hired in the first place

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 1d

How the media are gaslighting trans people

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 2d

the windmills better be transgender too

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FoxXFire @foxxfire.bsky.social · 2d

"..transgender for everybody and windmills all over the place.." I wish

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 15h

Some men on social media be like ‘you’re an ugly b*tch and you don’t deserve rights and I hope you get assaulted’ and then when they’re blocked post ‘omg women/the left claim to be tolerant but they won’t even debate with me’.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 17h

I hate profiles of conservatives who are worried that their country is changing and would welcome profiles of liberals and leftists who are afraid of same thing from the opposite direction and treated their concerns the same kind of reflexive deference

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

also - one last datapoint before I take HS for his morning walk. I posted the column on X, too. it has sunk without trace because it has a link in it. even ignoring the owner and the politics, that was a good reason to stop feeding the beast.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

Before you all yell at me, my answer can be summed up as "fuck, no".

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 18h

Quick question: Are you able to say "cis" on the Nazi platform now?

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 17h

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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John David Francis McAra @jmcara.bsky.social · 18h

Can you imagine if someone like Angela Rayner had these kind of links?

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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alexis @dormin.bsky.social · 21h

what I love about Zack's answer to the penis question is not only that he is one of the very few politicians capable of answering correctly, but also he immediately uses it as an opportunity to pivot to the travesty that is trans healthcare on the NHS

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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