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eleanor 🏳️‍⚧️ @elnr.bsky.social · Sep 10

Whether it's TV, post, or online Ofcom fail at every. single. thing. they're asked by the public to do. Ofcom is not fit for purpose, sack them all.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · Sep 9

"By paying such disproportionate attention to Nigel Farage's latest outfit, Reform UK, the BBC is compromising its reputation. To many licence fee payers, the broadcaster gives the impression that it hangs on every word uttered by Farage..."

@maxwilkinson.bsky.social writes to Ofcom.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · Jul 29

“Nooooo! You can’t be some dorky conventional presenting lady who looks like a freakishly tall nerdy librarian or academic! You have to shatter the binary, overthrow capitalism, and attack and dethrone God!”

I have no idea how to do that and it sounds like too much pressure and a lot of work.

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eleanor 🏳️‍⚧️ @elnr.bsky.social · Jul 29

As a trans woman, I’m voting expressly against Mothin. He says to judge him on his actions and not pledges, but his actions are merely just virtue signals of “trans people are oppressed” — no views around what action is needed. At least Adrian is honest that he’s a transphobe.

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eleanor 🏳️‍⚧️ @elnr.bsky.social · Jul 29

One can show solidarity and be pro-liberation while still being opposed to religion, just as you can show solidarity with the global south while still opposing the homophobia and sexism common in those countries.

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eleanor 🏳️‍⚧️ @elnr.bsky.social · Jul 28

Ofcom is not fit for purpose.

Love for all the important work you do GLP.

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eleanor 🏳️‍⚧️ @elnr.bsky.social · Jul 28

The petition makes no reference to the ID restrictions, even if that’s what caused a spike of signatures. The petition talks about a real problem which is sites will rather shut down or block the UK than comply, because complying is difficult and the consequences are onerous.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · Jul 27

Trump used his caddies to cheat at golf. ... There isn't an honest bone in Taco's rancid body!
#MAGAmerica

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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · Jul 27

Mr Khan: show your true flag: declare London a Sanctuary city and ban the Gender Critical Ideology Movement in the City as the fascist body that it is. Distance yourself from a Government hell-bent on remaining in the culture wars for the foreseeable future, and cosying-up to hate on a daily basis.

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Astrid @astrid.place · Jul 27

The BBC have now successfully buried it to page 2 with a ton of news articles, burying it. Very convinced this article was just plausible deniability so they can say they covered it.

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eleanor 🏳️‍⚧️ @elnr.bsky.social · Jul 27

have there been any developments? has he came out of his cave yet? im honestly not sure what there really is to do (aside from allowing civil or criminal processes to follow their path, but the palace has nothing to with that) other than strip his titles and keep him out of the public eye

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eleanor 🏳️‍⚧️ @elnr.bsky.social · Jul 24

Going to use this as an opportunity to plug this petition. The so-called OSA is just death to privacy and a boost for big tech (small tech can’t comply with the demands of Ofcom, who aren’t fit for purpose)

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

petition.parliament.uk

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eleanor 🏳️‍⚧️ @elnr.bsky.social · Jul 24

Going to use this as an opportunity to plug this petition. The so-called OSA is just death to privacy and a boost for big tech (small tech can’t comply with the demands of Ofcom, who aren’t fit for purpose)

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

petition.parliament.uk

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eleanor 🏳️‍⚧️ @elnr.bsky.social · Jul 24

Uhhh… all the major UK parties (Lab, Con, LD, Grn) aside from Reform are unincorporated associations at the top-level, with (usually) CLGs held in trust on behalf of the association

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · Jul 24

🏫 It sets out how teachers must not use materials that "encourage" people to question their gender, and tells teachers that there is "significant debate" about trans people

www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2...

RSE guidance is “patently and cruelly transphobic” - community responds to ‘Section 28 2.0’ curriculum

It has taken a "trans exclusionary" approach and received widespread condemnation from the LGBTQIA+ community

www.wearequeeraf.com

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eleanor 🏳️‍⚧️ @elnr.bsky.social · Jul 24

There is no year-day-month format, only year-month-day.

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eleanor 🏳️‍⚧️ @elnr.bsky.social · Jul 20

Which trans people did she speak to who welcomed the ruling?

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · Jul 20

🚨 EXCLUSIVE | Green leader candidate Ellie Chowns PRAISED Supreme Court ruling that gutted trans rights.

Chowns welcomed the ruling, saying its critics "do not speak for all trans people". She called for "open conversation" about "contested issue" of trans rights.

See follow up post for video link

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · Jul 15

🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will:

- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender

What we know so far 🧵

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 16

People want to blame a single man for this but the reality is that Epstein is the result of a system that normalizes and tolerates rampant sexual abuse of people by wealthy and powerful men. Look no future than Diddy to see how none of these people are ever fully held accountable.

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eleanor 🏳️‍⚧️ @elnr.bsky.social · Jul 13

Ofcom and the Online Safety Act aren’t fit for purpose. The government needs to reorient itself and pass laws that actually protect people rather than stamp out independent businesses and civil liberties.

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eleanor 🏳️‍⚧️ @elnr.bsky.social · Jul 13

You wouldn’t /have/ to complain as a “man” … the police would *choose* to treat you as one.

The judgement applied only to the Equality Act, not to all law. It’s why the BTP’s policy change was unusual. The TERF narrative of “clarity” is too widely believed.

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eleanor 🏳️‍⚧️ @elnr.bsky.social · Jul 13

I think Kenan Malik is right, but Katharine Birbalsingh (‘Britain’s strictest headteacher’, who would make Miss Trunchbull blush) immersing herself in the conservative grift and then being surprised by it feels almost like a leopards eating faces moment.

Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · Jul 13

Britain hasn’t suddenly become more racist, but racists have become more assertive in their bigotry. My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social‬ column: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Modern racism has become loud and proud | The Observer

The response to a photo of a class in London shows how ethnic notions of national identity have seeped into mainstream conservatism

observer.co.uk

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · Jul 13

Check out the difference in the number of comments. Good to know that the professional philosophers have their priorities straight. You'd want to learn ethics from these guys, definitely.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Jul 13

🇫🇷 President Macron: "Many people said that Brexit would help better fight illegal immigration."

❌ “However, since Brexit the UK no longer has any migration agreement with EU. This is a pull factor, exactly the inverse effect of what Brexit promised.”

Macron is right – Brexit is to blame for Britain’s immigration crisis

The French president did not hold back on how Brexit had created the small boats crisis - the reverse of the promises made by Farage and other Brexiteers, notes David Maddox

buff.ly

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