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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 4d

"Autistic people do not form a fixed spectrum with clear segments of 'high functioning' and 'low functioning' and 'profound.' Hope this helps." @ejwillingham.bsky.social on the autism grievance parent campaign for a #ProfoundAutism label, in today's TPGA Newsletter:

buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

Do some tall people have "profound tallness?" (This is an autism labels side-eye)

You can’t take the tallness out of someone, not in any ethical way. “Tall” is just what they are.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 5h

People surprised that some formerly sensible left-leaning or liberal women are now apparently full of admiration for white supremacists, rapists and genocide might note that their entry point for far right radicalisation was invariably a belief that transphobia is ‘feminist’. Just saying.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h

That horrible New Labour documentary did feature one helpful scene, where John Major says he met Rupert in 1997 and refused to change his non-specific Europe policy. Smash-cut to footage of Tony bounding up the gangplank of Murdoch’s yacht, willing to say yes to whatever.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 11h

If a judge started talking about someone's "true marital status" or "true nationality" as distinct from their legal marital or national status, we'd clearly register this not merely as deeply prejudicial but as an obvious attempt to circumvent the plain meaning of the law for ideological purposes.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 11h

It's a reasoning which potentially short-circuits basically *any* legal rights or protections.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 11h

To put it in blunt terms, judges across multiple cases have essentially taken the line that their strongly held popular prejudices cannot possibly conflict with the law, which must instead be read in their light.

Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 12h

4/ The evil deed of Hodge, Simler, Reed, et al have resulted in a then-18-year-old woman being jailed for 20 months simply for giving a blowjob. They must be held accountable.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 3h

Sign you live in a police state

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 7h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3h

These guys hogtied a journalist who is probably their mom’s age for nothing.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 4h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3h

The answer is no, Tom - people living* on the state pensions do not have it any “easier”, and pitting working young people against retired people is ludicrous and counterproductive.

*Living is not the term I would use for trying to get by on maximum £230.25 per week.

66 'I lived off the state pension for a week - and was forced to drink water at the pub' Young workers are buckling under the weight of Reeves's tax burden. But do pensioners have it any easier?

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thespookyspirit🏳️‍⚧️🩷💜💙 @thepigtailedgirl.at.app.wafrn.net · 6h

Transphobia leads to a culture of intimidating gnc cis women so even by his own standards he's in the wrong here

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 6h

No Wes, torturing children is disgraceful!

Stop doing it Wes!!

Trans Kids Deserve Better!!

This kind of violent direct action is disgraceful. It is designed to intimidate people - in this case women - into silence and it must not be allowed to happen with impunity.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

This is now the blueprint for men to control trans women. Have sex with them and then threaten to go to police unless they do what he wants. It's ripe for abuse from men who will weaponize their shame. It also builds their narrative of trans women being sexual predators even when the victim.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 8h

Keeping an eye on this one

nz-nb.bsky.social @nz-nb.bsky.social · 11h

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups | National parks

https://www.newsbeep.com/nz/70137/

Plans to water down protections for national parks such as Dartmoor and the Lake District in a “kneejerk…

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups | National parks - New Zealand News Beep

Plans to water down protections for national parks such as Dartmoor and the Lake District in a “kneejerk bid for growth” will be devastating for nature, more

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 6h

As Wes Streeting comments to condemn some vandalism by trans activists has he said anything about this?

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 6h

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/nhs-wait-times-trans-girl-suicide/?utm_content=1760127601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

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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Sarah Savage @ohsarahsavage.bsky.social · 9h

Wes is happy to abuse women when it suits him

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16h

Bad people can thrive in their lifetimes, but history will (almost) always catch up with them eventually.

Trump can preen and pout and posture all he likes, but his only reward will be eventual ignimony.

In the meantime, every well-deserved slap in his face should be treasured.

#NobelPeacePrize

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 14h

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 7h

My takeaway is that we might reasonably adopt an approach where any sort of deliberate deception vitiates consent - eg a man who tells you he is 35 and single but he is actually 55 married. But we cannot have a rule that is in practice for trans people alone. Especially when disclosure is dangerous.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 7h

"While MPs make their way back to Westminster, many trans people and allies have spent the past few months hard at work, preparing for what could be a crucial moment in the fight for trans equality."

By @mimmymum.bsky.social

diva-magazine.com/2025/10/10/p...

Parliament’s back – and so is the fight for trans rights

“Parliament may be back, but so are those determined to defend equality. If this summer proved anything, it’s that the movement for trans rights never took a break”

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 18h

Stella O'Malley (7 years experience of well-funded anti-trans rhetoric) & Genspect (4 years of well-funded anti-trans advocacy) have taken legal action against 70-year-old Leonie O'Dowd (40+ years experience of counselling & supporting trans people) to shut her up. www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...

It’s a SLAPP: Stella O’Malley Targets Psychotherapist and Rights Advocate Leonie O’Dowd – CASE

www.the-case.eu

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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 7h

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver #AusPol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 13h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social · 7h

I'm a woman, and i'm not in the least intimidated by this. I think the Right Horrible Secretary of State is confusing a bunch of transphobes with the majority of inclusive feminist women.

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 8h

Oh do fuck off Wes Streeting.

It's not designed to intimidate women, it's designed to protest transphobia.

If I protest against racist scum, that's not me 'intimidating men', it's disagreeing with racism.

I am sick to fucking death him pretending that transphobe and woman are synonyms.

naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 10h

Another happy @bashback.bsky.social customer…

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 8h

Oh do fuck off Wes Streeting.

It's not designed to intimidate women, it's designed to protest transphobia.

If I protest against racist scum, that's not me 'intimidating men', it's disagreeing with racism.

I am sick to fucking death him pretending that transphobe and woman are synonyms.

naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 10h

Another happy @bashback.bsky.social customer…

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 9h

This is an amazing defence of trans people against one of the country’s worst transphobic bigots by @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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