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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 10h

This is happening right now, across the UK – affecting thousands of young Trans+ people who are simply trying to be themselves and thrive

Young Trans+ people being inflicted with unspeakable mental and physical suffering

And all the while, anti-trans medical professionals, media figures,..

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 13h

"Laura found an NHS Dr in Brighton who helped support her daughter for 6 months.

Laura described it as ‘six months of support bliss’ before NHS ICB Sussex (Integrated Care Board) began investigating them."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

MP fails to support suicidal constituent

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her suicidal15-year-old daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15h

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot express the depth of my contempt for Mi5, NCA and special branch in the UK

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists

Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters

www.theguardian.com

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404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Permanent facial recognition cameras are now live in Croydon – with no clear laws and no safeguards to protect our rights.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

It’s worth bearing in mind that to the libs, “defenders of democracy” can mean anything from “Barack Obama” to “Islamist militia we have armed to the teeth” or “death squad carrying out a genocide”, and that in practice, these warm approving terms tend to mean “cooperative with America”.

Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnybantzy.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently our newest Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote to fucking Netanyahu for help in overthrowing the government of her own country dawg

The population of Venezuela needs international protection against the widespread and systematic attack to which the Venezuelan regime subjects it. This is demonstrated by the report dated May 29, 2018, submitted by the Organisation of American States to the International Criminal Court. This has served as the basis for nine states, including Argentina, to file complaints against the regime before that international body. We deeply appreciate this effort, which is decisive for the outcome of the Venezuelan tragedy.

I am convinced that the international community, in accordance with the responsibility to protect doctrine, is called upon to provide Venezuelans with the necessary support to bring about the regime change that is urgently needed to restore national and international security. Therefore, I have recently sent letters to several of the world’s leading figures to promote before the United Nations Security Council the adoption of effective protection measures for Venezuela by fostering regime change, a step that necessarily entails strengthening international security. Today I want to ask Israel and Argentina to contribute their expertise and influence to advance a sound and urgent decision-making process in the Security Council.

Such measures are imperative in the face of a hemispheric security hotspot like the one currently posed by the regime oppressing Venezuela. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration have certified that the current refugee crisis of people fleeing Venezuela is the largest in the history of the Americas. Argentina is an example of this crisis, having welcomed hundreds of thousands of our compatriots—a gesture for which Venezuelans will always be grateful. However, we must be aware that without a change of regime in our country, hemispheric and global security will be at risk.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 1d

My therapist got me a book called “How to Live with OCD” but the problem is if I read any of the odd pages my mom will die

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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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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12th is Stupid, Unserious @twelfth.bsky.social · 1d

The purpose of a system is what it does. There is no mistake here. The brutality is intentional and the horror of the carcereal system lives in our hearts as a threat.

moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 1d

Make no mistake, when the state imprisons a trans woman in a men's prison, it intentionally procures her for the purpose of having her raped. The statistics are extremely clear-cut and consistent in every jurisdiction where they have been collected. There is no way around them

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Short Queen Dew 🇵🇸 🇨🇦 @shortqueendewie.bsky.social · 1d

Heyooo feminists of the world

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 22d

i'm joining the War on SciShow on the side of Knitters on behalf of the Trans Delegation because that hrt video was dogshit

Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 22d

They are NOT OVER IT folks

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Eri :03 ΘΔ @mandateofheaven.bsky.social · 2d

People will tell you "oh yeah if you just block the okizeme mixup then the character is free after that." But then you get to the okizeme mixup and it looks like this.

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 2d

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

When centrists affirm and validate racist grievance politics - that refugees are a burden, that racists have "legitimate concerns" about refugees - they empower the far right to take steps like the below, which would be unthinkable had the underlying assumptions not been turned into a common sense.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Restore Britain's convoluted way of calliing for Britain to take no refugees at all.

UK should only ever give refugee status to genuine asylum seekers from neighbouring countries, which, given every one of our neighbours is a safe country "would effectively mean scrapping our whole asylum system"

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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 1d

I'm very sad to say that this event has to be cancelled!

Yesterday, I was among 8 arrested at an action demanding:

- The safe return of Freedom Flotilla members currently being detained in Israeli prisons, including Mskwaasin Agnew

- A two way arms embargo

- Immediate sanctions on Israel

Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 19d

Buffalo! I'll be in town to read at @gutterpopcomics.bsky.social on October 10, alongside @philmcandrew.bsky.social, Gia Ligammari and Max Weiss

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 3d

This happens because transphobia is an institutional imperative and never considered a conflict of interest, or an impediment to providing trans people with care.

The status quo of transition care is trans people subjecting ourselves to the whims of bigots who want to humiliate and exploit us.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 3d

Disgustingly, the published 'research" in question was used to inflame discourse about a "rapid increase" in trans youth, harming the patients whose data it used!

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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 3d

Om du hører noen si at det har vært «skarp økning» i antallet ungdommer som søker kjønnsbekreftende behandling er det denne ulovlige forskningen de viser til. Vi kritiserte den i tidsskriftet i januar: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 3d

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 3d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 3d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 3d

💯 there has never been a healthcare system (in Britain at least) that started from the premise that we should control our own bodies. Every change to the system over the last century has preserved doctors’ presumed right interfere in our decisions

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking more about this, the relationship of gender clinics to trans people has always been extractive. They make money and careers off the suffering they inflict on us.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 1d

Two surgeons are performing and autopsy. They are extracting various organs from a corpse. Another surgeon has shown up in a large Spongebob mascot outfit.

Caption "Aw Jeez, I'm the only one who wore a costume."

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The Argyro System @cadillacdesert.bsky.social · 1d

Then it could only have been because of Kingdom Hearts II

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize IS for war criminals. That's who they give it to!

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

No shade to any of the Vertigo relaunch writers, but this is what the lineup looks like with me no longer in it, lol.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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phylan @phylan.website · 2d

I don't think they should be allowed to do that

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 2d

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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