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A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · May 5

One of the most useful lessons my anarchism has taught me, day to day, is that compromising with oppressive systems just teaches you how to work with oppression, not how to make oppressive systems liberatory.

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melody-fair.bsky.social @melody-fair.bsky.social · 13h

These are the rights that some politicians wish to take away from the British people. Would you trust a British Judge or Politician with your rights?

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Patrick Harvie MSP @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 15h

The whole point of human rights law is that the Government can be held to account when they breach people's rights.

If the Home Secretary doesn't like it, that's why she needs to hear it.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 12h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 17h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 17h

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Madeline Layne @madeline-layne.bsky.social · 17h

Western outlets almost universally refer to Israeli captives as "hostages.”
The question, however, is why Palestinians taken captive by Israel are not described in the same way.

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

After two years of genocide in Gaza, western media still privileges Israeli lives - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/even-after-two-years-genocide-gaza-western-media-still-privilege-israeli-lives

After two years of genocide in Gaza, western media still privileges Israeli lives

Mainstream coverage of the Israel-Hamas captives exchange exposes western media's enduring pro-Israel bias, as Israelis are humanised while Palestinians are erased from view

www.middleeasteye.net

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 15h

Today, we and the Trans Exile Network have made a joint submission to the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK Supreme Court's judgment in the For Women Scotland v. Scottish Ministers case of April 2025.

tacc.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...

Press Release – Submission to the CoE Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK’s non-compliance in Goodwin v. UK - tacc.org.uk

Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network seek urgent re-opening of enforcement of key human rights decision against UK. Today, the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective ...

tacc.org.uk

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 14h

Legendary trans activist, Miss Major, dies at 78

Thank you to @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy for writing this obituary.

Rest in Power, Miss Major — Assigned

Honoring a lifetime of Black trans activism.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19h

we all need this right now

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Jul 22

that time i let a baby opossum have a single grape

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 1d

The brushing genocide under the carpet operation has started in earnest

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union said

Eurovision organisers push back Israel decision

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union sa...

www.rte.ie

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Jack-O-Lantern 🎃 wear a mask @popqueengerard.bsky.social · 1d

Me as we creep closer to overtaking the tories

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 2d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

A new week - and a new huge milestone!

@greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!!

We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 2d

Ok well it took five days. 100k members. This is not a moment, it’s a movement. It was always a movement.

Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 7d

I predict the Green Party will be at 100k members by the end of the year.

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Jack-O-Lantern 🎃 wear a mask @popqueengerard.bsky.social · 2d

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO!

join.greenparty.org.uk

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!

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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 2d

Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky

Dried madder roots in a bowl on some scales

Madder pigment being mulled on a glass slab

Madder pigment surrounded by examples of dried paint on paper and parchment

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Jack-O-Lantern 🎃 wear a mask @popqueengerard.bsky.social · 2d

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 2d

No other film ending has ever gone this hard. Every time this rolls up on-screen I immediately think, “Damn right I have.”

Final shot of SUSPIRIA before the credits roll, which begin with the following:

You have been watching
"SUSPIRIA"

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 2d

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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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 4d

New TKDB protest for the 1st Nov

transkids deserve better!!

TRANSPHOBIA

ALL OUT AGAINST !!

All out against transphobia! On Saturday, November 1, TERFS intend to march in London, demanding trans exclusionary, discriminatory legislation, and threatening trans people on our streets.

We cannot let this happen unchallenged- they may have been emboldened by the Supreme Court Ruling, but so have we. Just a few days after ruling, we marched through Westminster to express our rage, be with community, and make it clear that we would continue to fight for trans liberation. That march was only the start.

We need as many people possible out again on the first of November, to show up for collective liberation and show the TERFS that they will never divide us. less

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 3d

I openly had my misgivings about how a cis white man may handle this topic, but it's so unbelievably refreshing to see a politician, and a party leader at that, answer the question "can a woman have a penis?" with a simple "yes". No obfuscation, no trying to answer a different question, just "yes".

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

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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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 3d

graham linehan’s latest escalation is hiring ppl to dox and harass trans women. 🤷‍♀️

jus imagine for a second that a cis man was doing this to cis women.

society says not only is it okay to do it to trans women but it’s fine to publicly crowdfund to pay for it. 😕

Let's hire a private detective!
Here's where we are: for wears, Ive been reporting a group of men to the police. They ve harassed dozens of people.
the harassment and death threats they send my way, nothing happens. When others report them, nothing happens.
But here's what does happen: the police investigate us for talking about them.
Ine grotesque nature or this colacerason would be laservano trom a oritance. Unortunatty, fi not as a ostance, and it's been going on for years.
So I've decided to do something that feets wonderfully ridiculous and also completely necessary, hire a proper private detective. Someone who actually investigates things. Novel concept, I know.
I'm deughted to say that our prece on Melody Uawion has resuited in members of his tamity ottung m touch. And that s what we can do without a private detective. Think what will happen if we get professionals on the case.
Picture it: a licensed imestigater with a proper case file, following leads from Sussex to Capetown, gathering evidence the authorities keco oretendina doesn't exist. Well comale everything, oresent & to indroundent abservers and every maic)
outlet we can find.
What Your Money Gets
• A licensed investigator who actually does the job
• Document searches, survellance, evidence gathering
• Property documented findings that can be used legally or journalistically
Iknow vou're sick of the Cancel Tax. I'm sick ct it too. But ths onels dicent. This one micht oroduce results that and
decoly satistving no matter where you are in the foht. The l& detective work. And when tis done, we'll have something
Why It Costs What It Costs
The goal looks high because this isn't some bloke following someone to Tesco. This is a proper irvestigation spanning multiple juriscictions. Were not just atter a few bad actors. We want to out all of them.
Every donation puts us closer to exposing something the authorities have worked very

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His Royal Huwness 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺 @litterygeniarse.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Couldn't agree more and we should once again ban gambling advertising and sport sponsorship.
Self regulation isn't worth a damn.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d

High street slot machine shops, owned by Merkur, are paying their staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose.

Companies chase profits by spreading misery, exploiting vulnerable people

Gambling Commission must shut down these parasites.

High street slot machine shops pay staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose

Exclusive: MPs and campaigners condemn ‘appalling’ reward scheme for Merkur venue managers

www.theguardian.com

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