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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 30m

This a good too
bsky.app/profile/kate...

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 7h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 32m

This is really brilliant. To hear a politician speak up so clearly for the Trans community made me tear up.
So pleased Zack Polanski is doing the same in the UK.
We need more politicians like this

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 3h

Eating doughnuts and napping is 96.5% of being gay in my experience

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 6h

They've reduced those eligible even further this time.
Over 75s instead of the previous over 65s.
Which seems really short-sighted given the current wave.
Thankfully I still qualify by having a compromised immune system

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 11h

Number of deportations the ECHR have actually blocked since 1980 - 13 (THIRTEEN).

Please remember this next time some grifting populist claims us leaving the ECHR (and sacrificing the rights it gives us in the process) will allow us to ‘control our borders’.

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 7h

Have they invented the Halloween Xmas Tree?
You can leave it up for three months

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 7h

There's the same info in the errata sections at the end of the pages on Season 12 and 18 here
(It's also a great source of info on the blu-ray Collection sets)
millenniumeffect.co.uk/index.php/do...

Doctor Who: The Collection – The Millennium Effect

millenniumeffect.co.uk

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 7h

This is great - I'd thoroughly recommend it to anyone

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 7h

Another large turnout. I was marching the near the front and by the time I'd completed the march and was on my way home I ended up crossing Westminster Bridge with the end of the protest

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 7h

It felt important to march in support of Palestine this afternoon.
I hope the ceasefire holds

A Palestine flag against a blue sky backlit by sunlight.
Big Ben in silhouette behind it and placards calling to stop the Gaza genocide underneath

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 8h

I think Season 12 was disk 3 (audio) and 5 (special effects)
And Season 18 was just disk 1 in the UK.
These were done a little while after their release but you might still get the replacements if you ask
Also this thread
gallifreybase.com/gb/threads/p...

gallifreybase.com

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 8h

I've seen a thread on Gallifreybase that kind of does that.
gallifreybase.com/gb/threads/k...
Replacement disks sent out for
Season 12
Season 18
And they've been promised for Season 20 but not sent out yet
email [email protected] with proof of purchase

gallifreybase.com

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 18h

Google says this from 2017

Page from a magazine.
White background with cutouts of individual clothes and models.
The headline is More Fash Less Cash

Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 18h

The struggle is real

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

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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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for this

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests
rachelshabi.substack.com/p/indivisibl...

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 1d

If they carry on the same path that's exactly what will happen.
They can change the leader, but if they don't massively change their policies and attitude then it won't matter

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 1d

“It was the 89th anniversary of the arrest of my father for being one of the organisers of the 1936 Cable Street resistance to the rise of fascism in Britain.

I was arrested on Saturday with hundreds of others at the Defend Our Juries action…”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Anti-protest proposals put free speech at risk | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to the proposal to give police further powers to curb ‘cumulative’ protests, in response to actions by the proscribed group Palestine Action

www.theguardian.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

Labour had the easiest job in front of them after winning with a strong majority as the we-are-not-the-Tories party last year. They could have rendered Reform irrelevant in a matter of months by pushing for popular, pro-welfare policies.

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski is out there fighting the far right narrative in multiple interviews a day while Your Party is still fighting each other.
Just join the Greens

a group of cartoon characters with the words stop it 's already dead written below them

Alt: a group of cartoon characters with the words stop it 's already dead written below them

media.tenor.com

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 1d

They've got his little 'tache! 😍

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1d

I’m at the Oslo trans healthcare conference today and have just been listening to Rosa Almiral of the Spanish trans healthcare service say “We have a waiting list of three weeks.” !!!!!!!!!!

Helsestasjon for kjonn og seksualitet
THE OSLO
INTERNATIONAL TRANS HEALTH CONFERENCE
9.-10. OKTOBER 2025

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