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Virginia 🏳️‍⚧️ trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ she/ her @virtuallyv.bsky.social · 13m

The same is true here - the politics of cities are always further to the left than those in the country.

Part of it is that the large estates and those with real wealth (and lots of land) are mainly in the country. The poor are mainly in cities. I don't know about the US.

Virginia 🏳️‍⚧️ trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ she/ her @virtuallyv.bsky.social · 1h

No textbooks, because I have had enough, and want an afternoon off, so there!

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 5h

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5h

Penis penis penis.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 22h

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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Virginia 🏳️‍⚧️ trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ she/ her @virtuallyv.bsky.social · 6h

I want to find time to watch this SO MUCH!

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Sam Avery @samaverycomedy.com · 19h

Hope and equality? Not for me, ta.

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Virginia 🏳️‍⚧️ trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ she/ her @virtuallyv.bsky.social · 22h

Ran out of data whilst I was out - I think my new, fancy phone uses more than the last one.

But my life is on that phone! I even struggled to buy the shopping (and of course, I couldn't look at the list).

I had to use my debit card, as I couldn't remember the pin for either of the credit cards 🙄

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

"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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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

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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Virginia 🏳️‍⚧️ trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ she/ her @virtuallyv.bsky.social · 22h

Yes! I'm REALLY cross about all those rich types coming here and playing at dress-up English country life, no doubt causing our already unbalanced housing market to wobble further.

I would LOVE to be able to afford the Cotswolds, but no thanks now! I don't think I could be civil to one of them.

Caroline Churcher @newforestchild.bsky.social · 1d

We are so focused on immigrants crossing the Channel in small boats we're not looking the other way. Immigrants fleeing the US are infiltrating the Cotswolds.

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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 1d

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 23h

GCs doing their thing, being utter ghouls about the suicide of a young trans person. Claiming a lack of news coverage as a victory for their cause.

Alice’s death got coverage because my family sought press attention to highlight the appalling state of trans healthcare.

As for saturation coverage…

Screenshot of a post on X by anti-trans SEEN in Journalism ®
@JournalismSEEN
X.com
“A very big shift. There was saturation coverage of the death of Alice Litman, very notably on the BBC. This is the extent of the coverage (so far) of the death of Leia Sampson-Grimbly.
Is guilt setting in at the media's role in telling minors they were born in the wrong body?”

The tweet is accompanied by a screenshot of a headline in a local online new outlet
“Teenage girl took own life waiting for gender dysphoria treatment”

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Virginia 🏳️‍⚧️ trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ she/ her @virtuallyv.bsky.social · 23h

On ear piercing, though, pain is a very subjective thing. One person's pinch is another's owie!

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Virginia 🏳️‍⚧️ trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ she/ her @virtuallyv.bsky.social · 23h

Exactly this! I hate reading a good review of a film before I watch it, too. I prefer to make up my own mind, instead of going in with high expectations and then being disappointed.

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Virginia 🏳️‍⚧️ trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ she/ her @virtuallyv.bsky.social · 1d

Expecting the worst was a good idea, because then I was pleasantly surprised that it was ok. It's a low bar!

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Virginia 🏳️‍⚧️ trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ she/ her @virtuallyv.bsky.social · 1d

Sharing my table today, as I've come out when the café is completely full!

My jaw much better today - I think I can eat - but I'm staying on the soft stuff, as it feels bruised.

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Virginia 🏳️‍⚧️ trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ she/ her @virtuallyv.bsky.social · 1d

And after he'd held you up chatting! Glad he's better.

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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 1d

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Sign the petition: Save our National Parks

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:

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Virginia 🏳️‍⚧️ trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ she/ her @virtuallyv.bsky.social · 1d

But that was for medicinal purposes once you found out about your enforced move, so only half lb is great!

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Virginia 🏳️‍⚧️ trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ she/ her @virtuallyv.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's because they seem to be operating on a skeleton staff, with no extra to cover sick or holidays. I've considered stopping my subscription to Radio Times because it often doesn't turn up until much later, despite it saying it's time sensitive.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Next week, the Green Party will defend Worcestershire Councillor Hannah Robson in the High Court.

The Reform UK candidate is hoping to overturn our election win!

Can you help us defend Hannah and democracy from this attack? Please donate if you can 🙏

donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/make-sure-we...

Make sure we defend democracy in Worcestershire - Green Party

In the event that there is any money left over after the legal matters have been settled, including if we are able to recover some or all of our legal costs from other parties, then these remaining fu...

donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Aug 23

Definitely, being trans in the last century was safer in the UK.

Britain felt safer for trans people in the nineties, says UK’s first trans judge

Giving her first interview since she began the process of taking the government to the European Court of Human Rights, Dr McCloud tells Millie Cooke she no longer sees the UK as a ‘safe place’ for tra...

www.independent.co.uk

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Virginia 🏳️‍⚧️ trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ she/ her @virtuallyv.bsky.social · 1d

Who are they kidding? This is NOT food!

I looked longingly at husband's solid food. I have the greatest suspicion that this will taste disgusting...

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Virginia 🏳️‍⚧️ trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ she/ her @virtuallyv.bsky.social · 2d

My jaw continues to throb. I wonder how long I have to wait before the exercises pay off, and it stops hurting!

In the meantime, I had porridge for lunch and I've just bought a meal-replacement drink for my dinner 🙄

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