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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 23m

sacrificed *foreigners*; it's basically the end-game of the anti-immigrant discourse

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Barry Howard 🔶 @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 1h

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 30m

Tenochtitlan?

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15h

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

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 15h

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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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2h

This is such a good point. I can't afford £100 for a covid booster. I could and would cheerfully pay £15 for one as I do flu. I also don't understand why so many aren't eligible for an NHS booster this year considering it didn't miraculously stop being covid over the summer

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 2h

This makes me want to break things. If it's such a no-big (it actually is a big that fucking disabled me), and you're equating it to flu (again, not remotely like), then why aren't the prices comparable?

(They should be free but given that's not going to happen, well)

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 2h

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 31

The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyone’s safety – MPs must have the chance to debate it | Freddy McConnell

The supreme court has made a mockery of gender recognition. Our politicians must not allow the EHRC to further shatter trans lives, says journalist Freddy McConnell

www.theguardian.com

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Dutch Pendergrass @dutchpendergrass.bsky.social · 18h

Amazon has sold out of frog suits. Portland pivots to Yoshi instead.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 3h

Remember when that undercover copper had sex with *and fathered a child with* one of the activists he was spying on?

www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

The undercover cop, his lover, and their son

Woman who had undercover policeman's child says she she is not satisfied with Scotland Yard's explanation.

www.bbc.com

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 3h

As Liberal Democrats, we stand in solidarity with all victims of hate crime. We recognise the alarming rise in hostility and violence that many groups are experiencing, and the fear and anxiety this is causing.

Read more: libdems.org.uk/news/article/national-hate-crime-awareness-week-2025

www.libdems.org.uk

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 6h

@foone.bsky.social This sounds like the kind of thing you would be interested in: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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Annie Wallace @anniewallace.com · 11h

THIS.
And if this includes you, you've been taken for a mug.

Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 13h

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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21h

Lots of flag-botherers over on Facebook now suddenly demanding the council step in to take these down
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Signs of kindness put up along Nottingham road in place of flags

It is not clear who put up the signs, which have appeared on lamp-posts along a road in Nottingham.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 13h

Looking like Chelsea FC? So, previously owned by a Russian oligarch, but now in hock to American hedge funds?

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 22h

The great thing about this event was how a lot of ordinary Brighton people just walking past asked to join in and get involved. At least one joined the party because we were supporting trans rights.

So I'm not at all surprised that Brighton has reacted to a transphobic org in the same venue.

LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 22h

We thought the Brighton Centre looked much better when the @libdems.org.uk had our conference there a year ago.

A picture of a huge crowd of Lib Dems, including Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP and various MPs, standing outside the Brighton Centre, which has a huge Liberal Democrats decal on the main windows, all holding an enormous Trans Pride flag in the sunshine, at their Autumn Conference in 2024.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 21h

This this this

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 22h

It's particularly galling that the Gender Critters describe themselves as a "grassroots" feminist org, when they are actually an AstroTERF operation.

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🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 22h

Look at @joswinson.bsky.social and ACH in the middle there. I'm off over to the left with @cajardinemp.bsky.social and @salbrinton.bsky.social - the flag is so long photographers couldn't fit us all in.

LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 22h

We thought the Brighton Centre looked much better when the @libdems.org.uk had our conference there a year ago.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 22h

This in reference to this, if you're confused: www.theargus.co.uk/news/2553219...

Live: Venue vandalised and protesters demonstrate at feminist conference

The Brighton Centre has been vandalised as a feminist conference begins there today.

www.theargus.co.uk

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 22h

The great thing about this event was how a lot of ordinary Brighton people just walking past asked to join in and get involved. At least one joined the party because we were supporting trans rights.

So I'm not at all surprised that Brighton has reacted to a transphobic org in the same venue.

LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 22h

We thought the Brighton Centre looked much better when the @libdems.org.uk had our conference there a year ago.

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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 22h

We thought the Brighton Centre looked much better when the @libdems.org.uk had our conference there a year ago.

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Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · 23h

Today is World Mental Health Day. Mental Health affects everyone, all of the time.

Today and everyday it is important to look out for our own and our loved ones mental wellbeing.

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 1d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

I am bound by the ancient contract of the internet to repost this.

👻 YSUBoOooOooOo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 1d

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

youtu.be

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