AGC
@agc1985.bsky.social
Green, queer, socialist, widow, translator, geek (he/him). Based in Southampton, UK.
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· Sep 6
Grief in the Shadows | Virgin Radio Pridecast
shows.acast.com
How can being LGBTQ+ complicate the process of grief and bereavement? I shared my story for this radio documentary alongside other LGBT+ widows, including Jonathan Blake and Richard Coles.
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Since a homophobic attack on his niece, his party has introduced multiple anti-LGBTQIA+ policies and the UK has fallen steeply in human rights rankings
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/keir-starmer-shocked-his-anti-lgbtqia-rhetoric-is-creating-anti-lgbtqia-sentiment/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/keir-starmer-shocked-his-anti-lgbtqia-rhetoric-is-creating-anti-lgbtqia-sentiment/
Starmer "furious" at homophobic attack on his family, as if his party has nothing to do with it
Since a homophobic attack on his niece, his party has introduced multiple anti-LGBTQIA+ policies and the UK has fallen steeply in human rights rankings
www.wearequeeraf.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Since a homophobic attack on his niece, his party has introduced multiple anti-LGBTQIA+ policies and the UK has fallen steeply in human rights rankings
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/keir-starmer-shocked-his-anti-lgbtqia-rhetoric-is-creating-anti-lgbtqia-sentiment/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/keir-starmer-shocked-his-anti-lgbtqia-rhetoric-is-creating-anti-lgbtqia-sentiment/
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the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
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The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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This path leads to chaos.
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This path leads to chaos.
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Today I asked the Government why it is creating an authoritarian toolkit 👇
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today I asked the Government why it is creating an authoritarian toolkit 👇
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Irks me when he says this because I’ve been at an LGBT event he’s been at, I’ve seen him attend others; he is in no way unaware of this being a problem nor his own role in it
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Keir Starmer's fury after neice and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Irks me when he says this because I’ve been at an LGBT event he’s been at, I’ve seen him attend others; he is in no way unaware of this being a problem nor his own role in it
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
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"Reeves says 'ordinary people' will have to pay 'a little bit more'"
But the rich and super-rich will be popping the champagne corks
Just disgusting
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
But the rich and super-rich will be popping the champagne corks
Just disgusting
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
Budget 2025 live: Ordinary people will pay 'a little bit more', says Reeves
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch calls the Budget a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"Reeves says 'ordinary people' will have to pay 'a little bit more'"
But the rich and super-rich will be popping the champagne corks
Just disgusting
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
But the rich and super-rich will be popping the champagne corks
Just disgusting
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...
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This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
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It's important not to sugarcoat the govt's decision to scrap ECO. It is the UK's most important scheme to address fuel poverty. It has helped 15 million people over three decades. By scrapping it, E3G calculates that the government is cutting 10,000 skilled jobs in the places that need them the most
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It's important not to sugarcoat the govt's decision to scrap ECO. It is the UK's most important scheme to address fuel poverty. It has helped 15 million people over three decades. By scrapping it, E3G calculates that the government is cutting 10,000 skilled jobs in the places that need them the most
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I also always forget how ghastly watching the Commons is. The Westminster Lobby snobs act like Holyrood is the silly clownshow and you can't get one sentence into a major statement in the Commons without HMNYEEAHHHH HMNYEEAHHHH and shouting and jeering, it's pathetic, grow up children.
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I also always forget how ghastly watching the Commons is. The Westminster Lobby snobs act like Holyrood is the silly clownshow and you can't get one sentence into a major statement in the Commons without HMNYEEAHHHH HMNYEEAHHHH and shouting and jeering, it's pathetic, grow up children.
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Among the many horrors of institutional transphobia in the UK, it is pretty depressing that as a trans person I genuinely am losing any faith that someone like me would be treated fairly by our judicial system.
I realise we’re far from the only community this affects, it’s still bleak.
I realise we’re far from the only community this affects, it’s still bleak.
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Among the many horrors of institutional transphobia in the UK, it is pretty depressing that as a trans person I genuinely am losing any faith that someone like me would be treated fairly by our judicial system.
I realise we’re far from the only community this affects, it’s still bleak.
I realise we’re far from the only community this affects, it’s still bleak.
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I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing?
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing?
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
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has anyone started painting mini roundabouts with Russian flags just to spice things up a bit
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
has anyone started painting mini roundabouts with Russian flags just to spice things up a bit
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100% this.
"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
End the tax break that makes flying cheaper than trains | Letters
Letters: Airlines benefit from a tax system that helps them keep fares low, writes Anna Hughes
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
100% this.
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Beginning to think that Reeves is really susceptible to the fact that the human mind isn't really capable of understanding big numbers and is assuming £600m which in the terms of our budget is peanuts, is worth collapsing universities over.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Beginning to think that Reeves is really susceptible to the fact that the human mind isn't really capable of understanding big numbers and is assuming £600m which in the terms of our budget is peanuts, is worth collapsing universities over.
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COP30 overpromised, underdelivered, empowered distractions, backtracked on issues and once again gave big oil and big ag a free pass.
Unfortunately, the suspicions of climate scientists (here in Brazil and abroad) were confirmed again.
Unfortunately, the suspicions of climate scientists (here in Brazil and abroad) were confirmed again.
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
COP30 overpromised, underdelivered, empowered distractions, backtracked on issues and once again gave big oil and big ag a free pass.
Unfortunately, the suspicions of climate scientists (here in Brazil and abroad) were confirmed again.
Unfortunately, the suspicions of climate scientists (here in Brazil and abroad) were confirmed again.
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I'm sure those poorer British students will benefit greatly from grants to attend the universities that no longer exist because Labour have bankrupted them.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I'm sure those poorer British students will benefit greatly from grants to attend the universities that no longer exist because Labour have bankrupted them.
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Imagine a government who believed education mattered more than vanity tanks.
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Imagine a government who believed education mattered more than vanity tanks.
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a clinical trial designed "to build..evidence" for a ban decided on without evidence
Even Hilary Cass - who disgracefully called parents terrified that their trans kids would take their own lives if they were denied healthcare "shroud wavers" - didn't go so far as to call for a ban on puberty blockers.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
Nothing Wes Streeting says turns out to be true.
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
a clinical trial designed "to build..evidence" for a ban decided on without evidence
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There are proposals to cancel Indefinite Leave to Remain.
That would tear families apart — including my own.
My wife could have been separated from her children under. People like my friend Tariq, who’ve lived here since babies, could be taken from their communities.
These people are Britain.
That would tear families apart — including my own.
My wife could have been separated from her children under. People like my friend Tariq, who’ve lived here since babies, could be taken from their communities.
These people are Britain.
November 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
There are proposals to cancel Indefinite Leave to Remain.
That would tear families apart — including my own.
My wife could have been separated from her children under. People like my friend Tariq, who’ve lived here since babies, could be taken from their communities.
These people are Britain.
That would tear families apart — including my own.
My wife could have been separated from her children under. People like my friend Tariq, who’ve lived here since babies, could be taken from their communities.
These people are Britain.
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Hey cis people you should read this
NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven:
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Transgender Statistics
plus over a dozen studies contradicting the “social contagion/rapid onset gender dysphoria” hypothesis
juliaserano.medium.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Hey cis people you should read this
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November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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oh that thing we said would happen is happening.
Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners
Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners
Fifty groups write letter calling for policy in high-profile cases in England and Wales to be scrapped
The police’s decision to reveal the ethnicity and nationality of suspects in high-profile crimes has had a “devastating effect” and is helping to spread prejudice, racial justice campaigners say.
The warning comes from the Runnymede Trust and 50 other groups demanding that the policy in England and Wales is scrapped, in a letter sent to the home secretary and police chiefs on Friday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
oh that thing we said would happen is happening.
It’s rather telling that from the original post, I had to look up which party the MP was in, because he could plausibly have been Reform, the Conservatives or Labour.
Yes, exactly this: I want these maniacs to unite and demand the chief constable’s resignation in disgrace, for being in cahoots with Islamist extremists. Really put pressure on senior people to defend themselves over it, at the risk of their livelihoods, and then we’ll see what they say.
November 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It’s rather telling that from the original post, I had to look up which party the MP was in, because he could plausibly have been Reform, the Conservatives or Labour.