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Damien Donnelly
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · Feb 8
A wee reflection on section 28/2A I wrote for LGBT History Month:
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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · Feb 8
@ddonnelly.bsky.social explores the Legacy of Section 2A and finishes by saying, "We will not allow their identities to become unspeakable again."

It's a fascinating read to get to that conclusion.

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Section 2A: The Legacy - Ungagged!
Damien Donnelly writes - "We will not allow their identities to become unspeakable again."
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d
I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!
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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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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 2d
I am dying to know if this is who first came to my mind. A man?
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 3d
My favourite thing about all the Taylor Swift discourse on TikTok is how much I'm hearing Charli XCX's Sympathy Is a Knife and finally realising what a tune it is 🤯
Charli xcx performing in a green room
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 3d
That'll help all the rising bigotry
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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 3d
On a national stage, Kate Barker, CEO of the LGB Alliance, called Trans+ healthcare “grotesque”

When a charity leader uses such extreme and hostile language about life-saving care and Trans+ people, it raises serious questions about the group’s charity status and it's influence on government
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 4d
Except when it's propaganda about trans people, you mean?
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 4d
I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.
Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 4d
How can people who stand on the wrong side of the escalator, when everyone is rushing to work, not know what they're doing? Sometimes I'll say 'excuse me' when I'm in a rush and they always act like I've scared them 😭
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Suzanne Teefa 🇵🇸 she/her @rummlie.bsky.social · 5d
She's long had her reasons for never putting her children's charity reputation laundering project in certain parts of the world.
Lowkey @LowkeyØnline X.com It should be noted that the business partner and longtime manager of JK Rowling is Israel lobbyist Neil Blair. Neil Blair is an ambassador for the Abraham Initiatives, which is funded by the Israeli Ministry Justice and Ministry Of Education. G)J.K. Rowling @Jk_rowling 17h "Pro-Palestinian demonstrators couldn't give it a rest - not even for 24 hours. They were chanting all the old slogans and ducking all the hard questions. 'Globalise the intifada, they cried- does that mean killing Jews in Manchester?" 2 @NickCohen
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Sarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com · 5d
I love Sophie Ellis-Bextor. She’s a great ally. www.nme.com/news/music/s...
Sophie Ellis-Bextor hits out at transphobia: "These people make trans people their whole personality"
Sophie Ellis-Bextor has criticised increasing levels of transphobia in the UK and overseas in a new interview.
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 8d
What absolutely bs. The way I felt I had to hide my true self (because society didn't tell me it was ok) still has impact decades on. I don't want that for today's children.
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 8d
Don't fight me but Taylor Swift peaked with Lover (2019).
Album cover: Taylor Swift's Lover (2019)
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 8d
Why does nobody else seem concerned that it was one man with a knife and armed police couldn't stop him without killing an innocent civilian?
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 8d
Why are you still using the 2025 equivalent of Der Sturmer?
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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 8d
Did nobody tell Starmer the cops killed one of the two victims before he went off to do his "thank you to each and every one of the first responders" speech
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 8d
Suddenly my FYP is full of Bad Bunny clips. He could do with a stylist...
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 9d
As do I.
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 9d
The best Prime Minister of my lifetime:
Nicola Murray from the Thick of It.
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 9d
No, that wasn't the point for Fogarty. First you implied she didn't say that and now you're saying I have missed a point that was not contained in the words I've quoted.
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 9d
I'm not standing up for anyone in that comment... I'm criticising a journalist for stoking tribalistic division.
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 9d
It means make support for a Palestinian state global. You sound just lovely!
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 9d
I'm not clear what the two options are...
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 9d
And what she *also* said was 'when you shout "globalise the intifada" you are asking for violence against Jews. Physical violence against Jews.'
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Damien Donnelly @ddonnelly.bsky.social · 9d
The words are meant to have impact but not to incite murder of innocents. Blaming Palestine protestors is just more divisive.
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