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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

the windmills better be transgender too

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FoxXFire @foxxfire.bsky.social · 1d

"..transgender for everybody and windmills all over the place.." I wish

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 2h

Some men on social media be like ‘you’re an ugly b*tch and you don’t deserve rights and I hope you get assaulted’ and then when they’re blocked post ‘omg women/the left claim to be tolerant but they won’t even debate with me’.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 3h

I hate profiles of conservatives who are worried that their country is changing and would welcome profiles of liberals and leftists who are afraid of same thing from the opposite direction and treated their concerns the same kind of reflexive deference

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

also - one last datapoint before I take HS for his morning walk. I posted the column on X, too. it has sunk without trace because it has a link in it. even ignoring the owner and the politics, that was a good reason to stop feeding the beast.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

Before you all yell at me, my answer can be summed up as "fuck, no".

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 5h

Quick question: Are you able to say "cis" on the Nazi platform now?

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 4h

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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John David Francis McAra @jmcara.bsky.social · 5h

Can you imagine if someone like Angela Rayner had these kind of links?

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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alexis @dormin.bsky.social · 8h

what I love about Zack's answer to the penis question is not only that he is one of the very few politicians capable of answering correctly, but also he immediately uses it as an opportunity to pivot to the travesty that is trans healthcare on the NHS

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

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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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

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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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 9h

Men like Piers Morgan have found women in trans women who it is socially acceptable to abuse.

Every time they do this stuff they are telling you how they'd treat cis women if they could get away with it.

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 9h

pls mozilla do not go down this route.

Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 1d

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alexis @dormin.bsky.social · 8h

halloween needs to expand as a bulwark against christmas

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Boo!-story (disturbingly absent) @withouthistoryband.bsky.social · 9h

(stolen from a friend)
Gender affirming train ticket

Screenshot from a train app with the date and the journey Nottingham to Manchester Piccadilly. The abbreviation reads NOT -> MAN

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1d

Wes Streeting complained that “women” (by which he means “transphobes”) are being silenced.

Funny how one of those “silenced women” gets an op-ed in national mainstream media while we get nothing.

6500 anti-trans articles in UK mainstream media in 2023 shows who is being silenced and who is not.

Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 1d

Literal anti-LGBT blackshirts marching in Soho today

Bindel:

Headline:
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 21 YEARS I'M TRULY AFRAID OF WHAT THE TRANS ACTIVISTS WILL DO NEXT (Julie Bindel)

✍️ 'The police must stop enabling protesters and take action to protect women from violent threats' | Writes Julie Bindel

Read the column ⬇️
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/10/afraid-what-trans-activists-will-do-next/

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

every single dem should be taking notes. this is how you message around trans issues

(of note: i believe he is the only cis candidate for office to have trans people consult on his lgtbq+ policy platform)

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

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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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Strong 'bald men squabbling over comb' vibes to this attack line. Yes, Nigel Farage drove the economy into a cul de sac with Brexit. But the dude who refused to reverse it out is Keir Starmer.

Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 1d

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 1d

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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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 1d

KIDS AND GROWN UPS LOVE IT SO

BLOCK YOUR PIPES WITH HARIBO.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, the underlying reason for the need for this is horrifying, stipulated, but watching so many people stand up and defend their neighbors and their community is a heartening reminder that the people who suck are not the majority even if they are the power

Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 1d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 1d

Gay Avenue Pump Station

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