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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 5h

this is a great question and one to which I suspect you will receive few answers. I'm not sure everyone *does* agree that "sex based rights" are crucial, because they are deemed irrelevant anywhere they conflict with "identity claim based rights".

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Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 15d

Sex Matters to Quakers wholly endorses Stonewall's quietly updated definition of transphobia. "prejudice or negative attitudes, beliefs or views about trans people. This can include the fear or dislike of someone based on the fact they are, or are perceived to be trans".

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you, I had never seen this before! The 10th of October...

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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU @bpsmithuk.bsky.social · 10h

If I was Rachel Reeves, I would tax these ba$tards out of existence.
These gambling machines literally wreck lives, cause domestic violence & poverty, destroy society.
Gambling is highly addictive. It needs help, not exploitation.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

High street slot machine shops pay staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose

Exclusive: MPs and campaigners condemn ‘appalling’ reward scheme for Merkur venue managers

www.theguardian.com

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 21h

i don't believe "correct" opinions come in neat packages, and because I agree with someone on one thing, i won't necessarily agree with them on any other thing. I don't agree with this administration's attacks on any minority.

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 21h

i am not on that side and i am not in any such coalition.

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 22h

How has America accepted that private health insurance should be subsidized, at a cost exceeding what public health care would likely cost?
www.politicalorphans.com/socialism-fo...

Socialism for white people

Election 2016 has prompted a wave of head-scratching on the left. Why would economically struggling blue collar voters reject a party that offers to expand public safety net programs? The answer is…

www.politicalorphans.com

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 23h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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anomielia @geekgirl397.bsky.social · 22h

we will disagree. why just cede all of academia to those who cannot see beyond the gender identity paradigm? it's a valid attempt to bring clarity to the issues in philosophical terms IMO. Philosophy often looks like navel gazing from the outside. This was a thorough takedown of nonsense.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 22h

A fair, and damning, indictment of the SCOTUS majority.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Their opinions are poorly written, when they even bother. Their rationales fail to hide their overt partisan bias even when ways of doing so are available. Their oral arguments are cringe-inducing. They might seem sober adults compared to the freak show in the White House, but only by that low bar.

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 1d

'But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.'

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

#BookWormSaturday
(is celebrating short stories)

🎨 Jennifer Moses

Painting of sunrise or sunset over a calm sea. Lemon yellows and blue- greys. The sun peeps over a thick line of cloud above the horizon. It is reflected on foreground ripples. Suggests maybe a moment of unexpected happiness.

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MaidenOver 🧙 @judeet44.bsky.social · 1d

Carole Cadwalladr did a massive longrunning investigation into who funded brexit, where the money came from and those who were linked to it. She was taken to court by Arron Banks and after yrs of gruelling treatment was not prosecuted. She did however lose her job. That's where we're at in the UK.

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