Peter Moore
@petejmoore.bsky.social
🇺🇲🇬🇧 - British-American former rail worker and father to an autistic child
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One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.
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I tend to think that the message of the National Security Strategy for Europe is less "treat America as a threat" (because it will take a decade at the absolute best for that to be feasible) and more "recognise that the US runs on court politics and take action to make sure hostile factions lose."
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I tend to think that the message of the National Security Strategy for Europe is less "treat America as a threat" (because it will take a decade at the absolute best for that to be feasible) and more "recognise that the US runs on court politics and take action to make sure hostile factions lose."
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Being generous, the problem is a lot of MPs don't actually want to thoughtfully engage with different audiences, they're just going to defend their choices up until then, and that's a problem when /nobody else likes those choices/
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Being generous, the problem is a lot of MPs don't actually want to thoughtfully engage with different audiences, they're just going to defend their choices up until then, and that's a problem when /nobody else likes those choices/
Sometimes this backfires though as "bad daddy big hair" (Keir Starmer) is compared to "love daddy no hair" (me)
Relatedly, one of the most tedious things people do is go 'wow. How profound. My pre-school child, who I literally taught to speak and whose brain is a highly powerful and retentive sponge, has paraphrased my politics back at me in a cute way'. I mean, no kidding.
What exactly is the end game here? Fail at banking, fail at being a business guru, try to become fixture of right wing think tank set?
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Sometimes this backfires though as "bad daddy big hair" (Keir Starmer) is compared to "love daddy no hair" (me)
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Once again, "imagine getting to place a side bet on your kids soccer game" is an indicator of severe levels of degeneracy and in a healthier/more functional society, we would nuke these ppl & their entire business model from orbit
Oh, no it’s even worse than that. I was in a pitch meeting for one of these that said “imagine getting to place a side bet on your kid’s soccer game”. Their plan was to bet on people completing everyday activities
Fuckin people watching Netflix making prop bets on what minute of the episode we’re first gonna see Vecna. People betting on whether it’s gonna be a Toyotathon commercial or an Activia commercial. Just a little QR code in the bottom corner of every show asking you to bet on everything.
December 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Once again, "imagine getting to place a side bet on your kids soccer game" is an indicator of severe levels of degeneracy and in a healthier/more functional society, we would nuke these ppl & their entire business model from orbit
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Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
At this point I want Labour to stay out of it to avoid touching it with the Starmer Curse.
I think that Labour resetting (more) towards the EU is very likely but I think the chances of Labour screwing that up are extremely likely.
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
At this point I want Labour to stay out of it to avoid touching it with the Starmer Curse.
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Organisations like the Guides and the WI could have chosen to fight rather than capitulate, difficult and expensive though that might have been, and it's not unreasonable to criticise them for not doing. But it is this Labour government who could and should have fixed this problem when it occurred.
December 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Organisations like the Guides and the WI could have chosen to fight rather than capitulate, difficult and expensive though that might have been, and it's not unreasonable to criticise them for not doing. But it is this Labour government who could and should have fixed this problem when it occurred.
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A Labour government passed the Equality Act. A Labour government was in power when the Supreme Court interpreted it to not mean what ministers at the time were clear it was intended to mean. The Labour government response should have been to legislate to fix it. Not doing so was a cowardly betrayal.
December 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
A Labour government passed the Equality Act. A Labour government was in power when the Supreme Court interpreted it to not mean what ministers at the time were clear it was intended to mean. The Labour government response should have been to legislate to fix it. Not doing so was a cowardly betrayal.
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Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
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Not clarifying the Equality Act in line with what we know was the original intention of its Labour drafters is an active choice.
December 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Not clarifying the Equality Act in line with what we know was the original intention of its Labour drafters is an active choice.
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This so sad. I know they really didn’t want to do this. The petty cruelty of the gender critical movement seemingly knows no bounds.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This so sad. I know they really didn’t want to do this. The petty cruelty of the gender critical movement seemingly knows no bounds.
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It’s also very important to note, imo, as something important about humanity, how this fact is essentially forgotten beyond people being specifically startled by it in isolation
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It’s also very important to note, imo, as something important about humanity, how this fact is essentially forgotten beyond people being specifically startled by it in isolation
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
At least most other lines of work where people talk shit to your face about how pointless your job is and how terrible you are come with DB pensions.
Secondly - the people on your screen are people too! You would not like it if they popped up in your mentions denigrating your life’s work and you should refrain from doing it to others.
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
At least most other lines of work where people talk shit to your face about how pointless your job is and how terrible you are come with DB pensions.
I say this but at a local level if only because Richmond has such acceptable SEND provision - unlike the rest of the country - I will fight to the death for my Lib Dem councillors.
I don't really want to vote for the Greens but stories like this are pulling me into it. I have all sorts of problems with them, but all my problems with them are the stuff outside of the "culture war", and tbh at this point in time that's my #1 priority.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I say this but at a local level if only because Richmond has such acceptable SEND provision - unlike the rest of the country - I will fight to the death for my Lib Dem councillors.
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Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
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The government figuring this out slowly over the coming two years is going to be quite something to behold.
I think the government meant to cut net migration but have accidentally overshot the target by a lot. They haven’t realised this yet.
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The government figuring this out slowly over the coming two years is going to be quite something to behold.
One of the worst things about being American in the UK* is having to not only push Thanksgiving back to the evening but being expected to be a proper functional person on the Friday after.
*The key problem here is having been here long enough to drink like British people do on British holidays
*The key problem here is having been here long enough to drink like British people do on British holidays
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
One of the worst things about being American in the UK* is having to not only push Thanksgiving back to the evening but being expected to be a proper functional person on the Friday after.
*The key problem here is having been here long enough to drink like British people do on British holidays
*The key problem here is having been here long enough to drink like British people do on British holidays
Gonna be hilarious when they increase some range of little taxes to appease the OBR gods as immigration dropping hits projected revenue.
NEW: Net migration to the UK fell significantly to 204,000 in the year to June.
That’s down from 649,000 in the year to June 2024 - a fall of around two-thirds.
That’s down from 649,000 in the year to June 2024 - a fall of around two-thirds.
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Gonna be hilarious when they increase some range of little taxes to appease the OBR gods as immigration dropping hits projected revenue.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal