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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 44m

I use them to fall asleep at night. Does that count?

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 50m

... as a valid expression of identity, to be acknowledged rather than denied and cured as delusory.

Ergo, medical science says a woman can have a penis.

So... does Morgan deny medical science?

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 50m

@zackpolanski.bsky.social The best response to this I can think of, which I've yet to hear used, would be to ask Morgan if he denies medical science?

Nearly every national and international medical organisation on the planet, including a few in unexpected places, acknowledges gender dysphoria...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

See above.

Hussain, once policy is announced, will have two choices. STFU or GTFO.

Are there going to be ructions between now and then?

Yep.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

... for him.

I'm not suggesting a conspiracy of silence, I think they just have no idea how to approach him. The normal methods don't apply. It's like they're armed with candle snuffers in the midst of a housefire.

They need to adapt.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

There are a heap of things Farage gets away with given insufficient scrutiny.

This for one.

Another is blatant racism.

A third is fossil fuel industry backers, which should be raised EVERY SINGLE TIME he says anything about the climate and climate initiatives.

The media need different rules...

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2h

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

... for him. I'm not suggesting a conspiracy, I think they just have no idea how to approach him. The normal methods don't apply. It's like they're armed with candle snuffers in the midst of a housefire.

They need to adapt.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

There are a heap of things Farage gets away with given insufficient scrutiny.

This for one.

Another is blatant racism.

A third is fossil fuel industry backers, which should be raised EVERY SINGLE TIME he says anything about the climate and climate initiatives.

The media need different rules...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

... these days, do we?

Now... are you literally saying this didn't happen, couldn't happen, has never happened?

I say again. Definitive proof, please, that all the reasons I've given for this fear to be irrational are wrong, and it has a rational basis.

Third request.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

Yep. The only way I can make sense of this level of irrationality as I said. Same ploy that got Jews so fearful of Corbyn in 2019 that Gove, in introducing Johnson for his victory speech, made it all about how the Jews were saved from a terrible fate.

Don't hear much about Corbyn's antisemitism...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

... level of traction without encouragement.

I challenged you earlier to give me proof there's an issue given this is a nascent party that doesn't have policies yet when we know what those policies will be anyway, and they will be pro-trans.

Got anything yet? Final request before muting.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 1h

Anyone can go on a social media platform and proclaim themselves trans or a pro-trans campaigner.

We know how these pile-ons always start. FFS, we've had ten years to watch how it plays out.

I say again. Many will be sincere, if gulled. But all? It's too much for an irrational fear to gain this...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 2h

I can't wait for November and the setting of policy.

For now, all I see in comments is a ton of unwarranted accusations. I'm just waiting for someone to say 'We all know Corbyn wants to annex the Sudetenland.'

Keep on keeping on, but for the sake of your mental health, don't read the comments.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 3h

Predictions, like the prediction they will be pro-trans because of course they will be pro-trans. If the membership decides anything she said there shouldn't be the case, which of course they won't, then they will disappear.

It's called stating the astoundingly bleedin' obvious.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 3h

... overblown that it's starting to look suspicious.

Once again, you say that a nascent party with no policies, and no means of declaring any policy until next month, should have already established a policy on this issue.

I explained this to you, but still you're saying it.

It makes no sense.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 3h

I don't disagree with a word you are saying. It's just I simply do not understand the pile-on in this instance. It makes no sense. It's simply a question of basic facts that I do not need to be trans myself in order to appreciate.

And I'll go one step further. It's sufficiently meaningless and...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 3h

Sorry to intrude. The idea of 6+ extra dimensions. Is there a justification for the 'rolled up and small' idea that goes beyond 'That's why we can't see them'? I'm sure you are tired of us intruding with our great theories, so for now I'll settle for a yes or a no so as not to waste your time. 🤭

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 3h

I've been saying for some time that every single time a Reform representative talks nonsense about climate change that this link should be highlighted as a matter of course. To do anything less is poor journalism.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry, no. That's Netanyahu's definition, designed to create mischief, and way too many of us are falling for it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtf3...

Corbyn Won’t Be Drawn on Being Anti-Zionist — And Why It Matters

YouTube video by KernowDamo

www.youtube.com

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 4h

... few crumbs that fall from an overladen table?

If so, what real difference will that make to the nation or to Starmer's popularity?

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 4h

I'm guessing this isn't going to be about, say, increasing tax on the most wealthy by 1%. I'm guessing that because everyone's been shouting from the rooftops for him to do it, so he didn't need a specialist for that.

So are we talking about more prestidigitation here in trying to rearrange the...

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John Chambers @jowicha.bsky.social · 4h

President Ramaphosa: back the billionaire tax at the G20! action.eko.org/a/president-...

President Ramaphosa: back the billionaire tax at the G20!

Right now, the world stands at a crossroads: billionaires are hoarding obscene wealth while millions struggle just to survive.But for the first time ever, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 4h

... ETNOTNWASAACASKFWPO for short. It's not an accidental acronym. That is actually the word reconstructed from the proto-Indo-European for belief in pixies.

In this way they have already stopped seven wars.

So yes, well done, you've worked it all out.

Next?

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 4h

Yes.

There's a little known organisation Polanski founded where every third night of the month, everyone sits around a campfire and sings 'Kumbaya' for World Peace.

It's called the Every Third Night Of The Month We All Sit Around A Campfire And Sing Kumbaya For World Peace Organisation, or...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 5h

Different approaches required when it comes to Bluesky and Twitter.

And the Starmer cabal wouldn't dare show its face in Bluesky. 🤭