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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 2d

The Reverend Mother of Antifa

a woman is standing in a field of grass with mountains in the background .

ALT: a woman is standing in a field of grass with mountains in the background .

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 1d

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 1d

Only the hard of thinking won’t get the poignancy of the Nobel Committee’s choice. Clue - something to do with her “tireless work promoting the democratic rights for the people...” Americans need to ensure their behaviour honours the aspirations of their founders.

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Reluctant Trail Runner. Enthusiastic Couch Potato. Chocoholic. @richardofshoes.bsky.social · 1d

Those are real cool. I'm jealous! (My favourite museum is the Pitt Rivers where there are cases and drawers full of 'curiosities' that you can open to peer at their contents! Like a giant, well, .. cabinet of curiosities!)

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Geneviève Doyle @gennerveevy.bsky.social · 2d

These are beliefs.

Please stop defending them as universal truths.

* That humans are strictly male or female with no overlap

* That gender is derived from ‘sex’ alone

* That sex is defined by just one biological indicator

* That sex cannot be changed

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Eye O' Newt @goldienewt.bsky.social · 2d

Snuck into Portland. It's as terrible as you can imagine. Crows scavenge the landscape. People working on crochet projects at bus stops. Depressingly little in the way of Halloween decorations.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 3d

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 3d

Hurting poor people in red states is not hurting just MAGA- this kind of smug analysis helps no one and is a huge reason why Democrats don’t win in the South.

Major racial and ethnic groups in Alabama also experience higher rates of poverty compared to poverty nationally. Among white residents, 11% live in poverty compared with 9% nationally. Among Black residents, one quarter live in poverty compared with 21% nationally. Among Latinx residents, one quarter live in poverty compared with 17% nationally, an 8-point variance.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 3d

80 years separate these photos, of 2 staving kids.

Same shit, different religion.

If you're taking sides, you're on the wrong side.

It's gone beyond stupid religions.

They're starving kids.

It's 2025.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 3d

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye

Cartoon. Two people standing on a stage looking at a third person who is jumping down through a trap door. In the foreground we see the backs of the audience’s heads. One standing people observes “It’s just a stage he’s going through”

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Reluctant Trail Runner. Enthusiastic Couch Potato. Chocoholic. @richardofshoes.bsky.social · 3d

If your 'business' model depends on stealing from people, you aren't running a business, you're running a criminal enterprise.

Also, .. wtf are their investors smoking?

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Chris Thursten @cjpt.bsky.social · 3d

Grand Moff Tarkin says that the target area is only two metres wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. A precise hit will

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 3d

Our media lets us down badly :

Labours accomplishments - rarely mentioned

Nigel Farage’s house - dropped/ignored

Nathan Gill’s admission of working for Russia - zilch

Russia/Iran funding Reform/Farage - silence

Instead they spread lies on the Budget/MPs/anything to discredit Labour

Why????

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 4d

Since when did protesting against genocide become un-British?

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Reluctant Trail Runner. Enthusiastic Couch Potato. Chocoholic. @richardofshoes.bsky.social · 4d

Apparently I get a vote on the Labour deputy leadership through my union. Hmm .. Who to pick? 😕

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Reluctant Trail Runner. Enthusiastic Couch Potato. Chocoholic. @richardofshoes.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, I know people throw away money on all sorts of ridiculous things, but nobody is going to buy something that says 'Powered by Grok' on it, surely?

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Reluctant Trail Runner. Enthusiastic Couch Potato. Chocoholic. @richardofshoes.bsky.social · 4d

"We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, and enable wider efficiencies.".

But people don't believe it will do those things! The public haven't asked for this.

Restore trust? How about listening?

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Sylvie62 @sylvie-62.bsky.social · 4d

You’re missing the key point that the key threat actor in this endeavour is UKG itself. Even the act of implementation undermines trust because your party is bigoted / discriminatory / authoritarian and completely not to be trusted with something like this

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 4d

"If we do this project unlike every other major delivery project we have ever then this time it will work"

LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · 4d

'Done right, digital ID could restore trust in the state' argues Dan Howl

‘Done right, digital ID could restore trust in the state’ – LabourList

Trust is the lifeblood of any modern democracy, and the foundation of every successful digital system. And so, in the case of Digital ID, Government…

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 4d

MI6 insiders slam Palestine Action ban as 'distraction' from real counter-terrorism

It seems everyone with any expertise on terrorism, including MI6, was against the Palestine Action ban - yet Labour proceeded anyway
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

MI6 insiders slam Palestine Action ban as 'distraction' from real counter-terrorism

It seems everyone with any expertise on terrorism, including MI6, was against the Palestine Action ban - yet Labour proceeded anyway

www.thecanary.co

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 4d

The thing is: lots of these “achievements” haven’t actually happened yet. They’re just announcements. And another set are either continuations of longstanding Tory policy (fuel duty freeze), or else quite stodgy macroeconomic stuff

Labour likes to say it’s a comms problem. It’s a substance problem.

Adam Payne @adampayne26.bsky.social · 4d

From Peter Kellner's latest substack:

Of 560 Labour voters present and recent past (switched since '24), *not one* said any of the following when asked about gov's best achievements

Some obv will be conscious of these things, but Labour still has a big problem, he writes: "voters aren’t hearing"

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