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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗

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Trans humanist https://screedvault.neocities.org/ For I dance And drink & sing: Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 25d

My latest screed.

Are we living in a simulation?

...of democratic choice that is...
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Labour: Trying to lose, or merely expendable?

Intro Recently, political blogger and YouTuber Richard J Murphy released an interesting video entitled Is Labour trying to lose the 2029 election? (transcript here)\nIn this video he (in my opinion) a...

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 34m

They just want to make doubly sure that there are as few "convincing" trans people as possible.

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 35m

The worst thing about Starmer is that he doesn't even have a dog in the fight, he just lets it happen.

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 36m

Well, conservative Christians are given positions in the EHRC and in the Supreme Court from which they can set the human rights agenda for everyone else, Christian or not, so no wonder they feel emboldened.

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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 16h

Today (date), the Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct. The first bird extinction on mainland Europe in 500 years — on our watch. Extinction is final. No going back. Think about that.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 1h

Opposition to surrogacy and opposition to trans would be two of the items on the hit list of the Catholic document "Dignitas Infinita" ticked off.

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 1h

The "freedom cities" will be their prisons which will go to waste while the outside world prospers.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

www.bbc.com

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 3h

You may be onto something. This totalitarian and ultimately religious right motivated law is meant to force trans people to out themselves, thus preserving a particular religious notion of sex (Genesis 1:27) and putting fundamentalist Christianity in charge of human rights.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 4h

If they succeed in collapsing civilisation which appears to be their aim, the tech billionaires are in for rude awakening. They will discover that society is the basis of survival for humans.

Humans aren't like cats or other animals that can survive on their own.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 5h

The hatred of some of these people obviously goes down to the level of chromosomes and DNA. I'm already 2 minutes into this and I am struck by the same sneering malignity and the humourless mocking smiles.

They seem to share with religious fundies the same vengeful misanthropy (not misandry).

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 5h

Who benefits from this Chagos Islands deal? The British don't, having to lease back islands we owned for billions. The Chagossians don't even want to stay there any more. Only Mauritius benefits. Starmer seems a weird and disturbing character.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Surge in Chagos arrivals prompts row over housing costs

Dozens of Chagossians have flown in to Heathrow Airport this week, putting pressure on housing services.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 5h

John Carpenter's Power Rangers

Lexi’s Chainsaw Massacre @surrealhousewife.bsky.social · 5h

John Carpenter’s Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole

JonBOOnét Rumsfeld @jonbenetrumsfeld.blacksky.app · 5h

John Carpenter's The Passion of the Christ

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EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · 6h

#UK #Politics @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social seems to be intent to bend the rules as far as she can. In her latest move to obfuscate the origin of campaign funds, she created Bridget Phillipson Campaigns Ltd. of which MP Emma Foody is majority shareholder and sole director. The company was established

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 5h

There is definitely a narcissistic exceptionalism to this new billionaire "elite."

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ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 13h

So remember that man who attacked an elderly woman and shoved her in a bin because he thought she was "a man dressed up as a woman and that she was actually a predatory paedophile"? She died. Transphobes have more blood on their hands 🤬

(Original story www.rte.ie/news/courts/...)

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 15h

#DeceptionAsToSex

Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 18h

1/🧵 Is there any information on whether Ciara Watkin plans to appeal the bristling miscarriage of justice that effectively criminalises the sex lives of all trans people in England?

Recorder Peter Makepeace KC‘s misogynistic remarks shocks me.

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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 15h

Omg Portland REALLY understands the mission.

Pass this on. We need this movement nationwide 🔥🔥

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 19h

Then why do we persist in fighting crime, running economies, farming, industry and all the other stuff when there's cancer to be cured, or the threat of nuclear war to be tackled?

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 19h

Or we could be sensible and tackle all at the same time.

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks to the attitudes of cyclists and e-bikers, for whom momentum appears to give them right of way, my life as a pedestrian is a stressful vigilance task. Do I dare move to the left or the right? Better check behind first. Not everybody is going to do that.

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Ashleeee 🎃🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 20h

Alright, I’ve now fully exhausted all the administrative avenues regarding the Cass Review freedom of information requests. Time for a judicial review next? I’ll need to seek legal advice.

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 21h

Trump has a real prospect of never losing power, unlike this bozo.

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 21h

Gone like Kate Forbes, who along with Ash Regan, was another BBC favourite around the time of the blocking of Scottish Gender Recognition reform, as I recall.

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 21h

@neilmackay.bsky.social
These figures are a f*cking fraud.

For years now the police have run a secret policy to refuse to deal with any report of online crimes motivated by hatred of trans people.

Trans people have been fully aware of this, and have lost all trust in the police and

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 1d

SEEN Police UK state the drop in number of hate crimes against trans people is fraud, as GMP are taken to Judicial Review after a secret policy of refusing to deal with ANY reports of hate crimes against trans people is obtained.

How far does this go? This ‘data’ is shit

www.gov.uk/government/s...

Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2025

www.gov.uk

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 21h

I wonder if they mentioned who had claimed responsibility?