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Alexander Pitt 🏳️‍🌈

@takingthepitt.bsky.social

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I'm a gamer with a love of DnD, Watford and general vibes 27 They/Them Gay AF Manchester.

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Alexander Pitt 🏳️‍🌈 @takingthepitt.bsky.social · Oct 18

if you don't know much about me. I stream on twitch at twitch.tv/takingthepitt

I play videogames a lot and have an unhealthy obsession of Watford FC, Formula 1 (I like cars going in circles) and DnD

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 8h

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 8h

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

goodlawproject.org

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Make Some Noise @makesomenoiseshow.bsky.social · 8h

O...n...o... 🫣🎯

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 8h

🚨 The EHRC has withdrawn advice to segregate Trans+ from website, and told businesses to seek legal advice 👇

The move comes amid approval for a draft code which largely advises the same, but campaign group the Good Law Project says businesses who continue to follow could face legal action 🧵

Screenshot of EHRC website that reads:

The draft code was submitted to the Minister for Women and Equalities for approval on 4 September 2025. The next stage is for a draft code, as approved by her, to be laid before Parliament.

On 15 October 2025, we wrote to the minister to ask for:

an update on that process
the revocation of the 2011 version of the code, as it is now out of date in various respects
Given these important developments, we have removed the interim update from our website. Duty bearers should:

continue to take specialist legal advice, as before, on their obligations under any relevant legislation, including the Equality Act 2010 and Human Rights Act 1998
use the new code when it is approved by Parliament

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Dulse Yeen @yeen.paw.bs · 20h

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 10h

Given there is no schedule for when the code becomes statutory, and the whole reason for the “interim guidance” was supposed to be to stop people being in limbo, what was the justification for removing it?

Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 11h

The EHRC has just taken down their transphobic interim guidance 👀

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/our-work/uk-supreme-court-ruling-meaning-sex-equality-act-our-work

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Alexander Pitt 🏳️‍🌈 @takingthepitt.bsky.social · 12h

"hello and welcome to Jetlag 1960s, where we're going all commonwealth states using only boats trains and public transport that would have existed at the time"

Fantasy Football Scout @ffscoutfpl.bsky.social · 12h

Introducing the highest-scoring FPL player in 25/26

📸 Erling Haaland (IG)

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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 15h

Being asked on question time if you would nationalise large breasts

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Alexander Pitt 🏳️‍🌈 @takingthepitt.bsky.social · 17h

And you know what that's completely fine. That car looks absolutely gorgeous

Alexander Pitt 🏳️‍🌈 @takingthepitt.bsky.social · 1d

Well the wind sometimes blows it off. I don't think anything happens

Alexander Pitt 🏳️‍🌈 @takingthepitt.bsky.social · 1d

Possibly but since the ball is in play very irregularly I doubt it would have any material impact on play

Alexander Pitt 🏳️‍🌈 @takingthepitt.bsky.social · 1d

I watched Lewis Hamilton win six driver championships in 7 years. It does not ever get old for them

karl 🎃 @waterotter.bsky.social · 1d

I just feel like there must be no sense of achievement in this. No one else has ever done this, she's done it 3 times.

It's not that she's released an incredible album, as swifties themselves will admit. It's just that she's figured out how to fix the game? It would feel hollow to me, personally.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 2d

What’s your favorite song in the top 10 on this week’s Hot 100?

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Alexander Pitt 🏳️‍🌈 @takingthepitt.bsky.social · 1d

Describing any player who used to play in the Premier League as an "ex-premier League ace"

Alexander Pitt 🏳️‍🌈 @takingthepitt.bsky.social · 1d

I still remember my grandad always answering the phone the same way no matter what in the exact same cadence. There's a very funny story about my brother. When he used to work in a call centre you could hear the people answering across multiple channels and he heard my grandpa answer the phone.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Alexander Pitt 🏳️‍🌈 @takingthepitt.bsky.social · 1d

In that weird YouTube period of mid-2014 where that aspect of British YouTube was sort of falling apart with scandal. They were relatively constant and it's so nice to see the good eggs like them and Charlotteisocoollike doing well and thriving

Alexander Pitt 🏳️‍🌈 @takingthepitt.bsky.social · 1d

The dark souls bonfire meme but it's 'precedent set'

Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 1d

Some good news from the employment tribunal, but it does make me wonder why is Royal Mail so bad at trans rights?

www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-postal...

Trans postal worker wins discrimination case against Royal Mail

A trans postal worker has successfully sued Royal Mail for harassment and discrimination after enduring repeated abuse from colleagues, in what is being hailed as a landmark legal victory. Sophie Col...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 1d

Some good news from the employment tribunal, but it does make me wonder why is Royal Mail so bad at trans rights?

www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-postal...

Trans postal worker wins discrimination case against Royal Mail

www.scenemag.co.uk

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Alexander Pitt 🏳️‍🌈 @takingthepitt.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I swear they had already discussed this before 😭😭

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Esse House UK @essehouse.bsky.social · 5d

It's not the law, but if you need the job more than you need the fight (and cant afford to take them to court) then we suggest getting an accessible toilet key. You can get them on amazon, or if you are on low income, we will send you one for free here: www.essehouse.co.uk/pip-program

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Alexander Pitt 🏳️‍🌈 @takingthepitt.bsky.social · 2d

Ok so.. I'm considering getting into Pokémon VGC. What should I know?

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 2d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Chain Bear F1 @chainbear.bsky.social · 2d

I've heard multiple times people say this is the worst championship in ages and I honestly don't know what they're talking about

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