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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 20h

I’m so close to writing an article about the Harry Potter fandom: exploring what used to exist, pre Rowling coming out as a bigot, compared to the state of to fandom now. The main thing stopping is fear of Rowling and her goons, I don’t want invite harassment on myself and my family!

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 23h

a man says " i shall simply say good luck " in a close up

ALT: a man says " i shall simply say good luck " in a close up

media.tenor.com

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 1d

Disability benefits processes, “reforms”, and cuts kill people.

They kill disabled people through poverty.
They kill disabled people through fear.

And all the current rhetoric, hate, and misinformation kills more.

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 1d

Rereading my masters dissertation and I did not remember I'd dedicated it to my Dogs (both very sadly now gone)
instant 1D6 psychic damage

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 1d

This ruling is cruel, homophobic, transphobic and misogynistic, It’s also fucking unworkable. Thia is how fascism works, it creates an unfollowable set of rules for marginalise minorities, so they can punish us for not being able to follow them

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 1d

Due to my long hair people regularly get confused and think I'm a trans femm not trans masc, its happed at work and back in the day it happened on a tinder date. Apparently the fact I hadn't previously stated what was in my pants meant I was somehow deceiving my date, even if they knew I was trans

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2d

If she'd been married and lied about being single or if she'd been a convicted abuser and lied about that she would not be going to jail.

People lie all the time before sex, during sex and after sex.

If you're trans, that's a crime.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 2d

She's been jailed - to be raped every night.

She's in a male jail. Despite living as female since she was 13.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 1d

It sucks so much because learning is a joyful process and should be both encouraged and free for everyone

Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 1d

That’s heartbreaking to hear; the entire university system in both the US and UK is collapsing due to the systemic defunding of the arts humanities and social sciences. The only reason I’m able to do this PhD is a grant and even that’s now been discontinued for new students

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 1d

There's a few cool alt-people doing PhDs in my department (Media Arts and Hummanities), but most us won't even make minimum wage when we're done, so I can see why numbers are dwindling

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 1d

I really need to stop posting, get out of bed and do some goddamn work

Continues to doom scroll

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic.
Coincidentally I’m wearing the old Green Party uniform, they make very comfortable pyjamas!

Person wearing a Green Party “trans trains T-shirt” holding a plush shark

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 1d

Bold of Peter Thiel to call anyone else the Antichrist

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 1d

This is so fucking evil, they are intentionally taking kids healthcare away, knowing full well it’s going to destroy lives and likely kill some of them. That’s not an accident; that’s the whole point, to reduce the number of trans people by any means. Its eugenics, plain and simple.

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 2d

"Laura found an NHS Dr in Brighton who helped support her daughter for 6 months.

Laura described it as ‘six months of support bliss’ before NHS ICB Sussex (Integrated Care Board) began investigating them."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

MP fails to support suicidal constituent

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her suicidal15-year-old daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 2d

Funny the NHS gave me HRT aged 19, a decade ago none of this was an issue, the only reason they bring up transition age now is to try and prevent legal adults from transitioning. Without HRT ar 19 I'd never have been able to go to uni let alone have my career as a researcher!

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 2d

When the Supreme Court can act as if trans people never had rights, retroactively redefine “sex” in the 1974, 1975, and 2010 Acts of Parliament, and somehow deem criminal law to incorporate that by reference, who even needs to persuade the legislature to pass laws criminalising trans people?

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 2d

Got a new bargain dress from a charity shop, makes me feel like a 1940s ghost. I think it was previously worn for drag as someone has already altered it to make the chest area flat, yay for whoever did that!

Gender ambiguous person in a gold sequinned fishtail dress

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

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Anti-authoritarian Venezuelan politician beats Trump to the Nobel Peace Prize

US president Donald Trump has failed in his bid for a Nobel Peace Prize, as surprise winner Maria Corina Machado is announced instead.

www.thepinknews.com

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 2d

Things were bad in the uk then, but it’s even worse now, I wouldn’t even trust the police to collect a doughnut from Greg’s

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 2d

8 years ago me and another trans person were assaulted by one of my exes. We ended up deciding we couldn’t report her because we didn’t want to put her through the uk legal system. But to this day I live in terror, knowing she’s still out there and probably hurting more trans people!

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 2d

Just one more.

The Study
Every Study Ever:
Reliable transit, safe active transportation options and fewer cars will improve cities.
City:
Hmm, can we really trust every study ever done?

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET FiLiA ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE

The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's segregationist Supreme Court ruling.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 3d

@ohsarahsavage.bsky.social attacks the failure of Brighton council allowing the anti-trans faux-feminist group Fillia to hold a “conference” in the city.

"Our city is being invaded by transphobes this weekend." Trans Pride Brighton issues statement ahead of "anti-trans" Filia Conference

This weekend the Brighton Centre will host the Filia Conference 2025, an event which bills itself as a feminist event, raising issues about global women's rights. Sounds great, right? Well, it’s a lie...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 4d

The existence of even one “gender-crit” who doesn’t understand the difference between anecdote and data dismantles the central lie that “gender-critical beliefs” are not inherently based on conversion therapy and a misrepresentation of science.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4d

The existence of even one Catholic convert dismantles the central lie of religion, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

See I can make bullshit, nonsense arguments too, Heritage Foundation.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 3d

TW: child suicide.

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The NHS continues to fail trans kids.

This child’s suicide was preventable, the coroner said, but not by the NHS as it is currently operating.

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 4d

The BBC is CAPTURED at the highest level by ardent right-wing supporters, funders, and propagandists!

There is absolutely NO WAY that the BBC is not significantly biased and explains the broadcaster’s significant push towards right-wing rhetoric & promotion of hard-right politicians.

pygmyshrew.bsky.social @pygmyshrew.bsky.social · 27d

So the #TypicalToryTraitors appointed to the #BBCBoard continue to say whatever #TuftonStreet wants, whenever it wants, and #Labour allows it to continue... why?
#DisbandTheBBCBoard

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