Alan
@anyoldshiz.bsky.social
Grumpy old teacher, there is a lot wrong with this world but it can still be beautiful. He/Him
"freedom is privilege extended, unless shared by one and all"
"freedom is privilege extended, unless shared by one and all"
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New favourite phrase…
“Copious amount of alcohol”
I thank you. 🎄
“Copious amount of alcohol”
I thank you. 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
New favourite phrase…
“Copious amount of alcohol”
I thank you. 🎄
“Copious amount of alcohol”
I thank you. 🎄
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Greta Thunberg being arrested today.
Free Greta.
Free Greta.
December 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Greta Thunberg being arrested today.
Free Greta.
Free Greta.
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“disavowing” your vote does jack shit for the people who said it would harm them and are now screwed by the current thing they asked you not to do
Rep. April McClain Delaney is disavowing her January vote in support of a law that requires federal law enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants accused — but not convicted — of certain crimes.
December 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“disavowing” your vote does jack shit for the people who said it would harm them and are now screwed by the current thing they asked you not to do
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The campaign group Defend Our Juries said Thunberg's arrest could signal "a new level of repression", questioning whether police had misapplied the ban on Palestine Action or whether expressions of support for detained activists were now being treated as terrorism offences.
December 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The campaign group Defend Our Juries said Thunberg's arrest could signal "a new level of repression", questioning whether police had misapplied the ban on Palestine Action or whether expressions of support for detained activists were now being treated as terrorism offences.
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On Saturday, Palestinians held a funeral for five people killed after Israel attacked a school sheltering displaced people in the al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City.
December 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
On Saturday, Palestinians held a funeral for five people killed after Israel attacked a school sheltering displaced people in the al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City.
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Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
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Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
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In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, including a child, during separate raids in Jenin governorate.
December 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, including a child, during separate raids in Jenin governorate.
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Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy
Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.
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Consider: In that one little red dot, there are 200-400 billion stars. 🤯
December 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Consider: In that one little red dot, there are 200-400 billion stars. 🤯
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Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
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'Listen to me as I come to your neighbourhood and tell your trans siblings they are subhuman or I will use the wealth of billionaires to sue you into oblivion,' is a very late-capitalism form of free speech right.
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
'Listen to me as I come to your neighbourhood and tell your trans siblings they are subhuman or I will use the wealth of billionaires to sue you into oblivion,' is a very late-capitalism form of free speech right.
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Our MA Children's Literature at Goldsmiths is building a library of academic works that show what we're about: 'Children's Literature in Action'; 'Adventures in Wonderland'; 'Reading Children's Fairytales' as well as books by individual lecturers.
December 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Our MA Children's Literature at Goldsmiths is building a library of academic works that show what we're about: 'Children's Literature in Action'; 'Adventures in Wonderland'; 'Reading Children's Fairytales' as well as books by individual lecturers.
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This is Trans Mission.
A Solidarity Concert for one night only, raising vital funds for Good Law Project and Not a Phase 💓
Get your tickets here 👉 https://www.transmissionlive.uk/
A Solidarity Concert for one night only, raising vital funds for Good Law Project and Not a Phase 💓
Get your tickets here 👉 https://www.transmissionlive.uk/
December 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This is Trans Mission.
A Solidarity Concert for one night only, raising vital funds for Good Law Project and Not a Phase 💓
Get your tickets here 👉 https://www.transmissionlive.uk/
A Solidarity Concert for one night only, raising vital funds for Good Law Project and Not a Phase 💓
Get your tickets here 👉 https://www.transmissionlive.uk/
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Trump regime's creepy obsession with kids' genitals continues www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Trump regime's creepy obsession with kids' genitals continues
The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it is acting to effectively ban gender-affirming care, and they couldn’t seem to do so without senior officials making strange statements about ...
www.dailykos.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Trump regime's creepy obsession with kids' genitals continues www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GEMS survey.
It is at redshift 0.51 (lookback time 5.28 billion years) with coordinates (52.89040, -27.97980).
109 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
It is at redshift 0.51 (lookback time 5.28 billion years) with coordinates (52.89040, -27.97980).
109 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
December 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GEMS survey.
It is at redshift 0.51 (lookback time 5.28 billion years) with coordinates (52.89040, -27.97980).
109 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
It is at redshift 0.51 (lookback time 5.28 billion years) with coordinates (52.89040, -27.97980).
109 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
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“Finalizing the rule would mean major hospitals will likely abandon their youth gender clinics, pushing trans youth to increasingly darker sources for their life saving medicine.”
Political attacks on trans healthcare are based on an ideological desire to erase trans people. We must challenge this.
Political attacks on trans healthcare are based on an ideological desire to erase trans people. We must challenge this.
Opinion | The looming disaster for trans health care
Katelyn Burns: How the GOP is using its anti-abortion playbook against trans health care.
www.ms.now
December 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
“Finalizing the rule would mean major hospitals will likely abandon their youth gender clinics, pushing trans youth to increasingly darker sources for their life saving medicine.”
Political attacks on trans healthcare are based on an ideological desire to erase trans people. We must challenge this.
Political attacks on trans healthcare are based on an ideological desire to erase trans people. We must challenge this.
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That Arty Davies hasn’t jumped ship to Reform is astounding.Given his views,he’d fit in very well.Looks like they have the same source,and surprised that Arty didn’t include “Wales needs Reform UK”🥴😂
What 🏴 needs is a govt+politicians that put our communities first,not Westmin/Russian cheerleaders
What 🏴 needs is a govt+politicians that put our communities first,not Westmin/Russian cheerleaders
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
That Arty Davies hasn’t jumped ship to Reform is astounding.Given his views,he’d fit in very well.Looks like they have the same source,and surprised that Arty didn’t include “Wales needs Reform UK”🥴😂
What 🏴 needs is a govt+politicians that put our communities first,not Westmin/Russian cheerleaders
What 🏴 needs is a govt+politicians that put our communities first,not Westmin/Russian cheerleaders
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I don't suppose fellow I-still-have-a-Rosary types will need to be told how happy I am to be reviewed in America Magazine
Reviewed the (great) new book by @themountaingoats.bsky.social for America
Review: the catholic Catholic imagination of John Darnielle & the Mountain Goats
John Darnielle's 'This Year: 365 Songs Annotated' collects lyrics from, and brief reflections on, 365 different Mountain Goats songs. Catholicism saturates his lyrics, which include references to sain...
www.americamagazine.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I don't suppose fellow I-still-have-a-Rosary types will need to be told how happy I am to be reviewed in America Magazine
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It's incredible to me how the mainstream press will be incredulous and skeptical when RFK Jr and other HHS officials push they're quackery around vaccines but suddenly become credulous when they go attack trans healthcare. Anti vax and anti trans beliefs are all the same quack pseudoscience.
December 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's incredible to me how the mainstream press will be incredulous and skeptical when RFK Jr and other HHS officials push they're quackery around vaccines but suddenly become credulous when they go attack trans healthcare. Anti vax and anti trans beliefs are all the same quack pseudoscience.
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They buried it because it blamed the same exact consultants and orgs that scapegoated trans people and "the groups" for the loss. They can never accept any responsibility for their failures. The Dem establishment can never fail, it can only ever be failed.
A big reason this is bad is it could let the Future Forward Super PAC escape any accountability for the 2024 loss. It had hundreds of millions of dollars in donor money, and the DNC report was reportedly going to fault them. Now this will remain undisclosed:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
December 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
They buried it because it blamed the same exact consultants and orgs that scapegoated trans people and "the groups" for the loss. They can never accept any responsibility for their failures. The Dem establishment can never fail, it can only ever be failed.
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Irish HSE (NHS equivalent) has criticised the terrible National Gender Service (NGS), which many view as transphobic, & reactionary. Govt has made clear they want a healthcare system that’s right for trans & non-binary ppl. This is unprecedented & the first time that the HSE has called out the NGS.
The HSE said that the National Gender Service doesn't have the authority to close its waiting list. Read 👉 buff.ly/8gU9Gki #GCNnews
December 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Irish HSE (NHS equivalent) has criticised the terrible National Gender Service (NGS), which many view as transphobic, & reactionary. Govt has made clear they want a healthcare system that’s right for trans & non-binary ppl. This is unprecedented & the first time that the HSE has called out the NGS.