@badhedgehog.bsky.social
My best bio was the one that said “I like pine trees, rally, and the delicious taste of egg.”
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tbh, islamophobia is the canary, antisemitism is one of your colleagues falling over as the mine lamp starts to catch a blue flame
antisemitism is a canary in the coal mine. if it’s rising it means your society is failing. i haven’t had my coffee yet but im pretty sure i mostly actually do believe this.
I don’t think there’s even a straightforward set of policy prescriptions for antisemitism because its both concurrent with and downstream of like 15 other massive societal problems we’re doing hardly anything to solve
December 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
tbh, islamophobia is the canary, antisemitism is one of your colleagues falling over as the mine lamp starts to catch a blue flame
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Just let people go for a piss, for Christ’s sake. Do you have any idea how insane it looks to have a cadre of mean-as-fuck official toilet monitors as your national equalities regulator.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Doubling down on effectively excluding trans and non-binary individuals from public spaces.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Doubling down on effectively excluding trans and non-binary individuals from public spaces.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said "things could be sorted out if there is goodwill and recognition that everybody has rights".
www.bbc.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Just let people go for a piss, for Christ’s sake. Do you have any idea how insane it looks to have a cadre of mean-as-fuck official toilet monitors as your national equalities regulator.
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Absolute failures of reading comp. here as ppl say “so trans men with beards will have to use the ladies lol” no- the whole point is they are being asked not to use *either* men’s or womens toilets & be relegated to some mysterious third category. It’s not a punchline; horrific deliberate bigotry.
When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet.
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just want that to sink in, there.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said
www.bbc.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Absolute failures of reading comp. here as ppl say “so trans men with beards will have to use the ladies lol” no- the whole point is they are being asked not to use *either* men’s or womens toilets & be relegated to some mysterious third category. It’s not a punchline; horrific deliberate bigotry.
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The first Rule of Bluesky is that you cannot make a throwaway remark about a particular topic without also accounting for the totality of history and human knowledge. It’s a tough rule, but fortunately we have an army of volunteer Hall Monitors working to maintain the quality – and laughs!
December 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The first Rule of Bluesky is that you cannot make a throwaway remark about a particular topic without also accounting for the totality of history and human knowledge. It’s a tough rule, but fortunately we have an army of volunteer Hall Monitors working to maintain the quality – and laughs!
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making this a sex panic about weird art and dildos is an abdication of our collective responsibility to the victims to work to abolish the power relations that make industrial scale sexual abuse and assault possible. it actively diverts our anger from power to sex panic. stop being reactionaries.
December 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
making this a sex panic about weird art and dildos is an abdication of our collective responsibility to the victims to work to abolish the power relations that make industrial scale sexual abuse and assault possible. it actively diverts our anger from power to sex panic. stop being reactionaries.
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profoundly damning of american discourse that these epstein photos are causing people to say “omg he had sex toys and shibari equipment ew” and not “the systemic abuse of women and girls is a banal fact of elite american life”
December 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
profoundly damning of american discourse that these epstein photos are causing people to say “omg he had sex toys and shibari equipment ew” and not “the systemic abuse of women and girls is a banal fact of elite american life”
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Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
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Someone once told me they call the bite of their toothless cat “the damp clamp” and we’ve called it that ever since. 😂
And they can still bite, and even kill mice. Those gums are hard!
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Someone once told me they call the bite of their toothless cat “the damp clamp” and we’ve called it that ever since. 😂
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Using AI tools to make your own work easier is cognitive fly-tipping. That work is just unloaded onto someone else downstream of you who will spend far longer sorting out your mess than you saved avoiding doing the work in the first place.
Eventually AI wastes everybody's time. Now it's archivists and librarians.
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Using AI tools to make your own work easier is cognitive fly-tipping. That work is just unloaded onto someone else downstream of you who will spend far longer sorting out your mess than you saved avoiding doing the work in the first place.
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like i understand why the UK Government can't say it, but it is absolutely wild to be attacking Zack Polanski for saying that Trump means America isn't a reliable security partner when his own son said *yesterday* that they might stop supporting Ukraine
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
like i understand why the UK Government can't say it, but it is absolutely wild to be attacking Zack Polanski for saying that Trump means America isn't a reliable security partner when his own son said *yesterday* that they might stop supporting Ukraine
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Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
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If you think it's important to exclude trans girls - trans CHILDREN - from the Girl Guides, ask yourself... why is it not a problem in all these other countries? And why is it still okay to have cis adult male volunteers in the UK? What is it you're actually trying to achieve?
December 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
If you think it's important to exclude trans girls - trans CHILDREN - from the Girl Guides, ask yourself... why is it not a problem in all these other countries? And why is it still okay to have cis adult male volunteers in the UK? What is it you're actually trying to achieve?
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My thread earlier focused on the discussion re. FWS - but I just want to draw this out really explicitly:
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
My thread earlier focused on the discussion re. FWS - but I just want to draw this out really explicitly:
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior.
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior.
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
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What makes me angriest about the fake AI videos where people yell at ICE is that there’s a million actual videos, there’s actual priests being pelted with pepper balls, it’s just that the real priest didn’t say “we worship the real God not your ORANGE one” so he wasn’t quippy enough
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
What makes me angriest about the fake AI videos where people yell at ICE is that there’s a million actual videos, there’s actual priests being pelted with pepper balls, it’s just that the real priest didn’t say “we worship the real God not your ORANGE one” so he wasn’t quippy enough
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Do you think McSweeney forces all the labour backbenchers into a lottery to become the BlueSky main character of the day or do they do it off their own bat?
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Do you think McSweeney forces all the labour backbenchers into a lottery to become the BlueSky main character of the day or do they do it off their own bat?
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The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.
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Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.
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Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
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The business of the British press is recruiting nuclear-powered wingnut crackpots to help kick fuck out of people the press despise and want to harm, part 439,528
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The business of the British press is recruiting nuclear-powered wingnut crackpots to help kick fuck out of people the press despise and want to harm, part 439,528
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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Every year we treat ourselves to a new decoration or two for the Christmas tree and this year’s additions are just absolutely outstanding
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Every year we treat ourselves to a new decoration or two for the Christmas tree and this year’s additions are just absolutely outstanding
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree
Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree