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We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy.
Urge your MP to sign @sianberry.bsky.social Early Day Motion 👇🏼
action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...
Urge your MP to sign @sianberry.bsky.social Early Day Motion 👇🏼
action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...
January 22, 2026 at 11:44 AM
We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy.
Urge your MP to sign @sianberry.bsky.social Early Day Motion 👇🏼
action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...
Urge your MP to sign @sianberry.bsky.social Early Day Motion 👇🏼
action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...
“What if the answer isn’t to run faster. What if the most powerful thing we can do. All of us. All together at once. Is to stop running; and look around?”
Brilliant messaging. Join a union 😉✊
and join the Greens 💚
join.greenparty.org.uk
Brilliant messaging. Join a union 😉✊
and join the Greens 💚
join.greenparty.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 7:39 PM
“What if the answer isn’t to run faster. What if the most powerful thing we can do. All of us. All together at once. Is to stop running; and look around?”
Brilliant messaging. Join a union 😉✊
and join the Greens 💚
join.greenparty.org.uk
Brilliant messaging. Join a union 😉✊
and join the Greens 💚
join.greenparty.org.uk
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Patriotism is an appropriation of a set of emotions you have about where you are and where you are from and how you relate to a shared identity with your community, to turn it into a weapon.
January 20, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Patriotism is an appropriation of a set of emotions you have about where you are and where you are from and how you relate to a shared identity with your community, to turn it into a weapon.
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Reassuring the people of Greenland and the international community that we will not be complicit in Trumps threats is the opposite of warmongering.
The Daily Express having a normal one as usual.
The Daily Express having a normal one as usual.
January 15, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Reassuring the people of Greenland and the international community that we will not be complicit in Trumps threats is the opposite of warmongering.
The Daily Express having a normal one as usual.
The Daily Express having a normal one as usual.
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'You can vote at 16 but can't use social media at 15 and 364 days' is not a coherent policy platform.
January 15, 2026 at 9:18 AM
'You can vote at 16 but can't use social media at 15 and 364 days' is not a coherent policy platform.
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To break the techno-permacrisis, we need:
⚫ Interoperability, where people can move social media platforms while carrying their followers with them.
⚫ Digital Sovereignty, where our digital infrastructure is run on homegrown open source software under the principle of 'Public Money, Public Code'.
⚫ Interoperability, where people can move social media platforms while carrying their followers with them.
⚫ Digital Sovereignty, where our digital infrastructure is run on homegrown open source software under the principle of 'Public Money, Public Code'.
January 15, 2026 at 9:15 AM
To break the techno-permacrisis, we need:
⚫ Interoperability, where people can move social media platforms while carrying their followers with them.
⚫ Digital Sovereignty, where our digital infrastructure is run on homegrown open source software under the principle of 'Public Money, Public Code'.
⚫ Interoperability, where people can move social media platforms while carrying their followers with them.
⚫ Digital Sovereignty, where our digital infrastructure is run on homegrown open source software under the principle of 'Public Money, Public Code'.
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Even if it's voluntary, Digital ID still creates a surveillance infrastructure.
This could be expanded later on as a requirement to access public services.
As we've seen with eVisas, digitalising interactions with the State without physical backups creates problems for people in their real lives.
This could be expanded later on as a requirement to access public services.
As we've seen with eVisas, digitalising interactions with the State without physical backups creates problems for people in their real lives.
January 14, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Even if it's voluntary, Digital ID still creates a surveillance infrastructure.
This could be expanded later on as a requirement to access public services.
As we've seen with eVisas, digitalising interactions with the State without physical backups creates problems for people in their real lives.
This could be expanded later on as a requirement to access public services.
As we've seen with eVisas, digitalising interactions with the State without physical backups creates problems for people in their real lives.
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The climbdown over mandatory Digital ID is a victory for ORG and other groups that warned of the threats to everyone's civil liberties.
BUT questions still remain.
Despite this latest U-turn, neither the scheme nor the giant pricetag have gone away entirely.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
BUT questions still remain.
Despite this latest U-turn, neither the scheme nor the giant pricetag have gone away entirely.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK government rolls back key part of digital ID plans
Workers will be able to use other identification for right to work, meaning digital form not mandatory
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:15 PM
The climbdown over mandatory Digital ID is a victory for ORG and other groups that warned of the threats to everyone's civil liberties.
BUT questions still remain.
Despite this latest U-turn, neither the scheme nor the giant pricetag have gone away entirely.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
BUT questions still remain.
Despite this latest U-turn, neither the scheme nor the giant pricetag have gone away entirely.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I mean this sincerely: I would not still be here if I had not had access to online community as a teenager.
Social media shouldn't be banned for under-16s. Here are four reasons why ⬇️ And the fourth is the one people never talk about...
January 14, 2026 at 2:52 PM
I mean this sincerely: I would not still be here if I had not had access to online community as a teenager.
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The Government have u-turned on ID Cards.
Good.
Authoritarian plans to scrap jury trials need to go next.
Good.
Authoritarian plans to scrap jury trials need to go next.
January 13, 2026 at 7:03 PM
The Government have u-turned on ID Cards.
Good.
Authoritarian plans to scrap jury trials need to go next.
Good.
Authoritarian plans to scrap jury trials need to go next.
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Wes Streeting loves listening to any aul shite when it comes to kids
Wes Streeting asks US expert Jonathan Haidt to address officials on social media ban for under-16s
Wes Streeting asks US expert Jonathan Haidt to address officials on social media ban for under-16s
Exclusive: Health secretary issues invitation in push for UK to consider copying landmark restrictions in Australia
Wes Streeting has asked Jonathan Haidt, a bestselling author and high-profile advocate of banning social media for under-16s, to speak to his officials in his push for the UK to consider following a landmark ban in Australia.
The health secretary has invited Haidt to address an event with staff, charities and MPs after the prime minister, Keir Starmer, said he was open to stricter limits for young people. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Wes Streeting loves listening to any aul shite when it comes to kids
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"It's long past time the post-truth left admits that bisexuals actually are incapable of sitting normally" - me for the Atlantic, if I became an opportunistic hack like Haidt
January 14, 2026 at 12:47 PM
"It's long past time the post-truth left admits that bisexuals actually are incapable of sitting normally" - me for the Atlantic, if I became an opportunistic hack like Haidt
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It's time to see real action in the Scottish budget. £125 million would make a huge difference to healthcare, education and local services.
It's time to tax the super rich.
1/2
It's time to tax the super rich.
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January 13, 2026 at 11:28 AM
It's time to see real action in the Scottish budget. £125 million would make a huge difference to healthcare, education and local services.
It's time to tax the super rich.
1/2
It's time to tax the super rich.
1/2
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🚨 NEW | Brits OPPOSE Trump's invasion of Venezuela by a whopping 30pt margin, reveals new poll.
✅ Approve: 21%
❌ Disapprove: 51%
Via @yougov.co.uk, 5 January 2026
✅ Approve: 21%
❌ Disapprove: 51%
Via @yougov.co.uk, 5 January 2026
January 5, 2026 at 8:11 PM
🚨 NEW | Brits OPPOSE Trump's invasion of Venezuela by a whopping 30pt margin, reveals new poll.
✅ Approve: 21%
❌ Disapprove: 51%
Via @yougov.co.uk, 5 January 2026
✅ Approve: 21%
❌ Disapprove: 51%
Via @yougov.co.uk, 5 January 2026
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Full-throated admission that torturing queer people and designating women as reproductive property is core to the sanctified patriarchy of your belief system.
A huge problem for a sane world, in my view. :)
A huge problem for a sane world, in my view. :)
An open letter to the Government warning that its plans for a “full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices” could “criminalise mainstream, historic Christian teaching on marriage and sexual ethics, and make sharing the Gospel with some people illegal” has more than 5000 signatories.
Full ban on conversion therapy would ‘criminalise mainstream Christian teaching’, Government told
AN OPEN letter to the Government warning that its plans for a “full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices” could “criminalise mainstream, historic Christian teaching on marriage and sexual ethics, and make sharing the Gospel with some peopl...
www.churchtimes.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Full-throated admission that torturing queer people and designating women as reproductive property is core to the sanctified patriarchy of your belief system.
A huge problem for a sane world, in my view. :)
A huge problem for a sane world, in my view. :)
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Socialism is the politics of hope - and it can win ✊💚
January 1, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Socialism is the politics of hope - and it can win ✊💚
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There is no possible iteration of adultery laws that do not ultimately amount to handing abusers more tools to control their victims and of you think there is it's because you're a dipshit tbh.
December 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
There is no possible iteration of adultery laws that do not ultimately amount to handing abusers more tools to control their victims and of you think there is it's because you're a dipshit tbh.
This is why Pride should never be ticketed
The trademarks being sold include the Manchester Pride & Mardi Gras brand names, website, content, merchandise and social media accounts.
It is also selling a customer database of historical ticket sales 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/manchester-p...
It is also selling a customer database of historical ticket sales 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/manchester-p...
Manchester Pride's assets set to be carved up and sold to recover £230K of debt
Liquidators have begun the process of selling key Manchester Pride assets in order to recover debt from the charity
www.wearequeeraf.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is why Pride should never be ticketed
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I don’t want your shitty dignity and respect. Nothing short of equality and justice will do.
December 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I don’t want your shitty dignity and respect. Nothing short of equality and justice will do.
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A Chinese advanced persistent threat actor compromised the Home Office network, though not the hosts. This is the section of the government network where the digital ID scheme systems would be located.
youtu.be/RTz5cEDtUWc
youtu.be/RTz5cEDtUWc
Chinese cyber gang reportedly hacked Foreign Office data
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A Chinese advanced persistent threat actor compromised the Home Office network, though not the hosts. This is the section of the government network where the digital ID scheme systems would be located.
youtu.be/RTz5cEDtUWc
youtu.be/RTz5cEDtUWc
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We also suggest you email your GIC the following to ensure your opt-out is clear and ask to have a note of this added to your care record.
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We also suggest you email your GIC the following to ensure your opt-out is clear and ask to have a note of this added to your care record.
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This can be done via the following links, the first to stop GP records being shared and the second to stop secondary care records being shared: www.nhs.uk/using-the-nh...
digital.nhs.uk/services/nat...
digital.nhs.uk/services/nat...
Opt out of sharing your health records
Find out how to opt out of sharing your health records for research and planning.
www.nhs.uk
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This can be done via the following links, the first to stop GP records being shared and the second to stop secondary care records being shared: www.nhs.uk/using-the-nh...
digital.nhs.uk/services/nat...
digital.nhs.uk/services/nat...
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In light of this, Trans Safety Network strongly suggests all transgender people in England consider opting out of their healthcare data being used for research.
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In light of this, Trans Safety Network strongly suggests all transgender people in England consider opting out of their healthcare data being used for research.
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and a 2025 FOI asking for minutes + associated documents for the CYPGS Research Oversight Board revealed a communications strategy that suggested CYP clinicians should “possibly participate” in conferences hosted by SEGM + CAN-SG, whilst only mentioning WPATH and BAGIS conferences “for awareness”.
CYP Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board agendas, papers and minutes - a Freedom of Information request to NHS England
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please could you provide, subject to any necessary redactions to omit personal or confidential information which is not pe...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
and a 2025 FOI asking for minutes + associated documents for the CYPGS Research Oversight Board revealed a communications strategy that suggested CYP clinicians should “possibly participate” in conferences hosted by SEGM + CAN-SG, whilst only mentioning WPATH and BAGIS conferences “for awareness”.
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... and SPLC listed hate group SEGM (www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...), ...
Anti-LGBTQ
Anti-LGBTQ+ ideology opposes rights, spreads harmful pseudoscience, and uses demonizing rhetoric to portray LGBTQ+ people as threats to society.
www.splcenter.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
... and SPLC listed hate group SEGM (www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...), ...