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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 1h

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/n...

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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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 4h

They're a propaganda tool.

Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 4h

Nick Clegg supports theft. Lest we forget, he supported austerity.

Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 5h

It tried to get that human essence, but he helped Sam Porter Bridges put a stop to it.

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Adrián Guízar 📎 @adrianguizar.bsky.social · 10h

Portland frog responds after ICE pepper sprayed into his suit's airvent: "I kinda coughed a little, that's about as much as it did to me. Just a little peppermint taste. I've tasted spicier. I'm Mexican what do you expect."

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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 8h

How much has this madman cost us already?

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 8h

Trump pressure to hike UK drug prices could cost NHS billions.

Corporate profits will increase. NHS budget will buy less. People to pay higher taxes or face public service cuts.

To avoid bullying UK Govt must produce cheaper generic drugs.

Who governs UK - Govt, Trump, Corporations?

Trump pressure to hike UK drug prices could cost NHS billions, experts warn

Anew deal will only trigger further increased price demands and make healthcare in the UK more expensive, say experts

www.independent.co.uk

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 18h

To be fair, your mum isn't entirely wrong on Totoro. There is a sequel short they only show on Studio Ghibli tours (that leaked online) called Mei and the Catbus, if I remember right.

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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 18h

Can verify: this isn't just America.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

One of the most perverse ideas on the anti-trans side is that trans people are instantly affirmed and celebrated by everyone when they come out and that acceptance is driving a social contagion.

It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d

Bugonia? Why? Save The Green Planet was already brilliant! What next? An American The Happiness of the Katakuris? Tokyo Tribe remade with fucking Kanye West? Wild Zero without Guitar Wolf? Knock it off!

Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d

The AI industry doesn't need copyright to do it. They can't make a profit 95% of the time. They aren't businesses.

Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d

Tbf, when Thatcher got in, it was due to economic problems. Blair, the damage of Black Wednesday. Cameron, financial crisis. Starmer, cost of living. It works both ways.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

20,000 new members have joined the Green Party in the past month.

This is the Green surge.

Want to be part of it? Join the Green Party today ⤵

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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d

Shame Labour are transphobic, genocidal, banning protest, banning freedom of expression, now, openly racist, Islamophobic, constantly claiming Jews and Israel are the same thing (which is anti-semitism), and have a crazed castrator in the Home Office with a PM less popular than Badenoch.

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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch's speech:

"We will stamp out stamp duty... because I know what a woman is! We will cut benefits... because I know what a woman is! We will know what a woman is... because I know what a woman is!"

I'm going to enjoy watching her get punted to the backbenches.

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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d

"Reform, promising free beer tomorrow.

"Jeremy Corbyn, promising free jam.

"Lib Dems, promising free lentils."

- Kemi Badenoch, thinking that it's still the time of the Corn Laws.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, go on, whack your signature on this one too!
Let's get our voices heard everywhere.
See the link in the post below.
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And if you can possibly help with legal costs (via @translucent.org.uk), please do donate here: translucent.org.uk/keep-hampste...

Madeleine Moore @matheleine.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is likely to be one of the first big tests of how far down the bigotry rabbit hole this country has gone. Everything we can do to fight back helps - please sign!

goodlawproject.org/petition/kee...

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

goodlawproject.org

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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 2d

Tories being dropped like they smell bad. That's what happens with a zombie party. It gets that corpse-stench.

Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not in the US, though. It's bad enough here in the UK.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

Just wow!

@zackpolanski.bsky.social absolutely kills it in the @greenparty.org.uk party political broadcast.

"Let's make hope normal again"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt4...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

www.youtube.com

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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 2d

Everything is easier with truth on your side!

Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, Megan.

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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 3d

I'm going to use BlueSky a bit less. It's not doing good things for my mental health right now. All the news and stuff is making me incredibly anxious and scared.

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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 3d

At some point, a Cameron-style centre-right presenting Tory leader will become leader. If it's before the next election, they could very well crush Labour & Reform. But it won't be because the current Tory Party are battier than Nora Batty battering Batman with a baseball bat.

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