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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 15h

Amazing x

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Brendan Hay @bhay.bsky.social · 1d

Call me old fashioned, but I try to only work for folks who I can definitively say didn’t take photos with half-naked young people.

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 15h

oh another moral crusader holding people to high standards and discriminating against *looks* yikes gonna be hard to defend this one

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 20h

Humpday Blues? Join Shiv and Jared for jolly japes, uncomfortable truths, and battles most awesome!

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Retro gamer extraordinaire! Playing retro games through time (badly!) and trying to justify the 6,000+ steam game library. Gotta have a purpose! About me? I'm a trans woman who has been relatively obs...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Because of the unforgivably appalling decisions of the Charity Commission, these hate groups, Sex Matters and LGB Alliance, are funded from your taxes.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Tony Silver @tony-silver.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think enough is made of Starmer appointing a SexMatters director into number 10 as comms manager.

Or that SexMatters wrote to NHSE asking for the blocker study to be cancelled because being trans in the UK with no rights is undesirable.

Letter here..
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...

Behind the ruling: how ‘Sex Matters’ is shaping UK policy on trans rights

The UK Supreme Court ruling redefined ‘sex’ – but for trans people, it’s the start of something far more sweeping and exclusionary

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 1d

100% accurate comment

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 1d

People need to stop treating twitter as if it's anything other than those anonymous forums you could post on back in the 00s lol

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

are they trying to make him look guilty

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 1d

Does this guy not get what he looks like? This was obviously the best they could do.

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 2d

Would you swipe right or left? 🤔

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

labour have not reversed any of the harms tories caused disabled ppl( like me ) and they have increassd attacks, medical disinformation around neurodivergence, and have implemented harsher cuts — with even more to come.

labour have betrayed disabled ppl.

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 1d

Let's get to a future where it's Greens on the Left and Lib Dems on the Right

Currently on track for Cons on the Left and Reform on the Right

Let's shift that overton window, baby!!

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.

The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.

The Greens say enough is enough.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.

The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.

The Greens say enough is enough.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1d

7 Oct 2025 -- More than 48,000 adult in UK are now waiting for their first NHS gender clinic appointment as of March 2025-- 12.5% increase over 2024. (No word on the wait times for cis adults seeking HRT from NHS but it can prbly be counted in minutes.) @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 1d

Appointed by WHO?

WHO made this decision? Because they really need holding to account

Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 2d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 2d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 1d

of course

bigot actions don't require any kind of clinical rationale. the entire roll back of trans healthcare and rights globally right now comes down to a few thousand bigots having said "eww they're gross" for a decade.

It's only when you want to help trans people you need rationale.

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 1d

my nan's birthday was 7/7

hits different now when you're shouting about how much you love 7/7 (rip my crazy angel from 1921)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 2d

From Christian Concern and Sex Matters to the LGB Alliance, UK anti-Trans+ groups share ideological and strategic links with US organisations like ADF and the Heritage Foundation

What’s unfolding is a coordinated global effort to erode individual freedom, crush liberation, and control our bodies

Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.

Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 2d

wow what a real piece of shit

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 3d

"Welfare system should be a safety net, not a lifestyle choice... that’s why we will stop benefits for anxiety" Helen Whately, Shadow Secretary for State, work and pensions. Daily Mail.

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 2d

When he realised he'd messed up, this bottomfeeder said "Oh I didn't mean the LGB people".

Literally called TQ+ people "paedos" on tv.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

We're pleased that the loathsome comments carried by GB News, which equated being LGBT+ with being a paedophile, have been found in breach of the Ofcom code, following 71,000 complaints collected by @goodlawproject.bsky.social. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including 'paedos' in breach of Ofcom code

A GB News presenter saying “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom said.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

We're pleased that the loathsome comments carried by GB News, which equated being LGBT+ with being a paedophile, have been found in breach of the Ofcom code, following 71,000 complaints collected by @goodlawproject.bsky.social. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including 'paedos' in breach of Ofcom code

A GB News presenter saying “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom said.

pressgazette.co.uk

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