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transsafety.network
Trans Safety Network are concerned to see that NHS England have committed to expanding the role of the National Research Oversight Board for Children and Young People’s Gender Services to cover audit and research for adult patients too.
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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jtp.bsky.social
vouch. the only reason i'm not doing DIY HRT myself is because i'm fortunate enough to be able to go to an informed consent clinic. i had a wait time of about a week before my first appointment where they give me all the info, then i got prescribed hrt a week later on my second appointment. ezpz
"The obvious solution" says O'Thomson, "is to adopt an informed consent model of trans healthcare, provided at primary level, rather than relying on gatekeepers."
December 19, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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parkermolloy.com
Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
The vote tally: 216-211
December 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.

This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
A Quote Tweet from NYC Councilmember Vickie Paladino @VickieForNYC stating: “We’re in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen, and we cannot ignore it. “We need to take every seriously the need to begin the expulsion of Muslims from western nations, or at the very least the severe sanction of them within western borders. “The administration needs to begin developing a formal legal framework for the denaturalization process and get it over with before we end up with another 9/11 or worse. Enough is enough.” The quoted tweet from @DrewPavlu stating: “AUSTRALIAN HERO TOOK GUN OFF SHOOTER “TERROR ATTACK SYDNEY AT LEAST 10 DEAD “AUSTRALIAN HERO TOOK DOWN GUNMAN”
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
It’s so hard to adjust from stage to film
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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jtp.bsky.social
im sorry but this is funny
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5d
In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.
Three uniformed state troopers stand inside a government building near a sign directing visitors to women’s restrooms and elevators, with wood-paneled walls and columns in the background.
December 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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ramiismail.com
Any attack targeted at people just because they are Jewish is as barbaric and evil as any attack on people just because they are Palestinian, or whatever other nationality. I will not accept any justification or relativization for this horrifying act of antisemitism in my mentions. Evil, period.
Eleven killed at Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese brands attack on Jewish worshippers act of antisemitism and terrorism
www.middleeasteye.net
December 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing. While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too. On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.
December 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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gamerstavernshow.com
Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers.

NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 8d
Hogwarts Legacy is free on Epic Games Store. Mystery game is the next title buff.ly/HE94Ti2
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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foxygekkerson.bsky.social
Reminder that JK Rowling sees any support of Harry Potter as an endorsement of her political beliefs, and she uses Harry Potter royalties to further her transphobic hate campaign. Your friends and family might not think you're a bigot for buying Harry Potter shit, but Rowling herself certainly will.
December 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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aftermath.site
Doom studio id Software unionizes to secure AI protections, benefits: "We see the direction the industry is headed"
aftermath.site/id-software-un...
Doom
December 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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godheadheavyindustries.life
so insanely fucking real for this
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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junlper.beer
jimmy fallon has a knack for embracing scams
December 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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fourverts.bsky.social
sam altman is being sued by his SISTER for sexual abuse. who gives a shit about his dogshit product that’s corroding brains and vaporizing the planet??? what is going on in this fuckin world
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10d
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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simonxix.com
British Library staff are on strike from the 8th to the 12th December 2025. Full solidarity with them, please don't cross the physical or digital picket lines. I wrote a little in my latest piece on the Library about how poor senior management has driven the staff to this position.
December 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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jonworth.eu
After the little Musk-Sikorski spat this, and Musk's statement to abolish the EU (after the Commission fined X), let's ask ourselves simply:

HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?

In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
The Musk - Sikorski Twitter spat
December 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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ulycia.bsky.social
while we are at it: regular reminder that in scotland, legally, both under older legislation and uncrc, parents do not have *rights* they have *responsibilities*. it's children who have rights.

"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
ballotbox.scot Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 19d
That MSPs are now openly saying stuff like this is chilling. "Controversial groups like LGBT Youth Scotland"? LGBTYS didn't need to be in my schools for me to be gay, but they sure as hell would have helped me avoid 9 years of fear and self-loathing if they had been. Despicable stuff.
Dr Pam Gosal MBE MSP @PamGosalMSP Parents are the primary guardians of their children and we must not strip them of their rights. While the intentions behind the Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill are good, it risks stripping parents from their rights while also opening the back door to dangerous ideologies. Children are not old enough to do many things, but the Scottish Government think they are old enough to override their parents when it comes to religious education and observance. At the same time who is to say that some will not try to hijack this bill to bring in harmful ideologies such as gender ideology? Controversial groups such as LGBT Youth Scotland are already operating in primary schools, including in my area of East Dunbartonshire, and this legislation risks creating a scenario whereby schools can ignore the wishes of parents who wish to withdraw pupils from such teachings. That is why I voted ‘No’ on the general principles of this bill.
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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goingmedieval.bsky.social
Oh word?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_an...
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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ross-greer.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥 While everyone is distracted by other budget news, Labour have just announced that they will allow more drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea 🔥🔥🔥

Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
BBC headline: More North Sea drilling to be allowed in new Labour plan
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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airfriedrosie.bsky.social
Welcome to the UK, where minors are blocked from accessing porn but it's perfectly legal for a grown man to shout about sissy hypno porn in a minors face.
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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goingmedieval.bsky.social
If Dundee implodes, which seems to be simply accepted at this point, where were those workers go? Who will employ them? This government is either too stupid to think about that or too callous to care. Possibly both.
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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goingmedieval.bsky.social
Obviously this government are wantonly reckless and idiotic and their treatment of universities, and see this as a disciplining of an out of touch elite.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
davehitchcock.bsky.social Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24d
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.

per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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jwsal.bsky.social
When your local council shuts all your libraries next year and the parks fall into disrepair, it will be because they have a legal duty to house homeless people in a city with a gigantic housing crisis, where all the worst accommodation is being rented back to councils by slum landlords.
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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jwsal.bsky.social
Zooming out from the proximal causes of the housing crisis and council budgets, the UK's land ownership is monumentally unequal. 1% of the population owns 50% of the land, and we don't even know who owns 20% of Britain because the land hasn't been bought and sold for more than 100 years.
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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adamchristopher.me
Anyway time to post this again.

AI is a tool of fascism.
Batman breaking a rifle in half from a 1986 comic. The rifle has a label "AI (even if you're making fun of it)" and Batman is saying "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM