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David Allsopp
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Scientist turned software engineer. He/him 🏹 Field archery 🐀 Rats 😷 COVID cautious 🏃 Parkrun https://medium.com/@davidallsopp @[email protected] @doublehelix on the birdsite
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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · Nov 17
A short thread of my essays on Medium - mostly debunking anti-trans disinformation and other bigotry

1) "Sex-based rights" are contradictory nonsense

The term is a dog-whistle slogan, coined just to exclude trans people, with multiple meanings — none of which make sense
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“Sex-based rights” are contradictory nonsense
The term is a dog-whistle slogan, coined just to exclude trans people, with multiple meanings — none of which make sense.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 57m
My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h
#WarRavagedPortland
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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 9h
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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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 14h
Here’s video of the incident
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h
NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18h
The subhed here is a master class in corporate journalism rewarding malfeasance via semantics

Bondi didn't valiantly fend something off, she refused to answer legitimate questions before Congress because the answers would be horrifying and politically inconvenient

And that's a profile in cowardice
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 23h
🐹 Before viral videos on TikTok or YouTube, there was Hampsterdance.

Full of dancing hamster GIFs & a sped-up tune, it became one of the internet’s first viral hits.

You can still dance to it on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19991222...

#Wayback1T

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22h
when you try and get your PhD advisor to review your manuscript 😂
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 22h
Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion
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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 18h
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 20h
"Gender critical campaigners have been accused of making “hateful” and “extremist” remarks at an event at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester after suggesting those who support trans rights have “broken brains” and that so-called gender ideology is “an evil”."

Pretty tame for them tbf.
Gender critical activists accused of ‘hateful’ remarks about trans women
Labour MP Richard Quigley said he was ‘appalled by the comments, but not surprised’
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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 21h
It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled?

Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 21h
As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.
Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money. https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491 Quote Corey Walker @CoreyWriting · 16h The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 22h
A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – it's time to fight back.

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive - add your name 👇
https://goodlawproject.org/petition/keep-hampstead-womens-pond-inclusive
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 19h
Remembering when Venice Allen proudly posted a video of herself haranguing the WOMEN at the Kenwood Pond meeting because they DIDN’T agree with her transphobia, and voted down the trans-exclusionary motion.

‘Gender critical’ transphobes resort to legal bullying when they don’t get their own way! 😖
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