@fuchsiablack.bsky.social
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Reform Kent council spends £600k on eight free parking spaces for senior councillors
Reform council spends £600k on eight free parking spaces for senior councillors | LBC
The majority of staff, who will not be able to use the free parking facilities available to their senior colleagues, will still be expected to pay to park every day
www.lbc.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Reform Kent council spends £600k on eight free parking spaces for senior councillors
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Left: France to ditch US platforms citing security concerns
Right: UK gives billions to US platforms
France, in the EU, is investing in their sovereignty
UK, outside the UK, is giving away our sovereignty
Right: UK gives billions to US platforms
France, in the EU, is investing in their sovereignty
UK, outside the UK, is giving away our sovereignty
January 28, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Left: France to ditch US platforms citing security concerns
Right: UK gives billions to US platforms
France, in the EU, is investing in their sovereignty
UK, outside the UK, is giving away our sovereignty
Right: UK gives billions to US platforms
France, in the EU, is investing in their sovereignty
UK, outside the UK, is giving away our sovereignty
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Suella Braverman, "There is a very strong case to increase the powers of any immigration enforcement officers that we deploy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
January 26, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Suella Braverman, "There is a very strong case to increase the powers of any immigration enforcement officers that we deploy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
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The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians:
‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’
‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’
January 25, 2026 at 1:57 PM
The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians:
‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’
‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’
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Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.
January 25, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.
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"46 Jahre seines Lebens verbrachte Ibrahim Akkuş in Deutschland. Die letzten sechs Jahre waren geprägt von Pflegebedürftigkeit, Einsamkeit, Armut und großem Leid – um sich selbst, um seine Familie und um seinen 1980 ermordeten Bruder. „Ich bin in meinem Leben nur dem Schmerz begegnet“, sagte er"
Ibrahim Akkuş wollte, dass seine Geschichte gehört wird Ich hoffe dieser Nachruf kann ein wenig dazu beitragen.
taz.de/Hanau-Ueberl...
taz.de/Hanau-Ueberl...
Hanau-Überlebender stirbt an Spätfolgen: „Ich wünsche mir, dass Menschen einander nicht töten“
Ibrahim Akkuş ist mit 70 Jahren an den Folgen des rassistischen Anschlags von Hanau gestorben. Er kämpfte gegen Einsamkeit und das Vergessenwerden.
taz.de
January 20, 2026 at 1:43 PM
"46 Jahre seines Lebens verbrachte Ibrahim Akkuş in Deutschland. Die letzten sechs Jahre waren geprägt von Pflegebedürftigkeit, Einsamkeit, Armut und großem Leid – um sich selbst, um seine Familie und um seinen 1980 ermordeten Bruder. „Ich bin in meinem Leben nur dem Schmerz begegnet“, sagte er"
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Der Angriffskrieg der islamistischen Regierung in Syrien gegen Rojava verläuft an zahlreichen Fronten im gesamten Nord- und Ostsyrien. Auch wenn verlässliche Informationen über den Umfang der Gebietsverluste in Rojava kaum erhältlich sind, ist absehbar, dass Rojava ohne Verbündete wenig Chancen hat.
January 18, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Der Angriffskrieg der islamistischen Regierung in Syrien gegen Rojava verläuft an zahlreichen Fronten im gesamten Nord- und Ostsyrien. Auch wenn verlässliche Informationen über den Umfang der Gebietsverluste in Rojava kaum erhältlich sind, ist absehbar, dass Rojava ohne Verbündete wenig Chancen hat.
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I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
January 17, 2026 at 9:42 AM
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
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This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.
Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
Bose speakers un-bricked
buff.ly
January 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.
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THIS IS SO FUCKEN PUNK IT RULES
EXCLUSIVE: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will be sworn in as mayor on midnight on January 1 inside the old abandoned City Hall subway station, saying that he sees the venue as a symbol for the aims of his upcoming administration.
EXCLUSIVE: Mamdani Will Be Sworn In At Abandoned Original City Hall Subway Station
The mayor-elect will kick off a new era by throwing things back to an older one.
buff.ly
December 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
THIS IS SO FUCKEN PUNK IT RULES
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Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:
Populists attack London because it is ‘progressive and successful’, says Sadiq Khan
Rightwing attacks on one of the world’s most visited cities at odds with reality, says mayor
www.ft.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:
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Who'd've thunk Graun'd cover me favorably? But the US (less-TERF) desk did thanks to @joolia.bsky.social: "[Trump 2.0] demonstrates the weaknesses of Harris’ brand of feminism, even as it precipitated crises in every aspect of life that demand a feminist response" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right
In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists today
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Who'd've thunk Graun'd cover me favorably? But the US (less-TERF) desk did thanks to @joolia.bsky.social: "[Trump 2.0] demonstrates the weaknesses of Harris’ brand of feminism, even as it precipitated crises in every aspect of life that demand a feminist response" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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The results are in! People hate AI! But not as much as they hate the people foisting it on them!
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The results are in! People hate AI! But not as much as they hate the people foisting it on them!
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Wrote up my predictions for 2026.
-I think 2025 will have been rock bottom.
-The Trump coalition is going to panic and fall to infighting as election day draws closer.
-The AI bubble will get even more obviously bubbly.
-We'll begin the long road to repair.
🤞
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
-I think 2025 will have been rock bottom.
-The Trump coalition is going to panic and fall to infighting as election day draws closer.
-The AI bubble will get even more obviously bubbly.
-We'll begin the long road to repair.
🤞
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Some 2026 Predictions
I think we've made it past rock bottom?
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Wrote up my predictions for 2026.
-I think 2025 will have been rock bottom.
-The Trump coalition is going to panic and fall to infighting as election day draws closer.
-The AI bubble will get even more obviously bubbly.
-We'll begin the long road to repair.
🤞
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
-I think 2025 will have been rock bottom.
-The Trump coalition is going to panic and fall to infighting as election day draws closer.
-The AI bubble will get even more obviously bubbly.
-We'll begin the long road to repair.
🤞
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
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Maybe the main thing that gets me; trans people are such a tiny minority that if the 1st through say, 15th things you think/say/(God forbid post) about them aren’t variations on “How can I help them out?” you are genuinely going out of your way to be weird and mean.
Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
December 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Maybe the main thing that gets me; trans people are such a tiny minority that if the 1st through say, 15th things you think/say/(God forbid post) about them aren’t variations on “How can I help them out?” you are genuinely going out of your way to be weird and mean.
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The political desire to define women solely in terms of their reproductive capacity is, and always has been, a way to control their bodies. This is why affirming trans rights is also affirming women’s rights. Feminism disrupts patriarchal logics that seek to police people according to their biology.
December 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The political desire to define women solely in terms of their reproductive capacity is, and always has been, a way to control their bodies. This is why affirming trans rights is also affirming women’s rights. Feminism disrupts patriarchal logics that seek to police people according to their biology.
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The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
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"This is a moment that requires bravery in standing up for right. Organisations that value trans people should know not just that the law is on their side – but so, also, are many people who will step up to defend them if they have the courage to take a stand." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson
Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too, says Jess O’Thomson of the Good Law Project
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"This is a moment that requires bravery in standing up for right. Organisations that value trans people should know not just that the law is on their side – but so, also, are many people who will step up to defend them if they have the courage to take a stand." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It is the White Wing who cry about everything.
People with a different religion, cry.
Not every face is white, cry.
Women don't want them because they are awful, cry.
People don't want to work for slave wages, cry.
Cry, cry, cry, cry.
People with a different religion, cry.
Not every face is white, cry.
Women don't want them because they are awful, cry.
People don't want to work for slave wages, cry.
Cry, cry, cry, cry.
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It is the White Wing who cry about everything.
People with a different religion, cry.
Not every face is white, cry.
Women don't want them because they are awful, cry.
People don't want to work for slave wages, cry.
Cry, cry, cry, cry.
People with a different religion, cry.
Not every face is white, cry.
Women don't want them because they are awful, cry.
People don't want to work for slave wages, cry.
Cry, cry, cry, cry.
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“Mental health services should be places of refuge, not risk, and equality protections must strengthen, not erode, the conditions that enable people to feel safe and supported.”
It’s good to see more organisations speak out against politics that degrade trans people’s safety, health, and wellbeing.
It’s good to see more organisations speak out against politics that degrade trans people’s safety, health, and wellbeing.
Rules on single-sex spaces pose risk to trans people’s mental health, UK charities say
Fifteen organisations sign letter expressing deep concern over EHRC guidance being considered by ministers
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
“Mental health services should be places of refuge, not risk, and equality protections must strengthen, not erode, the conditions that enable people to feel safe and supported.”
It’s good to see more organisations speak out against politics that degrade trans people’s safety, health, and wellbeing.
It’s good to see more organisations speak out against politics that degrade trans people’s safety, health, and wellbeing.
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I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
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"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
What does this do for women's rights?
What does this do for women's rights?
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
What does this do for women's rights?
What does this do for women's rights?
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With so much abuse from cis men still covered up , with so much misogyny rife , with anti trans activists starting to turn towards abortion rights - well done to all the bigots who decided relentless abuse of trans kids was the solution #translives
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
With so much abuse from cis men still covered up , with so much misogyny rife , with anti trans activists starting to turn towards abortion rights - well done to all the bigots who decided relentless abuse of trans kids was the solution #translives
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"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"
“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”
“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”
EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion
After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.
goodlawproject.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"
“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”
“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”