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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · 5d

I can excuse supplying weapons to a genocide but I draw the line at a trans person using the bathroom in peace.

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Engineer's dignity 'may have been violated' in toilet incident, tribunal hears

Maria Kelly has taken legal action against Leonardo UK alleging harassment and discrimination after seeing a transgender colleague using female toilets.

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · 16d

Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.

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Lakeshore Drive Slut @shredded-teat.bsky.social · 28d

THIS YOU? MASTER THREAD

1. Jeremy Clarkson

In response to a tweet by Jeremy Clarkson with text "For the first time in my life, I'm genuinely frightened about being a newspaper columnist."

Twitter user @OfSymbols says "This you?" linking a screenshot of this text from The Mirror:

"Jeremy Clarkson: 'striking public sector workers should be shot'

TOP Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson caused outrage last night when he said striking public sector workers should be shot dead "in front of their families"."

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · 29d

Interesting, it didn't when it was first published, that's a later addition

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Sep 10

Are there renters in Bristol?

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Sep 10

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Greenwich and Kent announce merger to form 'super-university'

Universities are facing ongoing financial worries, with the regulator saying other mergers could follow.

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Sep 10

BBC: "The UK's first 'super-university', stretching across an entire region, is to be created through the merger of the universities of Kent and Greenwich."

The University of the Highlands and Islands: you are like a little baby, watch this

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Aug 28

"I have done research on the party and Nigel Farage. Everything he says he will do – he does."

But Audrey... he literally hasn't done anything.

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Councillor Audrey Dempsey who made 'white racism' claim joins Reform

Audrey Dempsey was suspended from Scottish Labour over alleged racist remarks in April 2024 and later quit.

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Aug 28

If it is indeed possible for an AI to become conscious I highly doubt that we will be able to recognise it when it happens, which is a pretty scary thought.

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Aug 28

In an extremely crowded field, scrapping deminimis allowances might be the single most moronic thing I've seen Trump do in trade policy.

Infographic shown on NBC Nightly News:

PACKAGE CARRIERS SUSPENDING SHIPMENTS TO U.S.

United Kingdom
Germany
Lithuania
Czech Republic
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Greece
Spain
Andorra
Portugal
Malta
Liechtenstein
France
Italy
Slovenia
Austria
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Belgium
Finland
Latvia
Estonia
Netherlands
Poland
Switzerland
Thailand
Singapore
South Korea
India
Australia
Japan
New Zealand

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Aug 25

That @headgum.com sketch where Geoff is pitching "the pants version of jorts: jants."

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THE MIDWIT CUCKOO @kneelbeforeclom.bsky.social · Aug 25

I assume The Herald and BBC will be reporting extensive on this given their frequently stated concerns about freedom of speech in Summerhall lately.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Aug 25

To be clear what happened here.

Israel bombed a hospital.

They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive.

Then they bombed it again.

This is known as the 'double tap'.

You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Aug 21

The hilarious thing about Dean Cain being the face of ICE is him being lauded by the very same right-wing TV grifters that would be having a full screaming tantrum if they cast a half-Japanese Superman today.

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Aug 18

Cambridge lexicographers absolutely throwing in the towel when asked to define skibidi: "a word that can have different meanings or no meaning"

[screengrab of dictionary.cambridge.org]

skibidi

adjective • humorous slang

A word that can have different meanings such as cool or bad or can be used with no real meaning as a joke:

• "Skibidi, skibidi, skibidi," a boy of around seven sang to himself, as he dribbled a soccer ball.

• What the skibidi are you doing?

• What was the most skibidi part?

• In the viral song the words "you're so pretty" were replaced by "you're so Skibidi."

• That wasn't very skibidi rizz of you.

Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Aug 18

Why are bobbit worms so long? Absolutely no need.

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Aug 17

Even after that Scotrail remains abysmal compared to almost any European comparison. We have a very long way to go!

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Aug 15

It's 50-50 Donnie ends up selling Alaska back to the Russians, right?

Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Aug 12

Women *aren't* "born with egg-producing equipment." They're born with all the eggs they'll ever have. Another smash hit of a tweet from Joanne the science understander.

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Aug 8

I can excuse not knowing anything about Egyptology but I draw the line at a grown man not knowing what a drill brace is

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thinking about the Holocaust scholar who was sued and silenced by Rowling because she said Rowling was spreading Holocaust denialism (because she objectively was).

Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · Aug 6

I'm sorry, how many times has JK set lawyers on people because they criticised her?

Screenshot of a tweet by JK Rowling, "Freedom of speech means freedom to cause offence. The number of supposed liberals who’ve fallen at this most basic hurdle, because for the first time in their lives they risked losing the approval of their tribe, has been staggering."

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Aug 6

Superman (2025)

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Aug 4

This weekend thousands of people in the UK stood up against racists and far-right thugs only to have representatives of a nominally leftwing government support, enable and empower the racists. Why do you not hear the worries of those trying to protect minority rights and liberal democracy?

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Aug 4

Govt minister Angela Eagle is asked what her message is to people on the streets shouting "get this scum off our streets" & holding banners saying 'protecting women & children is not far right, its just right'

In her reply Eagle says "we hear your worries"

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Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Jul 29

The right wing solution to Israel-Palestine is peace by extermination.

Gary Dunion 🍉 @garydunion.bsky.social · Jul 29

I know it's far from the worst thing about this but Starmer meeting Trump *at Turnberry* is humiliating. "Oh no Mr Donald sir you mustn't trouble yourself to travel to No 10 or Chequers or even Holyrood, I wouldn't want to interrupt your golfing, I'll come to you."

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