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Recovering STEM brain, occasional poet. Increasingly a fan of lampposts. they/them, but you can also use he/him https://medium.com/@crimson-flag

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 7h

I'm so sorry mate, I hope the heartache gives way to good memories sooner rather than later.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 7h

Folks, it would be hugely appreciated if you could help James raise the money they need to get this sorted.

Please donate if you can and share it about.

an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 13d

I've been quiet for a while. It's been due to a number of factors, the most prominent of which is poor health.

I need surgery, and I'm stuck in limbo. Please help.

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 16h

Will she though? And if YP decides the same policy Adnan would have to do the same, but he doesn't belong there for multiple reasons regardless. Again I stand with my Trans comrades working to make it so.

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 16h

And neither of us would have Chowns near anything either. But I do support the people working to be rid of both.

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 16h

Haha well...

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 16h

And the parlimatary greens are led by a TERF, but let's allow for things to filter through shall we? I understand you are vested and that's great, but I'm supporting people organising in their interests here. The same way I supported comrades who did the same in the green party.

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 16h

They have voted to, and via comrades joining to make it so, but parties come with inertial and votes do not always transform into action. Especially when the people in question are MPs. A challenge for both parties. I hope both rise to it, let's see.

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 16h

Let's hope we get both. More is more in this case.

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 16h

That's rather explicit. In the same way the greens need to ditch their TERFs
But let's let people sort that out in those parties.

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 16h

And I will head this off now: I'm sure some of you are green party Partisans. It's good to see another front in the war. However, I don't privilege any electoral vehicle over people organising themselves. Think the greens got there without comrades dragging them to it?

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 16h

Here for my comrades, that's the line.

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 17h

Is there anything better than seeing people organise? Haha fuck no!

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 17h

Beautiful.

Trans Liberation Group @transliberationgroup.org.uk · 21h

We are the Trans Liberation Group and we are fighting for a foundation of trans liberation in Your Party, in its current and future iterations.

Founding Statement:
The situation for trans people in Britain is critical. We face a barrage of billionaire bankrolled abuse in the media. We endure decades long waiting lists to access limited healthcare, with dehumanisation and pathologisation built in to the system.

In the job market, we are met with discrimination, lack of opportunity and stagnating pay. We are excluded from housing, healthcare, employment, leisure - now even our use of bathrooms is policed.
- Trans Liberation Group

Something must change.
- Trans Liberation Group

Founding Statement:
For trans people, today’s politics is exhausting. The major political parties have used and discarded us time and time again. Too often, exclusionary figures are embedded in leadership capacities, and even in progressive parties, those on the fringes can spew hatred unchallenged.

We say no more. This cannot happen in Your Party. The liberation of all marginalised people can only be achieved through their active and equal participation in class struggle; there can only be a precarious freedom for some under current conditions.
- Trans Liberation Group

ounding Statement:
We are the Trans Liberation Group and we are fighting to ensure Your Party, in its current and future iterations, explicitly advocates for trans liberation, and encourages the political participation of trans people.

We know there are prominent figures who have been platformed under the banner of Your Party who hold regressive, misinformed and dangerous views on trans people. We are here to show them that this is our party, and we will fight tooth and nail to prevent this oppressive
politics from taking root.
- Trans Liberation Group

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking Guardian columnists nostalgic for sensible Tories, like we're not here because of them is such gut churning liberal collaboration it's hard to find words adequate to my loathing. Unserious and cosseted arseholes.

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 1d

So far as anyone in authority is concerned there's *never* a right time to protest.

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 1d

So being appalled by genocide is unBritish now? I mean, we knew.

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WeCreateTogether @wecreatetogether.bsky.social · 1d

The winner of our 'Locked Out' themed challenge was the brilliant @afrocommie.bsky.social !

Come hear our interview with them, and hear their thoughts on art, creativity, 'Your Party,' and Milkshakes!

youtu.be/uFRMtHjhlHE

Society Wants To Lock Me Out - A WCT Interview with Marlowe

YouTube video by WeCreateTogether

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 2d

One day everyone will accept Netanyahu to be pure evil. It will be a mainstream consensus. At that point he will be used as a convenient sponge for all the crimes against humanity that have been perpetrated in his time. As if it all started and ended with him. Always remember - it was never just him

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, why not make it more obvious that governments don't really give a rats arse about their citizens.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 2d

Relentless bad faith, conflation and flat out lying has consequence. It feels incredible that this should be news to adults given the fact we teach this to kids from the get go.

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate these things take on a life of their own, but for those who didn't realise: this is a harsh lesson in how you cannot whip up fear and hate to suit your own ends and then simply put it away when you get what you want.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

And damn, I had missed that John Woodcock is now accusing his former party of inciting terrorism and complicit in racial hatred. A truly amazing stupid prize here, and just reward for a decade of increasingly stupid games.

Government's former anti-extremism tsar claims Labour has been 'complicit' in 'demonisation' of Israel in warning about 'conducive atmosphere for anti-Semitism' after Manchester attack

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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 3d

Typical Labour bring in a disproportionate stupid law and when people protest it, make the protest illegal.

Guardian front page , photo of a group of cops in hi viz and wearing blue surgical gloves somewhere in central London. Headline reads “police to get new power to crack down repeated protests, says Home Secretary.

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans looking on in bemusement no doubt.

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 3d

Well when the periphery is pretty close at hand a quick flight to the core is all it takes.

Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) arrest protestors in Trafalgar Square, London, for holding signs which say they oppose genocide and support Palestine Action.

Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 5d

I'll admit, it was a surprise to me as well. I guess that is the internet all over though.