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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 3h

Yup

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 8h

Sounds like what people who want to enable harassment say about dating.

Same issue, too: consent.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 6h

With thanks to @sparky373.bsky.social

A Joey and Phoebe meme. Phoebe says, “ADHD people know things need doing”. Joey says, “They know things need doing”. Phoebe says, “ADHD people want to do things”. Joey says, “They want to do the thing”. Phoebe says, “ADHD people can’t do the thing because their brain won’t let them”. Joey says, “They can’t do the thing”. Phoebe says, “So ADHD people need understanding and compassion”. Joey says “They’re just being lazy”.

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stacked-automation.bsky.social @stacked-automation.bsky.social · 1d

"vote for a labour party that does reforms policies so that reform doesn't get in" is... just voting for reform with deniability.

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Abi Stevens: MCM Ldn Oct @abistevensart.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus fucking christ, Labour really do seem to be competing hard for 'most hated' government. 🤬

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Sylvie62 @sylvie-62.bsky.social · 1d

What’s needed is an MP with the insight & courage to rise in the HoC and make the point that UKG is indulging in policy-based evidence-making in health and demand why these groups should be targeted and highlight broader risks to other health outcomes - e.g. contraception. Repeatedly, not a one-off

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The girl Bar-boo-ssa (~'o')~ @thegreatbarbossa.bsky.social · 1d

for the last time, ladies! when they ask you how you grew breasts without "legal" hrt, you say it's because of microplastic.
that way they'll do smth about that too.

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one of them juleses @julesetc.meangirls.online · 1d

when we said not to talk to journalists about diy, we meant it. and we meant it because of shit like this.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

😬

Guardian - Concern over cross-sex hormones available online for £11 a month

Guardian - Apology for student therapist (James Esses) expelled for his gender views

Guardian 'On shaky foundations' How good is evidence for treatment (trans kids)

Guardian - No single explanation - Why are so many girls questioning their gender?

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S Emmo @semmo28.bsky.social · 1d

Every day Labour politicians think.. we have a problem, what can we do to make it worse?

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 1d

AIUI there are still lots of recent studies that show that girls will frequently not be considered for referral or treatment with the exact same symptoms that boys have.

I believe some have even just submitted the same report but gender swapped and the ones with girl names get dismissed frequently.

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 1d

This is a complete joke. Neurodivergence is still massively under diagnosed in the UK. Pretty much every expert in the field recognises this.

They’re about to do to ADHD meds what Cass did to trans kids. Be very afraid.

Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 2d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 1d

See also: The Architect in The Matrix.

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 3d

In this case a set of conditions happened that could never have arisen without my ADHD meds because I’d have melted down before getting there.

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 3d

Fighting to hold on to the world was very very strange.

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 3d

Dissociated today for the first time in my life at the age of 52.
That was profoundly weird.

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 5d

Yeah. We've got to show us who's boss.

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 5d

Humanity: a species so utterly dumb that we point thousands of fusion warheads AT OURSELVES.

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 5d

FaceMelter, for the record, was just Carolina reaper paste

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 7d

Today is still the best day to cancel your subscription to the institutionally transphobic The Vichy New York Times!

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d

Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT has moved on from going after trans people and is now pushing the leasing question that autism diagnoses are too common because of its expansion of it to a spectrum.

archive.ph/Whji1

Alt text: A screenshot of a New York Times article titled “Should the Autism Spectrum Be Split Apart?” The image shows a woman with dark hair tied back with an orange patterned ribbon, smiling and leaning forward near a window with sunlight coming in. She is wearing a light orange top with thin straps.

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Cassandra 🌈 #notaphase @iforetolditso.bsky.social · 15d

They always tick multiple boxes of bigotry because it's ultimately all related.

anti trans is far right ideology no matter what packaging it comes in

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 15d

The Venn diagram of people who are weird about neurodivergence and those who attack trans people has been close to a circle for a while.

Seeing that pattern break is really interesting.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 7d

No! Transphobes should all be fired. Problem solved.

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/8231e81...

NHS Fife now says staff should use toilets based on biological sex

Move follows suspension of a nurse who complained about having to share a changing room with a transgender medic

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 7d

do liberal Brits think Britain invented hospitality

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 7d

Doing all this "Britain is when you say hello to your neighbours and eat oranges" shit while also announcing a crackdown on migrants. Fuck you.

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Sylvie62 @sylvie-62.bsky.social · 10d

Increasingly of the view that the next iteration of the DSM should include transphobia. It undermines society and causes sufferers to enter failed relationships and be unable to function wholly effectively in society. Transphobia should be pathologised

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 10d

Thangam lost to the Greens by a massive amount and Karin is going to. Coincidentally, both are massive transphobes and the alternatives are not

LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · 10d

Our event ‘Turning the rising Green tide’ in partnership with Hold Fast Labour is starting now in Meeting Room 11a ACC!

Featuring @_karin_c, @johnmcternan, @BellaSankey, @ThangamDebb, and @Scarlett__Mag of @StrategyMerlin.

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