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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 36m

The problem is, we don't see what exposure to ideas does to us. The human brain is a machine for rationalising the irrational. It will tell you you're the same person you were a year ago no matter what you've been through. We all think - every single one of us - that we can't be manipulated.

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 1d

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 35m

"[SLAPPs] undermine public participation & the ability of professionals and civil society to share information, critique practices & hold influential actors accountable..."

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 37m

"By filing these claims, O’Malley and Genspect are attempting to chill public debate on matters of significant societal and medical importance."

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 42m

Stella O'Malley (7 years experience of well-funded anti-trans rhetoric) & Genspect (4 years of well-funded anti-trans advocacy) have taken legal action against 70-year-old Leonie O'Dowd (40+ years experience of counselling & supporting trans people) to shut her up. www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...

It’s a SLAPP: Stella O’Malley Targets Psychotherapist and Rights Advocate Leonie O’Dowd – CASE

www.the-case.eu

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 12h

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 1h

I guess because it's extinct, and they think they're being clever?

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 1h

Y'all appointed a transphobe & misogynist to candidate selection.

Bigotry is inherently anti-socialist, so you're in no position to throw stones.

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 1h

It's a party that unequivocally supports trans rights and hasn't thrown its female deputy leader under the bus.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11h

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 21h

Just seen a headline which asks "Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge?"

It's because she was a massive bastard. Hope that helps x

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 3h

Cash's cover of Hurt was better than the original, a fact that even NIN acknowledged.

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Slice of Fox @michaelwi.bsky.social · 18h

Another way of rewording her death being preventable is that it was caused by government action (in particular streeting). All Labour government members should be asked why they caused this.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

Graham Linehan went on trial for harassing a 17 year old trans girl. The same age as this girl who died as a result of online harassment.

Gender criticals showed up to that trial and laughed and mocked the victim. These are soulless ghouls.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 4

Graham Linehan is set to go on trial today on a separate charge of harassing and cyberstalking a trans teenager who was 17 at the time he did so.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 4

Everyone is rushing to defend Graham Linehan as some martyr to free speech but don't actually state what he tweeted. He explicitly called for people to violently assault trans women in the bathroom.

In another instance, he cyberstalked a trans minor. He's legitimately a danger to trans people.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 7

This is the shit that absolutely breaks me. That people could be so heartless as to celebrate and mock the death of a child simply because she's trans. People really don't understand the sheer level of hate people have for trans people.

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 14h

I mostly agree with you. In an ideal world, that would be the right solution. The problem is that judges are not dispassionate and have too much leeway.

If it hadn't been for outcry & a powerful victim statement, Brock Turner would have served 6 months.

Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 14h

And I don't mean 'pay a fine', which effectively legalises crime for the wealthy.

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 14h

Separately, when I say restitution, I mean the practical kind. E.g. a rapist paying for therapy. A vandal sweeping up broken glass. Practical recompense for their crime.

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 15h

I think for me it's total risk + restoration for the victim if possible. Not revenge, but some kind of restitution.

Ideally, RJ would be reserved for minor crimes / a parallel process. Then a main focus on rehabilitation and a minority of incarceration for dangerous / unrepentant criminals.

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 19h

Then Labour fudged the data on Trans+ suicide to cover up their complicity in Trans+ youth suicides

Never forgive and never forget

Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 20h

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.

Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 16h

I often wonder what the best solution for violent crimes.

The punitive justice system is ineffective & sympathetic to rapists. Restorative justice can retraumatise survivors or perpetuate abuse.

I feel like real rehabilitation is the ideal solution, but it feels like there's no appetite for it.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 16h

Leaving a painful situation doesn't happen all at once. It often requires planning & patience & resources that don't just appear. The fact that it took time-- or is taking time-- is NOT evidence you "don't want it."

Just stay focused on today's baby steps & micro choices.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 17h

"What about"ism is devil's adocate with righteousness a lot more than it's not when someone is asking you about violent offenders.

And deprioritizing victim pain, to their face, is hostile. It just is.

Solutions to this question. Not point scoring. 11/FIN

PLEASE. I beg you.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 18h

london coroner's report on the suicide of 17yo leia sampson-grimbly last year following uk labour's formal ban on trans healthcare

tw: www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...

CORONER’S CONCERNS

During the course of the inquest the evidence revealed matters giving rise to concern. In my opinion there is a risk that future deaths could occur unless action is taken. In the circumstances it is my statutory duty to report to you.

The MATTERS OF CONCERN are as follows. – Waiting lists are far too long for first appointment at a Gender Dysphoria clinic.
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In my opinion action should be taken to prevent future deaths and I believe you [AND/OR your organisation] have the power to take such action

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Mara Flint @mara.carminerebellion.uk · 17h

Exactly. If you go anywhere near the police, your chances of being strip-searched by a man are far higher than the odds of them doing anything about the crime you’re reporting.

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