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henni63.bsky.social
Hendrik Winkels
@henni63.bsky.social
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He/Him, Plays guitar, Trans rights are human rights,
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natacha.bsky.social
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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rikiwilchins.bsky.social
People keep criticizing Trump but I think that misses the bigger point: perhaps 1/3 of our countrymen turn out to be profoundly anti-Democratic and are are fine w/ a Christian-themed autocracy if it allows them to feel superior and revel in displays of cruelty & violence towards BiPOC ppl & queers.
December 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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rikiwilchins.bsky.social
19 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- In bizarre British Med Jrnl intertiew, Hilary Cass suggests that 5 or less trans kids seen by NHS should get GAMT, compares its mild side effect to those of chemotherapy & radiation, and equates withholding GAMT from them with "helping" & "supporting" them.
“This is why the trial is necessary”: experts behind the puberty blockers study respond to mounting opposition
As the NHS launches its most contested clinical trial in decades, Deborah Cohen speaks to Emily Simonoff, Pathways lead investigator, and Hilary Cass, the author of the review that led to the study T...
www.bmj.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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katelynburns.com
ICYMI, I've been reliably informed that this makes for an excellent news break.

Come learn about how amazing Joan of Arc, Giordano Bruno, and Jan Hus are. And why Galileo is a bit of a dick.
December 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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ekkaia00.bsky.social
i'm sure someone beat me to it but
Mamdani for New York, but it's Transgender for Everybody.
December 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Please kill me
December 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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leastactionhero.bsky.social
all i'm saying is that there were better options
TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR SANDWICH THROWING GUY
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
I keep returning to Astra Taylor's construction (the title of her fantastic book) "Democracy may not exist, but we'll miss it when it's gone." It's really the perfect way of explaining liberalism's false but necessary promises
December 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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katelynburns.com
Fuck you of you think trans rights should be sacrificed "for the good of democracy".

The anti democracy machine is the anti-trans machine. Get that through your skulls.
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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jonkk.bsky.social
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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parkermolloy.com
The Next One Here's what's going to happen next. Somewhere, right now, a trans person is teaching a class, or coaching a team, or working at a library, or providing healthcare. They're doing their job. They're probably good at it. And at some point, someone is going to have a problem with them. Maybe a parent, maybe a student, maybe a coworker. The problem won't really be about job performance. The problem will be that they're trans. That person, or someone connected to them, will take their grievance to social media. If they're lucky, Libs of TikTok will pick it up. Or Turning Point. Or one of the other accounts that have built massive followings by turning trans people into content. The post will frame the trans person as a predator, or a groomer, or a bully, or a tyrant. It won't matter what actually happened. The framing is the point. Then the calls will start. To the school board, to the administration, to the HR department. Local news will cover the "controversy." A state legislator will demand an investigation. The institution, desperate to make the problem go away, will put the trans person on leave. Maybe they'll be fired outright. Maybe they'll resign because the harassment makes it impossible to do their job. Either way they're gone. And then the person who started it all will go on Fox News. They'll get a GoFundMe. Maybe a speaking gig at a conservative conference. If the story is big enough, if it goes viral enough, they might get something more. A podcast. A book deal. A center with their name on it. This is not a guess. This is a pattern. We've watched it happen over and over again, and we will keep watching it happen until the institutions that capitulate to these campaigns start recognizing them for what they are: coordinated attempts to purge trans people from public life, dressed up as individual controversies.
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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florianaigner.at
Ein Mord wird in Liebe umgedeutet. Und dazu ein herzerwärmendes Weihnachtsbild. Hier werden männliche Gewaltexzesse normalisiert: Männer sind so. Man zeigt Liebe und dann stirbt halt jemand, dumm gelaufen. Diese verdammte Gewaltkultur tötet Frauen. Und, ganz wichtig: ist auch für Männer entsetzlich.
Kronen-Zeitungs-Cover vom 2.12. Headline: "Mörder von Stefi: Habe sie geliebt", darunter ein Pärchen lächelnd vor dem Weihnachtsbaum.
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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seenpoliceuk.bsky.social
Jenny Watson spilling it on X
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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batarong.com
Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
On trans awareness week let me just say to the community that we cis folks are the problem need to do better spreading awareness to other cis people to stop being oppressive monsters
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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assignedmedia.org
From last year, but evergreen, our package of essays from prominent trans people on why they're not giving up.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Stay With Us — Assigned
Assigned Media wants you to live! And, what keeps us steadfast and ready to meet the moment is the example of other members of our community who refuse to let fear or hopelessness keep them from their...
www.assignedmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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boell.de
Wie schützen wir unsere #Freiheit? Täglich wird angegriffen, was für unsere Gesellschaft wichtig ist: Wissenschaft, Politik, Journalismus… #Desinformationen & hybride Angriffe destabilisieren. Mehr auf unserer Konferenz "Freiheit schützen": sohub.io/12v5 #freiheit2025
@afelia.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
henni63.bsky.social
Sehr guter Thread!
florianaigner.at Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · Nov 3
Pinker war mal ein wirklich prägender Denker. Jetzt hat er sich in seltsame anti-progressive Kulturkämpfe verstrickt und schimpft auf Klimaschutz. Hier ein schmerzhaft schlechtes WELT-Interview. Atmen wir tief durch und sehen wir uns das mal an. (Thread)
Steven Pinker: „Der Hass auf den Kapitalismus sitzt tief in der akademischen Kultur“ - WELT
Moralische Voreingenommenheit, Negativ-Verzerrung, Hass auf den Kapitalismus – der Kognitionswissenschaftler Steven Pinker erläutert im Interview, warum wir Risiken der globalen Erwärmung falsch einsc...
www.welt.de
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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esqueer.net
They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs.

www.vogue.com/article/teen...
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
I listened to the Tucker/Fuentes interview and I know I shouldn't be but I'm always surprised by how completely unoriginal this kind of stuff is. Just reheated David Duke bullshit, not a single new thought to be found
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
henni63.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kDK... Very decent commentary. #roisinmurphy #transphobia #transrights
How Róisín Murphy Lost the Community That Built Her
YouTube video by The Last Mixed Tape
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Yesterday, I heard doctors speak who had recently been on the ground in Gaza with Doctors Without Borders.

They shared videos and photos.

It was…crushing. I can’t find the words to tell you how harrowing and devastating their testimony was.

They, and their Palestinian colleagues, are heroes.
October 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM