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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 2d

Home Secretary: Freedom of speech is a sometimes right to be reserved as a treat for cheat days

David S. Moon @daimoon.bsky.social · 3d

just because you have a freedom "doesn't mean you have to use it at every moment of every day"

Just roll that sentence around your mental palate and taste the underlying logic

Laura Kuenssberg asks if it is a "dark step" to limit the fundamental right to protest?
Mahmood answers that just because you have a freedom "doesn't mean you have to use it at every moment of every day".
Under her new plans people will still have the right to protest, Mahmood adds.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 4d

Huge news for science fiction writers

Photo of a business called Fermi Solutions. This joke relies on you knowing what the Fermi Paradox is.

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 6d

This upset a man, which means I must make this happen or else his tears will mean nothing.

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 7d

Games Workshop should let me write a Warhammer 40k novel.

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 5d

This is HORRIBLE.

It's not Jewish people's fault, what's being done to Gaza.

And it's not Gazans fault, What's been done to Manchester.

It's not hard to avoid victim blaming both sides, and it's beyond disappointing that apparently Mahmood isn't capable of understanding that.

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Home secretary Shabana Mahmood urges pro-Palestine protesters to consider not taking part in marches this weekend.

"Imagine if you lost a loved one to a terror attack in this country ... sometimes a little unity, a little solidarity, some love to other people is required"

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 6d

Done. Women lying around in ponds is in fact a pretty robust system of government, and it pisses me off to see them being pushed around like this.

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 6d

Trying to remove women from ponds would surely also throw the sword economy into absolute shambles, with knock-on impacts on the amount of people able to go on noble quests to vanquish beasts and things of that nature, you raise an important and timely concern!

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 6d

You will need to click a button in an email sent after filling out the consultation to confirm your response.

I'm hoping this will help to filter out some of the spam/bot responses from the well-funded vocal minority that is the anti-trans lobby, but would hate for genuine responses to be missed.

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 6d

TERFs are trying to bully a beloved London public swimming space into throwing out their longstanding traditions/policies in order to force trans people out of using the space.

Please consider voicing your support for inclusivity here hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Public Consultation on Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds | Commonplace

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 6d

SHIVERS - I NEED YOU. YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah it aired here when I was about 13 and irreversibly altered my brain chemistry. Did a re-watch like two months ago to indoctrinate one of my buddies. Am so misguidedly loyal to it I had a grudge against Once Upon a Time for YEARS because MY nostalgia show did it first, dammit

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VoidBurger 𝑓 (AKA Jess) @voidburger.com · 7d

New for patrons at Patreon.com/voidburger, it's episode TWO of Media From The Void, covering the second half of the first episode of The 10th Kingdom (they're feature length)!

Any amount of money gets you in on this podcast! And the video version for the $3 tier should be up too! Exposition dog!!

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 7d

EXCUSE ME WHAT THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SHOWS OF ALL TIME EVER

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 7d

Additional fun detail is I haven't been able to work for the past couple of weeks anyway because I'm in the worst episode of suicidal crisis I've experienced in years. Securing housing felt like a glimmer of hope. For 3 minutes.

The Devil works hard but the DWP works faster.

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 7d

I declared a change of circumstances when I started part time work earlier this summer. 8 hours per week, permitted work, permitted pay levels.

DWP now threatening to take my entire income away if I don't provide a letter from my DWP-approved support worker. I have never had or been offered one.

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 7d

The timing of this was poetic. Got an email confirming that the estate agent has accepted me as a new tenant for a property I really liked. Three minutes later a DWP letter hit the doormat.

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 7d

Has not escaped my notice that this is a number that will by its very nature be used by a lot of neurodivergent people. What a way to make already anxious and dysregulated people even more fucked up before they even get to speak to a human.

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 7d

Five minutes of this and I'm ready to confess to every unsolved cold case in the country.

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 7d

DWP hold music is an act of aggression and chosen to deter people from accessing support. Heavy and jangly so it sounds like distorted dogshit through phone speakers and wildly fluctuating volume levels at random intervals. This is literally a torture method employed by militaries.

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 9d

Oooh wait everybody in the house and some of the neighbours are having problems with our mobile signals today too across multiple networks, maybe it IS a disturbance in the force and for once it is NOT VM fuckery.

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 9d

Did an EMP hit a major Virgin Media server or are they literally just this shit?

(Rhetorical question, we all know)

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 12d

Refusal to enter the Torment Nexus will only hasten the Torment

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 13d

ID cards of course being a policy that famously did wonders for the popularity and duration of previous Labour governments

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13d

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 13d

Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID

www.independent.co.uk

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Mia @miavee.bsky.social · 14d

I can already tell “sorry, it’s the paracetamol !” Is gonna be my excuse for everything for a while

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 14d

To any friends in the US (or the UN):
London is safe, friendly and not about to adopt Sharia law.

Mural of Paddington near the main entrance of Waterloo station. Text: “Mrs Brown says that in London everyone is different and that’s why everyone fits in.”

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