MindSpikes
@mindspikes.bsky.social
Trying to skeet more about the things I love. Making music, software engineering, nature, astronomy, science.
Unfortunately I'm📍🇬🇧☠️. So I tend to (re)skeet about billionaires, fascists and anti trans bigots. I know (sigh) but this is 🇬🇧 in 2025/26.
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Unfortunately I'm📍🇬🇧☠️. So I tend to (re)skeet about billionaires, fascists and anti trans bigots. I know (sigh) but this is 🇬🇧 in 2025/26.
❤️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸❤️
Merry Yule especially to anyone who is estranged from family.
About to take advantage of this very quiet, very sunny day to go for a walk by the sea.
No roast today and no cooking for anyone else. I've taken this year off. Reheated Chinese takeaway + finger food with a few special people later 🎄
About to take advantage of this very quiet, very sunny day to go for a walk by the sea.
No roast today and no cooking for anyone else. I've taken this year off. Reheated Chinese takeaway + finger food with a few special people later 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Merry Yule especially to anyone who is estranged from family.
About to take advantage of this very quiet, very sunny day to go for a walk by the sea.
No roast today and no cooking for anyone else. I've taken this year off. Reheated Chinese takeaway + finger food with a few special people later 🎄
About to take advantage of this very quiet, very sunny day to go for a walk by the sea.
No roast today and no cooking for anyone else. I've taken this year off. Reheated Chinese takeaway + finger food with a few special people later 🎄
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There's a reason we say ACAB.
It's not, generally that we think they're all inherently bad people. It's that we know, when push comes to shove, 99.999% of them will follow evil orders. They set aside their personal morality for money and career.
They would put us on the trains without blinking.
It's not, generally that we think they're all inherently bad people. It's that we know, when push comes to shove, 99.999% of them will follow evil orders. They set aside their personal morality for money and career.
They would put us on the trains without blinking.
December 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
There's a reason we say ACAB.
It's not, generally that we think they're all inherently bad people. It's that we know, when push comes to shove, 99.999% of them will follow evil orders. They set aside their personal morality for money and career.
They would put us on the trains without blinking.
It's not, generally that we think they're all inherently bad people. It's that we know, when push comes to shove, 99.999% of them will follow evil orders. They set aside their personal morality for money and career.
They would put us on the trains without blinking.
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Please share. Thanks
December 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Please share. Thanks
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An excellent video to watch…
all the more so because our politicians have not been **anywhere near** as vocally opposed to the far-right as other countries' have
youtu.be/t8DEEUs-RFg?...
youtu.be/t8DEEUs-RFg?...
It will be worse in the UK
YouTube video by Political Philosophy Podcast
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
An excellent video to watch…
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It'll always be The S*n to me. Or That Scummy Rag. (Except it doesn't work in hashtags).
They need to know their history.
#dontbuythesun
#dontreadthesun
#neverforget
They need to know their history.
#dontbuythesun
#dontreadthesun
#neverforget
December 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
It'll always be The S*n to me. Or That Scummy Rag. (Except it doesn't work in hashtags).
They need to know their history.
#dontbuythesun
#dontreadthesun
#neverforget
They need to know their history.
#dontbuythesun
#dontreadthesun
#neverforget
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Third Sector Against Transphobia has launched an open letter in support of trans people and requesting improved guidance and support from the Charity Commission for charities attacked by ‘gender critical’ transphobes ‘lawfare’
Sign here 👉 www.thirdsectoragainsttransphobia.org
Sign here 👉 www.thirdsectoragainsttransphobia.org
December 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Third Sector Against Transphobia has launched an open letter in support of trans people and requesting improved guidance and support from the Charity Commission for charities attacked by ‘gender critical’ transphobes ‘lawfare’
Sign here 👉 www.thirdsectoragainsttransphobia.org
Sign here 👉 www.thirdsectoragainsttransphobia.org
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December 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Is this unexpected release of the Levy Review on the last day before recess...
a) So that it's buried in news like doctors strike, VAWG strategy
b) So that other news like the doctors strike is buried by the ensuing escalation in trans panic
c) So we don't notice the insidious stuff in the review
a) So that it's buried in news like doctors strike, VAWG strategy
b) So that other news like the doctors strike is buried by the ensuing escalation in trans panic
c) So we don't notice the insidious stuff in the review
December 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Is this unexpected release of the Levy Review on the last day before recess...
a) So that it's buried in news like doctors strike, VAWG strategy
b) So that other news like the doctors strike is buried by the ensuing escalation in trans panic
c) So we don't notice the insidious stuff in the review
a) So that it's buried in news like doctors strike, VAWG strategy
b) So that other news like the doctors strike is buried by the ensuing escalation in trans panic
c) So we don't notice the insidious stuff in the review
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Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial.
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
December 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial.
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
Still shocking to read about what happened on that Christmas Eve. It disgusts me that there is no coverage whatsoever of what Dr Upton had had to go through.
Novaramedia bringing light to the dark night.
CW: Transphobia, Hate Speech, Harassment
novaramedia.com/2025/12/16/a...
Novaramedia bringing light to the dark night.
CW: Transphobia, Hate Speech, Harassment
novaramedia.com/2025/12/16/a...
Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One | Novara Media
Gender-critical campaigners had hoped that this year’s Supreme Court ruling would tee up US-style bathroom bills across the UK, throwing hundreds of thousands of pounds at lawsuits to exclude trans wo...
novaramedia.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Still shocking to read about what happened on that Christmas Eve. It disgusts me that there is no coverage whatsoever of what Dr Upton had had to go through.
Novaramedia bringing light to the dark night.
CW: Transphobia, Hate Speech, Harassment
novaramedia.com/2025/12/16/a...
Novaramedia bringing light to the dark night.
CW: Transphobia, Hate Speech, Harassment
novaramedia.com/2025/12/16/a...
Think I need to restrict my SM usage a bit through this week. Last week was difficult...it's easy to forget how things are in the real world away from the trash.
Unless GLP Vs the EHRC drops of course. Though, even if it's a positive outcome it will be spun into some heinous nonsense.
Unless GLP Vs the EHRC drops of course. Though, even if it's a positive outcome it will be spun into some heinous nonsense.
December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Think I need to restrict my SM usage a bit through this week. Last week was difficult...it's easy to forget how things are in the real world away from the trash.
Unless GLP Vs the EHRC drops of course. Though, even if it's a positive outcome it will be spun into some heinous nonsense.
Unless GLP Vs the EHRC drops of course. Though, even if it's a positive outcome it will be spun into some heinous nonsense.
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The Good Nazi doesn't exist.
There are only Nazis, and non-Nazis.
Pick your allies very carefully, because most only pretend to be allies.
There are only Nazis, and non-Nazis.
Pick your allies very carefully, because most only pretend to be allies.
December 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Tired of all the bile this week. Especially the evil propaganda from the BBC. It really crawled into my brain by Thursday and Friday.
So...
Tonight is
I just want to P...Funk...Uncut Funk...The Bomb! Listening night.
Delivered yesterday 😊 Original 1976 and 1977 pressings 💜💜💜
So...
Tonight is
I just want to P...Funk...Uncut Funk...The Bomb! Listening night.
Delivered yesterday 😊 Original 1976 and 1977 pressings 💜💜💜
December 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Tired of all the bile this week. Especially the evil propaganda from the BBC. It really crawled into my brain by Thursday and Friday.
So...
Tonight is
I just want to P...Funk...Uncut Funk...The Bomb! Listening night.
Delivered yesterday 😊 Original 1976 and 1977 pressings 💜💜💜
So...
Tonight is
I just want to P...Funk...Uncut Funk...The Bomb! Listening night.
Delivered yesterday 😊 Original 1976 and 1977 pressings 💜💜💜
Don't pay attention to this!
What about small boats? What about those trannies? What about all the work shy with their mental health, their adhd and their disabilities?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
What about small boats? What about those trannies? What about all the work shy with their mental health, their adhd and their disabilities?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Nearly one in four working parents turning to food banks amid cost of living crisis
A rising trend of in-work poverty means many earners are struggling to get by
www.independent.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Don't pay attention to this!
What about small boats? What about those trannies? What about all the work shy with their mental health, their adhd and their disabilities?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
What about small boats? What about those trannies? What about all the work shy with their mental health, their adhd and their disabilities?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Labour’s Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has all but confirmed that the government is actively developing policies that would segregate trans+ people in public life
There is no “dignity” or “respect” in what’s being proposed - only a clear violation of trans+ people’s human rights
There is no “dignity” or “respect” in what’s being proposed - only a clear violation of trans+ people’s human rights
Fucking state of this. Acting like they are completely powerless to do anything since the SC judgement.
Any new way of including people without amending the Equality Act will just be all-new segregation, now with added ‘dignity and respect’.
Any new way of including people without amending the Equality Act will just be all-new segregation, now with added ‘dignity and respect’.
December 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Labour’s Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has all but confirmed that the government is actively developing policies that would segregate trans+ people in public life
There is no “dignity” or “respect” in what’s being proposed - only a clear violation of trans+ people’s human rights
There is no “dignity” or “respect” in what’s being proposed - only a clear violation of trans+ people’s human rights
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Falkner there - a relentlessly malicious wacko with notable impulse control problems - is especially glaring proof that you can tell what type of fox each one is, by looking at which henhouse it is they have been asked to guard.
December 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Falkner there - a relentlessly malicious wacko with notable impulse control problems - is especially glaring proof that you can tell what type of fox each one is, by looking at which henhouse it is they have been asked to guard.
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I thought I'd share a full draft of a paper I've been working on on FWS and "biological sex". papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I thought I'd share a full draft of a paper I've been working on on FWS and "biological sex". papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Scottish charity Equality Network (@scottishtrans.bsky.social) has produced this excellent explainer on Peggie v NHS Fife.
www.equality-network.org/a-short-summ...
www.equality-network.org/a-short-summ...
A short summary of the Sandie Peggie V. Fife Health Board and Dr Beth Upton employment tribunal judgment - Equality Network
You may have seen in the news that a judgment has been handed down in the Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife case. Most of the […]
www.equality-network.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Scottish charity Equality Network (@scottishtrans.bsky.social) has produced this excellent explainer on Peggie v NHS Fife.
www.equality-network.org/a-short-summ...
www.equality-network.org/a-short-summ...
If you spent £1 every minute, it would take you
About 1.9 years to spend £1 Million.
Approx 1,902 years to spend £1 Billion
Or 66,570 years to spend £35 Billion
(the reported wealth of the richest person in the The Sunday Times Rich List 2025)
About 1.9 years to spend £1 Million.
Approx 1,902 years to spend £1 Billion
Or 66,570 years to spend £35 Billion
(the reported wealth of the richest person in the The Sunday Times Rich List 2025)
December 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you spent £1 every minute, it would take you
About 1.9 years to spend £1 Million.
Approx 1,902 years to spend £1 Billion
Or 66,570 years to spend £35 Billion
(the reported wealth of the richest person in the The Sunday Times Rich List 2025)
About 1.9 years to spend £1 Million.
Approx 1,902 years to spend £1 Billion
Or 66,570 years to spend £35 Billion
(the reported wealth of the richest person in the The Sunday Times Rich List 2025)
"By 2023, the richest 50 families in the UK held more wealth than half of the UK population, comprising 34.1 million people."
£466 Billion that's
£466,000,000,000
equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-econom...
£466 Billion that's
£466,000,000,000
equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-econom...
The Scale of Economic Inequality in the UK - Equality Trust
The UK has very high inequality of income compared to other developed countries. The UK's wealth inequality is much more severe than income inequality.
equalitytrust.org.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"By 2023, the richest 50 families in the UK held more wealth than half of the UK population, comprising 34.1 million people."
£466 Billion that's
£466,000,000,000
equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-econom...
£466 Billion that's
£466,000,000,000
equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-econom...
Want to know why everyone is being distracted into directing their anger at migrants and trans people?
Tip: If you're lucky enough to spend the holidays with friends or family and they start bashing either. Don't debate, steer them to talk about this instead and the actual reason everything's shit
Tip: If you're lucky enough to spend the holidays with friends or family and they start bashing either. Don't debate, steer them to talk about this instead and the actual reason everything's shit
This is obscene.
That others in politics can’t or won’t say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face.
We are the 99.999%.
Tax the super rich.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
That others in politics can’t or won’t say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face.
We are the 99.999%.
Tax the super rich.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Want to know why everyone is being distracted into directing their anger at migrants and trans people?
Tip: If you're lucky enough to spend the holidays with friends or family and they start bashing either. Don't debate, steer them to talk about this instead and the actual reason everything's shit
Tip: If you're lucky enough to spend the holidays with friends or family and they start bashing either. Don't debate, steer them to talk about this instead and the actual reason everything's shit
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"Hunger strike supporters target Labour Party offices" www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Hunger strike supporters target Labour Party offices
Campaigners have spray painted two local Labour Party offices in support of hunger strikers in UK detention
www.thecanary.co
December 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
"Hunger strike supporters target Labour Party offices" www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
They're all jacking off at the same time they're trying to exterminate us...
December 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
They're all jacking off at the same time they're trying to exterminate us...
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Spitzer and Hubble image of Arp 142, also known as NGC 2936, NGC 2937, and UGC 5130, or the Penguin and the Egg.
Dust and gas in the Penguin appear as red filaments. The Egg is made of older stars and nearly featureless.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, AURA, JPL-Caltech
Source
Dust and gas in the Penguin appear as red filaments. The Egg is made of older stars and nearly featureless.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, AURA, JPL-Caltech
Source
December 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Spitzer and Hubble image of Arp 142, also known as NGC 2936, NGC 2937, and UGC 5130, or the Penguin and the Egg.
Dust and gas in the Penguin appear as red filaments. The Egg is made of older stars and nearly featureless.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, AURA, JPL-Caltech
Source
Dust and gas in the Penguin appear as red filaments. The Egg is made of older stars and nearly featureless.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, AURA, JPL-Caltech
Source