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Nancy Kelley
@nancymk.bsky.social
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Human rights geek | Director Trans Solidarity Alliance | Trustee Bishopsgate Institute | 'might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb'
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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3h
"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion
Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.
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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 1d
Must watch for anyone who cares to know about the state of trans+ healthcare in the UK👇
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 1d
Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

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GIC Waiting List from Shortest To Longest.
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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 1d
So touched to be nominated for a Trans in the City allyship award. Allyship and solidarity has never been more needed. If you'd like to stand up for the trans community in the UK, go to @transsolidarity.bsky.social 🫶
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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 4d
Conversion practices bill belongs to GEO not Home Office. Im not holding my breath about one being brought forward, but it doesn't sit w Mahmood.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d
Support for staying in the ECHR has been rising (probably a Farage effect of solidifying the majority who oppose him, maybe Trump osmosis effect). Media and political opinion on the right believes there is a strong public desire to quit. Badenoch has now committed the Conservatives to quitting.
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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 5d
Must read on rising tide of racism in schools. Both of my children are Black and have experienced racism of a type I saw all around me as a child in the 1980s. Schools/teachers are not keeping up.
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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 5d
“You can just feel the atmosphere changing and tension rising.”

Schools say they need more support to deal with the fallout from debates around immigration and flags.

This report by the @tesmagazine.bsky.social news team reflects huge concern on the ground right now 👇
Schools criticise support ‘vacuum’ as racial tensions rise
Concerned leaders tell Tes the government has not equipped them to deal with debates on immigration, race and St George’s flags
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d
The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)
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The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 7d
Crying racism only hurts Labour

Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.

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Crying racism only hurts Labour
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 7d
Lucy Powell has warned that Labour should not wave through a devastating trans bathroom ban 👇

Ripping up trans rights would be a disaster for Labour, for business, for women, and for the wider LGBT+ community.

It's wrong. Labour needs to stop aping Trump and Farage, and protect our human rights.
Lucy Powell calls for MPs to vote on single sex space guidance
The Labour deputy leadership candidate calls for a debate and vote on guidance which is expected to say that trans people should be excluded from single sex spaces.
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 8d
We are at Labour conference, telling members about the impact of the proposed bathroom ban. It would devastate trans people’s lives, create unworkable business challenges, and alienate voters.

This would be Labour’s legacy on LGBT+ rights for a generation. But it’s not too late for them to stop it.
A van with a screen on the side saying Labour isn't working for LGBT+ voters. Stop the bathroom ban. A queue of people on a red background holding various pride flags.
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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 9d
For SO long Labour strategy has been chasing Cons and now Reform to the right on immigration. This is wrong (morally). Its also stupid (electorally) see the brilliant @profjanegreen.bsky.social. 'Frustrated' Reform voters? They aren't voting Labour box any time soon.

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 9d
My point? Racial prejudice is real, and not particularly rare in the UK. Some people support 'racist' and 'immoral' policies because they are in sympathy with them. Does that mean all Reform supporters are racially prejudiced? Of course not.

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 9d
European Social Survey Data from 2014: 18% of UK respondents said that they believed 'some races are born less intelligent'. Propensity to believe this, and to self describe as 'very' or 'somewhat' racially prejudiced was correlated with more right-wing political affiliation.
Graph showing UK 2014 data from European Social Survey. Question is 'Are some races or ethnic groups born less intelligent?'. Bar graph shows 18% answered 'yes' and 82 % answered 'no'.
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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 9d
In 2017 I co-authored a short paper on racial prejudice in Britain. What did we say? Well for over 30 years, a significant cohort of the British public (never less than 25%) had described themselves as 'very' or 'somewhat' racially prejudiced. Likely an under count for the obvious reasons.
Graph shows data from 1983 - 2013 asking British public 'How would you describe yourself.... prejudiced or not prejudiced against people of other races' The trend line on 'not prejudiced at all' varies between the low 60s and low 70s. The trend line on 'very' or 'somwhat' prejudiced' varies between high 30s and mid 20s.
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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 9d
Can't stop thinking about Starmer's pivot from calling Reform's ILR policy 'immoral' and 'racist' to describing Reform supporters as not racist, but rather 'frustrated'. Surely at least some people are attracted to 'immoral' and 'racist' policies because they *like* them? 🧵
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Keir Starmer calls Reform migrant policy 'racist' and 'immoral'
The prime minister told the BBC he needed
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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10d
Here’s a free version. It’s well worth reading.

Klein has an outsized opinion of himself if he thinks that he needed to write nonsense whitewashing Kirk’s legacy in order to sit in grief with people who mourned his loss. It’s absurd.

Coates makes Klein look feckless and uninformed.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 10d
This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12d
Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
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Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles
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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 12d
This 👇👇👇
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 12d
Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 12d
I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 13d
Excellent piece by @notrightruth.bsky.social about trans community as the antidote to trans despair.

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This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…
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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 13d
"Britcard"
garfield is laying in a pink box with a blue blanket on the floor .
Alt: garfield is flopping into a pink box with a blue blanket on the floor .
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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 15d
This 👇
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 15d
It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity
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Kinlika @kinlika.bsky.social · 16d
'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol

2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.

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No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children
In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16d
Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package.

Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?

Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16d
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 17d
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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