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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

Without one I just couldn’t balance work/kids and would have given in and bought a car. The biggest challenge for mass take-up is everyone’s buying them through regressive Cycle to Work tax dodge. So a £5k bike costs 12 x £241 monthly payments if you’re high earner or 12 x £416 if you’re in poverty.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 2d

School/college and uni students.

A new project you may want to consider doing this semester/term.

Just an idea. Not an endorsement.

Players' bathrooms made gender neutral after students remove signs with drill
The demonstration marked the beginning of DU Players "Women ' Week"

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:

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Natalie @natalieg.bsky.social · 3d

The clue is in the middle of the sentence…..

The i Paper @theipaper.com · 3d

Phoebe Millican, 26, was able to buy her first property with the help of her parents at a young age

Read more: trib.al/ojdKJgb

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Tomás Ojeda G. @tiojeda.bsky.social · 3d

“The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, does not give credible evidence‐based guidance. We are gravely concerned about its impact on the wellbeing of trans and gender‐diverse people” www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people

Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

www.mja.com.au

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5d

With the Tory conference starting shortly, here are 3 parody speeches from the past.

First, Rowan Atkinson.

youtu.be/YaGdwfykYGY?...

Rowan Atkinson Immigration

YouTube video by JinMedia

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 8d

Now 54,380 signatures of women who stand with trans women.

Let’s keep this going!

Please sign, if you haven’t already done so.
Please share, if you have.

Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 20d

✨ We’ve Moved! ✨

Thank you to the 42,890 people who have signed, shared and supported our letter so far: Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community.

🌐 NotInOurName.org.uk

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Alice McCool @mccoolingtons.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to everyone who spoke to me for this piece 💔

Pls know this is not a drill. 10yrs after topping ILGA-Europe LGBTQ+ rights ranking, UK has dropped to 22 place out 49. Lemkin Institute has issued a red flag alert on UK #trans and #intersex rights. goodlawproject.org/the-writing-...

‘The writing was on the wall’: The gender diverse people fleeing the UK | Good Law Project

While many stay to fight the rollback of rights in the UK, hundreds of trans and intersex Brits are leaving home. Content warning: sexual violence

goodlawproject.org

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Natalie @natalieg.bsky.social · 7d

Oooh! You will be members of the Home Counties burns night team?

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Hackney Cycling Campaign @hackneylcc.bsky.social · 7d

Hackney CC has new joint coordinators after tonight's AGM.
Congratulations to @microlambert.bsky.social and @liamduffy.dev who take over leading HCC's campaign to enable all-age, all-ability cycling. 🎉👏
And a big thank you to HCC's out-going coordinator @garmonap.bsky.social. 🙏

Man standing holding a bike looking at the camera in front of a cut out of the front of a car with teeth for a bumper and the number plate C4R5PRDR

A man smiling at the camera holding a bike and a sign that reads London Loves Cycling.

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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 7d

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

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Natalie @natalieg.bsky.social · 7d

Not forgetting massive congratulations to @liamduffy.dev and @microlambert.bsky.social on their election!

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Natalie @natalieg.bsky.social · 7d

Amazing work from @garmonap.bsky.social and @netwench.bsky.social well done! (hope they are not disappearing altogether?) Hoping to see everyone at Burns Night in not too distant future

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Jono Kenyon @jonokenyon.bsky.social · 7d

Now our election and we have a new pair of coordinators as @microlambert.bsky.social and @liamduffy.dev become joint role holders.

Congratulations to them and a huge thanks to both @garmonap.bsky.social and @netwench.bsky.social who will be stepping away from @hackneylcc.bsky.social soon.

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Jono Kenyon @jonokenyon.bsky.social · 7d

Hey hey! It's autumn 🍂 it is Hackney Cyvling campaign AGM and I thought let's share some news! Thread incoming...

Hackney Cycling Campaign @hackneylcc.bsky.social · 21d

Hackney LCC AGM is next month!
Date: Wednesday 1st October, 7:30pm
Location: Pembury Centre, 1 Atkins Square, Dalston Lane, E8 1FA

We will have guest speakers, and a new committee will be elected!

All welcome, particularly if you are interested in getting more involved in our campaigning.

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Natalie @natalieg.bsky.social · 8d

The sky this morning is a set of magical colours.

Purple orange red and yellow morning sky with a strip of blue in the middle. The land is in shade

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Natalie @natalieg.bsky.social · 10d

It’s crazy. In the 90s I once had someone say to my face and all seriousness ‘I would lay my life down for Manchester United’.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 11d

Motonormativity in action: my city's main hospital has been built miles outside the city, up by a motorway junction. You want to get there but you can't drive? Tough, your time has no value

An excerpt from Google maps showing a journey that is 29 minutes by car or 1 hour 50 minutes by public transport

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 13d

Tony finally did it - can he retire now?

Just know there will be a massive political fight over how these record "sex".

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James @arisenjames.bsky.social · 13d

So I took down about five. Someone came out and gave me a bottle of wine

James @arisenjames.bsky.social · 13d

Man down. Same time next week 👍

A torn union flag on a pile of rubbish next to a cutting tool on a pole.

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Natalie @natalieg.bsky.social · 13d

Love it

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PoggleRebecca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 13d

All this just to force an innocent minority group into segregated "diseased freak" toilets.

Jesus fucking Christ, this government will be the end of this country.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 13d

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

www.independent.co.uk

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 13d

UK passport holders can live and work in Ireland with no minimum £savings requirement or funding.

Note: Healthcare is still free.

If you can show proof of living in Ireland for 5 years you can then apply for naturalisation and get an Irish (EU) passport.

👉 www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to-becom...

Are you trans, want to escape the UK, but only have a British passport?
You can live in Ireland and get an Irish (EU) passport by naturalisation. No visa needed!

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Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰 @sophiedancer.co.uk · 16d

This has got to me a bit today so here we go.

No Rebecca we can't have a calm discussion for the way forward when one side's intention is to eliminate us, secondly the heat is coming from one side, it's the side accusing trans people of being paedophiles, rapists, cheats and predators.

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 16d

For 6+years non stop, they have demonised every single one of us as predators, paedophiles and child mutilators. There can be no “conversations” with these ghouls.

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