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Adam Turner 🏳️‍🌈 @awjt.bsky.social · 5d

In Glasgow, there is a 224-year waiting list for gender clinic appointments.

224 YEARS.

This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change.

We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.

Gender Clinic Files: Some people in Scotland will never get a gender clinic appointment on a 224-year waitlist.

This system is failing to support people to transition not because it is broken, but by design. The frustrating thing is that this would not be a difficult problem to solve under a different political paradigm.

Trans+ people do not need to be assessed by gender clinics or diagnosed by psychiatrists to tell us what we already know: we are trans. The healthcare we need, especially when it comes to hormones, is already available to cis people through making an appointment with their GP.

Gender clinics are unnecessary and exist to segregate healthcare for Trans+ people. Abolishing this system and providing Trans+ healthcare in primary care, at the GP through an informed consent model, would solve many of the issues this data reveals. GPs already prescribe hormones to cis adults. Trans+ adults simply need the same access to this healthcare.

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Freethinker @69eerrr.bsky.social · 13d

Einsteins theory has been proven.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 12d

"The Netherlands plans to transfer more than 28,000 fossils from the Dubois collection to Indonesia, following a request by Indonesian authorities."

omg

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Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social · Jul 16

Meta and Zuckerberg can go meta-go-fuck-themselves

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Rupert Cook @rupertcook.bsky.social · 14d

I've just used Good Law Project's tool to let Virgin Active know they're following transphobes, not the law. You can do it too here: goodlaw.social/638d25

Virgin Active: Stop following transphobes, follow the law

After a legal threat from GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry, Virgin Active turned their back on a long record of inclusion and enforced a changing room and bathroom ban on trans people across all th...

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Rupert Cook @rupertcook.bsky.social · 14d

Trans rights are human rights. The Virgin Active ban for trans people fundamentally undermines rights. How is this NOT discrimination against the trans community? I thought more of Richard Branson and the Virgin brands.

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TheFrogThatDrankTea 🏳️‍⚧️ @theteafrog.bsky.social · Aug 15

If you're LGBTQIA+ and a Virgin Active Gym customer, time to re-think your membership me think

#trans #transgender #uk #queer #gay #lesbian #bisexual #intersex #asexual #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #London #Bromley #Northampton #Nottingham #Sheffield #Solihull

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · Aug 15

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

Link below.

Virgin Active bans trans women from female changing rooms

The gym chain emailed its members on Friday morning to inform them of the change claiming the ‘decision was outside of our control’

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Cindy Michels 🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇦 @cindymichels.bsky.social · Aug 17

So I am trying to avoid companies in the UK (where I live now), that are not #trans inclusive:

So far I am avoiding:

Generally:

- All social media companies

UK

- M&S
- Virgin Active
- Barclays
- Visa/MasterCard
- Ocado

Can people post in the comments please 🙏

I am trying to be an #ally 🏳️‍⚧️

a man is standing in front of a building and smiling while making a funny face .

ALT: a man is standing in front of a building and smiling while making a funny face .

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29d

Harvard can't use someone's race to decide if they are going to be a student, but ICE can use a student's race to decide if they are going to detain/incarcerate them.

According to the Supreme Court, race can only be a factor if you want hurt, not help, someone.

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Rupert Cook @rupertcook.bsky.social · 28d

Independent media, associations, protest, art and public debate form the missing side of the triangle — ensuring that institutions remain accountable to the people they claim to serve. Without that civic counterweight, democracy risks becoming hollow procedure rather than living practice.

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Rupert Cook @rupertcook.bsky.social · 28d

Democracy rests on a balance of powers between parliament, government, and the judiciary, each checking the other. But this “separation” is incomplete without a third force outside the state itself: civil society.

#Banksy

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Rupert Cook @rupertcook.bsky.social · Jul 27

The recent Royal Academy masterplan scheme by David Chipperfield Architects (& Julian Harrap) were “the Goldilocks scheme: not too hot, not too cold, but just right.” With prior schemes having even too understated or too bold
@hughpearman.bsky.social (RIBAJournal)

www.ribaj.com/buildings/sp...

Speaking volumes at the RA

David Chipperfield’s painstaking reorganisation and unification of the Royal Academy murmurs rather than shouts, but makes beautiful sense

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Rupert Cook @rupertcook.bsky.social · Jun 27

How food and farming will determine the fate of planet Earth…

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#plantbased #vegan

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Rupert Cook @rupertcook.bsky.social · Jun 19

Make Climate Action a statutory duty, including for devolved local government.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Thank you for sharing #WinACC
Winchester Action on the Cliamte Crisis
#PassisHaus #RegenerativeDesign

Petition: Make Addressing the Climate Emergency a Statutory duty for Councils

We want the UK government to introduce legislation that makes addressing the climate emergency a statutory duty for all local authorities. By legally requiring councils to prioritise climate action, w...

petition.parliament.uk

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hi, it’s Meg again. Brad is still in ICE custody.

We are grateful to the many friends, supporters, and allies who have gathered in Federal Plaza.

Together we are standing up for those with no voice.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jun 17

Brad Lander, New York City’s top finance official, was handcuffed and taken away while trying to escort a defendant out of immigration court. He can be heard saying, ‘You don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens.' www.ft.com/content/dbcc...

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Rupert Cook @rupertcook.bsky.social · Jun 15

The Paradox of Tolerance

“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.”

If a society tolerates intolerance, it risks destruction.

“We should, in the name of tolerance, claim the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”

Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)

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Rupert Cook @rupertcook.bsky.social · Jun 14

From Private Eye
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Rupert Cook @rupertcook.bsky.social · Jun 9

Fabulous evening last week by Dr Peter Kapos, of Das Programm & Systems Studio. Thanks to Grace at Aram for the invite.

Braun Vitsoe wall audio Dieter Rams 1960/ 1962

601/02 RZ 60 lounge chair hopsack Dieter Rams 1960

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Dr Peter Kapos of Das Programm, demonstrating the Braun / Vitsoe wall system, playing Brian Eno. L 450 Speakers / TS 45 Tape deck / PCS 52 E Turntable hung on Vitsoe E track, in custom lengths for speakers.

Demonstrating integration of Braun and Vitsoe, both systems designed by Dieter Rams, early 3 drawer cabinet in white 65.5cm with Braun Audio 300/310, integrated turntable and audio system, amps etc with L46 wall speaker, hung on E-Track.

Dr Peter Kapos, mid flow in his amazing studio with walls covered in Vitsoe, sure sounded by Mid-C20 Braun audio.

The lovely Zapf 601/2 RZ 60 high back lounge chair in black/ charcoal hopsack, with pair of low-back chairs behind designed by Dieter rams 1960. Floor stand mounted Braun audio unit behind.

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Winderful @winderful.uk · Jun 7

While you were sleeping, #windEnergy reached 13% of the National Grid's electricity demand. https://winderful.uk

The winderful.uk dashboard showing that wind is generating 3,262 MW. That's enough to power 16,391,960 PS5s!

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Winderful @winderful.uk · Jun 6

While you were sleeping, #windEnergy reached 35% of the National Grid's electricity demand. https://winderful.uk

The winderful.uk dashboard showing that wind is generating 8,155 MW. That's enough to power 6,795,833 toasters!

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · Jun 3

NEW 💥

They tried to silence protest at the Equality and Human Rights Commission. We took them to court and won.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jun 3

We won!

Am thrilled to say that the High Court has refused EHRC's Landlord's application for an injunction against protestors outside the EHRC's offices.

Reasons to follow later.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jun 3

In mindblowing news, the EHRC's landlord, it seems at the EHRC's behest, is trying to injunct protestors from protesting outside the EHRC's offices.

We will be in Court today making an emergency attempt to resist the injunction. www.crowdjustice.com/case/protect...

Protect the Right to Protest - from the EHRC

Good Law Project fights for a better, fairer and greener future.

www.crowdjustice.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jun 3

The answer is: Government would rather stiff the bill paying public than upset the big foreign funds that own the water companies and whose greed landed us with this problem.

They want those funds to do more of the private ownership of public assets that created this problem in the first place. 🤦🏻

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Apr 29

Last week I was playing around with a new "tree ring plot" to visualize daily global temperature anomalies from ERA5.

I thought it would be neat to make a version of the plot for daily global absolute temperatures (rather than anomalies):

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