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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 43m

Male loneliness is pretty much entirely because of a combination of toxic masculinity and homophobia, generations of men being taught to suppress their feelings and that any sign of vulnerability is 'gay' has left them emotionally handicapped

The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 48m

Okay, I agree with you on most of that, but sure as hell not on bacon being mid! You obviously haven't tried a double bacon wedge, a bacon sandwich with bacon instead of bread

The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 50m

Trump claiming he could beat anyone at a sport is hilarious, dude would lose to a slight incline

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 2h

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 3h

Y'know you've got to think of how little folk like her care about their family and friends. Bigots like her are essentially saying they'd rather their loved ones suffer than be trans.

Honestly I don't think they're even capable of love.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 5h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 4h

TW: child suicide.

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The NHS continues to fail trans kids.

This child’s suicide was preventable, the coroner said, but not by the NHS as it is currently operating.

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 4h

If my family life consisted of outsourcing the care of my children to an entourage of maids, nannies & other staff before shipping them off to a boarding school, I would simply stfu about ordinary families being 'disconnected'

Sky News (Mirror) @skynews-m.bsky.social · 4h

Phones creating 'epidemic of disconnection' in families, says Kate
https://news.sky.com/story/phones-creating-epidemic-of-disconnection-in-families-says-princess-of-wales-13447487?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter

Phones creating 'epidemic of disconnection' in families, says Princess of Wales

"Our undivided attention is the most precious gift we can give another person. Yet, increasingly, it's the most difficult gift to offer," Kate writes in a joint essay.

news.sky.com

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 4h

Public services in public hands. 🙌

Scotland has a lower cancellation rate than every English region.

We must now invest in expanding the network, increasing capacity, and ensuring a reliable, affordable service is available for all. 🚆

Public ownership pays off. Cancellation rates 24/25. Scotland: 2%. England: 3.5%. Cancellation rates have been falling in Scotland since ScotRail was taken back into public ownership.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h

Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Have you seen 3D animations from the IDF showing secret Hamas hideouts?

According to Israel's +972 magazine, many have "serious spatial inaccuracies or prefabricated assets—sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries, content creators, and cultural institutions."

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

www.972mag.com

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 1d

🇬🇧 The brexity Telegraph are raging because EU countries are going to enforce their laws in relation to british “overstayers”

Or “ILLEGALS” as Reform, Blue Tories & Red Tories generally like to call them

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 17h

I'd say it's the hottest in the same manner as a fever or infection

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

ian dunt got the government we told him he'd be getting.

he's forever doing this. he calls the left stupid, hails every new pm as a return to grown-up politics, then starts complaining when it turns out the left were right all along.

he never acknowledges that we were right.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, but none of this is possible without hundreds of MPs and almost the entire national press screaming at the public that protestors are scum who must be stomped upon.

lan Dunt• @iandunt.bsky.social • 9m
It's properly unconscionable that the Home Office has created this situation. It should never have been allowed to happen and once it did happen it should have been immediately reversed.
The New World @thenewwo... • 10m
BREAKING: The metropolitan police arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 17h

Who is gonna tell him?

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 19h

You can lock up as many people as you want for chanting or protesting against genocide.

You will never scrub away the truth about that genocide - or your own complicity in it.

You are just ensuring that you will be damned all the more for what you have done.

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 19h

a man says let them die in front of a white wall

ALT: a man says let them die in front of a white wall

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

standing in opposition to israel is not antisemitic. i don't fucking care what keir starmer says. he can fuck off forever.

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely handles the idea of the masquerade better than some other franchises

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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BonneFyre 🤍💛💙💕💜 @bonnefyre.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the first things I mention when I talk to anyone about transition. Anyone who thinks people are being rushed through and pushed into decisions they might later regret is absolutely incorrect. Even going privately was a whole, long ordeal. Not to mention incredibly expensive.

QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 1d

Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get their first appointment at an NHS gender clinic, and some will never receive care, QueerAF can reveal 👇

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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The Indifferent Scot 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️ @sjlee4wish.bsky.social · 1d

Heck, it's almost cyclical how often they've tried to ban anime and manga over the years, the same as video games

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

propaganda account for you all to mute.

HonestReporting @honestreporting.com · 1d

Since when was a call to arms for Palestinians to take over all of Israel, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, a "political slogan," @the-independent.com?

That's not political sloganerring, that's inciting for the violent destruction of the Jewish state.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/palestine-protest-london-starmer-police-b2841254.html

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

there's a direct line between 'there is an overdiagnosis of gender dysphoria so we must restrict healthcare' to 'there is an overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence so we must restrict healthcare' and i refuse to take any pundit seriously who doesn't acknowledge it.

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The Shaxbadook 🔞 @shaxbert.bsky.social · 1d

I was cool on the movie when they announced that it stars professional load Jared Leto, I was officially out when they announced the MrBeast cameo, but Jesus Christ, they're really trying to make this the least on-my-shit movie with the most on-my-shot aesthetic. Profoundly disappointing.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Disney promoting AI slop posters at the ‘Tron Ares’ premiere

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