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Claire's Trans Talks @clairestranstalks.bsky.social · 11h

This is likely a *direct* result of the Labours attacks on trans healthcare.

Streeting should be sacked, and both he and Cass should face criminal proceedings for manslaughter at a minimum.

Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 12h

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.

Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

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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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Rivoluzionario della melanzana @caponatacommie.bsky.social · 1d

You seriously might as well put a burning cross in your garden. You absolutely are NOT helping.

Rivoluzionario della melanzana @caponatacommie.bsky.social · 1d

The English flag is like a KKK hood to me. You can't ever convince me it's positive. I feel anxious and my fight or flight response kicks in seeing them. So if you're an "ally" using them, you're not doing it for us, you're doing it for yourself - because it harms us.

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Beth 💜 @picklebee.bsky.social · 2d

Tfw your being called unbritish because you're opposing a genocide.

Edited stills from the avengers movie.

Keir Starmer: it is unbritish to go to a protest on October 7th.

Mark Ruffalo: that's my secret chief... I'm always unbritish.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 2d

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 11d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Rachel 🐝 @smokyapollo.bsky.social · 3d

The guns fire *slightly* off-centre from the cross-hairs, direction and magnitude randomised on every reload so you can never just get used to it

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BigNoseGirl @oliviacruz.net · Aug 9

MGS Comic

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 4d

This happened last night and I hadn't heard about it until this post, so went to the BBC News homepage. You have to go all the way down the page, below recipes for 30 minute meals, and you find it as a text link in 'politics'.

screenshot of politics section on BBC News website that says Mosque fire being treated as arson and hate crime
Who is Japan's 'Iron Lady' Sanae Takaichi?
When music meets football - can you beat our lyrics quiz?
'We were having dinner and a tree crashed into our house'
Harrods sets aside more than £60m for abuse compensation

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Rachel 🐝 @smokyapollo.bsky.social · 4d

Do you think they go together and hang out or does Brax show the hairdresser a lil photo of Benny and say "like this please"

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Rachel 🐝 @smokyapollo.bsky.social · 4d

They probably go to the same hair salon

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M-1R @hovermyr.bsky.social · 5d

the problem with mechsploitation is that if you turn a girl into a dog that's also an ace pilot you've just succeeded in creating Snoopy

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 5d

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 5d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

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

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

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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𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 @winterk.bsky.social · 9d

on one hand the government is occupied by people who want to rob and kill you. on the other hand they have no popular mandate and they believe competence itself is woke and gay.

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1000xRESIST | Available Now @sunsetvisitor.studio · 10d

Give it up for sale #3!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

1000xRESIST continues to be 30% off as part of the Steam Autumn Sale! We’ve also just released the third Piano Book!

Run, don’t walk, to play the game that Game Informer calls, “one of the most groundbreaking stories in video game history.”

➡️ s.team/a/1675830/

A visual of Knower from 1000xRESIST looking at the camera. The title of the game is to the center left, with the words “Piano Book Vol. 3” underneath in smaller text.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 9d

"Over the last week I don't believe there has been a day in which I haven't cried from the worry and anxiety it has brought. I have felt I can't go out in the same way I once did"

A trans woman describing her fear to TransActual

This is Labour's bathroom ban

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Rachel 🐝 @smokyapollo.bsky.social · 10d

It's like christian bale being able to sweat on command in american psycho, theyre just built different. Incorrectly, possibly

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 10d

THE MEME IS REAL

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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · 11d

We will build a new society with no memory of mankind

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 13d

I've been on Bluesky for five minutes and I've already seen no fewer than five posts about collective transsexual misery.

Hugs all around 🫂 but also girl go to that knitting club. Play some online chess. Write fanfiction. Pick up a guitar.

It's good for your soul.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13d

Morning walk

Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 14d

Tell me again, cultural critic, how you don't believe the BDS approach is effective and that their demands are unrealistic because you don't want to stop playing with your toys.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 14d

Absolutely spot on - and also completely in line with their essential purity/taboo ideas of sex. Tale as old as time: this kind of sex is dirty, but I want it, therefore the dirt 'belongs' to the object of desire, who can be sectioned off and disposed of as contaminated, while I remain clean.

Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 14d

One of the reasons why the Right oppress trans people while also consuming vast amounts of porn about us is that they want to keep us poor, marginalised and available for low paid sex work. They hate the idea of our having other options.

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Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 16d

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is

the album art for the upcoming 10 year anniversary edition of Carly Rae Jepsen's EMOTION with expanded tracks

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 15d

Headline: "Labour lawyer advised 700k of donations be called admin error"

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