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Sybil Sykes
@sybilsykes27.bsky.social
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She/Her. Bi. Music, politics & animals. Lefty vegan. European. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇺🇦🌱
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cwebbonline.com
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread)

1. Pat Bagley
January 9, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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writesbright.bsky.social
Happy New Year you lovely people.

A reminder that 2026 should be the year you leave X (if you haven’t already!)
Why you should leave X
A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...
writesbright.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:06 PM
sybilsykes27.bsky.social
Sharing posts from @nionwomen.bsky.social as it's important to make it clear that so many of us cisgender women stand with our trans siblings.
nionwomen.bsky.social Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 12d
We are now at 75k signatures, with many messages of support on Instagram, Facebook and here.

This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls.

Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜

notinourname.org.uk
Home - Not in our name
Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community
notinourname.org.uk
December 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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number10cat.bsky.social
You don't know what day it is.
You're eating countless meals a day with lots of snacks in between.
You're napping throughout they day.
Either it's the time between Christmas and New Year or you're a cat.
December 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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schwarz.bsky.social
Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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nionwomen.bsky.social
💥 Seventy thousand women have now signed our letter. Seventy thousand women saying clearly that exclusion is not in our name and that trans people deserve dignity, safety and belonging.

🙏 Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk

#NotInOurName #Love #Inclusion #WomenUnite
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
sybilsykes27.bsky.social
Grace Petrie & @zackpolanski.bsky.social - collaboration please? 👏💚🏳️‍🌈
boldpolitics.bsky.social Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 19d
New Fairytale of New York lyrics just dropped... 😮‍💨

Grace Petrie 👏
December 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
The conflation of "foreign criminals" and "illegal migrants" is disgusting.

Vile when some people don't have a safe route to flee from the utter detestation & brutality of war.

It's all grim enough without the Labour Government pushing further misinformation.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Dec 7
The Home Office continues to use language that its own data refutes
December 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
sybilsykes27.bsky.social
Sharron Davies - SwimGlinner herself - referred to here as a "women's rights activist" and not the terrible TERF that she really is. FFS.
pippacrerar.bsky.social Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Dec 10
Lib Dems announce 5 peers including ex-MP Sarah Teather, Tories announce 3 including Olympic swimmer/ women's rights activist Sharon Davies, historian Simon Heffer and former cabinet minister John Redwood. Reform UK don't get any.
December 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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mimij9.bsky.social
Sharon ‘fucking’ Davies to become a Tory Peer??!!

What the actual fuck!

Vicious transphobe and far right nasty piece of shit!

It just gets worse, every shitting day!
December 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Hey Nottinghamshire.

This is how your Reform council is spending your money. Funded by your 4.84% council tax rise.
Reform spends £75k on flags in Nottinghamshire
December 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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centralbylines.co.uk
With news that Madeleine McCann’s father has called for a new Leveson Inquiry

After the Leveson Inquiry, is the press now beyond control?

The Leveson Inquiry was meant to usher in a new era of press regulation, but have we gone from one ineffective regulator to another? @cliffmitchell.bsky.social
After the Leveson Inquiry, is the press now beyond control?
The Leveson Inquiry was meant to usher in a new era of press regulation, but have we gone from one ineffective regulator to another?
centralbylines.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Hadley “protect children from trans people but not from Woody Allen”Freeman
December 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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barristersecret.bsky.social
Listening to David Lammy on @BBCr4today attempting to justify abolishing trial by jury, it is increasingly and terrifyingly clear that he simply does not understand the issues.
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
Just because it's reached the 100,000 threshold, doesn't mean anything will happen.

So keep signing and sharing, because we need to show MPs that there's a huge demand.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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nionwomen.bsky.social
🛍️ This Black Friday NION Women are encouraging brands to ensure their shopping spaces are welcoming for everyone, including trans customers who continue to face uncertainty and exclusion.

Read our latest blog on why this matters, and what retailers can do to lead with integrity.
This isn’t just retail, it’s trans-inclusive retail - Not in our name
NION Women highlight why inclusive retail matters. We encourage brands to support trans customers, and show inclusion and equality for all.
notinourname.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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snig.bsky.social
Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.
From Chloe Denkin 01-734 1717 and 1778 E3 ALBANY PICCADILLY WIV ORH 4th June 1981 Dear Master, I am happy to say that I am not acquainted with N. P. Farage, of ASRY happy, because judging from hereporis i haveter ceived he is not someone with whom I would wish to be acquainted; and becaure I am, therefore, able to write on the ground of no personal prejedice, but on that conceraing p. inciple. You will recati that at the recent, and longthy, moeting about the selection of prefects, the nomads by a hegy that Sara was "a fascist, but that was no reason why ho would not make a good prefect" invoked considerable reaction from members of the Common Room. Another collesgue, who teaches the boy, des-cribed his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he citod a particular inciler in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This mastor stated his view that that behaviour was precisely why the boy should not he made a prefect. Yet another colleague deseribed how, at a CCE camp organized by the College, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shout-in Hitler-you songs; and when it was suggested by a master thie boys who expressed such views "don't really mean them", the College Chaplain himself commented that, on the contrary, in his experience views of that kind expressed by boys of that age are onted, and are mennt, At the end of that meeting I had not a scintilla of doubt that after the facts disclosed to you, Farage's nomination would no longer be considered. Nor, I imagine, had my colleagues; other-wise, we would have expressed ourselves even more strongly. But yesterday I was told by a senior boy, in terms of st that Farage was indeed to be selected; and today, of course, his appointment was announced in Assembly an announcement, I gather, which was met with disbelief and derision. To say that is too late to reverse this decision, or that Farage', acdir 3 will be restricted to particular areas of College te, or that he will be supervised within them, is futile. His appointment will have four immediate consequences. First, it will vastly increase his own confidence, and sense of self-justification. Secondly, he will have the privilege of listing his appointment as a profect at Dulwich College in his uni-versity and other applications. Thirdly, his peers, according to their own views, will either adopt him as an exemplar, or, as is much more likely, regard his appointment with disillusionment and cynicism when Ley observe that his notorious views and behaviour, well known to poth Master and members of the staff, are, as it would aptent, condoned by them. Fourthly, those members of the Common Room, such as myself, who believed that a firm daca fon had been reached through a democratic process, will be shock, saddened, angered, and disheartened. You will appreciate that I regard this as a very serious matter. i have often heard you tell our senior boys that they are the nation's future leaders. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that these lenders are enlightened and compassionate. As you know, the national and educational press has recently given much prominence to the growing concern at the exploitation of school pupils by extremists of all kinds. A school of the stature and high roputation of Dulwich College which openly con-domned the recent troubles in Brixton, and offered its facilities freely to the foreca of law and order, ought not to be seen laside or outside its confines to be giving its endorsement, expressly or by implication, to budding extremists of the opposite kind. A school which is proud of its selectiveness, conservatism, and discipline, cught not to allow these characteristics to degen erate into intolerance, political extremism, or bullying of the nastiest kind, in its pupils. The matter of the appointment of Farage as a prefect may be thought by some to be minuscule against these deep considerations. It is not so. I am by disposition, tolerant; and in politics, moderate. But as a member of the Common Room, I find it distasteful that a boy such as Farage should have bestowed upon him the prestige of office and authority: wore I a parent or a pupil, I would find it profoundly so. In view, as I am aware, of the wide concern within the College about this matter, I am sending a copy of this letter to the chairman of the Common Room. Yours very sincerely, David Emms, Esq., MA, The Master of Dulwich College.
October 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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tuc.org.uk
Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
sybilsykes27.bsky.social
What a horrible time this was. I can remember screaming at the TV when Johnson was on. It was obvious from that harrowing footage from Italy that we needed to lock down far sooner. I loathe and despise Boris Johnson with every fibre of my being.
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Nov 20
The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.

Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
November 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
The Guardian are reporting a significant increase in Jewish people voting for the Green Party.

It's almost like many of us grew up learning a history of persecution & violence.

We don't oppose the Genocide in spite of being Jewish but because of it.

Never again for everyone.
The report said the increase in green party support suggested for a significant minority of Jews, domestic priorities and progressive values outweigh foreign policy concerns.
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.

Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn
goodlaw.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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theradr.bsky.social
"UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE GIRLS

"UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE CHILDREN

thank you for your attention to this matter
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM