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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 7d

We have heard that the Green Party has passed a motion at conference calling for desegregation of trans healthcare and to end the practice of GICs and to move it to primary care.

And you can definitely see why they voted for it here:

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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Aviva Stahl @stahlidarity.bsky.social · 16d

critical reporting from @hencarnell.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown

The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

www.motherjones.com

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Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social · 13d

It seems like Hurricane Humberto is becoming a decadal occurrence!

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Robin Hogan @robinjhogan.bsky.social · 15d

EarthCARE is a inexhaustible source of beautiful imagery of some of the most spectacular phenomena nature has to offer, so I've started a Gallery page on the EarthCARE Science web site, showing for example convective motions in the trainbands of Typhoon Ragasa... www.earthcarescience.net/gallery

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Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social · 14d

You've made it look even prettier! 😍

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Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social · 14d

I got so much more from Botticelli's Primavera by doing the jigsaw. This winter will be Brueghel's Tower of Babel 😁

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Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · 14d

Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the railway by travelling via Euston

Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights. Depiction of utter chaos, a hellish mass of bodies careering into each other

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Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social · 15d

Of course, the current UK government is moving towards removing transgender people's right to privacy, which I guess would be their way of avoiding human rights infringement!

Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social · 15d

The focus on immigration masks various other potential abuses, not in the least unnecessary access to someone's gender identity:

tacc.org.uk/2025/08/12/m...

Ministers opened the door to anti-rights lobby during digital ID design – FOI reveals - tacc.org.uk

Our FOI reveals a year of correspondence showing how ministers and senior officials at the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) met repeatedly with the anti-rights group Sex Matters ...

tacc.org.uk

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Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social · 19d

Just counter Reform by offering citizenship freely to anyone with ILR. Anything to shift the narrative. And, you know, inspire the silent majority.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 19d

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

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Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social · 19d

It's been 4 days and I still come back to this post. Is there no pressure to have metadata with microscopic images, have these images publicly accessible, and traceable to the originator? Am I too naive in thinking that might help against fake imagery?

Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social · 21d

Another damp squib for the "patriots" with the BBC reporting equal numbers in the counter protest 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social · 21d

Trying something new today #bournemouth

A group of counter protesters holding placards saying "Stop the far right". In the distance, flags of England and the UK are flown by anti-refugee protesters.

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Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social · 22d

"One side has fears over the cost of living, people's sense of identity, and the arrival of newcomers and how to deal with them."

I think you'll find that "both sides" share these fears, but only one is a violent racist mob.

Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 22d

BBC continues its laundry job on the far right. Yeah, he's a violent racist but he loves his mum. It's just like the coronation really. Look at the photo- a patriotic street party.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Britishness and free speech - why we travelled 200 miles to Robinson's London rally

More than 700 people who were on the march and counter-protest, contacted the BBC to express their views.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 22d

There's an anti-immigration protest taking place in Bournemouth tomorrow, and this poster is for the counter demonstration.

Poster advertising a "Stop the hate" demonstration which is taking place outside the Roundhouse hotel in Bournemouth at 12 noon on Saturday 20th September.
The poster is bright pink and yellow, and there are a number of logos at the bottom of groups that will be attending, including BCP Labour, Bournemouth university, stand up to racism and the national education union.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 25d

The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business.

Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’

Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’

www.independent.co.uk

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · Sep 10

📸✨The value of light on a building facade. As a photographer I learned so much watching how the light shaped the mood and impact of the building. (Wells Cathedral) #photography #architecture #light

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Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social · Sep 8

Of course, if your interests are wet and windy weather, "the best" is yet to come! 🌧️ 📡

Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Sep 8

The best of the weather is expected today and tomorrow, before things turn wetter and windier from midweek.

Get the latest information in our news release 👇

Unsettled weather continues with sunshine, showers and heavier spells of wind and rain

A week of unsettled weather is expected across the UK, with sunshine and showers dominating and some longer spells of heavy rain likely, particularly in the north and west.

www.metoffice.gov.uk

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · Sep 4

Volunteer opportunities for AMS Board and Committees for 2026 are now open 🙋💙

Join professionals from across the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise to help shape the future of our field.

Learn more and apply before 27 September: bit.ly/45MICHf

A photo of members of the AMS Women's Committee and 2025 AMS President-Elect Alan Sealls at the 105th Annual Meeting Women in Atmospheric Science luncheon.

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Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social · Sep 4

Gorgeous sight, need to head out again this weekend!

markwright12002.bsky.social @markwright12002.bsky.social · Sep 4

Spoonbills
Brownsea Lagoon, Poole Harbour, Dorset
Taken during this morning's @harbourbirds.bsky.social Osprey Cruise

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is phenomenal.

And it’s not even difficult - it’s just laying out the extensive evidence we have about Farage and his hypocrisies.

The fact that he’s faced barely an ounce of this in the UK over the last year is why he’s leading in the polls.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Sep 3

Jamie Raskin, "They only want to protect free speech that they agree with"

JR then demolishes Farage, ending with

"You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"

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Dreamliner Again @entirelyharmless.bsky.social · Sep 2

The new (co-)deputy leader of @greenparty.org.uk, everyone 👇🏻

Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social · Jul 22

I keep being asked what my position on trans rights is. So thought I might as well share with you all...

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Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social · Sep 2

Wubbo Ockels was the first Dutchman in space. Quite a famous name in the Netherlands, though not many other Wubbos I've come across!

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · Aug 28

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

www.quaker.org.uk

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Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social · Aug 25

A reminder that "hundreds" protested in Bournemouth in support of trans rights following the Supreme Court ruling on gender, arguably more than the 200-max anti-refugee protesters outside the Roundhouse hotel.
(1) www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2515540...
(2) www.bbc.com/news/article...

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