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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 4h

Time to update the scoreboards so everyone knows what's up before JK Rowling drops another few hundred grand on being a bigot loser

Money wasted on being a dick to trans people: literally millions upon millions.

Women saved from harm or even vaguely supported by being a dick to trans people: 0

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2h

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 4h

Brilliant! Well done

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 8h

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social can't call jenrick racist bcos 'blue labour' are also racist.

his comments aren't 'deeply troubling'. his comments are racist.

also: keir starmer claims that simply being involved in a peaceful protest makes someone 'unbritish'.

vote green: our leaders call bigotry out.

David Lammy, the deputy prime minister and justice secretary, suggested Jenrick was judging people based on the colour of their skin, while Mel Stride, the shadow chancellor, broke ranks by saying the remarks were "not words that I would have used". Zack Polanski, the Green party leader, said it was racism.

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 7h

Today I learned that

Mackenzie @mackenzievogt.net · 18h

Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar and then bemoaned he never wrote anything like it

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 22h

It’s Jack Whitehall night in Riyadh - everyone will be there - oh, except Asaad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, a teacher that criticised the government that is paying Jack and so is in prison for 20 years

www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 10h

Because of the unforgivably appalling decisions of the Charity Commission, these hate groups, Sex Matters and LGB Alliance, are funded from your taxes.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 15h

A whole bunch of us have grown up in the UK knowing to flee in the other direction if we spot this flag anywhere. We’re not going to pause to see if there are stickers stuck below them.

And if they’re stuck elsewhere, we will not get close enough to see the text - again, we’re just going to leg it.

Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 3d

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 8h

I'm a white gay man and that's pretty much my reaction when seeing this flag too.
Because the racists flying it are most likely homophobes as well.
And I'm not going to stick around to find out

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 18h

The UK’s Trans healthcare scandal isn’t a complex issue

Her death was preventable

It was the result of a complete failure by cisgender policymakers and clinicians who willfully ignore expert warnings and lived experience

They are responsible for a system built to delay, deny, and destroy hope

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Gender clinic waiting list 'far too long' says coroner after teen's death

Camden's Tavistock Centre has been criticised by a coroner but its specialist clinic for children and young people closed down last year

www.mylondon.news

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

Libs of Tiktok, Elon Musk, and Robbie Starbuck put everything they had into trying to push a boycott of Netflix over LGBTQ characters in their shows.

Netflix ignored them and the stock is back up. Turns out bots don't actually cancel accounts.

Screenshot of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) stock summary on October 7. The closing price is $1,191.06 USD, up +27.75 (2.39%) for the day. The day’s trading range shows a low of $1,177.46 and a high of $1,201.36. Previous close was $1,163.31. Market cap is $506.11B, P/E ratio is 50.75, with no dividend yield. The 52-week high is $1,341.15 and the 52-week low is $677.88. A line graph shows intraday stock price movement, peaking above $1,190 before settling at the closing price.

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 19h

A Tory leader can't be challenged in their first year.
That's up for Badenoch on Nov 2nd.
Whether the Tory MPs have the stomach to swap her for someone who'd be just as awful is another matter

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 19h

Sunset from Blackfriars Bridge while walking home earlier in the summer

Sunset view up the Thames. The buildings are in silhoette. The sky is blue at the top fading into grey then peachy orange.
A boat is motoring up the river

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 21h

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 20h

I'm already a member - but the chance to be part of "a threat to the right that they never saw coming" makes me want to join all over again

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20h

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

After visiting the Global Sumud Flotilla captives in Israel’s Ketziot Prison, one of the occupation’s most notorious facilities, Adalah legal counsel Lubna Tuma described the mistreatment and denial of basic rights that they had been subjected to...

Video below ⬇️

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 21h

The way you've captured the light in this is just perfection x

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 21h

“we’ve got a good relationship with the developer” you are the LABOUR PARTY you have got NO BUSINESS having a “good relationship” with a private developer

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 21h

Vandals and crooks

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Trans Greens 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @transgreens.bsky.social · 23h

Green Party Conference recently passed some amazing healthcare policy for the trans community. It commits us to an informed consent model of trans healthcare, a trans-led public inquiry into NHS care, a trans-inclusive ban on conversion therapy, and so much more.

The Green Party just voted to reform trans healthcare.

What does this bold new policy look like?

Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

What we're calling for:
- The end of segregation in trans healthcare.
- Ending the torture of conversion therapy.
- Moving the NHS to an informed consent model.
- Expanding the range of funded transition care.
- Access to affirming healthcare for trans youth.
- NHS support for people who seld-medicate or use private care.
- Real support for detransitioning people.

Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

How we get there:
- Closing the existing Gender Identity Clinics and supporting GPs with training and funding to care for trans people.
- Lifting the politically motivated ban on 'puberty blockers'.
- Starting a government funded, trans-led, inquiry into past NHS treatment of trans people.
- Including & prioritising trans expertise in independent care reviews.
- Passing a trans-inclusive ban on 'conversion therapy'.

Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 23h

Every time is potentially nap time

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 1d

There’s a lot of this about. Stop trying to guilt the left into voting for a Labour Party that hates us and shapes its policies towards people that hate them

irs_uk
@irsuk.bsky.social

Reform voters are largely Tory voters.
What will gain Reform the election is Labour voters decamping to the Lib Dems and the Greens. Good work!

7 October 2025 at 06:52

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 1d

The Green Party wants to Abolish Landlords.

The question on everyone’s lips:
What does that actually mean?

Here’s motion proposer @sallonsax.bsky.social talking to @turnleftmedia.co.uk about just that!

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Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social · 1d

LOVED telling the story of Wealden Greens. Can't wait to bring real hope & real change to the whole of Sussex & Brighton as Mayor. @rachel4sussex.bsky.social

Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 1d

"Greens aren't just talking about real hope and real change...we're delivering it."
@rachelmillward.bsky.social

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

"It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed – so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

www.theguardian.com

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