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So now a lot of people in my community are angry at the grieving mum being used by a political party because they're being told by said political party that their shit plan that hurts us is all the grieving mums idea.
Absolutely sickening shit. What a disgusting party.
Absolutely sickening shit. What a disgusting party.
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
So now a lot of people in my community are angry at the grieving mum being used by a political party because they're being told by said political party that their shit plan that hurts us is all the grieving mums idea.
Absolutely sickening shit. What a disgusting party.
Absolutely sickening shit. What a disgusting party.
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The BBC has no pro-trans bias. The BBC is appalling on trans issues, just like the rest of the media.
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The BBC has no pro-trans bias. The BBC is appalling on trans issues, just like the rest of the media.
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This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
putting her phone in a pouch would have made her killers less transphobic and violent?
Phones did not murder Brianna Ghey in cold blood.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
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Politicians have chosen to be in the public spotlight.
We choose intense scrutiny and everyone is entitled to an opinion. And that's right.
But how do these nasty digs about physical appearance serve anyone?
It's no wonder so many people - particularly women - are put off ever getting involved.
We choose intense scrutiny and everyone is entitled to an opinion. And that's right.
But how do these nasty digs about physical appearance serve anyone?
It's no wonder so many people - particularly women - are put off ever getting involved.
October 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Politicians have chosen to be in the public spotlight.
We choose intense scrutiny and everyone is entitled to an opinion. And that's right.
But how do these nasty digs about physical appearance serve anyone?
It's no wonder so many people - particularly women - are put off ever getting involved.
We choose intense scrutiny and everyone is entitled to an opinion. And that's right.
But how do these nasty digs about physical appearance serve anyone?
It's no wonder so many people - particularly women - are put off ever getting involved.
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centrists: a third party can’t win under fptp so you have to vote labour.
centrists: if you don’t vote labour then reform, a third party, might win.
centrists: if you don’t vote labour then reform, a third party, might win.
What do you suggest then?
The only really viable option is Lib Dem but even they struggle to get the votes that Labour do.
If people drift to “minor” parties we will end up with Reform.
The only really viable option is Lib Dem but even they struggle to get the votes that Labour do.
If people drift to “minor” parties we will end up with Reform.
September 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
centrists: a third party can’t win under fptp so you have to vote labour.
centrists: if you don’t vote labour then reform, a third party, might win.
centrists: if you don’t vote labour then reform, a third party, might win.
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If you have a friend or know someone who is trans, PLEASE don't go around telling people that person is transgender.
You are putting them in danger!
It's not your place to tell people this.
If you truly love them, you will protect them.
You are putting them in danger!
It's not your place to tell people this.
If you truly love them, you will protect them.
September 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If you have a friend or know someone who is trans, PLEASE don't go around telling people that person is transgender.
You are putting them in danger!
It's not your place to tell people this.
If you truly love them, you will protect them.
You are putting them in danger!
It's not your place to tell people this.
If you truly love them, you will protect them.
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The bullets in the Kirk shooting case had nothing on them about trans people, yet the
Guardian
Murdoch Times
Murdoch Sun (Scotland)
Telegraph
all reported the "trans bullets/trans shooter" hogwash as if it were hard information, three of these put it on their front pages.
It turns out it was not
Guardian
Murdoch Times
Murdoch Sun (Scotland)
Telegraph
all reported the "trans bullets/trans shooter" hogwash as if it were hard information, three of these put it on their front pages.
It turns out it was not
September 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The bullets in the Kirk shooting case had nothing on them about trans people, yet the
Guardian
Murdoch Times
Murdoch Sun (Scotland)
Telegraph
all reported the "trans bullets/trans shooter" hogwash as if it were hard information, three of these put it on their front pages.
It turns out it was not
Guardian
Murdoch Times
Murdoch Sun (Scotland)
Telegraph
all reported the "trans bullets/trans shooter" hogwash as if it were hard information, three of these put it on their front pages.
It turns out it was not
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every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
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To potentially oversimplify this, but the number of people arrested at the Palestine Action protests exceeds the entire number of people, on average, attending the anti-asylum hotels protests, yet they are called "fringe" and those outside hotels are called the "voice of the people".
September 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
To potentially oversimplify this, but the number of people arrested at the Palestine Action protests exceeds the entire number of people, on average, attending the anti-asylum hotels protests, yet they are called "fringe" and those outside hotels are called the "voice of the people".
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Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.
September 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.
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The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
September 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
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Can’t get behind someone who seems scared to share his support for trans people and condemn the transphobia Labour is implementing. You seem to be able to see all the other injustices and name them as tenets to fight with this party, but not us?
August 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Can’t get behind someone who seems scared to share his support for trans people and condemn the transphobia Labour is implementing. You seem to be able to see all the other injustices and name them as tenets to fight with this party, but not us?
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Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
August 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
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The point of canaries in the coalmine was to warn the humans who mattered.
Trans people are listened to less than birds.
Trans people are listened to less than birds.
Just as Starmer's labour is introducing Trump's anti-trans policies in the UK, they will inevitably also introduce anti equal marriage policies here as well as anti-abortion policies & pretty much every right wing hate policy Trump asks them to do. Trans people are just the canaries in the coalmine.
August 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The point of canaries in the coalmine was to warn the humans who mattered.
Trans people are listened to less than birds.
Trans people are listened to less than birds.
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what do you mean your community won’t sacrifice themselves so i can continue to believe that my team is the good team? do you want fascism to win?
July 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
what do you mean your community won’t sacrifice themselves so i can continue to believe that my team is the good team? do you want fascism to win?
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One of the most disheartening things about trans advocacy is how little the people who claim to be on our side actually listen to us.
"trans-identifying", "biological sex", and a variety of other GC dogwhistles have become common parlance because people listen to our enemies, but not us.
"trans-identifying", "biological sex", and a variety of other GC dogwhistles have become common parlance because people listen to our enemies, but not us.
Whole ass nation states are attempting to confine trans people to the home—preventing us from using the toilet, playing sports or accessing medical care without exposure to violence—on the basis that “changing your sex is impossible” so if you’re saying that to trans people too, meet your allies.
July 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
One of the most disheartening things about trans advocacy is how little the people who claim to be on our side actually listen to us.
"trans-identifying", "biological sex", and a variety of other GC dogwhistles have become common parlance because people listen to our enemies, but not us.
"trans-identifying", "biological sex", and a variety of other GC dogwhistles have become common parlance because people listen to our enemies, but not us.
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Look I know this is hard to reckon with but we don’t have time any longer to wait for you to catch up.
This Labour government is in fact worse than the last 15 years of Tory led governments. For us all.
And talking specifically about our LGBTQIA+ sector for a second… we need to acknowledge this.
This Labour government is in fact worse than the last 15 years of Tory led governments. For us all.
And talking specifically about our LGBTQIA+ sector for a second… we need to acknowledge this.
July 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Look I know this is hard to reckon with but we don’t have time any longer to wait for you to catch up.
This Labour government is in fact worse than the last 15 years of Tory led governments. For us all.
And talking specifically about our LGBTQIA+ sector for a second… we need to acknowledge this.
This Labour government is in fact worse than the last 15 years of Tory led governments. For us all.
And talking specifically about our LGBTQIA+ sector for a second… we need to acknowledge this.
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Mindful Market tomorrow at Northern Monk in Manchester!
Got stuff I don't have online, at exclusive market prices
Got stuff I don't have online, at exclusive market prices
My summer market schedule, come along to any of these for reworked wearables and homewares
July 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Mindful Market tomorrow at Northern Monk in Manchester!
Got stuff I don't have online, at exclusive market prices
Got stuff I don't have online, at exclusive market prices
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Then the following weekend it's Suggestions of the Unexpected also for Camden Fringe pls also come camdenfringe.com/events/sugge...
Suggestions of the Unexpected – An Improvised Horror Anthology - Camden Fringe
Out of the darkest corners of your mind comes an improvised comedy nightmare. Join us as we take you on a journey through the intangible, via the unknowable and into the unexpected. This darkly hilari...
camdenfringe.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Then the following weekend it's Suggestions of the Unexpected also for Camden Fringe pls also come camdenfringe.com/events/sugge...
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I'm not great at self promotion and also who knows if Bluesky works for this but next weekend Any Suggestions Doctor returns to LAHNDAHN for Camden Fringe pls come see camdenfringe.com/events/any-s...
Any Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody - Camden Fringe
Go on an adventure through time and space with a live radiophonic workshop and a hilarious improv cast in this loving parody of the sci-fi classic Doctor Who. You get to decide when, where and who in ...
camdenfringe.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I'm not great at self promotion and also who knows if Bluesky works for this but next weekend Any Suggestions Doctor returns to LAHNDAHN for Camden Fringe pls come see camdenfringe.com/events/any-s...
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Have you seen Happy Meals these days? I feel bad for my husband’s kids, getting nothing but glorified cotton balls instead of all the awesome toys that used to be in those things.
They’re *so* fucking pathetic now. Capitalism is an absolute grift.
They’re *so* fucking pathetic now. Capitalism is an absolute grift.
July 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Have you seen Happy Meals these days? I feel bad for my husband’s kids, getting nothing but glorified cotton balls instead of all the awesome toys that used to be in those things.
They’re *so* fucking pathetic now. Capitalism is an absolute grift.
They’re *so* fucking pathetic now. Capitalism is an absolute grift.
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Thinking about this more and I really need people to wake up to the fact that we’re no longer in the era of gay marriage and asking for a New Progressive Change but in an era of the gov implementing things to make our lives worse and we are having to fight to get back to even just 5years ago
You are not fit for this era of outright attacks on our rights you spineless suck ups
📃 A joint statement from LGBT Foundation, London Friend, Switchboard LGBT+ Support Line and Stonewall
Alt text readable version here:
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Alt text readable version here:
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July 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Thinking about this more and I really need people to wake up to the fact that we’re no longer in the era of gay marriage and asking for a New Progressive Change but in an era of the gov implementing things to make our lives worse and we are having to fight to get back to even just 5years ago
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The people who are annoyed at LGBT people saying they'd never vote for Gavin Newsome or Kier Starmer are so ridiculous. They accuse us of being the reason why the "center left" is losing whilst actively opposing those trying to hold their guy to account, encouraging them to pursue worse policies
July 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The people who are annoyed at LGBT people saying they'd never vote for Gavin Newsome or Kier Starmer are so ridiculous. They accuse us of being the reason why the "center left" is losing whilst actively opposing those trying to hold their guy to account, encouraging them to pursue worse policies
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Labour: We should be able to give drugs to people who don’t consent to them
Also Labour: trans children who consent to puberty blockers are not allowed to have them
Also Labour: trans children who consent to puberty blockers are not allowed to have them
This should terrify everybody - "Shabana Mahmood will consider overhauling medical and legal convention that medical treatment must receive the consent of the individual." [Times]
May 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Labour: We should be able to give drugs to people who don’t consent to them
Also Labour: trans children who consent to puberty blockers are not allowed to have them
Also Labour: trans children who consent to puberty blockers are not allowed to have them