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Charlie
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I was born in a water moon…

Since then I've paid an inordinate amount of attention to politics, and made lots of things with yarn. Queer, disabled, democratic communist, one half of Mary James

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Mary James FAcSS retired in January 2014 as Professor and Associate Director of Research at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. In the same year she completed her four-year term as Vice President and President of the British Education and Research Association. .. more

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 20h
I used to be Catholic, so there is still a Jesus in my head. His suit is clean, but old. A client repaired the rips for him. His briefcase is stuffed with papers; he is very tired. He insists on justice.

It is weird when I realise someone has a Jesus in their head who would shoot him

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Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 1d
You can not be the first patient they've experienced this with, so why the fuck did they prescribe you that drug‽ Do they just not communicate with pharmacists‽

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Holly Baleen @hollybaleen.bsky.social · 1d
“NHS Trust “violated dignity” of nurses by allowing trans woman to use female changing room, tribunal rules” because of course, trans women aren’t allowed or afforded any dignify at all in this society. It’s enraging that it’s all about the comfort of cis bigots. We don’t matter.

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Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 1d
Woohoo! Congrats beautiful!

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Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 1d
Oh ffs. I'm so sorry 😔

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d
💚 Defection from the Liberal Democrats to the Green Party!

🙌🏼 Huge welcome to Rachel - our first ever Green Councillor in Poole!

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2576904...
Lib Dem councillor defects to Green Party 'for one main reason'
BCP Green Party has gained its first councillor in Poole after defections from Liberal Democrat party.
www.bournemouthecho.co.uk

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Shin @sistersinead.bsky.social · 1d
got a date for The Surgery lxds

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 1d
If I got called a tranny on live tv and refused to smile past it whose fault would that be, do you think.

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 1d
Who is expected to have patience for whom? And then ask yourself, is that the person who's always stereotyped as more emotional and less rational than the person whose reactions they are expected to manage with absolute calm?

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 1d
It reminds me of how girls get taught to police the boys around them. It reminds me of oh you know what your dad's like I don't know why you set him off. It reminds me of why do you make yourself such a target for bullies. It reminds me of well he should have done what the officer said. It reminds m

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 1d
The right wing always gets the freedom to react, doesn't it? "Well, you shouldn't have set them off" shouted at the left for every right wing atrocity, and the left always blamed 100% for having planned to their every action with malice aforethought

What does that remind you of?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d
this is pathetic to a degree i didn't realize was possible

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d
Brilliant discussion.

Great explanations around why we need to tax passive wealth as much as productive income.

youtu.be/q1cx921XUwU?...
The Economic Case for UBI Just Got Stronger
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 1d
And the US establishment has just... let him? So inevitably Europe will re-arm. We can't trust any safety guarantees from a country invading Greenland and abandoning Ukraine to Russia. So let's take a big sip of coffee and look over the history of Western Europe when it's heavily armed

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 1d
You essentially said we'll have a huge military and be your allies so that you don't have to have a huge military, and the USA gets a friendly rich set of countries to be strong allies with

And Trump has gone nuh uh you gotta pay your fucking way or we are taking our nuclear football and going home

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 1d
Of course we don't! We don't have American bases on European soil for funsies

This was the deal, basically- we will look after you so that you stop arming yourselves and going to war with each other. Because war was Europe's #1 hobby for, like, *gestures at all of history*

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 1d
So the really fucking smart-as-a-brick dipshittery with all this is that the USA has paid through the nose for a long long time for the big European powers to not have big armies, and then suddenly your idiot president got mad at us for not having big armies.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d
Labour looks set to deplatform the voices of young people by introducing a social media ban for under 16s.

Here are four reasons why they shouldn't.

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Kait Richardson 🥔🏳️‍⚧️ @thryse.com · 1d
MAGA in a nutshell
alexxandermedeiros 0 2d a White people have two options: 1. Be right-wing 2. Hate yourself, reject your history, despise your culture, dismiss your heritage, and apologize for your people's existence Q 3.6K G maincabinextraalways 2d From the black delegation; we'd like to for y'all to consider a third option. Recognize and respect the history of race treatment in this country. Work with everyone to learn from that history and change things so that dark history does not repeat. No apologies or denials of existence will be necessary with this solution. Q 26 G alexandermedeiros • 2d How does that history affect you today? • 176

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 2d
Little bit wary of centrists who post lots of "AHA! SEE! Farage wants to privatise the NHS!" gotchas coz we already have a government right now that's doing a bit of the ol' that and they should probably pipe up about it if they feel so strongly about the NHS.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d
No one in Government seems to give a damn about the kids dying in numbers - since Labour came to power I have helped four families who have lost trans kids to suicide - or are resorting to home-brew hormones because the NHS seems to hate them.

But at least Rupert Murdoch is off your back, eh Wes?

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d
In a screeching u-turn from its Manifesto the Government now backs conversion therapy for trans people. That is what 'supporting' trans youth but denying them the medicine they need to physically transition means.
Government 'moving away' from puberty blockers, minister says
The Government is reportedly 'moving away' from medical interventions for trans people such as puberty blockers, a health minister has said.
www.thepinknews.com

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 2d
Republican South Carolina state Rep. RJ May sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison today.

5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material.

He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.

Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.
GOP lawmaker said trans people “harm” children. Now he's going to prison for child porn. - LGBTQ Nation
He was caught sharing hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
www.lgbtqnation.com

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Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 2d
Eh, I'll stop deadnaming twitter when Musk stops dead naming his daughter

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Dr. Caelan Conrad PhD CPI @caelan.bsky.social · 2d
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A significant difference between Hitler and Trump? Hitler doesn't appear in the Epstein files.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING: The UK is sending a single military officer to Greenland at the request of Denmark to participate in a multi-nation exercise

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 3d
Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

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Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 3d
Trash Discourse on YouTube has done a PornHub Wrapped for 2025 and I'm so here for it! 😂💖

youtu.be/YgR8k50Akvo?...
My 2025 Pornhub Wrapped
YouTube video by Trash Discourse
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Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 3d
Okay so I failed at my therapy homework today but I did do several chores and also sewed in the ends on my hood/cowl thing and wore it while completing my errands which was very satisfying ☺️

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 3d
I will never stop until the Labour Govt’s toolkit for authoritarians has been dismantled piece by piece.

Today mandatory Digital ID, and next we stop police facial rec and preserve protest rights and trial by jury. Human rights matter more than ever right now.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID
Scheme intended to verify someone’s right to work in the UK will be optional, government admitted in 13th U-turn since taking power
www.thetimes.com