ash Anraí-Jones
@looseyleftie.bsky.social
e.g. Artist, dog-reader, and avid lover.
Belfast Green gal and punk singer with Strange New Places.
she/her/ash/aer
Belfast Green gal and punk singer with Strange New Places.
she/her/ash/aer
and not for nothing, but i know several young adults who've had hip replacements - it's not just the elderly getting them (or getting some)
This feels like peak infantilisation of the elderly.
What exactly is ‘disgraceful’ about giving the elderly/infirm practical advice about how to be physically intimate in a safe way? They aren’t children. Their innocent eyes don’t need to be protected. Plus it’s medical guidance not a jazz mag
What exactly is ‘disgraceful’ about giving the elderly/infirm practical advice about how to be physically intimate in a safe way? They aren’t children. Their innocent eyes don’t need to be protected. Plus it’s medical guidance not a jazz mag
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
and not for nothing, but i know several young adults who've had hip replacements - it's not just the elderly getting them (or getting some)
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I just want to reiterate, if you are using the front page of national newspapers to say how the media are biased against you, the standing assumption is that you are acting in bad faith. Remarkably, being silent is a key component of being silenced.
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I just want to reiterate, if you are using the front page of national newspapers to say how the media are biased against you, the standing assumption is that you are acting in bad faith. Remarkably, being silent is a key component of being silenced.
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A bit telling that The News Agents' chat where Maitlis boasts about her part in eradicating trans youth healthcare in the UK did not feature fellow presenter Lewis Goodall.
Meanwhile he was writing this:
Meanwhile he was writing this:
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A bit telling that The News Agents' chat where Maitlis boasts about her part in eradicating trans youth healthcare in the UK did not feature fellow presenter Lewis Goodall.
Meanwhile he was writing this:
Meanwhile he was writing this:
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“Menos yates, más casas.”
We went to a small town in Mexico to see how excited people are about Zack Polanski.
Turns out, everyone agrees: tax the billionaires, build green homes, and make hope normal again 🇲🇽💚
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
Credit: Adam Brichto
We went to a small town in Mexico to see how excited people are about Zack Polanski.
Turns out, everyone agrees: tax the billionaires, build green homes, and make hope normal again 🇲🇽💚
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
Credit: Adam Brichto
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“Menos yates, más casas.”
We went to a small town in Mexico to see how excited people are about Zack Polanski.
Turns out, everyone agrees: tax the billionaires, build green homes, and make hope normal again 🇲🇽💚
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
Credit: Adam Brichto
We went to a small town in Mexico to see how excited people are about Zack Polanski.
Turns out, everyone agrees: tax the billionaires, build green homes, and make hope normal again 🇲🇽💚
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
Credit: Adam Brichto
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the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
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To remind you, Paul Givan unilaterally decided to order schools in NI to discriminate against trans kids because he couldn't be bothered waiting for the Equality Commission. Then he went on a trip to Israel.
The Assembly voted no confidence in Education Minister Paul Givan, yet he stays in post. Why? 🤷🏻♂️
Mal O’Hara : “Stormont has limited mechanisms for ministerial accountability. A majority of MLAs backed the motion, but it failed because it didn’t meet the cross-community threshold.
1/3
Mal O’Hara : “Stormont has limited mechanisms for ministerial accountability. A majority of MLAs backed the motion, but it failed because it didn’t meet the cross-community threshold.
1/3
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
To remind you, Paul Givan unilaterally decided to order schools in NI to discriminate against trans kids because he couldn't be bothered waiting for the Equality Commission. Then he went on a trip to Israel.
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The Assembly voted no confidence in Education Minister Paul Givan, yet he stays in post. Why? 🤷🏻♂️
Mal O’Hara : “Stormont has limited mechanisms for ministerial accountability. A majority of MLAs backed the motion, but it failed because it didn’t meet the cross-community threshold.
1/3
Mal O’Hara : “Stormont has limited mechanisms for ministerial accountability. A majority of MLAs backed the motion, but it failed because it didn’t meet the cross-community threshold.
1/3
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The Assembly voted no confidence in Education Minister Paul Givan, yet he stays in post. Why? 🤷🏻♂️
Mal O’Hara : “Stormont has limited mechanisms for ministerial accountability. A majority of MLAs backed the motion, but it failed because it didn’t meet the cross-community threshold.
1/3
Mal O’Hara : “Stormont has limited mechanisms for ministerial accountability. A majority of MLAs backed the motion, but it failed because it didn’t meet the cross-community threshold.
1/3
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
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Belfast needs an overdose prevention centre.
Lives are needlessly being lost. We need leadership from Stormont, especially the Health & Justice Ministers.
Are they worried by how some voters will feel about the prospect of an overdose prevention centre, 20 months out from an election?
Lives are needlessly being lost. We need leadership from Stormont, especially the Health & Justice Ministers.
Are they worried by how some voters will feel about the prospect of an overdose prevention centre, 20 months out from an election?
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Belfast needs an overdose prevention centre.
Lives are needlessly being lost. We need leadership from Stormont, especially the Health & Justice Ministers.
Are they worried by how some voters will feel about the prospect of an overdose prevention centre, 20 months out from an election?
Lives are needlessly being lost. We need leadership from Stormont, especially the Health & Justice Ministers.
Are they worried by how some voters will feel about the prospect of an overdose prevention centre, 20 months out from an election?
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
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“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
absolute ghouls in government merrily waving in fascism
This hateful anti-migrant rhetoric from Labour’s @miketapp.bsky.social isn’t a one-off - it’s just more proof the party’s now planted firmly on the right-wing of British politics
Mimicking Trump, Musk, and Farage won’t win back former members - it just panders to racists who’ll vote Reform anyway
Mimicking Trump, Musk, and Farage won’t win back former members - it just panders to racists who’ll vote Reform anyway
LABOUR Home Office minister writes...
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
absolute ghouls in government merrily waving in fascism
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Directly from a PSNI officer in today’s Belfast Telegraph:
‘His message says:
“I have been subjected to repeated homophobic harassment by my colleagues, PSD (professional standards department) and far-right activists with disturbing amounts of influence over this organisation.” [2/4]
‘His message says:
“I have been subjected to repeated homophobic harassment by my colleagues, PSD (professional standards department) and far-right activists with disturbing amounts of influence over this organisation.” [2/4]
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Directly from a PSNI officer in today’s Belfast Telegraph:
‘His message says:
“I have been subjected to repeated homophobic harassment by my colleagues, PSD (professional standards department) and far-right activists with disturbing amounts of influence over this organisation.” [2/4]
‘His message says:
“I have been subjected to repeated homophobic harassment by my colleagues, PSD (professional standards department) and far-right activists with disturbing amounts of influence over this organisation.” [2/4]
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Siegfried Sassoon
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Siegfried Sassoon
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This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men.
This will be used to abuse.
This will be used to abuse.
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men.
This will be used to abuse.
This will be used to abuse.
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A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.
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i'm very glad this technology is being forced onto us everywhere on all levels
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
i'm very glad this technology is being forced onto us everywhere on all levels
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"You think I'm cringe? Yes, I am. Revolution is not for the ironypilled. Look at us: Transes, Palestinians, SWs... blocklist-fodder. We'll all be banned before Singal is. And yet, 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚. Where are you, doll? You're here! You're not on X, you're 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘, and you're ready to 𝙋𝙊𝙎𝙏"
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"You think I'm cringe? Yes, I am. Revolution is not for the ironypilled. Look at us: Transes, Palestinians, SWs... blocklist-fodder. We'll all be banned before Singal is. And yet, 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚. Where are you, doll? You're here! You're not on X, you're 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘, and you're ready to 𝙋𝙊𝙎𝙏"
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accessing gender affirming care in the UK
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
accessing gender affirming care in the UK
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Fed up with politicians looking after themselves while people go without? It’s time for a movement that puts health, homes, climate, and fairness first.
Don’t just watch change - drive it.
BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER. Join us.
greenpartyni.org/join
Don’t just watch change - drive it.
BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER. Join us.
greenpartyni.org/join
November 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Fed up with politicians looking after themselves while people go without? It’s time for a movement that puts health, homes, climate, and fairness first.
Don’t just watch change - drive it.
BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER. Join us.
greenpartyni.org/join
Don’t just watch change - drive it.
BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER. Join us.
greenpartyni.org/join
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Rockstar Games, "famed for its Grand Theft Auto franchise, the latest edition of which netted more than $1billion (£770 million) in pre-sale orders alone, last week fired all 30 workers who had been part of an Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) Discord channel"
Rockstar workers fight grand theft of jobs
MORE than 200 trade unionists and community activists picketed Rockstar Games in Edinburgh today in solidarity with 30 workers sacked for joining a union.The company, famed for its Grand Theft Auto fr...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Rockstar Games, "famed for its Grand Theft Auto franchise, the latest edition of which netted more than $1billion (£770 million) in pre-sale orders alone, last week fired all 30 workers who had been part of an Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) Discord channel"
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The BBC *chooses* not to use the language Trans women use for themselves
Instead, it peddles in terms coined and spread by anti-Trans+ activists - language it’s under no legal obligation to use
This isn't neutrality
These are editorial decisions made by anti-Trans+ activists inside a failing BBC
Instead, it peddles in terms coined and spread by anti-Trans+ activists - language it’s under no legal obligation to use
This isn't neutrality
These are editorial decisions made by anti-Trans+ activists inside a failing BBC
It is utterly insane to claim that BBC News has a “pro-trans bias”, when they are currently publishing articles in which they describe trans women as “a biological male who identifies as a woman”. That isn’t them quoting anyone, that is them choosing to use the language of gender critical bigots.
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The BBC *chooses* not to use the language Trans women use for themselves
Instead, it peddles in terms coined and spread by anti-Trans+ activists - language it’s under no legal obligation to use
This isn't neutrality
These are editorial decisions made by anti-Trans+ activists inside a failing BBC
Instead, it peddles in terms coined and spread by anti-Trans+ activists - language it’s under no legal obligation to use
This isn't neutrality
These are editorial decisions made by anti-Trans+ activists inside a failing BBC
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UK: GPEW and SGP (GREENS-G/EFA) have reached 18% in today's Find Out Now poll. That is the highest that the two parties have ever polled in national parliament polling since being founded in 1990.
The same poll shows governing centre-left Labour (LAB-S&D) falling to fourth place with 15%.
The same poll shows governing centre-left Labour (LAB-S&D) falling to fourth place with 15%.
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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