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Lizard.Still sorting out my pronouns, but they/them will do fine. Cocktails. 🏳️⚧️⚧️rights, TERFs/GC will be blocked. Left-leaning but finance background, go figure. Climate change and renewable energy: ask me about my heat pump at your peril. UK-based.
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Brief PSA: If you're on the transphobia moderation list bsky.app/profile/asuk... I will never re-share any of your content.
I haven't blocked all accounts on it as I think some of my old follows deserve the benefit of the doubt. But forwarding labelled content implies I don't care, and I do.
I haven't blocked all accounts on it as I think some of my old follows deserve the benefit of the doubt. But forwarding labelled content implies I don't care, and I do.
This.
Also applies to the execrable UK "debate" on immigration. Purely a product of the insane right wing media environment, dialled to 11 in the run up to the Brexit vote.
Also applies to the execrable UK "debate" on immigration. Purely a product of the insane right wing media environment, dialled to 11 in the run up to the Brexit vote.
They just talk as though the public spontaneously lurched to the right on a few specific issues -- sports, restrooms. And now they just take that as a given, a fact that trans supporters must work around.
But how did that happen? Anyone? It's fucking *bizarre* they never even raise the question.
But how did that happen? Anyone? It's fucking *bizarre* they never even raise the question.
February 18, 2026 at 2:57 PM
This.
Also applies to the execrable UK "debate" on immigration. Purely a product of the insane right wing media environment, dialled to 11 in the run up to the Brexit vote.
Also applies to the execrable UK "debate" on immigration. Purely a product of the insane right wing media environment, dialled to 11 in the run up to the Brexit vote.
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historian here!
Yes
Yes
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM
historian here!
Yes
Yes
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Papers who genuinely care about antisemitism as a bad thing, rather than as a handy weapon with which to berate the left, would not behave like the Times. This isn’t some random commenter on a FB page, this is *Reform’s campaign manager in the most consequential by-election in years*, & it’s gross.
I keep checking The Times homepage, knowing how red hot it was on AS under Corbyn, and… amid plenty of Reform coverage, this story's conspicuously absent.
February 18, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Papers who genuinely care about antisemitism as a bad thing, rather than as a handy weapon with which to berate the left, would not behave like the Times. This isn’t some random commenter on a FB page, this is *Reform’s campaign manager in the most consequential by-election in years*, & it’s gross.
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Has anyone asked Goodwin or Farage about this yet?
Astonishing it wasn't raised at Farage's press conference..
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
Astonishing it wasn't raised at Farage's press conference..
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
Matt Goodwin’s Reform UK campaign manager said he ‘would never touch a Jewish woman’ - The Jewish Chronicle
Adam Mitula, who is canvassing for the party in Gorton and Denton, also tweeted that the six million who died in the Holocaust only included ‘some Jews’
www.thejc.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Has anyone asked Goodwin or Farage about this yet?
Astonishing it wasn't raised at Farage's press conference..
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
Astonishing it wasn't raised at Farage's press conference..
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
June 26, 2024 at 9:14 PM
We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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The BBC reporting on Beth Upton’s current employment situation is definitely not in the public interest, and it is insane how much the British press freely get away with harassing her for the crime of simply living her life existing as a trans person in the UK.
February 15, 2026 at 12:35 PM
The BBC reporting on Beth Upton’s current employment situation is definitely not in the public interest, and it is insane how much the British press freely get away with harassing her for the crime of simply living her life existing as a trans person in the UK.
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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
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Good point. @kellen.bsky.social why do you not quote trump the same way that you quote @aoc.bsky.social ?
February 16, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Good point. @kellen.bsky.social why do you not quote trump the same way that you quote @aoc.bsky.social ?
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I think this is broadly a correct diagnosis of the problems of the left and center presented in an entertaining way.
Anyone have any big ideas?
Anyone have any big ideas?
February 13, 2026 at 2:39 AM
I think this is broadly a correct diagnosis of the problems of the left and center presented in an entertaining way.
Anyone have any big ideas?
Anyone have any big ideas?
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New Video: What Happened To Big Ideas?
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Mia Mulder — What Happened To Big Ideas? | Mia Mulder
What happened to Big Ideas? And why can't we have Abundance? I know the secret answer. And I think Papua New Guinea is neat.
nebula.tv
February 10, 2026 at 10:44 PM
New Video: What Happened To Big Ideas?
nebula.tv/videos/miamu...
nebula.tv/videos/miamu...
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🚨 Over 50 leading academics have sounded the alarm on the UK's voting system
⚠️ In an era of multi-party politics, First Past the Post risks “random and arbitrary” results like never before
🗳️ The experts' letter warn Ministers they must address this to stem growing instability and distrust
⚠️ In an era of multi-party politics, First Past the Post risks “random and arbitrary” results like never before
🗳️ The experts' letter warn Ministers they must address this to stem growing instability and distrust
Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics
Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...
www.politicshome.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:46 AM
🚨 Over 50 leading academics have sounded the alarm on the UK's voting system
⚠️ In an era of multi-party politics, First Past the Post risks “random and arbitrary” results like never before
🗳️ The experts' letter warn Ministers they must address this to stem growing instability and distrust
⚠️ In an era of multi-party politics, First Past the Post risks “random and arbitrary” results like never before
🗳️ The experts' letter warn Ministers they must address this to stem growing instability and distrust
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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
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This piece is so much better than the pull-quote. It’s a beautiful profile of a fascinating brave strong woman and I urge you to read it.
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:43 AM
This piece is so much better than the pull-quote. It’s a beautiful profile of a fascinating brave strong woman and I urge you to read it.
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February 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Help us appeal the High Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
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February 13, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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the Palestine Action ban really was a classic Starmer govt move: a hysterical overreaction that won them zero plaudits from the right, cost them badly to the left, and which got shot down in the end anyway.
February 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM
the Palestine Action ban really was a classic Starmer govt move: a hysterical overreaction that won them zero plaudits from the right, cost them badly to the left, and which got shot down in the end anyway.
@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social @hannahfearn.bsky.social @rmcunliffe.bsky.social @nndroid.bsky.social can I just say thank you for a great episode which was spot on about Labour's problem with women. It's refreshing to hear patriarchy and male privilege spoken about like that.
February 13, 2026 at 9:23 PM
@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social @hannahfearn.bsky.social @rmcunliffe.bsky.social @nndroid.bsky.social can I just say thank you for a great episode which was spot on about Labour's problem with women. It's refreshing to hear patriarchy and male privilege spoken about like that.
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I have now done maybe a hundred consultations. Every one ignored. Zero impact.
I wrote this blog 18 months ago:
growinguptransgender.com/2024/10/14/i...
This is exactly the same.
Pls don't focus on the plan that consultations are how we fight back. It does not work. It wastes our time.
I wrote this blog 18 months ago:
growinguptransgender.com/2024/10/14/i...
This is exactly the same.
Pls don't focus on the plan that consultations are how we fight back. It does not work. It wastes our time.
Is this an abusive relationship?
(or why I won’t be responding to another government consultation on trans healthcare). Just weeks after having submitted an invited response (invited as an academic expert) to a government consulta…
growinguptransgender.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:17 AM
I have now done maybe a hundred consultations. Every one ignored. Zero impact.
I wrote this blog 18 months ago:
growinguptransgender.com/2024/10/14/i...
This is exactly the same.
Pls don't focus on the plan that consultations are how we fight back. It does not work. It wastes our time.
I wrote this blog 18 months ago:
growinguptransgender.com/2024/10/14/i...
This is exactly the same.
Pls don't focus on the plan that consultations are how we fight back. It does not work. It wastes our time.
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it's *always* the women. always.
'Mr Goodwin also appeared to agree with the host’s claim that universities have become hotbeds of “politically correct authoritarianism” because they are full of “childless women”.'
Reform candidate calls for young girls to be given "biological reality check" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
February 13, 2026 at 10:06 AM
it's *always* the women. always.
"a Trumpian abuse of power which would have seen this Labour Government proscribe the Suffragettes"
“Palestine Action is the first civil disobedience organisation that does not advocate for violence to be proscribed by the British Government as a ‘terrorist’ group, in a Trumpian abuse of power which would have seen this Labour Government proscribe the Suffragettes": Ammori.
February 13, 2026 at 10:40 AM
"a Trumpian abuse of power which would have seen this Labour Government proscribe the Suffragettes"
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Wow!
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Wow!
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
I knew Fuentes had fascist tendencies, but I hadn't realised how much of an unapologetic, mask-off, jew-hating, racist, misogynist, genuine Nazi prick he was/is.
"All women go to the gulag."
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
"All women go to the gulag."
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 13, 2026 at 10:31 AM
I knew Fuentes had fascist tendencies, but I hadn't realised how much of an unapologetic, mask-off, jew-hating, racist, misogynist, genuine Nazi prick he was/is.
"All women go to the gulag."
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
"All women go to the gulag."
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
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A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
February 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.