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@loungeiguana.bsky.social
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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@loungeiguana.bsky.social
· Feb 14
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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.
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Everybody still on there convinced that they are a special flower unaffected by propaganda.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
February 19, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Everybody still on there convinced that they are a special flower unaffected by propaganda.
Don't worry. I'm sure *you* aren't affected by algorithmic propaganda. It's just everyone else that's the problem.
(H/T @volts.wtf )
(H/T @volts.wtf )
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
February 19, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Don't worry. I'm sure *you* aren't affected by algorithmic propaganda. It's just everyone else that's the problem.
(H/T @volts.wtf )
(H/T @volts.wtf )
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So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.”
When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?
www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...
When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?
www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...
Reform UK suspends by-election campaign activist over ‘antisemitic and misogynistic’ posts
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Mitula, Reform UK’s interim campaign manager in Tameside, has been assisting Matt Goodwin's Gorton and Denton by-election campaign
www.jewishnews.co.uk
February 19, 2026 at 5:56 PM
So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.”
When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?
www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...
When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?
www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...
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every high profile anti trans critic has an origin story that goes "years ago someone asked me to respect trans people and instead I chose to go insane"
Benjamin Ryan openly admits that his reporting on trans issues is animated by personal bias against someone who was mean to him online. Ben is not capable of reporting on this issue objectively, and yet the New York Times and other outlets repeatedly let him do just that.
February 19, 2026 at 5:41 PM
every high profile anti trans critic has an origin story that goes "years ago someone asked me to respect trans people and instead I chose to go insane"
The reason I will never give a penny to the NS, even if a lot of good and talented writers work there.
New Statesman laundering reactionary politics through feminist language for years and somehow still gets called a progressive outlet. the branding did a lot of work.
February 19, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The reason I will never give a penny to the NS, even if a lot of good and talented writers work there.
This is doubly gross because what she's campaigning for would hurt other trans kids who have no support IRL, and rely on the internet for community.
This is standard "transition as a type of death" (for cis family).
What can I say? Cis supremacy is so strong for some people that they'll even do this to their own flesh and blood. They'll treasure the memory of their presumtively cis child as much, or more, than their actual, trans child.
What can I say? Cis supremacy is so strong for some people that they'll even do this to their own flesh and blood. They'll treasure the memory of their presumtively cis child as much, or more, than their actual, trans child.
February 19, 2026 at 5:36 PM
This is doubly gross because what she's campaigning for would hurt other trans kids who have no support IRL, and rely on the internet for community.
Alleged liberal experiences pushback, immediately turns reactionary out of spite. Tale as old as time.
That’s why they act like this: they were going to be Authorities who made their living telling Normal People what was going on with the Freaks, and then the Freaks had the nerve to complain that they were bigots and terrible at their jobs.
February 19, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Alleged liberal experiences pushback, immediately turns reactionary out of spite. Tale as old as time.
But Chr1st forbid you tell Benjamin Ryan Of The New York Times that he's ignorant and mistaken on the issue (and in all probability JAQing off on the internet).
we know there is not magic solution because all of these supposedly smart doctors have never found one. and trans people, the actual patients here, spent years advocating for ourselves in our own healthcare, drawing attention to the harm these doctors have caused us through their desistence studies.
February 19, 2026 at 5:24 PM
But Chr1st forbid you tell Benjamin Ryan Of The New York Times that he's ignorant and mistaken on the issue (and in all probability JAQing off on the internet).
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saying in 2022 that researchers were discouraged from studying detransitioners is a ridiculous claim
Benjamin Ryan openly admits that his reporting on trans issues is animated by personal bias against someone who was mean to him online. Ben is not capable of reporting on this issue objectively, and yet the New York Times and other outlets repeatedly let him do just that.
February 19, 2026 at 1:03 PM
saying in 2022 that researchers were discouraged from studying detransitioners is a ridiculous claim
BuT tHe sYsTEm
Trump is in the Epstein files thousands of times, he is shredding the first amendment, he is brazenly corrupt, he is opening concentration camps in their districts, and he is starting an unprovoked war with Iran. WHY WOULD YOU NOT DISRUPT THE STATE OF THE UNION.
The whole D leadership needs to go.
The whole D leadership needs to go.
House Democrats try to shut down disruptions at Trump's State of the Union
Jeffries told his members to either show "silent defiance" or boycott the speech.
www.axios.com
February 19, 2026 at 5:20 PM
BuT tHe sYsTEm
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It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.
So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
Breaking News: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, was arrested in Britain on suspicion of misconduct in public office over his links to Jeffrey Epstein, the BBC said.
February 19, 2026 at 12:22 PM
It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.
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Beautiful work here from Bedford Borough Council.
February 19, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Beautiful work here from Bedford Borough Council.
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We go live to Restore Britain and Reform accusing each other of <shrugs> stuff
two spidermans are standing in front of a nypd vehicle
ALT: two spidermans are standing in front of a nypd vehicle
media.tenor.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:07 PM
We go live to Restore Britain and Reform accusing each other of <shrugs> stuff
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1/ The BBC is asking for views ahead of its Charter renewal. We have until March 10th to tell them how we feel about:
⭐️Their diabolical demonisation and insulting language against trans people and Palestinians.
⭐️Their over-promotion of Reform - and denial of national platforms to progressives.
⭐️Their diabolical demonisation and insulting language against trans people and Palestinians.
⭐️Their over-promotion of Reform - and denial of national platforms to progressives.
February 19, 2026 at 10:39 AM
1/ The BBC is asking for views ahead of its Charter renewal. We have until March 10th to tell them how we feel about:
⭐️Their diabolical demonisation and insulting language against trans people and Palestinians.
⭐️Their over-promotion of Reform - and denial of national platforms to progressives.
⭐️Their diabolical demonisation and insulting language against trans people and Palestinians.
⭐️Their over-promotion of Reform - and denial of national platforms to progressives.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social could you comment please?
"5 Pillars" runs a Podcast called "Blood Brothers", which has hosted some of Britain's most notorious neo-Nazis & far right activists, like Nick Griffin (BNP), Mark Collett (Patriotic Alternative) & Jayda Fransen (ex-Britain First), to rant about Jews.
Now the Greens are cosying up to them.
Now the Greens are cosying up to them.
February 19, 2026 at 10:45 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social could you comment please?
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hot take, they don't want "nuance" they want ownership. there's is loooots of nuance when you look at the science of gender and sex. what isn't nuanced is that trans people are human beings, and when treated with basic human decency, have happier healthier lives. but that doesn't give them control.
every time someone’s like “why can’t we have a nuanced discussion about trans issues” i want to scream “MANY OF US ARE ALREADY NAVIGATING OUTRAGEOUSLY DEGRADING ‘NUANCED DISCUSSIONS’ WITH LOVED ONES ABOUT WHETHER WE’RE FULL PEOPLE WHO CHANGED OR THE WALKING UNDEAD.”
just let us piss & play soccer!
just let us piss & play soccer!
February 19, 2026 at 10:12 AM
hot take, they don't want "nuance" they want ownership. there's is loooots of nuance when you look at the science of gender and sex. what isn't nuanced is that trans people are human beings, and when treated with basic human decency, have happier healthier lives. but that doesn't give them control.
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“Today is a good day to bury …”
February 19, 2026 at 10:04 AM
“Today is a good day to bury …”
Liver failure challenge
take a shot every time you hear the words "just glad the queen isn't here to see this"
February 19, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Liver failure challenge
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I don't know what to do but just keep repeating it so I don't go insane: the rise & eventual total domination of RW media is the single most significant political development of my lifetime and the entirely of the US political & media elite resolutely refuse to discuss or even acknowledge it.
February 18, 2026 at 2:51 AM
I don't know what to do but just keep repeating it so I don't go insane: the rise & eventual total domination of RW media is the single most significant political development of my lifetime and the entirely of the US political & media elite resolutely refuse to discuss or even acknowledge it.
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.
