Kate
@rebelraising.bsky.social
Loudmouth, queer, mother, Green, pedestrian thinker because walking can save us. Fan of public transport infrastructure. She/her. In Scotland.
I'm not 100% sure I go all the way with this, but the point is well made.
Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I'm not 100% sure I go all the way with this, but the point is well made.
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I genuinely think that trans people need to fight a bigger fight about research ethics governing our treatment. "Trans rights are human rights" is vague.
No research without consent is specific.
No research without consent is specific.
It's right that trans people should be able to refuse to be subjects in research being conducted with an aim of reducing their options in life, reducing their comfort and wellbeing.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I genuinely think that trans people need to fight a bigger fight about research ethics governing our treatment. "Trans rights are human rights" is vague.
No research without consent is specific.
No research without consent is specific.
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How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
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"...she appeared from nowhere..." should be treated as a guilty plea.
Fatal royal outrider crash footage shown to Old Bailey jury
Fatal royal outrider crash footage shown to Old Bailey jury
A Met Police outrider denies causing death by careless driving after he hit an 81-year-old woman.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"...she appeared from nowhere..." should be treated as a guilty plea.
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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.
What a fucking *brilliant* idea. I hope they take loads of photos with documentation and laptops and people smiling.
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
What a fucking *brilliant* idea. I hope they take loads of photos with documentation and laptops and people smiling.
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It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.
Transphobia is a pipeline to the far right. An example:
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.
Deer are basically vermin and it's fun to hear a Tory blaming pine martens and badgers for habitat degradation, presumably so his pals don't risk their shooting estates.
theferret.scot/nearly-300-p...
theferret.scot/nearly-300-p...
Deer damage hundreds of Scotland’s protected areas – The Ferret
theferret.scot
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Deer are basically vermin and it's fun to hear a Tory blaming pine martens and badgers for habitat degradation, presumably so his pals don't risk their shooting estates.
theferret.scot/nearly-300-p...
theferret.scot/nearly-300-p...
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Snails! Dirty beachcombing fingernail for scale 😅
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Snails! Dirty beachcombing fingernail for scale 😅
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Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
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Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act. The absolute tumbleweed from the media & gov shows just how much they want to bury how much disabled people fought and still fight for our rights.
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act. The absolute tumbleweed from the media & gov shows just how much they want to bury how much disabled people fought and still fight for our rights.
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If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
June 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
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The recent policy change which makes it impossible for young trans people to delay puberty, at great cost to their mental health, has a special caveat to allow cross-sex hormones to be used on intersex children even contrary to their wishes, at great cost to their mental health.
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The recent policy change which makes it impossible for young trans people to delay puberty, at great cost to their mental health, has a special caveat to allow cross-sex hormones to be used on intersex children even contrary to their wishes, at great cost to their mental health.
Time for my regular complaint of "why do courier companies have a 'leave in outhouse' option and no 'leave in stair' option, this isn't fucking Agatha Christie world", thank you and good morning.
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Time for my regular complaint of "why do courier companies have a 'leave in outhouse' option and no 'leave in stair' option, this isn't fucking Agatha Christie world", thank you and good morning.
I forgot how much I enjoyed chatting with people who experience weird mental health shit and have ways to handle it, sharing ideas and laughing at the ridiculousness. Someone please let me do this as a job again. Please.
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I forgot how much I enjoyed chatting with people who experience weird mental health shit and have ways to handle it, sharing ideas and laughing at the ridiculousness. Someone please let me do this as a job again. Please.
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Mention by Ricardo Pinto of Scotland as a 'wet desert' but he didn't mention my enemy the deer.
Our supposed beautiful natural landscape is a product of human action.
#PictCon
Our supposed beautiful natural landscape is a product of human action.
#PictCon
November 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Mention by Ricardo Pinto of Scotland as a 'wet desert' but he didn't mention my enemy the deer.
Our supposed beautiful natural landscape is a product of human action.
#PictCon
Our supposed beautiful natural landscape is a product of human action.
#PictCon
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A final fuck off to James Watson and to every news source who’s naming him as one of two co-discoverers of DNA structure without mentioning Rosalind Franklin. 🖕
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A final fuck off to James Watson and to every news source who’s naming him as one of two co-discoverers of DNA structure without mentioning Rosalind Franklin. 🖕
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AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO
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Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of all new wealth. The poorest half of the world has received only 1%.
We cannot continue letting billionaires keep the world's money while the poorest suffer
www.bigissue.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of all new wealth. The poorest half of the world has received only 1%.
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To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
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A reminder: you cannot have gay rights without women’s rights, trans rights, disability rights, etc. We have secured our rights as gay folk to live and love without moral persecution by working in solidarity with other marginalised groups to challenge narrow ideas about bodies, gender and sexuality.
August 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A reminder: you cannot have gay rights without women’s rights, trans rights, disability rights, etc. We have secured our rights as gay folk to live and love without moral persecution by working in solidarity with other marginalised groups to challenge narrow ideas about bodies, gender and sexuality.
This is what my children call diagnosis by peer review.
An autistic woman has baffled her friends and relatives by switching career every few days, with each job more strange and confusing than the last, sources have claimed.
Autistic woman boldly embarks on 59th career change
An autistic woman has baffled her friends and relatives by switching career every few days, with each job more strange and confusing than the last, sources have claimed. Pippa Durham, 39, who holds…
thedailytism.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This is what my children call diagnosis by peer review.
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Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating.
My thoughts with all involved
My thoughts with all involved
November 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating.
My thoughts with all involved
My thoughts with all involved
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News in that children are now being prescribed weight loss jabs on the NHS.
@wesstreetingmp.bsky.social
Where are the trials for the use of these experimental drugs in children? How do you know it’s safe?
📢 SHOW US THE EVIDENCE 📢
All so utterly predictable and fucked up.
Here we go again ✍️
@wesstreetingmp.bsky.social
Where are the trials for the use of these experimental drugs in children? How do you know it’s safe?
📢 SHOW US THE EVIDENCE 📢
All so utterly predictable and fucked up.
Here we go again ✍️
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
News in that children are now being prescribed weight loss jabs on the NHS.
@wesstreetingmp.bsky.social
Where are the trials for the use of these experimental drugs in children? How do you know it’s safe?
📢 SHOW US THE EVIDENCE 📢
All so utterly predictable and fucked up.
Here we go again ✍️
@wesstreetingmp.bsky.social
Where are the trials for the use of these experimental drugs in children? How do you know it’s safe?
📢 SHOW US THE EVIDENCE 📢
All so utterly predictable and fucked up.
Here we go again ✍️