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Royal Mail are putting profits first and prioritising parcels instead of letters. It means people are missing things like NHS appointments and bills that need paying. Enough is enough, sign the petition now to stop Royal Mail's greedy actions: 38d.gs/rm_letters_df
Sign the petition: Stop Royal Mail leaving our letters undelivered!
Royal Mail are putting profits first and prioritising parcels instead of letters. It means people are missing things like NHS appointments and bills that need paying. Enough is enough, sign the petiti...
38d.gs
February 18, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Royal Mail are putting profits first and prioritising parcels instead of letters. It means people are missing things like NHS appointments and bills that need paying. Enough is enough, sign the petition now to stop Royal Mail's greedy actions: 38d.gs/rm_letters_df
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For all of you who kept quiet when Wes Streeting banned puberty-blockers for trans kids because you believed the pseudoscientific Cass Review. This is what happens if we let them remove healthcare from one group.
Read the poem, it applies to healthcare also.
Read the poem, it applies to healthcare also.
ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com/content/5f56...
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com/content/5f56...
ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
www.ft.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:29 AM
For all of you who kept quiet when Wes Streeting banned puberty-blockers for trans kids because you believed the pseudoscientific Cass Review. This is what happens if we let them remove healthcare from one group.
Read the poem, it applies to healthcare also.
Read the poem, it applies to healthcare also.
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A fun thing to do is look at Amazon’s price history tool.
Prices remain steady on most things over the last 30 days. Toggle it to 90 and almost everything spiked 30%
Prices remain steady on most things over the last 30 days. Toggle it to 90 and almost everything spiked 30%
February 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM
A fun thing to do is look at Amazon’s price history tool.
Prices remain steady on most things over the last 30 days. Toggle it to 90 and almost everything spiked 30%
Prices remain steady on most things over the last 30 days. Toggle it to 90 and almost everything spiked 30%
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Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
February 17, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.
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When people hear "it saved my life", there’s a presumption made that we mean without it we would quite literally die. And for many of us, that's absolutely true... But for those of us who rely upon it regularly.... it means our lives are made so much better now that they actually feel worth living."
Since Cass is again making the rounds for expounding on all the ways we might make fewer trans kids, here’s a piece on how this discourse erases the lives of trans people doing extraordinary specifically because they embraced who they are. Whose rich lives wouldn’t have happened in the closet.
In defense of trans quality of life — Jessica Kant
Today trans people exist in an atmosphere where it has become normal for strangers to demand of us that we extemporaneously provide inarguable, indisputable proof that without very safe medical care w...
jessk.org
February 16, 2026 at 9:43 PM
When people hear "it saved my life", there’s a presumption made that we mean without it we would quite literally die. And for many of us, that's absolutely true... But for those of us who rely upon it regularly.... it means our lives are made so much better now that they actually feel worth living."
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btw one of the most insane things about the government's embrace of 'gender critical' is wes streeting knows conversion doesn't work bcos he's a 'pray the gay away' failure.
@lucympowell.bsky.social and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social are jus rancid bigots but streeting knows conversion doesn't work.
@lucympowell.bsky.social and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social are jus rancid bigots but streeting knows conversion doesn't work.
February 17, 2026 at 9:22 AM
btw one of the most insane things about the government's embrace of 'gender critical' is wes streeting knows conversion doesn't work bcos he's a 'pray the gay away' failure.
@lucympowell.bsky.social and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social are jus rancid bigots but streeting knows conversion doesn't work.
@lucympowell.bsky.social and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social are jus rancid bigots but streeting knows conversion doesn't work.
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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 16 PinkNews
Hilary Cass on the BBC accuses "charlatans" operating online of "just handing out inappropriate drugs.' Helen Webberley, CEO of GenderGP online GAC supplier, files complaint to the medical board for misleading the public.
Hilary Cass on the BBC accuses "charlatans" operating online of "just handing out inappropriate drugs.' Helen Webberley, CEO of GenderGP online GAC supplier, files complaint to the medical board for misleading the public.
Dr Hilary Cass faces formal complaint over BBC interview
A physician has issued a formal complaint to the General Medical Council over Dr Hilary Cass' interview with the BBC this weekend.
www.thepinknews.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:18 PM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 16 PinkNews
Hilary Cass on the BBC accuses "charlatans" operating online of "just handing out inappropriate drugs.' Helen Webberley, CEO of GenderGP online GAC supplier, files complaint to the medical board for misleading the public.
Hilary Cass on the BBC accuses "charlatans" operating online of "just handing out inappropriate drugs.' Helen Webberley, CEO of GenderGP online GAC supplier, files complaint to the medical board for misleading the public.
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I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear.
*See next post.
*See next post.
This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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February 16, 2026 at 8:53 AM
I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear.
*See next post.
*See next post.
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Reminder that lots of jobs require the use of VPNs, and workers shouldn't have to provide ID to carry out the job they've already been vetted for.
ID to use a VPN is the Panopticon door closing shut on us forever. #r4today
February 16, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Reminder that lots of jobs require the use of VPNs, and workers shouldn't have to provide ID to carry out the job they've already been vetted for.
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Neoliberalism was designed to fail ordinary people, and it is through its politics of destruction. youtu.be/8LpJTB7shXs?...
Neoliberalism was designed to fail ordinary people, and it is through its politics of destruction
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
February 16, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Neoliberalism was designed to fail ordinary people, and it is through its politics of destruction. youtu.be/8LpJTB7shXs?...
Oh right, so *that’s* why she wanted to get cuts rolled out to sick and disabled people without any data analysis or due diligence beforehand, because she’s an impatient, irresponsible twat.
The only thing that gets these terrible emotionally atrophoed people excited, that gets them out of bed, is the prospect of depriving people of things: types of health care, support, & recognition, civil liberties, forms of communication & entertainment
BREAKING: ‘Patience isn't my greatest virtue'
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast 'we need to move swiftly' when asked whether a ban on social media for under 16s could be introduced this year
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast 'we need to move swiftly' when asked whether a ban on social media for under 16s could be introduced this year
February 16, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Oh right, so *that’s* why she wanted to get cuts rolled out to sick and disabled people without any data analysis or due diligence beforehand, because she’s an impatient, irresponsible twat.
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I’m not normally that person but….
It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago
Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!
It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago
Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!
February 16, 2026 at 8:25 AM
I’m not normally that person but….
It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago
Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!
It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago
Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!
I’ve been without a TV licence for about a decade now. I don’t miss live broadcast tv or iPlayer at all.
To reinforce this, because of the BBC’s transphobia and racism, I canceled my TV licence in 2012, which was so long ago I struggled to carry the old-style heavy, glass cathode ray tube telly I had then out to my car to take it to the dump.
I really have never missed it, not even for one moment.
I really have never missed it, not even for one moment.
The BBC are raising the licence fee after a year in which 300,000 households stopped paying it. No better time to cancel your licence fee if you haven't already done so.
Boycott the right-wing propaganda outlet and consider donating the money you save to trans charities and trans people in need.
Boycott the right-wing propaganda outlet and consider donating the money you save to trans charities and trans people in need.
February 16, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I’ve been without a TV licence for about a decade now. I don’t miss live broadcast tv or iPlayer at all.
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In 2005 Rod Liddle was arrested and accepted a caution for assaulting his pregnant girlfriend. He continues to have a career in journalism because the British press is fine with violent misogynists.
Reminder that Rob Liddle said he couldn't be a teacher because he would try to rape the kids
![We are almost back to sanity in schools, thanks to JK, Maya and the Darlo nurses
Rod Liddle
At the height of the madness, from which I think we are now in merciful and terminal retreat, a Scottish schoolboy announced that he identified as a wolf and was apparently indulged in this fantasy by his teachers. There was a confusion here — a kind of ideologyversus-reality disconnect, as so often happens with lifestyle-left intersectional idiocies.
If the teachers had truly believed the child was a wolf he would have been separated from the rest of the pupils by extremely robust metal fencing and thrown chunks of raw bison every few hours. Of course the school did not do that, meaning that in truth, and contrary to the approved narrative, it did not really think he was a wolf.
At the same time reports surfaced of other British schools where kids were identifying as a multitude of creatures, real and imagined, such as cats, horses, dinosaurs and dragons. One assumes that in each case the schools responded similarly, by pretending to respect these expressions of the fictional condition “species dysphoria” but in reality not believing it for a minute. [Times]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyefpiziml7b24sxpd74axq7/bafkreigglphoukvf3nzz3cy7wvc6tigvtyllp2jv4b5viqr6llbqzfpzuy@jpeg)
February 15, 2026 at 8:47 AM
In 2005 Rod Liddle was arrested and accepted a caution for assaulting his pregnant girlfriend. He continues to have a career in journalism because the British press is fine with violent misogynists.
How many times have we all done this
February 14, 2026 at 8:58 PM
How many times have we all done this
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Trans folk and allies, flood this. It won’t stop them doing irreparable damage to trans kids in schools but in twenty years when this gets studied we’ll be able to say they knew the consequences and how poorly received it was.
consult.education.gov.uk/independent-...
consult.education.gov.uk/independent-...
Keeping children safe in education: 2026 proposed revisions
- Department for Education
- Citizen Space
Find and participate in consultations run by the Department for Education
consult.education.gov.uk
February 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Trans folk and allies, flood this. It won’t stop them doing irreparable damage to trans kids in schools but in twenty years when this gets studied we’ll be able to say they knew the consequences and how poorly received it was.
consult.education.gov.uk/independent-...
consult.education.gov.uk/independent-...
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Reform is a deeply transphobic party, like MAGA and suchlike. They claim their transphobia is “feminism” and to “protect women and girls”.
It is not. All transphobia is fascism and transphobia has been used to trick gullible “gender criticals” into being their handmaidens.
archive.today/jnQKR
It is not. All transphobia is fascism and transphobia has been used to trick gullible “gender criticals” into being their handmaidens.
archive.today/jnQKR
February 13, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Reform is a deeply transphobic party, like MAGA and suchlike. They claim their transphobia is “feminism” and to “protect women and girls”.
It is not. All transphobia is fascism and transphobia has been used to trick gullible “gender criticals” into being their handmaidens.
archive.today/jnQKR
It is not. All transphobia is fascism and transphobia has been used to trick gullible “gender criticals” into being their handmaidens.
archive.today/jnQKR
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My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
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Corruption. Nothing less can describe the scale of this influence. I asked ministers this week if they would cap donations at the same time as asking about openness on lobbying meetings, and this was the part of the question they refused to answer.
🔴 Exclusive: Corporate donations British parties tripled over last three elections
But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies
It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...
But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies
It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...
Revealed: Corporate donations to British politics have tripled
Influential Labour committee chairs call on government to clean up politics as our new analysis finds record £42 million in company donations ahead of last election
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Corruption. Nothing less can describe the scale of this influence. I asked ministers this week if they would cap donations at the same time as asking about openness on lobbying meetings, and this was the part of the question they refused to answer.
I see Jim Ratcliffe’s interview with Sky News is full of the usual bullshit neoliberal lies that we’re used to seeing from these out of touch greedy fucks. They must be doing the rounds now to find the slightly lower level rich racists now that Billionaires are burned.
February 11, 2026 at 11:11 PM
I see Jim Ratcliffe’s interview with Sky News is full of the usual bullshit neoliberal lies that we’re used to seeing from these out of touch greedy fucks. They must be doing the rounds now to find the slightly lower level rich racists now that Billionaires are burned.
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It was lies by the media then, and those lies are still propagated by the media now.
And trans kids are still paying the price for those lies through Cass and Streeting.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/health/...
And trans kids are still paying the price for those lies through Cass and Streeting.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/health/...
The real Tavistock Clinic scandal: 1,000 court cases that never materialised
A FoI request for the data behind the media hysteria over the Tavistock Clinic presents quite a different picture
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 11:49 AM
It was lies by the media then, and those lies are still propagated by the media now.
And trans kids are still paying the price for those lies through Cass and Streeting.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/health/...
And trans kids are still paying the price for those lies through Cass and Streeting.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/health/...
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@Aidancommerford.bsky.social has a go at @hannahsbee.bsky.social over her part in the Tavistock/puberty-blocker ban.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 11, 2026 at 3:07 PM
@Aidancommerford.bsky.social has a go at @hannahsbee.bsky.social over her part in the Tavistock/puberty-blocker ban.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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#UK #Transrights Judging by the response, it appears that the NHS is having difficulties finding detransitioners. But obviously that won't stop them from putting all their focus detransitioning. As valid as detransitioning is, no detransition is going fix society. And the root cause of
February 11, 2026 at 10:15 AM
#UK #Transrights Judging by the response, it appears that the NHS is having difficulties finding detransitioners. But obviously that won't stop them from putting all their focus detransitioning. As valid as detransitioning is, no detransition is going fix society. And the root cause of
Incredibly relieved that Zack is dragging this into the light. Palantir are a dangerous company ran by a sociopath and founded by someone who is almost movie levels of evil villain.
But please be careful Zack, these are the same ppl that went after Corbyn when he started rocking the boat.
But please be careful Zack, these are the same ppl that went after Corbyn when he started rocking the boat.
A £240m defence contract without tender.
Their fingerprints all over our health care data.
A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.
Everything around Palantir stinks.
www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
Their fingerprints all over our health care data.
A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.
Everything around Palantir stinks.
www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
Zack Polanski pressures Wes Streeting over Palantir after Mandelson texts released
ZACK Polanski has piled fresh pressure on Wes Streeting over Palantir’s NHS contracts after the Health Secretary’s newly-released text messages…
www.thenational.scot
February 10, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Incredibly relieved that Zack is dragging this into the light. Palantir are a dangerous company ran by a sociopath and founded by someone who is almost movie levels of evil villain.
But please be careful Zack, these are the same ppl that went after Corbyn when he started rocking the boat.
But please be careful Zack, these are the same ppl that went after Corbyn when he started rocking the boat.