Artie 🔶️
@artie-k.bsky.social
Edinburgh Uni Liberal Association President
AI for Maths @ Uni of Edinburgh
I use any pronouns
AI for Maths @ Uni of Edinburgh
I use any pronouns
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. It hits particularly hard this year - a powerful reminder of why we fight, and a moment to reflect on those no longer with us.
May they rest in power.
May they rest in power.
November 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. It hits particularly hard this year - a powerful reminder of why we fight, and a moment to reflect on those no longer with us.
May they rest in power.
May they rest in power.
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The last two weeks have been a tough one for @libdems.org.uk members, through no fault of their own.
We're grateful to the huge number of members, internal election candidates, and fellow Affiliated Organisations like @libdemwomen.bsky.social who have stood alongside us.
Statement below:
We're grateful to the huge number of members, internal election candidates, and fellow Affiliated Organisations like @libdemwomen.bsky.social who have stood alongside us.
Statement below:
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The last two weeks have been a tough one for @libdems.org.uk members, through no fault of their own.
We're grateful to the huge number of members, internal election candidates, and fellow Affiliated Organisations like @libdemwomen.bsky.social who have stood alongside us.
Statement below:
We're grateful to the huge number of members, internal election candidates, and fellow Affiliated Organisations like @libdemwomen.bsky.social who have stood alongside us.
Statement below:
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i do genuinely wonder if reactionary cenrists ever get tired of never being right about anything
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
i do genuinely wonder if reactionary cenrists ever get tired of never being right about anything
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What is a liberal party for? by @caronmlindsay.bsky.social. Some thoughts on party strategy and the controversy over diversity quotas. www.libdemvoice.org/what-is-a-li...
What is a liberal party for?
We've talked a lot about the changes the party has made to diversity quotas for the forthcoming presidential election this week. Presidential candidates Prue and Josh have had their say, as have Rebec...
www.libdemvoice.org
November 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
What is a liberal party for? by @caronmlindsay.bsky.social. Some thoughts on party strategy and the controversy over diversity quotas. www.libdemvoice.org/what-is-a-li...
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Are you a 🔶 @libdems.org.uk member? If so, you get a vote in the party's internal elections, but it's a long ballot. Our recommendations on how to vote are here - some excellent candidates standing. 👇
Candidates for 2025 Internal Elections
LGBT+ Lib Dems and allies standing in the triennial internal party elections
lgbt.libdems.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are you a 🔶 @libdems.org.uk member? If so, you get a vote in the party's internal elections, but it's a long ballot. Our recommendations on how to vote are here - some excellent candidates standing. 👇
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Well @pruebray.bsky.social just won my vote for Party President. The Party needs senior leaders like a President who is willing to stand up for members.
I am so angry, I almost can’t type. By @pruebray.bsky.social www.libdemvoice.org/prue-bray-i-...
Prue Bray: I am so angry I almost can’t type
We are in the middle of elections for internal roles in the Federal party, and I am one of the candidates for President. Voting opens tomorrow. So, this morning, I sat down to write a piece about why ...
www.libdemvoice.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Well @pruebray.bsky.social just won my vote for Party President. The Party needs senior leaders like a President who is willing to stand up for members.
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Our party claims to value equality, consent, and self-determination. If this is still true, it must reverse this decision immediately.
Open letter: lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
Revocation form: lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
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Open letter: lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
Revocation form: lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
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Lib Dem Internal Elections 2025 – LGBT+ Liberal Democrats
lgbtlibdems.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Our party claims to value equality, consent, and self-determination. If this is still true, it must reverse this decision immediately.
Open letter: lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
Revocation form: lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
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Open letter: lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
Revocation form: lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats condemn our party's decision to base internal gender quotas on sex assigmed at birth.
This trans-exclusionary decision is an attack on one of the most vulnerable groups in our society.
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This trans-exclusionary decision is an attack on one of the most vulnerable groups in our society.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
LGBT+ Liberal Democrats condemn our party's decision to base internal gender quotas on sex assigmed at birth.
This trans-exclusionary decision is an attack on one of the most vulnerable groups in our society.
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This trans-exclusionary decision is an attack on one of the most vulnerable groups in our society.
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Hi @joshbabarinde.bsky.social & @pruebray.bsky.social what will you do if elected to ensure the will of the membership, as repeatedly expressed at federal conference, to support trans inclusive gender quotas in internal elections is reinstated and defended?
I’m a single issue voter now.
I’m a single issue voter now.
October 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Hi @joshbabarinde.bsky.social & @pruebray.bsky.social what will you do if elected to ensure the will of the membership, as repeatedly expressed at federal conference, to support trans inclusive gender quotas in internal elections is reinstated and defended?
I’m a single issue voter now.
I’m a single issue voter now.
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I wish the Party didn't make it so darn hard to be a Lib Dem. 😥
October 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I wish the Party didn't make it so darn hard to be a Lib Dem. 😥
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Are you a 🔸️🔶️ #libdem 🔶️🔸️?
If so, whether you are cis or trans or consider yourself neither, you need to email compliance TODAY with something like the text in the image. If you need the address and don't have it i can supply in DM.
Want to know why? 🧵 from Charley ⤵️
If so, whether you are cis or trans or consider yourself neither, you need to email compliance TODAY with something like the text in the image. If you need the address and don't have it i can supply in DM.
Want to know why? 🧵 from Charley ⤵️
![Title: Removal of permission to use data about me
Text: If the party holds any information whatsoever about my sex assigned at birth, whether under my current name or any other names associated with [membership number], I hereby immediately revoke any permission I may have previously given for the party to hold or use this information in any way.
My gender is, and remains, [your gender].
Sincerely
[your name]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j2yiwzoek7ylj2iejah5ortj/bafkreidbeiejyjrame3kllcxjnnqudz3lakovooqdo4eavgn7dar2hyzqi@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Are you a 🔸️🔶️ #libdem 🔶️🔸️?
If so, whether you are cis or trans or consider yourself neither, you need to email compliance TODAY with something like the text in the image. If you need the address and don't have it i can supply in DM.
Want to know why? 🧵 from Charley ⤵️
If so, whether you are cis or trans or consider yourself neither, you need to email compliance TODAY with something like the text in the image. If you need the address and don't have it i can supply in DM.
Want to know why? 🧵 from Charley ⤵️
Horrific news on anti-trans gender quotas. Any "reputational cost" the party might now suffer due to "internal division" is, frankly, on the people who made this decision. Many amazing people within the party have tried doing this the nice way, but we have been completely ignored every single time.
Following the announcement by the Lib Dems returning officer on quotas in our federal elections I would like to make it clear I spent many hours and more emails trying to point out that this decision went against the expressed will of conference barely a month ago.
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Horrific news on anti-trans gender quotas. Any "reputational cost" the party might now suffer due to "internal division" is, frankly, on the people who made this decision. Many amazing people within the party have tried doing this the nice way, but we have been completely ignored every single time.
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People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk has written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk has written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
October 22, 2025 at 8:48 AM
People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk has written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk has written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
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Average Tory leadership hopeful: we should re-establish the Raj. Let's have a fifth Anglo-Asante war. I do not think that Romanians count as people on a legal or metaphysical level.
Labour response: after 14 years of Tory mismanagement only Labour can be trusted to strip Romanians of their souls.
Labour response: after 14 years of Tory mismanagement only Labour can be trusted to strip Romanians of their souls.
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Average Tory leadership hopeful: we should re-establish the Raj. Let's have a fifth Anglo-Asante war. I do not think that Romanians count as people on a legal or metaphysical level.
Labour response: after 14 years of Tory mismanagement only Labour can be trusted to strip Romanians of their souls.
Labour response: after 14 years of Tory mismanagement only Labour can be trusted to strip Romanians of their souls.
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Having fun with @artie-k.bsky.social on the @pluslibdems.bsky.social and @libdemwomen.bsky.social stall at #sldconf sending the message that we stand together and support each other. We are talking about Council elections and medical misogyny.
October 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Having fun with @artie-k.bsky.social on the @pluslibdems.bsky.social and @libdemwomen.bsky.social stall at #sldconf sending the message that we stand together and support each other. We are talking about Council elections and medical misogyny.
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Starmer has pulled out all the stops to flatter and impress Trump, but still hasn’t managed to get him to drop his damaging tariffs, take on Putin or tell Netanyahu to stop waging genocide.
It’s time for the UK to stand tough with allies who share our values.
It’s time for the UK to stand tough with allies who share our values.
September 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Starmer has pulled out all the stops to flatter and impress Trump, but still hasn’t managed to get him to drop his damaging tariffs, take on Putin or tell Netanyahu to stop waging genocide.
It’s time for the UK to stand tough with allies who share our values.
It’s time for the UK to stand tough with allies who share our values.
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BREAKING NEWS:
I am thrilled to be able to report that after a discussion with JPAC, JPAC has agreed to update it's position statement to make it clear that trans people haemoglobin levels should be tested against their hormonal levels, not their Sex at Birth.
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I am thrilled to be able to report that after a discussion with JPAC, JPAC has agreed to update it's position statement to make it clear that trans people haemoglobin levels should be tested against their hormonal levels, not their Sex at Birth.
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Attention UK Based people, I need YOU to help me challenge NHS Blood & Transplants policies towards Trans & Non-Binary people.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rA…
September 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
BREAKING NEWS:
I am thrilled to be able to report that after a discussion with JPAC, JPAC has agreed to update it's position statement to make it clear that trans people haemoglobin levels should be tested against their hormonal levels, not their Sex at Birth.
1/7
I am thrilled to be able to report that after a discussion with JPAC, JPAC has agreed to update it's position statement to make it clear that trans people haemoglobin levels should be tested against their hormonal levels, not their Sex at Birth.
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The far right are the real threat to free speech
This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely
September 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The far right are the real threat to free speech
This is the Britain I recognise
September 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This is the Britain I recognise
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Today, I asked the Minister for Women and Equalities, Bridget Phillipson, what she is doing to support trans people more generally, as well as how she plans to resolve contradictions between the Gender Recognition Act and the new ruling.
September 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Today, I asked the Minister for Women and Equalities, Bridget Phillipson, what she is doing to support trans people more generally, as well as how she plans to resolve contradictions between the Gender Recognition Act and the new ruling.
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Read the room, then lead the room.
I will not be dragged to the right by media hysteria over immigration. It remains an issue which demands respect and compassion.
The government must take care not to join the Conservative Party and Reform UK in the abyss.
I will not be dragged to the right by media hysteria over immigration. It remains an issue which demands respect and compassion.
The government must take care not to join the Conservative Party and Reform UK in the abyss.
September 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Read the room, then lead the room.
I will not be dragged to the right by media hysteria over immigration. It remains an issue which demands respect and compassion.
The government must take care not to join the Conservative Party and Reform UK in the abyss.
I will not be dragged to the right by media hysteria over immigration. It remains an issue which demands respect and compassion.
The government must take care not to join the Conservative Party and Reform UK in the abyss.
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We need to stop pitting different groups against each other, and remember human beings are human beings. My thoughts -
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
Human beings are human beings. I intend to ensure my country treats everyone as such
It is possible for us to want the best for those arriving on our shores as much as those born here
www.scotsman.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
We need to stop pitting different groups against each other, and remember human beings are human beings. My thoughts -
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
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"I completely get it"
September 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"I completely get it"
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August 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM