Ellis (they/them)
@ellist243.bsky.social
Before you judge someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you judge them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
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Ellis (they/them)
@ellist243.bsky.social
· Nov 15
👋 I'm Ellis! Huge fan of dogs, trans rights, social justice, and the Oxford comma.
Trainee social welfare solicitor, just trying to make the world a more equitable place 🏳️⚧️
Trainee social welfare solicitor, just trying to make the world a more equitable place 🏳️⚧️
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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
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Please do not use AI for legal advice, or near legal documents, or for anything even adjacently legal. It's only when it's an area of law you actually have expertise in that you can see just how much it gets wrong. Otherwise it might look dangerously plausible. Just trust me. Don't.
I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now
December 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Please do not use AI for legal advice, or near legal documents, or for anything even adjacently legal. It's only when it's an area of law you actually have expertise in that you can see just how much it gets wrong. Otherwise it might look dangerously plausible. Just trust me. Don't.
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A very normal headline from a very normal newspaper.
December 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
A very normal headline from a very normal newspaper.
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The transgender experience in the UK right now is basically just waking up to discover what else you've been banned from.
December 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The transgender experience in the UK right now is basically just waking up to discover what else you've been banned from.
Riley was absolutely thrilled with his official 14/10 rating from @weratedogs.com
He spent 1,389 days in the care of @dogstrust.bsky.social before finding his forever home with us, having been adopted and returned 3 times.
We'll be celebrating his 1-year adoption anniversary next month!
He spent 1,389 days in the care of @dogstrust.bsky.social before finding his forever home with us, having been adopted and returned 3 times.
We'll be celebrating his 1-year adoption anniversary next month!
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Riley was absolutely thrilled with his official 14/10 rating from @weratedogs.com
He spent 1,389 days in the care of @dogstrust.bsky.social before finding his forever home with us, having been adopted and returned 3 times.
We'll be celebrating his 1-year adoption anniversary next month!
He spent 1,389 days in the care of @dogstrust.bsky.social before finding his forever home with us, having been adopted and returned 3 times.
We'll be celebrating his 1-year adoption anniversary next month!
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Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.
June 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.
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Attacking trans people’s human rights to combat misogyny is like dynamiting fish to improve water quality.
Loud, pointless and entirely self defeating.
Loud, pointless and entirely self defeating.
April 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Attacking trans people’s human rights to combat misogyny is like dynamiting fish to improve water quality.
Loud, pointless and entirely self defeating.
Loud, pointless and entirely self defeating.
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Beware of false equivalences from those who support the exclusion of trans people from daily life - including some lawyers.
The criminal law has no place in which toilet you use in the U.K.
It is NOT equivalent to ‘stealing cars’.
The criminal law has no place in which toilet you use in the U.K.
It is NOT equivalent to ‘stealing cars’.
April 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Beware of false equivalences from those who support the exclusion of trans people from daily life - including some lawyers.
The criminal law has no place in which toilet you use in the U.K.
It is NOT equivalent to ‘stealing cars’.
The criminal law has no place in which toilet you use in the U.K.
It is NOT equivalent to ‘stealing cars’.
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Breaking the Law?
I’m seeing increasing comment like that below from those apparently determined to drive trans people from society.
As far as I am aware, a trans person who uses gender-appropriate facilities in a normal way commits no offence and is breaking no law, criminal or civil.
I’m seeing increasing comment like that below from those apparently determined to drive trans people from society.
As far as I am aware, a trans person who uses gender-appropriate facilities in a normal way commits no offence and is breaking no law, criminal or civil.
May 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Breaking the Law?
I’m seeing increasing comment like that below from those apparently determined to drive trans people from society.
As far as I am aware, a trans person who uses gender-appropriate facilities in a normal way commits no offence and is breaking no law, criminal or civil.
I’m seeing increasing comment like that below from those apparently determined to drive trans people from society.
As far as I am aware, a trans person who uses gender-appropriate facilities in a normal way commits no offence and is breaking no law, criminal or civil.
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‘Comment of the day’ award goes to the Good Law Project.
And some folk will tell you the the Supreme Court ruling brought CLARITY?🤔
And some folk will tell you the the Supreme Court ruling brought CLARITY?🤔
May 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
‘Comment of the day’ award goes to the Good Law Project.
And some folk will tell you the the Supreme Court ruling brought CLARITY?🤔
And some folk will tell you the the Supreme Court ruling brought CLARITY?🤔
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How’s everyone feeling? I’m still having peaks and trough’s of fighting spirit, and then worry about how long all this will this last. What’s next? Never thought I would have to go through this type of experience in my life. Know plenty of you feel same. I just want to live a normal life.
April 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
How’s everyone feeling? I’m still having peaks and trough’s of fighting spirit, and then worry about how long all this will this last. What’s next? Never thought I would have to go through this type of experience in my life. Know plenty of you feel same. I just want to live a normal life.
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Aside from how grossly dehumanizing the language is: there's no rational society where a paragraph like this should exist, even less where it comes in the form of official guidance. Governments should not be regulating LGBTQ organizations. That's the sort of thing that can only precede atrocity.
Private lesbian organizations over 25 members cannot admit trans women. Freedom of association be damned.
April 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Aside from how grossly dehumanizing the language is: there's no rational society where a paragraph like this should exist, even less where it comes in the form of official guidance. Governments should not be regulating LGBTQ organizations. That's the sort of thing that can only precede atrocity.
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WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
February 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
February 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
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The bigotry so many of our public institutions - the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Charity Commission, the NHS, the BBC, even members of our judiciary - have seeded is revolting. It shames us as a nation.
Linking LGBTQ+ inclusion to paedophilia is a toxic and dangerous trope.
Please take action to urge Sky to pull their ads from GB News: actionstorm.org/petitions/cu...
Please take action to urge Sky to pull their ads from GB News: actionstorm.org/petitions/cu...
January 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The bigotry so many of our public institutions - the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Charity Commission, the NHS, the BBC, even members of our judiciary - have seeded is revolting. It shames us as a nation.
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These people will genuinely not do a second’s critical thinking. If someone says a trans person was involved in something horrible, they automatically believe it. No checking of sources, no research, just “I think this group of people are disgusting so they must have been involved”
‘One of the military pilots had less than 500 hours of training and she may have been transgender.’
‘They’re totally baseless claims, Steve!’
@nickferrarilbc.bsky.social says there is 'zero proof' to support Donald Trump’s claims about the Washington DC plane crash.
‘They’re totally baseless claims, Steve!’
@nickferrarilbc.bsky.social says there is 'zero proof' to support Donald Trump’s claims about the Washington DC plane crash.
January 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
These people will genuinely not do a second’s critical thinking. If someone says a trans person was involved in something horrible, they automatically believe it. No checking of sources, no research, just “I think this group of people are disgusting so they must have been involved”
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I'm just so fucking sick of the government treating us like subhumans. I'm so angry about it. How dare they meet with conversion therapy groups. Genuinely sick
February 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I'm just so fucking sick of the government treating us like subhumans. I'm so angry about it. How dare they meet with conversion therapy groups. Genuinely sick
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I Wrote about Wes Streeting's relationship with Bayswater Support Group, a conversion therapy advocacy group, for @wearequeeraf.com with @vrocca.bsky.social
www.wearequeeraf.com/revealed-str...
www.wearequeeraf.com/revealed-str...
Revealed: Streeting met with and expressed sympathy for pro-conversion therapy parents group Bayswater
QueerAF has uncovered video footage of the Health Secretary Wes Streeting saying he’d met with Bayswater parents and expressed his sympathy for the “traumatic experiences” families with trans children...
www.wearequeeraf.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I Wrote about Wes Streeting's relationship with Bayswater Support Group, a conversion therapy advocacy group, for @wearequeeraf.com with @vrocca.bsky.social
www.wearequeeraf.com/revealed-str...
www.wearequeeraf.com/revealed-str...
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Perhaps if the BBC weren’t institutionally transphobic they would question why it is always the same people launching new campaigns to make accessing trans healthcare more difficult if there were the tens of thousands of anti-trans detransitioners they claim there are
February 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Perhaps if the BBC weren’t institutionally transphobic they would question why it is always the same people launching new campaigns to make accessing trans healthcare more difficult if there were the tens of thousands of anti-trans detransitioners they claim there are
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This is Bella. She's a world-class jewel thief. Has just pulled off the most incredible heist, and she's smirking because no one suspects a thing. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday
February 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This is Bella. She's a world-class jewel thief. Has just pulled off the most incredible heist, and she's smirking because no one suspects a thing. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday
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remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
robert f. kennedy jr. submits his application to harvard university. his application is, in its entirety, a single page with his name "Robert F. Kennedy Jr."
he is accepted immediately.
he is accepted immediately.
January 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
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I don’t see why anyone would be surprised that he isn’t repulsed by a comparison of his government to Thatcher’s when making the puberty blocker ban permanent is (at least in my opinion) the biggest LGBTQ+ rights rollback by a UK government since Thatcher’s section 28.
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I don’t see why anyone would be surprised that he isn’t repulsed by a comparison of his government to Thatcher’s when making the puberty blocker ban permanent is (at least in my opinion) the biggest LGBTQ+ rights rollback by a UK government since Thatcher’s section 28.
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🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
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when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
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January 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
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