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Dr Paula Gazzard
@extraneous.bsky.social
Leftie neuroqueer researcher and retired HE policy wonk with a detached fascination for the politics of crazed techno-utopias, TESCREAL, technology and philosophy of mind 🏳️‍🌈☕ #actuallyautistic #posthumanism
Reposted by Dr Paula Gazzard
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
WTF is wrong with people? Entitled tossers wanting to rule the world and governments just encourage them instead of telling them to get a life www.reddit.com/r/David/s/YJ...
From the David community on Reddit: HOA snitches got a homemade tree fort torn down
Posted by Artistic-Wolverine-6 - 1,312 votes and 208 comments
www.reddit.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I've previously heard the whole speech, edited or not an obvious call to insurrection with plausible deniability from a chancer. There comes a limit to grovelling to foreign dictators, surely?

ground.news/article/bbc-...
BBC chair apologises for 'error of judgement' over Trump speech edit in documentary
BBC Chair Samir Shah on Monday apologised for an "error of judgment" in editing a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump in a Panorama documentary, following the resignations of BBC's boss and head of ...
ground.news
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
Save NHS dentistry now!
I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Reposted by Dr Paula Gazzard
Totally! Important to get out of a doomed/saved binary, and work out what we can do practically to make the world as livable as we can for everyone and everything
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
After all that ranting from Vance about UK free speech... theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.
theintercept.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It's actually about Russian interference in uk demacracy... open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The cleavage shot no UK tabloid will print
Want to understand how deeply weird the British press is on the subject of Russian interference? I have a bikini shot to show you...
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
USA Republicans did nothing to control MAGA because MAGA was electorally successful. Ditto Johnson in the UK. Yes, Starmer, you can't govern if you can't get elected but you also can't govern if you have subordinated your party to lawless authoritarian voters and nerd reich think tank funders
October 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Great reasons to live alone: I can sniffle through sentimental dramas with no one being mean to me about it 🤣
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Reposted by Dr Paula Gazzard
Tired: Trump is punishing Brazil because they sentenced his pal Bolsonaro for attempting a coup
Wired: Trump is punishing Brazil because their useful central bank payment system is squeezing out PayPal
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...
Brazil Has a New Digital Spending Habit. Now It’s a Trump Target.
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Subject for this month's Neurodissidence Network discussion: Is autistic experience universalisable? We'll be meeting online Thurs 2 October 7-9pm - link will be posted to our Signal group or you can sign up at www.meetup.com/neurodisside...
Neurodissidence Network | Meetup
This group is associated with the neurodissidence network blog: http://neurodissidence.org.uk/It's a space by and for autistic and neurodivergent people. We're left-leaning, and see neurodissidence ve...
www.meetup.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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pew pew pew bitch
July 7, 2025 at 4:08 AM
FFS don't pander to far right, it only encourages them
This is the state of play. This is how anti-trans hate can affect everyone. When the wife of a world leader is not immune to having to prove she's a woman to satisfy bigots, what hope do most trans and non-binary individuals have of being able to live our lives in peace
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Macrons to offer 'scientific' court evidence to prove Brigitte is a woman, lawyer says
They have filed a lawsuit against US right-wing influencer Candace Owens who claims the French first lady was born male.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Reposted by Dr Paula Gazzard
Pay attention to the media organisations who will report on Trump declaring antifa - which does not exist - as a terrorist organisation without explicitly saying what antifa stands for every time.

They’d have to report that Trump is effectively declaring anti-fascism as an enemy ideology.
September 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
And if you're not from that class you'd better learn to adapt to its attitudes pretty fast or you're not going anywhere
Sutton Trust report: 'Only three categories were below the national average – male professional footballers at 5%, female professional footballers at 4% and the Northern Ireland assembly, where nobody attended a fee-paying school.' 1/2
Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs
Those in top roles are five times as likely to have been to private school than general population, study finds
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
ffs things you never thought could happen here
September 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Reposted by Dr Paula Gazzard
It's so refreshing to hear a party leader telling people the true reason why they are struggling, rather than blaming it on the Ukraine war, or immigrants, or any of the other lies the leaders of other parties tell to convince the public not to change the system.

Bravo @zackpolanski.bsky.social!
September 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Reposted by Dr Paula Gazzard
Quite incredible this is even being discussed.
Quoting Charlie Kirk and Musk’s plans for us. And traitorous Farage as their way in.
All those moronic Brexiters calling for ‘control’ and ‘sovereignty’, now happy to be kicked around by American fascists.
It’s horrific and it must not happen.
(Times)
September 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Reposted by Dr Paula Gazzard
In May we wrote to DPC Commissioners Des Hogan and Dale Sutherland to say

"Should a significant national security incident now occur as a result of RTB data we will be obliged to make this correspondence public and clarify where responsibility lies."

That day has arrived.
September 18, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Yo nobody can say 'I wish ill' but I can get told 'enjoy the camps'? Wtf is this candy ass bullshit, mods?
August 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM