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Mid Life Geek (He/Him/His - Cis)
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Role-player (#FateRPG, #StarTrekAdventures, #DnD), fan of Star Trek, Dr Who, MCU, Star Wars, Transformers, MOTU, Thunderbirds & The Mission UK
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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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It's the perfect time to plan your Halloween One-Shot session. And @drivethrurpg.com comes through with 31% off all these great supplements and scenarios for Monster of the Week, Fate, Deathmatch Island, and more. Or try the insomnia-fueled Don't Rest Your Head. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
October 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
October 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Super proud to bring the next #StarTrekAdventures book to preorder, this one kicking off the 60th anniversary celebration with where it all began, the 23rd century!

Thanks to the whole STA team and our Paramount partners for all the hard work you did on this one. #LLAP
🖖 Boldly go back to the beginning!

The 23rd Century Campaign Guide takes you back to the beginning. Experience all the seminal events of this classic franchise your way.

Preorder your copy today at buff.ly/5TDmu01

#StarTrek #TTRPG
October 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again...

'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'
NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.
October 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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That time of the semester where my students in the #TTRPG course @ucmerced.bsky.social do their presentations on a game, individual, or company involved in the creation/advocacy/support of #RPG
(this @voiceofobrien.bsky.social gif is the vibe I need)
October 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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✨ We’ve Moved! ✨

Thank you to the 42,890 people who have signed, shared and supported our letter so far: Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community.

🌐 NotInOurName.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:
September 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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The Being Intersex In The EU report..

'1 in 7 intersex respondents (15%) say that they had been physically or sexually attacked in the 12 months before the survey.'

What is the rate in the UK? What steps has UK Gov taken to ensure intersex people's safety post-Supreme Court decision? Does it care?
Today @fra.europa.eu released the report ‘Being Intersex in the EU’, highlighting the barriers intersex people continue to face in everyday life. While there is a long way to go to ensuring the full human rights of intersex people, this is an important step in the right direction!
Rising violence and harassment against intersex people in the EU
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September 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Trans people are anxiously waiting for the EHRC’s final guidance to be published, following its extreme and unworkable interim guidance. I know many are worried it will further the exclusion of trans people. I've written to govt to say that we MPs must be given time to debate it.
September 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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NEW — Set phasers to 'build' as #StarTrek and #LEGO tease their first official collaboration, with a tease for a new NEXT GENERATION set on the way

blog.trekcore.com/2025/09/lego...
LEGO Finally Makes STAR TREK Collaboration Official with New NEXT GENERATION Teaser Video
Set phasers to 'build' as STAR TREK and LEGO tease their first official collaboration, with a tease for a new NEXT GENERATION set on the way
blog.trekcore.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Sharing with ALT text for those who aren't aware of the ongoing real world implications for trans people in the U.S.

"I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state..."
March 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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We are aware of the EHRC's briefing to The Times about its draft statutory guidance. The draft is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's explicit assurance (from para 248) that its "interpretation would not be disadvantageous to or remove protection from trans people with or without a GRC." 1/2
September 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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TW.
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
August 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Today a far right protest is expected to take place outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Bristol

Let me be clear: the far right are not welcome in Bristol. They don’t represent us, or what we stand for

But I also want to be clear about what’s driving this wave of unrest...
August 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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The Centre for Migration Control?

A “Think Tank” ran seemingly by one guy called Robert Bates, a Senior Reform Campaigner in the Channel 4 Documentary released last year ‘Undercover inside Reform’s campaign’.

His data is wrong and purposely misleading.

#news #uk #politics
August 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Great article, Freddie O’Connell and @theguardian.com.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Perhaps you’re just learning this, too. If so, pause a moment longer to consider what this would mean.”

Guys, these are the points we need to keep making, to those who don’t yet understand.
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July 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Please consider signing and sharing this open letter.

We urgently need the government to revise the RSHE statutory guidance or it will remain as is and come into force in September next year.

Show them how big the opposition is to it as it stands 👇

openletter.earth/the-urgent-n...
The Urgent Need to Revise the RSHE 2026 Guidance and Centre Trans, Non-Binary, Intersex, Asexual and Gender Non-Conforming Voices
openletter.earth
July 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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That’s how much they hate us. They’re burning birth control.
July 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London.

We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.
July 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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@humblebundle.com there's no way this is an accident. What's your official statement on this because it looks insane
July 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Tim Roca, we salute you! (also, leave Labour)
July 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Strategy: ask supportive MPs to put pressure on Phillipson *not* to appoint Dr Stephenson as new EHRC chair (which may not be a done deal yet) and/or question how such an appointment is in line with Paris principles, see @mimmymum.bsky.social blog: medium.com/@mimmymum/hu...
@whatthetrans.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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A blatant “fuck you” to the LGBTQ+ community from @humblebundle.com.

For those unaware: @trevorproject.bsky.social is a mental health charity for LGBTQ+ youth. Rowling is a mental health *threat* to LGBTQ+ youth.

That statement from Trevor proves Humble were told this was wrong and did it anyway.
July 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM