John Bate
@jflb96.bsky.social
From Exeter. Trying my best.
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J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
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May 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk
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It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.
May 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.
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Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!
May 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!
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In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters.
I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.
I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.
Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
May 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters.
I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.
I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.
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starmer is probably going to go down in history as the PM who had a chance to reverse the drive towards the farage reich but stood by and did nothing. but i don't really think that's fair.
we need to remember how much he's been pushing for that reich
we need to remember how much he's been pushing for that reich
May 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
starmer is probably going to go down in history as the PM who had a chance to reverse the drive towards the farage reich but stood by and did nothing. but i don't really think that's fair.
we need to remember how much he's been pushing for that reich
we need to remember how much he's been pushing for that reich
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They withdrew the whip and kicked Corbyn out of the party so they could give you a cabinet that’s slashing welfare, prepping the NHS for privatisation and demonising immigrants, and a PM whose ultimate grand strategy is playing bigot chicken with Nigel Farage. This cannot be stressed enough.
May 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
They withdrew the whip and kicked Corbyn out of the party so they could give you a cabinet that’s slashing welfare, prepping the NHS for privatisation and demonising immigrants, and a PM whose ultimate grand strategy is playing bigot chicken with Nigel Farage. This cannot be stressed enough.
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3 months ago, I wrote this about centrist parties aping the far right, and how it's not just immoral, but suicidal. This is not secret knowledge. It's the most reliable effect in world politics. It's watching 40 guys getting killed by the same gorilla, one by one, and stepping up to take your turn.
May 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
3 months ago, I wrote this about centrist parties aping the far right, and how it's not just immoral, but suicidal. This is not secret knowledge. It's the most reliable effect in world politics. It's watching 40 guys getting killed by the same gorilla, one by one, and stepping up to take your turn.
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just a really long sustained and, as it goes on, increasingly obviously sarcastic round of applause to every Democratic op who is still pushing the utterly failed "culture war stuff is just a distraction" narrative and using "woke" as a pejorative.
Republicans are gross weirdos just keep saying it.
Republicans are gross weirdos just keep saying it.
Democrats just flipped the Omaha mayor's office with ads like this. The right-wing obsession with genitals is starting to backfire.
May 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
just a really long sustained and, as it goes on, increasingly obviously sarcastic round of applause to every Democratic op who is still pushing the utterly failed "culture war stuff is just a distraction" narrative and using "woke" as a pejorative.
Republicans are gross weirdos just keep saying it.
Republicans are gross weirdos just keep saying it.
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🧵 The recent miscarriage of justice in the UK Supreme Court, where it created a class of people with fewer human rights than others, has led to two key developments. It has created an intersectional backlash against systemic transphobia in the political class, as well as embolden transphobes. [1]
May 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
🧵 The recent miscarriage of justice in the UK Supreme Court, where it created a class of people with fewer human rights than others, has led to two key developments. It has created an intersectional backlash against systemic transphobia in the political class, as well as embolden transphobes. [1]
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🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform?
Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good
Scoop on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...
Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good
Scoop on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...
Palantir's NHS data platform rejected by most hospitals
US spy tech firm's £330million software isn't much cop, experts say
democracyforsale.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:40 AM
🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform?
Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good
Scoop on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...
Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good
Scoop on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...
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put this on your page to let people know your account is NOT a safe space for Lib Dems
May 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
put this on your page to let people know your account is NOT a safe space for Lib Dems
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The latest version of "What's wrong with the Cass Review" now includes the peer-reviewed version of the Noone et al. article on critically appraising the Cass Review. I have also made some minor edits to the introduction, e.g. adding the fact that the Cass Review cost £3 million to undertake.
What’s wrong with the Cass Review? A round-up of commentary and evidence
[last updated 12/05/25] Wednesday 10 April 2024 saw the long-awaited publication of the final report of the Cass Review. This report was commissioned by NHS England, and provides a review of eviden…
ruthpearce.net
May 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The latest version of "What's wrong with the Cass Review" now includes the peer-reviewed version of the Noone et al. article on critically appraising the Cass Review. I have also made some minor edits to the introduction, e.g. adding the fact that the Cass Review cost £3 million to undertake.
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It's never a bad time to remind everyone:
June 4, 2024 at 5:20 AM
It's never a bad time to remind everyone:
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I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive
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May 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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1/🧵 Many new archive finds. The UK considered in 2002 to use a remedial order under the Human Rights Act to bring the law into compliance with Goodwin & “I”.
The government opted for primary legislation because of the “complex knock-on effect”.
The government opted for primary legislation because of the “complex knock-on effect”.
May 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
1/🧵 Many new archive finds. The UK considered in 2002 to use a remedial order under the Human Rights Act to bring the law into compliance with Goodwin & “I”.
The government opted for primary legislation because of the “complex knock-on effect”.
The government opted for primary legislation because of the “complex knock-on effect”.
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not everything is about money and you can’t target both reform and green voters simultaneously.
greens won’t vote for labour’s bigoted policies and your bigoted policies will never be disgusting enough for reform voters.
greens won’t vote for labour’s bigoted policies and your bigoted policies will never be disgusting enough for reform voters.
May 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
not everything is about money and you can’t target both reform and green voters simultaneously.
greens won’t vote for labour’s bigoted policies and your bigoted policies will never be disgusting enough for reform voters.
greens won’t vote for labour’s bigoted policies and your bigoted policies will never be disgusting enough for reform voters.
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Don't take it from me. Take it from the government's own assessment:
Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie.
A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie.
A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Don't take it from me. Take it from the government's own assessment:
Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie.
A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie.
A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
![the "stop doing math" meme except it says "STOP DRIVING CARS". the meme reads:
* PEOPLE WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ISOLATED IN CAGES
* YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for building ONE MORE LANE
* Wanted to travel large distances anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "TRAINS"
* "Yes please give me NO GREENERY. Please give me INFINITE PAVEMENT" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what Civil Engineers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the concrete and asphalt we built for them
(This is REAL Civil Infrastructure, done by REAL Civil Engineers):
? [Image of the infamously hideous Breezewood truck stop]
?? [Image of a gigantic mega parking lot with thousands of cars]
??? [Image of the infamous I-405 gridlock photo with tens of thousands of cars not moving]
"Hello I would like [Image of a graph of global surface temperatures] climate please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ywbm3iywnhzep3ckt6efhoh7/bafkreihghfkhhhasmr6sn5mj7uxs53v46wu2cns5saeln64grjp3ltfvpm@jpeg)
May 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
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DOGE is just more austerity…and who benefits from austerity? Billionaires do.
Reform would destroy our public services with their Trump style chaos. Labour laid the groundwork.
Greens are the alternative to Farage and Starmer.
No more austerity. No more cuts.
Reform would destroy our public services with their Trump style chaos. Labour laid the groundwork.
Greens are the alternative to Farage and Starmer.
No more austerity. No more cuts.
May 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
DOGE is just more austerity…and who benefits from austerity? Billionaires do.
Reform would destroy our public services with their Trump style chaos. Labour laid the groundwork.
Greens are the alternative to Farage and Starmer.
No more austerity. No more cuts.
Reform would destroy our public services with their Trump style chaos. Labour laid the groundwork.
Greens are the alternative to Farage and Starmer.
No more austerity. No more cuts.
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Okay friends. Today I am writing a thread that I have been thinking about for a long, long, long time. It's really, really important.
It is also very heavy. Cis people, read this. Look with your eyes open at it. Sit with it. Feel it. Absorb it.
Trans people, take care.
This is about history.
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It is also very heavy. Cis people, read this. Look with your eyes open at it. Sit with it. Feel it. Absorb it.
Trans people, take care.
This is about history.
🧵
May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Okay friends. Today I am writing a thread that I have been thinking about for a long, long, long time. It's really, really important.
It is also very heavy. Cis people, read this. Look with your eyes open at it. Sit with it. Feel it. Absorb it.
Trans people, take care.
This is about history.
🧵
It is also very heavy. Cis people, read this. Look with your eyes open at it. Sit with it. Feel it. Absorb it.
Trans people, take care.
This is about history.
🧵
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Our statement on the decision by the Scottish Government to drop the bill to ban conversion practices in this parliament.
May 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Our statement on the decision by the Scottish Government to drop the bill to ban conversion practices in this parliament.
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Labour losing Runcorn was avoidable and as much a result of our party’s failures as Reform’s rise.
Now, we need to learn the right lessons, not double down on the same mistakes.
Cutting disability benefits and scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance made voters abandon us. [1/3]
Now, we need to learn the right lessons, not double down on the same mistakes.
Cutting disability benefits and scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance made voters abandon us. [1/3]
May 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Labour losing Runcorn was avoidable and as much a result of our party’s failures as Reform’s rise.
Now, we need to learn the right lessons, not double down on the same mistakes.
Cutting disability benefits and scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance made voters abandon us. [1/3]
Now, we need to learn the right lessons, not double down on the same mistakes.
Cutting disability benefits and scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance made voters abandon us. [1/3]
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If we lose it just means we arent right wing enough and if we win it means people like us going more rightwing so my advice is go more rightwing now give me a million pounds
We put a right wing guy in charge of strategy. We keep losing to the right, and he keeps saying "go more right". For some reason we keep doing it
Hearing those six voters all wrote “I hate Ed miliband” on their ballots
May 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
If we lose it just means we arent right wing enough and if we win it means people like us going more rightwing so my advice is go more rightwing now give me a million pounds
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You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
May 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.