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KD Smith
@kd-smith.bsky.social
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I love animals, knitting, gardening, clean air, chick peas, photography and tractors.

Ancient feminist. She/Her.

Was once a cat, or maybe a mouse?

Instablock Covid-deniers and bigots.

Capybaras forever!

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Sadly, a brace of accounts for the list - all praising The Herald newspaper giving the award "Public Campaign of the Year" to trans-hostile pressure group, For Women Scotland.
‪Tweets from 4 accounts praising the trans-hostile pressure group "For Women Scotland" winning the Herald (Scottish Newspaper) award for "Campaign of the Year." This was for winning a case in the UK Supreme Court, funded by JK Rowling, which is being used to revoke trans people's human rights. @sandhan.bsky.social‬ · 5h Brilliant news and so well deserved! Just look at all the rabid misogynists frothing at the mouth. ‪ ‪@gillfw.bsky.social‬ · 9h Congratulations @forwomen.scot ordinary grass roots women against the elite establishment. A campaign that should never have been necessary if Scottish Govmt, captured by well funded powerful lobbyists, hadn’t taken leave of its senses & given away without a care the hard won rights of women & girls. ‪ ‪@susanlynn01.bsky.social‬ · 12h Well deserved 👏 ‪@its-derek.bsky.social‬ · 14h Fantastic result, well done! Tweet from "The Herald" newspaper. The Herald ‪@heraldscotland.bsky.social‬ For Women Scotland wins Public Campaign or Campaigner of the Year at The Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards 2025, in association with ScottishPower www.heraldscotland.com/news... #politicianawards25 Beneath is an image of two middle aged white women with glasses cheering outside the Supreme Court, having won a case that has led to the revocation of trans people's human rights in the UK. It is captioned "Public Campaign or Campaigner of the Year - For Women Scotland."
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Alt text for the above:
Picture at the top is a line drawing showing People in dark suits and glasses taking away boxes marked "Childhood History" and "Data" while parents and young people are trying to stop them taking the information because they have not consented to it being taken. The Image is entitled "Data Pulling." The text under the image is as below: "Image two captures the NHS’s approach to data collection. GP practice patients refused consent for the ICB taking their private patient data. GP practice patients, adolescents and parents, added notes to their files formally refusing permission to share their data. The GP practice did not want to share this data, and refused for several months. The GP offered anonymised data – the ICB was not interested in anonymised data. The ICB and NHS England stated that consent was not necessary due to ‘patient safety concerns’ despite no evidence of harm. The ICB finally threatened to cancel WellBN’s whole NHS contract, closing down a GP surgery with 25,000 patients, if they didn’t hand over patient data. WellBN at this point folded and handed over all trans children’s data. Information commissioner office complaints have been submitted."
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
This is an excellent but incredibly disturbing account of unethical actions and what can only be described as malpractice by Sussex ICB and NHS England, targeting young trans people and the only GP Practice that continued to provide evidenced treatment for them.

The illustrations are so apt.
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
Appears she's been there at least 3 years. She's cited with this "how to" video on YouTube from November 2022, linked from the ICO website.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY98...
Partial screen shot of a YouTube video from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) dated November 4, 2022. "How to deal with Subject Access Requests." "The UK GDPR Guidance on the right of access is aimed at larger organisations, and this seminar will focus on some of the major...an opportunity to ask questions." Staff involved in its production: Caroline Callaghan, Senior Policy Officer (Regulatory Assurance) Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, Senior Policy Officer (Rgulatory Assurance) Martyn Boaler, Senior Case Officer (Regulatory Assurance)
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
kd-smith.bsky.social
1980s Puerto Rican boy band "Menudo." Five Latino teenagers in white or pastel tops shown from the chest up and smiling at the camera.
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
That pattern is nightmare fuel.

Quite a few I don't know - probably American?

But that they included far-right influencer, Chaya Raichik, AKA "Libs of Tik Tok" is "interesting." 😟
Partial entry from Wikipedia on "Libs of TikTok - Far-right and anti-LGBTQ Twitter/X account." "Libs of TikTok is the username of various anti-LGBTQ and far-right social-media accounts operated by Chaya Raichik, a former real estate agent. Raichik uses the accounts to repost content from left-wing and LGBTQ people on TikTok or other social-media platforms, often with mocking or derogatory commentary. With million… Wikipedia"
November 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
Honestly, this guy! 😆
Skeet from @paddymalarkey.bsky.social, 5 minutes ago. "Exactly. What are you doing knitting. Tell me I'm wrong. Is Lorna Slater and Nicola Sturgeon in jobs? Drama queen."
November 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
So, here's Paddy, calling a woman "hard work" and a "howl at the moon crackpot" for calling out misogyny and transphobia that continues to undermine the prospect of Scottish Independence.

Poor lad probably doesn't realise it's a picture of him!

Screencap for when cowardly custard blocks me! :)
Skeet from @paddymalarkey.bsky.social, 5 hours ago. Writing about the Scottish Green Party: "Of course, But in my opinion, they never read the room. Advance independence before you spend time on gender identity. It brought down Nicola Sturgeon and Lorna Slater imo." Skeet in response from kd-smith@bsky.social, 12 m ago. "No, Misogynists on the right wing of Yes undermined Sturgeon and Slater, and they'll scupper any future chance of independence unless they ditch the chauvinism. No point in an Independent Scotland as backwards as bigoted Brexit Britain. Commitment to universal human rights, equity, inclusion first." Skeet reply from :paddymalarky.bsky.social, 7.15 pm, November 2, 2025. "Oh jesus, this is hard work. Howl at the moon, crackpot. 1.5% of the population was adapted for that cost them there job."
November 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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With Alt text.
Tweet from Camila (@camilapress) FULL REPORT: Colombian public media reports that a U.S. military strike on a boat on September 15 - the second attack on a vessel by the U.S. in the Caribbean that we're aware of - was a Colombian boat and was in Colombian territorial waters. At least one of the three victims extrajudicially killed in the strike was Colombian lifelong fisherman Alejandro Carranza. Alejandro's identity is conformed by his cousin. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. Includes a screen shot from Colombian television of a reporter with the Chyron, "15 de Septiembre de 202 Lancha Fue Bombardeada." Posted 7.53 pm, 1 October 25 with 395K views.
October 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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With Alt Text.
Letter from Mr John McManus, Head of External Affairs & Communications, UK Supreme Court, Parliament Square, London, SW1P 3BD www.supreme court.uk. Dated 8 October 2025. Dear Ms Robin Moira White, Thank you for your letter to Lord Reed of Allermuir, dated 15th September, and please accept my apologies for the delay in replying to you. Lord Reed has been away from the Court over the summer; now that he has read your letter, he has asked me, in my capacity as Head of External Affairs & Communications, to respond to you. Lord Hodge's interview with "The Times Scotland" journalist Magnus Linklater was predicated on the fact that Lord Hodge was the recipient of this year's "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Scottish Legal Awards, which was sponsored by the newspaper. The Court agreed to the newspaper's usual request to interview the winner of the award, with the focus being on Lord Hodge's long career, ahead of his retirement at the end of 2025. The subsequent interview also covered several other topics, of which the appeal "For Women Scotland vs The Scottish Ministers" was just one. The Court very rarely agrees to interview requests for its justices, and when it does so, they are usually to mark significant events, and always conducted by members of the Press. With those factors in mind, the Court will not be able to agree to your request to interview Lord Hodge. Thank you again for getting in touch. Yours Sincerely, Mr John McManus.
October 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
Um, no.
Tweet from: María Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) "This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom. We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy. I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!" 8:34 AM • 10/10/25
October 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
Well, white women who protested racial integration in schools in the US during the 50s and 60s and Mom's for Liberty, the pressure group that got books about BIPOC and LGBT+ folks banned from schools and libraries recently also claimed to be standing for "their rights."

All cut from the same cloth.
Image from the US South in the late 1950s. A group of white women are standing either side of a chain link fence. two at the front are shouting and gesticulating. One sign held behind them says, "Save segregation, vote States Rights unpledged electors." A white boy beside them is holding a handwritten sign that says, "All I want for Christmas is a Clean White School." Image of the "Little Rock Nine" attempting to go to school after the end of segregation in the US. A black teenage woman carrying a school book and wearing dark glasses is at the front of the picture. Several young and older white women are immediately behind her. Two are shouting angrily at her.
October 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
It's not "bigotry" to use derogatory terms towards individuals, groups or countries with more privilege and power than you or yours.

See also this popular patriotic American song from WW1.

HTH
Over There (Popular patriotic song from WW1.) Johnny, get your gun, get your gun, get your gun. Take it on the run, on the run, on the run. Hear them calling you and me, Every Son of Liberty. Hurry right away, no delay, go today. Make your daddy glad to have had such a lad. Tell your sweetheart not to pine, To be proud her boy's in line. Over there, over there, Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming, The drums rum-tumming everywhere. So prepare, say a prayer, Send the word, send the word to beware – We'll be over, we're coming over, And we won't come back till it's over, over there.
October 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
Crap idea from a white guy who thinks he's clever who dismisses racism as it doesn't affect him.

Some Reform voters wise up when told the truth about Reform, some if shamed or shunned. Many won't change so not worth anyone's time.

Better to rally OTHER folk to vote for good people and policies.
Tweet from A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) "Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. You take a step toward him. He takes a step back. Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man." 11.05 am, 23 Jar 2019
September 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
Well, in most movies, the US is portrayed as a democracy with a constitution that protects certain rights of people who live there - for example the 4th Amendment.

Some believe this is true.

But in reality, it seems to have become a lawless white supremacist, fascist authoritarian state. 😣
Excerpt from Wikipedia entry on the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution . "The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. It prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets requirements for issuing warrants: warrants must be issued by a judge or magistrate, justified by probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and must particularly describe the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized (important or not)."
September 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot...
Patriotic Alternative (PA) is a British far-right, fascist, neo-Nazi and white nationalist hate group which states that it has active branches nationwide. The Times described it in 2023 as "Britain's largest far-right white supremacist movement". Its stance has been variously described as Islamophobic, fascist and racist. According to Hope not Hate, splits, especially the 2023 creation of the Homeland Party, which has eclipsed it, have pushed PA into a decline.Nonetheless they credit PA with around 500 members as of April 2025. Political views Patriotic Alternative promotes a white nationalist ideology and aims to combat the "replacement and displacement" of white British people by migrants who "have no right to these lands". They support the deportation of people of "migrant descent" and would offer financially incentivised repatriation for "those of immigrant descent who have obtained British passports". Patriotic Alternative opposes all immigration unless immigrants have a shared cultural and ethnic background or can prove British ancestry. According to Hope not Hate, members of Patriotic Alternative have supported political violence, the white genocide conspiracy theory, and Holocaust denial. They have targeted the LGBT community as being a danger to young children. Patriotic Alternative opposes Black Lives Matter and has displayed White Lives Matter banners around the UK, including on the top of Mam Tor, a hill in Derbyshire. Hope not Hate say that the group generally admires Vladimir Putin's Russia for its "illiberalism, anti-Westernism and authoritarianism".The group also includes a "cohort of anti-vaxxers".
September 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
They're looking in the wrong place.

It's in Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland.
Kinghorn Parish Church's charity shop and coffee shop in the High Street, Kinghorn, Fife Scotland. It has now been renamed, "Faith, Hope and Charity Shop" for some reason.
September 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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A painting of a bright coloured bird is next to the words, "I do not want whatever the fuck this is." from @effinbirds.
September 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
Quark from Star Trek Deep Space Nine, an alien Ferengi, says "Females."
September 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
This seems covered by Policy Note 20 - e.g. Perp thinks she's cis and spouts sexist abuse while committing a crime against her? It's still "aggravation of an offence by prejudice" due to sex.

But if a perp does the same thing to a woman they know is trans? Not a hate crime.😕

Hate Crimes Act...
Policy Note Section of "Draft SSI to Add the Characteristic of Sex to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021" found online here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/draft-ssi-add-sex-characteristic-hate-crime-public-order-scotland-act-2021/documents/ 20. It should also be noted that the statutory aggravation applies in relation to the perpetrator’s perception of the victim’s identity, irrespective of the victim’s actual identity. As such, in the same way that the sexual orientation aggravation would apply where a victim is targeted by a perpetrator who assumes them to be e.g. gay or bisexual regardless of their actual sexual orientation, the aggravation concerning the characteristic of sex would apply to someone who directs e.g. misogynistic abuse at anyone whom the perpetrator has assumed to be female.
September 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Whatever this is!

(Except, I think the Labour Government WANTS it to end in disaster - all part of trying to manufacture consent for leaving the Convention.)
Motivation-style poster with image of a white cat walking toward a bald eagle on a fence. The caption is "Overconfidence. This is going to end in disaster, and you have no one to blame but yourself."
September 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
This is the "free speech" Lewis defends - a tweet shared 7k+ times (when captured), calling for people to physically assault anyone they think is a trans woman in a women's loo, changing room, hospital ward, etc.

He's currently on trial re: the "incident" in this video. bsky.app/profile/alan...
Tweet from Graham Linehan (@Glinner), 3.02 am, April 20, 2025. "If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls." Viewed 1.9m times. 629 replies. Retweeted 7.1K times and liked 20K times at the time of this screen shot.
September 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
I'd suggest the Labour Government wants to "reform" EConHR Article 8 to gain more control over who gets what human rights.

Policies targeting people who are trans, disabled, migrants, long-term sick, peaceful protestors, etc. give a clue. But they also want no blocks on human-rights free Freeports.
Excerpt from this page: https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/human-rights/human-rights-act/article-8-respect-your-private-and-family-life . Article 8: Right to privacy 1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. 2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. Example case - Goodwin & I v United Kingdom [2002] This case heard in the European Court of Human Rights explored issues for transsexual people in relation to their rights to private life and to marry. The judgment was a landmark decision for the treatment of transsexual people, a group which had not been recognised in UK law as: - their acquired gender - able to hold a birth certificate showing their acquired gender, and - able to marry someone of the opposite gender. The Court ruled that this treatment violated both the right to private life and the right to marry. The UK Government later introduced the Gender Recognition Act 2004, creating a mechanism to enable all these things.
August 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
Oh look, another Newsom acolyte doing the meme. 🙄
Stick figure on left labelled "Visibly Marginalized Person" says, "I'm being harmed by liberal democrat policies now." Stick figure on right labeled "Average Democrat," says "I just fantasized about Republicans killing you."
August 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
kd-smith.bsky.social
Chef out there doing the meme.
Stick figure on left labelled "visibly marginalized person" says, "I'm being harmed by liberal democrat policies now." Stick figure on right labelled "average democrat" says "I just fantasized about Republicans killing you."
August 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM