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@pellowponders.bsky.social
No longer in the bad place.
Hoping this is a better place
He/him cis
Hoping this is a better place
He/him cis
Trash statement from a trash party. What does 'play their part' mean? Why does anyone who is legally here have to 'earn that right'? How have labour made releasing a statement worse than keeping silent? It's pathetic the state of politics in this country.
“We welcome those who come to this country, legally, and give more than they take. We believe the right to stay here must not be automatic, but that those who play their part should be able to earn that right."
October 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Trash statement from a trash party. What does 'play their part' mean? Why does anyone who is legally here have to 'earn that right'? How have labour made releasing a statement worse than keeping silent? It's pathetic the state of politics in this country.
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Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff
Block, move on.
Block, move on.
October 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff
Block, move on.
Block, move on.
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transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
Who are the dolls which must be protected?
by @theabigailthorn.bsky.social
Who are the dolls which must be protected?
by @theabigailthorn.bsky.social
Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes
Ari Drennan, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:
transwrites.world
October 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
Who are the dolls which must be protected?
by @theabigailthorn.bsky.social
Who are the dolls which must be protected?
by @theabigailthorn.bsky.social
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So let's talk about why this sucks. I am so angry and so disappointed, but I also know that a lot of people might not understand why I and my queer friends are feeling this way. Read on for an explanation 🧵(1/14)
September 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
So let's talk about why this sucks. I am so angry and so disappointed, but I also know that a lot of people might not understand why I and my queer friends are feeling this way. Read on for an explanation 🧵(1/14)
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There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life
Influential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
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🤦🏼♀️
And when I say 🤦🏼♀️ I mean that the fingers are digging deep into the flesh of my face in an attempt to reach brain matter.
Maybe SHE DIDN'T CONSENT TO BEING MISLED BY A TRANSPHOBE INTO FEELING SAFE TO BE INTIMATE? Send HIM to jail, he's the one whose penis entered another person's body on a lie.
And when I say 🤦🏼♀️ I mean that the fingers are digging deep into the flesh of my face in an attempt to reach brain matter.
Maybe SHE DIDN'T CONSENT TO BEING MISLED BY A TRANSPHOBE INTO FEELING SAFE TO BE INTIMATE? Send HIM to jail, he's the one whose penis entered another person's body on a lie.
August 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🤦🏼♀️
And when I say 🤦🏼♀️ I mean that the fingers are digging deep into the flesh of my face in an attempt to reach brain matter.
Maybe SHE DIDN'T CONSENT TO BEING MISLED BY A TRANSPHOBE INTO FEELING SAFE TO BE INTIMATE? Send HIM to jail, he's the one whose penis entered another person's body on a lie.
And when I say 🤦🏼♀️ I mean that the fingers are digging deep into the flesh of my face in an attempt to reach brain matter.
Maybe SHE DIDN'T CONSENT TO BEING MISLED BY A TRANSPHOBE INTO FEELING SAFE TO BE INTIMATE? Send HIM to jail, he's the one whose penis entered another person's body on a lie.
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Information relating to the M&S complaint, reportedly from the trans woman whom the complaint was about. Almost everything claimed in recent articles is extremely inaccurate. 1/
August 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Information relating to the M&S complaint, reportedly from the trans woman whom the complaint was about. Almost everything claimed in recent articles is extremely inaccurate. 1/
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I'm quite irritated by people I've seen responding to my initial thread by talking about what the trans people targeted should have done. We shouldn't have to be making these calculations, our use of public space shouldn't be a fucking minefield.
[CN: transphobia, transmisogyny, sexual harassment]
Unworkable rules and impossible situations are the point. They want to make our lives unliveable.
transactual.org.uk/impacts-of-t...
Unworkable rules and impossible situations are the point. They want to make our lives unliveable.
transactual.org.uk/impacts-of-t...
!["I, a trans woman, believed I had to follow the EHRC interim update and was followed into the men's room by a male security officer and told to get out. It is worth noting that before this I was already shaking with fear about the possible confrontation that could ensue. The security man and the two other men in the room circled me. I said I believed, according to what the EHRC and our political leaders have said, that I have to be in there now.
Now that he infers I am trans, he starts sniggering at me. The other men in the room join him in laughing at me. I tell him that it isn't funny and please stop laughing at me. He doesn't stop and I say "it might be funny to you but to me this is my life and I am scared, scared about being attacked, please stop laughing, it's not funny'. He tells me he doesn't care what I have to say, that I need to get out. So I do.
I leave and talk to the store manager, where again, I have to relay all sorts of intimate and private details, of my background, my trans and intersex statuses, history of being assaulted, my genital configuration. This is humiliating.
I felt deeply unsafe, humiliated, hopeless like nobody cares, violated. I don't think the EHRC lets me use the [service of my gender] so I was just denied service."
WHITE TRANS WOMAN WHO FACED ISSUES IN A SHOP OR SHOPPING CENTRE IN ENGLAND.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cau5eglmhacxw6jpnxtbvpgz/bafkreie26vh6ozbbc45rxhq2fichu77of6e6iwcbh6asetbyq6ftwnnjsm@jpeg)
August 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I'm quite irritated by people I've seen responding to my initial thread by talking about what the trans people targeted should have done. We shouldn't have to be making these calculations, our use of public space shouldn't be a fucking minefield.
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I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
Gender critical novelist urges writers to reenter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella
The gender critical Irish novelist John Boyne has said he has been brought “very close to the edge” by the backlash to his inclusion on the longlist for a literary prize for LGBTQ+ authors.
Ten authors and two judges withdrew from the Polari prize and more than 800 writers and publishing industry workers signed a petition calling on Polari to remove Boyne’s novella Earth from its longlist. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
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Irrespective of how John feels, his words are simply not compatible with an inclusive prize that celebrates all LGBTQ+ people. Just like a racist statement would not be allowed in a prize for writers of colour, or a sexist statement tolerated for a prize for feminist writers. /11
August 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Irrespective of how John feels, his words are simply not compatible with an inclusive prize that celebrates all LGBTQ+ people. Just like a racist statement would not be allowed in a prize for writers of colour, or a sexist statement tolerated for a prize for feminist writers. /11
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EXACTLY as trans people predicted...
Cis women & non-binary people are being harassed & assaulted in toilets since the supreme court misjudgement. @libbybrooks.bsky.social in the Guardian.
I'm now working on a way to monitor, document and record incidents like these.
Attn @cliveefford.bsky.social
Cis women & non-binary people are being harassed & assaulted in toilets since the supreme court misjudgement. @libbybrooks.bsky.social in the Guardian.
I'm now working on a way to monitor, document and record incidents like these.
Attn @cliveefford.bsky.social
‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse in aftermath of supreme court ruling
Support groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities – but others call it scaremongering
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
EXACTLY as trans people predicted...
Cis women & non-binary people are being harassed & assaulted in toilets since the supreme court misjudgement. @libbybrooks.bsky.social in the Guardian.
I'm now working on a way to monitor, document and record incidents like these.
Attn @cliveefford.bsky.social
Cis women & non-binary people are being harassed & assaulted in toilets since the supreme court misjudgement. @libbybrooks.bsky.social in the Guardian.
I'm now working on a way to monitor, document and record incidents like these.
Attn @cliveefford.bsky.social
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We've added an update to our story reflecting the fact that Eleanor Medhurst and Jane Traies have now also withdrawn their books.
Since some folks are using our story to buy books of thosse who've withdrawn, we'll do our best to continue updating with those names and links.
Since some folks are using our story to buy books of thosse who've withdrawn, we'll do our best to continue updating with those names and links.
August 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
We've added an update to our story reflecting the fact that Eleanor Medhurst and Jane Traies have now also withdrawn their books.
Since some folks are using our story to buy books of thosse who've withdrawn, we'll do our best to continue updating with those names and links.
Since some folks are using our story to buy books of thosse who've withdrawn, we'll do our best to continue updating with those names and links.
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Don't make me call your mother.
August 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Don't make me call your mother.
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I admire Mo Salah's restraint.
"Farewell". Really?
Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.
"Farewell". Really?
Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.
August 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I admire Mo Salah's restraint.
"Farewell". Really?
Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.
"Farewell". Really?
Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.
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BBC among media misreportimg/exaggerating scale of asylum protests
Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.
"Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.
- should say *occasionally*
< 1/10 protests have 200 people
"Sometimes thousands"
I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet
Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.
"Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.
- should say *occasionally*
< 1/10 protests have 200 people
"Sometimes thousands"
I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet
August 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
BBC among media misreportimg/exaggerating scale of asylum protests
Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.
"Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.
- should say *occasionally*
< 1/10 protests have 200 people
"Sometimes thousands"
I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet
Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.
"Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.
- should say *occasionally*
< 1/10 protests have 200 people
"Sometimes thousands"
I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet
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This 'patriot' protesting against immigrants in Manchester is actually Irish far right thug Paul Rock, who got eight years for tying up and robbing a 76 year old woman. But yeah, just concerned parents.
August 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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The latest transphobic media darling showing that, with them, it's never just transphobia.
"Ms Peggie then notes she has a lot of Chinese neighbours and Chinese restaurants on her streets. She says she has “never heard my Chinese neighbours complain” about being called Ch*nkys.”"
Peggie not making a great case she's unlikely to use slurs in front of the people they're directed at.
Peggie not making a great case she's unlikely to use slurs in front of the people they're directed at.
July 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The latest transphobic media darling showing that, with them, it's never just transphobia.
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official bluesky theme song just dropped
July 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
official bluesky theme song just dropped
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Hard pass
Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard.
I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.
www.theverge.com
July 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Hard pass
This is an important read for any football fan. We have to demand better from our clubs.
“It’s Arsenal. They won’t just ignore it.”
Thomas Partey, the allegations and what the club knew
For @theathleticfc.bsky.social ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/648...
Thomas Partey, the allegations and what the club knew
For @theathleticfc.bsky.social ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/648...
‘It’s Arsenal. They won’t just ignore it’ – Thomas Partey, the allegations and what the club knew
Arsenal have been aware of complaints about Partey, all of which he denies, for more than three years. Questions are now being asked
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This is an important read for any football fan. We have to demand better from our clubs.
Absolutely vile. If you support this then you don't care about protecting kids. You just hate trans people. This is the UK under labour. Don't ever forget it.
Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.
Thank you, Wes Streeting.
Thank you, Wes Streeting.
July 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Absolutely vile. If you support this then you don't care about protecting kids. You just hate trans people. This is the UK under labour. Don't ever forget it.
It takes no time to show your public support for trans people and this debate has the potential to get the truth out and spoken about. Please sign and then encourage your friends and family to do likewise
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services
Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services. This should specifically cover physical transition, including hormone treatment and surgery, as...
petition.parliament.uk
July 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
It takes no time to show your public support for trans people and this debate has the potential to get the truth out and spoken about. Please sign and then encourage your friends and family to do likewise
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...