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Alexander Voss
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Master of Laws (LL.M).
Nerdy about politics, tech, and drugs.
Live with TR-D, GAD, and DPDR.
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Alexander Voss @vossaj.bsky.social · Nov 15
heya Bluesky!

he/him

23 ♌️

bisexual 💅

Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

brought to you by trazodone & mirtazapine 🧠

overeducated NEET (Liz Kendall seething rn)

“one of those ‘postmodern neoMarxists’ Jordan warned me about”
a mirror selfie of me, in need of a shave, with bed hair and black nail vanish.
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unicornsrockuk.bsky.social
Looks like Labour are running scared now they see the UKs 'A' rating about to be destroyed.

I trust them about as far as I could throw a wet mattress up a spiral staircase.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/29/n...
Trans ally Nadia Whittome 'delighted' to join Women and Equalities Committee
Labour MP and vocal trans ally Nadia Whittome has joined the Women and Equalities Committee, alongside two other MPs.
www.thepinknews.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
vossaj.bsky.social
i just worked out that on yesterday’s wordle, you could guess 20 unique letters, across 4 words, without getting any yellows or greens.
October 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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veryimportant.lawyer
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
September 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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tomgordonld.bsky.social
The Council of Europe has warned that the UK gov’s treatment of trans people may breach human rights law.

This must be a wake up call.

We’ve seen an increase in hostility towards trans in recent years.

Everyone deserves dignity, safety, & respect - that includes trans people.
October 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
vossaj.bsky.social
It’s so nice to have a Green leader who’s proudly advocating for its less popular policies, instead of apologising and rhetorically fudging. You can’t just wait for opinion to change! You have to change it!
Green leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs
Zack Polanski speaks to BBC South East on the party's new approach ahead of the party's conference.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
vossaj.bsky.social
Jesus Christ, those wider public figures are grim. Fuck it, gimme my vanguard party atp. Drag the Overton window kicking and screaming.
yougov.co.uk YouGov @yougov.co.uk · Oct 3
On transgender status, 90% of Green Party members think people should be able to change their social gender (compared to 49% of all Britons), and 80% think they should be able to change their legal gender (vs 34% of the wider public)

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
October 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
vossaj.bsky.social
Most people with a mental illness are in work. The reason some people are out of work because of mental illness is because they’re too ill to work, as evidenced by thorough and invasive Capability Assessments conducted by qualified healthcare professionals.
‘Pat McFadden, the new Work and Pensions Secretary, has said he wants to get to the bottom of why so many people are off work and claiming sickness benefits as a result of mental ill health.’ - Rowena Mason, the Guardian’s Whitehall editor.
September 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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esqueer.net
This is the same pathology applied to mass shooters and terrorists. This is the beginning of the move to force medical bodies to pathologize trans people as inherently prone to violence and dangerous.
A black background with white text under the heading "Definition." The text explains that forensic psychiatrists, led by Dr. Tahir Rahman at Washington University in St. Louis, proposed the description of extreme overvalued beliefs in response to the trial of Anders Breivik, who carried out the 2011 Norway attacks that killed 77 people. It describes how extreme overvalued beliefs drive pathological fixation—preoccupation with a cause or person—leading to social and occupational decline. Fixation is a frequent warning behavior in targeted attacks, though not a direct predictor, and is present in most cases before violent acts. A black background with white text under the heading "Importance." The text states that extreme overvalued beliefs are major motivators behind terrorist attacks, assassinations, and mass shootings. Forensic psychiatrists often encounter patients with bizarre beliefs during threat assessments or forensic examinations, but these beliefs don’t fit DSM-5-TR psychiatric disorder criteria and aren’t adequately explained by delusion or obsession. The lack of clear psychiatric definitions causes confusion, leading media and professionals to misclassify such individuals as delusional or paranoid. Instead, their violence is driven by extreme overvalued beliefs. The section emphasizes the need for clearer definitions so acts of terrorism or violence aren’t wrongly attributed solely to mental illness.
September 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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smazak.bsky.social
Slightly undermines your "transphobia not welcome here" messaging if one of the other co-founders was, at the same moment, tweeting transphobic talking points.

Will he be kicked out? Doubt.
Zarah Sultana tweet supporting trans rights and closing with "bigotry has no place in it" (it being the new party) Adnan Hussain tweeting gender critical talking points such as "safe spaces should not be encroached upon" and calling for third spaces.
August 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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esqueer.net
The British media will simply report this as trans people force closure of Scottish museums.
transsolidarity.bsky.social Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Jul 27
The body representing museums and galleries in Scotland has warned the EHRC's proposals may force museums to close their doors.

“To avoid discrimination, it would require every person using toilets to be checked, adding substantial workload and staff costs."

www.thenational.scot/news/2534402...
Trans toilet rules 'may force Scottish museums to close'
A PUBLICLY-FUNDED body representing museums in Scotland criticised Equality and Human Rights Commission proposals and warned “an environment of…
www.thenational.scot
July 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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vrynn.bsky.social
The internet has become unrecognizable in such a short span of time. AI sludge in every corner, NSFW chased out of every space, forced ID verification, like two or three sites anyone uses, algorithm defined and robot automated feeds

Its just all junk and I hate it.
July 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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kupogames.bsky.social
It's now UK law that you need to hand over your ID to see adult content online. That's bad because:
1 - you have to give ID to an unregulated 3rd party.
2 - this blocks all sorts of NSFW content, including mental health, LGBTQ, war news, etc.
3 - easy to get round it anyway.
July 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
🏳‍⚧ 100,000 people marched at London Trans+ Pride yesterday - but the BBC, Times, Telegraph & Daily Mail ignored it completely.

These outlets publish dozens of anti-trans stories a week. But when trans people show joy, pride, and solidarity?

🦗 Silence.

#TransPride #MediaBias

Read why it matters ⬇️
100,000 People Marched at London Trans+ Pride. The Transphobic UK Media Ignored It.
The UK’s biggest news outlets ignored a record-breaking march for trans equality, despite publishing dozens of trans stories each week.
medium.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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misterabk.bsky.social
The new Walking with Dinosaurs describes a baby Triceratops as "the perfect supper" for a T-Rex. So not only is the T-Rex the most fearsome predator ever to walk the earth, he's also a Tory.
July 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
vossaj.bsky.social
There has been a lot of contention on the British Left recently about who we should look to for leadership, and this poll has stirred it up again, so I figured I’d give my take. 🧵
June 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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entirelyharmless.bsky.social
This makes sense when you listen to what the transphobes say. Their entire narrative is built around the idea that being trans is a choice; a "luxury belief".

So they probably thought that, if they make life tricky enough, trans people will just stop.

Well, guess what? Being trans isn't a choice.
maddiequestions.bsky.social Maddie Ouranía @maddiequestions.bsky.social · Jun 6
I know it's been said many times but it's clear that many professional transphobic hacks within journalism and the government in the UK fully expected trans people to just roll over and detransition in response to the supreme Court decision and they seem very upset that it didn't work out that way
mattlodder.com Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · Jun 6
Akua Reindorf is profoundly ignorant about the history gender activism.I spoke to her face to face about it. During our conversation, she professed to, for example, never have heard of Sandy Stone, and thought that "trans activism" was a phenomenon only of the last decade. She's an ideological hack.
June 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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roseschmits.bsky.social
Oh no did you make your mates look like the fascists they are so had to rewrite the propaganda
June 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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rozkaveney.bsky.social
The thing about Mary-Anne Stephenson is that she looks like a great candidate for EHRC Head except for the fact that she is known to be a massively transphobic bigot, albeit of the 'serious concerns' rather than 'kill all trans people's kind.

Which ought to be a disqualification for the job.
June 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
Mary-Ann Stephenson is a transphobe.

Pass it on!!
June 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”
June 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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minakimes.bsky.social
This is the best day ever to be in a group chat with people who aren’t online. They react to every piece of breaking news about the beef like you’re Paul Revere.
June 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
vossaj.bsky.social
I got so angry I actually wrote to my MP 🥴
Dear Tonia Antoniazzi, I hope you’re keeping well, and I thank you for all the work you do for our community. I’m writing to you to express my deep concern about the direction the Labour Party is headed in, and the strategy the government are adopting to try and tackle the rise of Reform. Yesterday, the Prime Minister gave a press conference signalling a new, ‘tougher’ approach to immigration, in startlingly Powellian language. Respectfully, what Labour has just done, is shift the terms of debate in Reform’s favour. The way I see it is this. If we had a big party like Reform saying immigration is to blame for the problems people face, and a big party like Labour saying, for instance, that our broken economic model is to blame, the public debate would be, “which is to blame, immigration or the broken economic model?” This would be very advantageous for Labour - the economic model side is empirically correct, so it has a decent shot at winning. But instead, we have both parties agreeing that immigrants are to blame and we need to cut immigration. So this becomes consensus fact, and the public debate becomes, “who can cut immigration the best?” And Reform wins that debate, hands down, every single time, because they’re louder and meaner about it. Labour has wilfully oriented our politics around a fight it can’t win. In my view, Starmer has just used the pulpit of government to help Reform UK focus voters’ attention on immigration, and massively overstate its culpability for problems with housing, low pay and public services. That doesn’t persuade people to back Starmer; that persuades people to back Farage. Any voters convinced by the Prime Minister’s insinuation, that high legal migration is a threat to the integrity of the nation and cohesion of its culture, will obviously vote Reform to stop it. This has been the outcome every time a centre-ground party has tried to neutralise the far-right by adopting their rhetoric and policy. It doesn’t work. It strengthens support for the far-right. Indeed, a friend of mine who is not especially political, and has never bothered voting in an election before, but has been increasingly curious about Reform, said to me, after seeing the PM on television: “if even Labour are saying it, it must be true!” Labour have enticed him to the ballot box at the next election; but when he goes, it’s not Labour who’ll benefit. To be blunt, the government could lower the net migration figure by tens of thousands, even a hundred thousand, and I don’t think it would make any difference. In my experience, most people don’t vote based on statistics and official figures, or academic analysis of public policy outcomes. People vote based on stories. On narratives. Reform are winning votes with a compelling narrative, which captivates people’s hearts and imaginations. One which offers an explanation for why Britain is so broken, and a bold plan to fix it. Their explanation is wrong, and their plan won’t work; but that doesn’t really matter. It speaks to people’s overwhelming discontent with the status quo, and their burning desire for radical change. If Labour wants to beat them, it needs an even more compelling narrative. And it can’t just be the same story, or people won’t see the point - they’ll trust the man who’s been saying it for years, over the man who just started. You need to take the fight to Reform, with an alternative, competing narrative, which more adequately explains the problems we face. You need to refute the blame pinned on migrants for the state of public services, housing, and employment; so that people don’t blindly accept it as consensus fact. You need to highlight the real culprit - chronic underinvestment in our public services, and austerity starving our economy; and offer a bold plan to fix it - higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations, to fund economic stimulus and bigger budgets. You need to refocus people’s populist anger on who’s really responsible - not immigrants, or the ‘liberal establishment’, but the ultra-wealthy.
May 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM