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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19h

ANNOUNCEMENT
This evening, 14/10/25 the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network have taken the next step in the struggle to restore the human rights, dignity & safety of UK trans people.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 6h

It's times like this when you realise how reliant actors are on a script.

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 6h

Has there ever been a home secretary who didn't turn out to be a raging authoritarian from day one?

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 7h

You might think controlling GB News gives you huge influence over UK politics – especially on the right. But that's just the tip of the iceberg, as we reveal in this week's issue of @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

Full story: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

A network/ownership diagram showing a range of organisations controlled by Paul Marshall or his associates, or which receive donations from them

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 14h

OpenAI 2022- ChatGPT will cure cancer and solve the climate crisis

OpenAI 2025- ChatGPT will tell you that your dick is the biggest it’s ever seen

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/o...

Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users

"As part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow...erotica for verified adults."

www.axios.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 21h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 19h

"Basic biology" 🙄 @hedgehogsafety.bsky.social

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

The response from Keir Starmer's spokesman - a denial there is a problem, a denial he must know to be untrue - strongly suggests Labour is no longer concerned to adhere to its human rights obligations.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

“The UK stands at a crossroads. Are we going to be a nation that respects its human rights obligations, or are we going to abandon them whenever the rightwing press demands it? First immigrants, then trans people – who next, Sir Keir?” goodlaw.social/fs2m

European human rights chief warns against trans exclusion in the UK

Human rights commissioner calls on parliament to make sure guidance following the Supreme Court’s decision in April promotes inclusion.

goodlaw.social

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 1d

Spot on “Many of Labour’s younger voters are already tempted by the Green Party, which combines environmentalism with left wing economics. Now by mocking Green protections & cosying up to developers, chancellor is giving them more reasons to jump ship”. So here it is join.greenparty.org.uk/join-us/

The Guardian view on Labour targeting nature: the problem isn’t snails, but a broken housing model | Editorial

Editorial: Rachel Reeves’s drive to speed up development is beginning to treat wildlife and the environment as expendable. Voters want homes built, but not at any cost

www.theguardian.com

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 1d

I actually have an A-level in English language and I can tell you for free it says fuck all about my value as a person

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 1d

🐟 “Overfishing is not an unavoidable tragedy; it is a political choice, and currently, there is no legal accountability for failure. The UK has no overarching recovery plan or legally binding time frame to end overfishing.” 🔽

www.seafoodsource.com/news/environ...

Crucial UK fish stocks face collapse without urgent political action, Oceana warns

Half of the United Kingdom’s 10 most valuable fish stocks are actively or about to be in trouble of overfishing, Oceana warns.

www.seafoodsource.com

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 1d

ymmv

uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 1d

This is interesting. I don't know many Reform voters. The opposition I see comes from tech-literate people who know how data can be mismanaged and weaponised by a hostile state. And *nobody* trusts the private sector to do it right.

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 1d

Idiots who think US Christian fundamentalists are stupid enough to use the same tactics on the UK as the US are why we are in this position to begin with. Just ask the National Trust, weirdly.

Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 2d

Right-wingers who think tactics they've used to criminalize abortion in the US will have the same kind of traction in the UK fail to grasp that religious fundamentalism is widely viewed as nuts in the UK, & has been for many decades, if not centuries.

As much chance of abolishing UK gun controls.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

Could someone at the FT just remind the subs that there is no such thing as a "bat tunnel"; there is an above ground structure. The tunnels which added so much to the cost of HS2 are entirely because of Chilterns homeowners and their elected representatives, not bats
www.ft.com/content/d319...

UK planning to be speeded up with new powers for ministers

Government is adding amendments to infrastructure and housing bill to strengthen scope for more timely construction

www.ft.com

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Alec Burrett @alecjburrett.bsky.social · 1d

Currently 15 penguins are suffering in unnatural conditions at Sea Life London, can you sign this petition to urge them to be moved to a more natural environment?

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/save-our...

Save the penguins! Free them from Sea Life aquarium!

Right now, penguins at Sea Life London are suffering terrible conditions. I’ve just signed the petition demanding they’re moved from their underground basement to a more natural environment NOW. Will ...

act.38degrees.org.uk

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 2d

Getting the impression that a lot of people think 1. Freedom of Speech is something you have a right to on privately owned social media platforms and 2. Conveniently stops after you’ve announced your opinion, but before anyone else is allowed to say it’s stupid.

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. They just don't gaf when the paycheck is right.

uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 1d

Grim but instructional

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 3d

i made a UK version of my model & applied to it to 10 politicians, aiming for consistency in grading with the US one

method QTed, results below

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

It is quite funny that Rory Stewart is sad even though he's one of the world's most successful podcasters because he thought he'd be prime minister. It is even funnier that Tom Tugendhat remains deluded that, if he works really hard, one day he'll be Rory Stewart.

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 1d

You don't get this on the broccoli diet

uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 1d

Oh fuck off Wes. When can we talk about your private health donations, your Palantir contracts or the fact that you are withholding healthcare from trans people?

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