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Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · Dec 11

In September of 2022 the state of rhetoric and discrimination against trans people in the UK and US was so bad that the Lemkin institute for Genocide Prevention issued a statement warning that we were seeing a move toward the genocide of trans people.

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Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 3m

and... honestly... I just don't get the whole "oh look a whizz bang firey glitter thing... oh look another whizz bang fiery glitter thing just like the 1st one... oh look another whizz bang fiery glitter thing just like the first 2... Oh look... etc etc"

Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 3m

I live in a very white area of an old northern mining town where half the people around me still speak pitmatic so I don't think they were celebrating Diwali here. Just being annoying.

I can't believe we still use them when there are things like drone and laser shows that could be organised

Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 29m

Is it terrible or is it just a film made for kids? I feel like we want films that play to our childhood nostalgia to entertain us like we're 7 again when the makers are thinking... "Yay I'm making a film for 7 year olds again!"

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Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 40m

Honestly, 2nd night in a row now. Same place too... And what are we? Over 2 week away from bonfire night? And going on past years here this is gonna be every night until then a week or so after.

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Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 1h

BAN private fire works sales. That's it... Just that...

Oh.. That and FUCK OFF WITH YOUR FIREWORKS.

Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 3h

I dunno that they're mutually exclusive... Or that this couldn't be said about anyone still in labour... But even very stupid usually wouldn't consider some of the stuff she says to be acceptable. So I think there's an extra layer.

Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 6h

Mahmood would put Goebells to shame though. She is 1st class, top of the pile, evil.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 8h

1/🧵 I am viewing a never-before-seen file on “gender reassignment” or trans inclusion policy at the National Archives, Kew. The Supreme Court should start sweating. A bagful of receipts!

A close-up, angled shot of a pink paper file cover from the UK "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH," resting on a light wood-grain surface. The "SUBJECT" is handwritten in large blue capital letters: "GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT".

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Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 21h

Looking at photo's of the White House and I can't believe it.

I thought the Kool aid guy was red not orange...

Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 21h

He's jerkin summick for sure... not sure it's a knee though.

Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 21h

He does like to dress as Adolf and prance about...

Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 21h

Yeh and his political instincts led to him hiring tories and tufton st arseholes... Soooooo you know...

Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 23h

Yay @criticalrole.bsky.social episode 3...

shh now, everyone... time to concentrate and enjoy...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9sE...

The Snipping of Shears | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 3

YouTube video by Critical Role

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 1d

Barrister Adrian Yalland, is violent.
He’s ‘Gender Critical’
He’s a CPS Prosecutor

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Former Tory arrested after 'biting Fathers4Justice founder'

Adrian Yalland, 44, was held on suspicion of assault after apparently biting Matt O'Connor, 46, and his landlord in Stockbridge, Hampshire.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 1d

"you plan on leaving in a few years."

I think the joke's on you here, Alex...

Trump does NOT plan to leave in anything but a coffin.

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Iona Fyfe @ionafyfe.bsky.social · 1d

I need five folks to sign up for my Scots Song workshop at Club Passim in Cambridge MA that’s happening TOMORROW. If you’d like to learn to sing some Scots traditional ballads and folksongs, and do some listening to archive and source materials, sign up!

Sign up ➡️ www.passim.org/school-of-mu...

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Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 1d

I spose deliberatley, maliciously destroying the lives of children is just a tiny tiny thing that s totally meaningless to you.

And therefore... I wish upon you the consequences of your politics and beliefs.

Fucking monster.

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Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 1d

The "tiny part" being that he was told by experts that children would die because of HIM and HIS actions. But JK's mates (not experts, in any field other than fundraising for bigotry) said nah they wouldn't kill themselves it's just a fad. So he said 'yeah fuck 'em let 'em die if they want"

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Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 1d

Oh boy... You do NOT wanna watch the news... See, some people that believe a 200 year old document protects them like a cross against a vampire think he's leaving in a couple of years but he will be there until he's mummified and put on display, you know, like Stalin.

Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 1d

The problem I that there I a lot of people saying "Oo but it's a faff aint it? lets just carry on with this authoritarian poverty trap instead... I mean, you never hear any North Koreans complain do you?" And then people start to believe it IS to much faff. But it aint.

Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 1d

SO it turns out secretary for sports and culture Lucy Nandos knows less about sports than I know about him....

Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 1d

He would sell his granny for a chance to sit on the front bench and he has proven that 100% with his record as a tory suck up.

His only consistent stance is "I'm a pathetic clown laugh at me" and he's partly right... he just has the wrong kind of clown in his mind.

Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 1d

Nope it's because he has no political beliefs and no policy. He shifts his stance more than starmer and bojo combined and will happily go on tv and say whatever he thinks is politically relevant at any given moment without believing any of it. He's the biggest bandwagon jumper in UK politics today.

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Maddie @maddietlr.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, no... It is no more daunting than leaving. Less so in fact, as we know what it's all bout and we know how much of an utter shit show we live in without the EU now.

Nothing, in the joining process could ever be described as any worse than our daily existence today.

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 1d

He did it, he doesn't deny he did it, records exist showing he did it, his entire defense is that he was right to do it because he did it to somebody he hates. And the people who run the government also hate the same people Graham hates, so they're letting him walk to make sure more people do it.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Breaking news 🚨

Met Police drop case into Graham Linehan’s ‘anti-trans’ posts after Heathrow arrest

Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has said he will face “no further action” after being arrested by the Metropolitan Police at Heathrow Airport in September on suspicion of inciting violence over soci...

www.independent.co.uk

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