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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 1h

Certain Labour MPs are worried that backing Phillipson would make them unpopular with their LGBTQ constituents.

I just want to reassure those MPs.

Being in the Labour Party makes you unpopular with your LGBTQ constituents.

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 1h

With all due respect to Tom (seriously, not being sarcastic), I think he's wrong. Anyone who thinks this has not paid attention to how the successfully completely reversed the trajectory of trans equality in the UK in only 10 years.

They will probably manage the same with abortion.

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

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 · 4h

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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naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 3h

Panic at the National Front Disco.

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David Lewis @davidclewis.bsky.social · 1h

News Breaking • @SkyNewsBreak
Footballer Paul Gascoigne has arrived at scene saying he is a friend of Raoul
Moat.
22:07 • 09/07/2010 • Twitter

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Rob Freeman 🩷💜💙 @robfreemanfluff.bsky.social · 2h

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · Dec 2

right wingers when u quit twitter

4 panel comic featuring a red guy and a pink guy (red guy is the right winger)

Panel 1:
Red guy: FINE. Leave Twitter. Run away to your little lefty safe space
Pink guy: ok

Panel 2: Pink guy from the waist up. Turns to leave

Panel 3: Pink guy from the waist up again, but this time he’s lurching forward like his momentum has been arrested

Panel 4: Wider shot that reveals Red guy clasped to Pink guy’s ankle.
Red guy. Pleaseee don’t leave me with cunts like me

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 3h

FIFA were crowing about how Club World Cup was the most "merit-based" competition in the world. The World Cup? Not so much when it comes to Asia. Qatar and Saudi given home advantage for two mini group playoffs. Now Qatar maximise this by playing crunch UAE game in tiny stadium to limit away fans

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 3h

Wes Streeting condemned some trans activists for vandalising a building. He will be condemning this, too, right?

naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 3h

FiLiA Statement on yesterdays brawl between Jean Hatchett and Lucy Masoud. Possibly others...

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 5h

Worth noting that Netanyahu said in his speech yesterday that the ‘enemy’ would be regrouping etc etc, this isn’t over now the hostages are freed

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 20h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 5h

So... the main difference is that YP welcomes transphobes, and has the dodgy whiff of islamophobia (because the only reason #YourParty are welcoming transphobes is that the transphobes are telling them it's normal for Muslims to be bigoted)?

Sort your house out.

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 2d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

Photo of Zarah, Zack Polanski, Amna Abdullatif from We Deserve Better and Abubakr Nanabawa from The Muslim Vote

Zarah speaking to a packed room at The World Transformed

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine if JK Rowling had said she was giving all the money earned from her new Harry Potter series to wipe out any other minority

If you're working on that series, you're openly helping her

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 5h

Genuinely thought this was nice until I got to the photo

Whyyyyyyyy is this a thing

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 6h

regret to inform you all that we have another one

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Check out this 3 bedroom flat for sale on Rightmove

3 bedroom flat for sale in Dolphin House, Smugglers Way, London, SW18 for £1,750,000. Marketed by Knight Frank, Battersea

www.rightmove.co.uk

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5h

27 years ago Matthew Shepard was murdered in a violent hate crime.

His family couldn’t give him a final resting place due to fears it would be vandalized.

Mariann Budde, the Bishop who stood up to Trump, gave Matthew a spot in the Washington National Cathedral.

We need more people like her.

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Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 9h

God it's so gross hearing reporters talk about Israeli "hostages" but then refer to Palestinian "prisoners held without charge" like what's the material difference between these two categories?

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 20h

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Rob Freeman 🩷💜💙 @robfreemanfluff.bsky.social · 20h

You were brilliant in Norwich last night

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Rob Freeman 🩷💜💙 @robfreemanfluff.bsky.social · 22h

I can remember that time when he tried to rebrand himself as Ian “H” Watkins, in order to be taken more seriously, and thankfully for him, everyone still just called him H from Steps.

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Rob Freeman 🩷💜💙 @robfreemanfluff.bsky.social · 22h

H from Steps
Claire from Steps
Faye from Steps
The other two from Steps

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Morris as the newsreader on The Day Today

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Rob Freeman 🩷💜💙 @robfreemanfluff.bsky.social · 1d

“AI responses may include mistakes”. No shit.

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Jake Lupardus @jakelupardus.bsky.social · 1d

Who wants cake?!

"How" @myoneandonlykat.bsky.social · 1d

Timeline cleanse!

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