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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 31m

I mean this sincerely: people like JK Rowling and Glinner and their "gender critical" pals, the media and the politcians who indulge them, they ALL share a portion of the blame for acts of violence like these.

Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 1h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 6h

‘Surprising’

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 5h

Hindsight is 20-20, but I really think they should have taken Maxwell's silver hammer away before the trial.

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Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social · 6d

Even this registers the yankification of the far right

TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 6d

I see your ex is taking the divorce well

A car in London covered in bizarre anti Sadiq khan and ant Keir starmer slogans. Taken from a Facebook post

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 5h

i'd be a bit annoyed if I heard that there was a Hamas SuperLair under a hospital which required bombing the hospital and then later I found out there was no SuperLair at all. Has one prominent person written a "shit, that wasn't nice, lying about the hospital SuperLair" piece?

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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 5h

Important principle: sink do not just decline, they switch into sources with the whole terrestrial carbon sink soon to follow.

One more temperature jump to go...

#earth #climate #sinks

Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source

Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications

www.theguardian.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3h

as someone who was a teenage girl on the internet, i think making AI-generated revenge porn of a minor should get you the electric chair actually

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Aug 11

it's 30 years later and this still happens.

Jenna Ortega revealed in an interview with The New York Times that she quit Twitter after seeing explicit images of herself generated by Al when she was a teenager. She also became inundated with messages from fans that ranged from "disgusting" to "absurd."
"I hate AI," Ortega said. "I mean, here's the thing: AI could be used for incredible things. I think I saw something the other day where they were saying that artificial intelligence was able to detect breast cancer four years before it progressed. That's beautiful. Let's keep it to that. Did I like being 14 and making a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing dirty edited content of me as a child? No. It's terrifying. It's corrupt. It's wrong."

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 4h

Falkner writing a pissy letter to the minister going “its been six months and trannies are still legal what gives“ is quite funny tho

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 3h

now she's powerless she's a comedy legend.

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Jemmargh! Topaz (halloween edition) @jemma.bsky.social · 3h

He's a standout shit in a party full of shitty people.

A normal picture of Wes Streeting in which a trick of the light* makes his facial features appear small.
* or photoshop

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 1d

I think you can go further and say he lied.

And he continues to lie. He tells Christian publications that he doesn’t think trans people exist and then he tells Labour Party meetings he feels awful for trans people about the blockers ban HE enforces.

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Where does Wes Streeting really stand on sex and gender issues?

Carys Moseley comments on Wes Streeting’s apparent double-standard on gender; was exposed on social media this week We need to talk about Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s approach to sex and gender is...

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 1d

List of Labour MPs who are openly transphobic nowadays and who to vote for to unseat them.

1) Tonia Antoniazzi

Transphobic for years. Open GC. Behind the "Women's Dec" for Labour

Constituency: Gower
Maj: 11567

Suggested vote: Plaid Cymru

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 10h

wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social • 1d
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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Or, maybe let that stuff go. The person who hurt you has moved on. You are eating the poison hoping the other person dies. Move on and stop allowing that person and his/her actions to rent space in your head. Don't dig any graves. Just be light and polite if you see them in public.

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Cleo Mercury 💫 @cleomercury.bsky.social · 13h

beach day! 💪🏼

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the witchelle from mercury 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @shellsbian.bsky.social · 12h

it’s just like home!

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Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 18h

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 13h

YES Andrew Cuomo was cranking 90's on a fictional character. But that doesn’t mean you have to be mean.

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 13h

Oct 15 Rana update:

❌ from Rana today so idk her status but last I heard from her the sitch was still v bad & chaotic in 🇵🇸

She’s trying to raise money for a phone so she can take her high school exams in under a week

$1009/$2000 📱

gofund.me/f33094165

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Donate to Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care, organized by Cardinal Alfonso

Note from fundraiser organizer: This is Cardinal, I am organizing this … Cardinal Alfonso needs your support for Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care

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the witchelle from mercury 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @shellsbian.bsky.social · 13h

Same, I would absolutely leave permanently if enough other people did come here. Either way, this is definitely now my primary social media

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the witchelle from mercury 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @shellsbian.bsky.social · 13h

I’m staying on there while there are people there I talk to but fuck I am not unlocking ever again

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the witchelle from mercury 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @shellsbian.bsky.social · 13h

the fuck

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 20h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 20h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Fliphrrr @fliphrrr.bsky.social · 15h

Hex Maniac

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Zoë🦨🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️⚧⚢ @zoeskunk.bsky.social · 14h

My prayer for today.

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happen to you
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 15h

i refuse to accept both as a factual matter and a political point that republican staffers were historically any less openly racist in private conversations. strom thurmond was some of their boss! pat buchanan was on msnbc! thinking their underlings were LESS comfortable talking like that is naive!

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23h

Can confirm this is 100%, exactly how it has always been. I was there, a long time ago. But a lot of liberals are addicted to the fantasy that Trump made all of this happen instead of the reality that all of this made Trump happen.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 23h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

Amanda Marcotte
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For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That's why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed -because Young Republicans weren't radical enough.

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