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Rebecca Jones 🔶 @rebeccajones03.bsky.social · 20h

Please see below my article for Lib Dem Voice titled 'Have we forgotten what we stand for?'.

In it I talk about why so many young and diverse members feel disillusionment with the party and what I believe needs to change.

www.libdemvoice.org/have-we-forg...

Have we forgotten what we stand for?

I joined the Liberal Democrats six years ago. I was 16, I’d just finished my GCSEs and I wanted to make a difference. I believe in Liberalism, and the party’s preamble spoke to me. After all, who woul...

www.libdemvoice.org

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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 22h

LGBT+ Liberal Democrats condemn our party's decision to base internal gender quotas on sex assigmed at birth.

This trans-exclusionary decision is an attack on one of the most vulnerable groups in our society.
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The text of our thread on an image of Big Ben with a rainbow and a trans flag.

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🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 1d

Are you a 🔸️🔶️ #libdem 🔶️🔸️?

If so, whether you are cis or trans or consider yourself neither, you need to email compliance TODAY with something like the text in the image. If you need the address and don't have it i can supply in DM.

Want to know why? 🧵 from Charley ⤵️

Title: Removal of permission to use data about me

Text: If the party holds any information whatsoever about my sex assigned at birth, whether under my current name or any other names associated with [membership number], I hereby immediately revoke any permission I may have previously given for the party to hold or use this information in any way.

My gender is, and remains, [your gender].

Sincerely

[your name]

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Reform aren't going to be able to win an FPTP election if 36% for "generally not racist" & 46% for "generally racist", however fair or unfair perceptions of racist/ not racist are

They did well to get 36% in Caerphilly but this is a big part of why they mobilise opponents (Plaid 47% Reform 36%)

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here

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Tom McAdam @tomm.org · 6d

About bloody time. Well done for catching up to what the @libdems.org.uk have been saying for years.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 7d

As his landmark Brexit has proved, Farage is a fraud.

Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr

It is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12d

What will be Starmer's verse in the Brexit poem?
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 15d

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 14d

Take a bow Ed Davey 😅

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Tom McAdam @tomm.org · 17d

And there I was thinking the hiking season was behind us this year. Not quite!

Dog in a patch of snow itching to get back on the trail and search for mice, looking out onto the summits with patchy snow on them.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Tom McAdam @tomm.org · 18d

A second own goal for the Online Safety Act after last week’s Discord users’ ID hack.

More people are using VPNs so of course hackers are touting free VPNs that are actually malware.

It’s time to call it the Online Harm Act.

www.engadget.com/cybersecurit...

Malware apps posing as free VPNs are on the rise

A recent report on the Klopatra malware operation shows hackers taking advantage of a surge in VPN use.

www.engadget.com

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 19d

Remember when Nigel Farage said, 'If we vote to Remain on June 23rd, it will be the end of the steel industry in this country. It's as simple as that.'

Now we all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18d

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18d

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 19d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Tom McAdam @tomm.org · 19d

Adding to the list of "why to not have online voting".

Private companies' incentives rarely align with the needs of voting systems in general, and this highlights risks of their owners not being impartial.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19d

fucking WOOF

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21d

Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 22d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 22d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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Tom McAdam @tomm.org · 22d

In the era of state-sponsored attacks on critical infrastructure, it's just not worth it. I wrote about this last year: tomm.org/2024/no-to-o...

We need to fix voting from abroad but online voting isn't the answer

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Tom McAdam @tomm.org · 22d

Again for the people at the back: online voting isn't worth the risks.

Let's not risk the crown jewels of democracy to hacking.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How the PINs Ontario voters threw away in 2022's municipal elections opened online voting to fraud | CBC News

A new study suggests the integrity of online voting in the 2022 Ontario municipal elections could have been undercut by two fundamental security flaws that would have left 70 percent of municipal elec...

www.cbc.ca

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 22d

Brilliant. @borowitzreport.bsky.social

String of Correctly Spelled Texts from Trump Fuels Speculation That he is Dead

The texts were the work of someone with at least a seventh-grade education.

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Tom McAdam @tomm.org · 23d

Here's how I do mine: tomm.org/2022/prepari...

It's changed a bit since then as I've added Google Drive and email backups to the mix, which I'll write about soon.

Preparing for the worst

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Tom McAdam @tomm.org · 23d

Your Monday reminder that if "make some backups" (and test restoring them periodically) has been on your to-do list for a while, you really should get around to it

koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10...

NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available

A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil se...

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Tom McAdam @tomm.org · 23d

That didn't take long, did it. Who'd have thought that badly-implemented age verification would backfire with data breaches of users' provided ID.

Brace yourselves for many more of these, fraudsters are going to have a field day.

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 23d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

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