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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6h

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 16h

i apologize to the people who i ignored who were telling me to learn git because i didn't appreciate how cool it is to be a time wizard capable of looking at the entire history of every single line.

"🤓☝️ erm source control is important for code stability" lame "you become a time wizard" fucking sick

chat messages:

me: side note learning more about the vsc git integration. automatic git blame showing it inline is so cool wtf. i accidentally stumbled across it. that's so fucking cool. fuck now i really wish i did have all this shit committed because 90% of the tex is the first commit lol message.
person: I love how you've become git pilled faster than more software engineers
me: it's because i'm better than them
person: Objectively true

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Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 5h

Somehow this manages to be the horniest thing I’ve seen on BlueSky today.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 4h

Is there anything better than trans people smiling? I don't think so

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4h

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 5h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

In complete seriousness, what does the government think this will do in terms of suppressing pro Palestinian sentiment long term? In fact it seems like it would only further concretize the tenacity of those who feel so strongly.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 7h

A British couple who are members of a grassroots pro-Palestine organisation which had its bank account frozen have had their joint personal account closed without explanation.

John Nicholson, 70, and Norma Turner, 76, barrister and nurse, received no explanation. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

www.theguardian.com

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 9h

my bluesky makes me so unemployable i s2g

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Dija @diaja.bsky.social · 10h

LinkedIn is the worst for email push notifications: "Someone in a sector adjacent to yours dropped a Biro on the floor today! Want to congratulate them on their latest achievement!?" Fuck. Off. Please.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 14h

I feel genuinely delighted that some people have decided they want to speedrun [checks notes] probability

v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 14h

how to speedrun random chance graham.build/s/a-blog/028...

Unfair Flips World Record Strategy

Unfair Flips is a game about flipping a coin to get 10 Heads flips in a row.

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E.K. Johnston @ekjohnston.bsky.social · 11h

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

Because they know international governments won't do anything.

Edvin Alpros Ⓜ️ antisocial dominans minister @edvinalpros.bsky.social · 17h

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Rami 🫶🫶🫶 @rami---r.bsky.social · 15h

Yesterday, I went back north where our home once stood. I found only dust, ashes, and memories. 💔
Now my children sleep under the open sky, cold and afraid. We have no shelter, no roof, nothing.
Please help me get a tent or a small place to protect my family from winter.🙏
🔗 gofund.me/edd687b8

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 9h

..why would you make this?

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 10h

being anti-authoritarian extends to corporations with more global influence than most nation states btw

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 10h

fucking mood

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 10h

LinkedIn can step off for sending me emails saying I've "missed notifications". No I haven't, it was deliberate, I don't care who in my connections have been playing a dumb puzzle game and I don't care for your sycophantic dog-shit corporate social media platform anyway shut up

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 11h

International Pronouns Day happens each year on the third Wednesday of October.

You can find our pronoun resource here: transactual.org.uk/pronouns/ We created it to go in email signatures to explain why people choose to share their pronouns in emails.

#InternationalPronounsDay #PronounsDay

Image shows a rainbow sticker with the text "my pronouns are" with a list of different pronouns. Text reads: International Pronouns day

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 18h

finally AI comes for my job, a guy who writes erotica containing heavy use of the phrase “as a result”

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 1d

we were making out and she shoved me into a door, my hand got trapped and scraped a fair amount of the skin off so now I have a scar and reduced sensation between two of my knuckles

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 1d

HEY DIPSHIT WHY CAN I GET A DESIGNER VAGINA UNDER SOCIALISM THEN

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 1d

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
X.com
Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

In her life, Marilyn Monroe was exploited and abused by so many men.
Studio executives, so many people.
After she died, men continued to exploit her for their pleasure: trying to get themselves buried near/above her.
What your writer did here is obscene, nonconsensual and makes me feel slightly ill

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 1d

Okay fine: many readers do not know how to read books

That's fine

many writers don't know how to write them either

They think it's just words

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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wordloc 🏳️‍⚧️ @wordloc.net · 1d

Have you considered that I am not in fact american and I'd just rather not be so reliant on bluesky's US servers and whilst I may have the ability to run my own I don't particularly care to, so I may as well support some folks who seem to want to do a good thing?

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Mega Meg, The Bourgeois Transsexual @lotushomage.bsky.social · 3d

(Cw slurs) So I have recently begun deep diving into queer academia, and have been reading Trans*
A Quick and Quirky Account
of Gender Variability, by Jack Halberstam. I‘m a bit disappointed to read what I’ve found so far, but I did find some unintentional comedy!

He thinks RuPaul is trans.

Text defending the use of a slur (tr****) while calling RuPaul trans.

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