AGC
@agc1985.bsky.social
Green, queer, socialist, widow, translator, geek (he/him). Based in Southampton, UK.
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@agc1985.bsky.social
· Sep 6
Grief in the Shadows | Virgin Radio Pridecast
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How can being LGBTQ+ complicate the process of grief and bereavement? I shared my story for this radio documentary alongside other LGBT+ widows, including Jonathan Blake and Richard Coles.
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Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US
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The UK’s problems won’t be solved until the news media in its current form is dismantled
Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The UK’s problems won’t be solved until the news media in its current form is dismantled
Continuing my occasional series of "what the hell is WRONG with the quisling weirdos in LGBT+ Labour?", here they are obsequiously thanking Wes Streeting for launching an ethically indefensible puberty blocker trial as part of his government's pandering to anti-trans hate.
December 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Continuing my occasional series of "what the hell is WRONG with the quisling weirdos in LGBT+ Labour?", here they are obsequiously thanking Wes Streeting for launching an ethically indefensible puberty blocker trial as part of his government's pandering to anti-trans hate.
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Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
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"I can't be transphobic, I used to be a teaching assistant"
- Rosie Duffield MP
- Rosie Duffield MP
December 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"I can't be transphobic, I used to be a teaching assistant"
- Rosie Duffield MP
- Rosie Duffield MP
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There is a reason that torture protections are the unlimited Human Right.
It’s always, unquestionably, evil.
There’s no balancing it.
Why would you seek to weaken that prohibition?6
It’s always, unquestionably, evil.
There’s no balancing it.
Why would you seek to weaken that prohibition?6
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
There is a reason that torture protections are the unlimited Human Right.
It’s always, unquestionably, evil.
There’s no balancing it.
Why would you seek to weaken that prohibition?6
It’s always, unquestionably, evil.
There’s no balancing it.
Why would you seek to weaken that prohibition?6
ThE aDuLtS aRE bAck iN chARge
Keir Starmer is so worried about the Green Party that he's lying about our policies.
The Green Party has an evidence-based policy that recognises the war on drugs has failed.
We would legalise AND regulate drugs to reduce the harms to individuals and to society.
The Green Party has an evidence-based policy that recognises the war on drugs has failed.
We would legalise AND regulate drugs to reduce the harms to individuals and to society.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
ThE aDuLtS aRE bAck iN chARge
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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this is really grim
December 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
this is really grim
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Labour just want to lose, and whilst losing spread hate and division.
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Labour just want to lose, and whilst losing spread hate and division.
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What really strikes me is their utter inability to see how this sort of language is not just morally wrong, but very clearly helps their opponents.
December 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What really strikes me is their utter inability to see how this sort of language is not just morally wrong, but very clearly helps their opponents.
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"The government has just announced it will divert two rivers to provide drinking water for #Athens. Years of low rainfall have left the city nearly dry."
#Greece 🇬🇷
#ClimateEmergency
#Greece 🇬🇷
#ClimateEmergency
Athens runs dry: Years of low rainfall have left Greek capital parched
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 AM
"The government has just announced it will divert two rivers to provide drinking water for #Athens. Years of low rainfall have left the city nearly dry."
#Greece 🇬🇷
#ClimateEmergency
#Greece 🇬🇷
#ClimateEmergency
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I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too:
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
"There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done."
All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.
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All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
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England’s most important nature sites are being failed.❌
Protected sites can and should be driving nature’s recovery.
But today’s OEP report exposes the real problem: years of weak delivery, underfunding and political drift have left them unable to do the job the law intended.
Protected sites can and should be driving nature’s recovery.
But today’s OEP report exposes the real problem: years of weak delivery, underfunding and political drift have left them unable to do the job the law intended.
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
England’s most important nature sites are being failed.❌
Protected sites can and should be driving nature’s recovery.
But today’s OEP report exposes the real problem: years of weak delivery, underfunding and political drift have left them unable to do the job the law intended.
Protected sites can and should be driving nature’s recovery.
But today’s OEP report exposes the real problem: years of weak delivery, underfunding and political drift have left them unable to do the job the law intended.
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This is only going to get much worse too, because these people don’t only want the minority groups they hate hounded and excluded. They want society to welcome them, praise them and tell them they are correct and beautiful. And that won’t ever happen, because they are repugnant and hateful.
Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This is only going to get much worse too, because these people don’t only want the minority groups they hate hounded and excluded. They want society to welcome them, praise them and tell them they are correct and beautiful. And that won’t ever happen, because they are repugnant and hateful.
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Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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A prime example of how the far right can never be appeased. Give them whatever they demand and they’ll bank it, then use it as a new base camp to strike out for more and worse.
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A prime example of how the far right can never be appeased. Give them whatever they demand and they’ll bank it, then use it as a new base camp to strike out for more and worse.
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This guy used to be one of my heroes and his stuff now is woeful. Who is this for? Constantly trying to present as a dangerous provocateur, a truth spitter, if you're offended GET OUT but here he is flogging vodka with a lie about someone being offended by dogs? A 6yo yelling "poo bum willy!"
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This guy used to be one of my heroes and his stuff now is woeful. Who is this for? Constantly trying to present as a dangerous provocateur, a truth spitter, if you're offended GET OUT but here he is flogging vodka with a lie about someone being offended by dogs? A 6yo yelling "poo bum willy!"
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A Labour government passed the Equality Act. A Labour government was in power when the Supreme Court interpreted it to not mean what ministers at the time were clear it was intended to mean. The Labour government response should have been to legislate to fix it. Not doing so was a cowardly betrayal.
December 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
A Labour government passed the Equality Act. A Labour government was in power when the Supreme Court interpreted it to not mean what ministers at the time were clear it was intended to mean. The Labour government response should have been to legislate to fix it. Not doing so was a cowardly betrayal.
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These evil, spiteful ghouls thought they’d score an awesome Supreme Court victory and then society would salute their bravery, and rise up to enforce their fucknut politics. That hasn’t happened and it won’t happen, so now society will be *forced* to comply in a blizzard of squillionaire litigation.
December 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
These evil, spiteful ghouls thought they’d score an awesome Supreme Court victory and then society would salute their bravery, and rise up to enforce their fucknut politics. That hasn’t happened and it won’t happen, so now society will be *forced* to comply in a blizzard of squillionaire litigation.
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For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
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Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
This week is #GriefAwarenessWeek, and also the week that would have been my husband's 35th birthday (the same age I was when he died).
Earlier in the year, I contributed to this documentary about LGBT+ widowhood, where I talked a little about him.
Earlier in the year, I contributed to this documentary about LGBT+ widowhood, where I talked a little about him.
How can being LGBTQ+ complicate the process of grief and bereavement? I shared my story for this radio documentary alongside other LGBT+ widows, including Jonathan Blake and Richard Coles.
Grief in the Shadows | Virgin Radio Pridecast
shows.acast.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This week is #GriefAwarenessWeek, and also the week that would have been my husband's 35th birthday (the same age I was when he died).
Earlier in the year, I contributed to this documentary about LGBT+ widowhood, where I talked a little about him.
Earlier in the year, I contributed to this documentary about LGBT+ widowhood, where I talked a little about him.