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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 15m

Things we like to see:

This.

A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 18m

I thought she said that too!

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 35m

This may still work.

This Labour government has tried very hard to please the anti trans mob at every turn while holding on to the pretence they’re not the most transphobic government in decades.

That lie is now so blatant that they will move to open hate at some stage.

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 40m

Phillipson is scared being transphobic will harm her deputy leadership bid and hasn’t actioned this…

…and the EHRC have been publicly called out by the Council of Europe because the position puts human rights at risk…

…so someone is getting desperate.

Equality and Human Rights Commission @equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 1h

We've written to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to request the government to revoke the 2011 services code and make our updated version statutory. It accurately reflects the law and updated guidance is urgently needed: www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 50m

You must have seen the letter this week from the Council of Europe pointing out that your approach will lead to human rights abuses…

…so why are you still pushing this?

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 1h

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 1h

Such a small majority that if trans people and their families in the constituency switched votes then he’s gone…

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1h

This is a very interesting initiative from @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social. Not wholly free of difficulty - what is? - but a very novel approach to the UK's profound backsliding on trans rights.

Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 18h

We have jointly applied to the Council of Europe formally to seek re-opening of enforcement of the case of Goodwin v UK under rule 9 of the Rules for the supervision of the execution of judgments and of the terms of friendly settlements, in the European Court of Human Rights. T

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 2h

This is discussion about people using it to generate pseudo legal documents.

There’s already solid search functionality which doesn’t boil the planet but these people weren’t using that.

A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 2h

I’m an adult. I have learned things from reading BISH.

Just because it’s accessible and reliable; it doesn’t matter that it’s not aimed at me.

I haven’t, ever, learned anything from reading AI except what the mostly likely next word in the sentence is.

Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 3h

Eg Since CGPT (and enshittification of Google search) visits to BISH have been down. Page rank is lower so BISH is getting served less. So it's out to destroy advice websites (that are free and ad free). But there's another issue and that is:

Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 5h

I have many worries about AI and 'advice' giving, but two pressing ones are how much useful information from advice columns, books, charities etc has been consumed and ruined to churn out harmful crap.

And how clearly advice giving has never been valued and continues to be devalued. Destroyed, even

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 3h

Eg Since CGPT (and enshittification of Google search) visits to BISH have been down. Page rank is lower so BISH is getting served less. So it's out to destroy advice websites (that are free and ad free). But there's another issue and that is:

Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 5h

I have many worries about AI and 'advice' giving, but two pressing ones are how much useful information from advice columns, books, charities etc has been consumed and ruined to churn out harmful crap.

And how clearly advice giving has never been valued and continues to be devalued. Destroyed, even

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 2h

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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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 18h

ANNOUNCEMENT
This evening, 14/10/25 the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network have taken the next step in the struggle to restore the human rights, dignity & safety of UK trans people.

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 2h

The more absurdly absolutist the EHRC are then the clearer this case.

This is a time when I could have dealt with a having a weaker argument on Human Rights and an easier day to day but I don’t get to pick.

If I did? We wouldn’t be in this mess at all…

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 3h

Yes.

Everyone is fucked by that.

So we fight them until we can’t and then we get people to safety to keep on fighting.

Because that’s how fascism ends.

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 3h

My opinion (subject to retrospective review by a court which could decide the moon is made of cheese…) is that it’s unaffected at this point.

Being worried about it makes sense though. The 🇬🇧 isn’t doing a good job of upholding basic rights at the moment.

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 3h

This is grim.

I’m not an expert on NHS politics but I think start with a complaint as you/a patient has been put at risk of harm without knowledge or consent and that *has* to be addressed?

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 3h

This on the other hand?

If what Labour are saying now is true then 🇬🇧 is already in breach of our human rights obligations and has been for years…

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 18h

Today, we and the Trans Exile Network have made a joint submission to the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK Supreme Court's judgment in the For Women Scotland v. Scottish Ministers case of April 2025.

tacc.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...

Press Release – Submission to the CoE Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK’s non-compliance in Goodwin v. UK - tacc.org.uk

Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network seek urgent re-opening of enforcement of key human rights decision against UK. Today, the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective ...

tacc.org.uk

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 3h

Looking back at this and seeing a Labour government choosing option 3 in the most petulant manner possible…

…because this Labour government is determined to be worse than Thatcher for LGBTQIA+ people.

A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 1d

He’s flagging that 🇬🇧 is in breach of it’s obligations with the result being:

1. They change the approach

2. They lose when this gets to the ECHR

3. The 🇬🇧 leaves the international human rights body we imposed on Europe to stop the rise of fascism happening again.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 18h

Today, we and the Trans Exile Network have made a joint submission to the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK Supreme Court's judgment in the For Women Scotland v. Scottish Ministers case of April 2025.

tacc.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...

Press Release – Submission to the CoE Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK’s non-compliance in Goodwin v. UK - tacc.org.uk

Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network seek urgent re-opening of enforcement of key human rights decision against UK. Today, the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective ...

tacc.org.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 7h

Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 19h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 6h

Except that AI makes up citations because they’re common in the types of text being replicated…

…and that’s what predictive text is.

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Patrick Harvie MSP @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 18h

The whole point of human rights law is that the Government can be held to account when they breach people's rights.

If the Home Secretary doesn't like it, that's why she needs to hear it.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 19h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 18h

When you're so concerned with protecting women and girls that the pedophile Prince Andrew is allowed to visit the Harry Potter TV show set that's full of children.

Princess Kate Barely Avoided Running Into Prince Andrew and His Grandkids During His "Strange" Visit to Harry Potter TV Set

A source said that "staff working on the set were stunned to see him there."

www.marieclaire.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 19h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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