Ash Paley
@ashpaley.bsky.social
PhD student at IMS - University of Leeds. Neuroqueering medieval mystics.
Trans masc. Autistic 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
He/they
Trans masc. Autistic 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
He/they
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All other considerations aside, just due to sheer ineptitude, the best thing Your Party could do for the left at this stage is to die.
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
All other considerations aside, just due to sheer ineptitude, the best thing Your Party could do for the left at this stage is to die.
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1/🧵 An appalling judgement where the ET says Scottish Ministers also fucked up the law on non-binary folks’ gender reassignment protection.
www.gov.uk/employment-t...
www.gov.uk/employment-t...
H Lockwood v Cheshire and Wirral NHS Foundation Trust and Others: 2401211/2024 and 2407178/2024
Employment Tribunal decision.
www.gov.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
1/🧵 An appalling judgement where the ET says Scottish Ministers also fucked up the law on non-binary folks’ gender reassignment protection.
www.gov.uk/employment-t...
www.gov.uk/employment-t...
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The UK government is a terrorist organization
So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get.
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The UK government is a terrorist organization
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Holiday weeks can be busy and stressful on your body, even if you’re having fun.
This Piping Plover is here to remind you that rest is a critical part of life for all living things, including you!
This Piping Plover is here to remind you that rest is a critical part of life for all living things, including you!
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Holiday weeks can be busy and stressful on your body, even if you’re having fun.
This Piping Plover is here to remind you that rest is a critical part of life for all living things, including you!
This Piping Plover is here to remind you that rest is a critical part of life for all living things, including you!
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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Do I know anyone with any contacts at ADHD UK? Thanks!
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Do I know anyone with any contacts at ADHD UK? Thanks!
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poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️
March 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️
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If you don’t understand how disability benefits can be a net economic positive…
You don’t understand basic economics.
Every £1 you cut from disability benefits, you cut nearly £2 from the economy.
And you harm a vulnerable person.
You don’t understand basic economics.
Every £1 you cut from disability benefits, you cut nearly £2 from the economy.
And you harm a vulnerable person.
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
If you don’t understand how disability benefits can be a net economic positive…
You don’t understand basic economics.
Every £1 you cut from disability benefits, you cut nearly £2 from the economy.
And you harm a vulnerable person.
You don’t understand basic economics.
Every £1 you cut from disability benefits, you cut nearly £2 from the economy.
And you harm a vulnerable person.
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Anyone contacted should reply asking if they'll be referred to (if trans feminine) as a "biological male who identifies as a woman)".
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Anyone contacted should reply asking if they'll be referred to (if trans feminine) as a "biological male who identifies as a woman)".
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7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?
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They are now referring to her entirely by her surname bar the first mention, something the BBC style guide notes is reserved for convicted criminals?
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
They are now referring to her entirely by her surname bar the first mention, something the BBC style guide notes is reserved for convicted criminals?
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Also obviously violating this (already awful!) part of style guide
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Also obviously violating this (already awful!) part of style guide
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Which is reserved for convicted criminals or celebrities, Sophia is neither.
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Which is reserved for convicted criminals or celebrities, Sophia is neither.
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
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UK and Irish media all degendering a trans woman and framing her as a "trans activist" in their reporting of Graham Linehan being found guilty of criminal damage. Come on, gang. You can at least try to hide your institutional bigotry.
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
UK and Irish media all degendering a trans woman and framing her as a "trans activist" in their reporting of Graham Linehan being found guilty of criminal damage. Come on, gang. You can at least try to hide your institutional bigotry.
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Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.
One wonders what *would*.
One wonders what *would*.
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.
One wonders what *would*.
One wonders what *would*.
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I don't actually care whether Farage is personally racist. I care whether he continues to promote racist ideas and policies. Which he does. What he truly believes in his heart is an irrelevance to me.
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I don't actually care whether Farage is personally racist. I care whether he continues to promote racist ideas and policies. Which he does. What he truly believes in his heart is an irrelevance to me.
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The paperback of Medieval Twitter has landed omfg
Not quite a stocking stuffer price, but much much more affordable than before, thankfully
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270265...
#MedievalSky 🗃️ @archumanities.bsky.social
Not quite a stocking stuffer price, but much much more affordable than before, thankfully
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270265...
#MedievalSky 🗃️ @archumanities.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The paperback of Medieval Twitter has landed omfg
Not quite a stocking stuffer price, but much much more affordable than before, thankfully
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270265...
#MedievalSky 🗃️ @archumanities.bsky.social
Not quite a stocking stuffer price, but much much more affordable than before, thankfully
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270265...
#MedievalSky 🗃️ @archumanities.bsky.social
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Raising everyone’s income is the ONLY way to fight poverty, dickwads.
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Raising everyone’s income is the ONLY way to fight poverty, dickwads.
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Remember. We know these drugs are safe. There is no need to do any of this.
The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.
November 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Remember. We know these drugs are safe. There is no need to do any of this.
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Trying to treat science and medicine as an apolitical zone which somehow exists outside of wider societal norms is an incredibly harmful trend. But at this point it's not just embarrassing for the clueless people promoting such a narrative, it's actively dangerous for the rest of us.
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Trying to treat science and medicine as an apolitical zone which somehow exists outside of wider societal norms is an incredibly harmful trend. But at this point it's not just embarrassing for the clueless people promoting such a narrative, it's actively dangerous for the rest of us.
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Cis people, did you have to show your genitals to a doctor before you got hormones?
Cause I did.
Cause I did.
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Cis people, did you have to show your genitals to a doctor before you got hormones?
Cause I did.
Cause I did.
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Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?