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Gedds 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇵🇸 @gedds.bsky.social · 34m

It's Orktober which means this beautiful wednesday I am putting together some Orks, live on twitch

twitch.tv/geddstation

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Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 14h

Godspeed mate

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 18h

if you actually want to understand what the struggle for trans care looks like in a non-bourgois state, here's a paper on how Cuba came to offer full trans healthcare guaranteed by the state, and how it's become a world model for gender affirming care

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Abstract
In 2008, Cuba's minister of public health signed Resolution 126, an act that assured complete coverage for Cubans seeking sexual reassignment surgeries (also known as gender confirmation surgeries), the first of any country in Latin America to do so. Ten years later, Cuba is celebrated as having one of the most open and inclusive LGBTQ public health and education programs in the Americas. As illustrated throughout this article, the Cuban state approaches sexuality and sexual identity not as rights-based issues but rather as health-based challenges. Through the case study of Cuba's understanding of transsexuals' right to health, we argue that Cuba has provided an example of how the right to health for all moves toward breaking down the barriers of stigma by improving health outcomes for those with transsexual health needs.

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Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 17h

[sat upon a pile of corpses 750,000 deep] yes but how does this poll

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 21h

Labour MPs reckon that if the ceasefire holds it will be harder for opponents to mobilize against them over the Israel-Palestine issue in the next election. There are concerns though about whether the fragile agreement will hold. More in London Playbook PM.

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Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 18h

Favourite film, favourite movie poster - RIP Drew Struzen

weinberg @weinberg.social · 21h

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Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 18h

When you’re in Greggs and the person in front orders the last sausage roll

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 20h

You’re a shoe-in @churnwell.bsky.social

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Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 20h

Can you do a remake of KKND Krossfire please

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Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 20h

Wikipedia

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.

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Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 22h

Howdy there, I’m a random yank you’ve never interacted with before and I’ve been assigned to reply to your post despite having absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. Yeehaw!

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Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 22h

Go away yank

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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 1d

✅ 6 month HIV check up done!

✅ Viral load remains undetectable, which means HIV cannot be sexually transmitted to others while on effective antiretroviral treatment. In short, undetectable equals untransmittable (U=U).

💊 One pill a day keeps me rocking and rolling.

💪 Onwards!

#HIVAdvocacy

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 1d

Re: the Labour shenanigans detailed in The Fraud. "Gordstein", it should be noted, was not a real person but an invention of Euan Philipps of Labour Against Antisemitism, who is not Jewish but made complaints under what he obviously considered to be a 'Jewish-sounding' name

Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 1d

particularly callous and inhumane detail here. these people never gave a fuck about Jews

"In September 2020 “Gordstein” was one of three complainants against Riva Joffe, an 80-year-old Jewish veteran of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa.

Her sin was to have described Israel as an Apartheid state (a view shared by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli human rights organisation B’tselem) and to have urged Jeremy Corbyn to stand up to the “Zionist lobby.”

The Labour Party opened a formal investigation and Joffe spent the closing days of her life penning an immensely dignified response from her death bed. “This frenzy of purging you are driven to – it’s not the behaviour of mature adults. It smacks of desperation, fear and panic,” she wrote.

Joffe lived in Starmer’s constituency and knew him personally. But a direct request on behalf of her son that the charges against her be posthumously dropped did not even elicit a response."

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Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 1d

He was strangely good as the weird megalomaniac psychopath in Bladerunner 🤔

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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 1d

The rikishi are taking-in the town and doing what we all do when in London.
Seeing the sights, admiring the parks, shopping on High Street, taking tea at Fortnum's, using the olde phonebox, eating Chinese, and having a terrific time.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 1d

always been fascinated by the Spectator's byline caricatures because it's like the artist has chosen to represent the writers' inner lives, showing us who they truly are, these weird deformed uncanny creatures with absolutely deranged opinions. bizarrely revealing

Spectator article by Gareth Roberts entitled "The truth about the Green Party's booming membership"

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Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 1d

Do what you want with them but I will look down on you if you put them face down and ruin them rather than spend five seconds to find a scrap piece of paper as a bookmark

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