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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 2h

the nice thing about politics is I don't need to pay any attention at all. greens are weirdos and losers, but they don't want to ban me from public places and labour do, so they're better

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 7h

The problem with this argument is that if the affordable mandates lead to even a modest reduction in building they quickly become self defeating. If a 25% mandate leads to a 20% reduction in supply then you are constantly exchanging two market rate homes for one affordable home.

Jules Birch @julesbirch.bsky.social · 7h

Over half of those homeless children in temporary accommodation were in London (97k) which makes now an interesting time to be considering a cut to affordable housing in London

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 21h

I still have the letter I got back from William Hague when I wrote to him as a queer teenager arguing for the end of Section 28 and the equalisation of the age of consent - he confidently asserted that Section 28 would never be repealed and age of consent never equalised.

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 17h

you are now so old that there are BBC articles about dated youth culture from 10 years ago, and it seems strange and newfangled to you

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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 17h

I have no idea who these people are, but I love how just from the photos you can tell they haven't been popular in a decade

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dan and Phil: YouTubers confirm 'Phan' relationship after 16 years

Dan says intense fan intrusion

www.bbc.co.uk

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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 17h

the big boys in number 10 give a quote at the end 'dont worry, we still hate you ❤️'

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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 21h

far right policy written in the language of the worlds dullest mandatory e learning package

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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 21h

don't worry, one of the big boys at in Keith's office gives a quote at the end to make sure we know they still hate us

Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 21h

sorry joe, you'll have to shut down the gulags, you haven't done an equalities impact assessment

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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 21h

you haven't done an equalities impact assessment on your policy to ban trans people from public places

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 22h

In an environment where there are regular anti immigrant protests, anti-semitic attacks at an all time high and where racist harassment on twitter appears to be de facto decriminalised, it seems odd priorities
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

EHRC drops interim trans advice and urges ministers to act fast to approve its guidance

Equalities watchdog removes interim response to supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman from its website

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3d

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 3d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 6d

can't believe the match sponsored by Alzheimer's research wasn't riotous

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 6d

THANK YOU. THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY EVERY BILLIONAIRE IS A POLICY FAILURE. IT'S THE INSTABILITY LARGE CONCENTRATIONS OF POWER CREATE. NOT THE LOST REVENUE.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 6d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 6d

tradeoff between a safe environment for families and 'atmosphere'. the fa should hire flare bum man to consult

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 7d

The national picture shows waiting times for gender identity clinics that far exceed the NHS's recommended maximum of 18 weeks.

But drilling down into the data from our investigation, 'The Gender Clinic Files' reveals huge disparities across the UK

👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

THE GENDER CLINIC FILES
12 YEARS
England
58 YEARS
Scotland
2 YEARS
Wales
41 YEARS
Northern Ireland
The average waiting times across the UK according to QueerAF analysis shows they vary wildly around the UK:

Estimated wait time for a first appointment as of March 2025 (in years) based on QueerAF analysis of data from FOIs

🔴 England - 12 years
🔴 Wales - 2 years
🔴 Scotland - 58 years
🔴 Northern Ireland - 41 years

This data is shown in an infographic with a map of the UK alongside logos of QueerAF and What The Trans?!

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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 8d

I'm tragically working nights!

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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · 8d

smoking is nature's ozempic

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24d

elite centrist/lib transphobia is one of those classic contrarian things where they’ve built up a huge pile of facially convincing “evidence” that collapses immediately if you put it under serious scrutiny

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 29d

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 29d

Journalists have been detained and a van showing images of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein has been confiscated in Windsor. This follows a separate incident in which four people were arrested for projecting images onto Windsor Castle.

Journalists detained as ad van with image of Trump and Epstein seized

AN advertising van displaying an image of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein together has been confiscated by police, according to campaigners ...

www.thenational.scot

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 29d

trans rights strike at a fundamental base of individual liberty: if we do not have control of our own bodies, you don’t either

Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 29d

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 29d

the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger

my latest with @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing one without a vote

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social · Sep 14

what's up with people who wrap their suitcases in clingfilm? weird paranoia, Nigel farage coded

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · Sep 14

Many shocking things about the last 24 hours; but the contrast between the Labour government’s response to peaceful protest against genocide, and its non-response to violent racist protest against liberal democracy, is high on the list.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Sep 12

"Charlie Kirk gave me the courage to be more transphobic" is a wild thing to put in a both-sides hagiography
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

‘He Gave Me Confidence’: How Charlie Kirk Connected With Young Men
With his right-wing group Turning Point USA, Mr. Kirk engaged controversial topics. Some students were inspired. Others found his views appalling.

As a Christian, he did not always feel he could say what he actually thought about the issue.

“It’s kind of scary to say what you believe in, especially in this cancel culture,” said Porter LaFeber, a 22-year-old studying sciences at Utah Valley University who was at an event on Wednesday where Mr. Kirk was killed. “Charlie Kirk seemed like he just went totally above that. He kind of gave a voice to the people that were maybe a little bit scared.”

“He gave me the confidence to be able to believe what I believe,” Mr. LaFeber added.

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