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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 2h

This really packs a punch clipped a bit more

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 2h

Really felt like Ruth was trying hard not to say “you’re a twat”

Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 2h

Ruth Codd being all 'Jonathan Ross you little bitch I will kill you in both this game and real life' is everything.

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 2h

Ruth Codd being all 'Jonathan Ross you little bitch I will kill you in both this game and real life' is everything.

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 3h

There will not be a better tv moment this year

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 3h

THIS MOMENT DESERVES A BAFTA #CelebrityTraitors

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 3h

THIS MOMENT DESERVES A BAFTA #CelebrityTraitors

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 3h

Lmao I genuinely thought the producers would step in to stop them killing that person

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 3h

Was it like this

a cartoon of lisa simpson is dancing in a living room

ALT: a cartoon of lisa simpson is dancing in a living room

media.tenor.com

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 3h

Omg Ed how

And also are there videos

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6h

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

goodlawproject.org

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 8h

Given there is no schedule for when the code becomes statutory, and the whole reason for the “interim guidance” was supposed to be to stop people being in limbo, what was the justification for removing it?

Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 9h

The EHRC has just taken down their transphobic interim guidance 👀

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/our-work/uk-supreme-court-ruling-meaning-sex-equality-act-our-work

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 12h

The thing is this is probably something he can be super strong on, and clear, and it’s just an own goal for Kemi

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 12h

You can see it in her eyes as well, she’s trodden in it

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 12h

Kemi is literally attacking evidence provided by her government right? Like this is dated material it’s not like she can pin it elsewhere

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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 13h

Being asked on question time if you would nationalise large breasts

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 12h

Hilary benn has literally just said at the dispatch box that the Gov is committed to the ECHR and that leaving it would undermine the GFA so which is it?

Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer has repeatedly said leaving is out of the question under Labour for various reason including the GFA and he is seriously briefing that the case is undermined by trans rights lmao

Breakdown of peace better than trans rights according to UK gov, apparently

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Tom Clarke @t0mclark3.bsky.social · 17h

news.sky.com/story/uk-mus...

UK must prepare for 2C of warming by 2050, government told for first time

The goal is hotter and sooner than most official previous advice, and is a nod to the high chance of breaching the ambitious Paris Agreement limit. National advisers on the Climate Change Committee ho...

news.sky.com

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 23h

Is it also not a juicy news story that a human rights lawyer PM is being repeatedly called out for breaches of human rights by other human rights experts??? Surely there should be *some* media interest???

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 1d

And I assume no journalist will actually query him on this as per usual

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer has repeatedly said leaving is out of the question under Labour for various reason including the GFA and he is seriously briefing that the case is undermined by trans rights lmao

Breakdown of peace better than trans rights according to UK gov, apparently

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 1d

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 1d

The job of the ECHR is to comment on concerns about domestic policies of member states, she just doesn’t like trans people

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

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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Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonld.bsky.social · 1d

The Council of Europe has warned that the UK gov’s treatment of trans people may breach human rights law.

This must be a wake up call.

We’ve seen an increase in hostility towards trans in recent years.

Everyone deserves dignity, safety, & respect - that includes trans people.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

🏮 He thinks the direction of travel in the UK will breach its human rights obligations in multiple respects - pushing trans people into an 'intermediate zone' and jeopardising their right to be treated with dignity and to be able to participate in all areas of everyday life...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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