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Erin, a beastly bee 🐝 🎃 🏳️‍⚧️ (no DMs era) @erinlisagayle.bsky.social · May 3

Get to know my music taste (personal version, not based on likes)

This is mostly going to be film soundtrack stuff, but there will be occasional rock / pop in it.

So, I couldn't start this thread without a track from the one album I'd rescue from the proverbial fire:

Field of Dreams Original Soundtrack - The Cornfield

YouTube video by blaaze6

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 18m

Tuesday: Shabana Mahmood attacks an international human rights body for pointing out the UK is likely breaching its legal obligations to trans people.

Wednesday: five months after publishing transphobic legal guidance the EHRC, a month before it has to defend it in court, takes it down.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1h

The EHRC has finally, five months after producing its wildly transphobic and, we believe, unlawful Interim Guidance now taken it down. Our judicial review challenge to that Interim Guidance will be heard in less than one month.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 19m

"‘The UK Supreme Court judgment could lead to widespread exclusion of trans people from many public spaces. This, in turn, may severely infringe on their ability to participate fully and equally in society.’"

metro.co.uk/2025/10/15/a...

A human rights expert just confirmed the truth about being trans in Britain

It’s about time someone with authority and actual expertise made it clear.

metro.co.uk

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Accidental IT Specialist @ultralib.bsky.social · 55m

At least Newsom keeps reminding us that he has no consistent values, in case some of us forget.

Love his social media trolling of Trump - more Dems need to do that kind of thing - but I hate his poorly conceived strategy of triangulation. Nobody's looking for a leader who's "a little" transphobic.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1h

14 Oct 2025 -- CA Gov Gavin Newsom, still tacking right for 2028, vetoes bill passed by overwhelming majorities which would allow trans ppl to stockpile a year's GAMT in case of new fed restrictions, falsely claiming it would drive up health care costs. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills

The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.

www.erininthemorning.com

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 2h

Statutory or not, it still is not the law: A statutory code of practice is not a law itself, but it is a form of guidance issued by a statutory body.

Equality and Human Rights Commission @equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 3h

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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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1h

I am at Books on the Hill in St Albans at 7pm tonight for a poetry show

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Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 3h

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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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 4h

To all the trans elders and late bloomers:

Thank you for proving that living truthfully is timeless.

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Erin, a beastly bee 🐝 🎃 🏳️‍⚧️ (no DMs era) @erinlisagayle.bsky.social · 5h

My name is Erin. My pronouns are she/her.

🏳️‍⚧️ Leah 🏳️‍⚧️ @tilly.bsky.social · 6h

My name is Leah. My pronouns are she/her.

andrewb72.bsky.social @andrewb72.bsky.social · 6h

My name is Andrew and I go by he/him

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Fiadh @fiadhfluffy.bsky.social · 7h

This is the key point everyone should remember. If rights don't apply to everyone, they apply to no-one. Rather, they are privileges granted to you by the beneficence of authority and can be withdrawn at any point.

Erin, a beastly bee 🐝 🎃 🏳️‍⚧️ (no DMs era) @erinlisagayle.bsky.social · 7h

As soon as they don't apply to all humans, they cease to be human rights, and become just rights for the privileged based on hierarchy.

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Erin, a beastly bee 🐝 🎃 🏳️‍⚧️ (no DMs era) @erinlisagayle.bsky.social · 7h

As soon as they don't apply to all humans, they cease to be human rights, and become just rights for the privileged based on hierarchy.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 7h

To give human rights only to those tyranny likes is to destroy their very purpose.

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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 19h

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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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 20h

If Labour doesn't intend to adhere to its human rights obligations anyway, there's little point in us being signatories to the ECHR. Better, more honest, for Mahmood to join Reform in campaigning to leave it.

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Erin, a beastly bee 🐝 🎃 🏳️‍⚧️ (no DMs era) @erinlisagayle.bsky.social · 20h

Any attempt to leave the ECHR needs to be put to the people. Political party grandees and MPs can't be trusted.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 21h

Saturday. Find the protest where you are and make your voice heard!

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

On Saturday, the American people will rise up again for a truly historic day of defiance. Make your plan to be part of the biggest day of peaceful protest in modern US history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Neil Brand @neilkbrand.bsky.social · 21h

I'm at Matrix Arts Centre near Oxford on Sunday November 30th at 4pm, talking films and music, silent movies and piano improv. See you there!! www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

Neil Brand

Neil Brand, composer, writer, broadcaster and pianist, opens up the treasure house of the art form of which he has been an undisputed master for...

www.trybooking.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 21h

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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Equal Access Public Media (EAPM) @equalaccesspublicmedia.org · 23h

Hard truth: funds are running dry at EAPM.

The government is going to bail us out.

We don't have rich friends in high places.

We don't know if grants will ever come from the big foundations.

We need you: the public. Help us fight back.

Equal Access Public Meda

Making journalism more accessible for you

equalaccesspublicmedia.org

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Michelle, a good witch @hiyinx.bsky.social · 22h

Aww fuck wth

JimAlvarez @jimalvarez.bsky.social · 22h

RIP Drew Struzan www.slashfilm.com/1996528/drew...

Drew Struzan, The Greatest Movie Poster Artist Of All Time, Has Died At 78 - SlashFilm

Drew Struzan, a titan in the world of illustration and movie poster art, has passed away. If you have a favorite movie poster, he's probably responsible for it.

www.slashfilm.com

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Erin, a beastly bee 🐝 🎃 🏳️‍⚧️ (no DMs era) @erinlisagayle.bsky.social · 21h

😞

RIP Drew

Erin, a beastly bee 🐝 🎃 🏳️‍⚧️ (no DMs era) @erinlisagayle.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani + Polanski

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Our Judicial Review of the EHRC: we've published our formal written case - together with that of the EHRC and Bridget Phillipson - and they are very much worth a read. goodlaw.social/7gs4

An update in our judicial review of the EHRC’s interim guidance | Good Law Project

We’re publishing key documents in our legal challenge against the interim guidance issued by the EHRC in the wake of the For Women Scotland decision.

goodlaw.social

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 1d

If you’ve had chickenpox, the virus never fully leaves your body. Years later, it can reappear as shingles. Here’s what causes it — and what doesn’t.

Can you catch shingles? A GP explains what people get wrong about this common virus

If you’ve had chickenpox, the virus never fully leaves your body. Years later, it can reappear as shingles. Here’s what causes it — and what doesn’t.

tcnv.link

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 1d

NHS England will soon be publishing its review of adult gender services. Trans Healthcare Coalition have created a breakdown of what the review is about, what outcomes we’d like to see, and more.

Find the full breakdown here: tinyurl.com/LevyExplaine...

#transhealthcare #NHS #LevyReview

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

Yes.

Bluntly? Thats the problem. The Scottish Ministers case is pretty obviously a breach of human rights.

It’s 🇬🇧 government who are terrible on human rights that’s the issue.

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