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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 53m

A lot of funny replies but I just want to say to anyone reading this that you can take as long as you want and in whatever way works for you

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 57m

Your PMR is due.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, they mean an 'old lag' then. It's old slang.

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 1h

Dunno what you're reading about but do they not just mean like a delay? e.g. gaming on a slow connection?

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FoxXFire @foxxfire.bsky.social · 1d

"..transgender for everybody and windmills all over the place.." I wish

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 7h

I don't think it's on him at all. He had a very big part in making it happen, sure. But he didn't implement it, he didn't make it opposition party policy and he isn't in charge of the mess the Tories left us with. Part of the reason Reform is so big rn is we ascribe him more power than he has.

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry Zarah, no deals with transphobes. You picked the wrong party.

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 7h

Attempting to pin Brexit on Farage while continuing to do everything possible to avoid facing up to the harms and lessons of Brexit is classic Starmer

Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 20h

According to media reports, Labour are about to engage on a mad attempt to blame future tax rises on "Farage's Brexit" having caused more damage than expected.

Several gaping flaws:
- "Make Brexit Work"
- Constant Brexit red lines reinforcement
- 14 years of the TORIES in power
- Flatters Reform

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 7h

Pickup artists now transitioning furiously to AI prompting seminars

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9h

WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 23h

Blue pill me

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing this feels a bit like releasing a muscle you didn't know was clenched. Protect this man.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m).
90% profits go to the private sector.
This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 1d

If your view is Israel's actions of the past 2 years are entirely the responsibility of Hamas then presumably you also view the October 7 attacks as entirely the responsibility of Israel and nobody ever is held responsible for their own actions.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder - Palantir has 24 contracts with key UK institutions, the NHS, the Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office, the police force, and the DLUHC.
23 of the contracts were given by the Tories.
The most recent contract given to Palantir was to Coventry City Council by Keir Starmer in April 2025.

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 1d

Don't tell me to be proud of this stinking country

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

This is horrifying. Now she'll be placed with men in prison where she is at extreme risk of being raped and sexually assaulted. And then she has to register as a sex offender.

This is all because a man was ashamed he was attracted to a trans woman.

Screenshot of a BBC News article. The text describes court proceedings involving a person named Watkin, who will serve a prison sentence in a men’s facility with measures to minimize risk and maximize support. It states that Watkin must register as a sex offender for 10 years and is under a lifelong restraining order from contacting the victim. A police detective is quoted saying Watkin concealed her sex, and the victim would not have consented had they known. The article ends with the detective expressing hope that the case’s conclusion allows the victim to move forward.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

They’ve been calling a significant section of the public unBritish hatemongers. They’ve been telling everyone who objects to their horrible politics to fuck off, for years. It’s not that mild-mannered is it, and that’s before we get to the Enoch Powell speech.

Is Labour just mild-mannered Faragism?
The New Statesman:

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Galop @galopuk.bsky.social · 2d

The newly released Official Statistics for Hate Crime in 2024-2025 do not accurately reflect the true prevalence of anti-LGBT+ hate in England and Wales. This misrepresentation matters.

Read our full statement ⬇️
bit.ly/3J6BNYr

Galop's Statement on the 2024/25 Official Statistics for Hate Crime in England and Wales.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3d

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 2d

Great article from @ohsarahsavage.bsky.social

Please read and share.

""Our city is being invaded by transphobes this weekend." Trans Pride Brighton issues statement ahead of "anti-trans" Filia Conference"

www.scenemag.co.uk/our-city-is-...

"Our city is being invaded by transphobes this weekend." Trans Pride Brighton issues statement ahead of "anti-trans" Filia Conference

This weekend the Brighton Centre will host the Filia Conference 2025, an event which bills itself as a feminist event, raising issues about global women's rights. Sounds great, right? Well, it’s a lie...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 2d

SEEN Police UK state the drop in number of hate crimes against trans people is fraud, as GMP are taken to Judicial Review after a secret policy of refusing to deal with ANY reports of hate crimes against trans people is obtained.

How far does this go? This ‘data’ is shit

www.gov.uk/government/s...

Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2025

www.gov.uk

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 2d

Are we the bad guys? How did newts, bats and now snails become the unlikely poster children of an anti-growth narrative? A healthy, functioning natural environment is not a luxury — it’s essential to economic resilience, public health, and wellbeing.

buff.ly/TVQrBD0

Newts, bats and snails against a red background

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uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 2d

I saw someone describe AI as "spiritually white" and I think we can add spiritually male to that list

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 2d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 2d

I had no idea

Adam “Azrael” Zarnowski @azraeltengu.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for not forgetting the male victims in this case. About 20% of the Epstein network’s victims were male, and a significant number were also transgender.

uphill gardner 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @gaygardener.bsky.social · 2d

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One teacher at the Reform leader's school told the journalist Michael Crick that Farage was once thrown out of a class for shouting, "shut up you Jew".

A Jewish pupil at Farage's school remembers Farage coming up to him and saying "Hitler was right," or "Gas 'em" while another claimed that Farage had a preoccupation with his initials, NF, due to them being shared with the National Front.

"He was a deeply unembarrassed racist," remembered David Edmonds, who was in the same class as Farage at the age of 15.

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 2d

The Cass review into children's gender services in the UK continues to be terrible.

A new report from Australia led by the fantastic Dr. Julia Moore - and featuring me - looks into the issues in detail.

My new piece.

gidmk.substack.com/p/the-cass-r...

The Cass Review Continues To Be Severely Flawed

A new paper from an Australian team shines a light on the problems with the review

gidmk.substack.com

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