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Nick Ferran
@nickferran.bsky.social
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Atypical Orthopod, Shoulder & Elbow Surgeon, Clinical Director and Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO). 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 He/Him London, UK #MedSky #OrthoSky #DigitalHealth
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It’s time!

Final concert of our summer of music.

Scissor Sisters✅
Kylie✅
Beyoncé✅
Diana Ross✅
Dua Lipa✅
Coldplay✅
ABBA Voyage✅
Lady Gaga✅

@gazfinnerty.bsky.social
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I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.

I'm talking about something very different.

Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.

Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.

But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️
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‘When our outrage translates into withholding our consumer dollars, a big corporation like Disney is forced to listen – and respond.
Next time you’re feeling powerless, remember this.’
- Robert Reich
Jimmy Kimmel is coming back. It’s proof that you still have power | Robert Reich
Disney saw hurricane-level blowback over the talkshow host’s suspension, thanks in large part to consumers
www.theguardian.com
Sounds like Labour now!
When the LibDems got into power after 100 years, they went back on every promise they had ever made and helped the Tories inflict the suffering of austerity on ordinary people for the recklessness of the banks.

Never forget that.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social
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“Free speech is an inalienable right.”

Unless you want to protest genocide, refer to someone with their correct pronouns, criticise someone for being a bigot, boycott an organisation for their human rights abuses, etc. Then politicians aggressively try to regulate and police speech. It’s perverse.
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We're 7 months in and Trump and the oligarchs have completely seized control of the media. If you criticize them, your show will be pulled from the air.

This is what dictators do. Fascism isn't coming, it's here.
Starmer abandoned all principles and betrayed most who voted for him despite being handed a majority that could have been truly transformative, he’s given us more of the same and the culture wars feel worse than they have ever been.
Piers Morgan, "It's a shambles"

"Most people in this country feel like Labour has lost control, don't really know what they're doing, the country is rudderless, and they're crying out for proper leadership"

Feels like Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak all over again 🤷‍♂️
They’re trying to turn us into little Trumpland.
Anyone wondering how Germany ended up with Hitler and gas chambers?

It was having this sort of stuff normalised.

America is in a dark place that this could be said on a mainstream station with no repercussions.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
This is so spot on.
So homophobia in football is ok again. 🤷🏻‍♂️
We’ve seen posts on social media claiming the @premierleague is “banning” rainbow laces and armbands this season.

It’s no longer taking part in Stonewall’s ‘Rainbow Laces’ campaign, but rainbow laces haven’t been banned.
Has the Premier League ‘banned’ rainbow armbands and shoelaces? – Full Fact
The Premier League is no longer taking part in the ‘Rainbow Laces’ campaign, but neither rainbow laces nor armbands have been banned by the Premier League or Football Association.
fullfact.org
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Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me.

His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.
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You sound like someone I know….
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Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies"

Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."
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Glad the WSJ didn't rush to report inflammatory claims backed by no evidence whatsoever at an incredibly sensitive time.
NYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon:
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA (and UK), together with the Free Speech Union, sponsored the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023, which restricts free speech in higher education.

He was not just a random American with no direct influence on our lives. He controlled Bridget Phillipson.
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I really need people to stop saying X is happening to trans people to distract from Y/hurt some other group.

They are attacking trans people because they want to attack trans people. They are hurting trans people because they want to hurt trans people.

Thank you.
Still giving blue steel.
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Contact your MP. It matters. It makes a difference.

(I know some of you have MPs it's not worth contacting. Contact them anyway, perhaps even more than you would an ally. Hound them)
Response from my MP about the EHRC guidelines. I'm encouraged that she's met @transsolidarity.bsky.social as I wasn't sure what to expect from her.
Another night in Crete and another crazy moon!