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onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

israel has already broken the ceasefire

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 12h

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 9h

Works fine for me

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 10h

I wonder which toilet she uses at work, the way the hostility is at the moment

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 11h

"Sophie Cole, 46, from Cambridge, was awarded £12,500 in damages following an employment tribunal that found Royal Mail failed to act on her complaints of bullying, verbal abuse, and even physical assault."

www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-postal...

Trans postal worker wins discrimination case against Royal Mail

A trans postal worker has successfully sued Royal Mail for harassment and discrimination after enduring repeated abuse from colleagues, in what is being hailed as a landmark legal victory. Sophie Col...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 10h

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11h

The medication stockpile bill is the bill I had pegged this year as the most important kind of bill to pass given federal threats, with a short time window to make it happen. Washington passed the same bill earlier this year.

It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11h

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

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Maggie Chapman MSP (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 12h

Why do we keep talking about trans healthcare?

Because of statistics like this.
Because every day waiting, in this world obsessed with harassing trans people, is a battle that many don't survive.

So, we keep talking about it, and keep fighting back against systemic transphobia.

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 14h

Not new. AI will busy make it easier

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6HK...

FULL Audrey Hepburn Galaxy Commercial

YouTube video by Orissa Kelly

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 17h

“Beyond privacy concerns, being forced to disclose sex assigned at birth may also significantly increase people’s vulnerability to harassment, abuse and even violence…”

The British government has pursued the erosion of trans rights. Letting people use spaces that align to their identity is basic.

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns after April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman

www.theguardian.com

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 15h

The Supreme Court decision is “clear”.

A clear breach of trans people’s human rights:

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 19h

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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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 14h

Very short positive thread

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 16h

There does appear to be a change in how this is reported in the media today!

"Trans people ‘have had their human rights breached’ after Supreme Court ruling"

metro.co.uk/2025/10/14/t...

Trans people 'have had their human rights breached' after Supreme Court ruling

Trans people's legal gender has been 'voided of practical meaning'.

metro.co.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 18h

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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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

A young trans girl DIED by her own hand, in part over feelings of desperation that trans healthcare was unobtainable.

And Graham Linehan wrote THIS!!! 😤🤬

Save this and post it in response to journalists writing “trans people ruined my marriage” articles about him in the future!!!

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 19h

I do find it discouraging that he has not mentioned trans issues, amongst other worthy topics

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 2d

Quote: I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember this too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick. Stewart Lee

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 1d

Lol
archive.is/2025.10.13-1...

Bridget Phillipson 'delaying trans guidance to help deputy leader bid'
The equalities minister is accused of pushing back publication of a code on single-sex spaces until after the Labour election ends
Those close to Bridget Phillipson, who is also education secretary, said her opponents were "weaponising gender issues" in a "cynical and divisive" way

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Jamais Arrière @pankelo.bsky.social · 20h

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 20h

Forced to share pins, left open to fraud!

1 in 5 with mental health conditions risk financial abuse by sharing pins as banks don't offer carers cards, 3rd party notifications or controls. We want to change that. Full info www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/10...

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 20h

A significant workplace discrimination win.
Well done Sophie!

uk.news.yahoo.com/trans-postie...

Trans postie sues Royal Mail for harassment and discrimination by colleagues

A trans postal worker has won a discrimination case against Royal Mail after suffering harassment from colleagues. Sophie Cole, 46, from Cambridge, was awarded £12,500 after an employment tribunal fou...

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 20h

Starmer: not in my lifetime.

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To Streeting - we have been talking about it for ten years. It is only you that thinks it is just starting now.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

Rest in peace, Miss Major.

We will carry the bricks forward.

ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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KurtChester66Red 451 @chester66red.bsky.social · 21h

Canada did a ban quicker then the UK
Good for them

Kyle Ruggles 🇨🇦 @kyleruggles.bsky.social · 2d

After two failed attempts, Canada bans conversion therapy

The new law, which bans the widely discredited practice aimed at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity takes, effect on Jan. 7.

www.npr.org

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Elinor Elliot @elinorelliot.bsky.social · 1d

I really cannot bear how Farage is getting away with bare-faced lies, again and again, through the silence and complicity of the UK media. It's all there. His political career can and shoud be finished. Instead, media are making his rise inexorable. The corruption and ineptitude are beyond belief.

D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 1d

"I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."
Nigel Farage on Gill's pro-Russian statements in European Parliament.

Here's Nigel Farage & Nathan Gill in European Parliament. ⬇️
They mostly turned up to make pro-Russian/anti-EU statements.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

“Keep out of the way of officers, ‘cos they ain’t healthy. That’s what you learn in the army. The enemy dun’t really want to fight you, ‘cos the enemy is mostly blokes like you who want to go home with all their bits still on. But officers’ll get you killed.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

The late (or at least severely delayed) Bergholt Stuttley Johnson was generally recognized as the worst inventor in the world, yet in a very specialized sense. Merely bad inventors made things that failed to operate. He wasn’t among these small fry. Any fool could make something that did absolutely nothing when you pressed the button. He scorned such fumble-fingered amateurs. Everything he built worked. It just didn’t do what it said on the box. If you wanted a small ground-to-air missile, you asked Johnson to design an ornamental fountain.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22h

The 15 year old girl who was dragged from her car by ICE had recently had kidney surgery.

She was thrown to the ground despite screaming “I’m not resisting”

She had to return to the hospital.

These aggressive tactics will disable. They will kill.

They must be held accountable.

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