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Pollik
@pollik.bsky.social
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Brit. Trans. Reluctantly political. Widow. 72yo (2025)

Background - probate/exor (asst manager high street bank), subpostmistress/shop owner, bus driver, independent living, mobile librarian, counsellor.

I block quickly, so don't play games with me.
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fbpech.bsky.social
Exactly. What John said. This talk from Farage is more revolting than anything I’ve ever heard
itsjohnmartin.bsky.social John Martin🇪🇺🔶 #FBPPR 👩‍❤️‍👨+👫🐶 Rtd🚒 #GetPRDone @itsjohnmartin.bsky.social · 1h
Anyone of a similar age to Farage will know that antisemitic remarks played no part in 1970s banter.
Nazis were universally hated. Farages abusive behaviour would have made a strong impression. I have no doubt that Farage’s classmates remember him perfectly.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage turns on broadcasters over racism allegations as number of claims hits 28
Reform leader suggests he would boycott BBC, saying he has had letter from Dulwich pupils defending him
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
pollik.bsky.social
The BBC made him
nulasuchet.bsky.social Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 2h
Farage doing a Trump !!
December 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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parallax2112.bsky.social
JFC. The stupidity of these people.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘It’s absolute anarchy’: Oxygen therapy chambers have led to horrific deaths. Why are Maha elite raving about them?
Touted as a cure for everything from wrinkles to autism, the treatment has been hyped by Robert F Kennedy Jr and various celebrities. Experts say it needs to be regulated
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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whatthetrans.com
Good evening.

We are in a county hall in Bassetlaw, Worksop this evening - lobbying against a Reform Councillor bringing forward a motion to "implement the Supreme Court ruling".
Bassetlaw County Hall/Queen's Building
December 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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parkermolloy.com
awful
maxtani.bsky.social max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5h
In a note to staff, Business Insider EIC Jamie Heller says the publication is launching a pilot program called Business Insider AI News Desk that will use AI to “help publish quick news stories.”

Several stories a day will now be “created by AI and edited by a person.”
December 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.

“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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liamthorp.bsky.social
The UK right: ‘Why are we supporting so many foreigners, we should be supporting our own in this country’

Government announces plans to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty and to help struggling parents afford baby formula

The UK right: ‘No we didn’t mean them’
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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robinmoirawhite.bsky.social
Kelly v Leonardo - the best bit

Para 367

www.gov.uk/employment-t...
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
In November an 18 month investigation into ADHD concluded.

It found ADHD is massively underdiagnosed with less than 1 in 20 people over 40 receiving treatment.

It said GPs need to be diagnosing it.

Instead a review has been launched looking into it being 'overdiagnosed'
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
Legal commentator and author, @barristersecret.bsky.social told Byline Times that David Lammy's plans were “badly thought through, expensive and likely to backfire.”

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
David Lammy's Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk 'Increasing Miscarriages of Justice'
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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ianfraser.bsky.social
Thai-based crypto investor Christopher Harborne, aka Chakrit Sakunkrit, hands unprecedented £9m to Reform UK, after party leader Nigel Farage backed his company and called for deregulation of crypto, telling an industry conference earlier this year “I am your champion.” @adambienkov.bsky.social
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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k1956.bsky.social
One of the girl guide leaders has set up this petition to oppose the decision - there's a lot of backlash from within girl guiding www.change.org/p/allow-tran...?
Sign the Petition
Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
www.change.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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jessothomson.co.uk
"The only way to stop bullies is to stand up to them. Anti-trans campaigners have been making legal threats, trying to force trans people out of public life. They thought after the SC decision the whole world would suddenly agree with them. But they've misunderstood the law, as well as human nature"
December 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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kackbro.bsky.social
THIS 👇 HERE
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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entirelyharmless.bsky.social
This (the screenshots) is worth reading.
leewilliamdesigns.bsky.social Lee @leewilliamdesigns.bsky.social · 10h
I was reading an interesting post on FB about the GG and WI situation. Essentially both have been secretly fighting legal action from anti trans groups for a little while and they can’t afford to continue, according to the post. Well funded TERFs are forcing their hand.
G Sabini-Roberts • Follow ... 1h • Q I need to drop a post here today to expand on the goings on yesterday. Yes, the decisions by Girlguiding and the Women's Institute are awful, but yesterday, as the dust settled and more information leaked out, a different picture started to form. It's important we all understand that new picture so then the righteous anger we all feel can be directed where it actually needs to go. We now know that both GG and WI have been fighting legal battles behind the scenes from attacks by the small but very well funded and vicious anti-trans lobby for some time. Neither organisation has talked publicly about this. I wonder if, at this point, they can't. In both cases, they have now reached a David Vs Goliath moment whereby if they continued to try and fight those legal battles, they as organisations would cease to exist. They would have to put everything into those fights. Fights that they may even win, eventually, because the law on this is still untested and we are still awaiting the outcome of the initial legal challenges against the EHRC back in April. But it would be a long and very expensive fight. You can't win a fight if the fight itself would take more than you have. Regardless of right or wrong. Both these women's organisations do a lot of essential work providing community and support for thousands of women and girls. They have both, yesterday, been forced to bend to the legal challenges they are facing because to continue would mean they could no longer support anyone. And they are, both, working hard to try and find 'alternative' ways to support trans women and girls as a way to keep doing their work in a way that isn't going to kill them in legal fees to fight a vicious and entirely unnecessary attack. And, like I explained yesterday, actually enforcing their new rulings is all kinds of problematic and they don't know how they will do it yet. The way they have gone about communicating those decisions and managing the fallout could have been done infinitely better, true. There are huge lessons to be learned on all of that. But again, they can only learn those lessons if they can stay alive long enough. So if you're writing to your MP, or going to a protest, or discussing this with others and explaining why this is all happening, it's not the organisations that we should be directing our anger at. Or the majority of it anyway. It's the anti-trans lobby. It's she who must not be named. It's the people who, for some still unknown reason, believe passionately that excluding trans women and girls from women's spaces - where they have happily been an unremarkable part of the community for decades - is more important than keeping organisations that support women alive. They believe cis women are safer alone, isolated, with no support network than they are by sharing a village hall with a trans woman. So what do we do now? We lead with that message. If we withdraw from those spaces we make sure that it is known why so we contribute to the evidence gathering showing that the decision to exclude trans women and girls is not a 'proportionate' means to ensuring all girls get the support they need. Because by going so, the membership leaves in droves, leaders step down, groups close. Excluding trans women and girls means that everyone loses. We need that evidence. I'll pop some stuff in the comments to things you can contribute to as I come across it. We need to spread this message. Because yesterday, 'Girlguiding/WI is bad' was an easy headline. Today we know it's far more nuanced. The more people who understand that the less we get drawn into a fighting each other and can collectively focus on fighting that small, angry but very rich minority who have decided that their hate is the only way forward. And sometimes their actions do a very good job of making the rest of us fight each other before recognising it's them who are the real problem. I'm certain that if those legal challenges were withdrawn, both organisations would revert back to being trans inclusive immediately. So let's work to make that happen.
December 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
pollik.bsky.social
Shared as is.

I still feel that trustees are being unfairly blamed, but maybe maybe they could look to GLP for guidance through their options
leewilliamdesigns.bsky.social Lee @leewilliamdesigns.bsky.social · 10h
I was reading an interesting post on FB about the GG and WI situation. Essentially both have been secretly fighting legal action from anti trans groups for a little while and they can’t afford to continue, according to the post. Well funded TERFs are forcing their hand.
G Sabini-Roberts • Follow ... 1h • Q I need to drop a post here today to expand on the goings on yesterday. Yes, the decisions by Girlguiding and the Women's Institute are awful, but yesterday, as the dust settled and more information leaked out, a different picture started to form. It's important we all understand that new picture so then the righteous anger we all feel can be directed where it actually needs to go. We now know that both GG and WI have been fighting legal battles behind the scenes from attacks by the small but very well funded and vicious anti-trans lobby for some time. Neither organisation has talked publicly about this. I wonder if, at this point, they can't. In both cases, they have now reached a David Vs Goliath moment whereby if they continued to try and fight those legal battles, they as organisations would cease to exist. They would have to put everything into those fights. Fights that they may even win, eventually, because the law on this is still untested and we are still awaiting the outcome of the initial legal challenges against the EHRC back in April. But it would be a long and very expensive fight. You can't win a fight if the fight itself would take more than you have. Regardless of right or wrong. Both these women's organisations do a lot of essential work providing community and support for thousands of women and girls. They have both, yesterday, been forced to bend to the legal challenges they are facing because to continue would mean they could no longer support anyone. And they are, both, working hard to try and find 'alternative' ways to support trans women and girls as a way to keep doing their work in a way that isn't going to kill them in legal fees to fight a vicious and entirely unnecessary attack. And, like I explained yesterday, actually enforcing their new rulings is all kinds of problematic and they don't know how they will do it yet. The way they have gone about communicating those decisions and managing the fallout could have been done infinitely better, true. There are huge lessons to be learned on all of that. But again, they can only learn those lessons if they can stay alive long enough. So if you're writing to your MP, or going to a protest, or discussing this with others and explaining why this is all happening, it's not the organisations that we should be directing our anger at. Or the majority of it anyway. It's the anti-trans lobby. It's she who must not be named. It's the people who, for some still unknown reason, believe passionately that excluding trans women and girls from women's spaces - where they have happily been an unremarkable part of the community for decades - is more important than keeping organisations that support women alive. They believe cis women are safer alone, isolated, with no support network than they are by sharing a village hall with a trans woman. So what do we do now? We lead with that message. If we withdraw from those spaces we make sure that it is known why so we contribute to the evidence gathering showing that the decision to exclude trans women and girls is not a 'proportionate' means to ensuring all girls get the support they need. Because by going so, the membership leaves in droves, leaders step down, groups close. Excluding trans women and girls means that everyone loses. We need that evidence. I'll pop some stuff in the comments to things you can contribute to as I come across it. We need to spread this message. Because yesterday, 'Girlguiding/WI is bad' was an easy headline. Today we know it's far more nuanced. The more people who understand that the less we get drawn into a fighting each other and can collectively focus on fighting that small, angry but very rich minority who have decided that their hate is the only way forward. And sometimes their actions do a very good job of making the rest of us fight each other before recognising it's them who are the real problem. I'm certain that if those legal challenges were withdrawn, both organisations would revert back to being trans inclusive immediately. So let's work to make that happen.
December 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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sundersays.bsky.social
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Let’s not break people so they fit into society rules , let’s change the rules #adhd #autism #neurodiversity #mentalhealth

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm...
December 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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dgar.bsky.social
Someone on Australian Master Chef made a meringue and the audience clapped and cheered, which was a bit weird…

Australians normally boo meringue.
December 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
pollik.bsky.social
This is entirely possible. Trustees bear personal responsibility for their actions
mimmymum.bsky.social Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 11h
I’ve seen this posted elsewhere - I wonder if the ‘gender critical’ transphobes had found a way to legally threaten the individual board members? 😣😖
Juliet E McKenna 21h・ . • • I am not a lawyer, but I am informed about some key issues which apply here. Girlguiding UK is a charity with trustees. Trustees have a legal duty to act in the best interests of the charity as a whole, and to ensure sound financial management. If they fail in these duties, they can be taken to court. If a charity takes legal advice, and that advice is to not be drawn into potentially open-ended legal action with unquantifiable costs, pursued by well-resourced ideologues backed by endless funds, the trustees risk being taken to court in a further, separate case for failing in those legal duties, if they ignore that advice. Personally I have no doubt this would happen. Since the trustees would have gone against legal advice in choosing to continue Girlguiding's original trans-inclusive policy, thereby committing the charity's time and funds to this litigation, the charity's liability insurance would not cover them. As private individuals they could face legal bills which would leave just about all of us bankrupt and homeless. I am closing comments on this as I am fed up with people claiming there is some quick fix here, and/or directing their anger at the wrong targets in this mess. As a former Girl Guide, I am absolutely furious that trans girls and trans women volunteers have been attacked in this way.
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
From this infinite monkey, I offer a heart and a mind that is open to so many possibilities of what it is to be human, hopefully other members of the gang will feel similarly #translivesmatter #lgbtq
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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ohsarahsavage.bsky.social
Please sign this!
transparentaction.bsky.social Transparent Action @transparentaction.bsky.social · 13h
If you are a parent of a trans or non-binary child or adult, please sign our Transparent Pledge so we can present a unified voice alongside other parents.

If you are a trans ally, please support us by following and sharing.

Sign here: tinyurl.com/TransparentAction
Transparent Action
Transparent Action are parents of trans, non-binary and gender-diverse children and adults of all ages. They have come together to form a collective voice to take action in support of their children…
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December 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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jojofe24.bsky.social
And THIS is who people should be angry and shouting at

These are the people in literal power

They are now as open and blatant as trump is, and we have the audacity to tell americans how to fix their country

We are in the same boat doung sweet f a about it
tristangrayford.scot Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 12h
The UK Labour Party, everyone
For Women Scotland reposted Jonathan Hinder MP @Jonathan_Hinder · 15h Healthy little children should not be drugged to stop their bodies from developing as normal. I will be speaking at this protest on Wednesday 17 December, 1pm at the Department of Health. Please repost this and let’s get it trending! #StopTheTrial Protest to Stop the Puberty Blockers Trial
December 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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bestforbritain.org
Europe cannot rely on Trump. We must stand with Ukraine.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/03/the-guardian-view-on-us-russia-talks-on-ukraine-a-warning-to-europe-to-move-faster-on-security-cooperation
The Guardian view on US-Russia talks on Ukraine: a warning to Europe to move faster on security cooperation | Editorial
Editorial: Washington’s betrayal of its allies has been averted for now, but preparations must be made for a world where its support cannot be relied on
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
pollik.bsky.social
Dafuq?
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20h
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM