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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 9h

What is he talking about

(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 10h

I've never read them, I can't really read SA stuff and I've heard they are full of that stuff

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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 10h

Ugh 🫂

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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 10h

😬😬

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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 11h

If you think the Holocaust didn't exist you're not exactly likely to treat Jews completely fairly other than that...and under certain circumstances surely it counts as incitement?

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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 11h

Holocaust denial isn't just a free speech thing though? It was explicitly pushed by nazis with the aim of making nazism acceptable again.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.

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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 12h

Why do people do this? They're just making everything worse

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 12h

i'm so tired of non-jews pretending they give a fuck about antisemitism by calling things antisemitic that are clearly not

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me about it. They're just making everything worse

(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 17h

Jeez! Did not know most of this

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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 17h

Oh cool 😎

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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 18h

Oh no - was the author of Tarka the otter fash? I do remember it was pretty traumatising

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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 18h

Im not sure they even care unfortunately. Maybe if McSweeney has been turfed out...

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Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social · 20h

‘I am concerned that a debate about violence against women, framed in a way that restricts the human rights and freedoms of trans people, risks undermining the comprehensive, evidence-based approach needed to address this epidemic’

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 20h

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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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 19h

More exciting ways in which the UK is alienating itself from its closest neighbours & partners by just being really, really, brutally rightwing.

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 20h

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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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 19h

Of particular interest here: he explicitly says the SC ruling did not consider the UK's HR obligations under the ECHR.

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 20h

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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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you so so much for writing these statements. The trans community in the UK desperately needs international support like this, to hold our government and EHRC to account as they try to drive our human rights off a cliff.
Thank you so much.

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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 18h

Good

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 20h

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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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 18h

Changing the law to make it less bad or more? They're already talking about 'resetting' the EHRC whatever that means

(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 18h

Do they know that though? Nigel Farage and his voters seem to be the only people who matter to them in the country

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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 18h

Good. But i fear that this might just give the government an extra reason to try and leave the ECHR

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 18h

One heck of a shot across the bows to the government from the CoE here—looks very likely they already know full well the coming EHRC guidance will be found to be in breach of ECHR Article 8

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 20h

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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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 1d

Here it is, spots more obvious but still very pale.

Pale looking Orange ladybird with a bit more orange colouration.

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(((bugs))) xo @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 1d

Here it is, spots more obvious but still very pale.

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