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River @riverofdiversity.bsky.social · 1h

Are you talking about the things Labour are doing? 🤷

You realise that Labour are Right of Reform? 🤷

River @riverofdiversity.bsky.social · 1h

Yes the “/S” was the sarcasm tag. 👍

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 7h

I joined Step Up Migrant Women calling on govt to #ScrapImmigrationWhitePaper

The White Paper will have a devastating impact on migrant women

Labour promised to make people's lives better but instead is pushing women into insecurity and destitution - shameful

Carla Denyer MP standing outside the Home Office, holding a sign that says "The White Paper does not protect women. It harms and criminalises them."

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Puddles Of Custard 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @puddlesofcustard.bsky.social · 5h

The government doesn't consider those women to be people. We live in a deeply white supremacist nation.

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 2d

If you've not seen the #waitrose posts ⬇️

Where "volunteering" and work placement schemes are used to exploit chronically ill, disabled and neurodivergent people. It's dire...

All this talk about working people ah? @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
@francesryan.bsky.social

Post over a autistic young man being volunteering at waitrose for 4 years...now being told he can't do the job after asking to get paid.

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 6h

So, Waitrose decided to exploit an autistic man, using him as unpaid labour for 600 hours, then 'cancelled' his contract once there was a request for him to be paid?
What the...!
Modern Slavery isn't just about keeping people locked in sheds & taking their passports away, employers. Think carefully.

Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 2d

If you've not seen the #waitrose posts ⬇️

Where "volunteering" and work placement schemes are used to exploit chronically ill, disabled and neurodivergent people. It's dire...

All this talk about working people ah? @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
@francesryan.bsky.social

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Shel @shel56.bsky.social · 6h

Headline should be 7 Christian Extremists with the backing of Anti abortion extremist cult Christian Concern seek to impose their warped ideology on everyone else.
The cult pushing Project 2025 UK.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 7h

Almost 60,000 women have signed this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social women to say that the transphobes do not speak for them. Meanwhile the Daily Express front-pages seven transphobes, falsely claiming that they “represent women”. If they do not represent you. Please sign.

notinourname.org.uk

DAILY
EXPRESS
BACKING BRITAIN FOR 125 YEARS
express.co.uk
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2025
EXCLUSIVE 'Magnificent Seven' Darlington nurses continue their female-only spaces fight
FOR THE SAFETY AND DIGNITY OF EVERY WOMAN AND GIRLY

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 6h

Blanket trans sports bans are being smashed in the courts.

Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 6h

The Brussels court has ruled in favor of a 51-yr-old trans woman in her dispute with the UCI, Le Soir reports. The trans woman was previously banned from women's races but is now allowed to compete again.The judge ruled that the exclusion was unjustified.

www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/belgi...

Belgische rechtbank geeft transgendervrouw gelijk in zaak tegen UCI

De rechtbank van Brussel oordeelt dat UCI-transgenderregels discriminerend zijn. Lees hoe deze uitspraak vrouwenwedstrijden kan veranderen. Meer weten? Klik hier!

www.wielerflits.nl

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 6h

The Brussels court has ruled in favor of a 51-yr-old trans woman in her dispute with the UCI, Le Soir reports. The trans woman was previously banned from women's races but is now allowed to compete again.The judge ruled that the exclusion was unjustified.

www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/belgi...

Belgische rechtbank geeft transgendervrouw gelijk in zaak tegen UCI

De rechtbank van Brussel oordeelt dat UCI-transgenderregels discriminerend zijn. Lees hoe deze uitspraak vrouwenwedstrijden kan veranderen. Meer weten? Klik hier!

www.wielerflits.nl

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River @riverofdiversity.bsky.social · 5h

That’s because Farage has missed which vote is split:

bsky.app/profile/rive...

River @riverofdiversity.bsky.social · 1d

That's assuming that the right wing vote won't be a 3 way split between Reform, Tory, & Labour. 🤷

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River @riverofdiversity.bsky.social · 5h

*ChatGPT* 🤷

River @riverofdiversity.bsky.social · 5h

Tbf you can’t make a profit if those people in care homes have longevity. 🤷

(/S for clarity)

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Trans Greens 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @transgreens.bsky.social · 2d

We’re calling for an ‘informed consent model’ for transition healthcare.

This means trans people won’t need a psychiatric diagnosis of “gender dysphoria” to access care like HRT.

You can read the full policy here: drive.proton.me/urls/B0FV4KE...

& join the Green Party here: join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Claire's Trans Talks @clairestranstalks.bsky.social · 13d

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Trans Greens 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @transgreens.bsky.social · 13d

Green Party Conference recently passed some amazing healthcare policy for the trans community. It commits us to an informed consent model of trans healthcare, a trans-led public inquiry into NHS care, a trans-inclusive ban on conversion therapy, and so much more.

The Green Party just voted to reform trans healthcare.

What does this bold new policy look like?

Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

What we're calling for:
- The end of segregation in trans healthcare.
- Ending the torture of conversion therapy.
- Moving the NHS to an informed consent model.
- Expanding the range of funded transition care.
- Access to affirming healthcare for trans youth.
- NHS support for people who seld-medicate or use private care.
- Real support for detransitioning people.

Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

How we get there:
- Closing the existing Gender Identity Clinics and supporting GPs with training and funding to care for trans people.
- Lifting the politically motivated ban on 'puberty blockers'.
- Starting a government funded, trans-led, inquiry into past NHS treatment of trans people.
- Including & prioritising trans expertise in independent care reviews.
- Passing a trans-inclusive ban on 'conversion therapy'.

Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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River @riverofdiversity.bsky.social · 5h

<Shocked face meme> 🤷

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Lucy @hi-lucy.bsky.social · 8h

... and it is a pretty relentless attack on trans people, it seems we're as a country prepared to undo a lot of things, so long as it is detrimental to trans people...

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 10h

1993: Stephen Lawrence is murdered by racists.
1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents.
2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police.
2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.

Met Police says it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents

The move comes as an investigation into Father Ted creator Graham Linehan is dropped, after his arrest over a post on X.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tony @antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social · 8h

Labour is dead. If you want the super rich to pay more tax, you have to vote Green.
#VoteGreen 🗳️

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 8h

Since Labour took power, food staples are up 40%, my water bill has increased by 30%, my energy bills have increased (again), and my taxes are set to increase.

And that's all coupled with serious human rights abuses.

Is it any wonder people are turning to the Greens?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Is the Prime minister subtweeting me?

Tax wealth. Not work.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

National renewal isn't just moving money around. It's about completely rewiring the state and the economy.

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River @riverofdiversity.bsky.social · 6h

Dolly Parton is an example of someone who had the potential to be a billionaire, but has empathy, so didn’t. 🤷

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River @riverofdiversity.bsky.social · 6h

I would suggest the alienation is a requirement to accumulate extreme wealth.

You cannot become a billionaire if you have functional empathy.

To accumulate that much while others starve requires sociopathy. 🤷

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 22h

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 23h

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

futurism.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22h

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society

also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 22h

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 23h

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

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