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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 8h

As well as zapping the people who agree with me for the wrong reasons.

Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 8h

My superpower is eye Lazer zapping everyone I see talking about neurodivergence as a superpower.

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Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors @hodgejonesallen.bsky.social · 1d

Read full article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lampard Inquiry: 'Grave concerns' about Oxevision monitoring system

It uses infrared sensors and cameras to monitor patients alone in their rooms, sending alerts to staff when it detects signs of distress.

www.bbc.co.uk

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 1d

"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 1d

It didn't feel real until I had my first supervision. But I am officially a PhD student now, eek.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 4d

Some of BASH BACK's pink paint from Friday morning remains at the entrance. However, the broken windows have since been boarded up.

A closer look at the entrance of Brighton Centre, with some of BASH BACK's pink paint.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 4d

Today, the counterprotesters have started giving out leaflets.

This is because yesterday they managed to talk someone out of going to FiLiA, and they felt that leaflets could communicate such messages more effectively.

They have also started giving out stickers promoting trans joy.

FILIA calls itself "Europe's largest feminist conference."

In reality, it is a hub for all the worst and most authoritarian politics that hides under the feminist label. FiLiA's approach is not feminist, it is cruel, rigid, and hurts the people most vulnerable under patriarchy.

Anti-trans politics

FILIA advertises more events and speakers which focus on transgender people than any other topic. This includes a workshop for individuals to learn how to set up groups to exclude transgender people, and an event celebrating the recent supreme court ruling that threatens to push trans people out of public life, and has already increased harassment and violence faced by trans people.

Real feminists understand that transphobia is a manifestation of patriarchy, and that liberation for women cannot be seperated from liberation for trans people.

Anti-sex work politics

FiliA advocates the Nordic Model - where selling sex is legal but buying it is a crime. Compared to completely decriminalising sex work, the Nordic Model results in less abuse being reported, and more sex workers being targetted by police.

Opposing adult content online, including in video games

FILIA signed a recent petition that resulted in hundreds of video ga being banned from online distributors, and have invited the organ Collective Shout to speak at the conference. This goes against TRANS artistic freedom.

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 6d

Significant blow today for Stella O'Malley & her anti-trans advocacy organisation Genspect, as their spurious defamation action against Irish therapist, Leonie O'Dowd, is added to "The Gallery of Shame" by CASE (Campaign Against SLAPPs in Europe.) www.the-case.eu/gallery-of-s...

Gallery of Shame – CASE

www.the-case.eu

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 6d

Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI is now available in physical form! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Cover of Disabling Intelligences, a dark pink book with orange vines.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 7d

The way that major healthcare institutions have just decided the rules don't apply when it comes to trans people. Research ethics? Consent? Basic human dignity? Those would just be too inconvenient and it's only a bunch of trannies.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 7d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 7d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 8d

One of my cats picked up a sweet with her teeth by the wrapper and tried to run off with it.

Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe the people who wrote at great length about the only issue you care about get to talk about how it relates to other people's needs, and to focus on solidarity without you bringing it back around to solely the only topic that you care about.

Nah silly me.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 8d

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

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Netpol @netpol.org · 8d

Nothing quite says the exact opposite of "we understand the need for freedom of expression" like the rest of the sentence saying"we can’t be having people like that performing on our streets."

"People like that" being opponents of genocide
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

MPs and Jewish leaders call for Bob Vylan’s Manchester gig to be cancelled

Letter says they are ‘deeply concerned’ about Manchester Academy concert after last week’s synagogue attack

www.theguardian.com

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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 8d

I'm looking at the UK Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency use of #AI.

They have 2 AI tools & one (GMP) uses an LLM (fallback if visual NN fails).

They also state
"most advanced LLMs cannot be relied on to generate accurate information consistently"

Any suggestion which LLM they use?

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 8d

I am just waiting for people's nans to start knitting him.

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 8d

I want summer back.

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you

Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 8d

Ended up using youtube again because cba rendering another version after figuring out why all my settings changed sorry

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 8d

Captioned full version of my speech on intersecting trans and disabled issues and solidarities at the DPAC protest at Labour conference.

It was very windy ha

Also yes I was shouting bits of it because another noisy demo appeared part way through.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ms...

Speech at the Disabled People Against Cuts Demo at Labour party conference

YouTube video by SpoopySpoonie

www.youtube.com

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 9d

This laptop is a bully

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 11d

Took me a while to get round to captioning this in full but tbf I am 90% lucozade and cough sweets by body weight rn.

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ceej @ceej.online · 12d

it’s the job of a ceo to eat shit on behalf of the corporation. if you can’t do that without gagging, hire corporate comms. if you don’t want to do that maybe you shouldn’t be a ceo, which again, you don’t have to be. this is like complaining that your throne of skulls is too pokey

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John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · 13d

Labour’s attacks on rights ‘have led to massive resurgence’ in disability movement, protest hears
#Labour #LabConf25
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labours-atta...

Labour’s attacks on rights ‘have led to massive resurgence’ in disability movement, protest hears

The Labour government’s attack on disabled people’s support has led to a “massive resurgence” in the disabled people’s movement in the last year, a protest outside the party’s annual conference has…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Trans Safety Network @transsafety.network · 13d

We have previously reported on Wessely's harms to the disabled community transsafety.network/posts/simon-...

We stand in solidarity with disabled people and psychiatric survivors. Trans liberation cannot be won without disabled people's liberation.

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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