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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 2h

Bezos doesn't need it to make money - he needs it to get access to power.

See also Elon Musk and twitter

Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 3h

I've been really impressed with this since I joined in May.
Lots and lots of emails about the local party, welcome meetings, things to take part in.
At least several a week. Enough to make me want to get involved (but not so many it feels like spam - it's a difficult balance)

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 4h

And this is how I found out it had finally been released

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 5h

I'd never noticed that Danny Lane chair before - perfect for an ice room (though completely impractical in every other respect)

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 5h

Came here to post the "we're all trying to find the guys who did this" hotdog gif.
But several people got here before me so I'll post this instead

Placard reading
Fuck the Guardian you transphobic frauds

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 5h

Isn't this because Labour are authoritarian and want digital ID as 'papers please' approach.

It's fundamentally why I oppose it - as the main parties in the UK would want to use it in a draconian way

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 5h

Just donated to Film is Fabulous.
Really excited by possibility of missing episode news in the future.
You can donate here
filmisfabulous.org.uk/the-film-is-...

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 7h

Miss Major has passed. One of the best of that generation of trans women of colour who started our fight.

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 15h

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 5h

Gareth Roberts!
Once had a promising career as a TV writer but his racism and transphobia stopped all that.

A Poundshop Graham Lineham

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 5h

I've seen recent pictures of him - that's actually very flattering

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 5h

I've seen recent pictures of him - that's actually very flattering

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 7h

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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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 18h

Oh god I've just read that article.
"...when Labour voted down Theresa May’s bid to negotiate a soft Brexit deal..."
There was never a "soft Brexit deal" on the table - Theresa May was hard Brexit all the way.
The way he rewrites recent history thinking no-one will notice

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 18h

The only phone numbers I know by heart now are those early childhood ones.
My own, my grandmother's and my sister's when she left home.

And the phone number for Multi-Coloured Swap Shop

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 18h

Robert's writing about the US - but it's true of the UK too

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 19h

We are appalled by the Israeli government’s attempt to ban Palestinians from publicly celebrating the return of their relatives and friends - a reminder of the daily cruelty of apartheid and of the fact that our struggle is not over. (4/4)

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

One of the released hostages pays tribute to the Palestinian resistance & he describes how the imprisoned Palestinians were tortured on a daily basis by their Israeli captors

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 1d

“Israel forbade people from celebrating the prisoners’ release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison.”

Some Palestinians have been held prisoner with little food for decades but it was this detail that really got me. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 2d

THE LONDON ECONOMIC

"We should all be angry that we had 14 years of Tory austerity. They shut our libraries, they shut our community centres. And then to say integration is a problem - how do you expect people to integrate if you've taken away their services?"

-ZACK POLANSKI, GREEN PARTY LEADER

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 2d

Hands up who's surprised by this? The BBC is just a government propaganda arm.
www.scenemag.co.uk/bbc-pauses-t...

BBC pauses training programmes on LGBTQ+ and trans inclusion after Supreme Court ruling

The BBC has temporarily suspended two of its internal diversity training programmes focused on transgender and LGBTQ+ inclusion, following a landmark ruling by the UK Supreme Court that redefined the ...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 2d

"Why would they break windows? We're just trying to talk..."

On now at FiLiA.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 2d

Website for the museum here
queerbritain.org.uk

HOME | Queer Britain

Queer Britain: the national LGBTQ+ museum

queerbritain.org.uk

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 2d

Queer Britain do a fantastic job as a small museum dedicated to Britain's queer history.
I've been a couple of times and really recommend it.
They're holding a prize draw to raise money for further exhibits
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qb-display...

Bring LGBTQ+ History to Life in New Exhibition!

Enter now to launch a groundbreaking exhibition and win prizes! Your entry makes a real difference - thank you.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk

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