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goodlawproject.org
So, Laura Kuenssberg's introduction to her interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson is just hideous.

Let me count the ways. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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ogkittylyst.bsky.social
Judith Butler on why gender reactionaries are inherently fash.
bft.wtf Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 1d
“Stoking a desire for a restoration of masculine privilege serves many other forms of power, but it constitutes its own social project, namely, to produce an ideal past whose reanimation will target, if not eliminate, sexual and gender minorities.“

From: Who’s Afraid of Gender by Judith Butler
Stoking a desire for a restoration of masculine privilege serves many other forms of power, but it constitutes its own social project, namely, to produce an ideal past whose reanimation will target, if not eliminate, sexual and gender minorities. This dream not only seeks to restore a rightful place for patriarchal author-ity, conceived as part of a natural and/or religious order, but also aims at rolling back progressive policies and rights to make marriage exclusively heterosexual, to insist that whatever sex is assigned at birth stays in place, and to restrict abortion because the state knows better what limits should be placed on pregnant people's bod-ies. The backlash that we see against "gender" is part of this larger restoration project that seeks to shore up authoritarian regimes as rightful forms of paternalism, the dream come true.
December 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Thank you all for your support
December 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Not easy to get to sleep tonight - have burnt the bridge of whatever career I had left and really don’t feel that my opinions are so extreme that that should have been necessary
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 3d
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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fesshole.bsky.social
Ex-teacher here. Moved to a basic office job this week. The straw that broke the camel's back was a parent of a 15 year old telling me their well behaved princess would never play up in school. Reader, she stabbed me with a pen so hard I needed stitches.
December 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
All I want for Xmas. 🙏
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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lizmerron.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/eOECv...

I knew I wanted to listen to the Reith lectures this year, but I've only just got time now to catch up and I find this. I really hate being in a country where the leading insitutions are so profoundly on the WRONG side of history and mortality.
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on #Trump
YouTube video by ONEST
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December 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Just because you are unable to imagine how someone else’s mind works does not mean that person’s mind does not work like that
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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ramonalvarado.bsky.social
Francis Bacon as philosopher of science and epistemologist:

- invents social epistemology/falsifiabilism/externalism/process reliabilism/automated science
- tackles the problems of induction/demarcation/verification.

Historians of science: he was personally and politically problematic 🤦‍♂️

#philsci
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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goddesscleo.co.uk
“Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.” - Alfred A. Montapert #Quote
A hummingbird hovers gracefully near a blooming red hibiscus, showcasing nature's delicate beauty.
December 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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fesshole.bsky.social
In the work toilets nearest my part of the office there are two brands of hand dryer. One is a Dyson but because James Dyson was a Brexit-backing bellend, I never use it and always switch it off at the wall fuse. Fuck him
December 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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garybrannan.bsky.social
I mean, fucking hell, come on, now.
December 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
So many political discussion shows basically saying the same things and failing to have the courage to challenge the status quo because they are the status quo and they rather like the houses they occupy
December 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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gregpriest.bsky.social
An article I saw today details a debate (in Heisenberg’s old stomping grounds of Helogland) in which Carlo Rovelli and Chris Fuchs argue about how best to interpret Heisenberg’s intuition.

🦫🦋🧪 #philsci
https://www.science.org/content/article/100-years-quantum-mechanics-redefining-reality-us-center
gregpriest.bsky.social Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 10d
Werner Heisenberg was born OTD in 1901.

“What we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” We are “asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer … by the means that are at our disposal.”

🦋🦫🧪 #PhilSci #HistSTM
Caricature of Heisenberg by David Levine for The New York Review of Books.
December 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Finland President Alexander Stubb has been doing some thinking about the world we need to create.
The West’s Last Chance
How to build a new global order before it’s too late.
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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hellvetikaseraph.bsky.social
Wes Streeting is a rotten sphincter of a spineless mucus oozing worm.
He wants another confirmation bias study to be done to push people off benefits, many of which are IN WORK. Things that help people keep jobs. It'll be the Cass report all over.

What major health event has happened since 2019 🤔.
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’
web.archive.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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manmademoon.bsky.social
I think everyone needs to watch BABE again at their earliest convenience.
Recharge your soul.
a man in a hat is standing in front of a horse drawn cart and says come pig .
ALT: a man in a hat is standing in front of a horse drawn cart and says come pig .
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December 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Police report in respect of the social media activity of Gender Critical commentator Richard Dunstan: a statement from me. goodlaw.social/y7q6
Statement from Jolyon Maugham KC: Police report | Good Law Project
Concerning the report of a potential criminal offence
goodlaw.social
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
edmunds.bsky.social
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Their ignorance knows no bounds.
Indigenous 'Northern Exposure' Actor Says She Was Detained By ICE After Agents Claimed Tribal ID 'Looked Fake'
www.comicsands.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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supertanskiiii.bsky.social
The price I’m paying as a self employed person for nearly half a million kids to be lifted out of extreme poverty.

Stop listening to the millionaires and billionaires who are trying to convince you that this is a bad thing.
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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helenbarrett.bsky.social
Art history A-level is extinct in Scotland and Wales and nearly extinct in England. The UK has the third-biggest art market in the world ($11bn-ish), if you need a business case to prove its value.
Research commissioned by the institution shows that over the past decade the number of UK schools offering A-level art history has fallen by 37%, from 122 in 2016 to 77. All of those are in England, with most in London and the south-east. Only 19 of the 77 are state schools.
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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garybrannan.bsky.social
From the Terrance Dicks Archive. I very nearly cried when I saw this.

Never cruel or cowardly…never gives in and never gives up….

#doctorwho #doctorwhoday #drwho
'Much has changed about the Doctor over the years, but much has remained the same. .. He is still impulsive, idealistic, -ready to risk his life for a worthy cause.He still hates tyranny and oppression, and anything that is anti-life. gHe never gives in and he never gives up, however overwhelming A the odds against him. *—The Doctor believes in good, and fights evil. Though often A caught up in violent situations, he is a man of peace. He is A never cruel or cowaraly. 4— In fact, to put it simply, the Doctor is a hero. ' That, at least, hasn't changed Band it never will.
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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thomasthecat.bsky.social
”That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way.”
tabathasouthey.bsky.social Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 24d
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM