Paul Barnett
@pbarn.bsky.social
grumpy woke git 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇲 he/him
"If you let yourself be defeated by them, just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you, there won't be any methods *but* Nazi methods!"
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
"If you let yourself be defeated by them, just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you, there won't be any methods *but* Nazi methods!"
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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"Conservatives have created this hostile environment.. we should welcome people wherever they come from.. the UK is better because of immigration.. Lab has been a bit scared of making the positive case for immigration.. we need to turn that round"
The most duplicitous politician in my lifetime
The most duplicitous politician in my lifetime
May 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
"Conservatives have created this hostile environment.. we should welcome people wherever they come from.. the UK is better because of immigration.. Lab has been a bit scared of making the positive case for immigration.. we need to turn that round"
The most duplicitous politician in my lifetime
The most duplicitous politician in my lifetime
Trump announces that Popes now being manufactured in America thanks to tariffs
May 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Trump announces that Popes now being manufactured in America thanks to tariffs
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🧵 Labour UK has set about persecuting & now effectively criminalising trans & non-binary people. Suddenly they are sending gaslighting mails like this.
There is no difference for Queer ppl between Labour, Reform or the Torys. Vote Green, LD or Monster Raving to tell them to stop. [1]
There is no difference for Queer ppl between Labour, Reform or the Torys. Vote Green, LD or Monster Raving to tell them to stop. [1]
May 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🧵 Labour UK has set about persecuting & now effectively criminalising trans & non-binary people. Suddenly they are sending gaslighting mails like this.
There is no difference for Queer ppl between Labour, Reform or the Torys. Vote Green, LD or Monster Raving to tell them to stop. [1]
There is no difference for Queer ppl between Labour, Reform or the Torys. Vote Green, LD or Monster Raving to tell them to stop. [1]
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
May 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
February 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
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NEW: Trans people across the country are having their HRT prescriptions refused or withdrawn by GPs - sometimes years after starting the treatment www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...
Trans+ people finding it harder to access lifesaving treatment
Reports of treatment being refused of withdrawn are on the rise – and no official figures exist to track the issue
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
December 7, 2024 at 9:31 AM
NEW: Trans people across the country are having their HRT prescriptions refused or withdrawn by GPs - sometimes years after starting the treatment www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...
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Gregg Wallace taking charge of his own PR.
December 1, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Gregg Wallace taking charge of his own PR.
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If you enjoyed the novelty / indignity / absurdity of the Jake Paul V Mike Tyson fight, please enjoy this 5,000 word blog about the time in 1882 that Sugar Goodson, 26, fought Jack Hicks, 55, in an old chapel.
Content warning: Stephen Graham being HARD
grapplingwithhistory.com/2024/10/07/h...
Content warning: Stephen Graham being HARD
grapplingwithhistory.com/2024/10/07/h...
Henry ‘Sugar’ Goodson’s Single Ocular, And An Exploration Of The Bosh That Was Written About The So-Called Prize Fight In A Chapel
The number of eyes in Stephen Graham’s head probably wasn’t the first thing you noticed about him when Empire magazine published exclusive first-look photos from the forthcoming TV series A Thousan…
grapplingwithhistory.com
November 16, 2024 at 1:00 PM
If you enjoyed the novelty / indignity / absurdity of the Jake Paul V Mike Tyson fight, please enjoy this 5,000 word blog about the time in 1882 that Sugar Goodson, 26, fought Jack Hicks, 55, in an old chapel.
Content warning: Stephen Graham being HARD
grapplingwithhistory.com/2024/10/07/h...
Content warning: Stephen Graham being HARD
grapplingwithhistory.com/2024/10/07/h...
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Making a new block list explicitly for TERFs
Very explicit transphobia (and liking explicit transphobia) is the only reason I will add someone to this list.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Very explicit transphobia (and liking explicit transphobia) is the only reason I will add someone to this list.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 16, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Making a new block list explicitly for TERFs
Very explicit transphobia (and liking explicit transphobia) is the only reason I will add someone to this list.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Very explicit transphobia (and liking explicit transphobia) is the only reason I will add someone to this list.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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It’s not an echo chamber we just don’t accept hate speech and shitty right wing media. It’s really interesting to see how hard the pundit class is trying to claim that if you don’t accept far right and increasingly fascist viewpoint, you live in an echo chamber. This is a demonstrable lie.
November 16, 2024 at 7:05 AM
It’s not an echo chamber we just don’t accept hate speech and shitty right wing media. It’s really interesting to see how hard the pundit class is trying to claim that if you don’t accept far right and increasingly fascist viewpoint, you live in an echo chamber. This is a demonstrable lie.
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No one should spend 12 years in jail for stealing a mobile phone. Its unthinkable.
If you are not yet familiar with the shocking #IPPscandal, one of the most cruel & monumental injustices of the last half century, please watch & share this jaw dropping film
youtu.be/nkBs2D0Wz_g?...
If you are not yet familiar with the shocking #IPPscandal, one of the most cruel & monumental injustices of the last half century, please watch & share this jaw dropping film
youtu.be/nkBs2D0Wz_g?...
🚨 No one should spend 12 yrs in jail for stealing a mobile phone! It’s unthinkable! #IPPscandal
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
November 16, 2024 at 10:06 AM
No one should spend 12 years in jail for stealing a mobile phone. Its unthinkable.
If you are not yet familiar with the shocking #IPPscandal, one of the most cruel & monumental injustices of the last half century, please watch & share this jaw dropping film
youtu.be/nkBs2D0Wz_g?...
If you are not yet familiar with the shocking #IPPscandal, one of the most cruel & monumental injustices of the last half century, please watch & share this jaw dropping film
youtu.be/nkBs2D0Wz_g?...
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Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
November 14, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.