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Mike J
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Tech industry burn out, pigeon protector, sea gull whisperer and abysmal erhu player.
LGBTQ+, intersex, insulin & hrt should be free and accessible
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Mike J @pigeonpoppets.bsky.social · Nov 11
Got to make a good first impression with this post..... Or do I?.......
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The UK at the UN "condemns" Israel's "egregious" attack on UN agency UNRWA and calls on Israel to reopen all border crossings.

But announces no policy changes or sanctions to press Israel.
January 29, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.

Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
pigeonpoppets.bsky.social
The "blame the left for it" you know, for not voting for gen*cide or transphobia-lite candidate. Wil keeping that argument going is a distraction, one that maligns multiple groups of marginalised people & helps prop up a fascist government. There's no time travel here, we must move on Wil
#StarTrek
mathdemigod.bsky.social Mathdemigod @mathdemigod.bsky.social · 3d
Hey @wilwheaton.net, what, exactly, are you referring to when you say "a pony?"
January 28, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
January 28, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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declassifieduk.org
Israel’s government is funding an ad campaign in Britain to attack medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which provides crucial medical care in Gaza.

www.declassifieduk.org/israel-pays-...
Israel pays for UK adverts attacking Doctors Without Borders
Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to drive medical charity out of Gaza backed by an aggressive Israeli propaganda campaign in Britain.
www.declassifieduk.org
January 26, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
oh commuters just found the motherlode of ice agents at a suburban hotel, including, potentially, bovino himself. a bunch of confirmed ICE and CBP cars from the bovino convoy there. spring hill suites in maple grove.

people of the twin cities, do with this info what you will.
January 26, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Reminder that Sex Matters want to obstruct banning of conversion therapy - go to @goodlawproject.bsky.social for more. Sex Matters work hard to silence anyone who offers support to trans community and will do it by any means they can

thecosmicshamblesnetwork.substack.com/p/a-difficul...
Stop Sex Matters Lobbying for Conversion Therapy
January 24, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Link here action.goodlawproject.org/stop-sex-mat...
January 23, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle” has to be one of my least favorite phrases. Sometimes, one side is actually truthful and one side is actually malicious and lying!
January 19, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
All the abuse by cis men in the world and somehow people have become obsessed with dehumanising the trans community instead - have seen anti trans activists celebrate Trump too, a convicted sexual abuser and Epstein island loyalty card holder
felicitycallard.bsky.social Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 12d
The ferocity with which the vile phrase “a biological male who identifies as a woman” is being embedded across multiple media in Britain is horrifying. It shows how quickly support for eliminationist attacks against trans and gender diverse people is being solidified
January 18, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Tm Stanley cheered for BREXIT & sovereignty. now tells us to lube up & be taken by Trump - despite his hypocrisy and disingenuousness, he will be relentlessly platformed by the circle jerk news shows (how can our nation be rotting from the inside with all the manure of sovereignty to grow things in)
See all News Log in Money Travel ✓ Tim Stanley Trump controls the world, and Britain ought to let him have it We gain nothing by pretending we're still a world power while our nation rots from the inside 1251 $ Gift this article free
January 18, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Palantir was a warning sign.

Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment.

All in the name of "investment." What about national security?
January 18, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
Many UK politicians and all the Media fight harder for Maccabi Tel Aviv than they ever did for Disabled People, Pensioners or keeping people from dying in corridors by their thousands.

It is disgusting get rid of these people.
January 16, 2026 at 5:24 PM
pigeonpoppets.bsky.social
I'm going to see if I can buy a Nobel peace prize, apparently it's really easy to get them these days. Everyone has one, as prolific as toilet paper on Halloween, easier to get than a doctor's appointment in the UK.....
The world really is in a bad state 😬
January 16, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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declassifieduk.org
The Friends of Israel include:

Prime Minister
Deputy PM
Foreign Secretary
Chief Secretary to PM
Health Secretary
Education Secretary
Northern Ireland Secretary
Cabinet Minister
Foreign Minister
2 Home Office Ministers
Justice Minister
Trade Minister
Energy Minister
declassifieduk.org Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 21d
Here is the list of the MPs who were officers and supporters of Labour Friends of Israel before it suddenly removed this page from its website.
January 15, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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matthewhodson.bsky.social
A squirrel came to say hello on Jody Dobrowski’s bench, Clapham Common.
Jody was a barman who was brutally beaten to death in a homophobic attack, just over 20 years ago.
Another light extinguished too early.
A squirrel on the back of a wooden bench, posed above a plaque commemorating Jody with his dates and the inscription, ‘Shine On’.
January 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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gailsimone.bsky.social
Wednesday is TRANSPHOBES ARE TRASH DAY!

Congratulations to those who celebrate this wonderful day.

Also, every other day is also Transphobes are Trash Day, I forgot to mention that.
January 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
When I was a freelance BBC science presenter, I wrote in support of Professor Dorothy Bishop and was then told I should not be critical of the Royal Society. Now I’ve resigned, so I can say I think @profrachelgan.bsky.social is making an important point here.
profrachelgan.bsky.social Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social · 18d
Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
Dear Sir Paul, Re: Royal Society Code of Conduct I am sure that many scientists have written to you about the specific question of Elon Musk’s Fellowship and whether, under the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct, his retaining that Fellowship is appropriate. I will not rehash these issues. Instead, as a female scientist with extensive experience of activities aiming to increase equality, diversity and inclusion in the engineering and physical sciences sector, I am writing to you (in a personal capacity) to ask you to reconsider the statements you have recently made in this context to the UK press about the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct and how it is applied. A 2018 report from the joint National Academies of the United States of America, concluded that “sexual harassment is common in academic science, engineering, and medicine” and that “greater than 50 percent of women faculty and staff and 20–50 percent of women students encounter or experience sexually harassing conduct in academia”. This report described codes of conduct that make clear that sexual harassment is unethical and will not be tolerated as a “powerful incentive for change”. The authors also noted that sexual harassment can have significant and damaging effects on the integrity of research. In my own praxis, I have found that clear and consistently-implemented codes of conduct that address these issues make female scientists and engineers safer, and allow them to focus more effectively on their research. For codes of conduct to have such a positive effect, it is vital that sanctions for actions which transgress the code are meaningful and substantial. I was hence aghast to realise that in an interview with the Financial Times published on 9/1/26, you appear to have suggested that the Royal Society “should only expel fellows if their science proved “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective””. Moreover, in a further interview with the Guardian on 11/1/26 you suggested that the code “may need to be looked at again”, with the implication that your aim would be to remove the option of sanctions on Fellows for reasons not strictly related to faults or defects in their research. I suggest that changing the Royal Society’s code of conduct so that the likelihood of serious sanctions for sexual harassment is reduced, would directly endanger women who interact with the Royal Society at events or otherwise, and would provide a licence to harass to the already powerful people on whom the Society bestows fellowship. The implications of your words - that under your leadership the only infringements of the code which are likely to receive the sanction of the Fellowship being removed are those related to research misconduct - already risk empowering harassers. You stated, in the Financial Times interview, that “there’s many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances”. Given this awareness of the possibility of bad actors in our scientific community, it is wholly irresponsible to suggest that the Royal Society would not act to sanction these people if they harass more vulnerable scientists. I am hence writing to request that you retract any suggestion that the Society’s Code of Conduct should be changed so that the only reason a Fellow might be sanctioned by the removal of their Fellowship is “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective” research. This action is necessary to safeguard female scientists, a requirement placed on the Society by safeguarding legislation and UK statutory guidance. Yours sincerely, Professor Rachel A. Oliver.
January 14, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Each day they seem to wear their hatred and fear of women in ever brighter colours - why don’t they just say “some women do not obey and they must face the consequences”
mmfa.bsky.social Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 17d
Fox News' Will Cain: “There's a weird kind of smugness... in the way that some of these liberal white women interact with authority”
January 14, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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authorwinifred.blacksky.app
"The baby was released to her family. Her grandmother says she had a bruised cheek, but is otherwise OK."

A 1 yo with a bruised cheek is NOT ok. Not because she's incapable of giving herself that bruise, but because she was alone with amoral strangers and has no way of communicating her experience.
January 13, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
Someone said to me "I'm not sure we are a democracy any more"

I think it's the stupidest thing I have ever heard

When the richest control all the Media, when they can bribe the politicians as much as they like and they own almost everything you buy

What democracy can there be?
January 14, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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declassifieduk.org
🚨BREAKING -- Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems has been denied a £2bn contract with the Ministry of Defence after being accused of "breaching business appointment rules".
January 14, 2026 at 9:01 AM
pigeonpoppets.bsky.social
This reveals as much about the investigator as it does the person being investigated. This is a huge effort to prove that "someone on the internet is wrong". And is putting it mildly, unhinged. Not a shred of awareness that the guy might be rattled by the attention & not in a rational state of mind
ladyemily.nebula.tv Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 19d
Kinda surprised to see so many people uncritically sharing this story in which
- non gay bar in Salt Lake City hosts a Heated Rivalry watch party on a random Thursday, two weeks after the season finale
- there’s somehow only one man in this non gay bar on this random Thursday night for this party
Screenshot of Bluesky post The latest HR nonsense: A gay man in Utah attends a watch party for the gay hockey show wearing a "Gay AF" t-shirt & is forced to leave the bar because multiple women complained to management about the presence of a man who they feared might get turned on by the TV show. Screenshot of Threads thread from tragic glitter which reads Went to a watch party at a local bar last night, *not a gay bar. I was the only male there. I sat in the back, watched and just kept to myself. Said hi to a couple people when I ordered. I was asked by the staff to leave after episode 2 because my presence was making the women uncomfortable. I asked them, very calmly, quietly and politely. I asked if I did anything wrong? 1/5 Bartender was so kind and said "not at all". I asked if I was disturbing anyone. She said no, and apologized over and over. They had 6+ people ask to speak to the manager. Because a guy is here and afraid I was going to be turned on, one said. Another I was there to watch people get turned on. I was wearing a black t shirt that said "GAY AF" on the front. I stated, but "I'm gay, this is a queer story and I wanted to share this experience with ally's." 2/5 At this point, the entire room was staring at me. They paused the show. I work from home, I live in Utah and my circle is VERY small since moving here. I was hoping to meet some new friends. Talk book vs show with some folks. Hear a different perspective on the story. I collected bag <-- a Marc Jacobs Tote bag. OBVI, gay. Grabbed my book and paid my tab, tipped the kind staff. As I'm walking out the door, the room clapped. Then the show resumed... 3/5 I don't know how to feel about it. I'm friendly, I'm a book guy. I get along with everyone. I don't understand how my presence was threatening or uncomfortable. I didn't read the book or love the show because of the smut. I love it because it was a realistic love story. A love story I NEVER see in tv shows. I lived through being caught and outed. I live every single day hiding who I am at work. I call my husband my Partner or Significant other. Because Utah.... 4/5 The 1 place I thought i could be authentically me. I was ejected from. Thank you to everyone on Threads who has not treated me differently. I know that most of the fandom identify or live a life very different from mine. What really has my head spinning. Why read a book or obsess over a tv show featuring two gay men, then in real life treat them like monsters. This show and book is healing a lot of my community. Only to be shown the outside world is still very much the NHL. Don't be the NHL 5/5
January 14, 2026 at 1:02 AM
pigeonpoppets.bsky.social
It feels like basing my head against a wall, my post wasn't misogynistic or unreasonable. I pushed for more consideration of people who are LGBTQ+ & affected by cishet appropriation. And sure some consideration for a guy who I don't know, but wonder if all this attention, is running into the ground
pigeonpoppets.bsky.social Mike J @pigeonpoppets.bsky.social · 17d
I've was called a misogynist & mis-identified because your followers mental model of an "intersex gay guy advocating for people who are affected by the story" is to assume cishet and misogynist, it's essentialism, there are issues in queer spaces with cishet appropriation, fetishisation & exclusion
January 13, 2026 at 9:45 PM
pigeonpoppets.bsky.social
This is kind of unhinged, the story may be real, or it may not be. But this level of digging reminds me of the Coldplay affair, where everyone decided it was their moral duty to investigate in granular detail and post it everywhere. I get this might be for content, but it's still creepy af
January 13, 2026 at 5:46 PM