I call this out when other parties do it and I'm going to call it out when mine does. Dishonesty fundamentally undermines democracy.
Gary Dunion 🍉
@garydunion.bsky.social
Socialist, ADHD, slightly Italian. he/him. @garydunion everywhere
"Did you know there's a man inside the Binface costume?!!" is the silliest establishment crash-out since "Hannah Spencer said we shouldn't be drunk at work"
I watched Disclosure Day and it was bad, and then I watched Scotland v Morocco and it was also bad
Thoughts from my Citizens Advice Bureau shift this morning: I hate immigration controls for making people so vulnerable. It's so easy to threaten someone with getting them deported if they don't do what you want.
For the avoidance of doubt, following the publication of the explicitly transphobic Scottish Labour manifesto this morning, I will not be campaigning for any Scottish Labour candidates in the upcoming election, and I will not be voting Scottish Labour either. #NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow
Scottish Labour Against Bigotry@slabcampaign.bsky.social · 4mo agoAt Scottish Labour Conference in Feb 2025, a leadership-backed motion to adopt a transphobic policy on single-sex spaces in schools was defeated. Party members and affiliates voted it down. Today Scottish Labour's leadership put that transphobic policy into its manifesto for May's election anyway.
![Facebook post by Kevin Dunion:
Over the years my very rules have brought me into contact with many prominent individuals. Many are impressive - others less so. When I was Scottish Information Commissioner, at an event in Buckingham Palace, I found myself in conversation with a truculent Prince Andrew (as was). He bridled that the very existence of FoI laws saying [highlighted] "People have already got as much information as they need. What more could be possibly want?" [end highlight] Let us say, we did not part on good terms. After recent revelations, chickens and roosts come to mind.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kaxftga2bqmwprjttffwtt4u/bafkreifkrnf7eqaf6s2joeifdw2lwmarbbh3gy5gv75kss7ztwrkzgxy3m)
A major drag on our politics is that people who aren't in poverty comfort themselves by simply refusing to believe poverty exists.
This is what you sound like when you say we have to have draconian border policing otherwise "everyone would come here"
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
Donald Trump's colonisation of Venezuela is so nakedly evil I don't really know how to react.
If you have ever claimed to be concerned about "Muslim grooming gangs" and don't want Shamima Begum rescued and brought home after being trafficked by one of the biggest grooming gangs in the world, you are completely full of shit.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 7mo agoShamima Begum: Home secretary to 'robustly defend' citizenship decision
I think I've run out of my meds or possibly I just lost them but last night I dreamt that a lizard regurgitated a centipede and I feel the need to report this omen to Caesar's soothsayers immediately
The party when it finally happens is going to make Thatcher's death look like World Seagrass Day. Rob Reiner was a genius and, moreover, a thoroughly good man. (No offence intended to seagrass.)
Sharpies and black mould or, as it's known on the street, a Hogwarts Speedball
They're openly telling us in advance what's going to happen
You heard it here: if you're not a "high earner" you're not contributing to society. These people really do hate the working class to their very bones.
H.P. Lovecraft would be a good name for a manufacturer of tentacle-themed sex toys.
Hedgehogs are more closely related to whales than they are to rodents. Is a thing I just learned by looking at phylogeny diagrams at 2am.
I can excuse supplying weapons to a genocide but I draw the line at a trans person using the bathroom in peace. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Engineer's dignity 'may have been violated' in toilet incident, tribunal hears
Maria Kelly has taken legal action against Leonardo UK alleging harassment and discrimination after seeing a transgender colleague using female toilets.
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