Is there anything that says 'the country is in the hands of fascists' quite so much as a public execution?
Helen Belcher
@helenbelcherobe.bsky.social
Former Lib Dem parliamentary candidate, current Lib Dem councillor, head of TransActual, Leveson witness, former company founder, looking for a quieter life.
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Reminder that "biological sex" is not a thing that exists. It is a legal fiction in every place that refers to it. In the UK, in the equality act, it means "the sex that was written on your original birth certificate." Incidentally, it doesn't matter if that's due to a clerical error.
‘We were horrified’: parents heartbroken as baby girl registered as male
Parents told Nottinghamshire registrar’s error on birth certificate cannot be changed
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Reform have conducted an independent inquiry and announced they won the Holborn and St Pancras byelection.
What is the rate of “false” diagnosis? What is the actual harm done? Especially when the main intervention is “understanding and reasonable adjustments”? Or is this just the transphobic moral panic collecting another set of victims?
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
Kemi Badenoch: "I don't understand why all of a sudden, some people are policing other people's identity? I think identity is something very personal" Less than a minute later: "Men are men, and women are women, I'm very strict on that"
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d agoHonestly her brain should be studied. Why is she incapable of going 'this nuts politician has said something nutty and vile?'
If you're a politician, journalist, lawyer, artist, medic or social services or civil servant and you follow me, then this is the one thing I ask you to read. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.
It really sets in stark relief the asymmetry of coverage of the "debate" over trans and women's rights across our media. On the GC side court losses are reported as wins, racism is glossed over and hate is endlessly sane-washed. Meanwhile successes on the pro-trans side are met with silence or lies.
From computing history, blaming “rogue” AI’s is B.S. Robert Morris Jr unleashed a worm program that caused more trouble than intended, but far less dangerous than current AI’s. *He* (not worm) was convicted of felony. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_... I used to see him at Bell Labs w/ his father.
Morris worm - Wikipedia
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Absolutely this. We don't expect car or aeroplane manufacturers to be completely absolved from their product failures. About time some of these companies were prosecuted for criminal damage.
David Allsopp@doublehelix.bsky.social · 2w agoEvery time an AI company says: "Our hacking agents escaped containment, went rogue and hacked an innocent website" we should substitute the words to make clear where legal responsibility ought to lie: e.g: "Our lions escaped from our (unlocked) zoo cage, went rogue and ate someone"
The second attack in two weeks on an LGBT+ bookshop in Glasgow. STV posted this story on Facebook and there is an endless stream of comments underneath suggesting the answer is for them to stop using the word "queer", stop supporting trans rights, and stop being so visible. Mainstreamed hate.
Queer bookshop vandalised again two weeks after targeted attack
Category Is Books in Govanhill has been targeted twice within two weeks
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Congress Rapporteur on LGBTI rights @helenbelcherobe.bsky.social welcomes the adoption of the Council of Europe’s first Strategy for Equal Rights for LGBTI People 2027-2032 “In this regard, read also my latest statement on the situation of LGBTI rights in Türkiye." 👉 go.coe.int/LoId5
The BBC has long given up even pretending to be interested in who these people are, why they are coming or how they might feel, in favour of acting as a kind of shop window for the parties to display their wares of violence and cruelty
Most migrant small boat arrivals in single day of 2026
A total of 781 migrants arrive on Wednesday, but the yearly total is below the same point in 2025.
bbc.co.uk
You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.
Plain speaking with a touch of humour (delivered straight faced) is sometimes the way to go Give that man a 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@maxbrockbank.com · 2w agoBloody French, saying what we're all thinking ...
If the BBC are going to remove 11 sketches from That Mitchell and Webb Look on iPlayer because ‘the comedy doesn’t work in 2026,’ can they please remove Mrs. Brown’s Boys too because ‘the comedy has never worked'
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
Let’s be clear here. Anyone saying we should throw trans rights under the bus in order to protect *their* rights from Nigel Farrage is *not* a Liberal. They are a coward.
LGBT Lib Dems Chair Lucas North speaking out for trans rights!
You’ve never seen a cat so clearly roll its eyes. Original post
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I'm working on a joke about quantum mechanics. I know where it should go but no idea how it gets there.
Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 3w agoI have a joke about myelin, but it just gets on people's nerves
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