Sam
@irishwol.bsky.social
Escaped from the rubble of Twitter. Feminist, recovering medievalist, LGBT+activist, loves her family, animals and art. She/her
Reposting.
Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 8h agoThe govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings.
Folks from the Women's March have been arrested at the Capitol for protesting ICE. Shout out to the women who are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to get their message out: ABOLISH ICE.
NEW | Since the Telegraph decided to use my name in vain… FROM A LEFT-WING AGITATOR WITH A BOOK TO FLOG brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/from-a-lef...
From a Left-Wing agitator with a book to flog
This edition is a bit meta. Consider it a sequel to yesterday's Rod Liddle obituary.
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Good Law Project are supporting a legal challenge against this transphobic code of practice. Please join our fight back 👇 goodlaw.social/n8fy
Fight back against the code of practice
The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us
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Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 16h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
In Dec 2024, Mazraoui refused to use a Man Utd jacket with support to the LGBT cause because it was against his religion. Today, Man Utd has announced a partnership with a betting company & yes, he was seen wearing a shirt with the sponsor on it So just a raging homophobe hiding behind religion
Mazraoui recusou-se e jogadores do United não usaram casaco de apoio à causa LGBT
Campanha da Premier League envolta em polémica
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I will never let anyone framing transphobia as "the trans debate." go unchallenged and neither should you. The thing about debates is they start with a question, like "the trans question". Questions tend to demand solutions, usually final ones. We've seen this shit before.
If anyone is wondering, I don't use generative AI. It offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy as research. The environmental impact is appalling and the companies who developed it stole copyright intellectual property knowing that is illegal. GenAI is dishonest at every level.
No country that arrested librarians and booksellers was on the right side of history. But that's what's happening in Arkansas. And this is where your whole country is headed with H.R 7661 and S 4925. Via @everylibrary.bsky.social action.everylibrary.org/arkansasact372
Arresting Librarians AND Booksellers in the United States
History has shown that arresting librarians and booksellers has never led to greater freedom or liberty.
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Worth remembering how mind-bogglingly recent the Magdalene Laundries were. The last one closed down on 25th September 1996, which means the Magdalene system outlived Tupac by two weeks.
Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin@miseryvulture.bsky.social · 18h agoThe last Magdalene laundry closed in my lifetime. Homosexuality was decriminalised in Ireland in my lifetime. Access to condoms without a prescription in Ireland only came in 1985. We repealed the 8th. There's a lot of ways in which Ireland is still bad, but it is an entirely different country.
When they said “there will be no toilet police” they were always just saying so we need You 🫵 to be a toilet vigilante and sniff out the gender deviants
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18h agoThis is what they expected and wanted to happen: that members of the public, shown the cops would take their side if they kicked off and went mental at anyone they suspected of being a transgender, would then start going apeshit en masse and enforce their wacko ideas for them.
Happy segregation day everyone. I have no doubt this government (and Starmer) will eventually be remembered for their awful human rights abuses. Take care if you’re out and about today - there will be GCs around actively looking to ruin our day. Hopefully they’ll end up targeting each other! 🤞
This is what they expected and wanted to happen: that members of the public, shown the cops would take their side if they kicked off and went mental at anyone they suspected of being a transgender, would then start going apeshit en masse and enforce their wacko ideas for them.
EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.
Did you see how Apple, Amazon Walmart and other big companies are refunding the billions of dollars they got back from the federal tariff settlement to their customers, who ultimately bore the cost of higher prices? Yea, me neither.
Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
"This presents a problem for the right: If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them." defector.com/the-right-ha...
The Right Has Created Its Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector
A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN p...
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Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
LPGA policy pre Trump was that for trans women to participate they not only needed to be on HRT with documentation of suppression of testosterone for *years* they also needed to undergo surgery to be approved. Knock it off with this straw man shit.
Minneapolis is better in summer@nicksb.bsky.social · 2d ago🙄. If Scottie Scheffler held a press conference tomorrow and said my whole life has been a lie, I’ve started HRT and I’m going to compete in LPGA tournaments from now on, that is transparently absurd. And defending his (or her) “right” to do it is insane.
This is what an actual *hero* of Irish music looks like:
It's so infuriating that the same media who constantly & incessantly lie about my community, who say we are a threat to other women & children, try ban us from toilets, sports & healthcare, will simultaneously & shamelessly eulogise a bunch of dead nonces & misogynists while silencing their victims.
I’m going to shut up about him after this because I’m as sick of hearing about him as everyone else, but: I think it’s important to understand that the media wagon-circling around someone like liddle is the reason saville et al were able to get away with horrendous acts of abuse for decades
We see that, unfortunately, Russia is regaining its positions in international sports organizations, while not stopping the war and the killings, - Zelenskyy.
Not a word about verifying the gender of boys... this is little girl specific. Child sexual abuse on a state level 'Surefire method' for destroying girls' sports seen in bill targeting kindergartners www.rawstory.com/project-2025...
'Surefire method' for destroying girls' sports seen in bill targeting kindergartners
A Washington State ballot measure that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before taking part in sports provoked nationwide outrage.IL26-638 w...
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I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
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