Izzy Kamikaze
@izzykamikaze.bsky.social
Just another refugee from That Other Place.
Hi, coming out of hibernation to say that as a trans woman living in england, as of today, I have been forced out of pretty much any shared space like gyms, swimming pools etc, and the papers are saying it isn't going far enough. Check in with your british trans friends. You might just save a life.
BASH BACK@bashback.bsky.social · 12h agoWe will not comply with the EHRC 'guidance', and neither should you. Take action for trans liberation.
🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇
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These principles are persuasive in *some* court rooms, and that's useful to people who have had their rights violated, *sometimes*, when they are able to get a hearing and get the court to accept the principle is in question and the violation happened in a jurisdiction that accepted the principle.
The only reason it continues to remain relevant is because people subjected to ongoing medical injustices appeal to a principle that's been established, and importantly they fucking kick off and make a stink about the violation of that principle.
People kicked off about medical trials on non consenting research subjects and eventually we won the helsinki declaration on medical ethics. There's no cop in the world in charge of enforcing the helsinki declaration. It's just a formalisation of the idea that you need medical consent for research.
The nature of human rights is that they are rarely upheld, and always need defending. We have them to the degree to which we are able to back up the demand for enforcing them, and when we fall short of that no matter what the law says on paper, it doesn't happen in reality. That's basic.
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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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."
Read the Facebook comments written by Sandie Peggie, the transphobic & racist nurse currently being championed by TERFs. Then ask yourself: if you were a person with Pakistani heritage and you were in hospital, would you feel happy & confident being looked after by this woman?
6/ It’s quite fascinating that despite the defendant not saying the claimant are conversion therapists and competitors the court still reached a similar conclusion simply because the claim is too bizarre.
5/ I can see they attempted to circumvent this by playing the (imaginary) victim, and it might just be a coincidence that this narrative aligns perfectly with their ideological position. However, at a more fundamental level, these conversion therapists are competitors to puberty blocking treatments
3/ The presumption referred to in the judgment is statutory. This is very much analogous to a scenario where someone opposes planning permission, but somehow argues that the developer will regret building a house and therefore interim relief should be granted.
2/ It is a very strong finding of fact, and it has to do with whether someone can pretend to be acting in the interests of another party while clearly acting against them. The Court of Appeal would not interfere with it.
1/🧵 Apparently, the hate groups and conversion therapists will not appeal the PATHWAYS. I wonder if it has something to do with the point in the quoted post.
Ashleeee 🌊🪭@reactiveashley.cat · 4d agoIt is implied in the claimant’s argument that the interests of third-party trans kids and their own are indistinguishable, because trans kids do not exist and everyone will soon be Keira Bell. This is perhaps too bizarre for the court to examine at length. 🤭
Here's something practical you can do to support kids in Gaza. 🇵🇸🇮🇪
Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · 2d agoWe’ve just rented a projector so the kids can watch some films over August and we’re trying to source and buy treats and snacks. Ionad Hind Rajab is about more than education. It’s about getting back a little bit of childhood. 👇
It's worth reading both the thread and the comments. 👇
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d agoThe new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4
I see the “protect women” crowd are busy eulogising a man who at age 45 assaulted his 23 year old girlfriend when she was 20 weeks pregnant
The TUV are the biggest supporters of the NI WRN, who teamed up with Sex Matters, that caused all that Feile nonsense
We’ve just rented a projector so the kids can watch some films over August and we’re trying to source and buy treats and snacks. Ionad Hind Rajab is about more than education. It’s about getting back a little bit of childhood. 👇
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2d agoAn Irish artist has helped establish a children's centre in Gaza that provides food, education and psychosocial support to children displaced by the war. Adam Doyle, better known as Spicebag, tells us why he helped create Ionad Hind Rajab. jrnl.ie/7117887
🧵 FIRST THOUGHT OF THE DAY… The hate-group Sex Matters (@sexmattersuk.bsky.social) insert themselves at every opportunity to impose their “morality” on society. To nosey-parker into what other people & organisations do… They are no different to the religious police in places like Saudi Arabia.
BREAKING: The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.
Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.
This country was persecuting people for speaking their own languages (languages of this fucking island!!) in living memory, while people who had their languages taken were sent off to colonise others. Fuck Nazis, fuck fascism, fuck its weird death grasp on "folk" forms.
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Strange not a single defender has been able to post what they think are "witty" Liddle's best quotes. Almost as if in the cold light of day, they are just the bigoted rantings of an boorish alcoholic paid by Murdoch to punch down on the weak. Like Rush Limbaugh, he'll be all but forgotten.
He championed so many reprehensible policy positions in his writing, he was rampantly racist. This is the wages in death of a man who wanted to make the world unsafe for others, like Charlie Kirk and Ann Widdecombe, they used their positions to target the most vulnerable.
It's no surprise I disagreed with his opinions, but he was actually that bad at writing that it was painfully clear that anyone who liked his work simply agreed with those opinions - or hated the people they'd annoy - and thus found it perfectly delicious someone had finally typed them up.
Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.
What more fitting way to remember Rod Liddle’s life and work than by making nasty jokes about someone who can’t answer back
