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No organisation existing solely to eliminate trans people should be a charity. #DeregisterSexMatters

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Ministers reject Waspi calls for compensation after rethink Women hit by changes to the state pension age say the decision shows

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Any GC's up in arms about this travesty of justice?

Publishing for Minnesota Silent auction 'Publishing for Minnesota' hosted online at 32auctions.

Some very cool writerly items in this publishing-organized auction to benefit organizations in Minnesota, including Immigrant Law Ctr of Minnesota and Dios Habla Hoy Church food distribution. Auction runs Jan. 28-30 www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

the weirdest thing, once you start seeing it, is homan et al talking about this as an army fighting against an enemy, when the enemy is the people the government is supposed to be representing

YouTube video by NBC10 Philadelphia Philly DA vows to prosecute ‘wannabe Nazi' ICE agents who violate the law

"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States."

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"There are no poor countries. Only exploited ones."
~Michael Parenti

Sally Rooney, Intermezzo (Faber & Faber, 2024)

Trump’s Behavior Isn’t Dementia. It’s Much Worse. In October 2024, Donald Trump spent twelve minutes at a Pennsylvania rally discussing Arnold Palmer’s genitalia.

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Joseph Quinn looks more like John Frusciante than George Harrison, but I'm sure he'll play the part fine. The rest are spot on.

First official look at Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Barry Keoghan and Joseph Quinn in the upcoming biopic films for 'The Beatles'

Releasing in 2028

Greens eye up Manchester byelection as Labour support unravels

Labour vote is collapsing in Gorton and Denton.

Only Greens can take on Reform at this election.

We will be announcing our candidate tomorrow morning!

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The Christmas tree is long gone, the lights are down, the garland is put away, but the Cranberries still Linger.

Hey listen, if you pretend Rob Schneider was an actual teenager when he played one in Surf Ninjas (1993)...

...There would still be a questionable age gap

this is sending me

So the government shutdown doesn't affect the ICE thugs? Then we have no government. ABOLISH ICE and throw the trash administration in the dumpster.

Bought my sister and her girlfriend a heated throw for Christmas. Sis texted earlier to say the power cable on it has malfunctioned and it isn't turning on despite everything being plugged in fully. Not impressed.

There's a surprise 🙄

Totally agree Hannah we should have this in Scotland, the obstacle is Westminster though.

I can confirm that Sex Matters has been refused permission to bring its anti-democratic, exclusionary, and bigoted challenge to the inclusive space at Hampstead Ponds. More to follow.

Sex Matters v City of London/Hampstead Heath judicial review full judgment.

Permission REFUSED.

www.judiciary.uk/judgments/se...

UK anti-trans journalism is the twisted baby of UK anti-vax journalism and UK anti-gay journalism, with a sprinkling of tactics from UK anti-immigrant and UK anti-traveller journalism

I miss when they used to be good.

Also the pizza was pish

GenAI tools mostly seem to be a way of outsourcing all the interesting and creative bits of a task to an annoying interface so you can crack on with the tedious and fiddly bits and like...why would I ever want to do that?

The world is so needlessly cruel to trans women and for what? What did we do to fucking deserve this?

This correlates pretty strongly with what I was seeing in local Facebook groups. There's a sizeable wedge of Reform and an overwhelming wave of green.