Andy

Yup - 1 trans family member. My stepson. His brother. My 2 kids+ex wife, daughter’s husband, me & my wife. I grandparent. His father and 4 siblings, my wife’s 3 siblings and two partners. 4 cousins. 2 of my wife’s cousins. One of my brothers at least.

25 lost Labour votes, if I’ve added correctly.

When I've been out and about, I've never had a trans person approach me to try and turn me trans. I've never had a Muslim try to convert me.
I have had Christians invade my space and shove leaflets into my handbag or my hand. They can't take no for an answer. Only one type of indoctrination here.

I Left Academia to Work in a Pub Because I’m Working-Class When you grow up working-class you learn quickly that the majority of middle-class society has nothing but contempt for you. Usually, it comes from your first experiences within education, or a soc…

A few years old now - but this explains a bit about my terrible experience in academia as a working class person

I Left Academia to Work in a Pub Because I’m Working-Class woman

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Childhood Lived Experience of the Heroin and HIV/AIDS Epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s in the UK Trigger Warning Some of the issues discussed in this article may feel difficult to read or might cause strong or upsetting feelings. Please only continue reading if you feel safe to. Links to helpf…

Longer more recent piece. After leaving academia it took me a long time to start writing again. But I have started again.

Please note, I'm also dyslexic, had a disrupted schooling experience, left school at 16 years of age.

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Back at you. I have half a face on this one. 👍🏼

@drjennyathatcher.bsky.social Hi from me from the other place.

And Streeting is coming over all conscience-stricken about genocide ….

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.

It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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And at the same time, running down the NHS so we humans pay more for our own treatment. To stay in work, we’ve had to pay for various treatments as waiting lists are too long.

And they’ve done the same to you now 🙄 I’m sure it’s deliberate for leftist people outspoken on various issues…

I was just going to go into the office next week. I usually work at home. Does that qualify as normiemaxxing?

Times: Once again, the hard left is wrong on lran Jeremy Corbyn and his allies regard the regime, like the ailing Soviet Union, as a bulwark against capitalist imperialism

Every time this paper gets up on its high horse about how The Hard Left Is Wrong About Country (x), you can be sure that Country (x) is now in the crosshairs to get fucked up, wrecked collapsed into chaos and then its citizens left to fend for themselves an a Mad Max warlord nightmare.

Yup - EHRC using AI to ignore consultation responses from trans people is good.

W.Mids police using it to protect people from rampaging MTA thugs is bad.

Even the Terfs dislike him and he’s done more to harm trans people than any U.K. politician so far.

Ooh thanks for that - something to look up this evening - quick scan looks interesting 👍🏼

The thing about this place is the blocking function works so it’s hard to get annoyed with people…. As someone whose politics were forged in the late 1960s, I do need hostile actors in my life…. I should grow up….

I’m determined to last as long as I can on the other place, if only not to be cowed.

@joaestheticjustice.bsky.social Hi found - me without a cat profile picture.

I vaguely remember starter packs when I first signed up. Not sure what they were though…

@shabnamagram.bsky.social Trying this as X hate me. Need warning light content.

@petergates.bsky.social Dipping my toe back in the water. No cats this time.

Yup - cut off from the old place again. Regards to Rusty.

Following here with an actual face rather than a cat

There’s always a Tweet.

Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnoses The health secretary says the aim is to tackle a rising demand for services and pressure on the NHS.

Boycott - No one should cooperate with this review. The aim will be to deny and delegitimise neurodiversity and reduce costs. There is money, should they choose to collect it.

Canary in the mine:
Just reflect on what they’ve done to Trans kids post Cass.

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Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

In my Inbox this morning. Are there UK based builders and infrastructure engineers we didn’t notice in the 2021 Census?
@samfr.bsky.social

HM Government

Chancellor takes on the blockers to get Britain building.
Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English.

Great piece, but good grief. I didn’t know what had happened.

I said one force covering the MP district. Have you any idea how to read?

How many exposés of the Met do we need? It needs to be broken up and restructured. City of London should take over Westminster, and Thames Valley, Surrey, Kent, Herts and Essex should take the rest of Greater London. Use the restructuring to lose the bad apples/orchards.