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I'm sorry - that's really rubbish. I wish there was a way of undoing the harm.

Was about to comment with the same

I remember that post religion fear that I was being punished... it's horrible. If there's a god of any kind though, I'm certain that god would love who you are.

Fairly sure I'm one of the two?!

Beautiful!

Will be rustling up a batch at the weekend now!

The Church of England is still treating gay people as second-class citizens Bishops voted 34-0 to block gay couples from being blessed in standalone ceremonies. At what point do we call this discrimination?

“And this debate is, I think, less about gay people than it is about who gets to hold that power.”
@arusbridger.bsky.social writes about the scandal that is the collapse of LLF.
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Can you manifest a few more arrests please?

And want to distract us from other, even more distressing (for them) events.

I think we could argue for the "wrong side" being the one where a decision was made not to broadcast the vocal support for Palestine but to fully broadcast the n word. That was a choice. And not a good one.

Don't get our hopes up!

Yes, I can see how it would struggle to even look average, it really is stunning.

Grey clouds, hillside in the background. In the foreground is the ruins of a large abbey, with gravestones like tiny shapes in the foreground. It's all quite atmospheric.

Visiting youngest offspring and it turns out Bolton Abbey looks great on a drizzly February afternoon

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Not all my (adult) kids are cis. But when I found that out it didn't change anything about the actual person I loved. They were the same person as the day before, I just knew more about them. I don't get why some parents are so hung up on the gender of their child.

That could be something positive!

Quite

Same. It's not a moral dilemma for me. I want to hear something that reflects the idiosyncrasies and the humanity of the person delivering the message.

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It's classic DARVO tactics and I'm so tired of it.

Even that's not great for blood pressure 😥

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

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Agreed @andreaegangs.bsky.social

New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

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Does that mean we need to brace ourselves for Wes Streeting? I'm not sure I'm ready for this level of revulsion.

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On the subject of funny, that selection of films he gifts his grandchild!!

Absolutely loved this film.