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@futurestand.bsky.social

Environmental socialist, anti-racist, singer, feminist, teacher, optimist. Art, theatre, museums, gigs, birds, natural history.

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Why is it only women that have to compromise?

This was at the NEC Birmingham at The Great British Beer Festival

10.08.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Ukrainian soldier has returned home after spending over 3 years in russian captivity. He was one of the defenders who heroically held the defense of Mariupol. Now he has finally embraced his daughter❀️

10.08.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 329    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

The simple point is that predators always go where the prey is and get into positions where their authority isn’t challenged. In the 1960s they would play the long game and train as eg teachers or priests. Now that game is up, and the new β€˜holy’ men are eg Pride leaders, trans experts etc.

11.08.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pornographic Taylor Swift deepfakes generated by Musk's Grok AI Grok Imagine's

"This is not misogyny by accident, it is by design"
My comment on the latest example of AI tech being released without a care about its adverse uses and impacts, particularly on women and girls.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

09.08.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In 1949, Superman told schoolchildren β€œour country is made up of Americans of MANY different races, religions and national origins. So…

β€œβ€¦if YOU hear anybody talk against anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin β€” don’t wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.”

10.08.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8189    πŸ” 3042    πŸ’¬ 240    πŸ“Œ 149

No, I’m not. I wish I were. She’s a former friend and previously longtime Labour Party member who gradually went off the rails with the Corbyn worship because she got so sucked into Momentum’s purity spiral. She eventually royally pissed off many people she knew with her behaviour. Sad.

10.08.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wish people would read this to understand why PA is not the cuddly, fluffy organisation so many seem to think it is. I abhor what Netanyahu and the IDF are doing in Gaza but PA and demonstrations like yesterday's will not help. I choose to support MSF, Oxfam and those on the ground.

10.08.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Intellectualist

β€œThe ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”

― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

10.08.2025 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The kindness of strangers: sobbing in a rack of bras, a grandmotherly shop assistant soothed me Two months after my single mastectomy, I felt sore, sad and scarred. Looking for a suitable bra, I became completely overwhelmed

A really lovely story of a woman supporting another woman - post-cancer - in a bra department. This is the authentic experience of sisterhood, how we really are with each other when one of us is vulnerable, and what we can give to and receive from each other.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

10.08.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I totally agree. I knew a Corbynista who said - during Johnson’s time as PM - that it would be better to have 50 years of Tories rather than what she called an β€œimpure” Labour govt. F*ck off.

10.08.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It is 100 days since Reform took control of ten councils. In that time they have taken down one flag, refused diversity training, put a 19 year old in charge of a Β£2bn council and created a 'DOLGE' group that made false claims and achieved fuck all.

10.08.2025 08:08 β€” πŸ‘ 934    πŸ” 250    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 7

Because it needs repeating - children are far more at risk from men they know, whether relatives, coaches, teachers, etc.

10.08.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Cornish chough vanished in 1973.

Gone from the cliffs. Gone from the skies.

Then in 2001 – 3 returned.

Now in 2025? 300+ wild choughs call Cornwall home again.

A local legend reborn. A real-world comeback. 🐦πŸ”₯

#CornishChough #CornwallWildlife

08.08.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4

Oh I’m SO lazy, keeping up with responses to a men’s rights activist such as yourself. The thing is that you’ve shown yourself up in your discourse. You people don’t seem to realise (though we’ve said it time and again) that you make our points so brilliantly for us.
Ciao for now!

08.08.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Don’t be ridiculous. You’re just evading the point about this being a men’s rights movement.

08.08.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Bought? The vast majority of the legal cases to restore women’s rights have been crowdfunded, with thousands of people - mostly women - donating an average of Β£20 each. Many donating Β£5 or Β£10. Do YOU think access to justice should not be available for ordinary women?

08.08.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The law courts are showing time and time again that the β€œshit opinions” are yours. Your sort is led by men who love to transgress boundaries, supported by men who want to put women down. It’s all about the men. And you follow these kind of people? Shame on you.

08.08.2025 07:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

You people think with your bullying you can somehow stop actors from working on a children’s story, written by a woman who stands up endlessly for women and children? Whose knowledge is being proved right over and over in the law courts? Bullying is all you have. It’s pathetic.

08.08.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Michelle Gomez is a) a brilliant actress and b) free to take any work that she pleases. Militant trans activists should stop their bullying.

07.08.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! It’s really sad he’s had to quit this site, but thankfully articles such as this are widely available.

07.08.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sandie Peggie and the struggle for single-sex spaces | Michael Foran | The Critic Magazine One of the most high-profile employment tribunal cases of this century finished hearing evidence this week. The case, brought by nurse Sandie Peggie against NHS Fife and Dr Beth Upton…

A very good summary of the case in Scotland thecritic.co.uk/sandie-peggi...

07.08.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Transgender paedophile used female name to breach court order Luke Hardy, 24, committed offence by using name β€˜Zoe’ on dating app without telling police

For all the pronoun people saying it’s only polite and doesn’t harm anyone. High-risk sex offender uses female identity on dating site to breach sexual harm prevention order. He was referred to as β€˜she’ in court.
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/24e30fe...

06.08.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The experience of the vast majority of the women on this planet is that as a teenager they got creeped on by (at least one) adult male stranger - just a great β€˜welcome to the adult world’.

To not know/care about this is one massive self-own. Being female involves much more than β€˜feeling’ like one

06.08.2025 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shouting at Hotels Monthly
Available now at all disreputable outlets
#FarageRiots #ReformUK

05.08.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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t.co/keaiZzNeiJ
How do we live in a world where a trans identifying male feels entitled to do this. Who thinks this is a good thing?

05.08.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4

Oh stop being so faux-ingenuous. You and everyone else knows exactly why a certain type of man would be thrilled to approach a teenage girl to ask about her bra size etc.

06.08.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’”πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Mykyta, Sofiya, and their 2‑year‑old son were killed in a russian strike on Kyiv on July 31. They were only 23.

πŸ™ They had fled Sloviansk, rented an apartment in the capital β€” but a missile directly hit their building. Sofiya was pregnant with their second child.

02.08.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 305    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 8

Yes - I think that developers should have to build the infrastructure first. Then I’m sure somehow, after all, they’d find the money to build the houses as well.

31.07.2025 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bombshell: UN report calls for ban on sex changes for children, declares transgenderism a threat to women A United Nations draft report by the special rapporteur on violence against women affirmed what many critics have long warned: that there is a β€œconcerted international push (to) erase” women and girls...

thebridgehead.ca/2025/07/28/b...
And here we are. A damning report. Transgenderism is a threat to women and children.

30.07.2025 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

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