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Siobhán Freya

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Transwoman in UK looking to the skies but temporarily grounded Will continue to flap wings and offer a sympathetic ear. Specialist in Tsundoku Dum spiro spero

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Post image 08.08.2025 16:30 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1
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GMC makes submission to court over Leng - Anaesthetists United GMC makes submission to court over Leng

The GMC and UMAPs are both using legal moves to complicate the implementation of Leng and our verdict being delivered 👇👇

anaesthetistsunited.com/gmc-makes-su...

08.08.2025 16:35 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

this vote took a tremendous amount of lobbying and vote whipping behind the scenes, along with public pressure. we need to keep up the public pressure to keep getting these votes.

08.08.2025 13:57 — 👍 112    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 0
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8 August 1908 | A Polish Jew, Yaakov Mozes Lipshitz, was born in Skierniewice. A violinist.

He was deported to #Auschwitz in August 1942. He did not survive.

08.08.2025 14:02 — 👍 235    🔁 47    💬 7    📌 1

I love a good conspiracy.
J D Vance is spending the weekend with his mate David Lammy at Chevening.
Is this to give him an alibi for when Trump gets deposed or whacked? 🤣🤣🤣
On a serious note, is this HMG reaching out to the new regime?

08.08.2025 10:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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There's been a lot of discussion lately around mRNA vaccines.

Learn about them from mRNA researcher & Nobel Prize winner Prof. Katalin Karikó.

Science, solutions & solidarity.

07.08.2025 13:53 — 👍 917    🔁 420    💬 25    📌 26
Screenshot of an email: Hi Rachel,
 
Thank you for contacting us about the article you’ve seen.
 
We want our stores to be inclusive and welcoming places for our colleagues and customers. We have written to this customer and explained that our colleagues typically work across all departments in our stores and customers can always ask to speak to the colleague they feel most comfortable with.
 
We also explained that our colleague was asking a customer if they needed help; they were not working on bra fit or offering this.
 
Thank you again for getting in touch.

Screenshot of an email: Hi Rachel, Thank you for contacting us about the article you’ve seen. We want our stores to be inclusive and welcoming places for our colleagues and customers. We have written to this customer and explained that our colleagues typically work across all departments in our stores and customers can always ask to speak to the colleague they feel most comfortable with. We also explained that our colleague was asking a customer if they needed help; they were not working on bra fit or offering this. Thank you again for getting in touch.

I wrote to M&S about the stupid lingerie department story - confirms nobody offered a bra fitting to a teenage girl. The Telegraph and JK can (always) do one.

08.08.2025 09:36 — 👍 1589    🔁 579    💬 37    📌 58
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‘Instead of punishment, we have reward for Putin’ – Ukraine MP We spoke to Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Merezhko who is Chair of Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Committee.

Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Merezhko tells Matt Frei it looks "really suspicious" that a Trump-Putin summit is being planned to end the war in Ukraine "behind the back of the victim of the aggression".

Read and watch here:

www.channel4.com/news/instead...

08.08.2025 09:57 — 👍 42    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 2
A possible Putin-Trump summit: what are the Russian papers saying?
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg A possible Putin-Trump summit: what are the Russian papers saying?

Russian press reaction to potential Putin-Trump summit range from “hastily organised summits risk unrealistic expectations” to “real chance for deal on Ukraine.” Meanwhile “In Russia risk of recession in 2026” & “Russia’s budget deficit up by a trillion roubles.” #ReadingRussia

08.08.2025 10:01 — 👍 143    🔁 40    💬 7    📌 5
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Dear Lord, thank you for the gift of a new day. May all that I do today be done with love and for your glory. #MorningPrayer

08.08.2025 07:09 — 👍 25    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Spain shuns US F-35 jets as tensions grow with Washington Madrid to purchase European military aircraft in sign of deepening rift with Trump over defence and foreign policy

Spain decides not to buy US F-35 jets because of fears of US political reliability. There will be more of this on.ft.com/41tL4zH via @FT

07.08.2025 20:14 — 👍 1617    🔁 502    💬 90    📌 67
Petula Clark   Downtown. original version
YouTube video by AL NUCAHC Petula Clark Downtown. original version

Song of the Day 🎵
Petula Clark
92 Years Young
Enjoy 💙

08.08.2025 07:15 — 👍 22    🔁 3    💬 5    📌 0

this is a directive to ultra-orthodox jews studying in yeshiva and kollel from the former sephardic chief rabbi of israel in response to the government's order to draft them into military service.

07.08.2025 22:02 — 👍 45    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 0

It's always struck me as weird. Unlike most armed Americans trans service personnel actually know how to water the tree of liberty, rather than pray n spray the water all around the garden missing all the plants (esp that tree)

08.08.2025 07:19 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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MP claims Surrey Care home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.

08.08.2025 07:20 — 👍 575    🔁 181    💬 48    📌 24
EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS

POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR

by Our Apocalypse Staff
HELENA HANDCART

THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode.
It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services,
not to
mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed).
Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).

EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR by Our Apocalypse Staff HELENA HANDCART THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode. It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services, not to mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed). Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

08.08.2025 06:42 — 👍 2747    🔁 980    💬 131    📌 57
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"Israel is fighting for its life in that area, its fighting for survival"

Kevin Hollinrake, chairman of the Conservative party, making his support for genocide clear.

08.08.2025 07:24 — 👍 20    🔁 9    💬 5    📌 2
Netanyahu s plan to control Gaza Strip proves he's willing to sacrifice the hostages. Hamas.

Netanyahu s plan to control Gaza Strip proves he's willing to sacrifice the hostages. Hamas.

HAARETZ

08.08.2025 07:35 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey, *this* is a normal thing, huh?

The top post on the President of the United States’ social media feed is...

...a link to a free Trump switchblade.

MAGA is a death cult comprising the creepiest people you’ve ever met.

08.08.2025 06:05 — 👍 1026    🔁 325    💬 107    📌 31
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Thank you to @wildlife.with.russ for today's #FoxOfTheDay , keep 'em coming !

08.08.2025 07:01 — 👍 370    🔁 22    💬 4    📌 0
A photo of smudge looking out the bathroom window

A photo of smudge looking out the bathroom window

Happy International Cat Day*

Cats of course assume everyday is international Cat Day.

08.08.2025 08:16 — 👍 23    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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Damian Grammaticas: "You have to say the actions of the UK, other European powers, are having no effect at all on the Israeli prime minister"

What actions?

08.08.2025 08:23 — 👍 47    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 0
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Her Name Is Alice: A new 2025 memoir exploring grief, love and the transgender experience, from the mother of Alice Litman Her Name Is Alice: A new 2025 memoir exploring grief, love and the transgender experience, from the mother of Alice Litman eBook : Litman, Caroline: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Would there be an appetite for me to start a crowdfunder to get my memoir ‘Her Name Is Alice’ in front of MPs as soon as possible, to help fight the EHRC?

All the feedback I’ve had from cis readers without trans family is they:

a-didn’t know how bad things were
b-feel more kindly to trans people

08.08.2025 07:18 — 👍 127    🔁 41    💬 31    📌 0
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He was right Adil, wherever there is an occupation there will be resistance.

Salma Shah ignores the point and starts talking about terrorist proxies, claiming that without them the occupied & their occupiers would find a way of getting on with each other #GMB

08.08.2025 06:19 — 👍 24    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 0
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🇺🇦Ukraine has introduced the Bakhnet drone interceptor,built to counter Russia’s Geran-2kamikaze drones

🔴Key Functions:

•Automatic takeoff/return for reuse if no target is found
•Software enables visual detection and optimal flight path planning
•Maximum flight altitude–5km
•Operational range–40km

08.08.2025 06:44 — 👍 34    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

This is being misreported, and I think it's important to correctly frame it, so that folks don't sound clownish when they're advocating for trans service members.

The Air Force is denying *early retirement* to trans service members who have served 15-18 years and are being forced out.

(thread)

07.08.2025 23:27 — 👍 494    🔁 195    💬 17    📌 18
Mamma grizzly bear with two cubs in a field of wild flowers.

Mamma grizzly bear with two cubs in a field of wild flowers.

Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org

07.08.2025 14:46 — 👍 625    🔁 48    💬 8    📌 3

Why can I hear Sr Michael to Jenny Joyce " You will go far in life but you will not be liked" 😂😂😂

07.08.2025 22:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

wes streeting must also resign.

07.08.2025 21:37 — 👍 42    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

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