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@alebionshrugged.bsky.social
He / Him. Socialist. Pragmatist. Citizen of Nowhere. Ordinary member of the Herd. Uppity Little Queer. Socially-distanced Bunny Hugger.
It's a true mystery 🤔
Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than a few years ago, according to a new analysis.
“It really does look like a free fall,” Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology, said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”
“It really does look like a free fall,” Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology, said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”
Number of teens who identify themselves as gay or bisexual is in ‘free fall’
Conservatives have trumpeted the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but researchers say the reasons for the decline are unclear.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 8, 2026 at 9:40 PM
It's a true mystery 🤔
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On the day he is a main candidate in a very important by-election, Facebook has *suspended* Zack Polanski’s account.
This ON ITS OWN should be reason to vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras.
This is foreign interference in British democracy.
And guess what, the media (and Labour) is silent.
This ON ITS OWN should be reason to vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras.
This is foreign interference in British democracy.
And guess what, the media (and Labour) is silent.
October 8, 2026 at 10:06 AM
On the day he is a main candidate in a very important by-election, Facebook has *suspended* Zack Polanski’s account.
This ON ITS OWN should be reason to vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras.
This is foreign interference in British democracy.
And guess what, the media (and Labour) is silent.
This ON ITS OWN should be reason to vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras.
This is foreign interference in British democracy.
And guess what, the media (and Labour) is silent.
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"The pattern is clear: Vote Green and watch Labour move"
@zackpolanski.bsky.social explains why a Green vote is a powerful vote.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social explains why a Green vote is a powerful vote.
October 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
"The pattern is clear: Vote Green and watch Labour move"
@zackpolanski.bsky.social explains why a Green vote is a powerful vote.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social explains why a Green vote is a powerful vote.
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UK-based cisgender people, please read this.
October 3, 2026 at 7:03 AM
UK-based cisgender people, please read this.
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Holborn and St Pancras is looking incredibly close.
Thank you to everyone joining us today on the doorsteps - we know it's only by having conversations with voters that we can win this.
With just five days to go - we need you!
Thank you to everyone joining us today on the doorsteps - we know it's only by having conversations with voters that we can win this.
With just five days to go - we need you!
October 3, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Holborn and St Pancras is looking incredibly close.
Thank you to everyone joining us today on the doorsteps - we know it's only by having conversations with voters that we can win this.
With just five days to go - we need you!
Thank you to everyone joining us today on the doorsteps - we know it's only by having conversations with voters that we can win this.
With just five days to go - we need you!
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you can always tell when the establishment start pushing a narrative bcos they have the subtlety of a brick to the face.
Janice Turner has no background or training in medicine, neuroscience, psychology or psychiatry.
September 26, 2026 at 2:46 PM
you can always tell when the establishment start pushing a narrative bcos they have the subtlety of a brick to the face.
Labour can't even do dipshit tokenistic populism 😂
Majority of football fans against drinking alcohol in stands — new poll www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...
This reminds me of the smoking ban. At first people opposed it. But then they realised, they can go to the smoking area and socialise. On a match day, people drink before, and in the concourse
This reminds me of the smoking ban. At first people opposed it. But then they realised, they can go to the smoking area and socialise. On a match day, people drink before, and in the concourse
Majority of football fans against drinking alcohol in stands — new poll
YouGov poll finds 64 per cent oppose Andy Burnham’s plan to reverse 41-year-old ban, while more than half think it would make the match-day experience worse
www.thetimes.com
September 25, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Labour can't even do dipshit tokenistic populism 😂
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Unlike Section 28, these rules are spread across a myriad of documents, which will make it harder for LGBTQIA+ groups to fight to overturn their harmful impacts
Read our full analysis 👇
Read our full analysis 👇
September 23, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Unlike Section 28, these rules are spread across a myriad of documents, which will make it harder for LGBTQIA+ groups to fight to overturn their harmful impacts
Read our full analysis 👇
Read our full analysis 👇
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Centrists continuing to post "my word, something is up here, the Labour government should do something" about a situation they roared into existence with the right wing press.
September 23, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Centrists continuing to post "my word, something is up here, the Labour government should do something" about a situation they roared into existence with the right wing press.
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15 years of brutal austerity + increasingly vile far right politics to secure the positions of parties enforcing it + world’s most poisonous media outlets = Years of fascist rioting with little or no government response
September 23, 2026 at 6:33 AM
15 years of brutal austerity + increasingly vile far right politics to secure the positions of parties enforcing it + world’s most poisonous media outlets = Years of fascist rioting with little or no government response
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Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics.
A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
September 22, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics.
A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Lib Dem conference votes overwhelmingly in favour of the motion "Restoring Trans Rights"
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We now move to the vote. The conference floor votes overwhelmingly in favour of the motion 🎉
September 21, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Lib Dem conference votes overwhelmingly in favour of the motion "Restoring Trans Rights"
🎉🏳️⚧️
🎉🏳️⚧️
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We now move to the vote. The conference floor votes overwhelmingly in favour of the motion 🎉
September 21, 2026 at 4:36 PM
We now move to the vote. The conference floor votes overwhelmingly in favour of the motion 🎉
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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:
TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...
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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]
TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created.
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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...
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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash.
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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?
TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns
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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...
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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?
TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats
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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?
TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them
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[we see one of the boats is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.
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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.
[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING
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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone
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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!
[They all leave the museum]
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I have a VERY low level of trust in Labour MPs so it is refreshing to read this “are we the baddies” piece by @labourlewis.bsky.social about how Labour is setting up all the levers of oppression the extreme right needs when it’s “centrist” policies fail.
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t...
The Integrity Gap: How We Built the Authoritarian Future We Fear
Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state
bylinetimes.com
September 20, 2026 at 8:14 AM
I have a VERY low level of trust in Labour MPs so it is refreshing to read this “are we the baddies” piece by @labourlewis.bsky.social about how Labour is setting up all the levers of oppression the extreme right needs when it’s “centrist” policies fail.
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t...
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Every day, the stories from the UK read like a dystopian novel.
September 17, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Every day, the stories from the UK read like a dystopian novel.
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you just know that posting "i'm just trying to start a polite conversation about who deserves human rights" will not be marked 'toxic,' but anyone responding 'hey fuck off with that' will earn +5 toxic points
September 17, 2026 at 2:57 AM
you just know that posting "i'm just trying to start a polite conversation about who deserves human rights" will not be marked 'toxic,' but anyone responding 'hey fuck off with that' will earn +5 toxic points
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We are now going to see a rash of pointless micro nation referendums aren't we. This seasons flags on lampposts.
September 16, 2026 at 3:56 PM
We are now going to see a rash of pointless micro nation referendums aren't we. This seasons flags on lampposts.
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As the government bans social media for kids further evidence emerges that it's a minority of retired adults we should really be concerned about.
www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
Pensioners attack traffic lights over wild 'deadly weapon' claims
An online movement say that the sensors on traffic lights can cause heart attacks, brain cancer, anxiety and even sudden death
www.devonlive.com
September 11, 2026 at 7:57 AM
As the government bans social media for kids further evidence emerges that it's a minority of retired adults we should really be concerned about.
www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
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Content warning:
Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
September 5, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Content warning:
Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Gerard McCarthy's response to Maureen Lipman is so fucking good
September 5, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Gerard McCarthy's response to Maureen Lipman is so fucking good
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I don't care if you're done with electoral politics, or if you're not fully convinced by the Greens. If @ZackPolanski takes Starmer's seat in Holborn & St Pancras, it will be one of the greatest political moments of our lifetimes & we should do everything to make it happen.
September 3, 2026 at 10:40 AM
I don't care if you're done with electoral politics, or if you're not fully convinced by the Greens. If @ZackPolanski takes Starmer's seat in Holborn & St Pancras, it will be one of the greatest political moments of our lifetimes & we should do everything to make it happen.
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By "box office" they mean everyone from the Sensible Moderates rightwards reunited again in their favourite pastime: an all channels no holds barred bonanza of monstering anything & anyone vaguely leftwing into the sun
Zack Polanski’s plans to enter the race puts rocket boosters under what's shaping up to be a box office by-election in Keir Starmer's old seat.
'Box office by-election in Starmer's seat has high stakes for Labour and Greens'
www.mirror.co.uk
September 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
By "box office" they mean everyone from the Sensible Moderates rightwards reunited again in their favourite pastime: an all channels no holds barred bonanza of monstering anything & anyone vaguely leftwing into the sun
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Given that we know this is coming, will be devastating and have the best part of a year to prepare, any chance we might, you know, get on with doing things that mitigate the effects of extreme heat?
September 3, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Given that we know this is coming, will be devastating and have the best part of a year to prepare, any chance we might, you know, get on with doing things that mitigate the effects of extreme heat?