Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism The facts are available, if you look for them 🛟 medsky 🧪 😷 idsky sociology
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Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism The facts are available, if you look for them 🛟 medsky 🧪 😷 idsky sociology
I don’t think non physicians realize how for real physicians, vaccines is a controversy like flat earth or creationism or birds aren’t real "No true Scotsman" actually holds here it's hard to really describe how baffling this is, how frustrating its been to see grow and how high the price will be
This is the best and scariest McSweeney.
Oh dear!
Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian farmland in Wadi Sa’ir, north of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.
He's still saying he was right. He's obviously 'done his own research'.
Ooo! What a great introduction to your pod. Subscribed.
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
A free webcomic starting this week. Would appreciate a RT!
Good luck! They're not great listeners in there so wear big, clompy boots
And away we go!! For the next 24 hours straight I’ll be walking continuous laps of Parliament. This is going to be a mentally and physically gruelling experience but hopefully well worth it! Thank you for the incredible support and donations so far I couldn’t be more appreciative. ❤️🦊🦡🦅
Top work from Rob @protectthewild.bsky.social as he walks around Parliament for 24 hrs to campaign for wildlife here in the UK – do follow and donate ! donorbox.org/24hoursforwi...
Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out And, the feathers it would ruffle My lovely followers, you know what to do: nationaltvawards.com/vote 🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
New police powers could curb rights and freedoms at next year's Pride marches via @wearequeeraf.com www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...
The Christian Institute says rainbow lanyards, pronouns in emails or going to Pride parades breach Civil Service impartiality. The article notes the legal action "follows a recent High Court win against Northumbria Police by a gender-critical activist." We said they weren't just after us trans folk.
This is a small but significant win for Ireland. bsky.app/profile/were...
Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it. This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
Pity. I liked him
I’m seeing anti-immigrant accounts on bluesky, and people interacting with them. Come on, here we block and move on. No space here for Nazis.
2 days of final submissions ongoing in the Peggie v NHS Fife employment tribunal case, where witness Dr Beth Upton has been subjected to the worst in-court dehumanisation and harassment we have ever seen - the judge ‘permitted’ lawyer Naomi Cunningham to openly misgender Dr Upton throughout the…
🆕 @vic-parsons.bsky.social's reporting lays bare the dangerous shifts taking place in British policy that could drastically limit our community's ability to fight back against the growing anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric against us 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/new-police-p...
Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
Poor sods either way
"pallywood"!? Jesus Wept!
I think that's the worst thing you could say to her. ... Tee hee.
All this. Plus it doesn't actually do the people who do bad things any harm but it does do negative things, even damage, to the wisher.
Good kid! Good parenting too.
Once more for those in back: They were never going to be able to implement a mass deportation program without prioritizing people like this. Criminals and gang members are too hard to find and apprehend. Regular folks who show up to work, church, and their scheduled immigration appointments are not.
Deliberate policy. We used to have more railways. The government ripped them out. We used to have urban trams. Gone. They weren't 'modern'. Plus they also weren't profitable and the early Republic had no money. Now, of course, this policy is seen as criminally stupid but too expensive to fix.
"Fuck around and find out." – Maria Montessori
We have an extraordinary example of someone who is a unifier beyond expectation right now, and it's Zohran Mamdani. He does not throw anyone under the bus. The most important thing he did? Listen to what has people most upset. Propose policy that met those needs.
31 August 1942 | A transport of 1,000 Jews deported from #Drancy in German-occupied France arrived at #Auschwitz. After the arrival selection, 676 of them were murdered in gas chambers. One of them was 3 y/o Jacques Zajderman.
Mohammed is now coming down with the flu, Heba has a kidney infection due to the only drinking water available being contaminated. There is no medicine they can afford, not even painkillers. They are weak from months of eating only every second or third day, they have no immunity. gofund.me/feac2f25
Mengele rides again
Republican commentator abhorrently calls for trans people to be 'locked away and studied' https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/29/joey-mannarino-trans-minneapolis-shooting/?utm_content=1756671600&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
If you’re looking for a great brunch/lunch spot in Annapolis, Bread and Butter Kitchen is a lovely spot on the water owned by a kickass woman and veteran who never compromises her values. She also sells fun LGBTQ+ and pro-choice items in her restaurant.
"Kelleher is what you would receive if you ordered the delivery of approximately two meters of extruded Fianna Fáil."
@irishwol.bsky.social My friend, do you see my words and think about donating to escape from the war? Any amount can help me secure today's food. We are dying of hunger~
If nobody else has said "Dear God man! Go to the doctor!" then consider it said
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
Please help my friend Adham if you can!
This isn't stopping him so far.
PROTECT TRANS YOUTH! my uncle has made a petition to protect trans youth read and sign on chng.it/jtxMHHYVPk
Good
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Customer in asking for and buying all Naoise Dolan's books because of her action❤️🖤🤍💚
We are watching resegregation happen in real time. It's neo Jim Crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756652401&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Book burning, new millennium style
A new report from TransActual demonstrates not only the emotional toll, but the degree to which trans people are having to reshape and limit their lives to avoid the new dangers posed to us in the UK. Read the report at: tinyurl.com/community-li... #Trans #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights
Have you tried the Diana Wynne Jones podcast? Their episode on Time of the Ghost was really good. @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social
Meanwhile there's this bsky.app/profile/clai...
People’s homes are being stormed by far-right groups. The govt. Is saying nothing about how violence like this will not be tolerated. Where is Starmer’s “law and order” now? They’ve no control and we are moments away from someone being killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
These demonstrations outside asylum hotels are terrorism. They are designed to terrorise. They involve violence against civilians for political reasons. That is terrorism. Not pating planes. Will the government act, or are they too gutless?
Today’s news from Belfast. An actual proscribed terror group supposedly on ceasefire and enjoying the benefits of the Good Friday Agreement, doing actual terror. m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/...
Women from all walks of life are joining together to say: Not in Our Name. We are a diverse group — women of faith and none, women of colour, disabled women, queer women, working-class and professional women standing up in support of the trans+ community. ✍️ Sign our letter at change.org/nion_women
Colour me unsurprised
With you on segue and I'm blaming these idiots: Sigue Sigue Sputnik, pronounced Zeeg Zeeg Sputnik. Enjoy the image. Don't, for your sanity's sake, listen to the music.
Gavin is grandstanding on Twitter while punishing trans and houseless Californians. This is what he’d be doing if he wanted to really fight.
asnan hussein’s problem isn’t that he’s muslim. it’s that he’s a bigot bizarre thing here is that, i think, sultana is a muslim. so it makes little sense to say the two are conflicting over islam and ‘far left’ views interesting that gay rights are being filed under ‘far left’ views by these ppl
You do not have to live in Oklahoma to sign to remove this horrible man. We're almost to 34K signatures🖤🤍 chng.it/fMqWL4GCx8
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 For those who don’t remember, this is the little girl who brought global awareness onto Flint, MI’s water issues. Understand that we got babies out here doing work just to help us all get by and that in and of itself is a damning failure of our systems
It’s an especially silly thing for him to say when the only reason the movie got made was because George Harrison put his hand in his own pocket to pay for it… because… the studios weren’t interested!
Never forget
If she gets a nomination, she won't come last. She's much better on the spot than the other Iona Institute types, she is the only one who looks like she's having fun. She could sell the hard right line as aspirational more than the others. So I'd be concerned. Because she's bad news.
This is Solis on behalf of Hamza. His account was deleted again. I have made this one for now. We must help Hamza. We must be his voice, as social media continues to delete his own. Please donate and please share. gofund.me/1036923c
Mary Fields (c. 1832 - 1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was an enslaved person, a freedom seeker, and a mail carrier: the first Black woman to be employed as a star route postwoman in the United States.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
There is no Free Speech where there is ICE
Zines are not a Crime! Free Des Revol! from @free.des.revol on insta archive.org/details/free... For almost eight weeks, Des Revol has been held behind bars in a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas. He’s also on an ICE hold. His alleged crime? Zines. >
Fidaa and her children deserve a future I do not want a future without them Please amplify and contribute if you can chuffed.org/project/fida...
Saleh sent me this photo of some of his sweet kiddos ❤️
The person running the fundraiser for Saleh is Italian but this is the translation of their campaign
„Children of Gaza are subjected to all forms of brutality and torture. Please save our children from malnutrition and what is happening here. Your donation will save their lives.“ _ Ahmed, his wife and their children Orhan and Helena. Share. Speak. Help. 🔽 gofund.me/adcddf92
Remind me again who the predators are? Because it's not those the RW media would have you believe.
Bloody hell: 'Kitty O'Brien is undergoing surgery for an arm injury sustained during the incident ... O'Brien’s right arm "was pulled and then twisted with great force, snapping the bone" while they were dragged from the protest.' www.rte.ie/news/world/2...
Well, he won't. Now what?
The reason they hate Mamdani so much and instead rave about Bannon BFF & transphobe Newsom is because Mamdani proves us right and them wrong. Turns out you can be anti-genocide and pro-people and win elections by a landslide. Sucks doesn't it?
Have to repost Le Guin clocking exactly what the Potter series was, with wonderful "I don't think about you at all." vibes.
An absolute masterclass from UK Quakers on how organisations of all kinds can stand up for the rights and safety of trans people, even post Supreme Court ruling and with all of the EHRC's cruelties: www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.
It is exhausting how those of us on the left are constantly told to be careful and mindful and sensitive with the language and rhetoric we use, while the right just say whatever shit they want. Being on the right is playing politics on easy mode.
whenever i see louis mosley’s name, i always think of how shocking it was in 1997 to see his grandad, in a channel 4 dramatisation, getting called a cunt on national television. *then* i wonder why eugenicist peter thiel hired the grandson of britain’s most famous non-royal nazi to run palantir uk
And has any politician or commentator ever - as in EVER - opined that right wingers and conservatives should “reach out to” or “try to address the concerns of” liberals and progressives? Seriously, has that EVER happened? Why is it always us who need to “understand” them and never vice versa?
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Israel received twice the funding from the European Innovation Fund than Ireland and more 2/3 of all #EU countries combined Outrageous that an apartheid settler-colonial state currently carrying out genocide gets so much EU money as part of Horizon. #Spéirgorm old.reddit.com/r/ireland/co...
"None of us are free until all of us are free." That's nice Zarah. Btw any chance you could stand up in the commons and demand to know why Wes Streeting is so pally with organised conversion abuse networks?
Waterford Whispers longest ever article
Good planning decision.
We can dream, certainly.
You say that, but by what magic does it happen? Powell was sacked by his party leader. Party leaders are the ones making Powellite statements now.
Ugh
A barrister, Sarah Phillimore, led a campaign of harassment of a trans woman so wicked that she sought to take her own life. Jk Rowling saw the threat of regulatory sanction for that misconduct and offered to pay her legal costs. That's where she now is.
This is unheard of - half of MUBI employees asked the CEO to return Sequoia's money
Learn how to best support your trans patients on our updated Information for Healthcare Professionals page transactual.org.uk/healthcare-p... There’s links to hundreds of resources, including a comprehensive trans health research library. #TransHealth #Healthcare #GP #TransHealthcare #NHS
@irishwol.bsky.social THIS IS A DISTRESS CALL FROM MY FAMILY IN GA..ZA.🫂🇵🇸🍉💔 THEY ARE STARVING, SICK, HOMELESS, AND SURROUNDED BY DEATH. THERE IS NO SAFE HAVEN, NO FOOD, NO TREATMENT, AND NO FUTURE. IF YOU HAVE A HEART, DON’T IGNORE THIS MESSAGE. YOUR HELP COULD SAVE OUR LIVES.
The Irish ambassador to Germany has conveyed her concern to German authorities after an Irish demonstrator was assaulted by police during a pro-Palestine protest in Berlin. Germany is so fascist in its support of the Genocide in Gaza and #Palestine! #EU #Spéorgorm www.rte.ie/news/world/2...