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zoegen.bsky.social
Fervently pro-EU, Tranmere Rovers fan, artist. 🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 I fought hard against Brexit. Dazed that Americans could vote for a criminal. I have set up a trans support group in my local area. I live just outside Chepstow. I originate from the Wirral.
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If what happened today hadn’t happened, then it soon would. Trump and Putin will cook up a deal Ukraine will rightly reject, and then Trump would have had a hissy fit.

Trump is a destroyer. Building relationships can take years, building trading relationships is painstaking and building businesses can take decades. Institutions can take centuries to build. Destroying these things can easily be done in days and that is what we are witnessing. Any fool can do it.

Can anything of NATO be salvaged or is the USA now Russia’s ally not Europe’s? All my life I have regarded the USA as our trusted friend, a closeness that my years living in America seemed to confirm. I have a profound feeling of betrayal.

The YouGov poll this week on U.K. public attitudes on transgender rights is very frightening. For now at least it seems the gender criticals and the far right are winning the case for our elimination. They are enabled by almost all mainstream media. This Labour government is cravenly following.

It feels like the western world is heading towards the end of the Age of Enlightenment

If Ukraine is forced to surrender its sovereign territory to Russia, it will be the greatest betrayal of a European ally since Poland in 1945. The UK must lead in Europe in defence of Ukraine. We cannot stand back and watch as Zelensky is bullied by Trump.

It makes me queasy to see this Labour Government throw chunks of red meat to the right wing voters on immigrants and transgender rights. No amount of cruelty will be enough for them. It won’t work and besmirches Labour’s reputation.

@togetherworks.bsky.social It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we must announce the unexpected closure of TogetherWORKS Caldicot on 31st March due to budget cuts. This is not a statement we imagined having to make, and we are all still in shock.

The fragility of American democracy appears to be exposed and exploited by an evil man. Can their legal and political system apply any brakes or are we witnessing the end of the USA as a free country?

Ha ha

My BlueSky feed is full of Newcastle United fans. I have no affiliation with this club. Tranmere are my team. It’s sending me crackers. What can I do about it?

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/why... This article by me on how terribly Labour is letting down the trans community is published today.

I can confirm that the WiFi on the tube is now good enough for people to conduct video calls while underground and it is awful.

Today is International Trans Day of Remembrance. This is the toughest time in history to be trans and visible in the world, thanks to certain politicians, billionaires, trash media and Evangelicals. And it’s particularly tough for children and teens. Now, more than ever, we need our allies. Ty ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

youtu.be/pVa5Q9qzWys?... The best thing I remember seeing on Strictly

My wife Bunty has been visited by Dorset Police concerning a tweet she wrote about Claire the Marxist nurse in our village. In the tweet Bunty called Claire’s vegan buns chewy; too dry to nibble & then called Claire a cake hater. Bunty’s right to free speech has been VIOLATED!😡

In the late 90s & early 2000s we in the UK received (very roughly) 80,000 asylum applications per year. Mainly people escaping Balkan wars. Today in these “unprecedented” times of “invasion” by small boat… we receive pretty much the exact same numbers. Had you been taken in? I wouldn’t blame you.

Coming up is one of Bristol’s biggest art exhibitions. We are so happy that @renrenwick.bsky.social the new director of the RWA will be joining us at the preview next Friday.

I think BlueSky has reached a critical mass. I signed up months ago and found little of interest. Now almost everyone of interest is here. The major journos/academics, leading trans figures and the big bonus, lots of Tranmere fans. It’s going to take time to rebuild followers - so what.

I wonder why I have so much NFL stuff in my Discover feed. I have zero interest. Tranmere Rovers are my thing.

That was 'Not Enough Resources' by Invalid Handle

We met floor-crossing Tory then Labour MP @rosieisaholt.bsky.social And she’s still defending Brexit…

Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that the Labour Government is socially conservative. Its seeming lack of enthusiasm for the Assisted Dying Bill is just one symptom. Its intent to sustain the Tory anti Trans policies is another. There hasn’t been a socially liberal Labour Home Sec since Roy Jenkins

Something fun for your commute? The Trawl Meets @rosieisaholt.bsky.social Link below 👇

The excellent @snellarthur.bsky.social on Trump's latest appointments. Two extraordinary paragraphs that barely seem possible open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...