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Category: Politics

  • UK Political Transphobia

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    Kier Starmer, leader of the Labour Party. But is all as it appears? Of course not.

  • BBC On Fedi?

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    The BBC has joined Fedi… a bit. They’ve started a six month experiment with a Mastodon server for a handful of BBC general accounts (R&D types, Radio 4, 5Live) (i.e. not individuals). Note, BBC News is not one of these accounts (but Radio 4 is). This is, one the one hand, great. We want big…

  • Protest

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    I grew up under Section 28. I was lucky – I had access to the internet in the early days of IRC (NeverNet), Yahoo Groups and GeoCities (West Hollywood neighbourhood) and so was able to work out who I was despite this. And, of course, understand that I was growing up under Section 28. So…