I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.
Caroline Dodds Pennock
Thrilled to share the final cover of my cursed film novel THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT, now sporting a quote by the incredible "wins two major awards for the same book in one night" author, Stephen Graham Jones 🤩
opening September 15 from Titan! 📽️
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈
Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS.
These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st).
Forced medical detransition.
This country is a danger to trans children & young people.
Ain't nobody writes like Harrison.
Any reporting on this that doesn't make it very clear in the first paragraph that this is the result of Trump & DOGE defunding the science work to maintain the barrier is WILDLY IRRESPONSIBLE.
Between this and the farm loan forgiveness stuff it's like Mexico is really trying to rub America's nose in what can be done if you want to, and aren't just run by an international crime carter.
Mexico wipes out farm debts for tens of thousands of small producers. Claudia Sheinbaum’s government will forgive or restructure debts owed by small farmers, fishers and rural producers to Mexico’s former agricultural finance agency. Peoples Dispatch buff.ly/Keld79w
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The decision aims to enable 99.5% of debtors to settle or restructure debts that had become impossible to pay and were being used by lawyers to extort farmers and small producers.
A big part of my respect for cats is how they've worked out a deal where they get what they want, when they want it, and have no requirements to do anything that they don't feel like.
This has kind of shaken me.
Screwworms in US: Human risk is low—but they can burrow through your skull arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
I’m not a conspiracy guy but the trend is clear: conservative politicians are getting more cartoonishly evil and corrupt so that the public MUST vote for the corporate banker climate-denying Christian right-of-centre politicians we’re presented with. Fascism Lite so we don’t get fascism!!!
I suspect no one following me was planning to take part in the SpaceX IPO, but you should read this thread to see just how unbelievably explicit of a scam it all is.
I didn't think I could still be shocked by corporate lying-right-to-your-face about financials after reading all that Zitron, but…
Damn! @cholub.bsky.social with reasons to read Alan Moore's NOVELS! NOVELS, I say!
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