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Brigitte Empire Tongue-in-cheek video essays by Britain’s least fake columnist

@brigitteempire.bsky.social is a lefty youtuber and reporter for an extremely real newspaper, The Daily Telegrift. She covers all kinds of stuff, including current events affecting trans folks and her personal experiences as a trans woman, plus she's funny af.

I've learned a lot. Def check her out

Nigel Farage says whatever serves him best in the moment. Nothing he says is of real value; he's just one of the barometers for the ongoing rise of UK fascism.

I feel like it's similar to 'populist': a term that has been deliberately turned into a misused pejorative because the actual meaning is dangerous to the right.

Hard to discuss intersectionality in good faith if talking about minority identities can be instantly dismissed as "iDeNtItY pOLiTiCs 🤡"

Honestly, if someone has been able to tolerate and support Labour for the last 2 years, I don't think I want them representing the Green Party.

Zarah may have gone off the deep end since but at least she refused to play along with the red tie tories.

hello. please don't bring any of that ai wank from your other stuff over to here, cheers

I really hope this is the last we hear about it, but I suspect it won't be...

We don't though, do we.

This government would be ten times better if it just didn't do anything.

Just stop doing things. Please.

I think there's an argument to be made that stealing from Amazon does less harm than actually buying from Amazon tbh. Arguably applicable to any for-profit organisation.

He's such a twat. Why is anyone taking this creep seriously.

A close up of some plants in pots. Near the centre is a purple speedwell flower with a shiny green fly sitting on one of the petals.

Beasties are slowly returning. Maybe spring really is on the way? 😊

An abundance of lesser celadine plants growing unexpectedly in a small rectangular plant patch.

An abundance of lesser celadine plants growing unexpectedly in a shady corner.

They seem to be one of the only things growing here at the moment. I think the snow might have slowed everything else down and gave them a headstart 😅

Can't wait to hate it!

meanwhile we will randomly hide completely innocuous text replies behind [👁 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜] for no reason whatsoever. enjoy 🎉

Yes! I'm enjoying how rampant it is. Even the leaves have pretty shapes. Some have stripy pale and dark patches. Maybe depending on how old they are?

There are a few bumbles bumbling about too, so it'll be nice for them to have something new to eat.

It's incredible branding and the vibes are immaculate. ✊💚

A close up of a yellow flower similar to a buttercup nestled among heart shaped leaves. The sun is low, casting deep shadows under the leaves.

First of the lesser celandine flowers! There may be a lot of these in the near future.

Every article coming out of Labour MPs is worse than the last. What the fuck is this shit.

"We've always been bigots" well fucking stop it and grow up jfc

Social conservatism is bigotry. It's oppressive and it measurably harms people. It kills people.

It IS aberrant. We don't have to tolerate it and I'm not interested in their Legitimate Concerns™ about Islam or trans people in toilets.

They need to grow up. It is shameful and they should be shamed.

Wherein a few obscenely rich insecure arseholes make their personal deficiencies everyone else's problem, yet a-fucking-gain.

How many people will be bombed, starved, or made homeless before The Money™ is happy again?

Labour will just ignore it, just like they do for everything else. This is an ideological crusade of moral panic and lust for censorship.

Also very interesting that the age of 21 is involved. Planning to extend the censorship to adults too, are we?

Labour need to go before they harm anyone else.

SILENA

Right back atcha 🫂

Sorry, may have let The Rage get the better of me for a moment with this comment 😳

Oh yeah, makes sense. Good way to filter out (gestures vaguely at everything)

Also lmao, my muted reply, kinda love that

Nope. So many totally innocent people getting... I was gonna say 'caught in the crossfire', but I think we all know that terrifying people is the point.

If only there were a word for that 😕

But yeah, thank you. I'll pass it on, I think he appreciates the solidarity from other parts of the world. 💚

Bluesky auto-moderation seems to do that a lot at the moment. I read that it's ostensibly intended to 'reduce toxicity' on the platform. Which, yeah, clearly bullshit.

He's fine, it's mostly just scary for him right now, but there's no telling what will happen next 😔 But yeah, thank you 💚

Withholding medication from a minority group knowing that it will likely result in permanent psychological damage is torture.

Continuing to do so when children are dying by suicide is intentional social murder perpetrated by the state.

This is what the Nazis did. It is an extermination of people.

This is what happens when our society tolerates transphobia in the guise of 'legitimate concerns'.

Nazis like these crawl out of their holes. They make any and all spaces unsafe for all marginalised people.

The cure is solidarity. Listening to marginalised people in our communities. Kindness. 💚✊