In the past, I have talked positively about #SimpleXChat messenger @simplex being an emerging alternative to other messengers. I have even recommended trying it, to some.

This is definitely ending today.

Throughout 2025, I've repeatedly seen SimpleX's founder and director #EvgenyPoberezkin being quoted with some strange statements. This morning, after another such mention, I set aside some time to review his posting history.

I ended up utterly appalled. Not by some lonely, isolated post I happened to stumble upon. Instead, the complete portfolio of extreme-right, "anti-woke", and libertarian BS gets promoted and reposted, continuously:

Xenophobic rants about migrants; attacks against the European Convention on Human Rights (#EHCR); #transmisia; anti- #DEI agitation; support for JD Vance's fantasies about "missing freedom of speech" in Germany; climate change denial; anti-vaxxing crusades ("COVID vaccination was a genocide, on the scale well beyond Nazi war crimes"), and support for RFK Jr's other attacks on science; defamation of the welfare state; celebrating #Trump's "great leadership"; siding with him on declaring antifascists "terrorists"; praising fascist rallies in the UK; the list just goes on and on.

Nothing good can come out of a place firmly under the control of such an individual.

Please do not support the promotion of such agendas. Stay away from SimpleX Chat, and please forgive me for recommending that you try it.

#privacy #USpol #UKpol

Guardian headline

UK equalities watchdog: transgender people may be asked about gender status in workplace

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/11/uk-equalities-watchdog-transgender-people-may-be-asked-about-gender-status-in-workplace

Doesn't that actually mean that anyone can be asked about their gender status? I mean if you were sure then you wouldn't need to ask.

Aside from the obvious effect this will have on trans people I can imagine some rather stereotypically masculine looking cis women and stereotypically feminine looking cis men being rather offended when asked what their birth gender is.

#TransRights #Gender #EHCR

'If Our Government Turns on its Own People, We Will Need the ECHR to Protect Us' – Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/09/05/if-our-government-turns-on-its-own-people-we-will-need-the-echr-to-protect-us/

#EHCR
#HumanRights
#Brexit
#Tories

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Safe routes’ for refugees so slow that toddler died waiting.

Iraqi refugees who have spent years stuck in Turkey tell openDemocracy they understand why some turn to smugglers

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nationality-borders-bill-refugees-iraq-turkey-unhcr-suella-braverman-child-died/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social

#migration #asylum #Turkey #UK #EHCR #saferoutes #humanrights