Oh are we doing that whole bit again where we pretend Brianna Ghey died because of social media rather than because of the people who stabbed her 28 times.

I'm a bit annoyed about this publicity that the priest from Darlo is getting after being on Gladiators. Fair play to her for that but... She's a planting priest in the Church of England. Their website doesn't mention that. At all. It says it's queer friendly...

I'm not inciting anything but have Americans considered just shooting the people stealing their neighbours? I say that as a Brit who'll probably be among the first on the trains if it happens here, but then we aren't all armed up to the eyeballs. Why do you have weapons again?

*scouring Bluesky for mentions of Starmer in order to defend his honour because actually I'm no great fan of the man*

Just pondering the complete failure of the Wheel of Time TV series as I complete a re-read of the books. All the money in the world and they completely screwed it up. A lot's been said about the show-runner deciding to basically rewrite it all instead of adapt it and...

You can't even get a quality chewtoy around here. Bring back Usenet, I say

If all the gimps that are saying "Well I don't really like labour but no one is gonna vote green" shut the fuck up and voted green then there would be a green landslide. But they're too fucking stupid to do that. If Reform can win in our system then Green can too.

YES. This is why I always resist the idea that GC activists are just 'women with concerns'. If the Darlington Nurses actually had concerns they would have kept their case private. They did what they did in order to hurt their trans colleague.

Men who defend Jonathan Ross for murdering Renee Good are not safe to be around. End those relationships.

Odds on the Darlington nurses were radicalised on Prosecco Stormfront. I had a friend of a similar age who'd been a nurse in the area until an injury forced her out. She got Turned by Mumsnet a couple of years before this bunch started writing complaints and petitions.

Alternatively if you vote for a right wing party I'll ask my bishop to excommunicate you

New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢 This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID. doi.org/10.1080/0958...

Wah wah but what else could Starmer do? Here's my list of potential actions. I'm not saying they're all good ideas but they are things he could do, feel free to add your own 1. Endorse and join the statements made by France and Germany 2. Halt all arms deals with US companies...

Sanctions on the US won't be about deterrence this time, I suspect. They'll be about beginning to damage your economy to restrict your warfighting capability. Frankly we should have been working on that for the last nine years...

It is absolutely imperative that collectively, we build a bsky appview that is hosted and managed outside of the United States. This is absolutely critical, and we needed to have this months ago. No US staff, no US banking. I can't stress how critical I consider this.

We always knew Starmer would go full TERF, now its clear he has gone full MAGA. Not that there is much difference.

If you can't stand up and say no when a war criminal threatens your neighbour then you're not only a cowardly waste of skin, you are also a complete and utter moron. War mongers do NOT stop until they are stopped.

How long before Europeans get Do Not Travel warnings to the US? They're in danger of being taken as hostages and interned, before much longer

Don't dump images at me with a thousand words of text but no alt and expect me to read it. Especially ones that have no relevance Thanks.

Has anybody suggested giving Trump the bit of Greenland that the North Pole sits on?

Some people say Keir Starmer has been dealt a bad hand. We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is. We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.

I watched the last 15 seconds of Starmer's "Everybody calm down, I'm advising doing nothing, working people working people Morgan help me this shit doesn't work any more" speech, and that was enough He's going to try to be neutral. We're not fucking Switzerland, we're the beachhead you muppet

Remind me. How many Tories now have to defect to Reform before the Lib Dems become the Official Opposition?

Every single Incisive British Political Commentator™️ who has written in favour of Mad King Trump should today have to resign whatever farcical position they hold within our establishment.

This deserves a bump… Please, all our cis women allies, if you could sign this from @nionwomen.bsky.social if you haven’t already done so, and share widely with your friends and family. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Christian mysticism is, hate yourself as hard as you possibly can but don't end your life because it's not yours to take you worthless worm Change my mind

An AuDHD woman is actually genuinely so good at handling rejection that it doesn’t even make her feel like her spine is being torn from her body, not even a little bit, it has been reported.

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

When we said NATO wasn't working we were derided. When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid. The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe. It's time for a rethink.

Just a month ago the UK agreed to a deal in which the NHS has to pay £3bn a year more for US drugs. The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs. Today that deal has been broken by the USA. The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.

The US is on the verge of invading Europe. Remove them from Nato now and impose hard economic sanctions. Bullies only respect might.

Rory the Tory whining about social media abuse has me genuinely laughing out loud. They hate contact with real people. They just want to be secure in their politico-media bubble, never suffering genuine criticism or having to see the consequences of their actions

I agree that we ought to use persuasion to bring people nearer to our political purposes; I think that making every single Republican a social and professional pariah for the rest of their lives would be very persuasive when it comes to people weighing the cost/benefit of aligning with fascism.

Saw some advice a few days ago that we should stop working from to-do lists and instead work on goals My subconscious has clearly taken it to heart and now it's 14:40 and I haven't got dressed yet

The women and equalities committee is well placed to stage its own in depth inquiry. There's enough history and science and other evidence to suggest something very untoward happening. Not just medically but compromised govt and media and dodgy lobby groups and dark money and institutional failure.

On the, erm, Jess discourse I have to say a few weeks back I got overwhelmed and threw a strop at a different trans person who also works very, very hard for the community. This person graciously forgave me when I apologised...

If a person is anti-trans it signals that they have an unpatched critical cognitive vulnerability. It’s such a *fundamental* failure of critical thinking about society and humanness that the person is left deeply susceptible to any and all other bigotries and conspiracy theories they’ll encounter.

Shot, chaser. FOI via @tacc.org.uk

I need an alt to peek behind the blocklists. Is that unethical? Not sure I care at this point

Hypothetical situation. A group of white female nurses complain about a black female nurse using a female changing room. The black woman has done nothing wrong. NHS tells nurses that black colleague can use changing room. Is the NHS harrasing the white nurses or are the white nurses racists?

Denies life-saving care Oh no you died This was not my intention Look, Tom believes me

The obsession with trans women in women’s changing rooms seems to take up a lot of the media space that could be used to highlight cis male sexual abusers - but the concerns over them are usually only of interest when they are dead after a lifetime of praise

Like Bastani & the rest of the Novara crew its been obv since at the v latest her book promotion tour, Sarkar is on a lifelong quest to be taken seriously by political media class centrists & is totally chill fucking over some vulnerable groups in the hope of a pat on the head from a Times columnist

Patience limits exceeded. Somebody else pick up the naive trans ally if you have the spoons

Sealion? I think so now.

Trans people won't stop until we've got equal rights, and the Gender Critical movement won't stop until all trans people are dead. Why is it trans people are being depicted as the "evil" ones here?

So Emma Hilton is now the interim chair of Sex Matters. Let’s check out some of the Sex Science that she’s famous for

One of my upcoming History Month events...

FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"

This is an account set up by @natacha.bsky.social to facilitate setting up a new group. I regard the existing EHRC as not independent and consequently not legitimate. So I am looking to recruit members of an independent EHRC who can fulfill its functions with genuine integrity and… 1/4