If you can believe it, Scottish Labour politicians once criticised the SNP for taking money from Stagecoach founder Brian Souter, over funding an anti-LGBT campaign. Now here come the transphobic owners of McGills to fund Scottish Labour. History rhymes, huh. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2577380...

Why are there so many little turmeric shots this season? #TheTraitors

Another clasic for the "don't understand the SF they are referencing" file. To make Star Trek real you first need communism.

There is always an XKCD

*posting on twitter* oh ho, I’ve made a wry observation. Better make sure a bunch of pedophiles see it

"When your body's had enough of me/ and I'm laying down on the floor/ when you think I've loved you all I can/ I'm gonna love you a little bit more" feels like a consent violation. Get back on the floor you pests. #totp

Jarvis makes Walk Like A Panther sound filthy and I am not complaining about that #totp

it's not so simple as catholics: good food, wine, feasting, jollity and protestants: bad food, parsimony, joylessness but anywhere calvinism got hold is not going to shine in a gastronomic way

Finally got my flu jab. Greeted by this. Like being in a gameshow. There was no door number one, by the way.

They should add a mechanic whereby it's possible for someone to be 50% Faithful just so it makes sense for people to describe themselves as "100% Faithful". #TheTraitors

the moment before you tell Inigo Montoya you’re not left-handed either #TheTraitors

just remember this when the uk government tells us they are powerless to prosecute any of their soldiers or illegal paramiliarites who committed atrocities in Northern Ireland.

Look, I don't want to be part of the problem and very clearly I do not believe in binary gender but... why does my one (left) look so girly?

Remember to stock up on lemons today for your New Year Lemon Pig-making needs! 🍋

If Keir Starmer had been Prime Minister when Paddington went to jail he would have tried to bring back hanging

Merry Christmas It's a Wonderful Life, Guy from It’s a Wonderful Life, Who Convinces Another Guy to Open the Gym Floor So Everyone Falls in the Pool www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

Birthday off to an adorable start as we left the hotel gym and S. told the receptionist we would "be coming right back for swimmies"

It's very telling that Labour's approach to a popular/populist far right is "we'll go along with it and hope to skim some of their votes", while their approach to a popular/populist progressive/equality movement is "we will seek to smear it." Join the Greens. join.greenparty.org.uk

if you can't see that reproductive healthcare and gender affirming healthcare are the same fight then you're not thinking deeply enough.

incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs It’s a eggnog recipe

Worf and Counsellor Troi discuss something on the exterior of the saucer, unaware of the horror approaching the ship from behind them.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

trans women have been in women's spaces since before @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social was even born. it's never been a problem. these ppl have radicalised themselves on twitter and they're too arrogant to understand that. they presumably think they're immune to the propaganda on there. nobody is immune.

Forget Hemmingway, the BBC in 1999 managed to do it in 5 words.

"i wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy" i would. that's the point of having a worst enemy. grow up and hate people like an adult

Sure, because one of the first things you notice about 'gender-critical' voices in Scotland is how *silent* they are. It's not like they've been amplified like an air raid siren by virtually the entire national media or anything

I bet it does. I'd much rather drink hot chocolate.

I spoke in Parliament today to challenge the misinformation from those claiming this tribunal as a 'win' for the anti-trans agenda. In fact it found Ms Peggie harassed a colleague for being trans, and it dismissed almost all her claims. It also found that trans segregation is not supported in law.

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

you can be the most reasonable, intelligent, measured person on the planet and 3 minutes of a migraine will have you looking longingly at a drill and considering whether trepanning was honestly that bad of an idea

A diagnosis has made my life immeasurably better. I don't honestly know if I would be "in the workforce" without one. But even if I wasn't "in the workforce" right now, not falling apart all of the time is good and nice. What a fucking prick.

Spotify Wrapped says my listening age is 21 because I've listened to a lot of music from the early 2020s. The music in question is all by shouty queers in their thirties right enough, but sure. Okay.

I'll stop posting about Girlguiding after this, but... the Rainbows (aged 4-7) promise is "I promise that I will do my best to think about my beliefs and to be kind and helpful." Anyway, I've thought about my beliefs and they are incompatible with volunteering with GG now. Sigh.

Sitting in her mouldy castle, cackling and smoking cigars as she makes little girls cry because they can’t be in the girl guides anymore. If you wrote a villain like that publishers and editors would tell you it was too cliche.

For as long as there is patriarchy, I will stand by the value in having spaces where girls (all girls! including trans girls!) can do their thing. (1/4)

I'm a girlguiding volunteer. My day job is at a charity that has your backs. And will always have your back. I will continue to get up every single day and find new, different, "professional" ways to tell transphobes to they won't win here, and so will everyone else I work with. We got you.

Their statement screams of "we don't want to do this, but we can't afford the legal costs if we get sued". They're just kids. Let them be who they want to be.

Girlguiding have been so consistently strong and excellent on this stuff that it genuinely breaks my heart to see this happen.

for the record everyone should be mad *at the government* for this

when u got that ADHD

I personally set up a recurring donation to LGBTYS in an earlier round of nastiness in Scotland, and if you value the "controversial" work of supporting queer young people in a society where MSPs don't want them to be, you can donate here: www.justgiving.com/charity/lgbt...

Oh, Pam. How sad. Where's your festive joy? lgbtyouth.org.uk/product/adop...

If a person is working full-time and has to be on Universal Credit, then the "benefits scrounger" is their employer.

pluribus is the only show brave enough to ask if one mean lesbian could save the world

one massive thing you can do to help this normative holiday season is to simply refrain from shaming people who do not drink alcohol. you can also not demand an explanation for why…& for mega-bonus you can even be the shield if someone is being bullied about what they do or don’t consume.

We have a separate signal chat just to add household shopping requests to keep a list running, and instead of adding 'birthday paper' to the chat, S. just changed the name of the group to 'Birthday paper'. This is carnage.