Just selected a film for the evening based on reading descriptions of everything Michael Douglas did between 1980 and 1999. A rich vein of nonsense thrillers.

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Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

One of the most infuriating parts of this circus has been the feminist masquerade employed by out-of-touch middle-class petty tyrants. Actual feminists who work with vulnerable women understand that trans women are VERY vulnerable women, and the guidance is making their lives harder for no reason.

There is something wrong with our TV and now whenever turn it on it defaults to American Idol on Samsung TV, no matter what we do.

Counterpoint: No I will not

Burnham is repeating all the same mistakes of the Starmer/McSweeney leadership which led to Labour shedding 4x as many votes to the Greens than Reform, tearing their coalition apart and allowing Reform to take hundreds of council seats. If he repeats that in the by-election it'll be game over.

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There are powerful, well-connected, well-funded people in this country, today, who are deliberately, strategically, using the idea of a woman being made "uncomfortable" by the presence of a trans person to plot the removal of that woman's right to abortion, contraception, and divorce.

not to call anyone out specifically: many cises responding they didn't know and imo that speaks to how most ppl have done no work interrogating the transphobia they've spent their lives absorbing. would you say that i am a whitewoman or a jewishwoman? i bet you wouldn't, even by accident!

Yet there you are, outside.

what a weird country we've built where the prime minister gleefully announces no fucker wants to come here any more

You know what I would like? A big slab of cake. Just like, a piece of cake as big as my head. A whole cake. A bruce bogtrotter cake. But you know what I have instead? The looming threat of a bigoted code of practice. I am booooored and I want cake.

Just declined a press request and had a response assuring me that the outlet would still find "the requisite trans representation." Requisite! It sounds so begrudging.

For the record this is not true. You need two witnesses aged 18 or over. Some places want witnesses who live at other addresses than yourself. If you’re a registered offender you have to notify the police. You say you’re switching names, what they are, and you sign it. That’s it.

Change?

I don't think you get to call yourself an ally, I think it's up to the marginalized folks you stand with whether you're an ally or not

Aye. That’s the point m8

£0.5m to specialist LGBT+ domestic abuse services literally only sounds like a lot of money to spend on that to exactly the kind of people who hate queers and think they should be battered out of existence. This is not something for a government to brag about as if it makes them sound good.

Additionally, I thought we had all long since agreed it was called IDAHOBIT. IDAHOT doesn't fill me with confidence that they've even done a cursory google of the communities it is meant to be about.

how long is it going to take for governments to get that nobody under 40 being able to afford a home, to raise children, or to save for retirement might be a catastrophic societal problem

"...women approaching retirement have on average half the private pension savings of men, with a median pension wealth of £81,000 versus £156,000" Aren't women silly! I bet this is coz maths is for boys and money is maths. I bet it isn't structural at all. Fuck off.

This is some of the best, most gorgeous storytelling on any podcast ever.

Your daily affirmation: I am smart. I am strong. It's ok if I explode into a clattering cloud of ravens instead of answering another work email.

Having one of those days where I just want to scream into a pillow. Or directly into a colleague's face.

not sure this means she’s actually trained to do anything

I have a graze on my arm which I think might be exactly the shape of the bouldering hold I caught it on. Art.

rude. in my day we called that Italo-disco.

In her final years, Sinéad O'Connor donated her old clothes and unused makeup to Irish trans teens as she wanted them to enjoy expressing their gender identities. Sinéad never punched down, stood firm in her beliefs, and will always be loved by the people of Ireland. Ms Terphy is nothing of the sort

The fucking GALL to put this on an article about a trans woman winning a discrimination case! British Bigotry Corporation

Now imagining all the genders uniting to form an all-powerful Megagender.

We are concerned by the nature of the media attention focused on the election of Dr Q Manivannan to the Scottish Parliament at the recent election.

the UK now has the least transphobic Health Secretary in years (nobody)

The LGB Alliance just publicly posting about being against banning abusive conversion practices. What a charity they are...

(Me after seeing two guys in any context whatsoever) Well well well, if it isn't a Healthy Male Friendship

I have a little obsession with Healthy Male Friendships and any time I see two men who don't appear to be a couple I declare it a Healthy Male Friendship. Just saw the guy across the road take the guy next door some flowers for some reason. Forget talk talk to your boys. Buy your boys flowers.

The fluorescent orange cheese powder from the world foods shop is vegan, which poses some questions, but it's extremely good mixed into butternut squash to make a truly filthy nacho cheese sauce so I guess I can worry about what exactly it is another time.

At least we’ll get some good use out of this gif.

They're treating these meetings like standing ovations at Cannes

the stories about Q Manivannan’s visa situation really highlight how little political journalists in Scotland feel that researching a story is part of their job

You have to credit Starmer for his optimism.

"I don't want to be Prime Minister but we can't let Wes Streeting be Prime Minister" is a message I can back.

Just remembered the Milifandom was a thing that existed.

It's a great book.

Weird how people who write for a living and who try to write what audiences will want to hear have all decided that "fuck AI" is a plot line that everyone loves.

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

"We are right in the middle of a Labour psychodrama" We are and I am here for it. Best thing to come out of this government. A Monday night psychodrama.