Wild how Israeli ministers will decry accusations of ethnic cleansing... ... and then just explicitly state they want to do ethnic cleansing. We should all be horrified by this. And at the very *very* least stop supporting it. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Ten years ago the Tories were in favour of self-ID¹. The British establishment were aghast at "US bathroom bans". We've now had sufficient pressure from the right sort of journalist, being funded by hate groups, that we just brought them in over here. ¹ www.theguardian.com/society/2017...

Honestly, the cloying desperation to find a perfect definition that will exclude trans women from legible, legitimate womanhood has in and of itself demonstrated (almost as well as any materialist feminist can) that sex is social, mutable, and a regime of violent policing.

Again: these clowns' constituents stopped getting water on Saturday. The issue is, on Wednesday, still ongoing. Thousands of homes affected. And they want to prioritise saying their little prayers & singing their little songs like it's Primary school assembly. Tell yer Reform voting Uncle/Colleague.

sometimes headlines can give the wrong impression but this is exactly what it says on the tin. this is despicable. it took a phenomenal, expensive, coordinated effort to get from north carolina losing 400 million dollars & a gubernatorial race over a bathroom ban to this in 10 years.

You have to give Blair credit: not only is he a hated war criminal, stooge for most of the worst petro-regimes on the planet and ID card-obsessed mark for technofascism, but his political instincts are utter dogshit as well. Yet he still thinks he should show his face in public?

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I am looking forward to the day when our pundits start to realize that politicians are not well-meaning but stupid, and are instead relatively intelligent and captured by financial self-interest.

That someone thought¹ that being transphobic was a justification for violence, especially against an old woman, shows why transphobia shouldn't ever be treated with respect, let alone be enshrined in legal advice. ¹ it's a 3 year old story

The Economy being good means nothing to me because it's a measure of how confident assholes feel in their line going up, and everything they do to make the line go up hurts me and devastates everyone who's doing worse than me. This isn't fucking rocket surgery.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

The Foreign Office warns Brits who fight in Ukraine they "could be prosecuted on return to the UK." No such warning exists for those who travel to fight in Israel. Same Foreign Office. Different rules. thenerve.news/p/sangita-my... www.thenerve.news/p/sangita-my...

Moving to the right has shown to be completely unpopular but it's the only tactic they have

Americans think British people are wimps for complaining about the heat. But what you don't realise is that most British houses were actually built in Britain, a cursed island that hates us.

"AI skeptics" aren't the only ones moving goalposts as to what constitutes "intelligence," I assure you. At the moment the phrase "AI" appears to be acting as an infinite money glitch, so from a marketing point of view it makes sense to make some claims in the direction.

well that's convenient, it would be awkward if the answer was something like a combination of dignity autonomy a far less abusive society all basic survival needs met and a well funded functional NHS

Cis friends: declaring that you stand with trans and nonbinary people, that you will defend us in public and in private and won't tolerate our abuse or dehumanization from other cis people, makes more of a difference than you think it does. A lot of people will follow the crowd.

I got curious about this quote, so I looked it up. It's a paraphrase. Here's the original: "When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on." —George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia.

Remember this... Eire has had gender recognition based on self-ID for over 10 years with no reports of abuse or hatred. The gender critical movement in Eire is minuscule. This is a British problem. A very sick, twisted, British cult problem. It is a disturbing European outlier . This is not normal.

Heck, just be honest and go with "Nigel Farage only pushed for Brexit because it was a grift he could get rich off. It was always a bad idea, but he knew he could make money off that lie, especially because he could take money from foreign interests to harm this country."

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

And to think we believed Starmer couldn't get more unpopular!

Had no idea UKGE was allowing genAI work into their expo. The absolute slap in the face to artists & creatives keeping this space alive & bringing these games to life visually, having to be side by side with folks stealing off of their backs to make their AI slop version? Beyond disappointing -

Even the Nazis, who criminalised doctors, destroyed research, and locked us up, weren't able to defeat trans people. That the "gender critical" people want to go through that again is personally worrying. They won't win, but we will be hurt in their attempt.

It has been won this month but also Phillipson needs to change the guidance because it hasn't been won enough

after years of the government not really actually saying "the war with Russia is making the quality of your life go down" now we also have the government not really saying "the war with Iran is making the quality of your life go down"

Transphobia Racism Classism Biscuits to go with cups of tea www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When I think of something to say I have a thought and I can then try and find the right words to express it; sometimes the words flow naturally, sometimes I have to carefully consider what I am trying to suggest, what the implications might be, what I want to sound like. The thought comes first. 1/

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

The experiences of trans people, and others assumed to be trans, when using the bathroom in accordance with the UK Supreme Court ruling: 🧵 (CW: violence)

If the limits of human rights in the UK can be decided by religious zealots, as has happened to trans people, then that applies to everyone. British people's right to gender expression is limited by theocrats hiding under the cloak of "biology."

Upon my oath, I am not a proselytising man. There's very little that I would recommend reading over any of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, even one of the less good early ones, and Monstrous Regiment is one of the best.

Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds

I will absolutely accept Chinese people ragging on British food! (I don't think it's accurate or fair, but I think it's a lot more reasonable coming from them than people from the US.)

Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?

Here's my parenting tip: Stop making laws that hurt LGBTQ+ kids.

Parents who disown their kids for being gay or trans are every bit as awful as parents who beat their children. It's abuse.

People forget it was a CONDITION of transition that you use your true sex toilet. They have lied and lied and lied from the start. Spent millions. And because we were completely locked out by media - and the actual court itself - they had a free run. The biggest rights robbery in British history.

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Very good article about Britain’s upcoming bathroom ban and the erosion of British democracy. If they can do it to us, they can do it to anyone!

Dealing with slippery aquatic creatures? Eel issue

As we move from May into June, and the weather over here in the UK starts to pick up, we start to get some of my favourite videos: people from outside the UK realising that heat over here somehow hits differently.

Not yet! When a full bathroom ban comes to the US, it should be called a "Starmer UK style bathroom ban"

“I hear you but I want a take-away that excuses my choice to continue using the environmentally, socially and economically destructive plagiarism machines for the things I find them handy for anyway” is an annoyingly common position.

people liked google because it worked and they don't like AI google because it sucks

Your milk is all over the floor and you really want to cry about it. Spill issue.

Ten years ago the UK government issued a travel advisory for LGBTQIA+ individuals about risks of going to the US partly because of trans bathroom bans. Now we have those bans in UK. This is what I mean by Labour being worse on trans rights than the previous government.

“it clarifies that the government supports discrimination” 👍

(unfamiliar with Sir Mix-a-lot) I am pleased to hear your baby returned safely

If you didn't know the origin of tipping culture in the US this thread covers the basics. (And, yes, the underlying cause is probably what you think it is.)