Not even blinking between openly using "illegal immigration" to refer to "asylum seekers". When asylum is not only my illegal, but internationally required not to be. Mahmood is the shadow of cruelty in our politics. Reform could cease to exist and she'd still be pushing for this.

Quickly followed by Why Are Labour? Because fuck their racist fuckery.

A counter-claim here would be a last resort. The objective should be to extract BBC from litigation, not tie it in more messily and expensively. A counterclaim would give Trump all the rights of a defendant as well as a plaintiff. Would be a nightmare, given his litigation game playing.

Abortion law in Scotland is not fit for purpose, change is long overdue. You don’t have to look far to see notorious anti-trans bigots spreading misogynistic disinformation about abortion. Some of us have been saying forever that they’d do this… www.bbc.com/news/article...

Signed!

Equalities Minister tears apart logic of EHRC’s “trans-exclusive” guidance in High Court

“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!” --Megyn R. Kelly “Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!” --Also Megyn R. Kelly

Malcolm Clark, @TwisterFIlm on X, has gone so far O.T.T targeting Prof Stephen Whittle in a vile thread of tweets that are textbook malicious communications. We will make sure he will rue the day he did this.

This is rape culture. This is why so many people don’t come forward. A young girl was being bullied at school by a boy who made AI generated nudes of her. She told the principal. She told the guidance counsellor. They didn’t stop it. Finally she hit the boy responsible, and SHE got expelled:

"Sure, I chose to be here, and yes, I could almost certainly find a job elsewhere, but redoing my résumé would take time. Also, I don’t feel like it. Besides, once a year, my company mandates all employees to help clean up a local beach, and I almost always go."

it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are

This isn’t a dunk or even a disagreement with Marie, but the fact is, it wasn’t about the wit or charm - this is a child sex abuse ring! When sex trafficking rings emerge in the news in ANY other context, nobody ever comments on the intelligence of the participants - they’re in it to abuse women!

🏳️‍⚧️ Edinburgh - Edinburgh University's Liberation Campaigns and Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh are hosting a vigil in Bristo Square. 20th November from 6pm, with a community space from 7-9pm in Potterow afterwards. www.instagram.com/p/DQo0tzWiA5M/

Trans Day of Rememberance (TDoR) is coming upon the 20th November. Across Scotland, different groups are holding remembrance vigils and events, which we have gathered below in a list. If you know of others that aren't on the list, please reply and we'll add them.

🏳️‍⚧️ Edinburgh - QUILL Scotland are hosting a TDoR readings evening at Argonaut Books, featuring trans and nonbinary writers. 23rd November from 7pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../quill-pr....

1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes. On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales. On the right is the UK prison population. 🧵1/8

The SNP's wrecking amendment to this motion has sadly passed, confirming that the Scottish Government no longer opposes the Rosebank oil field application. A huge step backwards and a sad day for Scotland's reputation on climate action.

Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyy itsa me elon King: criminy Musk: you know, joyce carol oates, she says i no read Musk: but thata not true Musk: as evidenced by dissa new ad campaign i just start onna twitter to convince everyone that i read

Street art, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland 😁

My NHS employer has just confirmed redundancies are coming. For the second time in my 16 year NHS career tens of thousands of NHS staff, many with decades of experience will be thrown on the scrap heap. Many worked on the frontline (including me) in the pandemic. This is Streeting's reward for us.

EVERY racist arsehole is also xenophobic and transphobic. They have a disease in their brains.

Cis women cyclists reject Cycling UK’s transphobia.

I profiled Sara Morrison, former "inclusion" director at Belfast Film Fesitval who spoke at Kellie-Jay Keen's anti-trans Let Women Speak rally in 2023. Morrison was partly funded by J.K. Rowling in a lawsuit against the film fest (underway) & joined Genspect. www.transgendermap.com/issues/acade...

Just had a fun idea to draft the letter that the BBC should send back to Trump's lawyer. Let me see if I can make this work as a blogpost.

We’re turning 35 next year! 🎉 As we gear up for major fundraising in 2026, our Feminist Festive Fayre Raffle is back & bigger than ever. £5 tickets available at Glasgow Women’s Library, with incredible prizes to be won. Draw on Sat 29 Nov at the Fayre. More info: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/11/05/g...

Here’s an archive for UK people blocked with the Internet Online Safety message. archive.ph/2025.11.08-2...

I attempted to click on the link, and got "Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act". #Chicago #unsafe

Voiceover: the BBC did not, in fact, stand up to Donald Trump lying about the #Jan6 insurrection.

Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.

Tim Davie was, AFAICT, genuinely committed to the belief that if you have two people making competing claims, telling the viewer which claim is true is editorialising and should be avoided. They want to replace him with someone who'll actively push the right's lies as truth.

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Fucks' sakes, cursed crypt, not NOW! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Lest we forget" #RemembranceSunday

If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....

An Edinburgh court case involving members of Scotland’s aristocracy was kept from the public record, enshrining an anti-trans bias in law for more than 50 years

Huge thanks to @effjayem.bsky.social for organising Pictcon 1 and asking me to be GoH! I was interviewd by the fantastic @megintransition.bsky.social ❤️ & concluded the day on a fab panel with @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @bethkesh.bsky.social @joannacorrance.bsky.social @shoreinf.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Tomorrow, when my article is published I'm sending a complaint to Police Scotland for allowing gender critical activists to harrass me for being a trans journalist in a public space while in a professional capacity.

Yay, Lisa Tuttle is talking about how Windhaven is in many ways a very Scottish landscape. #PictCon

Lisa Tuttle, who built the windscreen of Storms of Windhaven, is on the panel. #PictCon

Building landscapes at #PictCon - is Robinson Crusoe the first novel to describe space and time?

Listening to a group of editors and writers discuss how to build an anthology. Francesca Barbini is comparing this to sushi. #PictCon

Near earth space which we continue to treat as empty is no longer actually so. In a more general sense, all areas called empty should be examined with suspicion. #PictCon

I was on the cryptozoology panel so no live posts from me #PictCon

Great to see Elphinstone getting the recognition she deserves! Her worlds are so immersive. "We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." 🌌🪐📚 #SciFi #

Adam Oyebanji says science fiction writers need to spot the dangers of technology because that's where plot comes from. #PictCon

Questions from @hfnuala.bsky.social about our friends from larger adjacent country seeing Scotland as empty space and we as SF fans seeing Space as empty space. #PictCon

Discussing the advantages of Iceland as a fantasy spaceport - includes Iceland being protected by witchcraft. #PictCon

Ken McLeod references #XKCD about why spaceship submarines do not work what-if.xkcd.com/138/ #PictCon