Thing is, it would have been so, so easy to wash this stink off. Trans people and & progressives are desperate for hope. I think people would have been very willing to give him a chance to start fixing this, and quite a lot of grace in the meantime. But apparently, even a symbolic change too much.

told you.

🚨 Bridget Phillipson remains as the Minister for Women and Equalities After FWS Phillipson publicly stated that trans women should use men's toilets. She recently signed into force harmful & discriminatory statutory guidance which will devastate trans lives. Suggests no change re. trans rights.

Watching @robinince.bsky.social's talk "why I left the infinite monkey cage" and it's pretty heartbreaking on the institutional prejudice and censorship at the BBC and being confronted with the reality of the suffering trans people are experiencing. Huge amount of respect for him.

FINALLY someone says it.

some days you sit down at work and intend to work, and you intend to work all day, and then the day is over. but you haven't worked, you haven't worked at all. you spent a whole day intending, sincerely intending, to work. but you didn't work. why are you like this.

Fellas, is it a good thing when law enforcement officials use the same excuse for murdering civilians as Mr Blonde in Reservoir Dogs?

not complying woth law enforcement is not a crime punishable by death. full stop. nothing else matters here.

It's nice isn't it? The competence.

This, at least, is funny. Door, ass, no need for the twain to meet.

They just expect anyone with an illness or disability to never leave home. But they also don't want to provide any support. Anyone who isn't 100% healthy just shouldn't exist.

I feel like this seemingly obvious batshit nonsense cruelty is actually hugely telling - there is literally no downside to the diner to being asked this question. Absolutely zero. It takes up three seconds of your life. You lose more time through yawning. 1/4

Yes. He smothered Corbynism, extirpated the Left from Labour, protected Zionism inside the party, assisted the genocide in Gaza, helped Trump wage his aggression against Iran, instituted savagely racist immigration policies and achieved an authoritarian crackdown on protest. His real work is done.

Jimothy has taken many forms. He is older than the trees themselves. He arrives when the times have need of Jimothy.

And it is notable how whenever there's discovery regarding specific workers being sacked for being really, really weird and bigoted about trans people, they're also usually extremely racist and/or homophobic, too, and all their coworkers were experiencing this constantly, sometimes for years

This is a very important point about these employment tribunal cases: a very strange, off-putting, raving ultra-bigot is dismissed or their contract is not renewed, but the onus is squarely put on the employer to ensure they were dismissed without any conceivable error on the employer's part

Andy Burnham must go!

[AFTER KEIR STARMER RESIGNS] ME: PAL: ME: PAL: Lot of human rights abuses for a hu- ME: A LOT of human rights abuses for a human rights lawyer!

It's tempting to call all this kayfabe, but my understanding is that kayfabe generally involves writers and performers who actually understand what the fuck they're doing.

Not good enough. I want Burnham in a white uniform covered in medals. Haigh and Midgely flanking him in huge sunglasses. A visibly shaken Starmer reading out a statement in support of his predecessor. The lot

In case you missed it over the weekend, JK Rowling-backed Sara Morrison lost her tribunal against the Belfast Film Festival. "The tribunal found that the evidence presented to them did not support Ms Morrison’s claims and dismissed them “in their entirety”."

so wait you basically can’t even use your hands at all unless you’re the weird guy at the end

I've said it before and I'll say it again as I'm watching it. The moment in the DS9 episode Defiant where Will Riker reveals to himself to really be Tom by removing fake sides of his beard to reveal a goatee is one of the most hilariously stupid things in all of Star Trek. Gets me every time.

As part of the movie tie-in if the game goes into extra time Matt Damon is authorized to pepper the players with arrows

Having a huge amount of fun trying to piece together what the BBC showed during halftime from the bewildered, nauseated and appalled exclamations across my timeline. I feel like one of people in Day of the Triffids who didn't get around to checking out the meteor shower.

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Winning 3rd place should be like winning money in the bank in WWE, England should get to run on and play whoever wins this right there and then

"give him a chance" only works if you've been elected on a policy platform! if you've been appointed to be in charge of the country on nothing but vibes i don't have to do fuck all

Well, there's this one; a book about the historicity, politics, and themes of Star Trek TOS Season 1. Written by me, with art by the incomparable @harrysaxon.bsky.social and text layouts/internal design by the incandescent @explodinghye.bsky.social. What's not to appreciate?

A pox upon anyone with a loud and hyperactive disabled child like mine for taking them in public in front of society’s sole protagonist: a single person who doesn’t like kids. We selfish assholes are thinking life outside of a culturally and financially imposed anchorite cell is possible!

the jibonacci sequence

This is what you say when YOU think people have no inherent dignity, worth, or dignity. Humans cannot make their own value. Society is just an aggregation of beasts. You need the ultimate Big Daddy King in the sky to rule people into obedience. Utter cynicism, projected.

The problem with Thatcherism is you eventually run out of other people’s furniture.

people have a tendency to think that assigned reading in school is to teach children to like reading, when really your school assigns the great gatsby because it’s got a lot of prominent and obvious symbolism. Shakespeare is for learning to push through confusion and pick up context

W/alt

My proposed minister for Abominable Intelligence

England coming a mere third out of every country on the planet? Time for the press to start demanding someone be fired.

🎶Three lions 'cos we're third!🎶

this is brilliant fun. all games should be played with zero sporting stakes but about three centuries of mutual animosity #thefootball

Appelez l'ambulance! Mais pas pour moi!

this has the potential to be the funniest half of football of all time, easily beating the current record held by the first half of this same match

🎶Three lions 'cos we're third!🎶

The movie "The Odyssey" is great. But if this was 1992, we would all be listening to the Bryan Adams power ballad hit "Making My Way to You (love theme from "The Odyssey")

Good time to remember that it was called the "Spanish Flu" because Spain was one of the few countries whose media was actually allowed to report on what was happening.

BBC burying the lede here until paragraph 3 - JKR bankrolled this and LOST. I repeat - JKR bankrolled this lawfare against the Belfast Film Festival and... LOST. It can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...