McSweeney could never be as iconic as Cummings leaving Downing Street through the front door with his cunty box. What a queen.

can’t believe it’s four years since I last wrote SPARQL queries lol

Low energy Ash…

Such people don't trust WPATH, the global professional body of trans health practitioners but they do trust weird scare stories in the press? Choices in which sources you trust over others are driven by values.

Yeah, and when you do try to explain that there's nothing "untested" it too often gets pushed back against because they can't believe the media would have lied to them about the topic.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "I confirm the same has been filed…”

I think I’ve finally figured out the shape of my 30s, and it looks lovely. The only thing left to do is check if they are vibing with the plan as much as I am and I just get to enjoy the journey.

My kids & their friends say “that looks/sounds like AI” to mean shitty & fake/stupid. Really incredible to be inundated by “transformative AI“ discourse when the reality is so plainly the opposite.

I have written twice now to Labour’s General Secretary to investigate this story because if true it is immensely damaging to our party.

What? www.instagram.com/reel/DQwk6pD...

I think this would trip the breakers…

Perhaps Labour would be better off with co-leaders, as the Greens, and Labour itself, informally, in the past, have had.

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

That’s why we must boycott Barclays.

Four hours of travelling for a crush? Worth it… even if I’m still figuring out whether we’re compatible.

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

I guess it went well?

Unlike Starmer, neither Albanese nor Carney had an Epstein problem. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Starmer and Ship, take two. Sound, camera, action!

Is Keir Starmer even conscious? He looks like a robot running on alcohol fuel.

Starmer obviously has an anger problem, and I suspect it is due to alcoholism.

on my way to see crush 😊

Functional programmers hate transistors because they keep mutating behind our backs.

gosh wish I can put more time into my PPL training

I think a prosecutor of Heer KC’s calibre would not even contemplate a retrial. She should recognise that the case is finished for the Crown. But…

Good morning, my fungi-loving friends. 🍄‍🟫

Cute 😊

I’ll be doing some door-knocking for the London Green Party in Hackney this weekend. Haven't done it since the last Westminster election.

Starmer: Mandelson, how could you? Media: Starmer, why did you? The people: Media, why didn't you? #bbcpm

1/🧵 I don’t really know what to make of the Scottish Prison Service case. The hate group argues that there is no case law on the allocation of trans people within the prison estate, so therefore no Convention rights are engaged. Yet at the same time, they claim there are conflicting rights at play.

Wait… The Others in Pluribus is just The Ood in Dr Who, right?

My issue with Palantir is mainly that their products do not offer any value to the NHS.

Not sure if my hormones are still off from a few weeks ago, if it’s fatigue from moving home, or if I’m just emotionally so content looking forward to a fun board game date tomorrow, but I’ve had absolutely no desire for a week now. 🤷🏻‍♀️

By the way, this also explains why they are so focused on judicial review instead of bringing a claim in the county court. An ordinary discrimination claim can never involve the consideration of a tripartite set of interests, it only arises in judicial review proceedings.

1/🧵 This is quite significant as it’s the first public argument about which Equality Act provisions go against the Convention. A judge in London requested a written submission from Good Law Project and the EHRC but it was never published.

1/🧵 Yesterday, the City of London Corporation’s Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood and Queen’s Park Committee met to discuss the outcomes of the consultation and judicial review regarding access arrangements at the Hampstead Heath swimming ponds. No decision has been taken yet. (Live stream - 1:32:45s)

I will keep saying this: the best way forward is for the Hampstead Heath charity to sponsor and petition for a personal Act of Parliament. Swift, low-cost, and final. www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

I have no further comments.

New from Dazed: We speak to the activists and regular swimmers behind the movement to keep the Hampstead ponds inclusive: https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/69529/1/the-women-fighting-for-trans-inclusion-at-hampstead-heath-ponds-sex-matters

New episode

Today, the Court of Appeal has given clarity and confidence to medical professionals in Aotearoa to continue prescribing GnRH agonists/reversible pubertal suppression. You can read PATHA’s statement at patha.nz/news

My new home is next to some grassy, wooded areas with paths running through them. It isn’t quite a park, and the maps actually label it “Ashley Open Space” (not really “Ashley”). Is that really the common term here in London? It feels strange, in New Zealand, we would call this “Ashley Domain”.

4/ One particularly interesting point is that the Scottish Ministers accept the existence of a “service test” under paragraph 28 of Schedule 3 (the Westminster Secretary of State denied it in GLP v EHRC) and they invite the court to proceed straight to considering incompatibility.

1/🧵 I really like Lesley Irvine’s straightforward metaphor for the Scottish Ministers, hate groups are attempting to subvert the Equality Act 2010, turning Schedule 3, which was meant as a shield, into a sword, leaving trans people with nothing to defend themselves against this supposed new sword.

(Speculative) It is interesting the judge drew an analogy between imprisonment and employment when seeking clarification from the EHRC’s counsel. She may conclude that Schedule 3 does not apply, but Schedule 22 does instead. That would also mean that the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice is incorrect.

1/🧵 The Scottish Human Rights Commission’s intervention in the case of Scottish Prison Service is excellent. (The SHRC is entirely independent of the EHRC.) Kenny McBrearty KC said Articles 2 & 3 rights are unqualified.

Reminded to post this by @stephpaton.bsky.social Sarwar showing his arse, again. (From channel four news)

I still think of Canterbury as a large region and Christchurch as a city, not Canterbury as a “city” or Canterbury Christ Church as a university...

Even with a prosecutor as good as Deanna Heer KC, the jury couldn’t reach a conviction. That says a lot.