We're ALWAYS reading Pratchett, Helen! It's why we say trans rights are human rights.

So, a quick story. I have been at @comicpalooza.bsky.social, been swamped with long lines almost the entire weekend so far, and there was this very nice gentleman named Jin (not sure of the spelling). He came the first day and said he was bringing books the next day to get signed. 1/

“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” Swedish Proverb A reminder to myself that caring doesn’t have to mean absorbing everything. And often, the things we worry about either never happen… or we find a way through anyway. 🧡 #kindness Art by joyfulsmolthings

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

my kid: what does kitschy mean me: [opens mouth to define kitschy then spots sign she’s reading from] baked eggs in a crust, kind of like an egg pie

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

I'm hoping that entering the Peoples Artist competition will change my fortunes around & I'm still looking for opportunities but still need some help. If you can spare anything to help me, I'd really appreciate it 🙏 buymeacoffee.com/Robotwig www.paypal.me/StephenBerry ko-fi.com/robotwig

This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.

Massive thanks again for those who are continually voting for me, I'm through to the 3rd round now where I've got to be in the top ten by this time next week to get through to the next stage, 🤞 I can make it to the end. It would be life changing for me. peoplesartist.org/2026/stephen...

Wrote a letter to my MP, it’s probably not the most coherent thing in the world but I couldn’t not say anything.

Anything by @neillcameron.bsky.social, @jamiesmart.bsky.social, Katie Kirby, and @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social.

Absolute brain worms.

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

A whole career, if you're Keith Harris.

The important point to remember is NO SHE DOESN'T. What was published yesterday were guidelines for service providers. They impose NO obligations on individuals and are NOT the law. People want you to believe otherwise, to intimidate trans people. But they haven't yet criminalised their existence.

I'm fast becoming a single issue voter and that vote is letting trans people live their lives

"those that wish to exclude trans men and women from their spaces also need to know how to do so without breaching individual rights" how can you write this and not have your soul instantly leave your body

Labour are disgusting. They have pandered to a tiny band of bigots in order to ruin the lives of trans women who pose no threat at all to any of us. This is targeted at trans women who will bear the brunt of it but you’re a fool if you don’t recognise that it harms us all.

This is unworkable and a huge step backwards for human rights. I will be calling on the Government to urgently rethink this before it's too late.

me: dems need to get ahead of this data center thing aoc: its handled.

Today, I did the last two of this week's eight projects! Here's a cute piece created by the Year 3/4 kids from the tiny Oak Hill Primary School. (Home to just 50 kids) I thought this was lovely, two and half hours work from scratch. www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #UKEd

People with “gender critical beliefs” getting it included in government guidance that you can’t call them horrible transphobic bastards is so wild like I don’t have to spend billions lobbying for legal documents to get people to like me, have you tried being a nice person instead

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

The EHRC’S new code has been published. We’ll have a detailed analysis out shortly. The guidance has been toned down from the previous draft – but it still treats trans people like they’re a third sex. This pushes trans people out of public life and violates their human rights.

Texted the manager of my football team to say he's supposed to make me and the other trans guys change separately to the cis guys for our tournament tonight and he's replied with "fuck the ehrc and fuck the fa" so good luck to the government on getting people to enforce this

Remember to call it Labour’s bathroom ban as they love to claim ownership of progressive legislation they’ve brought in so they need to claim ownership of segregation as well

I wrote this about the supreme court ruling last April and sadly, despite repeated slapdowns in court and increasing evidence that ordinary people are not the swivel-eyed transphobe obsessive this government believes, every word of it still applies. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Lads, Harry Hill is a legend

Lots of women's sports teams especially given how much of women's sports is dominated by grass roots amateur clubs where there's no incentive to fight over who has what hormones to win medals, do not want this kind of ban.

Same, and I also don't use generative AI for anything in my daily life (summaries, making lists, outlines, recipes).

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

Just did the Teams version of walking into a room full of people, then turning around and walking straight out again because I was in the wrong meeting.

We’ve been lucky to receive high-profile support since we started our campaign, and we know visibility and vocal allyship matters. It doesn’t come much higher than Sandi Toksvig, who’s done so much for women’s equality and inclusion. Thank you 🙏 notinourname.org.uk

Had a lot of fun with the olive, so let’s go again! Impromptu art club prompt! Make a picture of this radish. Any media, all skill levels, digital and traditional welcome, total beginners welcome, no AI #OliveArtClub

Managed to miss the bus, despite actually being at the stop when it arrived, which is quite an achievement.

And how did I deal with the problem of one of the sources being in Greek (which I don't speak) and the other in Sanskrit (of which my knowledge is only moderate)? Colleagues and other experts. That's how. I asked other experts.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Kid version when?

Happy friday everyone! What's your good news from the week? What's made you smile? What's brought some joy into your life?

Bananaman graphic novel alert! Me and Wayne in the Bookseller! www.thebookseller.com/rights/farsh...

crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house

a) this is disgustingly racist. b) Priest and Christian theologian here, and “Christian values” and indeed Christianity are absolutely not genetically transmitted. c) the only Christian society that has seriously tried to claim it is was Spain post-Reconquista, bc they were disgustingly racist.

A cause for national shame. This is the Rainbow Map for LGBTI+ rights across Europe. Until 2015, the UK was top. We've now collapsed down the rankings - and are the worst in Western Europe. We're now near Albania.

I know some people wonder why Starmer is so widely disliked. In part it is because of this. Under Starmer Labour has continued attacks on basic rights, especially for trans and non-binary individuals, and making it harder for LGBTQIA+ people to seek asylum. rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/countries/un...

OK, anyone out there in the market for an INCREDIBLE book for roughly 8-12 year olds? I have just read The Deep Dark by Zohra Nabi and it blew my socks off. Imagine the Buffy episode Reptile Boy but set in Victorian london, exploring colonialism and capitalism, with magical music too. #KidLitUK

Proust Baking Company Recalls Thousands of Madeleines

I love the randomness of our local charity shops. I go in with fairly flexible requirements for a fairly standard item, like an age 12 long sleeve t shirt and nada. I need something very specific, like 5k dumbells and crewel wool in suitable colours for the Bayeux Tapestry and bingo!

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

Okay things are getting too serious Join my art club that I just invented We are doing olive this week Make a picture of this olive (I took the photo, no rights issues) Share the picture All skill levels, all media, no AI #OliveArt

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