It’s all kicking off in Richmond.

Sassafras enjoys head scritches. To maintain silent flight, owls sacrifice standard waterproofing. Instead of using waterproof preening oil, they rely on specialized "powder down" feathers that crumble into a fine, water-repellent, and dirt-absorbing dust.

Can I interest you in a moist owlette as a timeline cleanse? This is Sassafras the Eastern Screech Owl from the Cincinnati Zoo (@cincinnatizoo.bsky.social, but via their FB) and I love him very much. Eastern Screech Owls (Megascops asio) are native to eastern North America.

The level of evidence needed before a pro-trans policy can be implemented? Infinite. The level of evidence required to get this Labour government to roll back trans people’s rights? Negligible. Why? The Telegraph, BBC and Mail demand hate and the Guardian publishes apologia to justify it:

Hoy, los agentes de la Policía Nacional están identificando a las profesoras en huelga en el País Valencià. Es una actuación policial con la única intención de amedrentar al profesorado.

Tough interview for Sturgeon about the £400k by Keunssberg this morning. Where are the similar interviews with Farage about his £5m?

Actor Fredi Washington wearing an anti-lynching armband in 1938.

Farage has not been seen in Parliament for 11 weeks. 11 weeks. Imagine the state of the country if that frog faced cunt becomes PM.

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

"Children of those on care worker visas, who came legally before rule change, told to leave even if parents can stay" abolish the home office

And if Andy Burnham takes over, he will just appoint someone else who'll peddle the exact same line. Labour are completely captured by transphobia, if you care about trans rights do not give them your vote.

Crucial council plans detailing SEND services reform could be submitted to government without public scrutiny, with school leaders warning of a “lack of meaningful engagement” https://schoolsweek.co.uk/council-send-reform-plans-could-dodge-public-scrutiny/

There's no way forward for us as a society if we keep giving plausible deniability to obvious lies. 'Dignity for trans people' is an obvious lie: the liars saying it know it, the ones listening to the liars know it. Why should anyone be expected to swallow bullshit with a straight face?

You can’t just throw the phrase “dignity for trans people” like a magic spell into the end of your diatribe about how trans women aren’t women. It is fundamentally undignifying to tell trans women they aren’t women! This isn’t difficult.

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

1 June 1942 | An Italian Jewish boy, Marco Segre, was born in Milan. On 25 May 1944 he was murdered in a gas chamber at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

The pop-up sauna makes you feel what now?

When he was an MEP, Farage excused his absences on basis that it was an illegitimate government and that sovereignty should reside in Westminster. He's now an MP in Westminster And he's been absent for 77 Parliament votes in a row. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...

Rivera spent nearly three years in detention, cut off from the outside world, leading advocates to fear for his welfare.

Thread on blatant journalistic malpractice.

for pride month please do something about how conditions are becoming drastically worse for queer (and esp. trans) people in large portions of the globe rather than rainbows, cheesy pop music and 'love is love' (which sounds like 'your love is as good as ours if it aspires to follow the same rules')

The BBC director of news programmes used to be director of news at GB News. I'm sure this has no bearing on the seemingly easy ride Reform politicians get from the broadcaster. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...

The people who led the negotiating of Trump's slush fund were all Trump's personal lawyers, who had worked with one another. There was no-one there representing the public interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

We need to see the law changed, so that employers and workers know when action must be taken to keep workers cooler and safer. Add your name. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/we...

How many signed Chris Packham's petition for a national briefing on climate in your constituency? petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com?petition=767... Is there a screening in your area? www.nebriefing.org/screening-map Has your MP seen it? Sign, then email then petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

100% serious not being sarcastic: Trans women have been trying but I think we really need more cis women to say it

trump's "skill" in making deals has always been based on one thing: his ability to refuse to honor the deal he just made he'll agree to do something and then just not do it and dare you to impose consequences on him for it if you can actually do that, well

state troopers with riot gear and horses are just smol beans

This right here.

I don't, but if you are that worried about "getting caught" maybe don't tell the Times?

Its me the webcomics bitch

Reskeeting with alt text bc I laughed aloud at this dude Clark seeing the technicality and seizing his moment

Been looking for this post, I've never been over to the bad place, even before it was bad, but finally found a png of it. This is so far off the deep end I can't even fathom it. We're no longer just the "opposition". Now we will sacrifice their children to Moloch. They are afraid.

Donald Trump on Iran: “Iran is in a very bad situation; fake news is their biggest lifeline…”

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

So funny how in Homer sacrifices to the gods are just massive feasts. Like oh yeah I had the double big tasty meal with large fries and a milkshake. For Poseidon.

ricordiamo Tiananmen89 Il ragazzo allegro in bicicletta è quello che mi colpisce il cuore ogni volta che lo guardo "dove vai? a Piazza Tiananmen perchè? è il mio dovere"

And he's still got a better attendance record than Rosie Duffield. What did we do to deserve her...

In this Telegraph article from just before the last General Election, Rishi Sunak promised to increase North Sea drilling and cut National Insurance. Exactly what Wes Streeting is now promising. But, sure, Labour represents change.

My mother was being terfy saying I didn't have female psychology. So I turned on my practiced frat boy debate bro mode and started talking to her like she's a guy friend.

Israel and Russia both denied any wrongdoing and blamed everyone else. Vatniks and Zionists collectively wailed that they were actually the real victims of "Russophobia and antisemitism" and not the masses of innocent people and children they've tortured and raped.

The rapid rise of 'gender critical' organisations and high volume of anti-trans media coverage has been mapped for the first time by @amnestyuk.bsky.social 

Genuine parenting goals. Alt text: Morticia Addams (old black-and-white TV version) sits on a throne like chair and kisses her daughter Wednesday on the head. Caption: "Mom, am I weird?" "I would hope so, life is better like that."

disabled replies bcos she was getting ratio'd to fuck. not going as expected, @rachel-rees.bsky.social? did you just shit yourself in public? yes you did.

Royals knew about Andrew’s dodgy trade envoy dealings 6 years ago...