This is an attack Gillick Competence, and without a doubt the beginnings of an assault on the supply of birth control to young people. I was 17 when I started taking HRT. If you’re over 16, then by English law you can legally consent to your own healthcare.

On this note - my brother @oolon.co.uk has tomorrow off work for International Women's Day but my sister-in-law doesn't!

The manufactured fear of autism is a for-profit industry that permanently injures and kills children, whether they're autistic or allistic. True believers like Kennedy are convenient and powerful rubes, but none of these are free treatments; it isn't just ignorance and ego that fuels them.

Friend of mine is writing a book about boats/ships, and gave us a funny bit of trivia I didn't know. The phrase "blowing smoke up your arse" is literal, before CPR they'd literally blow tobacco smoke up your rectum to "revive" you if drown(ing/ed) and rescued not breathing!

Spoilers for Star Trek Academy -- when the Dr asked Voyagers computer for a practice holographic family to live with... you can't imagine how much Voyagers computer must have hated him! 800 years of trauma lol

Jesse Singal now appears to be siding with Ken Paxton on forced mental health conversion therapy for trans youth.

Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Once again Reform are spreading misinformation & smears, and the press & the media seem to repeat them.. its really important that the media.. take responsibility so when Reform or Farage says something they don't just keep repeating it"👏👏👏

OMG, I know everyone hates AI, and I don't like the whole plagiarism thing... but shit. For work I've been assessing opencode + Claude and it passed with flying colours to say the least! I had a bit of work to apply a deprecated feature of one of our products to a deployment -

Just when you think you've seen the most brain-dead hysterical media reporting on nonsensical anti-renewables "fears" whipped up on deranged Facebook groups, along comes the epic nonsense below:

Its actually so infuriating and patronising and degrading to be told a conversion therapy ban is coming all the while Labour is actually actively implementing conversion onto trans youth across healthcare and education

"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them" Direct quote.

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition. Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Doesn't feel particularly radical to suggest that the taxpayer should not subsidise organisations whose entire purpose seems to be to hound an incredibly marginalised group out of public life.

The discord between trans activists and disabled activists was often mutual - disability rights activists didn't want to be stained by the stigma of transsexualism and many trans activists in turn didn't want their identities perceived as an "illness." Great read on where we stand today

You’ve got to love how actress Kelly Marie Tran, one of the most harassed people ever to be on the internet, still leapt up to defend trans people in a recent interview. No one would blame her for keeping her head down and shutting up forever but she will NOT and I admire her for it ⭐

This isn't satire. This is a real headline published in the UK.

NEW: The Bureau of Prisons won't explain why Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a cushy facility after she met with Deputy AG Todd Blanche. So we filed a FOIA request for documents on this—and now we're suing (thanks to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—@rcfp.org).

What a difference a year makes.

@latsotti.bsky.social oh no, Robs gonna think you are my sock. Unless hes finally given up obsessing about every anon account being me

Tell that to the heartbroken daughter of a friend who’s quit guides because of this shameful move, Joanne. She can’t bear to see trans girls excluded. Your Harry Potter money funds this shit. Don’t buy in.

Isn’t it fascinating that the Tribunal has ended up exactly where we were years ago on then-Twitter? We told the bigots that their niche law point wouldn’t get them anywhere. And look, it has played out exactly as we predicted.

@f1nn5ter.com doubled what was raised in last nights stream taking out current total to £35,673! www.twitch.tv/videos/26227... To keep on donating - www.anne.health/christmas

Users of r/tallgirls share their experiences of measures intended to target trans people: www.reddit.com/r/TallGirls/...

Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...

When even Alistair Campbell is calling out the BBC's constant blatant prejudice and discrimination against transgender people, maybe it's time call out the BBC & it's journalists have become. action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-BBC...

Yay to Claire Sharpe 🤗 (Note the BBC's subhead. Trans women are also "biological". I fucking hate the way language is weaponised by bigots)

"It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects." - Alfred Kinsey

“The binary doesn’t have to include everyone” sounds like a description of something that…isn’t binary, but I am not an Important Scientist. Clearly a computer would be fine with its binary numbers including a few that weren’t either 0 or 1. It wouldn’t make any difference to it.

I agree with this sentiment:

The judge really lets rip here, at length - the courts have clearly had enough of the Burkes. He also ruled that criminal contempt proceedings should be taken against Mr Burke as well as his brother Isaac, sister Ammi and mother, Martina for their conduct in court hearings.

He's doing the thing

His fallacy goes like this: p1) Sex is a binary category male/female you can apply to gametes, hormones, genitalia, meccano connectors etc. 🆗 p2) Humans have sexual characteristics 🆗 🚩 THEREFORE 🚩 c) You must be able to apply a binary sex classification to humans

artificially ruling out all the exceptions is how you know your binary is real and natural

Colin "Often Wrong" Wright, has a new paper on the scientific "fact" of "binary sex"... Good news, everyone. The "designed to produce gamete l/s" has gone! Bad news, everyone. It's been replaced with a new fallacious view that you just don't count if you don't match his model!

this story was sort of lost in the last few days of the epstein news but it’s wild how many republicans appear to be pedophiles or okay with pedophilia

Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down. What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide... 🔥🧵

Greens are doing well being completely pro-trans, so the LibDems decide to ramp up the transphobia and demand trans apartheid be implemented now! bsky.app/profile/mari...

JK Rowling getting mad at Glamour (UK) magazine for having trans women on the cover. Shows trans people literally can’t do anything without her having a tantrum. I did like Glamour’s clap back at her though

99.9 percent of the people saying "The law is the law" have never read the FWS decision, or the applicable laws. I do enjoy watching the bigots realize their 'magic bullet' supreme court ruling wasn't the magic bullet they wanted it to be and stamping their feet like the petulant babies they are.

We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak". But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.

Looking at shower heads and this one lost something in translation I hope

Only one AWS region went out? Seems like there will be a big uptick in demand for AWS Architects as that's poor design. Our demo k8s clusters are in two GCP zones in one region, but anything prod I'd be concerned if it was in one region only!

a skull full of soup.

Furries against fascism. Protesting the ICE gestapo in the most Portland way possible

MAGAs are apparently trying to make out Stephen King is a pedo because of a scene in IT. I don't remember the bit with Beverley they are referencing, but this one really disturbed me as a 16-17yr old when I read it! (CW for c-word and, well...) www.reddit.com/r/stephenkin...

tilly norwood hasn't starred in anything. there are no 'ai actors'. all of these opinion pieces are essentially selling a lie to potential investors. it makes it really clear and obvious which publications are owned by american tech.