There are no “legitimate concerns” about trans people. There aren’t any about women’s safety or fairness in sports or kids being kids or fucking toilets. If there were you’d have heard of them before 2018. I am a cis white woman so you have to listen to me or I’ll cry.

The 'panic' around Lia Thomas was about creating a target people could point at while demanding exclusion. So much of what people “know” about Lia comes from manufactured outrage and years of misinformation repeated without context. We commissioned this comic to break down the actual story. 1/2

2026 Me: Hey 1996 me, in 30 years time you'll be furious at everything Tony Blair says and think John Major makes some pretty sensible points 1996 Me: Fuck, so I'm doomed to become more conservative as I get older 2026 Me: Well not exactly

When you read this stuff from people, whether it's about trans people or any other minority, how can you see anything other than someone just admitting they're a supremacist? Of course you think every member of the group you hate is disgusting, that's why you are what you are

There's nothing like a meaningful consultation exercise - and this was nothing like one, apparently.

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

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You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling Races on the telly! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/l00589l1

Today’s Observer correction, a classic, doesn’t do justice to the context of the typo.

"The vast majority of people will never hear the other side of the story, the factually correct side of the story, the morally decent side of the story. The side of the story that was the overwhelming consensus among politicians and the public a mere 6-7 years previously."

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

3. It’s going to be impossible to enforce those rules (and we should work to make that worse for anyone complying with them!) but that’s not the point. The point is that it removes legal protections which shaped the normal business approach for a decade.

2. What the new code does is the opposite: it makes it complex and expensive to be inclusive and privileges those striving for inequality’s discomfort over equality for everyone.

EHRC Code: 1. The point of the Equality Act was to prevent discrimination. So if you were discriminated against, you had (in most cases) a route to make a complaint, the law to back you up and a route to make inequality expensive enough that most companies complied (to some extent).

in the guidance on trans people, right where they say transphobia is not transphobia, they felt it necessary to add that homophobia is not homophobia just a little glimpse into the future

Once more for those at the back: There is NO WAY to reliably identify trans people, and certainly no dignified and respectful way to ask any person to prove their sex in a public facility. This will just cause harm to trans people and to cisgender people who don’t conform to gender stereotypes.

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

This Enid Blyton reboot's taken a turn.

Now I understand why people care about cricket scores

Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™

If you're wondering how preparation for this is going, I'm currently listening to a (banging) compilation of Soviet-era disco* from Central Asia *other genres are represented.

Euston, we have a problem.

Step 1: find a trans person of the opposite gender. Step 2: both go to the Texas detransition clinic and ask for hormones of your assigned sex at birth to undo the damage of gender ideology. Step 3: swap your free hormones with your trans homie. Step 4: transition.

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone

Perfect example why 4K is the first format that isn't automatically an 'upgrade'. There's way too much of this awful shit going on. Shadows are not flaws. Color is by design. The goal isn't to 'fix' darkness. The Terminator: 35mm (top) 4K scan (bottom) Image courtesy: BobbyCastro1994

"I don't want to be Prime Minister but we can't let Wes Streeting be Prime Minister" is a message I can back.

i love this tweet so much, it's like the flashback scene at the end of godfather 2 with all the corleone children alive and happy together

Remember: left wing politicians should be investigated for every little thing because they are hypocrites if they have any money or property at all. Right wing politicians are expected to be financially well off so their corruption is just shrugged off. Anyone who disagrees is just jealous.

WE WON. Amnesty named me People’s Human Rights Champion for exposing a scandal in British healthcare. My team and I found abuse, neglect, conversion therapy, and deaths, all ignored by NHS managers. See the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5w... Support our work: www.patreon.com/c/Philosophy...

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

Hahah why bother with data centers if you can just install the equivalent of a bitcoin miner on everyone's fucking computer Anyway, use Vivaldi. It's an old fork of chrome from before it was enshittified, it can use chrome add-ons, but has none of this shit

"When these appalling attacks happen to the Jewish community, we have the correct response. When it happens to other communities.. not the same urgency is applied" Natasha Devon with some facts.

It'd save our blood pressure if we recognised that most of the media are not neutral reporters but anti-leftist partisans: they are a player, not the referee. Expecting them to do honest reporting is like expecting an opposing football team to score own goals.

Shabana Mahmood’s special advisor threatened us with an injunction and two different lawsuits last night in an attempt to block this story linking her to a notorious vote rigging case. I think it’s strongly in the public interest. So here it is. www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/exclusive-sh...

There are elections next week, and you should notice that the pretence of impartiality just goes straight out of the fucking window, any time the dirty hippies get too big for their boots and need a good stomping back down.

Happy Miss Congeniality Day to all who celebrate!

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the river.

ME: [first day as a detective] Was the robber armed? VICTIM: No ME: *writing ‘probably a snake’ in my notepad* Thank you.

Only 1,000 people saw the Melania movie but everyone who did went out and married a pedophile

If you have Hungarian friends, please check in on them. Netflix has nothing on this election campaign: a twisting spy scandal, Russian meddling, Orbán off the rails. And we still have four days left. I wrote a (still slightly incredulous) rundown 👇 brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/inside-hun...

It’s time for my favorite cartoon of the year.

My *other* fridge full of fingers.

WHAT AN ABSOLUTE FORCE OF NATURE this woman is. ✊✊

"Don't strike or I'll withdraw healthcare from tomorrow's public" is pretty stupid even by Labour's standards.

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball