FFS Wordle.

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

Been demanding he(?) credit images by writing, "Did you make this image? Pls credit the photographer" on this and similar fake profiles forever. To no avail. Stolen curation is rife. Curation with permission and credit, even copyright payment is how to respect and give proper due to image makers.

Fake account using a stock image as an avatar steals other people's photos and literally thousands of credulous morons throw flowers. And before you say it, yes it *does* fucking matter, no it's *not* just a bit of fun, no I *won't* lighten up.

realising you can put your ‘birthday’ on online shops to whenever suits you best for discount codes eg before Christmas, as opposed when your actual birthday is

At this point Reform are every bit as extreme as the AfD—islamophobia, mass deportation of legal immigrants—but our media still refuses to call them far right

the Sinclair walkback is an example of modern right-wing behavior. how they are so starved for cultural power, they seize it, get too horny, flaunt their degeneracy and then try to hide again when it turns most people off. they collect power but they can never command respect. and they hate losing $

Not sure this is quite as clever a line as you think. Housing isn't safe in a war zone. Electricity substations aren't safe in a war zone. Public transport isn't safe in a war zone. That's kinda the thing about war zones.

Currently unelected LGBT+ Labour committee too, I believe? Because they postponed the AGM when a slate of trans candidates was running to replace them.

Can't argue with a single word of this. (Smart of the SNP to put this out without the usual "...and that's why we need independence". It allows people like me to endorse it.)

You write a good press release, cover the 5w’s + £ and provide a royalty free picture, you’ll get in word for word.

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

This thread is articulating very clearly something that's been becoming more and more obvious: in ten years' time we're going to be talking about how the AI bubble bursting made so many millions of people poorer, but not the shysters who created and profited off it.

Journalism is a tough gig in 2025. News desks are pared to the bone, specialists are all but gone, nobody wants to pay to consume and advertising is in a death spiral. So let's be honest about why Farage and co get so much coverage: they provide endless, cheap, easy stories and promote rage clicks.

Thanks to @indicator.media's latest briefing I now know that Google/YouTube is capitulating just as much to Trump's misinformation agenda as Facebook/Instagram is, they are just doing it more quietly. Truly shameful. These briefings are always worth a read.

If it means not on the substance of the case, then yes, it is a technicality. But it can be a misleading term.

Interesting. I read that headline earlier and I suspected that phrase "on a technicality" wasn't telling an accurate tale.

Many moons ago when I first heard the name Ming Campbell my mind went to Flash Gordon, but when I saw it written down I immediately understood because my mum and her mum had always referred to John Menzies as "Mingises" when I was growing up. RIP to the Flying Scotsman, Lord Pittenweem.

So now both candidates for Labour Deputy Leader say they want to end the two-child cap. I am once again moved to point out that *wanting* to end it is also the Labour government's position, but they say they can't afford to yet. So what is the point of this posturing? All a bit insulting, isn't it?

Which is why the Labour party, who have a massive majority, need to stop jumping every time Reform say something.

I’m actually quite pleased he seems to be peaking now, as long as Labour can keep its 💩 together and not collapse before then.

"Nigel Farage would be PM if there was an election tomorrow" scream the headlines on the latest polling. But there ISN'T an election tomorrow. The most likely date for the next UK election is 2029. And importantly the voters answering pollsters questions KNOW that. So PLEASE stop with the nonsense.

Lisa Nandy did the media round this morning. She said quite clearly that it was not to be called the "BritCard"!

"I regret not doing more." More? You didn't even do the bare minimum of immediately calling the police. Jesus wept.

Clever stuff here from Polanski, not least the carefully non-specifically-worded demand. I have sympathy with the flotilla's aims and condemn the IDF attacks. It does raise the question, however, as to how much responsibility UKGov should take when individuals choose to put themselves in harms way.

As far as I'm aware the PM hasn't called it "BritCard". That name was coined by a Labour think tank which bafflingly seems to be claiming responsibility for the idea of a digital ID - an idea that has in fact been around for decades. I wonder if John Swinney will correct his mistake.

This is a excellent intiative from @hopenothate.org.uk - I've signed up to do my area and would strongly encourage everyone else to do so as well

I tried to have a convo with a no small boats person on insta. She said why don’t they stay in France I explained She said we have to look after our own first eg homeless ppl I said I agreed more should be done for homelessness that’s why I donate to & support Crisis She called me a do-gooder

Maria Steen is the latest in a long run of nasty bigots whose entire careers have been spent trying to restrict others rights moaning about "oppression" when she can't get what she wants. Failing to attract votes because you're an awful person isn't "oppression", Maria.

ID cards is an issue I've changed my mind on many times. There are big potential benefits and big potential downsides. But using them as part of anti-immigrant messaging as a means to exclude rather than include is just playing into the hands of the worst people. And "Brit card" is a terrible name.

The icing on the cake here is that they're showing it as a double bill with Sex House, one of the greatest pieces of TV satire ever created.

Just had a sales email about an AI-based system that apparently automatically writes and sends proposals on your behalf and then automatically follows up and sends reminders, and I literally can't think of a worse thing to be on the receiving end of.

Worth going, though, Duncan, to engage with Ministers & nail down timings on a fully trans inclusive conversion therapy ban and make the case to reject/change the EHRC’s guidance.

🧵 Just found an old email from LGBT+ Labour from June 2020. It's about a leak to The Times which said the Tory government was about to break its promise to reform the Gender Recognition Act. They had held an emergency meeting to discuss ways to counter the Tories' plans, and had set up a petition. >

Disappointing from @gmb.org.uk, which voted for the trans rights motion at @tuc.org.uk congress, and has now gone on to nominate the minister who appointed an overt transphobe as the next chair of the EHRC. Either that motion meant something or it didn't, folks.

Look what we have here then.

Got to love a bit of hypotheticals polling. Seems like only yesterday that "A new party led by Zarah Sultana" was getting 15%. If only there was some way of understanding whether this is meaningful or not...

It's SO easy to say: these people are crooks, psychopaths and traitors to this country. Fucking say it.

Trump wants headlines that say "Democrats think trans people's rights are more important than keeping the government running". It would be entirely to the Democrats' credit if they let him have them.

Hi LGBT+ Labour, thanks for the email about all your fabulous conference events, but my copy seems to be missing the meeting about tackling the overwhelming wave of transphobia that has engulfed Labour policy in the last two years and has left trans people across the UK living in fear. Typo?

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

Honestly, a really good article. It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years. It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.

Burnham flashing his ankles to the SW1 press in the week before conference is now a well-established tradition. Wonder if this year's celebration will end, as previous ones have, with him asking "why are they so mean to me?" after No 10 finally snap and brief out what an unhelpful prick he is.

If you ever wondered how come the binfire which was the post-referendum Tory party was able to push through Brexit, consider who the leader of the opposition was at that time and wonder no more.

How are they so consistently terrible at everything? Is the entire thing a bit?

Farage’s “I have no idea” line isn’t indecision, it’s calculated vagueness. By not rejecting Trump’s claim, he avoids alienating the anti-vax/anti-science bloc, while still sounding “reasonable” to others. This is how you hold together a coalition of distrustful counterpublics.

It's really important for the media and public to understand what's happening here as it's the same playbook as the MAGA coalition. Find all the fringe groups who don't trust institutions for whatever reason and promise them to deliver what they want so they build enough of a coalition to gain power

This is because Reform relies on building a coalition of disordered counterpublics reacting against distrusted institutions, and the anti-vax community is part of that, so he knows he needs to keep is vague to avoid upsetting them.

NATO Article 5 has been invoked precisely once, on behalf of America. Troops from many countries died in the subsequent wars, including Poland. This regime are corrupt, traitorous scum

This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?