🚨 NEW: 27 Members of Parliament have signed a motion to reject the EHRC Code of Practice edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Ask yours to join them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

fuck absolutely everyone involved in getting us to this point, trans women are women, trans men are men, non binary identities are valid and sex and gender can both be changed "biologically" if any such meaning can be usefully attributed to that phrase

Last week, Andy Burnham backed the EHRC's transphobic guidance on "single sex spaces". In 2024, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham stood at the Gaydio Awards in Manchester and declared he would always be an ally to our community.

If Burnham becomes Prime Minister, trans people will have no ally in Downing Street. His support for this guidance isn’t just a betrayal of trans people, it’s a betrayal of everyone who took him at his word.

Trying to find a non-slip bath mat (the kind with suckers that go inside the bath) with a shark on it, that’s neither scary or wrong. I found a nice one with a whale at John Lewis, but it’s annoyingly small. Amazon had one that was about to eat a human, so not acceptable.

Half term project going well. "Close pass meter", using an ultrasonic detector. First 5-minute test ride measured one at 1.06 metres. (PHV 🙄)

Looked at LinkedIn. Found it too depressing. One person was crowing about an app they vibe-coded which produces AI generated bedtime stories for kids. Every fibre of me hates this. It’s layer upon layer of theft.

Lifetime driving bans would seem appropriate here. It would act as a real deterrant to the other young idiots who treat Kingsway like a racetrack.

This is a Sarah Wakefield stan account

So excited to join Sarah Wakefield tomorrow in Makerfield. It's time to hold Labour to account for the years of failure and shield pur communities from the rise of thenfar right! It's time for change, hope is here with the @greenparty.org.uk

Pondering the youth unemployment crisis that is all over the news. My employer has: 1) Cut the grad scheme 2) Eliminated junior roles Meanwhile they ARE spending oodles of money on adopting LLMs including to “replace” customer service and software testing functions. Anyone seeing similar?

This is my favorite bike advocacy video in a long time. I love how direct the kids are about saying they deserve to move about their neighborhood safely. Well done Piers Park Sailing! They have more videos on Instagram: www.instagram.com/piersparksai...

🚨 Opposing the EHRC guidance – we need your voice MPs will decide on the guidance in the next 30 days — and we need to show them the reality We need you to tell us why it is unworkable and the real life impact it will have on you in your workplace 📩 Email us: [email protected]

Andy for us, but not for you, and definitely not for them… It’s genuinely sad to see him fold on one progressive position after another. But unsurprising. But I’m not here to be disappointed. You know the line 😉 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ooooh look at this lovely detour!

I’m really quite excited about being on the planning ctte tomorrow. We have an action-packed agenda! democracy.manchester.gov.uk/ieListDocume...

So @thetrupgrade.bsky.social has been busy building a sizeable chunk of brand new 110mph railway between Dewsbury and Huddersfield over the last few weeks. It might be 20 years overdue but it's still genuinely spectacular.

In small but important little wins: we have a new “cyclops” junction being built in Fallowfield. I asked the contractors if they could kindly move the signs that were blocking the bike lane, and it has happened! I’m drunk with councillor power now. 💚😅

For people that went to the first mass lobby in Parliament last year: What time did you get to Parliament, what sort of time would you advise getting there to ensure a good chance of getting in? I’ll be travelling for about three or four hours to get there, so I’m trying to plan ahead.

Tony Blair. What the billionaire class have paid for.

The Greens are running. Labour aren't interested in a deal. Let's move on.

Absolutely delighted that my friend and colleague Sarah Wakefield is to be the Green Party candidate for the #Makerfield by-election. It has been a slightly shaky path to get here, and we have some hard lessons to learn, but Sarah is a solid dose of hope. 💚 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It genuinely makes me feel like I’m going insane that HS2’s costs have spiralled due to opponents trying to obstruct it every step of the way, and that increased cost is then used as an argument for the whole project being pointless

Online safety for kids? Or an encroachment on everyone’s privacy and extension of surveillance? Last chance to respond to the govt’s survey. I had my 11yo do it, and she gave some full and well reasoned opinions. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Realised that our hedge (actually the neighbouring landlord’s hedge) is infested with box moth caterpillars 🐛😭 Anyone had any luck with Nematodes? Or is this hedge a goner?

apparently this road is 'closed' 🤔

“Is it really that bad?” Yes it is that bad, fuck you. If you couldn’t piss without being challenged, you would discover pretty quickly how bad it is

Lol Andy Burnham managed to u-turn even water nationalisation 🤪

I made a zine! With cats! This is my case for buying as well as building the supply of council housing. I am calling on the Govt to deliver a massive fund for councils to buy existing properties and transform them into real council homes. ✍️Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

Our trans rights lead, Jess O’Thomson, discussed the EHRC’s new code of practice on Sky News. Support our appeal against their transphobic guidance: https://goodlaw.social/3ege

I absolutely endorse this from my LD colleague @chrisn.xyz New and unequivocal legislation to get us out of this mess is what was needed last year, and doubly so now. Publishing the guidance was a *choice* - the Labour Party never at any time needed to continue with this eroding of trans rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

It’s not just an attack on trans people. It’s an attack on anyone who doesn’t fit within a narrowly defined vision of what gender looks like.

What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.

I’m here for the sausages!

"Burnham did not say when he would like to see these changes introduced or whether he would commit to starting the process if he becomes prime minster this year." We're still waiting for the referendum on PR promised in the Labour manifesto. The 1997 manifesto.

The updated EHRC guidance continues to be an unenforceable mess clearly drafted to appease transphobic hate campaigners in a way that will be horrendous for trans people and disastrous for many services and small businesses. When/if it touches the real world it will cause chaos immediately.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The final nail in Labour's coffin. At this point they might as well join up with Reform and fight the Tories from there.

There we have it - you have to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces (so maybe avoid having them if you can). A bathroom ban from people who recognise that they’re doing a bathroom ban, and feel guilty about it. Shameful. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Trans men can be excluded from both men’s facilities and women’s facilities.

The labour party talking explicitly about how to help organisations exclude trans people, like that isn’t a violation of people’s human rights and is all perfectly acceptable. Fucking NO. Absolute ghouls. 🏳️‍⚧️

Those who exclude trans people should be deemed to be breaking the law under the Human Rights Act. They should be punished the same as they would if they discriminated against gay people, Jews, Muslims, black people... Have you all had your brains removed?

Wow! The Beckon Corridor in Newham is looking great💚 It's making walking, wheeling & cycling safer & more accessible for everyone. Work include new paths & lighting from Beckton DLR to Beckton Park - connecting local communities to green spaces in the area. @NewhamLondon @tfl

Which shows this isn't about actual immigration, it's about *appearing* to be "tough on migration" and a performative "listening to people's concerns" 😤

This will only happen if Labour drops its idiotic belief that the best way to beat the far-right is to do exactly what the far-right wants to do, only while making a sad face that they copied from a dog.

If anyone still thinks that the Greens shouldn’t stand a candidate in Makerfield, here’s why we absolutely must. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

FPTP is like The One Ring of politics in the UK. They know they need to destroy it, but once it's in their hands they think "Why shouldn't we keep it? We can use it for good!" and then everything goes dead-Boromir-shaped

Sorry to annoy people with optimism, but I now think we have a signficant opportunity to rethink the development of central Manchesterford in a more environmentally friendly, affordable and joyful direction. Involving people of various political persuasions, and none.

If you go to Makerfield and ask normal people “Has Brexit helped at all?” I strongly suspect the answer will mostly be “not really no, stuff has got worse”.

I am absolutely furious about this. How f'ing dare Labour pour fuel on the climate crisis and hand out more money to wealthier people? Keeping petrol prices artificially low is climate injustice writ large. Additional scorn for @libdems.org.uk who campaigned for this.

personal lifelong side quest to fix these every time I see it. the red cord needs to hang all the way to the ground so people can reach it if they fall.