Politicians cutting domestic abuse shelter fundings and causing financial crisis where women are unable to leave abusers and end up murdered. Of course they jump on vilifying a scapegoat to act as if trans people are harming women when the harm comes them and austerity politics in Westminster

🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision. In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019. Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts. 1/5

For those asking: yes. I'm still slowly chipping away at writing Goblin Launderette. This feels an appropriate extract for this month. Functions as a self-contained short story. (Usual caveats about draft status and typos applies: you don't need to tell me about them) Hope you enjoy.

FFS, this really needs to be stopped!

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

Algerian-born train hero saves train passengers from attack. Since the right-wing press loves reporting criminals’ race and religion, surely they should report heroes’ too. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Looks like Labour have FINALLY got around to the 'Find Out' part after waaaaaaay too long fucking around 🤣🤣🤣

Spotted one of these on my way to work, in Sheffield, this morning 😁

6 Oct 2025 -- 16-person Aussie team publish a killer take-down of The Cass Review in the prestigious Australian Medical Journal titled, Cass Review Does Not Guide Care for Trans Young People ("lacking expertise & compromised by implicit stigma & misinformation..." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

The fact that this seems to have been *very quickly* hidden from view makes me want to share it widely.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Applause!👏👏👏 I think this may be the best one yet, but also props for the Idol-inspired version down thread....

The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

making great art even better: thread

Calling all fellow goths in possession of a sense of humour! This is worth a look...

Think of all those pro-Israel pundits you saw on your television screens this past year trying to sociopathically justify the mass starvation of Gaza by robotically claiming Hamas steals the aid. They were all lying. Shamelessly. Even the Israeli military confirms it now.

Enjoyed this!

Well this is rather gorgeous

Great work by Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust at Ughill Farm.

Trans women are women. Pass it on.

I (and a few friends) have done this twice - with oil companies and with AI LLM assistant names

Enjoying this meme this morning and I think this may be my favourite so far

Not that different to how Tramlines used to be!

british fan chat

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So he'll be giving the whip back to all the MPs who got booted out of the party for being part of this "moral mission"...but a bit earlier? They'll all be getting formal, public apologies from him too?

A takeaway from this debate - pretty much all the supportive MPs quoted their constituents as to why they support trans rights. We are cutting through Keep writing to your MPs. If you wrote last month, write again. Write to your MP until you can’t type anymore. Make our voices impossible to ignore

Amazing 🙏

Multiple women have been prosecuted in the last five years after decades without a single prosecution. If you want to do something, write to your MP ahead of the decriminalisation debate. bsky.app/profile/mosc...

Thoroughly recommended! Help out a small independent business AND eat delicious chocolates 😁

Here's Keir Starmer Punish protesters if they're not farmers Forget your friends to follow the racists Talking point trends, claims without basis. Where are his voters? Why so few of them? He works so hard to worsen their problems!

Blocked!

This is quite something to see

Hello my fellow trans people, especially in the U.K. I’ve been thinking and have a little project in mind… So I’m looking for advice from anyone in the tv/film and production industry, especially anyone with documentary/interview experience. It’s early days but have an idea and need help.

If you enjoyed watching the Space Station pass over, you can continue to see it for the next week or so. See times here www.meteorwatch.org If you would like to have a great night out exploring the heavens in a fun and very entertaining way. Come along to one of my shows www.nightskyshow.co.uk

Good grief! Pearson has surpassed herself in batshit delusional flag-shaggery... Excellent analysis/avoidance of rage-clicking the actual Telegraph link from @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

I didn't want to talk about Kneecap this week, but here we are. On what we choose to be horrified by, and what those choices say about us. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Perspective!

STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY

My view: The “interim update” from the EHRC, and doubtless the actual “guidance” when it is produced, will try and obscure the fact that any exclusion of trans people is not compulsory, it is a choice. If anyone is excluding trans people from anywhere they are choosing to be transphobic, they… 1/8

My tablet lets me just copy paste text from images, so here's a quick alt-text.

Statement on the EHRC ‘guidance’. The EHRC ‘guidance’ put out at 10pm last night is a bigoted attempt to segregate trans people in public spaces. It is almost certainly unlawful. transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/04...

What the heck are the EHRC issuing guidance at 10pm on a Friday evening for? And why have they extended the ruling past what even the government extended it to? Remember, this is NOT statutory guidance. And more and more folk are recognising this is pure hate.

Today we launched our crowdfunder to challenge last week’s Supreme Court’s decision – which we believe has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act 🏳️‍⚧️

Red sky at night? #Sheffield www.istheskivillageonfire.com