We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

The article explicitly notes WI had had a trans-inclusive policy *since the 1970s*!

Looks like somehow I’m going to Manchester next year to see Saint Etienne on their final tour (the London dates disappeared as I was clicking on them…)

you don't have to love it but if someone with a new baby asks you wear a propeller beanie, you can just do it

White House ratio'd by the smallest possible pop star.

It's bad when your internal monologue during the day resembles David Peace in the Red Riding Quartet, right?

Daycare has exposed Maeryn to Paw Patrol, and I'm belatedly realising I'm recreating the BBC/ITV household by only having her watch Sesame Street/Bluey/Hey Duggee at home ;)

I kind of love that a cursory image search reveals the truth of my thesis that no matter his age or his fashion, Noddy Holder looks like an Englishman named Noddy Holder.

And that's neat, that's neat, that's neat, that's neat I really love your

(trad.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNmk...

Yeah mate they're saying the album released to commemorate ten years of Girls Aloud is thirteen years old today. Yeah they're saying time marches on relentlessly. Yeah apparently it doesn't care about your feelings about that. Yes mate I know

Tonight we made up a bedtime story that accidentally happened became a mash up of Disney and Tinker, Tailor…Tammy losing it as I interjected “Love to Minnie!”

Has anybody (not unsloth people, I'm looking for in the wild) actually successfully used DGX Spark for fine-tuning? (sft/dpo/rl/etc)

47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.

This week! Friday 28th November at 10:10pm THE STONE TAPE (1972) with #MichaelBryant #JaneAsher #IanCuthbertson sci-fi-horror #TPTVsubtitles Part of #TheCellarClub hosted by #CarolineMunro

Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.

5 stars for the title alone!

Currently at Games Workshop: “is there anything to be said for doing another 65 book series on how the Emperor is a Dick?”

Adventures in toddler upbringing with very different accents: mostly American, but when she says "I can't do it", it's *exactly* Victoria Wood doing Barry's lines in "The Ballad of Barry & Freda"

“when 2000AD is sold to Robert Maxwell’s Fleetway in 1988, it’s reportedly selling about 100,000 copies a week” One thing I think that is interesting in this era is that also was the circulation of Transformers: UK, which probably explains a lot about some of us freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...

#Discourse2000 is back! This intro post sets the scene for the 1978 posts with an overview of the different tribes of early #2000AD creators - the professionals, the rebels, the fans and the outsiders - and their visions of what the comic is freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...

Once again I must post the one true voice of Generation X www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6VB...

Sorting out Christmas presents (via Tonies) and now listening to Michael Jayston doing Jackanory…

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see

Okay, was not expecting the Popjustice twist.

It is the 18th of November. (Calculation of volume III day!)

Looking forward to the imminent release of the full and unexpurgated version of The Epstein Files, by Ted Cunterblast.

I love this look at a bus route like no other. I used to live on Stockport Road and took the 192 every day. It really is like an alternative universe.

"I'd be Tony Cascarino, circa 1995"

26 🎄

What Americans don't understand is 'crassly forgetting Northern Ireland' is a core part of British culture, like cueing and only being able to communicate via laconic understatement.

TWENTY YEARS youtu.be/bBPtP4t2J1k

I like the Carry On films but the lore is too confusing, impossible for modern audiences to accept these people could play a major part in the French Revolution AND lose their bras on camping holidays

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

Oh wow! A London Underground station being officially Listed is always great news - this one especially so. Southwark station, 1999 by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, has just been Listed at Grade 2. Now for the other JLE stations. @c20society.bsky.social historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

It is cold and snowy, therefore I have started rewatching Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Get the ghosts guys on the phone, they're making another 10 series whether they want to or not! I want warm broad sitcoms on at 9pm every Monday-Friday! I AM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL AND UNTIL YOU CAN GET PAST THE BEAR TRAPS I'VE STUCK BETWEEN THE DOOR AND MY SPINNY CHAIR, I CANNOT BE STOPPED

My many music sins do include that while I do appreciate the skill and songwriting powers of Mac (and ABBA, to be honest), I will, 99 times out of 100, prefer The Reynolds Girls, and the 1 time is That Bit of The Chain…

I’D RATHER JACK

My internal naming system for Data Science projects has reached "the author of 'The West Indies: A Nation of Cricketers'"

If I was in the Coke press team I might be mildly resentful that the cosiest seasonal PR job in the business has been replaced two years running with “hi people say your ad is slop and sucks ass, any comment?”

White knuckling it as soon as we entered US airspace and I’m not flying any time soon…

And now, to the airport and other home.

I keep seeing supposedly progressive podcasts saying “the problem is that people feel like they just can’t talk about these issues” while these issues are frequently the *only* thing that people are talking about 😩

Underground, Overground My hunt to find locations where you can see Underground trains traveling over Overground trains (or vice versa) continues. This vantage point near East Putney station has views of tube trains traveling over the railway. I waited 30 mins to get this shot.

I mean, I know we live in linear time and that 1981 was forty-four years ago, so on an objective level "Adam Ant is 71 today" must be a factual statement about reality. But also, that's clearly bollocks. Adam Ant can't be 71.

Time for the annual South Bank pilgrimage

Well-meaning Americans in my mentions: kindly do not recommend extremely illegal actions that could land people in the UK with a ten year prison sentence