To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

New School Guidance announces: Full bathroom ban. Full PE ban. Full school trip accommodation ban. Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/

Bit unfair on the other skiers who remain on two

Just beyond parody at this point

Odds on next Chief of Staff: 4-1 Gregg Wallace 5-1 Allegra Stratton 8-1 Stephen Yaxley-Lennon 16-1 Peter Mandelson

…a Guardian investigation has just noticed

An attempt to disconnect our gas connection earlier today👇 SSE Airtricity’s AI chatbot is going a little out of scope 😬

I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

So the official line is that a random White House staffer can and does post public statements in the name of the US president without any oversight or review process. Either a lie or a scandal, take your pick. “Both” is acceptable.

Given that Starmer rapidly abandoned the principles on which he campaigned and was elected as leader of the Labour Party, the correct response to this scaremongering from “Keir Starmer’s allies” is laughter and a boot up the backside.

A career-ending post for literally everyone except one special boy with a curdled brain and the nuclear codes

In my experience when managers and leaders care about accountability, they actually talk about empowerment and safety, and when they talk about accountability, they actually care about firing you if you don’t hit a target they made up to impress their own boss.

Who could this be? Hmm…

It’s not the most important thing but the world being plotted like bad television is making it pretty confusing for those trying to write good television

This piece of brilliance from @vizcomic.bsky.social is the story of my life

#bbclaurak tries to get a gotcha. Zack, you refuse to fly. How can you be a candidate for high office if you'd refuse to ever get on a plane? Well Laura, in that situation I'd get on a plane.

Honestly what is the point of having a programme that is *not* live if you are not going to use that function to aggressively factcheck the people on it?

Credit where it's due: this BBC News article is the first I've seen to use "Mountbatten-Windsor" after first reference rather than plain "Andrew". (It's "Andrew" in the headline, yes, but the main text is good.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A special election in Minnesota swung a Harris +70 seat even further. Second image: niche content.

Noted recluse and patriot Nigel Farage is yet to comment on Trump's certifiable nonsense about NATO troops in Afghaninstan. Whatever could it mean?

I thought the line was that he was bruised by shaking a lot of hands? That’s his left hand.

@gregjenner.bsky.social I know you're a fan of For All Mankind. Have you seen this new teaser? New season coming at the end of March. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF6t...

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Profits go down: We regret to announce that we have to destroy the world. Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.

Theory: the only reason BBC News hasn’t updated Doomwatch Corner in their nav yet is an endless editorial meeting about the best way to say “Trump batshittery”

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

The only surprise is that UKIP got there before Reform.

Elliot Thompson’s Decathlon

Whenever people (correctly) argue that Gamergate was a pivotal event in the development of the modern right, I always get the sense that a lot of people who object are doing so out of a sense of embarrassment that something so stupid could be so significant

Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station

“X, the everything app” if you define “everything” as Nazis and CSAM.

ANNUAL POST: It’s now 53 years since any human has left low Earth orbit. Of the 24 who have, 5 are still alive (ages 95, 92, 93, 90, 90). In the last year, Jim Lovell (Apollo 8 and Apollo 13, aged 97) died. 4 of 12 moonwalkers are still alive (Aldrin, Scott, Duke, Schmitt).

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

The last Sunday before Christmas. The day on which people who’ve never stepped foot in a supermarket in their lives tip entire aisles into trolleys and panic about sauces they hate. Be kind to retail workers.

Former BBC employee Jack Murley has posted on Instagram about the repeated homophobic abuse he received while working for the corporation - often from BBC staff. He says the BBC has now formally apologised. www.instagram.com/p/DSaZBd4DO8F/

Cycling UK have recently stated that their annual 100 Women in Cycling award won’t include any trans women or non-binary Over 50 current nominees and previous winners have rejected or returned their awards. I know many of them personally I’m proud of my cycling sisters. All of them

There are more gags in this than all the adverts made in the past thirty years put together

"There's just no money in the industry at the moment"

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Epstein, Gates, Trump, but Andrew. I don’t think I’ve seen a single BBC piece that calls him “Mountbatten-Windsor” just as the surname. It’s got to be a high-level editorial choice, surely. Why?

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"

Nigel Farage's explicit homophobia as he jokes at his brother's wedding: "The good news for us who are smokers is that we are far better off here than if we had been at Michael Barrymore’s house. Because there they removed all the ashtrays on the basis that now they chuck all the fags in the pool."