We knew it was coming but they’ve gotten so brazen now as I wasn’t expecting it so fast. We know the playbook, they’ll exclude all the evidence then say the evidence is too weak. This is an attempted genocide of trans people and it’s high time professional orgs and MP’s called this bullshit out.

Yes you read that right NHS England have launched 10 attacks “reviews” on trans healthcare. WHO at NHS England is pushing this? Unmask the shady charlatans.

Gods, this is depressing. Just the flagrant, deliberate targeting of some of the most ostracised and vulnerable teens out there.

Hyacinths doing their fabulously fragrant flowery thing... just before they topple over #GardensHour 🌱

Early insect heaven. Reaching peak primrose. #Gardenshour #Mygarden #Gardening

I’ve been building a barrel pond (just waiting on the oxygenating plants to be ready before I fill it), and buying too many plants online… Today, these babies turned up, and I’m hoping they’ll survive until I plant them because I’ve got a busy week! #GardensHour

"Coal Tits" Hand embroidery thread painting artwork #BlueSkyMonday #embroidery #birds #WildlifeArt

“We are all humble disciples, and we do not need glory brought to our individual names!” Me, sobbing: Just tell me who the translator was.

Drone footage captures the devastating destruction to the building right next to Glasgow's historic Central Station. Part of it has collapsed after a fire started in a vape shop and ripped through the whole structure.

The institutionalised contempt for trans people is breathtaking in its devastation. This is not about politicians’ “legitimate concerns” regarding medicine. It’s fundamentally about a desire to stop trans people existing. We must continue to challenge such transphobic politics unapologetically.

Is there anything as perfect and delicious as rose and violet creams? Proper ones - not the shitty Hotel Chocolat ones.

Also ‘some parents’ - yeah, see some parents are terrible, homophobic people. Like, dude, grow a spine.

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore. If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Doing The Circle of Magic again and my gods, Briar is fully transmasc coded. “You can pick a name, one that’s yours alone. You can choose how you will be seen from now on.”

What a beautiful audience today at the "Lightning Strikes Twice" Flash Editors panel today. We had such a good time.

Sprog1 having their first serious bookshelf clear-out since we moved. They are now old enough to anticipate my responses around these things, which is quite sweet.

JAMIE never seems to get recced for @trreadathon.bsky.social, and I’m not sure why! It’s out in the UK, US & Canada, the Netherlands and Sweden, was nominated for the Carnegie and was a Kirkus best book of 2024. And it’s a middle grade trans book by a trans author. 💛🤍💜🖤 #TransRightsReadathon

I just never want to leave the garden at this time of year, especially when the weather’s nice. “Fred there’s a heavy frost.” There’s also a yellow thing in the sky so my point stands.

Mattie and I staying up late and doing an academic defence of ‘Desperado’, just as we have been doing for twenty three years…

We’re utterly delighted to introduce the long-awaited new translation (by Diego Jourdan Pereira) of groundbreaking Uruguayan author Horacio Quiroga’s first short-story collection, Tales of Love, Madness and Death, first published in 1917. renardpress.com/books/tales-...

I talked to a psychologist yesterday and found out some weird shit…

I am an intelligent, hyper competent adult, with a number of both general and specialised skills. Usually this involves reading a basic grid table. But not always. Fuckin’ dyspraxia.

"British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own £185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally" A tax on women courtesy of the Gender Critical. You know feminism /s 🙄 archive.is/2026.03.05-1...

Although I *did* tell my therapist about my 2026 resolution to get weirder and more off-putting. She said, “Most people want to get more normal!”

I had a Moment and ordered some Himalayan Poppies for the garden. Apparently they’re very susceptible to slugs. Bugger.

📢 And as a reminder, tomorrow is the closing date for our joint 'Writer in Residence' vacancy with the University of St. Andrews. Come use our archives! Link here (and a picture of our reading room to tempt you) www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

One of those absolutely brutal therapy sessions that pretends to be fine, until the last ten minutes, whereupon it completely bodies you and leaves you fucked up for the rest of the day.

Basic options: The Dream, Twelfth Night, Muchado. Wildcard: Henry VI (all parts.)

It is the *exact same* in Britain. The mediam voter wants clean water & cheaper bills. Every TERF protest is attended by the same 6 upper middle class idiots.

The trouble with Tennyson is that he’ll throw out an absolute banger of a line in what is perhaps the worst poem you’ve ever read.

I knew both my grandfathers very well. I knew neither of them at all. They were both from rural Kent, but from very different families. They were both good men. They were both flawed men. The stories you’ll hear of them depends on who is telling it and why.

I’ve been given the opportunity to do something hilarious and I MUST NOT because it is rude and mean and petty.

What would a Regency novel be without a Regency bride? Chapter Eight begins (and concludes) today: forthenby.com/2026/03/04/2...

I’M BACK! Muahahahaha

Something which, had I thought of it in the dark comedy boom of the early 00s, would have brought me fame and fortune is a cover of Escape (The Piña Colada Song) where the list in each reprise becomes more and more unpleasant.

One thing I think we don’t talk about enough, re: queerness, or any other culturally non-normative behaviour is the effect I like to call, “Yes, but you’re not David Bowie.” It’s something that comes up with any changing presentation, identity, or sexual more.

The debt burden of UK students is one of those things where, the more you look into the details, the more insane and predatory it is. So I tried my best to explain the numbers involved without making my, or your, head explode.

Hypermobility cycle: Muscles all lock up - pain. Make effort to relax the muscles - joints no longer supported - injury - pain. Muscles tense to support joint - sympathetic muscles tense as well - all muscles lock up - pain.

Blackmailer: I have your nudes -- Me: Yeah, my infosec is pretty shite. Blackmailer: What? Me: I mean, I’d take more precautions if this were a huge deal. Blackmailer: But what if I showed them to -- Me: Hey! Everyone! This douche hacked me. Look away if you don’t wanna see my arse.

Heard an advert today reminding people that you can't claim UC, for unemployment or sickness, if you live with a partner who's earning. I know this isn't new, but it's so regressive. Even if your partner has the capacity to support you, to make someone financially dependent on a partner is gross.

Observe this "debate" over who should decide on what clothes kids are allowed to wear. Labour say parents, Tories say the state. Both of course in total agreement that the kids themselves should have no say in it at all.

Leaving NATO is to much of a wacky Green Party undertaking for you is it? But backing America in another bloody oil war is fine? When we've lived though all of the US's oil wars we know how it goes, profits go up normal people die. We need a government that will stand up to America.

He's spineless to the max. Can we not get rid?

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Coining the phrase “goth dissonance” to describe the way that - while I would disdain pastel shades in fresh flowers - I find them impossibly beautiful in bright flowers that decay.

If you, YES YOU, are a tit wizard and want a CHALLENGE to make mine gone PLEASE CONTACT ME I have no money but it'd be really impressive, I'm a fucking uk H cup.

The trouble with having been a pagan since my mid teens is that I’ll be told, “it’s a good idea to do this in Spring!” and so I’ll try to do something in Spring, only to be told, “Oh, we don’t get those in until May.” You mean *summer*?

One of the hardest things about trying to encourage progressive ideas is this society-wide cognitive bias that making things harder, tougher, more brutal *inevitably* leads to them being more effective, and that making things nicer for people also makes them worse. When the opposite is true.

Excellent thread 🙂👏