i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

the nominees were -a campaign to get lifechanging medication for extremely sick children -a campaign to improve access to justice for victims of rape and sexual assault -a transphobic hate campaign that managed to convince some judges to make the worst ruling in Supreme Court history* (*winner)

"frequent fines from parking wardens, placing an additional financial burden on conscientious residents like myself" look at all these conscientious people blocking the pavement to make passage easier for the big boy cars, modern heroes www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...

hospital WHSmiths checkouts advertising/offering Klarna payment country is cooked

Try explaining to someone outside the UK that this road, shared with walkers, cyclists and horse riders, legally has a 60mph speed limit. Madness, really.

ol' dependable Alfred

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

Oh come the fuck on

The damage Sonia Sodha has done by spewing hate from the Observer is incalculable. I feel it is worse than the Sun and Mail because she radicalised Observer readers who consider themselves liberal and gave them permission to be openly bigoted.

sold!

If you take nonviolent direct action, Labour will brand you a terrorist. If you riot, and try to burn buildings down, Labour will listen to your legitimate concerns. Take note, comrades

Edie McCreadie's yellow LDV Convoy ended up in the old transport museum, is it still part of the glasgow museums collection? is still roadworthy? a trip to the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre is in order www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

speed racer is a masterpiece

IT’S FUCKING CHESS What POSSIBLE advantage, even in the warped mind of a transphobe, could being transgender give you at chess? They’re so nakedly hateful they just can’t stand any trans person winning anything ever. Pathetic.

blåjaj is back from his spa experience 🫡

my nemesis (the washer dryer) is lying particularly egregiously today 10:45 - 35 minutes remaining ~~~~~ 90 minute later ~~~~~ 12:15 - 5 minutes remaining

Relatedly, we don't talk enough about how Fairfuel UK brag about keeping £200bn from the UK Treasury at a time public services are underfunded

ready to have my heart broken in a different way when I see the new lilo & stitch the a minecraft movie was funnier and more self aware than I anticipated - went in expecting to hate it

If you care about making buses in Glasgow better take 5 minutes to tell SPT you STRONGLY AGREE with all of their priorities for franchising. There's a risk these will be watered down if the response isn't clear and overwhelming. betterbuses.uk/strathclyde JFDI x

Yes, mistakes were made: repeatedly delaying the Bill and indulging transphobic backbenchers, after a clear promise to act as long ago as the 2016 election, allowed anti-trans prejudice to grow and fester. If they'd legislated quickly, the sky would not have fallen in, and we'd all have moved on.

it's incredible how the world's tastiest food is a reduced well fired roll costing the equivalent of 5.5p with a generous amount of butter

a fleet of weird microcontrollers is the only thing keeping me from being free from micro usb forever hateful connector

The piece has this exc fascinating poll from Apella Partners www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

just learned a hen party I've got next week has a sparkle theme is this an acceptable occasion to sew some LEDs into a crop top?

oh god, it’s true, we’re living in an era of Clippy Maxing

For for the West of England mayoralty More in Common have: Lab: 23% Con: 21% Reform: 18% Green: 18% LD: 15% It is genuinely absurd to have an election with that kind of spread decided by first past the post. Unjustifiable.

Actually fuck off. Who is the EHRC to tell voluntary associations what to and what not to do?

had a dream where I spent hours in a hotel with the twink from Anora ...having a meeting with kate forbes about a rebrand to appeal to younger votes we wanted to change her name

E&W deserve a proper Green party rather than this shit.

Section 28 was "the law" too - that doesn't change the fact that the people who supported it were doing so out of bigotry.

My gender recognition certificate application was delayed because the panel wanted confirmation that I'd been using the ladies toilets for two years. You'd think the equalities minister would be familiar with the GRA and the GRC process.

Starmer hurtling into a climate crisis and global instability and focusing on the real issues (misgendering trans people for the applause of bigoted arseholes)

"There is a thesis to be written on why opinion on this has shifted so quickly" there really isn't. A highly motivated and radicalised group of people happened to have access to institutional power in the media and slowly ground down or repulsed anyone who opposed them.

i’m going to put my hands up and say i was fully unprepared for the number of ways this government was going to be significantly worse than the previous one

heartening turnout in Edinburgh today don't make your signs late at night

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

This great video also reminded me of an interesting facet of motonormativity: people can lose 100 hours a year in traffic and never notice; but they have one late train and it's all "Never again - you can't rely on them"

day going soooo well that I'm breaking into a chocolate orange at 11am

new train operator gift shop just dropped for just £22.95 "Glen" the Class 92 can be yours Caledonian Sleeper: sleepersouvenirs.scot/products/cal...

I have done the usual 1v1 exhaustive eurovision comparison and am ready to defend tool: ranked.be/rank/esc2025

On Falling is absolutely worth seeing, I'm tempted to up the rating. Harrowing film.

Want an autograph from this train driver. INCREDIBLE control, BUTTERY SMOOTH stops, a balanced coin wouldn't fall over. There is only one human capable:

He's still got it

Making it blatantly obvious they don't view trans people as people. Imagine fining a uni for having a zero-tolerance policy towards racist propaganda, for ensuring that disabled people are positively represented in course materials, or for saying homophobic abuse is a disciplinary offence.