Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

I can't listen to the song without thinking of

When an organisation gets those letters claiming that Transphobia “is the law of the land” you can just reply with the polite version of this meme:

But at least the Women’s Institute will be safe now!!!!!!!!!

Can someone who has read Nuzzi's book let me know if this is actually a thing in it? Or is this one of those "JD Vance bangs couches" things? x.com/bryancurtis/...

It's become normal now for high-level political figures to argue that an entire generation was brainwashed through fake videos into mass anti-Israel political mobilization by TikTok. Complete conspiracy thinking, rooted in zero evidence, based on nothing

Agreed. You have to make sure you are directing your justifiable anger toward the perpetrators. Being angry at the Womens Institute or Girl Guides is like being mad at someone for being taken hostage and complying with the guy with the gun.

So at this point, I am of the belief that there is a conservative group in the background emailing companies and trying to get them to ban the game.

You should read this blog for some (very brief) legal analysis on why women's organisations can and should continue to be inclusive 👇

When will those Labour MPs who don't support the exclusion of trans people from society get together and tell the Cabinet 'Not In Our Name'? Because, with respect, it is well past time for them to do som

If there is a god, please take away all the heartache, anguish, fear, and hopelessness from trans people, and give it all to [redacted] instead.

Contact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion. goodlawproject.org/about/contact/

To clarify, there's nothing in this game that wouldn't pass muster in an M-rated film. There are people spreading malicious rumors about it, claiming that it is more extreme. It reminds me of Night Trap, supposedly one of the most transgressive games of its age. Reality: Milder than Power Rangers.

the primary purpose of Gender Critical is to facilitate the transfer of money from JK Rowling to Naomi Cunningham

the primary purpose of Gender Critical is to facilitate the transfer of money from JK Rowling to Naomi Cunningham

BREAKING: Employee who demand a trans-exclusive toilet policy loses employment tribunal. All claims, direct and indirect discrimination, harassment, and 1992 Regs, dismissed. Judgment: www.gov.uk/employment-t...

One of the worst aspects of this is that the same groups making these legal threats then go around saying that this type of exclusion and discrimination makes transitioning so negatively affect one's life that no one should do it as if it's a choice.

80% of British media spends all day everyday calling trans people predators and freaks, and the remaining 20% say tsk tsk that's a bit much while still arguing they should be banned from even having a fucking hobby and, honestly, would it be so hard for them to just piss before they leave the house?

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.

They complain about us being baristas, checkout workers, doctors, characters in soaps, contestants on Big Brother, one high profile weirdo went on a rant specifically about her GP's receptionist but still their defenders insist they do not hate us and don't have issue with us.

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

I have to deploy this one every now and again. For the enthusiastic allies we all love

You mean the 10 top wealth hoarding creeps who are destroying everything they touch. We should stop acting like accumulating wealth is 1. a good accomplishment 2. not destructive as fuck to the rest of us.

Y Also we were with you the entire time and we made some lovely holiday cookies.

I mean it’s not what I would choose, but if you want a rule that the next guy can withdraw your pardons after the fact, by all means sir

No, it’s the children who have humiliatingly and very publicly deranged their brains with Twitter dot com, while wandering drunkenly around their massive house

The sad thing about this is when you talk to girls they will mention in passing “there’s a trans girl in our class she’s really nice, what’s for tea?” this is just cruelty towards children.

Gang, the system works

Heads up – if you are someone who thinks trans people's rights have been rolled back because we asked for self ID, you can block me. Thanks.

Lots of associations are in a very difficult position because they are being relentlessly attacked by transphobes backed by massive amounts of money. The whole strategy is to bully these orgs into submission to make everyone else afraid to be inclusive. It's really sad.

I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.

These evil, spiteful ghouls thought they’d score an awesome Supreme Court victory and then society would salute their bravery, and rise up to enforce their fucknut politics. That hasn’t happened and it won’t happen, so now society will be *forced* to comply in a blizzard of squillionaire litigation.

For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.

"Sir, you make the sun come back after it disappears every day and nobody knows where it goes."

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

"they were waiting for a president that was good with numbers, I think nobody was good with numbers before me, I'm sure I'm the first president who is good with numbers, so we're increasing them by 5000, 6000, even 10 thousand percent..."

enough

In a just society we'd have never gotten to this point; in a somewhat less just society, this would garner loads of attention and emphasise that the anti-trans hate movement doesn't actually speak for many women and girls; alas, in our society, it'll probably just prompt "WOKIES CAPTURE GIRL GUIDES"

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

It just makes me feel so empty inside. These are CHILDREN. Girls who just want to have a fun childhood - being denied it by miserable activists and a cowardly organisation that won’t stick up for them. How have we, as a society, allowed this to happen?

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-...

It was only 12 years ago that the coroner at Lucy Meadows' inquest blamed the media for playing a part in her death, hounding her for daring to be a trans woman who was also a teacher. Making trans lives unliveable - making us unhirable - is recent history. www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/...