Absolutely correct on all counts, and right that Ukraine be listened to with respect. So, since the exact arguments can be made about Palestine and Israel, why is the world expecting Gazans to shut up and take it?

Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence. The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Dismantling the myth that we live in a meritocracy is one of the most urgent changes needed". Poverty inflicted on the masses whilst wealth and power is concentrated in few hands. 50 families have more wealth than half of the UK population. Political system bought by the rich. Tax the rich.

Sick of toxic flag shaggery? Come join a community sewing project in Thanet that says everyone is welcome. No experience necessary, free to take part. We'll show you how to do basic embroidery, and there will be tea and biscuits, chums. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/yabe7jn5 @emilypeasgood.bsky.social

Absolutely beautiful video created using still images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Jupiter and while at Saturn. Shown is Io and Europa over Jupiter's Great Red Spot and then Titan as it passes over Saturn and it's edge-on rings. NASA/JPL/Kevin M. Gill

Pfft.

We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

Once you realise that Westminster has moved so far to the right that the Tories/Reform are the new BNP, and Labour are the new Tories, there’s only one option for those on the left. (The LDs are still the LDs - ineffectual centrists! Your Party, a future answer to an obscure pub quiz question.)

Just a reminder 👇

"Real pride comes when you no longer hide who you are"

This story is now big news all over the world... except in the UK.

The UK 'just protecting children' "Teachers say trans pupils 'limiting food and drink' to avoid school toilets" news.stv.tv/politics/tea...

I've just used Good Law Project's tool to tell Keir Starmer that his ID scheme is a recipe for repression. Will you do the same? goodlaw.social/364f2b

This bloated weasel can shove his compulsory ID where his farts can play it like a trumpet. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

A grotesque display of opulence from the world's elite. Billionaires feast on taxpayer funded banquets while they back a genocide and burn the world. But sure, migrants are the problem.

Wait a minute, where is Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage to defend our free speech?

here's the thing i have learned about artists, their fervent desire for creative agency occasionally overwhelms the constant self doubt, there is no talent for art beyond hard work that and not being filled with self loathing to the point that you constantly destroy your own attempts to find joy

Doing sound tonight for the Janette Mason Rewired Trio, for Herne Bay Jazz Festival. Couldn't do it without my snazzy new hearing aids, I am so lucky. I love my life.

So trans people can't access spaces that match the gender they identify as, and can't access spaces that match the gender they were assigned at birth. They should just *stop existing* basically, yeah? Fuck Labour. If we don't stand up for our trans siblings, now, which of us will they come for next?

www.southlondontheatre.co.uk/preview-slt-... That's two real, live actors rehearsing my daft little ten minute play about aliens accidentally stealing music, in an actual theatre. Ha ha! Even better than finding a really cool rock on the beach. Woop!

Daughter is very excited about completing stage three of project 'grow your own chips'.

Why is Julia Hartley-Brewer? Ugh.

2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?

English law 2025

I knew damn well I was autistic ten years before an NHS clinical psychologist formally diagnosed me. We know who we are, and we recognise our kin.

I live in Kent, where our County Council, in the group of Reform has banned trans books from Children's libraries. This is the same county that clung to Section 28 for seven years after the rest of the country rightly binned it. Utter shitweasels.

Gotta protect those arms sellers from the nasty protesters, can't have violence against - checks notes - drones and warplanes.

We've lost around £50,000 of monthly donations since 2021. Can you donate £2 monthly (or your equivalent) today to help plug this hole so that we can continue to reach the young people who need us most 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...

Sex Matters saying the quiet part out loud, in a letter to Streeting. TLDR: “Now that we’ve made it impossible for trans people to exist in society, transitioning should be banned.” Just fucking wow. @hleehurley.com

Today I am ridiculously happy and excited because - I submitted my first ever play and it's been selected for the @southlondontheatre.bsky.social Summer Shorts Ten Minute Play Festival - and my name is on the website, so it feels real, now! *Dancing!* www.southlondontheatre.co.uk/summer-short...

"Root out DEI" = Making sure that only wealthy, able bodied white men have any expectations of access to opportunity. Fuck (say it with your whole chest, now) that.

Bah. I'm struggling in my BSL class because it's over zoom and I can't hear well enough to keep up without reading the captions, but the auto generated captions read like someone's on an acid trip. Phooey, that's all.

Seriously, a good rule of thumb for life is, if you find yourself on the opposite side of a contentious argument to the Quakers, you need to take a deep breath and consider the very high likelihood that you’re the one who’s wrong.

Every single trans person who called TERFs nazis, who said their "gender critical" movement was a white supremacist one, who warned that transphobia was just the tip of their fascist iceberg, we all told you exactly who they were from the beginning, and we were ignored.

Trying out my late father's Montblanc. This nib is so big it makes me want to write huge letters and it really doesn't suit me at all. This makes me sad, because I so wanted to love this pen that meant so much to my old Dad. I can't write nicely enough for a fancy pen, anyway. Sorry, Dad.

In a world of horrors I don't understand, a Snork Maiden ̶c̶h̶o̶p̶s̶t̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶h̶o̶l̶d̶e̶r̶ ̶ fountain pen rest makes it all a little bit brighter.

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Imagine the government had not only listened to Wakefield but picked him from a pool of 1 to produce his report into vaccines. Imagine they had banned the MMR vaccine on the back of what he 'found'. That's Cass and puberty blockers.

"I look at Starmer's trajectory and it is immensely difficult not to notice the trail of devastation left behind. Disabled people, Palestinians, trans people, and now immigrants. All I can see is someone who is willing to throw anyone out of his hot air balloon, just so it can rise higher."

I spent my whole life until today not knowing that the joke about the chicken crossing the road is a joke about dying. How is that funny? NT jokes are weird.

Yep, fuck 'em

Passed by the BMA conference today.

Every day, I think to myself that I couldn't despise transphobes and anti-ND ableists more, and every day, I am proven wrong. Neither trans people nor autistic people are broken or confused about who we are and it absolutely is possible to be both at once. Disagree? Fuck off.

The transphobe position being expressed here is that autism sometimes causes people to falsely believe they are trans and that it's impossible to be both trans and autistic. This is of course false and is just another excuse to assert state dominance over trans lives.

Solidarity with all trans, non-binary & intersex people facing the harsh and ill-considered guidance issued by the EHRC. It’s full of holes & has clearly been written without input from trans people. I will push for this to be withdrawn until thought-out guidance can be produced.

Pay package of UK CEOs grown faster this year than those of their US rivals. FTSE1 00 CEO median pay up 11%. Average real pay for workers unchanged since 2008. Govts say wage rises for workers are inflationary; ignore rise in exec pay, dividends, share buybacks. Its class war. archive.ph/wtgAn