When they invent AADHD, we really will be fucked.

CAMBRIDGE (England) people, I'll be in town for the first TWO weeks of December. South East of England people, I'll have a loose weekend in the middle in which trips from Cambridge are possible.

Happy Doctor Who day! To celebrate here is the greatest of Doctor Who images: Verity Lambert using a Mechanoid as a lighter.

Buildings. I reckon buildings are pretty cool.

It's Doctor Who Day, so let's spend some time celebrating anti-gravity nonsense.

"gender ideology is anti-gravity nonsense that only the desperate, the deluded and the double-dealing grifters still believe": just in case you were still wondering quite how consumed with hatred are Hadley Freeman and The Sunday Times.

I gather Trump has just made his horse a consul.

I am watching a 1977 Crown Court called "Capers Among the Catacombs", and because I am extremely suggestible, there will be capers in my dinner.

As a trans person, my experience in, say, Nottingham or Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is that if I'm on my own, the mean time between incidents of street harassment is approximately fifteen minutes. If I'm with someone who looks like a cis woman roughly my own age, there's a lot less backchat.

The thing is, most of England is, in its thoughtless moments, a great deal more racist than most of London. And the trouble is that, by accepting these terms of debate without thought, Labour is campaigning to be replaced by the fascists. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are disappointed that, due to legal pressure from transphobic campaign groups following the For Woman Scotland decision, two eminently reasonable quotas in our party's election regulations have been suspended. These suspensions are profoundly anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-feminist... 1/4

Kings Cross has sprouted a transphobia kiosk should supplies run low over the festive period.

Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it). "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".

…Now stop cowering with your mouth shut and do the same against transphobia today!

Dear UK. Be less Shabana Mahmood. Be more Kenmure Street.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

The UK Labour Party has this day destroyed itself.

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

"Please stop pointing out the consequences of the massively racist right wing baiting thing I've done, that's actually offensive to me actually." Get absolutely fucked. You made this choice. Nobody forced you. You sowed. You get to reap. You're Tommy Robinson's favourite Home Secretary. Eat it.

so sad how expensive transitioning is becoming in america 😔. glad zohran could raise enough for it, but many of us arnt so lucky.

Two quickies! 1. if any organisations (or individuals) are looking to submit to #GANHRI, we have a working group that can help with the technicalities (👉 ganhri.org/wp-content/u...) 2. Can folk ping me details of any organisations who’ve formally disavowed the #EHRC as a human rights organisation?

Something to ponder. Which of these people is more morally repugnant? • The politician who makes scapegoats of immigrants and refugees because he is a racist. • The politician who makes scapegoats of immigrants and refugees because she thinks it's the only way to defeat the racist.

I give the second years (a few of them miss me) a Christmas lecture in which I write "building a binary search tree, then flattening it" as a while loop, running flat on the machine stack. They don't see that wild pointer wrangling coming from an angel like me.

Teach Yourself Racket - a flânerie by Prabhakar Ragde "Racket is a modern functional programming language, a dialect of Lisp and Scheme, good for exploration of ideas and rapid prototyping." cs.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/fla...

I'm in central Glasgow, and I've heard a variety of sirens and a series of explosions. As a child of Belfast in the 1970s, I'm not a fan.

I used to teach first year hardware (now I teach first year maths) but I still hang out in lectures for my old module. When my successor introduced the JK flip-flop, I interjected "GOOD OLD JK, AS DAVID TENNANT *USED* TO SAY!" and m'colleague added "They only came to this lecture to say that!"

What I told the BBC is simply this: I can't start my day being hated by my radio.

Which four? Is this like a Willy Wonka situation

The BBC, quite consciously, sets out to demean and belittle trans people. This is both morally contemptible and in breach of its Charter obligations. We've made it super easy for you to write to the BBC and tell it to stop. Please use - and share with your networks. goodlaw.social/2j5q

Instead of the British knee-jerk ‘It’s not to my personal taste – it should be banned!’ Make the basic legal principle that ‘victimless crimes’ should be just *not be crimes* where people are just doing their own thing (And, if any exceptions, precise and limited)

I organise EIAs for a living. You do policy, you do an EIA. It's the first thing an FoI request would ask for. If it's a trans thing you don't fuck around because there's a cottage industry in asking for FoIs on this stuff. This is insane to me.

If the Labour Party fall for the media hype and replace stumbling Starmer by evil Streeting, there's no way back. Years of rightward ratcheting have brought us only chaos. With whom should we face this chaos? Chaos with whom?

Given the shit that's going down and who fights it, I have kicked off a regular donation to the Good Law Project. It's a bit like paying the BBC Licence Fee, but for content that tries not to kill me.

These patriotic displays have gone a bit too far now, if you ask me.

I’m on my way to collect my Blake’s 7 Series 2 blu rays and it has in no way influenced my outfit choices.

In the late 1960s, a sign appeared in Queen's University Belfast Student Union, advertising "ADVENTURE HOLIDAYS IN VIETNAM: SIDES WILL BE PICKED ON ARRIVAL".

(Post someone who looks great in a hat.) Who is the cat with the plushy rainbow hat? SHAPS!

"The trouble with Starmer is that he's in the pocket of corporate interests and too readily ratcheted to the right. I know! Let's get Streeting instead!" Does anyone other than Streeting actually think this?

Apparently, these days, every single thing you can imagine is a way of transferring money from government coffers to private shareholders.

If you want an Edinburgh Computer Science education, don't go to Edinburgh. They don't do it any more. Come to Strathclyde! We're the same old people and we still ship the good stuff. Also, Glasgow's, like, alive.

OK I've been saying I'm "nonbinary" whilst presenting femme as fuck for a while now. That's obviously bullshit. So I've decided that my new name is... ...Emily Maitlis.

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

this is literally never not accurate

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

When anyone tells you that the BBC is too nice to trannies, bear in mind that I can no longer listen to or watch BBC news, because of how much certain individual presenters make clear that they hate trannies. The last straw was the Today interview with Bridget Phillipson after Supreme Court.

Demonisation of vulnerable minorities is a key distraction strategy for climate change denialists. If you follow the money, you'll find out that's true.

Floella Benjamin for DG.

This is your routine reminder that "program" and "algorithm" are not synonyms. A program *goes*; an algorithm *works*. They try to pull a fast one on you by overdignifying shit programs as "algorithms". They don't work. They're not algorithms. They're wrong, not you.