Reindorf is a particularly egregious example of a gaslighter

Once again I repeat my motto: "Don't comply in advance, but also, don't cry in advance."

I've been thinking about this a lot recently but this has really helped crystallise it in my mind. The biggest problem we have is that so much of our lives is governed by people and organisations that we do not have means to hold to account

Made a transporter episode

Not yet! When a full bathroom ban comes to the US, it should be called a "Starmer UK style bathroom ban"

Public Increasingly Unsure Which Ongoing Disaster They’re Supposed To Be Ignoring

This disabled cisgender person drew this for y'all today xx

This is 100% media fuelled shite. This is absolutely nothing like the attitude I've seen from disability groups and disabled people, who in my experience have been extremely understanding and supportive of trans advocacy when it comes to access to facilities

Was she his Evri driver who left a big package outside his door

I heard Bridget Phillipson is a bluenose

Someone said to me the other day, and this will stay with me forever: "The problem with this country is that there's a lot of cunts about"

You know this opens the door to an incredible amount of grim shit. They know this opens the door to an incredible amount of grim shit. They're rolling the pitch for a Reform government, and they wont just be against people that don't like genocide.

I gave an interview recently about the importance of making nightlife more affordable for young people, and some of the feedback was, what a woke interview. And I think: so much of the current moment is just indulging people who don't want anyone else to have nice things.

There's a whole bunch of stuff associated with making things 'feel' better which don't have to be costly or difficult but which people would absolutely notice. A lot involves transport and childcare. Get rid of arbitrary barriers to childcare and reduce public transport costs on rural routes

One of the most incredible things I see surprisingly often is people who order food or drink where it's a pickup system (like coffee), and they wander off before their order comes out. Why do people do this? It's ALWAYS people on their own, no child distraction excuses

I am fascinated by the choice to be so public that the ADF are behind it. It confirms to fence sitters so much of what they've been unwilling to listen to from us for years. My take is that they're trying to launder their reputation with centrist journalists as prep to step up assault on abortion

There is so much about the BBCs behaviour here that people could have understood much earlier if trans people had been listened to

I hear the other Porsche driving transsexual has been saying silly things today so I figured I'd pop on to say that life is actually great & that, despite the waft spoken by people who don't know what they're talking about, trans people are smashing, worthwhile & regularly succeed in their goals

I'm going to need a storage container for all the bottles of good wine I'm saving for various people's deaths

Beth worked as a doctor for years until a transphobe turned up. Now, she's had to leave her job, leave her home, move to the other side of the world and is still being hounded and harassed by the media and cult. She did nothing but exist as trans in the orbit of Sandie Peggie.

I'm probably going to be unpopular for this, but at this point, with this government, pursuing a conversion therapy ban in the UK is not worthwhile and could even be irresponsible. There is no way it will have sufficient teeth and could even make things worse for trans people, particularly under 18s

There's a lot to enjoy in this article but here's my favourite bit. Zero self awareness. They admit to having spent the last 6 years doing exactly this to the rights of people they don't like & are now upset someone is doing it to them. Their pleas sound a lot like those of the people they ignored

Zero doubt in my mind that FIFA would do that if that's what they're asked to do.

Feels like this framing being how most of the media leads on this could be part of the problem here

I haven't said this for a while so saying it again. Threads is bad because it just copied followers from Instagram. People follow people on Instagram because they take nice pictures or are good looking - neither qualifies people to be interesting in text form, so it is inherently boring.

I sent this to my wife, who is a vet, and she said that the cake might give the horse colic and that it might be as bad as fire cake

Americans on car social media will genuinely have you believe that driving a manual is the cognitive equivalent to quantum theory

The cowardice of sporting bodies and news organisations in dealing with this topic is particularly apparent in the way that none of them will even acknowledge the impact on women with innate variations in their sex characteristics unless they're absolutely forced to

I've just seen an absolutely cursed development from the people who brought you "People who think activism is arguing with people on social media". This one is "Arguing with LLMs". Genuinely - there are people who think they're doing a service arguing with AI in private

The Guardian (Australia) notes today that the new IOC rules fly in the face both of international law, including international human rights law, and the scientific evidence on sexed bodies.

I have permanently altered my algorithm, but it is worth it.

Realised I've been saying in talks that "I came out 10 or so years ago" for about 3 or 4 years now and that I should probably update that phrase in my head

Today the IOC published its new policy establishing genetic testing as a requirement for competing in the female category in a policy driven by politics not scientific evidence, marking a new era of controlling and policing women’s bodies. Read full statement and call to action here: bit.ly/3O32Qq0

“Safeguarding” has becoming a fucking magic word for reactionaries in this country. A means of imposing their agenda, including through censorship.

A statement on the IOC's decision to reintroduce mandatory sex testing for women. Please share widely. Alt text follows in the following posts.

Once again the IOC is banning cisgender women and the media is pretending that the ban is to transgender women (who it also covers) because they're running cover for ideologues.

From Instagram - today the Dyke Project shut down NHS England HQ to protest the politically motivated ban on trans youth healthcare.

Did you know that instead of watching the new Harry Potter adaptation and giving money to an anti-trans billionaire, you could buy a children’s book with a trans boy main character and support a trans writer who is not a billionaire (me)?

Remember: there's no difference between a fan watch and a hate watch in marketing metrics

As someone who recently had an entire day of back-to-back 30 min meetings from 0830 to 1800, many of which where double, triple or in some cases quadruple booked, I support this

Today's driving offences that I'm proposing the death penalty for: -parking on a pump at a busy petrol station to do your fucking weekly shop -When seeing someone obviously trying to do a manoeuvre in the road, slowing not enough to let them do it, but enough to make everyone wait for fucking ages

A great point in the quotes which I'll paraphrase is that if they're serious about this then the very least they could do is not give massive analytics contracts to Palantir and instead give them to completely capable UK companies who aren't owned by fascists

Rachel, you're trying to make it illegal for a decent percentage of your tech talent to go to for a piss, and threatening to report the families of another decent percentage

One of the worst things about being a trans person is whenever there's any bad news, which is a lot, you have to endure different people posting the same bad news on different places around the internet for weeks afterwards as they all crawl out from under various rocks and discover it

Justin Webb is a waste of cells, but I am actually taking some amusement from Graham Linehan being reduced in the public sphere to 'a man at an airport' now.

If this were pro Palestine protestors we'd be having wall to wall media coverage this morning and suggestion of bringing the army in.

Just need to share that I'm on a train that is running 5 minutes ahead of schedule!

We've just learned that the person at the MHRA whose letter caused Wes 'I follow the clinical evidence' Streeting to cancel the puberty blockers trial is Professor Jacob George, the GC who enjoyed mocking trans people on his social media account. Why did Wes Streeting cover up his name?

This has been going on for a while now and has been kept quiet because the people who demanded the conditions be created for this to happen are a little sheepish that it's their fault. So it's interesting that the Times is breaking cover. But obviously, as always, we did say this would happen.