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.

Perhaps it's because the Guardian campaigned for their access to public toilets to be an issue of national controversy

A further crushing blow for the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize

Holds up

This is true but also none of them are going to do this

The quotes and replies for this are fabulous because some people are intimidated by the 24 tacos and 24 beers, and some are intimidated by the 10 miles, but very few both. I could do all of this, for the record.

Starmer, Farage and Badenoch all fighting over 30% of the electorate, many of whom die each day, whilst the other 70% looks on in dismay.

1/ You can also read the text in English here: www.bundesliga.com/en/bundeslig... - maybe the best thing about this is exactly how specific Kompany gets about both the nature of and the solution to the problem. He names names, he provides a path forward.

Reform types on Facebook are so absolutely rattled by the Green party it is *incredible*. They've lost what little composure any of them ever had, and are making themselves and their party somehow look worse than they previously did

What is the standard waiting time if you join a call with someone and they haven't showed up? How long do we wait?

Sodha says there is no public support for that, but there in fact is, and she knows that because she's done considerable work towards manufacturing that support.

This is absolutely wild. Accused of directing a racist slur at Vini Jr, this guy says "oh no it was just a homophobic slur you got this all wrong" and people presumably think this is better

313,000 people complete A levels each year. We have 158,000 qualified electricians and 150,000 plumbers in the UK at the moment. You'd saturate the employment market within two years

Exactly how many plumbers and electricians do they think we need?

New post: LABOUR'S SECTION 28 IS HERE - ACT NOW. I explain how the Labour government's proposed revisions to the guidance on "keeping children in education" are designed to erase trans children in England. But it's not a done deal - there is plenty we can do to oppose this.

I assume the government is delighted that the Supreme Court has brought clarity to this situation

Has anyone already named the phenomenon that any post found on the internet which ends with "just my opinion" is always completely wrong

Look, we've already changed the Prime Minister several times and results haven't improved. You've got to look at the board - they just haven't invested.

This week can we please commit to at least having 2-3 days of gloating before being hectored by the "the next one will be even worse" brigade. We know.

Bit worried about this constant changing of Prime Ministers thing. What if we run out of talent and end up with a shit one?

Former board member of Sex Matters... Funny how often this stuff happens, eh?