One week they're crying about people getting visits from the police because of tweets, the next week they're calling for inquiries into tweets.

We have such a ridiculous attitude towards driving. Having a licence is not a right, and it should be denied if you can't be trusted to do it. One thing that always annoys me is that driving is the only discipline where you're treated more leniently if you need to do it for your job.

So I'm basically a car person and I essentially agree with this. There is no excuse for not having low speed limits and enforcement in urban driving. Where I think the frustration is, in the UK at least, is the proliferation of really pointless 30mph limits on what are basically semi-rural roads

Is he shaking hands with danger

"women's champion" She has refused to condemn or speak out about the sexual abuse of people in sport she actually knows.

This Times article is the sort of egregious propagandising lies that really needs to carry very serious consequences, but won't. I would however be happy to contribute if the wronged parties here did want to try to ruin some wankers

I remain fairly convinced that the Labour govt is composed of two types of people who know they're in government and want to do bad stuff, and people who don't even realise they are in government

there's a trans woman in prison, a man's prison, right now bcos she gave a blowjob to some guy and he claimed he didn't know she was trans. they sent her to prison for that. this guy lied to two women for five years, raping them all that time, but it's fine bcos it's state sanctioned.

This wouldn't even work - the far right and the compliant media would simply lie more and in different ways. You can't compromise with the far right, you have to fight them.

I'm continually amused that the language of car reviewer YouTube often involves phrases like "Living with [incredible car]" as if driving around in a 911 GT3 Touring is like having IBS or something. Just incredible use of language.

Interesting aside - Morrisons employed a transphobic consultant to give some training several years ago, praised her work giving her one of the only reviews on her website, never apologised or explained themselves and I haven't set foot in their shops since

Britain in 2025: restaurants expected to inspect people's genitals before deciding how many chips to give them

This appears to be the usual situation where the GCs have lost on the substance of the case they're really interested in, but got a couple of procedural wins because people don't follow their HR processes properly. Seems like almost entirely good news here, given they'll always claim a win anyway

Brazil, Morocco & Scotland is extremely France 98 coded somehow

Has anyone asked Max Rushden if Croatia are tired yet

The best thing about this is that to win any motion you want, you just need to identify a bunch of women who you think will vote against you and report them to the authorities for being trassexuals, and then they won't be able to vote whilst they're being 'investigated'

Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.

See this is very clever - kids hate to be seen doing the same things adults do, and so because kids now see adults constantly bullying kids, they don't do it so much. Genius when you think about it

This is very important. For all their total capture of media institutions and so on, they cannot *make* the average person in the street want to call the police on us using the toilet. They can't make people want to kill us, sooner or later they have to get their own hands dirty.

I'm in the Netherlands and I don't want to alarm anyone but I haven't had a single bus or train be on time yet

We need more of this

This, but also it's about making the participation of trans people in society in the remaining cases so suspicious and unusual that someone else kills us

I was behind a woman earlier in the queue to get on a plane whose commitment to doomscrolling was the best I've seen. She had two wheeled suitcases AND a backpack which she was carrying in her hand inexplicably, and every time the queue stopped moving she whipped out a whole iPad to scroll...

New JKR character just dropped. This is presumably a trans woman footballer

I have an exceedingly high bar for this, but in all seriousness, if they were to do this, it might be my 'leave the country'. This feels like getting ahead of a potential wave of jury nullification incidents.

I get that these articles are mostly click/rage bait, but I do wish journalists would ask the people more questions as often their answers really do not add up and it makes you think they're setups. Like couple #1 here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the Sun

Increasingly I'm just actually looking forward to seeing them try to implement this patent nonsense. They are clueless.

Quite unfathomably I've just heard Last Christmas by Wham. It's the pigging 17th November, get a grip

Did a podcast with about football 6 months on from the English and Scottish FAs banning trans women from women's football open.spotify.com/episode/1wLl...

Only about half of the current residents of the UK were even alive in 1975 so this doesn't add up

Going on LBC News at 18:20 to discuss the non-news about IOC trans bans which is actually news about possible bans on women more widely.

"As someone working in law, it’s heresy to say this, and it might even kill my chances of a career... But as a trans person, and someone fighting for the rights of my community, I refuse to remain silent. To me it just seems obvious: a heavily prejudiced society produces prejudiced institutions."

Trans women are already banned from all of the sports at an international federation level already. This framing is a lie aimed at hiding the fact they're now going after other women that they don't like.

Absolutely genuinely hilarious that *this* is what's finally got rid of Tim Davie 😂

They've changed it back again now, but changing a quote is a huge red flag. The BBC are repeatedly demonstrating that there are ideologues directly interfering with the meaning of stories they report relating to trans people, and this should be a far bigger deal than it is

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

Why do people keep badgering Bluesky to let them have private accounts? Why does social media like this need private accounts? We already have a million places for private conversation. People just use it for harassment, I don't want it.

Ok but Christian Calgie is the Express political editor. He's a journalist. And in his frame, he's "got them" to commit to this. I mean, that's weird, isn't it? Isn't that a strange thing for a journalist to say?

I'd never heard of Elizabeth Eddy, and now I have, so if you're looking for answers as to why people say these things then there's an answer right there.

Lia Smith, a transgender athlete who was on Middlebury's swimming and diving team, was just found dead by suicide this week. www.them.us/story/lia-sm...

As a trans woman in the UK, it's comforting to know that if I'm ever brutally murdered by people motivated by vicious hatred, that my family can avenge my death by embarking on a polite campaign to ban young people from using self checkouts, the real culprit in my demise.

A much underrated reason for the absolute death of bricks and mortar retail is that every time you just want to make a quick purchase of a single £30 item, you're stuck behind someone serving someone with a query over £1.27 that takes 15 hrs to resolve

1/🧵 I am viewing a never-before-seen file on “gender reassignment” or trans inclusion policy at the National Archives, Kew. The Supreme Court should start sweating. A bagful of receipts!

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

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Further, there is a near 100% guarantee that conveyors etc will still charge to verify an identity in these circumstances anyway.

That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.

This is why “do not comply in advance” is the answer. Making this barbarism expensive to police makes this more of a problem to this Labour government than the in-built attacks on human rights. Which is sickening.