I’ve learnt that only hyperfocus can keep me from disappointing others. Sometimes.

This *should*, in a sane world, be a resigning matter. A national scandal, all over the front pages. EQUALITY CHIEF MEETS WITH HEAD OF HATE GROUP and so on. The fact that this won’t happen simply demonstrates how catastrophically far we’ve fallen. I’m so very, very tired.

The effective conclusion of Sarah is that they can piss right off.

really can't stress how terrified i feel every day living in the uk. that's the world @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, wes streeting, and so on have made for me. i never felt so scared under the tories. not once.

Reading the entire verdict that was published today, it sounds like horrific bullying of Rose by the nurses. Even her presence, as required by her job, was seen as a cause for complaint. They even accused her of 'eyeballing' them in the corridor. I mean really.

the worst ppl in the country keep winning and they're not doing so by being sly or sneaky. they're perfectly open about how horrible and disgusting they are and yet they keep winning anyway. despair is all i have left. i have no hope. im tapped out.

Followup 2026 challenge for organisations. Get competent, well briefed legal teams for your tribunals involving trans people. Ideally ones that don't accept that the definitions from Equality Act can be applied to 1992 laws, even when this goes against prior case law.

New 2026 Challenge for organisations: Stop fucking up handling complaints by TERFs. Every time it's the procedural fuck-ups that they win on - and they always lose on the transphobia, yet the TERFs always spin it as a win and shift the Overton window.

Ultimately, it's best to think of Scott Adams as another creative person who went through the full Linehanisation process. Not a victim. That process is ALWAYS self inflicted. But a warning. That just because you're creatively successful doesn't mean you know more, or are better, than anyone else

"We would welcome ex-Marlingtonians to give talks to our students on their jobs and experiences as part of the tutor time careers programme." It's tempting. "Boys, anything is possible..."

Remember, Scott Adams won't see your posts focusing on his late-career bigotry, but J.K. Rowling might.

i bet you could get a bargain on a bunch of really good software engineers right now just by promising they don't have to use ai

JK Rowling: hello children Poe: oh hi joanne Poe: do you have something to Rowling: I have sssomething to sssay Poe: is it about Rowling: iran ssseemss to be unusssually full of gryffindorsss

Slightly diminish a game. Monkey Peninsula

Advice for the 2026 batch of new girls: When you first start presenting as a lady, you'll get a lot of looks. The jerk part of your brain might tell you they're clocking you, but it's just as likely you're hot & they're checking you out. Decide the latter is true, and you'll be happier.

This is awesome. I run a CDN monitoring system that runs tests from people’s browsers and I love running the stats to see how many results we get from Antarctica.

Kings of Leon did predict this tbf 😬

An excellent thread on Dorley and the appeal for transfeminine people. I agree wholeheartedly.

Me when the third Avatar film makes a billion dollars.

Reminder to everyone visiting family this holiday... LG calls it "TrueMotion" Sony refers to it as "MotionFlow" Samsung uses the term "Auto Motion Plus" You're welcome. 📺

Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!

I use Exact Audio Copy for backing up mine. www.exactaudiocopy.de

I'm sure it was someone here who skeeted that The Muppet Christmas Carol shows the perfect way to deal with billionaires - just have everyone sing at them whenever they're outside: "There goes Mr Asshole, there goes Mr Dick".

Christmas Tip Number 2: If you're using Disney+ today, you want to go to 'Extras' and select 'Full Length Version' for The Muppet Christmas Carol.

I really regret getting my GRC. The risk/benefit analysis at the time made sense, but boy did I never imagine we'd be where we'd be at today. My main concern? Being on a list of transes! The HMRC, DWP, Police, DVLA all know who we are and all have open anti-trans SEEN networks.

For everyone who is visiting family this week and hates that they have motion smoothing on their TV - there are guides to disabling it for most TVs. variety.com/2022/film/ne...

A blessed winter solstice to you all!! This season of cold rest will continue, but as the light returns, may we all prepare ourselves for quiet growth and gentle steps out from under the snow.

why not put count von count into various vampire scenes: thread

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

You *can* change your sex. I *did* change mine. If this makes you uncomfortable, stop being part of the problem.

Ran into a problem in prod? Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix. #foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

How do we solve these mega waiting lists for the gender clinics??? Just dont do the gender clinics and just have GPs prescribe hormones and refer for surgeries Gender clinics exist to soothe scared cis people not to help trans people transition

The long-awaited Levy Review is out. This is tinkering around the edges of a failing system. Until trans people can access our healthcare based on informed consent, from the same doctors in the same communities as everyone else, issues will remain unsolved. www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...

Our health secretary is so willfully ignorant about health in ways that are going to kill people.

You are going to kill even more trans people Wes, this is actually dangerous. HRT changes your biology, if you deny trans people appropriate screening and refuse to take account of the actual biological changes to their bodies, you will kill someone

Also pissed off at Steeting going off on "biological sex is immutable for screening and healthcare" in parliament, if ignoring that we very much should be treated according to our current anatomy and hormones, and that treating us as our birth assigned sex will cause serious healthcare failures.

if this isn't a sign to move the fuck off of github idk what is

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

man, the collective grief from older trans people at the violent death of the world we briefly hoped was coming, a world in which trans children would be recognised, loved, and helped... yeah.

Just an incredible story told incredibly well. Well worth reading all five parts.

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adhd literally isn’t our fault it’s fucking genetic

Has it sunk in yet. Our government is fascist. 'Labour bans trans women from women’s conference ' archive.is/202512051756...

Trans women will be literally locked out of Labour women's conference. "Trans women will be unable to hear the major speeches or participate and vote on formal policy debates, motions and national women’s committee elections."

Happy "Cloudflare is fucked again" day to all who celebrate. Seems to come round earlier every month these days.

Self-ID for left handed to be ended. Will now require a ten year wait and the opinion of three psychologists. Firstline treatments to include breaking all the fingers on the left hand with a mallet. NHS to offer sinister hand amputation to persistent cases. Move praised by charity Right Matters

Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.

they're going to cass review mental health.