A good news story. Perhaps it's people like these who should get royal honours, not failed politicians, questionable sports stars, complicit judges. They climbed into a burning car to extract a trapped baby. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A week and a bit into the job search, so obviously going to keep re-upping this. Pretty sure that this is the worst time of year to be looking for jobs in my area, but if you are looking for a Comms, policy, advocacy person, or know someone who is, please do let me know or share. 1/4

Wow. Only 08:36 and two posts liked by Zack Polanski :)

This isn't the EHRC, it's the INDEPENDENT EHRC. Add or follow them. Effectively the EHRC we deserve.

If I had a dollar every time a mediocre man known for his orangeness lied about Greenland for his colonial project, I'd have two dollars

US government agency blocklist here: bsky.app/profile/eva....

Who do we think will be pushed out on the media round tomorrow to explain why this is all fine? Reed’s shown himself to be useless and sycophantic… that’s my bet

Hey, Sooz is a fierce fighter for trans rights, and she needs to have surgery that will keep her from performing for at least six weeks. If you're going to be in London later this month, please put up a few pounds to giver her a financial cushion for recovery.

I wonder if any MP has the courage to propose that MPs and parties taking overseas money should be criminalised

Please share this widely… The EHRC is an anti-rights group. An Independent EHRC is one way we can fight back.

This is an account set up by @natacha.bsky.social to facilitate setting up a new group. I regard the existing EHRC as not independent and consequently not legitimate. So I am looking to recruit members of an independent EHRC who can fulfill its functions with genuine integrity and… 1/4

I assume if the bigots want a break they stay in the UK or go to a red flag country. If they went to Spain (or any other sane country that has self-id or at least no trans persecution), how would they deal with the potential trauma of having to share space with a trans person? Holiday trauma

History is making fun of us

@ilgaeurope.bsky.social fyi This latest anti-trans employment tribunal in the UK ruled that being in the presence of a trans woman creates a hostile environment for cis women at work. I believe you have your one of your reviews due shortly.

BBC says the Darlington judgment is out. Not linking to their page because of the way they talk about trans women but I'll go find the judgment...

Late for bed here…. Still getting over a cold :( Mostly gone and trying to restart the exercise plan :)… so, sleep beckons. Sleep well when it’s your turn :)

Best of 2025 : Blueprint

Stans burn me up inside a bit but any serious engagement is just playing Groundhog Day

Slightly diminish a band Thallium Zeppelin

slightly diminish a band Negligible threat.

Compare and contrast this clarity and that of the Spanish PM with the spinelessness of UKG

Honestly think it’s more that she’s the type of person who noisily Doesn’t Take Shit From Anyone, a phrase that in practice means “I hold terrifyingly intense grudges if subjected to any slight or disrespect, and I scream at waitresses who get my order wrong”.

How can I see whom I’ve blocked? I think I blocked the idiot but i can’t see the thread at all

I need five signatures. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... Ban X in the UK X is enabling the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse material and other sexual deepfakes through its AI Grok. We call upon the government to protect the public by banning the platform from the UK.

Given that people are posting autoplay videos of someone being killed i wanted to remind you that you can disable autoplay in settings.

Excellent news now can the rest of government stop using Musks hate filled platform www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In the UK add that possession of CSAM is a strict liability criminal offence, prison sentence 2-3 years. No proof that you sought the material is required. People can be and have been convicted after receiving unsolicited images. This is a serious risk, using X in the UK now.

If you're reporting on the deepfake porn site because of Grok, please make clear in the headline that governments not acting are allowing the scaled abuse of women and children online. Don't say Grok is doing that harm. Grok isn't doing anything. It's human men who are doing these things.

Useful reporting from Translucent. When we’ve suggested that trans women don’t pose a risk, people have argued that’s because of under reporting. These FOI requests suggest that might not be the case www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...

PSA to share…

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Good time to read Arthur Snell’s “How Britain broke the world” (a good book). Listening to “Jingo” in the Discworld series. Seems unfortunately close to home or of our time. It’s a good book but feels like the one I will have enjoyed the least …

Best of 2025 : peace and tranquility.

“If you didn’t want your photo digitally altered and turned into sexual content you shouldn’t have posted it online” is just the social media version of “if you didn’t want to be raped you shouldn’t have worn a short skirt.” If you’re participating in this “trend” you’re a predator.

Has UKG announced its position on Venezuela yet?

2 Jan - lots of bored stans suffering from the after effects of seasonal over-indulgence out here showing their privilege and their limitations.

📢 This is a call to anyone able (safeguarding is paramount). We now need your help! We need everyone to: • Email your MP using our template • Sign our open letter calling out “biological sex” framing as a slur 1/🧵

To everyone north of Glasgow this week: Make sure you have a few days backlog of necessary food items as there are blizzards forecast Keep yourself safe.

Very heavy snow forecast in Aberdeenshire and other parts of Scotland over the next couple of days. Please be careful.

Happy New Year ✨️ We hope the upcoming year is kind to you. We are looking forward to actioning some of our ambitious plans to provide security, stability, and opportunity to our community. A look ahead to 2026 for us: 1/

One other, important thought. There’s a bunch of folk here, active on our behalf in different ways… Thank you to all of you :) I wish you every good fortune in 2026 :)

Off to bed here :) It’s been an “interesting” year and I hope that 2026 is less so for all of us… in the very positive sense of no or at least fewer “interesting times” :) To those I have skeeted and messaged with, thx for engaging and for your civility and humanity :) Best wishes for 2026 :)

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Blahaj has arrived… Can confirm … verrrrrrrry soft :)

I have met all manner of crackpots in two decades of bickering with wackos on the internet but this lot are the worst, most intense, most gleefully sadistic of the lot. They think they’re striking blow after blow against The Empire, every time they repeat one of their four or five stock phrases.

Stans showing they have very limited reading skills this morning :)

Suzanne Moore in 2020: "As a feminist, I would argue that gender is socially constructed, and it can be reconstructed." And in 2025: "This must be the year Britain finally kills off trans ideology." Transphobia is the engine that pulls the train of fascism.

Again: they thought they’d win a shattering court victory with the Harry Potter lady’s money, then the public would rise up in gratitude, salute them as heroes and stomp all over transgender people on their behalf. That hasn’t happened, because the public mostly aren’t vicious cranks, like they are.

Folks. I've a baby trans on the west coast of the US who is in a bad spot and needs a place to land. She's in AZ right now, but has transportation. Shes got some money saved up but needs a place to stay thats safe for a bit.

The explosion of terfery inside the SNP is IMO glaring proof that political scandal in Britain is always consensual. A party that had been a smooth orb of Teflon, rent asunder after decades because a small gaggle of its senior members were angry about Alex Salmond being arrested for grabbing arses.