To be absolutely clear: this is the lowest percentage of the vote in a by-election for the Conservatives or Tories since the party was founded at the time of the Glorious Revolution in 1689.

Am thinking maybe people just aren’t that keen on total bastards?

you'll know if labour are serious about changing by whether the likes of @lucympowell.bsky.social, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, etc ditch the cass review it's a tory policy if they don't then any noises they make about change are for show. they'll be bigoted if they think they can get away with it

Labour did everything the popularists like Matt Yglesias want. They cracked down on trans people and immigrants. They pushed austerity. They ended up fracturing their entire base and losing this seat to the left for the first time in nearly a 100 years.

So, the Conservatives could have stuck to being a big tent centre right party but chased the far right and have collapsed. Labour could have tried to be a centre borderline center right but leaning left party but also is chasing the far right. Not. Working. Out.

In a surprise byelection upset, it’s a thumping victory for estradiol. Testosterone must now rethink its focus on “growing hair in stupid-ass places” and get back to basics.

This is a bad take from whoever the Labour source is. When you're defending small numbers of seats at a General Election, you absolutely can treat all of your Held (& probably your targets too!) like a by-election strategy. This is how the LibDems operated for *years*.

Maybe the whole “let’s see if trans women blend for the lulz” has gone down like a bucket of cold sick as well.

ADHDers with THOSE meds: Don’t call it speed. Don’t call it speed. Don’t call it speed. Doctor: How’s it going? ADHDer: Great! Loving the speed!

What’s wrong with being completely neutered?

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

The level of rage I have towards the New York Times that enabled this while blaming us for it is indescribable.

Ok. We’re now in full 1933 mode. If you are trans in Kansas, RUN

Keir Starmer is a charlatan, a genocide enabler masquerading as a human rights advocate.

Labour bend over to appease TERFs. Piss off everyone with a shred of morality. TERFs still vote Reform

Niche audience for this post, but I genuinely think that Labour are to the right of Chega, and I’m not sure how I feel about that.

Woah. Are they finally getting something? Ps it's not just young people. Join.greenparty.org.uk

It is genuinely infuriating to live as a scientifically literate person these days. We need to develop a sort of social immune system to reject these infectious, psychopathic ideas from civil society before it kills more people.

So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.

I'm sorry but at what point did I agree to let the government process my medical records in order to attempt to starve me to death?

I just learned that “pencil” and “penis” have the same root and I am not ok.

Happy 3-year anniversary to Don't Play Defense #Art #Pride

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

Manchester women’s institute to fold after majority of members quit in disgust at exclusion of trans women. Slow handclap TERFs. Protecting women is it? Great job. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Which, let’s be very clear here, we go through a LOT of quite intense pain to get rid of it. And it’s a multi year commitment. It took me from 2003-2010

Here's a tip for the edited cover and any future covers/art involving trans women you may be involved with, this is the skeleton key to making good and respectful depictions of us: We look like women.

The UK is going to slide into fascism because a bunch of people want to live in the world of a 1970's TV advert for bread and I am not kidding

On Thursday only Greens can beat Reform in Gorton and Denton. And we will beat their hate with a message of hope. On Thursday help us make hope normal again.

If any tech people do happen to have the ears of billionaires, I am here with my wallet open saying I would pay EXTRA for devices and software that don't have AI in them. Please take my money.

PSA: if you are having a visa processed YOU CANNOT LEAVE THE UK OR THEY WONT LET YOU BACK IN. I spent literal years stuck in the UK (and lost the last remaining years to see my grandmother before she passed) bc I was fighting the home office. Home Office deliberately makes it so easy to f yourself.

“Hi. We’re making you menopausal for your GCSEs. We’re helping!” Give them HRT

I just realized that since the matrix is a trans allegory that must mean Neo’s last name is Vagina 🤯

Let's be clear. If Streeting cared remotely about the wellbeing of trans youth he would have called an immediate public inquiry into the 500% increase of deaths in trans kids after he and others stopped gender affirming care. But instead, he commissioned a bogus report to try and cover it up.

“ADHD is characterised by disregulation of dopamine and noradrenaline” Histamine: “Am I a joke to you?” “That’s MCAS” “Oh right. MCAS. Yes. Totally different thing. Greetings fellow non ADHD but weirdly comorbid neurotransmitter bullshit” (1/2)

More authors should do this

My definitely not autistic grandfather took the train to London this week to find out where the number 46 bus goes now because the route has changed since he was last on it and he wanted to see it with his own eyes, so he rode the whole route and went home

GANDALF: A palantir is a dangerous thing SARUMAN: Why should *we* be afraid to use it? GANDALF: We do not know who is looking- SARUMAN: People with legitimate concerns who love my tweets on how the woke Elves are cancelling Sauron for just asking questions about Hobbits identifying as ringbearers

The Ponds patrons are overwhelmingly supportive of trans inclusion, and yet still Sex Matters keep pusing there idealogical agenda. They say they defend women's rights, but continue to ignore the voices of women; how very misogynistic.

We are mums. Daughters. Sisters. Survivors. We understand what safety really means. Our voices should never be used to justify exclusion or discrimination of trans people. If you agree, sign our letter: notinourname.org.uk

Journalists

The rapidity with which iOS is degrading with each release is disturbing. I knew we were entering the age of “nothing fucking working”, but it’s happening really quickly. I wish I could go back to version 18. It looks like it might be the last one that works.

I’ve got 5 girlfriends, Cass. Five. Yes. I’m in relationships. Plural.

I'm so tired

Anti-trans ideology has: - decemitated the Women’s Institute - made it less safe for women to access female single-sex spaces - made it much harder to be a gender non-conforming woman - Reduced women to their anatomy - increased female objectification - reinforced sexist stereotypes

This is why, when I am told that not voting Labour will let something worse in, I can only assume that person has no concept of how awful the situation is facing trans people in the UK right now.

Hard right administrations are always dysfunctional sacks of fighting cats. They do a lot of damage before they collapse though.

I was beyond appalled by Bridget Phillipson's recent New Statesman profile. She is Women and Equalities Minister, she knows what is happening to trans people and yet chose for expediency to join with the press, the fascists and the billionaires in a naked attack on a profoundly minoritised group.

I'm not a historian. But I can think of no precedent in modern Britain for what is being done to trans people. The media, public institutions, Government and (too often) the judiciary are combining to attack or exclude a marginalized group and its allies - with really no significant demurral.