Everybody be quiet and look at this baby toucan.

Now for a look at tomorrow's newspapers... Prints / postcards: www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page...

Gonna have 'em out on the counter as standard now as well :) Thank you

Today’s the anniversary of the passing into law of Section 28 in 1988, the first homophobic legislation in a century. Politicians and media said it was our own fault, told us to shut up and give up. We didn’t. Dont you dare give up now on trans people.

Anyway here's a self published article by a wheelchair using trans man on the guidance. A perspective the press are rather slower to include jamierhale.substack.com/p/ehrc-trans...

As the British government delivers its guidance on “single sex spaces,” here is a painfully clear reminder from Australia that it’s possible (and actually pretty basic!) to pass legislation that ensures trans people are not discriminated against and are recognised in their gender. It’s not radical.

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

Fyi to my mutes, birth control is one of those medications affected by hot weather. I don’t want to hear of any of you all having no accidental heatwave babies this summer.

To mark Grace Jones’s 78th birthday, please enjoy her insisting that ‘Pull Up to the Bumper’ is simply a pleasant song about the joys of manoeuvring a long, well-waxed limousine into a very tight space, and ‘shame on you’ if you think otherwise! 🚘

Now THIS is a good opening hook for a horror story.

The state of things. A thread 🧵

This is not a "controversy" or a "dispute" about casting. It's a racist position being echoed and amplified by other racists. Journalists need to learn to use the word "racist" much more freely; right now, too many publications treat it as unprovable unless self-reported.

These are the kinds of groups getting behind Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom march today. They are showing their true colours. We cannot allow this to be normalised.

Wes Streeting, Angela Raynor, and Andy Burham prepare for Labour leadership fight.

the UK now has the least transphobic Health Secretary in years (nobody)

Launching in Intersectionality Awareness Week 2026 - this guide has been created with LGBT+ disabled-led organisations across the UK, in a roundtable facilitated by LGBT+ Consortium. 1/2

I made a zine for my local launderette! Did anyone ask for this? No. Do I think any launderette customers will read it? Also no. Will they draw offensive graffiti on it? Almost certainly. But I LOVE IT and making it made me laugh so objective achieved

"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

Wes Streeting just gave your address, your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, if you are cis or trans, if you've ever had an abortion, an addiction, are disabled in anyway and a million other pieces of info about you, to a far right tech company the UK government has no control over.

Please share! Call for research participants! Are you non-binary, aged 18+ and living in the UK? Would you be willing to spend 30 minutes on a survey on your experiences of family? qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Please sign and share. Last week I spoke with a trans woman who is too afraid to accept medical care for leukaemia because of her profound fear of being outed by being placed in a side-room on a male ward. Trans people have a right to the same healthcare we all need goodlawproject.org/s/ec0359

Happy birthday! 🎂

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

Evergreen headline.

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

"Now that we know an AI can say ‘I see evidence of malignant melanoma on your skin’ without even having access to any images, how much can we trust it when it says the same while actually seeing the image?” futurism.com/artificial-i...

A reminder: voter photo ID was introduced by the Tory govt, as a tabloid-headline-friendly fix for a problem that didn't exist. (In a recent BBC Have Your Say forum, I pointed out the statistical insignificance of walk-up electoral fraud and got loads of down-votes, so the folk myth is powerful)

🌞🌿GREEN REFLECTIONS🪞☺️ looking into the newly polished mirror the servant faints 磨ぎたての鏡びっくり下女気絶 -anon For a very brief moment each year Kyūtei Omuro (旧邸御室), an old villa close to Ninna-ji, is open to the public. It is famed for a table!🤔🪞🌿 #Kyoto #京都

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence is being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

i have very rapidly become incapable of thinking about anything that isn’t this video

There’s no “accused” about it - a politician being handed £5m IS a conflict of interest. Accepting such a gift is an open and shut case of not being interested in, let alone fit for, public service www.ft.com/content/6a56...

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

This is true for all/most human attributes: height, intelligence, etc. Two standard deviations (95% of ppl) for height among males is roughly 5'4" to 6'4". You can *walk* a marathon in, say, 7-10 hours In context, the wealthiest humans would be 30 million ft tall Or run a marathon in .003 seconds

Farage will be tolerated in some kind of government role; Polanski will not be . Farage’s supporters have legit grievances that must be respected; Polanski’s supporters don’t. Farage is a real person who matters, and Polanski is not. And that’s that.

I just backed Orlando - a graphic novel adaptation by Jules Scheele on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...

Yes, it is a long document. It's a PhD thesis. No, I don't want an AI summary.

A superb essay by Professor Grace Lavery which outlines, amongst other things, Kathleen's Stock's great intolerance of criticism - backed up with frequent threats to sue her critics.

Truly an absolutely fucking thrilling time to be a minority in the UK right now. These are all from just the past few weeks.

One of the most remarkable achievements in modern political history has been the emergence of "anti-establishment, anti-elite, people's army" parties - committed to "bringing back the nation-state" - that are led, directed & financed by the richest, most privileged & most mobile people on the planet

Why’s an American pressure group that helped overturn Roe v Wade suddenly taken an interest in your local park? Anti-rights movements won't stop with trans people, and we must hold back the tide. Get behind @transsolidarity.bsky.social’s campaign: https://protectparkrun.uk/

Really thoughtful session from @twiterney.bsky.social #BHIVABASHH26 on the future of HIV stigma. Moving beyond stigma as just individual attitudes, this focused on how it is shaped through relationships, intimacy, and wider social expectations.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Yes, the problem is with my search criteria

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

ADF is a Trump aligned anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-woman patriarchal Christian right hate group and not someone any feminist would work with. But then again, transphobia has always been a men's rights movement in drag.

I'm a mid-career researcher insofar as my research career is mid

Positively UK's statement on the sentencing of Adam Hall today.