Unions, renters, campaigners, we worked together to make a fairer housing sector. We've claimed power back from the landlord lobby, and we're not giving it back!

No. of second homes in Scotland: 21,606 No. of long term empty homes: 46,000 No. of homeless children: 10,360 This is a problem we can solve, if Parliament agrees to my proposals this week.

The BBC should now do the same. Israel must not be allowed to use Eurovision to whitewash genocide.

Oh the transphobe allowing party is a boy's club that won't accept women to have a say? Colour me shocked. It's almost as if all these issues are linked and you can't ignore one just because you think it's worth sacrificing some people's rights to accomplish a larger 'socialist' goal.

Oh, and PSA for #LabourDay: sex work is work and sex workers are workers. Sex work is a form of labour, and sex workers deserve the same working and safety rights as everyone else ☂️

I've been saying for ages UK govt needs to wake up to the fact the US has inflicted multiple recessions on Europe and the rest of the world for the past 100+ years. They have also inflicted multiple investment bubbles on us and left us with the losses. www.theregister.com/2025/08/25/o...

Internet, I need your help please. In reply to a Q from @kate-c.bsky.social at Edinburgh council on Thursday, the council leader said "Cllr Day has made an apology through the media" [for incidents catalogued in the Dunion report]. I can't find this apology. Can anyone else? 1/2

The problem with “strategic silence” or whatever you want to call it from pro-trans people is that anti-trans people are definitely not being silent. So now we have our first proper position on trans rights from Your Party and it’s this. Well done!

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Leadership is about listening and empowering people. By working together, our movement can be a force for good. 💚

the Brexit discourse wouldn’t lead here. There was a British form of exceptionalism in the idea that Brexit itself wasn’t an extreme position given what it meant practically and in terms of signalling. /END

obviously racist views being made publicly. And now we’ve got to a stage where it is now a mainstream view that ‘protesting’ outside asylum seeker hotels is a mainstream political activity and the ECHR is bad. It’s all connected. It’s a form of gaslighting to suggest it wasn’t foreseeable that… /3

right through it. Indeed, it was a sort of gateway drug to racism because xenophobia against Eastern Europeans was viewed as a more legitimate and less problematic form of prejudice. Once it became acceptable to be ‘concerned’ about Eastern Europeans, it then opened the door for more and more… /2

My view back even in the early 2010s was that mainstream British political thinking had been radicalised, because I always saw Brexit as an extremist position given the inevitable upset it was going to cause and the cans of worms it was going to open. It also had a strong xenophobic strain going… /1

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

Cishet white men make up the majority of sexual predators, and are the biggest threat, and the failure to focus on that is the problem. Holyrood banning trans people from toileting while this was going on shows what a farce transphobia is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Good to hear the scapegoating of migrants and trans people being called out by both new Co-Leaders of the @scottishgreens.org

It is in fact wild that the actual experts on migration, i.e. service providers, caseworkers, advisors and migrants themselves, are the only people who Downing St is ignoring on migration. Everyone else has a Legitimate Concern, except those Legitimately Concerned.

Peaceful protest is fundamental to our democracy. Standing up against genocide and famine is fundamental to our humanity. I've written to the Scottish Government seeking clarification on how they expect Police Scotland to secure our rights to protest & condemn genocide.

Jobcentre sent me a message about a delivery job. 1. I have no license. 2. I have limited capacity for work and work related tasks. 3. Despite this, I already have a full time job. It has no impact on me, but it's still mildly annoying. Leave me alone, I am doing the best a disabled person can do.

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

So that's how generative AI works... and how it can tell you you'll give birth out of your penis-rectum.

Not only that he won't be called out, but that he'll have live broadcast coverage for his every utterance. In the face of a growing far right threat, the bulk of the UK media are disgracing themselves.

transphobia is sexism if you have a penis you must have these characteristics if you have a vagina you must have these characteristics the more transphobic a person is the more sexist they are the more sexist a society is the more transphobic it is this should be obvious but apparently it isn't🙄

The Shepherds Crown came out five months after Terry Pratchett passed, and I got to the point Granny Weatherwax died and absolutely broke down in tears and couldn't continue. Not been able to pick it up since, one day maybe 💕🐝

The amazing thing is that while Europeans are slapping themselves on the back for their dealings with Trump, what he has done is take sanctions on Russia off the table and put giving Ukrainian territory to Russia very much on the table.

I was at this panel between Rylan and Russell Tovey at the TV festival, and it was a genuinely excellent discussion. Not just on trans rights, but on class and growing up gay too. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I went to the Ken Loach talk at the EIFF. The facilitator mentioned trans people once. That was too much for this woman. She said he shouldn't have mentioned it. They talked about Palestine, they talked about benefit sanctions, they talked about the CIA in Central America.

TransActual's new report on people's experiences of trans segregation following the Supreme Court ruling is crucial reading to understand the impact of the Judgment ⬇️🏳️‍⚧️

I hate that I can talk to someone and we can agree about so many different topics but the second you suggest the lives of queer people are also worth discussing they shut down, their expressions twist. The contempt. How dare we breath the word when speaking of injustice, of structural cruelty.

"you can't compare transgender people with the genocide in Gaza, it's a question of scale". Trans people are dying too though. "It's not the same." This is the central problem with left; the idea you can only talk about one thing at a time, and the lives of trans people are worth less than others.

imagine, IMAGINE this in Britain, it'd be like those Purge movies

The 1980s was a time when technology was rapidly reshaping youth culture/childhood. - Video games - Walkman - Pagers - VHS Adults absolutely lost their MINDS.

This isn't a dystopia, those are a fictional. This is a dangerous new reality.

Why was there a Kindertransport? Because we wouldn't let their parents come with them. Five years into the Nazi persecution, we wouldn't let their parents come with them. And we insisted every child had someone to meet their "costs". And we only agreed on condition most would "re-emigrate".

Can't wait for the wall-to-wall media coverage of What This Means, the endless thinkpieces about Green Party dominance in a working class community meaning Labour has to take their concerns seriously and pivot towards them, you know like we'd get if Reform had won.

This is the definition of "uterus" as appears at the top of a Google search when you're looking to find the meaning of the word. ...and it contains a MAJOR factual inaccuracy. Let's explain exactly what is so wrong here.

I don't put politicians on a pedestal. I reserve the right to complement and support them when they do something I think is right, and criticise them and withdraw support when they do something I think is wrong. I don't get this modern trend for cults or never criticising allies who fuck up.

So much of that leads back to the catastrophically poor judgement involved in believing the anti-trans crowd were reasonable, had legitimate concerns that could be answered, and could be placated by hearing them out and engaging with them for months longer than anticipated.

oh hey I wrote that exact take earlier this year! we were told the internet would give us, regular people, more power, but turns out 1) it didn't 2) now the elites are insane youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/the-one-wh...

Just added a simple list of authors and books withdrawn from the prize, for readers who requested a simpler way to use our story to go through and buy all these books (or request from libraries).

candidate 1: i will kill you and your family candidate 2: i will only kill half of your family, and maybe not you candidate 3: I won't kill anybody, what the hell, that's so fucked up Too many of you: Candidate 3 will just take votes from candidate 2, who we must elect to save democracy

If the new party will not include even the most vaguely worded statement of support for trans human rights in its list of key issues/priorities, it shouldn't expect support from trans people or allies. The party's founders have chosen to remain silent on this. Trans people need more than hope.

We have launched the Digital Discourse Initiative with a free online professional learning course for Scottish educators, to equip them with the knowledge & tools to address issues like online disinformation and hate. 💻 Teachers, access the course: tie.scot/professional...

Corbyn is still silent on the genocide of trans people. He is refusing to making a statement calling for banning of transphobia in his party and kicking out his two transphobic MP's.

Apparently being critical of Jeremy Corbyn's new party and supporting the Scottish Greens is liberal behaviour lol

Are there any scientific studies showing the negative impact of pronography on teenagers?

Village idiots verbally abusing an influx of "illegal immigrants" at a campsite in Newbridge, Wales They were a group of Scouts from Scotland Anti-immigrant rhetoric has consequences Statement from Scouts Cymru "We are aware of a racially aggravated incident targeting under-18s"

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Good to see @theguardian.com covering the current hatemongering about refugees and immigrants, three articles on their front page today. but why don’t they report on the ongoing decades-long, exclusionary hate campaign against trans people that they were a part of…?