I would also love for someone to explain to me why it is legal for TERFs to impose 'gender critical' ideology in law.

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

Challenging racism is not a smokescreen, especially if someone is so far gone they're claiming Mahmood's anti-asylum policies, some of the harshest in the world, are "throwing the doors open to refugees". It shows flat out, frankly white supremacist, racism when coupled with his other comments.

This is bad.

But either way - GC ideology being codified into law chafes and disgusts me as much as being forced to abide by Sharia or Catholic precepts. Non belief is a also a protected characteristic. Forcing gender critical ideology into law violates my right to non belief.

Whatever you think of transgender people - you should be outraged that a group of zealots are forcing their irrational beliefs onto the rest of us. I don't agree with personal prejudices being characterised as 'beliefs' in general.

The thing about the girl guides thing that’s extra gross, it’s all gross, is how it’s sexualising children and that’s fucking sick tbh and says everything about the GC movement

The subtext of the GG statement is "we really didn't want to do this, but our lawyers have told us that if we don't, activist bigot groups with access to effectively unlimited funding will use the courts to destroy our organisation entirely"

I despise transphobes with my entire heart. Absolutely foul people

Fuck. "We really don't want to do this" - well, don't do it then!

Wish I hadn't found this out the way i have, but I've realised I can sneeze with my eyes open

the trans panic is an elite thing most people don't have well-defined views & it's not what they vote on www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-...

this is a key point. various elite centrists and liberals have become radically pilled on transphobia (likely on Vichy Twitter) and joined the right-wing exterminationist crusade

How do we know? Gonna need better proof than that

yeah but nobody actually believes this. this is just something 'centrists' say when minorities call out bigoted policies.

This would be a wonderful positive AI use-case. Although a strange, difficult reality for a lot of people in 2025.

We should be aping Mamdani not the 1920s but that points to a class based coalition that pays due attention to identity and understands that "the class" is not mostly semiskilled male physical labourers any more, if it ever was, it's not Shipyards enough for some people.

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#SundayPixBelovedCritters The trouble with being a ladybird friendly house is that they need to hibernate & they do it in the cracks & gaps of the window frames. In the winter it's difficult to open windows cuz they all drop in or wake up & crawl inside! These are actually quite small groups.

everything that's wrong with our transportation system

Did you know there's a new porcupine from Colombia? Listen in as Héctor Ramirez-Chaves shares the discovery and more of his porcupine adventures! spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/p5raG2HEvWb

#LiteratureNotice Duarte-de-Mélo et al. A new species of #Zenoria Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellinae), with a key to similar two-spotted hairy lady beetles from South America doi.org/10.12976/jib... #Beetle #Beetles

I'd actually really like to get someone on the show to talk about spot variations, hmu if this is your speciality #ladybirds #entomology

Good.

This is some Nuremberg type shite

@aremay.bsky.social is fond of mentioning how on the BBC's 'Brexitcast' podcast they always got faintly embarrassed about having to talk about the actual policy content. They'd always refer to it as geeky or nerdy. Your audience is people who've downloaded a Brexit podcast.

Switched on BBC News and they’re crowing about how their investigation has led to the govt banning asylum seekers from using taxis to go see a doctor. Sick country.

I'd actually really like to get someone on the show to talk about spot variations, hmu if this is your speciality #ladybirds #entomology

It has taken over two years for @vc40ladybirds.bsky.social & I to attract another Willow Ladybird (Scymnus limbatus), an extremely small & elusive species, to the refugia we designed in an attempt to learn more about them. It has been a long wait but we found one yesterday, plus an Anthocorid bug

Every day they find new ways to be cruel to asylum seekers — the article clearly says this was to get to medical appointments! Also asylum seekers are not allowed to work, how are they going to find the money to pay for transportation if they need it? I have no words left for this government.

I don't particularly like BBC reporting on immigration, but if you have a government which is now pushing not only the most anti-immigration/asylum policies in this country for decades, but also one of the most hostile in the world, because the BBC made them then it isn't fit to govern

So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get. Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It was good to find Rhyzobius lophanthae (Bristly Ladybird) yesterday, in its typical habitat (!!), from grasses at the base of a Salix, next to a pond! 😂 With the rather more typical 16-spot #AlwaysExpectTheUnexpected #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

What the fuck? Every paragraph of this article is more depressing and aggravating than the last

Imagine being a grown man sticking a middle finger up at a child looking out of in window in a refugee hotel that you are harassing. Not knowing you are a blind tool of a billionaires' game of divide & conquer. thebristolcable.org/2025/11/if-y...

The British people are going to get net migration below 100,000. But they’re not going to like it. Meanwhile, the cruelty continues. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The BBC could close tomorrow and we’d all be so much better off

He characterise an 80% drop as a "step in the right direction"

There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

there's that famous left wing bias again. this is not neutrality.

I get why the Beeb is concerned about doing this. They don't think the country has their backs. They don't think the government does. They may even have been told, quietly, that they won't get support from Downing Street. None of that makes the situation any less emetic.

hey remember when you all spent 18 months starving poor kids and punishing any labour politician who rebelled against it? also: politicians should not have 'moral missions'.

Labour Together's "Red Shift" strategy document was their "path to power". In this they claim two fictional voter classes were key. One legitimised "legitimate concerns" against immigrants. The other targeted trans women and trans girls. www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

"on average people like you earn more so it's fine you pay more tax" ok first of all what the fuck?

"Rachel Reeves' budget of shitehousery is literally like Christmas Day, too me"

Over a year in I guess we can say that the general pattern with Starmer's Labour has been that it usually turns out they either have no ideas or bad ideas. So when the no ideas side wins out that is often actually a cause for celebration. bsky.app/profile/last...

Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024 More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain

I think Starmer's Labour actually intend to outright destroy British universities. I don't understand *why* they're doing it but it's definitely what they're doing