Really looking forward to having to prove my sex repeatedly in a restaurant, in the event I want to do something outrageous like order food or go to the lav

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.

For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.

This was an actual nazi policy after the housing crisis Germany experienced during hyperinflation in the 1920-30s. They targeted Jewish people claiming they controlled real estate and spread lies that Roma and Sinti people were "invading" and people with disabilities were a burden on the taxpayer

Fixing the real problems that slow teams down is hard. Much easier to say teams should use AI. And if teams arent faster, they arent using AI well.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

Umm. Actually, "the benefits of puberty blockers for young people" have been known for literal decades. This is just another bullshit attack on trans kids, where you & your bigoted friends are very literally trying to drive them to suicide.

This investigation shows how much of a non-issue trans women in toilets is, yet the EHRC, government and the media are absolutely obsessed with the supposed problem. If only they put that much money and effort into tackling actual sexual assaults.

The TERFs think that they can “always tell”. But they can’t. These revised EHRC guidelines that The Times is leaking will affect far more cis women than trans women. What a ridiculous waste of public money the EHRC has become.

We need to stop protecting predators.

the full quote here english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

One of my friends when I was an undergrad had a professor take her into his office hours one-on-one and say explicitly to her face that women are incapable of doing engineering.

There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Congressional republicans have been spewing racist attacks on Mamdani for weeks and it’s almost never mentioned in our media. Not only that, the person leading the hate campaign—Randy Fine—is treated by the same media as a good faith expert on antisemitism. I wrote about this obscene double standard

What was the point of making government employees work for 40 days without pay and SNAP recipients lose their benefits if you were just going to capitulate and vote with the Republicans anyway

Ah the famous identity politics of .. checks notes .. free busses and childcare. And the minimisation of #mamdani begins...

ICYMI: The New York Times is done with women

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue @allegrak.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

The EHRC's position "leaves businesses and their staff caught in the crossfire of the increasingly bitter gender wars, while doing absolutely nothing to advance women’s rights or protect vulnerable women from abuse": Rachel Taylor MP. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

perfect optics event to hold right as 40 million americans will increasingly struggle to get food with SNAP benefits expiring

Suddenly when puberty blockers are given to cis kids, the Daily Mail (the same newspaper which backed Hitler btw) finally admits that "their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal." Which is true for trans kids too.

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

Exactly a week ago tonight, I bought an outstanding quesadilla from a food truck around the corner from my house. Sometime today, the man who smiled warmly and provided my meal to me, and literal shelter from a rainstorm, was kidnapped by paramilitary forces.

Trump two happened because NYT cynically platformed every worst reactionary centrist impulse as “just asking questions” pieces. WaPo wants to leapfrog to the top of that niche, and that’s specifically why Bezos bought the paper— to convince liberals it’s virtuous to hate the poor in advance of 2026.

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.

a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes a day in an american life

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

This is 100% correct. Including as to the chaos the Gender Critical Ideological Movement so beloved of Labour has now descended into as their facade of respectability crumbles like the Berlin Wall. www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...

there’s no problem with trans women in bathrooms

The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing. Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist. Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird Media: trans activist criticizes media

Here it is. Yes i have it printed 👀

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

@theradr.bsky.social I believe this is your gem of wisdom

The real problem here is the illusion that an LLM can represent some Platonic "unbiased" view on a given subject; aside from God Himself, no one and no thing can have a complete, comprehensive, objective view of reality as it is. An LLM will *always* exhibit some perspective, some bias.

We are not trivialising LLMs. Copyright theft is not trivial. Environmental damage is not trivial. Unreliability is not trivial. Risk to human cognition is not trivial. Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.

I am the child of a Holocaust survivor. I exist because my grandfather's best friend hid my grandfather and grandmother in his cellar, in occupied Netherlands. My father was born in hiding.

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous. This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street. Separating children from their parents. Creating fear. Taking people for “how they look.”

ICE abducts people and then immediately moves them around to prevent access to lawyers and habeas corpus petitions. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story on this consistent game being played to frustrate due process. prospect.org/justice/2025...

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years. This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

Speaking for all physicians and healthcare providers here. When we see patients in need of care especially in an emergency room we do not leave them for dead. We do not care about their immigration status, we treat them because that is what we took an oath to do and is also basic human decency.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.