Programme aired on 20 December 2025, but the initial legal letter was sent first to ITV, then inexplicably rerouted via Channel 4 before finally being dumped in the Costa outside BBC Broadcasting House.

Dog-themed Obi (Japanese traditional kimono sash), about 1930s, Japan

I have a policy of believing people when they tell me who they are. So I'm happy to set the record straight and say @brap.bsky.social does, in fact, accept that trans women are fully entitled to live as women in every respect. Welcome to the trans rights cabal, Brap! 🩵🤍🩷

Senior Defra group HR manager Beth Gordon has been mentioned in the evidence in Samantha Tempest v Defra & Rural Payments Agency. She's who I was responding to in the screenshot below. She never answered my question, & SEEN Network co-chair Andreas Mueller demanded I be punished for "slander."

I can confirm that the extremely long delays in resolving grievances that the tribunal is hearing about are also par for the course in Defra group

This tsuba (sword guard) has three mice on it. One appears at the upper right of the front and continues around the edge of the tsuba and appears at the upper left of the front. On both the front and the back, a mouse appears at the lower left. 1700-1850, Japan. The Walters Art Museum

Bees were NOT in a good mood today 😬 #beekeeping

Lotus in Nagasaki,Japan. #花 #花のある風景 #Lotus #flowers #photography @bskyphotos.bsky.social

The pleasure of turning the pages yourself. The pleasure of seeing something for the first time in a darkened theatre. Once those are taken from you, they don't come back. As someone who makes things for a living, I find it hard to understand how easily work like this gets leaked --

Honestly, any day I can make people laugh at fascists is a good day.

Masha's live video release today was a performance of Melody, a song from early in his career. I've always been a bit meh about it, but this performance gave me a new appreciation youtu.be/xE0oZuY4kdI?...

Reminder that while the Environment Agency was letting their employee, Andreas Mueller of the "gender critical" SEEN Network, get away with calling a trans-supportive MP a "cancer on the Labour Party," he was demanding that my employer punish me for posting a gif of Mr Tickle

Hey @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social, a transphobic public servant described you as a “cancer” on the Labour Party on social media, and investigators at the Environment Agency found that this was “not objectively offensive”, would you agree?

This may be the most Columbo frame of Columbo that ever Columbo'd.

It may not be, ah, the part of my website getting most attention at the moment, but The Bad Shodo Diaries is my favourite project and I've just written a new one. It's about 写真, "photograph." lauradelcolbrown.com/Photograph/

おはようございます 7月4日 土曜日 21℃ 雨 元気にしてるかな。。。 #両生類 #カエル #frog #アマガエル

If you're following Samantha Tempest v Defra & Rural Payments Agency & are 🤨 at handling of the claimant's grievance, this is typical of Defra group. The grievance I describe below was initially dismissed by someone who admitted they just Googled the issue. (My union successfully appealed)

89. Moon Pine in Ueno https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/89-moon-pine-in-ueno-1857

Masha's first single from 超新星 is coming out on 10 August! It's 邂逅 (Kaikō / Encounter), which impressed me so much in concert. I can't wait!　 fmsp.amob.jp/mob/news/new... #福山雅治 #BROS1991

As one who made myself unhappy for a long time by, in my therapist's words, "being my own Victorian schoolmaster," I know "streak culture" can be incredibly toxic. On the bright side, this will probably flop like most NHS initiatives www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Naomi Cunningham (for the "gender critical" SEEN Network in Samantha Tempest v Defra & Rural Payments Agency) accuses a:gender of a breach of SEEN co-chair Andreas Mueller's personal data. I know nothing of that, but she should be careful, considering what Mueller & his solicitors JR Levins did

Naomi Cunningham, for the "gender critical" SEEN Network, accuses Emma Dunn of a:gender of masterminding the employment tribunal case Samantha Tempest v Defra & Rural Payments Agency. That can't be right. Andreas Mueller of SEEN said *I* orchestrated it, & could such a level-headed man be wrong?

I was the promise of a Magnum slain By the Doppler shift of the ice cream van

A monster rat from the Raigo Ajari Kaisoden https://www.wikiart.org/en/katsushika-hokusai/a-monster-rat-from-the-raigo-ajari-kaisoden

On ☎️ to estate agent after a survey finds the flat we're trying to buy would need £50K worth of remedial works before we could move in: Agent: You need to use some common sense here. Me: I am using common sense. I'm relying on the independent expert's opinion, not yours

Make that 40 minutes

What could make today even more relaxing and fulfilling? Oh, that's right - spending 20 minutes (& counting) on hold to the DWP because they've found yet another baffling way to fuck up my ESA claim

Defra’s barrister in Samantha Tempest v Defra & Rural Payments Agency has defended the "gender critical" SEEN Network by saying they didn't want a:gender (for trans civil & public servants) not to exist. Maybe not, but some of their members apparently didn't want a:gender to be visible.

Buying a home for the first time in England is delightful if you enjoy being told you've done something wrong when no one has explained the rules to you

Was Samantha Tempest being tested as a witness, or was she being made to endure a live demonstration of the very hostility she says she experienced at work? open.substack.com/pub/lynsaywa...?

GOOSE https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/210280

never miss a new book by franz kafka [email address] [sign up] -penguin random house

そのチョウは花の上を時計回りに回りながら吸蜜していました The butterfly was sipping nectar while circling the flower clockwise.

A crypto spam bot has followed me. Didn't think they were still around

I was diagnosed with PMOS 25 years ago & have literally never had any follow-up that I didn't push for. Finally got put on Metformin a few years ago when I suggested that shaming me back into starving myself wasn't the best way to address my insulin resistance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Even a child browsing socials media of these 'gender critical' malignants can see they hold deep-rooted hatred towards trans people. They've no right forming 'hate clubs' to intimidate trans employees at work. Simply - they want trans people too intimidated to remain-in or seek employment.

And, congratulations to Arashio-beya's Daiseizan on his promotion to the Makunouchi. He becomes only the second rikishi from one of China's five autonomous regions to reach sumo's elite tier--the first being his oyakata pictured here with him--the very proud, former Maegashira Sokokurai. END

RIP Victor Willis

Naomi Cunningham has also kept going on about changing rooms for some reason. Most Defra group staff do not routinely undress at work. There were only three @naturalengland.bsky.social colleagues I wanted to see naked, & one was a fellow cis woman, so excluding trans people wouldn't have helped

In Samantha Tempest v Defra & Rural Payments Agency, Naomi Cunningham has repeatedly accused the claimant of failing to respect (cis) women's boundaries in Defra group, & even "helping herself to anything women were entitled to." As a cis woman working for Defra group, I wasn't entitled to much ...

Naomi Cunningham, representing the "gender critical" SEEN Network in Samantha Tempest v Defra & Rural Payments Agency, complains that Ms Tempest stirred up a "torrent of abuse" against SEEN. For context, courtesy of co-chair Andreas Mueller, here is the sort of comment that SEEN considered "abuse."

おはようございます 7月1日 水曜日 22℃ 雨 雨宿り。。。

This right-wing batshittery is *not* popular; they just happen to a have a death-grip on the levers of power… for now.

I have therapy on Tuesdays, so am just catching up on this afternoon's testimony from Samantha Tempest v Defra & Rural Payments Agency. Samantha stood up SO WELL to Naomi Cunningham's bullying 💪🏻🩷🤍🩵. One day Ms Cunningham's army of geese will rebel against her like the Disney villainess she is. 🪿🪿🪿

Big news from Metro-land, where a group of children have found a ladybird on the pavement

SEEN Network member Lauren Davies has been mentioned in Samantha Tempest v Defra & Rural Payments Agency. She often posted comments (on a professional work platform for a government agency) along the lines of: "Im a lesbian woman n I know what women n girls are n most ppl agree with me lol!!!!"

This discussion under a post on Defra's intranet has now been mentioned in the employment tribunal Samantha Tempest v Defra & Rural Payments Agency. A co-chair of the "gender critical" SEEN Network tried to have me disciplined for these "oppressive" comments. And they say the claimant's hysterical?

Apparently Fukuyama Masaharu and Miwa Akihiro were friends. Masha said he would often text or email Miwa and Miwa would phone him in reply - one of the few people to call him directly 😭 My condolences to Masha on the loss of his friend. #福山雅治　　　 #BROS1991

@noiwillnotbekind.bsky.social Don't worry, I'm not going to be kind either

She would 100% be policing their toilets