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Good to see fascists outnumbered in Glasgow once again - and vital context on the hypocrisy of fash organisers outlined in local reporting: "Watt, who was found guilty of abusing two of his ex-partners in 2018 [...] campaigns against immigration, often raising fears of women's and girls’ safety."

When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...

Like most US political satire this strikes me as smug, self-satisfied, and ultimately unfunny. It's just that, in the current political context, it's also incredibly brave and necessary. Can the fash please not, I don't want to respect this shit.

Our new Autumn / Winter programme is out - an abundance of @womenslibrary.bsky.social joy to behold! Check it out here: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/12/a...

Absolutely astounded to hear that the party that hired known transphobes is "being run as a “sexist boys’ club”."

(Touches earpeice) And we now take you Your Party, live.....

These principles have long been the reality across grassroots venues and independent promoters. Now they’re being set out as the standard which the whole live music industry should follow. ⚠️ No Pay-to-Play. ⚠️ No merch cuts. ⚠️ Fairness at the core of every show.

Fascinating that academics don't even make this top 12. So much for the cultural elite!

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Is sharing this image a crime?

The people who *make this tech* can't get it to work in a simple demo, and their magical thinking about it has convinced them that they didn't need to do the most basic level of preparation for their demonstration. So it is, in fact, an excellent demonstration of what genAI will do for society.

And from Trans Kids Deserve Better - despite promising to meet with and listen to the actual trans young people damaged by his actions, Wes Streeting ghosts them and meets with transphobes transkidsdeservebetter.org/kids-are-dyi...

An outstanding master list breakdown of expert responses to the Cass Report from @notrightruth.bsky.social - I can't recommend this enough - this is the 'evidence' Wes Streeting is pretending is robust ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...

You cannot claim to care about the safety of children and meet privately with those who boast about abusing their trans kids, while refusing to meet with trans young people and adults. transsafety.network/posts/chili-... Thank you @foxdie.bsky.social for the link

Because I've seen some prominent cis allies saying that they hope Streeting's most recent words are a good sign: this is the entire point - he's always got some reasonable sounding words to placate cis people as he continues to meet with transphobic bigots and enact brutally transphobic policies.

coates is genuinely a generational writer

"What’s Wrong with Gender-Critical Feminism?" In a new article for the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia, Suzy Killmister looks at how and why gender-critical feminism has ended up appealing so widely to neo-Nazis and other fascist actors.

As expected: 🇪🇸‘s RTVE is the first big 5 broadcaster to pull out of Eurovision 2026 if 🇮🇱’s broadcaster takes part. bsky.app/profile/torn... Follows months of tension between RTVE and EBU which even led to 🇪🇸 commentators speaking about Gaza before 🇮🇱‘s semi-final.

This is what you do when there's nothing to hide obviously

The misogynistic comments about Diane Abbott, the longest serving Black MP, recounted with glee by Paul Ovenden are utterly despicable. The fact that the Party knew about this and swept it under the carpet until it was reported in the press, is unforgivable.

conservationist have re-established so many species over the past thirty years that it is kind of ridiculous. "this animal was down to, like, six individuals and now there's hundreds of them" is a very common story and it's because humans decided to work their asses off

NUNS ON THE RUN WAS RIGHT THERE

Appropos of the second picture, I once again state: share.google/bSwpxzV3NCh9...

The evil that men do lives after them

Glasgow, we're bringing the forest to you! 🍃 4 Nov: celebrate @silver-press.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin titles THE WORD FOR WORLD & SPACE CRONE w @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, Phil Crockett-Thomas (Abolition Science Fiction!), Matthew Sangster & me in convo. www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...

The protests in Nepal, and the governments violent repression of them, are an increasingly important story right now. @globalvoices.org has reporting from Nepal on the "Nepo Kid" movement, including what the "international media" are getting wrong

Protestors in Nepal overthrew the government in less than 48 hours due to corruption. They refused a curfew, spread protests across all cities, fought police in roaming street battles, burnt down politicians' houses, stole military weapons, stormed the parliament & burnt it, forced the PM to resign.

“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time" - Oprah Winfrey, paraphrasing Maya Angelou.

One of my close friends shared this excellent article with me the other day and it's been on my mind ever since. Creative and academic labor for trans communities becomes doubly important under fascism. Scatter and keep working.

Busy @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social picket lines this morning at Edinburgh University with staff striking to defend jobs and oppose the biggest cuts seen in Scottish higher education #SaveHE #NoCompulsoryRedundancies #StopTheCuts

i don’t get why there were 200 people in Glasgow desperate to organise for a left-wing political programme but had to wait for Jeremy Corbyn to give them permission before they went looking for a way to do it!

Good, but I still need them to shout this from the rooftops not just include it in the grassroots small print. We're way beyond the point where a passing mention at a festival is sufficient to combat the systemic transphobia of the current government.

SInce no-one seems to have mentioned this publicly yet, Jeremy Corbyn finally explicitly addressed the current wave of heightened transphobia at Greenbelt Festival over the weekend. He says he will be bringing a pro-trans politics to Your Party.

Semi-regular reminder that if you want to understand and combat our current transphobic moment in the UK, then 'TERF Wars' from @notrightruth.bsky.social and many other incredible activists and academics is essential reading - and nearly all available for free: ruthpearce.net/books/terf-w...

This goes against Government policy which says you should view documents on a laptop, securely, and remotely not locally saved. (That means via a VPN…) www.gov.uk/government/p...

An excellent no nonsense statement from the Women's Institute.

Heck yeeeeah

After mass nationwide boycotts against Target for choosing to end their DEI (diversity equity inclusion) program, they have lost over $12B in sales and the CEO has also officially resigned as a result. Love it, power of the people. 💙👊

GUILDFORD 1pm Sat 20th Sep High Street

In London, the underground network Shut The System claimed responsibility for sabotaging utilities at the offices of major fossil fuel investors, while Climate Resistance disrupted a Palantir-run 'training camp' for students. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/20/d...

Great that these orgs have got together to do this. Enraging that they didn't to the same level when it was trans women on the chopping block

in britain the anchorites of asda dwell by the sacred stones, solemnly intoning the words “that’s asda price”, and performing the necessary ritual (the double bum slap) three times a day to bring about the great rolling back when we will all be redeemed

You know things are pretty serious when there's a god-to-honest anti-police demo planned in *checks notes* Guildford. (source: Trans Pride Surrey)

My main takeaway is how the employee reports all her colleagues being supportive, it’s clear than transphobia is an orchestrated, top down assault on civil rights that doesn’t enjoy the support the media and politicians want you to believe

Tomorrow!!! By day I am a mild mannered academic. By night I am a fucking punk rock star.

"the customer service department had actually issued an apology to the customer before they had the full story"

It's over - The Polari Prize has been halted for 2025. Sunk by the decision to longlist a proudly anti-trans author. Credit to the other longlisted authors who were willing to sacrifice award nomination to instead stand in solidarity with their community. This really meant something.