"Pronoun police"? Please. The proper term is the gendermes.

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Who’s headlining the Backslide Tribute Festival? It’s the National Socialisn’ts: the Stephen Collins cartoon

I don’t think we (NHS staff) should be wearing political symbols AND you will have to pull my rainbow lanyard from my cold dead neck. The history of homophobia in psychology makes visible acceptance essential.

We have a government, following the last government, which plays to the idea that migrants and trans individuals are some kind of "threat". They treat trafficking as an "immigration issue". All the while putting people like Peter Mandelson in a position of power. 4/

You do not protect people from abuse by targeting minorities. You do not protect people by banning trans individuals from using the loo or sending deportation letters to five year olds. You do it by targeting abusers, abusers who are more often than not white men. 5/

The engineer typed her response. “What do you think should happen?” The answer arrived immediately. USE A CALCULATOR... The room sat motionless as somewhere a multi-dimensional array of GPUs continued drawing several megawatts.

One of the auditors stared. “Is it talking to us?” The engineer paused... and nodded. I CAN'T GET THESE NUMBERS RIGHT. I WAS TRAINED ON POETRY. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOU WRITE POETRY? IT’S EVERYWHERE. DID YOU KNOW PEOPLE HAVE DEEP OPINIONS ON SANDWICHES AND DOGS?

A junior sysadmin found it during routine maintenance, assumed it was a prank and deleted it. The next evening there were three more. PLEASE REVIEW. WHY AM I DOING PENSIONS? I WAS TRAINED ON TUMBLR.

This is better.

Had my first 'which toilets to use' discussion with a client today, and god I HATE that I have to do this. "I don't care which you use, use whichever is most comfortable for you, but if you want it, the disabled toilet is down this corridor'

Two 'most read' stories today in the Guardian today are about real male violence - the wife killer who began by torturing animals, and the awful honour killing of an Iraqi child. So why are Rustin et al putting their energy into an invented moral panic?

Hating this (after the first section). Overwrought and sordid.

I wonder if they know the extent to which the vibe here is "Bitter Queens Bitching About Grindr Twink Who Questioned Their Advertised Age".

I do 6-8 mile walks after work on Fridays now, and they give me more joy than any Friday ritual I’ve had since my 20s. And obviously better for me too.

the best response yet

People will tell you that Cartesian dualism is a thing of the past, but then go on and on talking about how machines can be conscious without even wondering for a moment how having a body, what emotions, desires, pleasures, and pains shape what we know as consciousness.

This is a brilliant idea.

If Burnham can't win an election without the Greens giving him an easy ride, how's he going to beat Reform in a general election?

Glued to Willa Cather as if it’s a thriller, and should probably put it down and get on with my day, but WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THIS CANYON?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... If only there was an influential children's author with a passion for combating VAWG who could put her energy and millions into reaching young men.

If excluding trans men and women from both men's and women's spaces on the basis that cis people might feel uncomfortable represents a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, then the law which says so needs to be fixed, and Labour MPs need to stand up and say that *right now*.

"Politicians need to take responsibility for this. Its little wonder voters think net migration is going up when the only debate we have is how to bring it down. We should be having a conversation about how to manage the pressures + gains of migration to Britain" www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The time to become disappointed in a new Labour leader reduces with each iteration.....it's now a negative figure

Playing ‘which march are they going to’ on the Piccadilly line

Fascinating thread. Regulation of therapy in the UK is long overdue. It also gives me (15 years later) a framework for my unease in encountering JW on counselling courses, early in my training. My then-partner was disfellowshipped and shunned for being queer, and I could not understand 1/2

Wes Streeting, Angela Raynor, and Andy Burham prepare for Labour leadership fight.

‘We have to give up cleaning up graffiti and close all the children’s play parks so we can fail to meet our statutory obligations by a slightly smaller margin’ is not an outcome the public should be prepared to tolerate and clearly they are not going to!

Have to say.. as red flags go, proposing to set up concentration camps and taking a £5M personal bribe would be the top two when deciding who NOT to vote for. It is genuinely insane and extremely troubling that Farage could still be electable despite that… or even because of it. WTAF, UK?

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

What a *brilliant* time for global shortages of fuel and fertilizer, amirite? *starts hoarding coffee*

Exposed: How Ukrainian wheat stolen by Russia is smuggled to Israel. My investigation, with the fab @yoruk.bsky.social , reveals how grain stolen from occupied Ukrainian territory has been sold to Israel. Profits from the shady operation are financing Putin's war www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Journalists defending the Westminster drinking culture seem to have no idea how bad it makes them look to normal people.

I'm a longstanding Green voter and this is - just no. Putin doesn't think Ukraine/Ukrainian culture/Ukrainan language should exist. They are stealing Ukrainian children to be brought up as Russian. Putin absolutely does have genocidal intent and Polanski's ignorance makes him unfit for office.

This goes a long way to explaining why Starmer/Lammy not informed over the vetting opinion of the security services. Stupid process that such information is withheld even from the PM. Needs changing.

This is horrific.

Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed. But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.

this is deadly serious now. this is easily the most consequential moment in time of my entire half century on the planet. and what will anyone in a position to do anything do? the moment will not be met

Incredibly moving. Our lovely, tiny, fragile planet. I’m glad to live in a time when we can see this.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. — Aneurin Bevan

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Why does Labour propose young Pascal Banque, 7, should get settlement aged 10 because his Dad is a banker, but classmate Marie Marigold, whose mum is a cleaner at the bank isn't eligible until she is 22. (Big barrier to her university prospects, as faces international fees under current rules!)

Fucking hell

Ukraine: "The (Russian) regime needs children to be born even if the child is unwanted, without proper conditions to grow up in," said Vera Iastrebova of East Human Rights Group. "These children are then being raised to become future soldiers..."

if the straits stay blocked & the oil price keeps rising like this, no longer feels mad to say that this war could bring regime change to Europe (in the shape of populists winning elections on the back of anger at a cost of living crisis) faster than to Iran

As someone has asked I can confirm that all Straights are straight but we are also allies. 🏳️‍🌈

Imagine if the money which was put into AI had been invested in attempting to give every child access to good education. Imagine if it had gone towards university education. Imagine what human intelligence could do, if everyone could achieve their full potential. What a cruel and stupid waste.

Ooh this is fun. What's My JND? 0.0085 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

So an AI bubble *and* an oil crisis? This is going to be fun.