BiCon 2026 bookings now open! When: 21st-23rd August 2026 Where: Nottingham, UK Why: because it's a wonderful weekend of talking and socialising. It's the UK's longest continually running annual LGBTQ+ event for a reason... How: 2026.bicon.org.uk Who: you?

This year's is also in Nottingham: 21st-23rd August. It's non-residential, so you will have to outrage other cleaners though. 2026.bicon.org.uk

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.

And in a result that was highly likely from the second Starmer blocked Andy Burnham from standing, the Greens have won the Gordon and Denton by-election.

A reminder that white nationalism isn't just abhorrent, it's stupid.

Nazi supporting paper says what?

Well, this will be another easy to remember birthday for Andrew, and without having to go to a Pizza Express too.

"Eins, zwei, drei, vier Fünf, sechs, sieben, acht One, two" More meaning than the whole of Bob Dylan's output, and the song is why I can count to four in Japanese.

Today's discovery - Firefox's British English dictionary doesn't know the word 'carabiner'.

I'm trying a new "see how well AI image gen is" test. This time I'm going to ask it to draw a map of the world, and then zoom in to Europe, the UK, Yorkshire and York to see when things start to get hazy. All of these are with the free models using the smart/thinking variants. 1/n

Hey, I know a lot of you use Discord. You need to get on this survey and make it damn clear to them that this would be the absolute wrong direction. The last thing we need is the slop-spewing environment-chewing plagiarism bots invading there, too. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?

@artcrimeprof.bsky.social Have you seen this - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As well as the failed attempt to make it more interesting by adding a fan game show, whoever picks the games it will show has no clue. Final weekend of the regular season: "Let's have a game with no playoff implications whatsoever, where one side will be resting key players..."

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

Not what everyone else has done with this, but given Keith Moon and John Entwhistle of The Who have both died, I did think that the drummer and bass player in The Beatles are still with us, and the results of Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney joining would be *interesting* either way...

"you're a man" ad hominem "you were born a boy" sunk cost fallacy "you're amab" false dichotomy "you have xy chromosomes" false equivalence "trans people are mentally ill" non sequitur "changing your sex isn't possible" skill issue

NEW BLOGPOST Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious? thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...

Opportunities to transform nature don’t get much bigger than this! We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.

It's the best time of the year to buy CameraBag, a fabulously easy and powerful photo manipulation program. www.nevercenter.com/camerabag The Pro version adds the ability to do this to videos too. It's just cost me less than a tenner to extend & get all the updates over the next year.

You could argue that, in the interests of accuracy, editorial policy should dictate that when prominent "gender critical" people are quoted, they should be described thusly: - "<GC name>, a middle-aged woman with no relevant qualifications or expertise and an obsession with other people's bits"

Was the NFT showing of Stalker that had an audience member complaining about the bum ache that resulted during the talk afterwards just in my imagination? Some stunning work, but could do with a fast forward button, eg the driving sequences of Solaris.

My name is Harry Smith. Richer than Percy Bysshe Shelley, I outlived him by decades. He called me the "only truly generous" wealthy person he ever knew. But it's his version of Ozymandias you all know, not mine. At least it now has its own Wikipedia page.

There is a serious business opportunity renting children to people in the passport checking queue for people arriving at London Luton. Rejoin the EU, join Schengen.

Applause - this shit needs stomping out, quickly. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In a decent country, Starmer or the King would have visited an asylum hostel by now.

Favourite film seen in a cinema on opening day (& first showing): Terminator 2. Never seen in a cinema: Tar. I wish there was a DVD with director's & actors' commentaries. Bonus 'seen at film festival before release': tie between Re-Animator, This is Spinal Tap, & Mishima.

Chatting to a (very good) magician after a show, he talked about "chance" in relation to one bit of a most impressive trick. I am still laughing at that: none of the bits were "chance", they were loads of practice and lots of skill.

16% of the UK population was born overseas (21/22 census) 12% of UK prisoners were born overseas Therefore people born overseas are less likely to be in jail than people born in the UK. That should be the headline.

Guess which is getting more money from the govt: * Reducing child poverty spread over a decade * Enabling drivers on the A46 to possibly go around Newark about five minutes faster at a few times a week It's the second one, of course, getting over £650m rather than £500m.

Crystal Palace chairman says, according to the BBC, that their relegation from the Europa League to the Conference League over ownership rules is the "biggest injustice in the history of football". I know some Germans (and Scots) who would disagree...

It's two weeks to BiCon 2025. If you're coming - for the whole thing, for a day, or as part of the online bits - but haven't registered yet, it will make both of our lives easier if you do so in the next couple of days.

Buy our merch! We really need the cash!

Three weeks to BiCon 2025! I will be giving out flyers at Pride in London tomorrow...

The Daily Telegraph: here’s Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine 9 months later: We regret to inform you that Britain’s answer to Rage Against The Machine are political

It's a month to go to the start of BiCon 2025! Bookings are now open for day tickets and Online BiCon. 2025.bicon.org.uk/bookings-ope...

Bob Geldorf joined the early evening queue for food at the student union's bar seconds after I did when the Boomtown Rats were playing there later that night.

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

*uses time machine to burst into a room ten years ago* "I don't have much time, but for the love of god choose Chaos with Ed Miliband™ "

There’s something really disturbing to me about the way the media, and indeed her own mother, continue to talk about Brianna Ghey - a constant focus on publicising her mental health, as if she’d committed suicide, and never focusing on the transphobia that actually led to her horrific murder.

.. and of course, Labour will see that as a reason to become more right wing.

York Pride have just confirmed they will be allowing the Labour Party to march at York Pride (but it's okay because they are also allowing the Tories to do so too! 🙄) Looks like it's time to organise a blockade against them.

I see Ben Summerskil "I can't say the B word in LGB" is sticking the boot into Stonewall and claiming it should have encouraged debate on trans rights www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Honestly Ben, get in the bin. You sucked and you still suck.

From @crash-w.bsky.social A powerful legal critique of the UKSC Decision. 'The judgment has jeopardised the UK’s compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights and introduced considerable uncertainty to the interpretation of the Equality Act 2010.’ www.translegalproject.org/post/for-wom...

TERFs: we're NOT bigots! We just have Reasonable Concerns™ about trans women in """real women"""'s spaces! WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?! Also TERFs: those black and brown people are going to groom your kids! WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!

Remembering the ten pledges from LGBT+Labour that Starmer signed up to in the leadership election. Guess what? Starmer lied about these pledges as well

Minimum Snooker break to leave your opponent needing a snooker: 15 (pot all reds at once) + 2 (yellow) + 2 (yellow) + 3 (green) + 4 (brown) = 26. Two snookers needed, but without the brown, they could tie, 22-22.

Seriously disappointed that the bi number is so low at 80%.

I am increasingly disappointed that the concerns of the #LGBTQ+ community over what the Supreme Court judgement means for them are not yet being addressed. I have written to the Government asking them to make clear how trans and non binary rights will be protected.

I highly recommand this infography which highlights most of the nuances with biological sex.

as always, I am excited for the unveiling of the definition of “biological woman” which includes all women and excludes all non-women, I’m sure they must have that locked down by now. how hard could it be