If anyone's at a loose end Sunday, I'm running a fab little benefit at BOLD for London Renters Union. Alasdair Beckett-King, Kate Smurthwaite, Hasan Al-Habib. Will be a fun one! BYOB as ever so super cheaps and a great cause! fienta.com/rent-a-laugh...

It's so strange to me how the absolutely core question at the heart of politics - "what kind of society do we want to live in?" - is so absent from discussion, either assumed settled or reduced to meaningless generalities.

The wonderful and inspiring Kairos is recruiting a whole range of roles to work from their offices in central London. www.kairos.london/get-involved/

DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.

BREAKING: The U.K., Canada and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state, a significant shift away from alignment with the U.S.

This feels very odd to say, considering when I was at university I went to one (1) debating society meeting and hated it, but - I'm going up to Scotland on Thursday to take part in a debate! www.uniondebatingsociety.org/event/fd22d6...

A 'unity rally' at Glasgow’s Buchanan Street steps protesting against immigration was drowned out by counter protesters

In an incredibly detailed report (it's almost 80 pages, tiny font), a top independent human rights commission has concluded Israel is committing genocide. The Pillay Commission report was released today (I'm still working my way through it) www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm now at 14/20! New additions include a mean butler with a history of poisonings, a sad but violent ghost, and a literal dragon.

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

This is what allyship looks like, btw. Recognizing what’s happening in real time and actively countering it.

Protests are inevitable as 51 Israeli arms companies are among the exhibitors tomorrow at the DSEI arms fair. Netpol plans to monitor the police response on the ground, from 8am at the Excel Centre, London E16 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

This will be broadcast in a couple of weeks! And we're in excellent company, the other talks for @gdocexpo.com look great 😁

We have now updated our website with a compilation of the actions against the supreme court with the latest letter writing campaigns and letters. The top of the page has all the actions you can take against the EHRC! whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

Push the Roll is a new Call of Cthulhu podcast starring Ross Bryant (Dropout TV, Glass Cannon Podcast) combining cosmic horror, tabletop RPG adventures, and dark comedy!

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

This is why it is really fucking important for people to fight this, look how fast and how far these kinds of laws and organization can just erase content that is perfectly legal and like normal for people And it will get worse if you let them off the hook, labour should be suffering from this law

A Rascal sister site has launched: @roguesite.bsky.social Former-Polygon writers have gotten together to launch a worker-owned video game journalism outlet (with a little rascally help). If you mourned the loss of one site, celebrate the birth of another, and support the people making it happen.

Very please to announce that, with a grand total of 114 partner orgs, we are calling on MPs to pressure the Minister for Equalities for full scrutiny, meaningful debate and a free vote when the new EHRC Code of Practice is laid in Parliament. transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/09... Our letter... 1/

As an organisation committed to inclusive sexual health and HIV care, we are deeply concerned about the EHRC draft guidelines and the implications it could have for trans people accessing services. Read the joint-sector statement here:https://bit.ly/3GpDEX1

“I bet I could burn it on three ends…” — me looking at a candle

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

I did some work on it this week! I'm writing a little compendium of sexy antagonist NPCs. 5/20 drafted, including an undead knight-errant who punishes bad leaders, a mercenary who just wants to retire, and a forest nymph hivemind.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

111/NHS direct is a joke. Having to misgender yourself to the people there for no reason is outright humiliating. It's designed to put trans people off reaching out for healthcare support. There were years of surveys that worked on finding respectful ways to gather this information, disregarded.

I spoke to the BBC in a conversation about sensitivity reading yesterday! Starts at about the 45 minute mark. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Labour is making a conscious choice about which group to listen to.

The saying 'United we stand, Divided we fall' doesn't mean 'we can be awful to minority groups and they just have to suck it up for the greater good', it means we all support each other or it's meaningless and will fail.

GORDON RAMSAY: and the eggs, they are? UGLÙK: they eggs. Taste good. Canapé. RAMSAY: no I mean, where do you get the eggs UGLÙK (gesturing towards Shelob’s lair): Get from big spider RAMSAY: from big spider. Fuck me. Canapé eggs from big spider. Fucking hell.

** The Official crowdfunder link for my case commenced in the European Court of Human Rights ** A legal first: trans and non-binary lawyers leading the case: Oscar Davies, Olivia Campbell-Cavendish and me as client. Trans Legal Clinic in partnership with W-Legal. www.translegalclinic.com/mccloud

Hell yeah! 😁

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Since this came out I've been so bitterly amused by how *much* of my stuff is here. Folks have spent so much energy declaring my work inferior and me a "DEI hire"... but then they stole every book, story, and even interview to feed their plagiarism machines. And yeah, I'm adding my name.

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

I don't know how many more ways I can say "for FUCKS SAKE"

This is RIDICULOUS

So many authors are withdrawing so fast and I'm running out of characters to list them. That's now NINE out of the original twenty four long listed books, alongside two judges. HALF of the first book longlist have now withdrawn from the prize.

Reminder for the weekend crowd 😊

Push back. Don’t let them say we didn’t warn them. Act now: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code

I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money. Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

I would like everything everywhere to stop getting worse all the time

The supreme court also expects us to accept that when parliament thought they were passing discrimination protections, they were passing a special permission to discriminate against trans people (and only trans people) for excluding us from birth sex services on the basis of appearance.

Make sure that your employers know that whether or not you're cis or trans is privileged and confidential information that they're not permitted to share, that your colleagues have no right to share, and that even stating that they have trans employees could be sufficient to effectively out you

Hi hi, as that wizard show now is getting an audio book series, just a reminder that there are so many people in the queer space making audio drama for free that’s amazing so please go support those, instead of the terrible wizard woman who’s literally funding to make trans people’s lives worse.

I'm on a panel at this, talking about sensitivity consultation in video games with @kobanya.bsky.social @theleonamaple.bsky.social and @intersectionscch.bsky.social! It was a good discussion, even if I do say so myself 😄

With ongoing pressure campaigns, not everyone can push 100% all the time If you and maybe a friend or two can jump in "late"? You give people a chance to recharge their batteries, so they can take over again once you need to recharge yours Its a marathon, not a race

Had a lot of fun with this! 😀

I often think about how useful my EDI work is for maintaining my faith in humanity. I've trained over 1000 people at this point, and I can count the number of people who've been actively hostile about it on one hand - which you wouldn't expect from looking at our news media.