Ableism makes you think you will be the exception. Disability won’t happen to you. You’re “better than that”. You’re “stronger”. You will succeed where the rest of us failed. It’s not true. Disability can & does happen to almost everyone. It’s not a moral failing.

The best time to cancel your TV license was a decade ago, the second-best time is today

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

I would say it always remained acceptable to *do*, and racialised people will certainly attest to having heard it often enough, the positive difference is that it wasn’t officially and overtly treated as *respectable* for a few decades. If anything, what has been done has made it both laudable.

Lord of the Rings film set? No, it's Kingley Vale. The reserve contains one of the finest yew forests in western Europe, including a grove of ancient trees which are among the oldest living things in Britain. Pure magic. 📸: Chris Doyle

Suffering of people in Gaza manufactured by Israeli restriction of aid, not weather, Oxfam says.

He’s laundered a genocide. He demonises desperate people seeking asylum. He panders to Reform at the expense of people of colour. He’s implementing transphobic policies. He cuts benefits for disabled people. “Inoffensive”? He’s deeply offensive if you are affected by any of this (Lewis isn’t)

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Well this news puts this older story into a completely different light, no wonder she was worried about a potential conversion therapy ban

Happy ACAB Day

Like you cant wear an ironic lookalike MAGA hat without being okay with being seen as MAGA can ya

There’s a toolkit available to support these activists on hunger strike in both the UK and the US. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

In the spirit of The Guardian’s appeal, I’ve added a quote from former columnist Suzanne Moore, who said this on social media defending transphobic remarks she made in the Guardian. The paper would continue to pay for her services for years to come.

wes streeting shouldn't be frustrated. he should be on trial for the murder-by-policy of several trans teens.

Given Bayswater are now bringing a legal challenge does anyone in mainstream media want to actually report on the fact they allowed discussion of child abuse and have a DIY conversion therapy manual on their site?

Anarchists be saying.

did u kno if you’re in the UK rn and you’re worried about the virulent strains of flu going around you can go to your local Boots and pay £20 to get a jab that will save you from having to touch an overworked NHS this winter even tho Wes streeting should be supporting doctors & welcoming more nurses

Absolutely appalling stuff, and remember that every politician bellowing about crackdowns on migrants is helping to create a permissive environment for this violence and intimidation

the hostile environment will eventually come for. everyone. fascism cannot be neatly contained in sealed bubbles because it is based on supremacy and hatred even appeasing hatred used to be shameful, and needs to be again

"At Free Birth Society, we understand the importance and necessity of sex-segregated spaces. We ask the question- if we don’t protect girls and women, who will." Like I think that's relevant actually that they're claiming to protect girls and women with transphobia whilst directly causing deaths

A quick observation capturing the angel Christmas street lights behind the TFL Roundel logo at the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station. The roundel looks like it has angel wings.

Guardrails are a scam. It's not that they could work, it's that they cannot and never will for such models. By design. 1/n

i stand by this statement every year

It's so cool how every creative industry is run by creatively bankrupt vampires who leech passion and keep artists immiserated.

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I've included this as a reply to yesterday's post about the Rockstar comment, but here's IWGB's full response this morning.

The last number I saw was that the UK media are putting out 154 articles about trans people - almost all misinformation - every single month on average. It feels like at least one of those breaks through each week to become a huge conversation. It's exhausting. medium.com/@mimmymum/tr...

Feels rote to say “this is just Meta doing to more people what they always did to sex workers…” but it could not be more obvious, especially when they justify removing sexual and reproductive health information for violating their own “human trafficking” policy

It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the situation is in the UK. There are eight people on hunger strike and David Lammy recently claimed he wasn’t even aware of it. That hunger strikers may actually die is barely even news.

NEW Did the #Romans harm our health? Analysis of skeletal remains from England before and during Roman occupation confirms theories that the population’s health declined under Roman occupation, but only in the urban centres. #AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵 TW: human remains 🏺 #Archaeology

So now that’s a founding member and biggest financier outside the Big Five (Netherlands), a member of the Big Five (Spain), a country with the joint-most wins (Ireland), a country pivotal getting other former communist states involved (Slovenia), and a country where most watch the contest (Iceland)

Finally got round to finishing my blog post about the sea nymph Thetis. Only been writing it since September 🙃 layofthenorthsea.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/t... #PaganSky #NorthSeaPoet

How the BBC upholds fossil fuel industry narratives, 09/12/2025: an article about a battery storage project featuring one (1) person objecting to the scheme. The opinion is presented as indicative of popular opposition. No other viewpoint is offered.

there's a trans woman in prison, a man's prison, right now bcos she gave a blowjob to some guy and he claimed he didn't know she was trans. they sent her to prison for that. this guy lied to two women for five years, raping them all that time, but it's fine bcos it's state sanctioned.

I think a big part of why this social media ban and push to remove kids from the Internet really really fucking bothers me, is I'd be dead without the connections I had *online* at that age. But sure, I'm sure everyone else knows best and there will be no negative outcomes here.

Being a prominent uk journalist/broadcaster is so damn embarrassing cause you have to constantly proudly proclaim you can’t see obvious things and how dumb and ignorant you are

[CN: child abuse] Considering the vast majority of child abuse is done by their family, if you want to cut off children's information and communication routes, I will assume it's purely so you can better abuse your child

"So I guess we'll tell them you had nobody to go with!" "Just drive, Dave." "Sometimes you're just no fun, Tommy." "You gotta stop calling me that, Dave. I'm a fucking saint." "Not with a mouth like that you ain't, Tommy."

*Meloni the current founder and organizer of the largest fascist youth event in Europe Atreyu festival which Starmer sent his then Home Secretary to skwawkbox.org/2024/12/15/v...

Previously unknown early medieval settlement unearthed during work on wind farm

The fact that Starmer is joining forces with former fascist youth activist Giorgia Meloni to "cut off the far right" demonstrates exactly how disingenuous this is.

I feel this should absolutely terrify everyone, but politicians like Starmer and the UK media have normalised so much far right rhetoric, most of the population won’t bat an eyelid. To go in front of Europe at this time, when the far right is looming, and say to weaken human rights… That’s a Nazi.

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Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

Do NOT talk to the media about trans ANYTHING unless your interviewer is ALSO trans and independent. No, you will not be the magic exception that gets transphobes to listen. They are genocidal predators and they will always engage in bad faith. This goes extra for survival tactics like DIY!

good quote from the ethicist there. "until equal opportunity to live with dignity is assured, death with dignity is not a real choice"

Euthanasia is not consentual in a society that doesn't take care of disabled people.

Shoutout to deathgenerator.com

The postman in Keeping Up Appearances: