Also, I imagine these people consider themselves superfans but if I were Tom Felton or Emma Watson, I would absolutely want a restraining order issued against every single person publishing erotica about when I was 14 to stay 100 miles away from me at all times.

The media won't tell you this but the majority of women who use the Hampstead women's pond ate fully supportive of trans inclusion and have voted that way. So why are the transphobes trying to overturn their democratic decision in the courts? From @nionwomen.bsky.social

Remember that, following Forstater, these views expressed by Miller have been ruled to constitute "protected beliefs" that you are prohibited by UK law from "discriminating" against...

Make no mistake about it, David Miller is an absolutely rancid cunt and so is anyone who defends him.

"Mamdani dominated the LGBTQ+ vote, with 82 percent of the community casting their votes for him compared to just 15 percent for Cuomo, according to exit polls from NBC."

Ah, I remember back in my day when this was an abruptly shuttered and empty "Jamie's Italian"...

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I find this so weird. Like, if you're going to make it an amendment, why not just require 60 votes to get anything through the Senate at all, rather than maintaining the collective fiction that it's just about "closure"?

@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social @djinnandtonic.bsky.social Almost spooky

The moment we've all been waiting for

So what's the news on the Dershowitz brains, has it happened yet?

Are airport incident reports even considered published material in this sense?

US right-wingers be like: "We need to crush the Islamist-Communist alliance against the West, which is why I support a MEK takeover of Iran"

He doesn't say "can".

In fact, Brendan's writings right up until the late 2010s are full of dismissals of child abuse as a moral panic, something that never ever really happens much, no big deal, etc etc... ...until... I mean, do really need me to say when he abruptly completely changed his mind about this?

Life comes at you fast, huh Brendan?

Same energy

I was at a pub quiz last night where one of the questions was "How many barrels of gunpowder were used in the Gunpowder Plot?" The answer given was 36, which only one team got, despite my protestations that strictly speaking the number of barrels *used* was actually zero.

I will never understand how you could regard making an identity a completely arbitrary hereditary quality, neither attainable nor losable, as making it "precious". To me that makes it as irrelevant and unemotive as my eye colour or whether or not my earlobes are attached.

It's never been clearer cut how these claimed "concerns" are just a pretext for bigoted harassment of trans people anywhere. It's a context that has nothing to do with women's sports or rape crisis centre, Linehan's just objecting to seeing a trans person in public.

Very "low quality spa" energy

So you just know that after Trump, the next winner's going to be MBS, right?

A reason the SNP have been able to cultivate such broad appeal is that they have tacitly accepted (probably forced to do so by reality, but nonetheless) that many voters treat independence as a pragmatic Pro/Con consideration and not an existential question, which the Unionist parties refuse to do.

Hey Matt, if you being a Republican threatens to cause so much chaos and violence, why do you insist on continuing to do it?

Literally two weeks ago, leading young NY GOP officials were revealed to talk like this to each other, but it's Mamdani who's the existential danger to Jews?

[Narrator: they lost 13 seats]

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

The fuck, who are these weird people in Montour county voting for some random third party candidate?

The current prevailing reactions among R pundits appear to be: - "We weren't sexist enough" - "We weren't transphobic enough" - "We didn't cling to the weirdo 3rd party failson kook enough" - "Everything is completely fine, nothing to see here"

The infighting and recriminations going on in the other place are delicious

And of course Stancil

State-Navigate too

DDHQ calling it for Jones

Tbf, remember Garry Kasparov believes that basically all ancient history is made up and the Stone Age was actually like 1200 years ago.

CCHQ apparently chipper tonight, I’m told. As the polls close, they’re “utterly convinced” Susan Hall has won VA-Gov on a low turnout.

Wow, could never have seen that result coming

JFC every time I think he's hit the bottom of his descent into insanity he goes further

Still predicting a blowout landslide for Jim Walden

Pepin the Short, 751:

Stokely Carmichael losing the 1966 SNCC Chairman vote:

Red Wedding

I wouldn't be surprised if this accusation does have some truth to it, but at the same time I think Corbyn clearly fucked Zarah over earlier in this very overstretched launch so I have no sympathy.

(He voted for Adams)

NoVA voters be like:

Yet another "protected belief" bigotry downwind of Forstater. Deep need to rein this back in.

Yup yup yup, this could be very important if things get hairy.

Brad Lander repudiated the DSA platform, if you were so against Mamdani then why didn't you campaign for him instead of the nepo failson sex pest?

Huh, wild.