Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies. This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.

This government has not taken a single meaningful step to tackle the causes of the horrendous inefficiencies in the criminal justice system, instead rushing to dismantle trial by jury. Legal professionals have offered numerous alternatives to address the backlog. Ministers are not listening.

Mamdani rolls for Persuasion: "Natural 20! ...My total is... 41. Let's goooooo!" DM looking over the rims of their glasses, like their soul has left their body: "...Fucking Bards, I swear."

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

I would put it like this. Minority communities and the majority of the majority community have integrated v.well. However, a significant minority of the majority community and a significant majority of the political class are stubbornly refusing to integrate, and that is where the real problem lies.

They’re not stupid, Bill. Sorely misguided and blinded by hubris? Yes. Foolhardy, yes, but also deeply manipulative, convinced of their own fundamental superiority, and driven by deep (though false) belief. They’re eugenicists, not imbeciles.

Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”

For god’s sake, nobody tell that fucking weird billionaire

To understand the desperation bleeding from these leaks you need to remember that the anti trans movement in the UK have a pre determined timeline, as they view it, for what will happen. The SC judgement was a tactical victory for the anti trans movement in the UK. No point denying it 1/x

The EHRC want to exclude women from femal single-sex spaces based on how "female" they look. This is off the scale sexism and misogyny. Millions of women will face harassment as result of this insanity.

Yeah "Streeting has killed trans kids" isn't a catch phrase, he literally has. We have evidence of multiple kids taking their own lives as a result of his puberty blocker ban We mean it literally No one has any right to praise Streeting around me He's a child killer, literally

No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.

I would posit that if the international treaties against torture are what is holding your country back then your country doesn't deserve to get ahead and holding it back is a moral obligation for everyone else

Given that people are smoking, it would be good for them to have smoking options that were controlled by platforms that understand it's bad to make products that induce children to kill themselves or Firefox could just stop pushing AI that nobody wants and everyone speaking up about it doesn't want

Without asylum: Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist Queen would have been without a front man The other queen wouldn't have had a husband Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc

Labour turning the dial that says "racism" and looking back towards the public like a contestant on the price is right only to discover every time they turn the dial the only thing that changes is Reform's increasing vote share. Your strategy of xenophobia has already failed. More won't help.

Regulations are written in blood. This is malicious, stupid and terrifyingly dangerous.

If you're wondering why various right-wing causes in different countries are suddenly looking super wobbly right now, it's because a lot of powerful people took November 2024 as the watershed moment when progressivism was defeated, and now they're realising it wasn't.

You've had a whole year to wallow. Fucking buck up.

Resting Bitch Sentence. Genius.

Asked my family group chat if they recognised the person in the first picture but they only did from the second picture clue 😱😂

Legal citizenship should be virtually effortless to obtain and near instantaneous to process, and should be paired with sweeping grants of asylum.

If you are mad for even a second about what gender, gender presentation, or genitals another person has, you are a weirdo pervert freak

One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)

With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...

…and it goes without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway: it was the biggest example of hit dogs hollering I’ve ever seen, because a lot of them clearly had good reason to fear it.

Have I sailed as close as you are legally allowed to do to have a nose at the SS Montgomery? Of course. Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church. Here she is:

Bond, aware he could never be near the woman he loved (at least for the moment) or his kid, faked his death and reinvented himself as a gay detective with an unbelievable accent.

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

It's amazing to see a journalist brag about helping stop the NHS provide care to children.

The BBC is a wonderful, precious thing, but fuck me it's been poisoned in so many ways the last 20 years. One of its top news folk boasting in public about taking away children's healthcare is genuinely terrifying. Not just that she did it but that she feels emboldened to boast about it

Honestly, I did NOT have "punching the air and going HELL YES to Chris Patten" on my bingo card today. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly! "How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"

Worth pointing out the biggest supporters of trans people (which is who bigots mean by “gender ideology”) are bisexual & lesbian women. All the public “concerns” about trans people (phase, indoctrination, regret, etc) are recycled forms of homophobia. This is why LGB solidarity with the T is strong.

Oh they’re big mad

Mamdani is going to implement Surety law. Everyone is going to be responsible for one other person in society.

it's crucial to understand how fatphobia is woven into oppression. it's woven into the war on poor people. it's woven into anti-Blackness. it's woven into trasnphobia and ableism. and all those ones are woven into each other. without fat politics, your social justice lens has a big hole.

whether or not intended, OP's quip implies that people who are fat -- or people who are not losing weight -- are eating enough food. which in turn implies that fat people don't need snap, don't need help, aren't really poor.

not always, actually. fat and thin people need food. chosen food, tasty food, food nutritious for your particular body, food of plenty. a dearth of food does not always cause weight loss. i've studied fatness for over 4 decades. glib comments about fatness are often wrong.

It's genuinely hilarious how many terrible men think that "unfuckable" is the worst possible insult for a woman

it’s not technology Folks are fully seeing what apartheid and privilege does unchecked He probably does have MH issues But he’s also just abusive and created a narcissistic system that people avoid redressing at the root

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute. This is the *moderate* position, by the way.

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How are we going to explain to future generations that rich people got so mad at being made fun of on social media that they decided to bring in fascism for everyone.

Tying together two of this mornings rants - I firmly believe that certain feminists caught transphobia because they were outraged at the idea that trans women (who they think of as beneath them) understood things about how gender and society interact that they didn't.

Fucking hell. I can't change my moderation settings because I won't give my data to a company that will leak it to be sold to scammers. Yes, very fucking safe, very fucking protected.

Work is going very well this morning, thank you for asking.

Good thread, and I will add that men DO NOT LIKE IT when women say "hey, you fucked up," and to the extent that women tend to soften the blow with indirectness, it's because men feel like their honor is insulted if they have to take feedback from women.