In this piece, admitting the BBC has broken its impartiality rules re. trans people, the BBC further breaks its impartiality rules by changing a quote saying "trans identity" to "trans ideology".

As the BBC carries anecdotal claims from a disgruntled former BBC staffer that it has a pro trans bias here is *actual* polling about trans people's level of trust in the BBC. (The BBC refused to carry the polling, the first of what it is like to live in Britain as trans, because it is "too weak".)

13 years ago today I took this photo walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. After Hurricane Sandy, power had been cut in lower Manhattan long enough for all of the emergency lighting batteries to die; this is the only photo you'll ever see of Manhattan with no lights on.

Preview of 2026, and one of the ways Trump will try to expand control over elections

It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything

Massive win and beginning of the end for generative ai

And no - this article nor the independent - are as horrendous or as bitter as Jeremy Clarkson, Quentin Letts or the shitrag that is the Daily Mail. But it's this insidious commenting on people's appearance in something pretending otherwise to be political commentary. Do better. All of you.

She dared to be herself and got killed for it. And rather than change the world to set that injustice right so she could have safely been herself no other child should be allowed to do such folly as choosing who they are

🗣️ 65% of trans adults reported verbal abuse in public spaces 👊 24% said they have suffered physical violence A new YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK: https://goodlaw.social/u5y8

This clip is really horrible just fyi the minister just dead eyed refusing to answer pointing at the supreme court and the ehrc claiming they were very clear with the obvious implication

It is both surreal and absurd that the Met should announce this decision in the context of a complaint by a man who is living proof of how non-crime hate incidents can be advance warning of hate crime, given that he, a subject of NCHI reports, is *currently on trial on hate crime charges*.

1993: Stephen Lawrence is murdered by racists. 1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents. 2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police. 2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.

People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer." JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

like there is absolutely no way to not understand this as collective punishment, right? there's no fig leaf of it being about Hamas

This is a description of what happened with the intimidation protest the Proud Boys tried to stage across the street from my apartment building in 2020, back when they thought I was Public Enemy #1. The community pushback was amazing and inspiring.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

don’t think this vid can ever be topped

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"I sacrificed any part of myself that didn't matter to capitalism and I don't know how to get it back so I've convinced myself that this is normal and fine. And I need you to think it's fine, too, or you might remind me of what I've missed out on in my one and only life."

This unfortunately is not exaggeration.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

The Starmer government is REALLY running scared of this petition, now at 2.75 million, to the extent that it has responded 3 months early, in a transparent attempt to spike it. So please, under no circumstances should you sign it and share it widely. Starmer & his boss McSweeney would not like it.

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

🌟 DASHCON 3 INFO 😀 - Yes, there will be a ball pit! - The Superwholock panel has been moved from Saturday to Sunday - All attendees are forbidden from defaming the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi royal family, legal system, government, or any religion, religious figure, or religious practice

starting to think that an increasingly senile trump is being shown a different reality by his aides by making ai videos of shit and telling him it’s real news

always

This is what happens when your government joins in the rhetoric that presents people seeking asylum as a threat and says racist intimidators have legitimate concerns instead of roundly condemning it. Escalation Man arrested after fire at London asylum seekers’ hotel www.bbc.com/news/article...

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

I saw that someone had done Bad Apple(www.youtube.com/watch?v=5obs...) in Juggling Lab, so naturally I had to do a different video. This is two thousand frames rendered by Juggling Lab, each one of 217 jugglers holding up 24x18 balls.

Finally got round to reading the Listeners & I keep thinking of how when I saw @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social she asked what luxury was to us. I gave the wrong answer. Luxury is the fact that my partner swapped seats so I had a better view even if it meant he was now sitting in an uncomfortable chair

When you hate trans people so much, you have to pretend this isn't an antitrans smear in order to allow yourself to be mad about it.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

I can’t believe I have been victim of a smear campaign, says person working for a smear campaign

Mic drop.

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

Spain, Ireland and now Slovenia saying they will not participate in Eurovision this year if Isreal remains a participant

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

"Does that mean he deserved to die?" See, this isn't the discussion. The discussion is about how every commentator is now painting Kirk to be someone who just wanted to engage with all people everywhere and suuuuure we disagreed on things but his quest was worthy. It wasn't.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

🧵Dressage horses with funny names. 1. Super Mario

They absolutely lost their shit when some trans folks wrote on statues with chalk... The BBC certainly didn't talk about statues being checked, they led with the Home Secretary calling it 'disgraceful'.

"The artwork has already been concealed by large sheets of black plastic and two metal barriers". Of course it has. That is how the British state deals with problems, just cover them up and don't let anyone get close. Not to mention the uniformed guards.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere