"Why do innocent people flee the police?" Idk, maybe the fact that they kill newborn babies and puppies might have something to do with it. Just saying.

Police in Mississippi killed a 1 year old because they thought the mother was stealing diapers when she had paid for them. Black babies murdered by the state for being perceived as too poor to feed or clothe

Bottom line the media wants everyone to know is that being a trans girl is a death sentence

Congrats lesbians, you’re lead authors

Print media and politicians pushing the print media moral panics is the problem And any person arguing otherwise, for whatever reason, is disingenuous and dangerous to all kids who need REAL safety regulations They all make me sick

Brianna ghey has become the face of a social media ban for young people Despite the fact that her killers knew her in real life, at school, and she was socialising with them outside when they killed her And the reason they killed her was the traditional print media moral panic Truly sickening

93% of non-cishet women, when asked to state their preferred community acronym, said something that includes either or both T & Q. The remaining 7% included Don't Knows, N/As, and nonspecific Something Elses. Those who explicitly rejected T + Q were just 2%

Answers that were not trans-inclusive like "LGB" and "Reject the acronym premise" were overwhelmingly used by straight people, and were rare to the point of being statistical errors among actual LGB people.

obviously we could end toxic content if we knew the real names of... - graham linehan - jk rowling - sonia sodha - matt walsh - julie bindel - kathleen stock - ben shapiro - piers morgan - justin webb - andrew neil - andrew laurence - laurence fox - suzanne moore - hadley freeman ...and on and on.

Point 5 just makes it harder for people whose identities are criminalised, or who are escaping domestic violence, stalking or harassment. People like Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson (in a way) spread hatred every day under their own names. Banning anonymity just exposes their targets.

Many of you

What year is it?

It's fun having to check every day to see what rights I'm going to lose today. Sex Matters reckon I'm a pervert so male police officers should be able to sexually abuse me? Sure, sounds reasonable.

Turning the moral of Brianna Ghey's death into a cautionary tale about "growing up online" is explicitly revisionist history and seems to reveal that Esther Ghey believes Brianna's transition was the cause of her demise, rather than the radicalized classmates who stabbed her.

Literally there are conversion therapy manuals that start with isolating your child from all potential sources of safeguarding and supportive information and cutting them off from unmonitored internet access so they can find the number for ChildLine while you're not watching is right up there.

social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

NEW: For months @ludovicparsons.bsky.social + I have been piecing together info on trans deaths in the UK from datasets, FOIs, coroners’ reports + interviews. We found that trans people are disproportionately dying by suicide. Many are kids. Full investigation: goodlawproject.org/trans-people...

I’m a trans woman in my forties. Growing up without social media—and during Section 28—I knew nothing about transness and I knew no-one like me. I almost didn’t make it; I dread to think how many didn’t. You can’t tell me that returning to this state is not an intended effect of this proposed ban.

they didn't wanna get banned from bluesky

Like, I genuinely feel like I’m going mad. Brianna Ghey wasn’t killed by social media. She was saved by social media, where she was able to find community with other young trans people. She was able to make online friends with people like herself. It was those offline who murdered her.

Genuinely see red at how many people refuse to acknowledge the obvious subtext in holding up a trans teenager who was murdered by her schoolmates and saying things would be better if she hadn’t had access to social media

I wonder if Palestine Action'll take this advice on board and be more Suffragette. Starmer may want to keep his eye open for flying hatchets.

I've read a bunch of stuff over the last few years about the UK's "free speech crisis," but weirdly, the stories are almost never about stuff like this. The stories tend to be more like "Graham Linehan should be allowed to explicitly threaten individual trans people" and stuff like that.

We haven't learned anything about what social isolation did to kids. Six years after covid, we're still pushing them into smaller & smaller boxes INSTEAD OF REGULATING THE BILLIONAIRES.

The Lady Chief Justice said proscription of Palestine Action “struck a fair balance” and that PA is not a peaceful civil disobedience group like the Suffragettes. Excuse Me- WHAT ABOUT THE BOMBINGS, 24 injured, 4 dead BOMBINGS. How is PA worse than BOMBINGS www.thenational.scot/news/2619407...

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

So we're really going to uphold terror offences against over 3,500 people for holding up signs, at the same time that Tommy Robinson, Nogel Farage and Rupert Lowe have been inciting pogroms? Fucking joke country.

Figures show 73% of people with learning disabilities, 86% of those who had an amputation, and 62% of claimants with cerebral palsy were given fixed-term awards – meaning they are required to undergo reassessments every three years.

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people with lifelong conditions are being put through “pointless” benefit reassessments, contrary to official guidance. My exclusive in today’s paper: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

One of the guests on This Morning just claimed that there has never been more support for LGBT+ kids. There was more support two years ago. This government is consistently rolling back support.

‘You couldn’t make that today’ and it’s just a living wage.

I am so angry I can barely speak, vulnerable LGBT+ and neurodiverse children being ripped from their info sources and support networks. Also banned from essential coding and software YT videos. Because of mass campaigns of hate on X, Mumsnet and Facebook, which all remain unrestricted for adults.

Since Labour came into power, this genuinely seems to have been a matter of priority. The puberty blocker ban Conversion therapy RSE guidance Bathroom ban Getting Esther Ghey on board to launder the damage they're doing was honestly a masterstroke, and dead queer kids is their reward.

"Trends have shifted left" is straight white man for "I don't got the juice." We are further right than we have been in decades. We are literally one click away from outright fascism. Corruption has never been more rampant. Open bigotry against minorities is a daily occurrence. What can't you say?

Stonewall Riot, June 28, 1969, colorized

CW: suicide, depression It's normal to Google how many days old you are to remind yourself you've made it this long without doing it. And that you can go another day. That's a totally regular thing to do right?

Apparently James Corden has another World Cup program. Seems as good a time as any to post a review of his previous effort.

We ask Labour to help us to live and they put trackers in our cars, and reduced payments to far below destitution levels for new claimants & the young. And finally, when we won't shut up, they help us to die.

There were valid concerns about abuses last time. Since then, the Supreme Court decided disabled people can be assumed to consent to medical procedures unless they actively object - even if their disability stops them doing so. The UK is too vicious & corrupt for this to safely become law.

The people who support this bill either don't know the actual details of the bill, or are actively in favour of killing vulnerable people. Introducing this days after the Supreme Court has ended the Cheshire West Judgment and effectively stripped disabled people of their ability to consent is vile.

This is painful. “It was rightly described as the safest and most robust assisted dying law anywhere in the world” Umm, only by the people trying to push it through. 🧵 Brief thread of how others described the Bill:

Welcome to the UK, where soon 17-year-olds will be legally allowed to drive, join the army, work a full-time job, have sex and even vote but not watch YouTube past their bedtime.

This is nuts. Yes we need better protections online, but this is a massive overreach by Starmer. For many young people, especially marginalised ones such as trans and neurodivergent, online spaces can be a safe place for them to develop a genuine support community www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Legal types, please help or rec. Everybody else, please boost. This friend's been through some terrible things and needs help on/from the law. UK context for those who don't know

Also, laying the blame so fully on Musk - who is absolutely a dangerous and contemptible racist creep - is very convenient for the UK's newspapers, news channels and politicians who've either spread the self-same racist myths, 24/7, for decades, or have entirely abandoned any pushback against them.

Also, this sign at Vienna pride which, honestly, fair.

this is who our entire political class keep pandering too. it's a tiny fraction of the public backed up by our entire news media class.

Anti-fash counter-protests outnumber fash marches all the time and it would be cool if the press made a big deal about it.