<Neil Kinnock voice> The grotesque chaos of a Labour government - a LABOUR GOVERNMENT - bringing in guidance more regressive than the Tory government 10 years before it.

for millennials this is like the seventh fundamental betrayal Labour has landed on us and the first we're meant to help their bigotry on: fuck them. fuck this shit party that thinks it can get away with anything that people WHO DID NOT VOTE FOR THEM want. fuck them. I am fucking incandescant

Roadside poppy season is go! #TinyJoys

Public transport, cars, the streets, pubs, clubs and restaurants, hotels, workplaces, shops, schools, garages and warehouses, houses, leisure facilities, just off the top of my head like

What the EHRC guidance is about is giving that cis busybody implicit permission to cause that scene. It's telling them that the government has their backs if things turn ugly. It protects *them* against repurcussions for harming a trans person, or mistakenly accusing a cis person.

I know it’s not really the main point here but it’s telling that this country has spent more time deciding who can and can’t use our mostly disgusting public toilets while also closing and removing them from most towns and cities

If you're wondering what a low-risk real-time OCD exposure therapy might look like, it's your most popular BlueSky post to date being ONE WORD WHICH YOU SPELT WRONG.

"Neutraceutical".

Oh absolutely no thank you no.

I find internet banking extremely stressful and anxiety inducing. Today I set up a new standing order without crying or (too much) swearing. I'm feeling extremely proud of myself.

Oh! A Room with a View is on Film4! My very favourite film when I was about 15. This explains A Great Deal.

I've done talks about sea otters to bigger crowds.

Just wondering, Simon, is ‘the Birmingham speech’ better known by any other description? I just feel like people may be more familiar if… oh… I’m sure it’s nothing.

Please God, not Wes.

Oh! There's a CoE angle to this too and I think I asked about it at synod. How does one define "abusive" conversion therapy? (Cos I'd argue that any conversion therapy is by its nature abusive).

My belief in the general goodness of humanity would be rather better if some bastard hadn't gone at my car tyre with what looks like a screwdriver while I was at work earlier.

Funding adult education classes so you can learn stuff for free or very cheap just because it interests you. Removing the requirement that all classes should lead to a qualification and/or be a route into the student being "economically active". Restoring third spaces for children and teenagers.

Modest proposal: People who use "staycation" to mean "going on holiday" to be placed under indefinite house arrest.

I went to see this this afternoon. It's wonderful. Absolutely worth a trip to see if you possibly can. (And a welcome antidote to yesterday's events).

Speaking on R4, new Reform Essex councillor Peter Harris says the party will be looking (among other places) at the £43m spent on taxis to schools as part of wider efforts to "potentially reallocate some... funds to meet with our priorities." The bulk of that will be transport for Send pupils.

David Lammy: You don't change a pilot part way through the flight. Cabin Pressure fans:

Our ward has gone Reform by about 30 votes so it is really all my fault for not voting tactically.

Really struck by this excerpt from Dr Lucy Sixsmith's book in the CT. OCD is a many-faceted bastard, with a host of causes, but. The endless anxiety of: Have I really surrendered? Each thought? Each action? Am I really living for God?And how will I know if it "took"? 1/2

I am enjoying the pointing and laughing at Richard Dawkins with a joy which can only be experienced if you were a Very Keen Christian in the time of New Atheism.

Just seen Richard Dawkins telling a speak your weight machine that it's wearing a smashing blouse.

Ah this made me giggle.

The walled garden at Kentwell Hall is probably one of my favourite places.

Horse of Glass #ReplaceHeartWithHorse

If you're not already clued into this stuff, it's hard to convey what's happening here w/out getting super nerdy. But basically: most Christians aren't evangelical, including in the U.S., full stop. So to pull largely from evangelicalism when defining Christian beliefs in a govt report is…notable.

Also just realised this was published in Unherd, because of course it was.

Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia

Aw, Get The Message. I got the 7" single, I did. #totp

Really, really, really don't like Vic Reeves. #totp

Why's he going to die in Aberdeen? #totp

Bono. Still annoying after all these years. #totp

What is that you say? A 5 part - FIVE PART - Bad Gays mini series on Peter Mandelson? Absolute podcast heaven.

This is most exciting and I'm going to order it forthwith!

Today has been A Day. Work was tricky, a PCC meeting, plus whatever the hell is going on with my hip. (And whatever it is, I don't like it). There will now be beer.

Sensible adults back in charge picking an ambassador: “If the obviously corrupt well-known close associate of an international child sex trafficking ring doesn’t work out, we’ll go for the architect of an economic policy which led to the indirect deaths of more than a quarter of a million people.”

This is really well done. Kimberley Nixon on the hell of perinatal OCD – and how she survived it www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Hm. I think someone on this very crowded train has just taken their trainers off. Down with this sort of thing.

Unique among #spycops who deceived women into relationships, Andy Coles denies he ever did it. He's told that lie to Peterborough Conservatives & so, despite the overwhelming evidence, he maintains it. He's standing in the local elections, but Jessica, who he abused, is leafleting the entire ward

Bluebell woods yesterday.

Drinking a cup of tea in the sunshine, about to board a steam train. Small chance I may die of joy.

I don't ParkRun, but Kid A does, and it's been a Good Thing for him. AFAICT, you're only competing against yourself. It's social, supportive and lovely. If you're suing ParkRun (in cahoots with the ADF!!) it's time to consider whether you are The Bad Guys. www.independent.co.uk/sport/great-...

Kid C is making chicken nuggets in Home Ec (or whatever they call it these days) today. Ingredients are basically chicken breasts, an egg, breadcrumbs etc etc. Much hilarity over whether to pack the chicken or the egg first.

Happy Friday! This is lovely.

Latest odd work missive is an encouragement to "bring your whole self to work" and I..... Do not think that's a good idea. I mean, the swearing for a start.