"You can always tell". That's weirdly a thought process that transvestigators, TERFs and transmed/trans binary exclusionists share.... Only difference is one is looking for trans clues in cis people, and the other polices 'cis appearance' in trans folks. Clue for both teams: you can't.

"He couldn't risk my blight of disbelief though sure that very soon he'd hear her key scrape in the rusted lock and end his grief. He knew she'd just popped out to get the tea." I know this feeling sadly all too well. There are things here I cannot yet change. www.poemhunter.com/poem/long-di...

Good comment on Roisin Murphy TERF business from Last Mix Tape. Tweet from Roisin that we should negotiate our existence with people like her - she is not a minority, she is the mainstream - makes my blood run cold. Fascist thinking. 'Rights if we let you exist'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ1J...

Oh dear. X & YouTube keep showing me 'edgy' anti-woke 'comedians' or people on TikTok who think putting on a bad British accent is somehow a 'win'. It just isn't actually, you know, funny? Like I am all for edgy/stereotype jokes if they are good, even insults if original, but nope. My face:

Hmm a thirst trap account I engaged with nicely (and directly, they responded in kind) that blocked me and 906 other people on BLUESKY? This is massive 🚩🚩🚩🚩 I wonder why they do that?

People keep repeating this mantra that 'cold drinks are bad in a heatwave/drink a hot drink' but funnily enough I can't find a reliable source. Stuff about cold showers triggering that heat response, but very little about cold drinks? One study for athletes and 37C not hot.

Hmm this surprises me.

This is what I've been wondering...how are they going to enforce the U16 internet ban here? Are they going to age block VPNs? Or have some mandatory age verification like the nightmare that came in last year? It seems they apparently can, but not yet... www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kbt...

So...for decades we were told that licensing and legally streaming mashups and fan made remixes 'wasn't possible' and 'it's too hard to implement' . Now AI comes along and it's immediately 'yes fan remix this into AI slop!'. WTF? variety.com/2026/digital...

They say time has a way of healing Dries all the tears from your eyes But darling, it's this empty feeling My heart can't disguise After all that we've been through I try my best, but it's no use I guess I'll keep on loving you www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG0J...

SO DONE with this heat. DynoRod person hasn't turned up and no idea when they will, Sainsbury's is out of 2 pint milk and the Local has a broken fridge so no nectar points or milk for me. And a ninja fly got in when the plumber was here and is buzzing me every 5 seconds. Grr.

More I think about it, 'stay in your lane' is the most conformist classist capitalist queerphobic (or just phobic) bullshit of modern times. Like who created those lanes for you? You did not...so why do they want you to stay there? Feels part of those neo-liberal myths of 'radical individuality'.

Ooh! A rare thing indeed! A Bluesky TERF! Blocked, and told to fuck off back to Twitter. You're not welcome here. Also - bad historical take? The 'dark ages' have been debunked, it was a later historical desire to 'big up' the Enlightenment. Has very little real proof it was 'dark' or worse.

We don't want US service/intelligence and US bases here. Tto cap it all, like that woman who fled to the US after killing a man with dangerous driving - they get off lightly when they kill or as in this case, SA. 6 months for drug rape? Ridiculous www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

Credit where credit is due. Ed Davey (my MP) responded to my email about the lack of vote on the EHRC guidance and the guidance itself. He agrees that a free vote is important and also that it's not right to have a possible law where trans folks have neither toilet to use, or have gender policing.

Mood... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu_U... "O, let me forever weep: My eyes no more shall welcome sleep I'll hide me from the sight of day And sigh my soul away He's gone, his loss deplore And I shall never see him more" After nearly 2 years you'd think it'd get better? Nope.

I am hiding in Kokoro cos I can sit under their aircon...not the coolest but cooler than home. Weird to be here, user to come here every few weeks for many years for takeaway with John. Not been here for nearly 2 years. Got our usual order, weird eating it and thinking about all those times...

If in the late 80's or early 90's you watched late night telly in the UK, there's one jingle that haunts your every living moment ever since... The ghostly minor refrain of... 0891! 50! 50! 50! www.youtube.com/watch?v=78fD...

84p per unit?!? whoop I guess everyone is trying to keep cool:

THIS! www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3l_...

This is Reggie. He wanted to show you how he eats watermelon. 14/10 thank you Reggie (IG: reggiethebully5)

In May I was like 'fuck it' and left the curtains open and the windows fully open. Not this week....have the window open at the back as the alleyway is cool and not direct sunlight, but got curtains up everywhere else. One day of 35C is different to 3-4 days of that.

Not sure what I think of Andy Burnham, i quite liked him before he became mayor, a bit bland but solid, like cheddar cheese. Now he's been waved in as heir apparent by Labour grandees I am very wary, been burned before. Also he hates 'Culture Club & Adam And The Ants' according to this. Grr.

"Persistence had been on temporary display for 10 months and was due to finish in August." - so an invented campaign then? Why did it take these people 10 months to notice? NPG isn't exactly hidden. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

"While ingrained in national memory, 1976 is the sixth-warmest summer on record, with the summer of 2025 topping the rankings – for now." Yet people regularly sealion that it's the warmest and this 'climate change stuff' is all made up... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Plumber was supposed to come at 10am, last night said 'can we do 8am?' - rushed around like a madperson last night and this morning to get ready in time... Only to get a message that it now won't be after 8:30am. Grr.

Good work! Envious. Can't see anything like this happening in the UK....

My beard turned silver. I've grown it to mid chest. I can now sit in priority seats on buses without anyone asking me to stand. I'd definitely stand if asked but I've never been asked.

Oh are you supposed to be avoiding it?

Oof looked at some of Alison Moyet's tweets - not good. Similar to Roisin Murphy, upset that a bunch of cis folks who made major bank off LGBTQ* community turned their backs on us when it got difficult, became dodgy - or TERF grifter a la Glinner. Keep it in our community, I say!

You cannot nake this shit up....someone on Twitter with with a name referencing Papa Lazarou and quoting League of Gentlemen, but is a TERF and 'paid member of Restore Britain' Did they not know the 'this is a shop for local people' was TOTALLY mocking stupid people like them?

There's almost never a time I will badly review a YT channel or mark as 'don't want to see this' unless it really is something hateful or totally off interest cos I know what the algorithm does with that feedback. Deleting my comments off your channel without trigger words/aggro, yes, I will.

Can you steal an artform that's already been stolen? I would like to think there was honour among thieves though, but no. It will always eternally bug me that a whole generation thinks cutup and mashups started with Neil Cic and Girl Talk. There were many generations before, UK, Europe, US...

Love this analysis of Count Binface tearing Farage a new one... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMYg...

Only 95 votes? FOR SHAME Makerfield. Andy Burnham's OK but no Count Binface. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9FR...

There's an anti-Farage/Reform AI video doing the rounds. Song is good but we will not tear down the master's house with the master's tools. Should be recorded by someone properly, and make a real video but the total irony is it has an anti-AI lyric about 'AI has a corporate grin'! Still AI slop.

And now my Twitter is back? Weird. Not sure what that was about....

"Everything lives forever on the Internet" - unless you're queer or trans, then it's apparently quite easy to memoryhole you. Facebook, now Twitter. I am expecting YouTube at some point...fading away like that photo in Back To The Future. This is how we get erased.

How was your day? Mine was shit. I got booted off Twitter, nearly lost an eye (I used drain unblocker before realising our drains are leaking outside, and my bath was leaking inside, so accidentlly splashed some near my eye when mopping it up in a panic), and found out the outside drains are fucked.

I think my Twitter account got nuked...ironically I think over that last rant about queer clubbing! No warning, no email, just bang. Been there since 2007. Oh well....

Never thought I'd hear Vybz Kartel on 6Music, but even worse during Pride and during a queer clubbing program from Sherelle who I formerly respected? Talking about how inclusive and against homophobia PXSSY PALACE was. Cannot make this shit up... WTF? Homophobic dancehall acts are OK now?

I remember a few years ago British trans people were wanting to move to the US cos the UK was 'TERF Island'. Even back then, under Biden but with all the anti-trans stuff I was like 'exsqueeze me?!'. I do hope they did not move over - cos of new proposed laws like this one: youtu.be/NMNIOIICKa0?...

I dunno if the autotranslation is correct, but this hit me in the feels. There are coffee cups I keep because he bought them for me, or bought two for us. Two dressing gowns, two coffee cups...we couldn't get married then either. x.com/minaduchi/st...

Say it louder at the back! Vinegar and bicarb DOES NOT WORK. It did nothing for my slow draining bath...I am not sure why I tried, since I already knew that acid + alkali = neutralised nothing water. It's woo. But suggested everywhere even from 'plumbers' - nope. www.which.co.uk/reviews/drai...

George Fouracres for the next Doctor is a really good suggestion...he can do comedy but also surreally dark and louche, a mix of Sylvester McCoy, Jon Pertwee and Patrick Troughton. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUK_...

Fascinated by why some minorties (which I am one) centre themselves in their own experience - which is not a bad thing in itself - but in doing so end up blind to other groups. Which is very bad.

I really wish people wouldn't flag comments they don't like. YouTube is eating my comments again, and I think it's because this autistic (by her own words) commenter who was being frankly racist and dismissing other people's experiences. Only conversation I had on there, and now can't comment.

Good on the residents of Legrune ser Mer. Pushback they got does remind me of the useful idiots who've been consistently countering 'you're being dramatic' to those of us who since 2016 have been pointing out the rise of fascism. I still see you. I remember. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

This is Baker. He dances when it’s dinner time. 14/10 top-tier tippy taps #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: bakerbarnes)