"...she appeared from nowhere..." should be treated as a guilty plea.

What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.

What a fucking *brilliant* idea. I hope they take loads of photos with documentation and laptops and people smiling.

It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.

Deer are basically vermin and it's fun to hear a Tory blaming pine martens and badgers for habitat degradation, presumably so his pals don't risk their shooting estates. theferret.scot/nearly-300-p...

Snails! Dirty beachcombing fingernail for scale 😅

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act. The absolute tumbleweed from the media & gov shows just how much they want to bury how much disabled people fought and still fight for our rights.

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

The recent policy change which makes it impossible for young trans people to delay puberty, at great cost to their mental health, has a special caveat to allow cross-sex hormones to be used on intersex children even contrary to their wishes, at great cost to their mental health.

Time for my regular complaint of "why do courier companies have a 'leave in outhouse' option and no 'leave in stair' option, this isn't fucking Agatha Christie world", thank you and good morning.

I forgot how much I enjoyed chatting with people who experience weird mental health shit and have ways to handle it, sharing ideas and laughing at the ridiculousness. Someone please let me do this as a job again. Please.

Mention by Ricardo Pinto of Scotland as a 'wet desert' but he didn't mention my enemy the deer. Our supposed beautiful natural landscape is a product of human action. #PictCon

A final fuck off to James Watson and to every news source who’s naming him as one of two co-discoverers of DNA structure without mentioning Rosalind Franklin. 🖕

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of all new wealth. The poorest half of the world has received only 1%.

To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦‍♂️ …and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️

A reminder: you cannot have gay rights without women’s rights, trans rights, disability rights, etc. We have secured our rights as gay folk to live and love without moral persecution by working in solidarity with other marginalised groups to challenge narrow ideas about bodies, gender and sexuality.

This is what my children call diagnosis by peer review.

Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating. My thoughts with all involved

News in that children are now being prescribed weight loss jabs on the NHS. @wesstreetingmp.bsky.social Where are the trials for the use of these experimental drugs in children? How do you know it’s safe? 📢 SHOW US THE EVIDENCE 📢 All so utterly predictable and fucked up. Here we go again ✍️

Of course, you charge AMW and then you start to ask, but who paid off at least one of his victims? Who was *also* at Beatrice's 18th birthday party? By the way, I'm not sure we've talked enough about AMW as a father who invited a convicted sex offender and child trafficker to his child's party.

Come on Wikipedia, I need another laugh

two vast and trunkless legs

Hating watching the enclosure of public land and a well used Traveller site at #GypsyBrae. Just because the Social Bite village is a good cause, doesn't make this okay.

Imagine the punishment for sexism assault and sex trafficking being living in luxury with plenty of money without being called Prince. What the hell have *I* done to deserve having to work for a living?

We're not seeing a single suggestion in all of this media coverage about putting this abuser and sex trafficker in jail, it's just the mainstream fighting to retain the monarchy. Again, victims and survivors disappear.

thank fuck for this there's a massive difference between saying "I believe x about a group" and saying "that group may not have dignified use of toilet facilities in the public sphere" the first is your own beliefs, religious or quasi. the second makes a country fundamentally unsafe. for everyone

We've put this up on our big vertical screen again this year... #UoYTips

Wait, does Cat Burns dropping her album today mean she *doesn't* win #CelebrityTraitors?

The social contagion of being slightly less afraid of being killed and or/ made homeless.

Sexist, homophobic and unsuccessful unless Alan and Cat decide to make him look successful #CelebrityTraitors

Sacrilege!

A whole party premised on the believe that “we’re the good guys dont worry“

Wind power has saved a collective £104 billion of energy bills over the last 15 years. That's great news and shows that renewables are the future. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My Asian and African colleagues are so gonna get fired for calling the older people we support "auntie" and "uncle". Or, you know, perhaps that's appropriate and respectful from them, and even white Scottish folk who are mostly over 90 understand that and are fine with it.

I knew we would get to "british news outlets pretending not to know what panto is" eventually

Good to know that a holder of a screenwriting Oscar yells "fuck off, just fuck off" at neo-Clippy just like the rest of us.

Inverness's Liberal Democrat MP Angus MacDonald could usefully remind himself that he is talking about human beings here

This is the essence of reporting "science" versus public health: stop putting people off discovering the joy of moving their bodies and being out in common space by telling them they're not optimising. Report science better, report joy more.

This manifesto for embracing a trans female body is what real fucking feminism sounds like.

Socialists don't join socialist parties, apparently, they stick with parties called Labour no matter how they are mutilated.

I get it. I was driven mad by the overrepresentation of rabbits in advertising. Caramac. Duracell. Nesquik.

I would like to talk about the events of #TheDiplomat season 3 with respect to Scottish independence, which isn't mentioned at all. Why did they claim Rayburn did the thing? If they did admit it was about indy, does Trowbridge still try to deny Indyref2? Probably, right?

Beautiful. Plaid Cymru battered them.

Following discussions about the misogyny inherent in the culture of 'AI' as it is currently sold - demonstrated most directly by deepfakes used for harassment - I note that it further represents a misogynistic movement in that it attempts to co-opt the facility of imagination.

one of them literally led to an independence referendum which was existential to the existence of the UK what the fuck are you talking about BBC

Hahahaha Cat weaponising her autism to deflect suspicion. You go girl. #CelebrityTraitors