1/ 'The Shadow of the Cutteslowe Walls' - class divisions in Oxford then and now. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

A tribunal has ordered the Department for Work and Pensions to release a report that describes the impact of its errors on disabled benefit claimants, following a three-year fight to keep the document secret. #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tribunal-dis...

Thanks to Cam Rogers on Facebook for articulating exactly the issues around the new animated Firefly that's been announced.

This is our chance to shape the agenda and help direct funding to the research priorities of trans, non-binary & gender diverse communities across the UK. We need your help! Take part and then share with friends, family & partners at wp.lancs.ac.uk/transadultspsp

It'd be nice if Wes or Lizzi could let us know what his beliefs actually are that he has set aside. And also then which of his beliefs he hasn't fully set aside.

Badgers on tenners and otters on fifties, Ferrets on fivers, yeah that'd be nifty, Weasels on twenties, much better than kings, Mustelids are just my favourite things

As dire as it is, it’s incredibly funny seeing the phrase “intervention out of scope (oestrogen + anti-androgen)” in a so-called review of gender affirming hormone therapy. Oh the overwhelmingly dominant intervention for trans feminine people is out of scope, is it?

The reviews searched over 12,000 references. They screened 547 full-text papers for inclusion. They included 17. That's a 96.9% exclusion rate at full text. 530 studies were relevant enough to survive initial screening, then rejected by the review criteria. 6/10 reviews found 0 included studies.

Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people. This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists. The study underpinning this played one particular trick. Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5

I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.

This is what ecocide looks like.

Read my accessible analysis of Goodwin v UK – why it still matters, and what the courts are getting wrong – here:

When you realise HR are never going to help you

Has anyone made "this could have been a relational database" stickers?

Doctors at Barts Health are developing new education course to improve sensitive communication with trans patients using role play scenarios. This will be rolled out to medical students at Queen Mary University of London and doctors at Barts Health NHS Trust.

I ration my ADHD meds to days I 'really' need them (not weekends or holidays) because it costs me thousands per year to stay on them on private. £150 per mandatory checkup. £125 for a month's supply. I can't work properly without my meds - the difference is incredible - but they're so expensive.

Lancaster University researchers are leading a national consultation to identify research priorities for healthcare interventions for adults experiencing gender incongruence and gender dysphoria. They're asking for responses to an initial screening survey here. wp.lancs.ac.uk/transadultsp...

This was due to it being state policy at the time to punish unmarried young mothers with the same drug which was used to chemically castrate Alan Turing. It is scary how few people know about this. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/02/t...

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Age verification? I can pulse dial on the hanger.

Does anyone have anything on the casting of transness as a sexuality?

The Reverend Daughter Harrowhark Nonagesimus is not allowed to make soup again, we've been over this.

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

“The Supreme Court ruling on the definition of ‘woman’ under the Equality Act 2010… has instead opened up a series of contradictory court decisions and litigation that is dragging individual trans+ workers into the limelight and chewing them up in the process.” We must resist legalised transphobia.

For Penguin Awareness Day, a Typology of Pingu expressions. Source: instagram.com/p/CKa390dD4TC/ Part of a 40th anniversary exhibition in Japan the other year.

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

They have such _excellent_ faces. Just 10/10 snoots.

So. 2025 has been the most significant year of my life so far. And it's not even particularly close. Trans rights came under attack this year in the UK. I have been trying my best to help fight back. I've been a little busy. Here's a thread of some of what I have been up to 🧵

I know it's Twixmas but I'm frustrated to see this case study from 2023 being regurgitated without any evidence of actual impact. We should expect better. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The Levy Review doesn't engage at all with non-binary or gender diverse experiences of gender dysphoria clinics? It uses the term five/three times in definitions but then says absolutely nothing in relation to those definitions.

Read some of the stuff written by Irish hunger strikers who survived. These people will suffer the impact of this on their bodies for the rest of their lives, if they survive and, at this point, that is getting increasingly unlikely.

But the end-users, through the Fisker Owners Association, did ensure that their cars remained drivable through the insolvency process— they're still on the road. The FOA now control and develop the software platform and work with parts manufacturers for service and repair. youtu.be/hD0HOUCqLJo?...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Does this mean trans folks with private diagnoses will be able to enter the surgery pathway without having first also gone through the GIC pathway?

The reality is that most of the healthcare needs of trans people are entirely straightforward and routine and there is no medical reason why they cannot be met by their GPs like everyone else's are.

Look at this!! A Clarion article on the Cable Car... should we have one in Oxford? I think we should look at the feasibility at least.

This is actually very gender affirming

A tentacle pot isn’t just for the holidays its for life adopt one now and give these critters their forever home x

🚨 Lunchtime reading, because a load of you asked us to write about Oxford’s billionaire donors…. So we started from the very beginning. Enjoy.

once you sign up for the free tidal trial it let's you run a thing called tune my music or something that automatically recreates your playlists on tidal and tells you what songs you were missing. across like 2,000 my wife and I were missing 12.

There's a research paper in correlating reports of flags at roundabouts on FixMyStreet with the STATS19 collision data to see whether they have had an effect on road safety.

Trans children denied participation in society because of the Supreme Court and EHRC. To attack us adults is one thing but to attack children is another. The UK needs to lose its GANHRI A accreditation. #LeaveTransKidsAlone www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

That email must have a chain of at least ten "Received ... for ..." headers and at least three RCPT TO rewrites before it finds me. It should have had a hard time finding me at all.

I was once present in a magistrates court before a trial where the prosecution and defence barristers and the clerk were discussing the case without the defendant or the judge/mags present, deciding between them that a charge shouldn't be pursued when the hearing started.

I actually think it's bad that the law thinks that calling a 17 year old a "sissy porn-watching scumbag", a "groomer" and a "disgusting incel" in public is not a crime, and indeed I do not think criticising this would constitute "[picking] sides in the debate about sex and gender identity".