Only in Glasgow: a dark poem about AI chatbots by @joles.bsky.social, as hand-written by a member of the local calligraphy club. Now on display - along with many beautiful others - by the coffee bar at the Mitchell.

@robonabike.eurosky.social with your renowned knowledge, do you know what these are called, so I can buy a new one? It was retaining the wheel on our lawnmower 😬

Elite politics until v. recently was all about Oxford PPEists, but today's drama has Josh Simons (St John's, Cambridge) standing down as an MP to facilitate the return to the Commons of Andy Burnham (Fitzwilliam, Cambridge), in order to thwart the ambitions of Wes Streeting (Selwyn, Cambridge).

#OtD 13 May 1985 Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmental group MOVE, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.

BREAKING Following an attempt by Mr Justice Johnson to prosecute Palestine Action barrister for “contempt of court” after his closing speech mentioned the legal principle known as “jury Equity”, Rajiv Menon has won his appeal. A short🧵

There was a huge difference between knowing something happened and seeing the reality of it.

The Rainbow Map is not just a ranking. It is evidence of choices made, promises broken and communities failed. The UK can and must do better. [7/7] Read the full UK chapter: www.ilga-europe.org/files/upload...

ILGA-Europe is clear on what the UK must do: ensure timely, accessible trans-specific healthcare, address excessive waiting times, and restore access to puberty blockers for trans youth outside restrictive research frameworks. [4/7]

The UK now scores just 43.9% on ILGA-Europe’s Rainbow Map, down from 45.65% last year and a devastating fall from 86% in 2015. That is not a blip. It is a decade of political failure. [2/7]

The UK retains 22nd place with a score of 44%, two points less than last year. Drawing on last year’s Supreme Court decision, a High Court ruled that trans men cannot be automatically registered as a parent of their children, causing the country to lose its point on automatic co-parent recognition

Survey closes tonight at 23:59! Join over 1062 people from across the UK in voicing their views on how research priorities in trans+ healthcare. Take the survey at wp.lancs.ac.uk/transadultspsp

Pride of Dundee! The Lemmings Statue stands testament to the great computer games industry of Dundee, Lemmings was conceived and developed in Nethergate 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Lemmings", 2013, Alyson Conway Thanks @kanaratron.bsky.social for sharing 😁

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

If you saw statistics about an increase in shoplifting, no you didn't.

Constantly having to write letters to the government explaining that some LGBT asylum seekers are also Christian and the fact they believe in God doesn't mean that they're lying about their sexuality, and so they really cannot be sent back to countries with The Death Penalty for homosexuality.

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.