1/The UK trans health scandal continues: “The correspondence shows Sex Matters, LGB Alliance and Transgender Trend manoeuvring their way into government as so-called “stakeholders” on trans policy, despite lacking any medical expertise and spreading narratives that misrepresent science…

reminds me of this

A new FOI release shows how the DHSC gave anti-trans lobby groups like Sex Matters & LGB Alliance direct access to shape policy on trans healthcare. These groups push for restrictions that leave trans people waiting, suffering & at risk of suicide. tacc.org.uk/2025/10/03/i...

Yesterday: imagine managing to get the last seat on a packed train even in 1st class, just to be confronted by a frail 75+ White man who decided that the only Black person in the carriage (and NOT the only person who got on that carriage) couldn't possibly have a 1st class ticket.

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years. This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

Is this visible? A Telegraph (!!!!!) article on the undeniable links b/w Frogface and Russia. archive.ph/2025.10.02-1...

Government taking closed-door meetings with hate groups, refusing to disclose the minutes, and covering up youth suicide data. Very normal behaviour for a liberal democracy. tacc.org.uk/2025/10/03/i...

it might sound crazy but i actually really like bluesky and enjoy my time here and would like it to be a successful sustainable platform

A memorable, sobering read.

Fundamentally, if you were designing a refugee policy that annoyed everyone, then I'm not sure you could do much worse than still accepting refugees but turning them into a permanently precarious underclass.

I'm heartbroken to learn of Jane Goodall's passing at age 91. The world is darker with her gone. www.npr.org/2025/10/01/4...

If you take a shit In the font, it doesn't baptise the turd.

The Citi text is unbelievably obtuse: "we do not see evidence that this spending is associated with excessive advertising spend to build market or mind share" Yeah, too much AI advertising is the only thing we have to worry about. I wonder if the advertising spend on black tulips was excessive.

Matthew Goodwin: continually amazed that everyone doesn't already agree with his ethnonationalist views even as they disappear through the fascist event horizon

Me every time I read a news article talking about a report that's been released without linking it or even giving a proper reference 😡

Can we stop saying "non-binary people are valid" please. "Non-binary people are non-binary" is the equivalent. Every time this is said at an event or by an org I and many of the other non-binary people I know cringe and feel immediately uncomfortable. People have been saying this for years.

Nobody asked for it. We did it anyway. If you ever used Winamp during the later years, it had an awesome, awesome visualizer called Milkdrop. The Webamp people implemented a workalike called Butterchurn. Internet Archive now supports Webamp and Butterchurn. Just click on the llama!

THIS THIS ONE MILLION TIMES THIS

Angry goose meme: WHERE DO YOU GET THAT MONEY FROM?

And if the therapist really thinks that way, they have no business taking trans clients.

"Racist" is a Bad Word and consequently is not acceptable to use about anyone that doesn't have an actual swastika tattoo on their face

This piece on what's really behind the "free speech" arguments is really good and worth reading.

it is so fucking depressing that the go to author on trans issues is the guy who (a) is not trans, (b) has no real expertise, and (c) frames trans issues as a moral panic for cis parents. 1

Lead moveable type for printing used to be stored in large wooden drawers in cases. Capital letters (or majuscules) were stored in the UPPER CASE. Miniscules were stored in the LOWER CASE.

The major political parties, broadcasters, and institutions should all leave X. It's an extremely dangerous disinformation machine, and staying there only legitimises it and the chaotic agenda of the richest man in the world. Who is a raving fucking lunatic. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

But were any of them [far right] INFLUENCERS?

"Any capitulation on human rights for trans people is just a temporary, short-term distraction that won’t pay off in the long run. It’s a gambit that only serves to prop up hateful policies while leaving the wider voter base demoralized and disillusioned." www.erininthemorning.com?utm_source=n...

Over two million! If you haven't, please sign. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Ed Zitron is having a Moment™ (Before the FT piece I caught some Zitron love on @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social )

If this doesn’t wake Americans up, nothing will. There’s been no trouble in Portland. This is gratuitous military occupation of a city.

Because their TERF friends pointed out that the "treatment" which they are implementing for trans kids is so close to conversion therapy that the law wouldn't be able to distinguish between them.

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

"Unlike the Blair era, when ID cards would literally involve a physical card, they’d now consist of an app on our phone. An employer would scan a QR code with a verifier app..." Hey presto, automated turnstiles enforcing birth-sex-only toilets. iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...

This only happens to you once

This is true of most people that go into business. If we want people to hold politicians to a higher standard, we should stop pretending politics is just another career choice. (It's wrong when it's business too, but that's a different conversation)

The US conservative movement has organized & funded a massive anti-wind power campaign, based on lies & bullying. Researchers at Brown University have been investigating & revealing that campaign. Now cons are pressuring the university to shut the investigators down.

Never mind future governments, I don't trust the current government not to abuse this scheme. Please sign, this one might actually matter.

Oh hell fucking yes It’s about damn time

Starmer says past governments have been "squeamish" talking about immigration. Bullshit. Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth. Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I didn't know this. It explains a lot.

This is SO subtweeting the Cass Review. While article well worth a read on "weak" or "low quality" evidence in medicine www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Two of my most interesting follows, talking to each other! I'm just sorry it wasn't on the pod

The neatest and most hilarious debunking of Trump's climate disinformation you'll see this week, courtesy of @emorwee.bsky.social 😎 open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

Inspired by this + fossil giant Eni's fusion investments to update my 'greenwashing habitable zone' conceptualisation of what techs seem to lend themselves to being the most useful for bullshitty climate delay Welcome to the zone, fusion, you finally made the cut Top right = The Altman Expanse

There is a reason that the Singal followers list is the only list I completely block everyone on, no exceptions. The man is actually dangerous and if you follow him I consider you dangerous too, not to mention what you are of you actually publish the charlatan

FYI, if you don't, a few years from now you're going to be losing your mind when no one believes you that the science around birth control is safe.

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

Scratch a TERF and a racist bleeds

Dave speaks the truth