We're at the point where the Telegraph are literally making up quotes. I said when veg is sold for pennies in supermarkets, it's a sign someone's not being paid properly. Farmers being paid a pittance for their produce. Workers on less than a living wage in supermarkets.

I grew up in Northern Ireland during the conflict. I was nearly murdered once and hospitalised twice. I covered the Troubles as a reporter. Be in no doubt: this is frightening & real. Violence in Northern Ireland is of a type that folk in England, Scotland and Wales don’t understand. This scares me.

X is entirely as expected about Belfast, massive amount of incitement to violence and thousands of likes on posts of pure hatred, don't understand why anyone even vaguely normal is still posting there

More than 100 MPs have now signed the motion I tabled alongside colleagues to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240 if they haven’t already.

How's that working out for the trans people of New York? ... Because you seem to be rolling over.

Big thanks to the DUP, Reform, Tories etc for stirring this up all day. Thugs are now attacking people's homes in Belfast, wrecking hostels, checking cars at roadblocks for 'immigrants', burning vehicles and generally scaring the shit out of people. Hope you're all proud of yourselves. #Belfast

something I think about a lot is that in conversations about pregnancy, men will hear someone say “pregnancy ruined my body” and they think about like stretch marks and weight gain and saggy tits, but what we mean is actually like. diastasis recti and pelvic organ prolapse

This is scary stuff. The only reason these thugs would be asking people to turn their Ring doorbells off is because attacks on immigrants in houses in those areas is planned. Please look out for your neighbours and do NOT turn doorbells or security cameras off.

Simone BILES? The one gravity is afraid of? That Simone Biles? I mean no disrespect to the man but I don’t even know Simone Biles’s husbands name. How many rings has he got? What plays are named after him? Is he a first ballot Hall of Famer?

The news calling Simone Biles an NFL wife is the most small dick,misogynistic, flaccid penile dysfunctional energy ever. Grow up chode

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You have to know the organised far right when you see it. Call it out by name. Do not succumb to its pull. Resist Ulster fascism with everything you have.

Mamdani being a huge coward when it comes to trans youth is genuinely enraging. They will tell us with a straight face how hard it is. Do you know how hard it is for a trans youth who has had to move states and had 3 providers drop them and now has no options? Try that.

Loyalists complain that the rest of the island unfairly sees them as sordid, far right, shitmonkeys. Who every year set fire to things while getting drunk, sing sectarian songs and erect racist, mysoginist effegies. And every year they prove us right. #speirgorm

Mike Rogers ought to be embarrassed by this. He won't be. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

Another #FoxOfTheDay with a penchant for flower pots , shared by Maguerite Dennison on Facebook !

You can support the work of Bellingcat here, which is needed more than ever after Trump and Musk's USAID funding cuts wrecked our entire sector for everyone in it, even if (like Bellingcat) an organisation didn't take funds from USAID www.bellingcat.com/donate/

The horrific attack on a man in North Belfast tonight is going to be used by anti-immigrant groups to justify trying to lynch people in reprisal over the next few days. Look out for your neighbours.

Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.

In 2024 in the aftermath of the election, Rep. Seth Moulton made anti-trans comments, blaming the election on trans people. Now, 2 years later, he's in a Senate run. And he decided to march at Pride... To a cacophony of boos. Read our latest piece by writer S. Baum.

My mom passed away 3 weeks ago after a 7-year battle with lung cancer. We’re trying to raise $8,536 for funeral expenses since we don’t have insurance and barely any income. Any support or even sharing this would mean the world to us right now. Please, I’m desperate. ko-fi.com/ellienoctis/...

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

It must be the case that ANY brand that bends the knee to fascism NEVER again receives another queer dollar, is FOREVER banned from Pride, and is shamed everywhere, for all time, until they go out of business. Fascism is evil. Don’t be evil. JFC.

I had a new book idea over the weekend #mimic #octopus #doodles #camouflage

I interviewed Colorado GOP governor candidate Barbara Kirkmeyer, who spoke about her positions, the state’s budget, and how the GOP can’t afford Victor Marx or Scott Bottoms securing the nom. In the spirit of @kylec.bsky.social, I asked her how many people she’s killed. “I’ve killed zero people.”

genuinely gobsmacked by this we are talking about an entire class of people, literally hundreds of thousands of people, being morally mandated out of existence and you decide not to oppose that as some kind of protest against name calling? are you actually for fucking real?

🏳️‍⚧️ Thank you to every one of the 98 members of Parliament who have put their name on record against the EHRC’s unjust and unworkable guidance. Motions to annul or disapprove don’t often get this big, especially when led by backbenchers. This sends a clear message ❤️ edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

Has your MP signed it? Can you get an email in to them? Even if they’re horrendous, it’s still worth making clear that this is an issue with massive support:

"A specific notion, that people of colour have been privileged over and above mere equality, and been given dominion over white people, is now mainstream."

On the first day of Pride Month, James Murray confirmed he would no longer say “trans women are women”, arguing NHS single-sex spaces should be “protected on the basis of sex”. 📩 Understand more in our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/52js7yzz

If you're an SoA member, and have been thinking about this? If you're free, join us online, ask questions, you're not committing yourself to anything 😁 societyofauthors.org/event/luncht...

They are violating the terms of the deed. Because it’s for a data center Texas courts aren’t even halting the project while the lawsuit runs its course. www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

I have heard from writer friends that editors have directly told they don't want queer books right now, or have asked them to alter/remove queer characters, etc—a state of affairs which is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated. Queer audiences exist and need to see themselves reflected in literature!

Yep. There's a reason The Knight Watch isn't being published in the USA at the moment. My US editor never explicitly told me to cut the queer characters, but he did tell me to cut the chapters that contained queer content 😑 I think they were worried that a gay book about killing Nazis wouldn't sell.

Interesting thread. I still think I'm going to find Tip Toe completely resistable. I do hope the LGBA arseholes give it a lot of thought though.

Mona Khalil, the leading figure in sea turtle protection in Lebanon, had refused to leave the village of Mansouri, near Sour. Her house was directly hit. She is in hospital. today.lorientlejour.com/article/1537...

The protesters eloquently rebutted the snowflake Foran’s claims here: www.instagram.com/reel/DZUJ_Ze...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobelin.... For reference.

WHO IS TURNING BACK THE CLOCK WES YOU STUPID FUCK

The same people who supported the removal of rights for trans women are now starting on the removal of rights of all women.

Same-sex marriage is an instructive analogy here, but not for the reasons Streeting thinks. “Trans women can still use toilets - just not women’s toilets” is just like “gay people can still get married - just not to other men”.

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Repost if your account is a safe place for the trans community 💙🩷🤍

UK friends and neighbours, please do this (it's very quick). People from otherwhere, please spread the word? (Unless you don't believe that trans rights are human rights, in which case of course please fuck ALL the way off into the sea, and then fuck off a bit more.)

If you’ve never worked as an artist, you’re probably unaware how ingrained this idea is, that people should have free access to art, and artists should work for the love of it. It’s so pervasive that the creative industries are effectively subsidized by artists’ earnings from other jobs.

This myth is literally written into the Cass Report on healthcare for trans youth, a field which is in the UK now entirely driven by pseudoscience and is entirely hostile to trans existence