An important piece of work. 👇🏻

Your love is the shelter for my family.❤️ Every repost, every donation mean life for us. gofund.me/435aa5b04

Who's Funding the War on Trans Inclusion? “The stated goal of strategic litigation is rarely to win every case. It’s to make the target behaviour—in this case, implementing trans-inclusive policies—expensive, risky, and exhausting”

“When American organisations with annual budgets in the hundreds of millions fund UK litigation, there are legitimate questions about whether this serves British democratic interests” cc @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social

There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.

A favourite variation was one I contrived for @thefence.bsky.social in 2020, re: Jeff Bezos' then wealth of $177bn. "Iago first said 'Put money in thy purse’ at the premiere of Othello on Nov 1st 1604. You'd only need to put $1.1 million in said purse every single day since to match Bezos’ total".

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

I tell this to ppl all the time when they talk about African counties and infrastructure. The civil apparatus you need to raise state funds aren't as established. One of the many answers to the question, 'why did post colonial Asian countries modernise faster than African ones?'.

Did women ruin the workplace?

8 November 1934 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Benjamin Raphaël Pais, was born in Harlingen. In November 1942, he was deported to #Auschwitz with his sister Jansje. After the selection, they were murdered in a gas chamber together with their mother Roosje.

8 November 1885 | A Pole, Marcin Rożek was born in Kosieczyn. Sculptor and painter. He participated in the Greater Poland uprising. In #Auschwitz from 1943. Incarcerated probably for refusing to create a sculpture of Adolf Hitler. He perished in the camp on 19 May 1944.

They’ve been treating it like the law though, they’ve had so many places be transphobic and now courts wanna lie it’s optional somehow and just guidance? That’s so abhorrent and dishonest

[1] Another short thread. We've spent a year challenging the EHRC’s so-called “Interim Update” - which led to trans people being banned from toilets, libraries, universities & more. It’s caused widespread harm. But the courts are pretending it’s not even real. Here's what's happened. 🧵

For starters - no Irish State/Gov agencies/politicians should be on Twitter. None. They could do this today and it would actually be more than just empty words.

Oh yeah, remember when this was the biggest news EVAH last month? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MMU...

A message for our government in Ireland – but every other government too. #SpéirGorm #SpeirGorm #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

There are no words for how evil this is

This is no way to treat our veterans Prime Minister. It’s now over a month since PM agreed on BBCBreakfast to meet with the nuclear test veterans (having kept them waiting more than a year to discuss the justice & compensation Labour committed to in opposition) & still no date offered by his office

Over the moon that #TheDoomsdayClub has been nominated for Children’s Book of the Year Senior at the @irishbookawards.bsky.social 🥳 You can vote at this link www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/ @theobrienpress.bsky.social #APIBA

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It's the end of the week so it must be #PublisherFriday! If you are an #IndependentPublisher why not let us know a bit about your press, some links, current projects, crowdfunders, submission windows, some of your authors #publisher #SmallPress #publishing #IndiePress alt text in pictures please

This is, by some distance, the longest and most expensive legal letter we've ever sent. It involves a team of multiple KC and junior specialist environmental barristers. It's taken us 18 months to draft and has cost us a substantial six figure sum.

We’re still waiting on Sarah Phillimore explaining why she resisted disclosing the court file to us in the JR case against Northumbria Police. For one oozing hubris from every pore, she did all she could to frustrate our intervention. A sure sign she knows she’s winging it with bent or lazy judges

Post first your ‘exclusive’ on independent platforms like Bluesky, Mastodon, or Spout Social - anywhere that isn’t run by a tech-bro billionaire with a political agenda. Then repost later on X, hours after your initial post.

Women in EU countries where abortion is illegal could soon access care abroad under a new EU plan. MEPs have backed the My Voice, My Choice campaign for safe, cross-border abortion access jrnl.ie/6866526

Voting for Reform is asking for neglect. If you are a politician but you can't successfully communicate this clear message get another job www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Gee. Ya think?!

Labour's Alan Kelly has hit out at the three largest political parties in the State, arguing that they have been "trying to ride both horses" in relation to immigration. He also called for a public awareness campaign about the benefits of immigration. jrnl.ie/6865679t

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

That AI pic of the lad up the ladder with the cat had a lot of people asking, "Where in Dublin is that?" knowing no such place existed, but it took a very long time before people rightly started calling it out as slop. We're not ready for this shit. History and reality are going to be whittled away.

If you’re standing in a flattened wasteland where hundreds of thousands of people used to live and the government spokesman showing you around says there was an urgent military necessity to destroy every house to its foundations, you are morally and professionally obliged to stop participating.

You don’t raze entire towns and cities street by street with controlled demolitions and bulldozers for any military objective. You do it because the aim is to wipe those places out of existence forever, and it’s not like they’ve been hiding this.

Our modern robber barons are such cringy dweebs.

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section. www.thecut.com/article/teen...

I’m gutted by this decision. So many excellent editors and writers impacted. My column, Disability Visibility is no more as well. Many thanks to Allegra for giving me this amazing opportunity www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Eh, Conor, you'll find his contempt of court and his long running legal issues stem from his behaviour to his boss and nothing to do with pronouns. I wish @news.rte.ie could get the facts correct www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

Good morning world. It is still yesterday in California so we still have an hour or so left of the Kickstarter campaign. We are currently at £7223. Anyone else fancy joining the fun? www.kickstarter.com/...

twitter hiding replies from me is how my stalker was able to reply to me for months talking about raping me and cutting me into pieces without my knowledge. he was violating my protection order and i didn’t even know it. it kept him out of jail.

For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

It's almost like trans people told you all along!!!

Thank you @andydunn.bsky.social for blessing this in my texts this morning

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

Y'all ever notice how nobody can ever actually point to any *specific thing* that Mamdani *actually said* that was antisemitic, and how people are just baldly asserting it anyway

the Teen Vogue politics section's last newsy story 🥲 Rainesford knocked it out of the park

Since I'm a famed sappy dad, the Observer asked me to interrogate the John Lewis Christmas Ad Industrial Complex. On this oddest of cultural lodestars being stripped to its bare wires; a confusing, crass, and effective bit of emotional weaponry. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”

A short message for the Americans: It was sooo good to see the results of the elections. 💪