masks: they're not just for covid

Thames Water boss addressing shareholders on its half year profits of £400 million

just fucking resign you useless, bigoted, bastard.

I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.

bit of a hail mary question here but does anyone with a working knowledge of Flemish or Dutch want to give me a sense of how to pronounce "Cruydeboeke"?

Trans children are being faced with a choice, one enforced by legal threats funded by a billionaire to bully the organisations that have included them for so long - get back into the closet or be cut off from society. No one wants this other than those consumed by hatred - backed by extreme wealth.

One of the girl guide leaders has set up this petition to oppose the decision - there's a lot of backlash from within girl guiding www.change.org/p/allow-tran...?

Textbook definition of Lawfare here - an organisation that offers social, emotional, enrichment and activities for kids is being used as a culture war punchbag.

'should trans ppl be allowed to exist?' - 'your party' as usual just replace the word 'trans' with any other minority and ask yourself if this is even remotely acceptable.

I want Sultana and every other cis person who encouraged trans people to sign up, pay up and turn up to apologise and give them their money back. Sending trans folks into a hostile environment, whilst claiming they will be safe and respected is just bait for hate crimes.

If YourParty doesn’t even allow a member of a marginalized minority to name the discrimination they are subject to, that is not socialism. Socialism means supporting the most disadvantaged and the poorest, not taking sides with bigots. That is fascism.

A controversial opinion in the UK: having a standard emails job then sitting in a house you bought for a song and watching it rise exponentially in value due to political choices that have nothing to do with you is not it fact “working very hard to get what you have”

Zultana, you boycott spaces FOR swappies, i boycott spaces because of swappies - we are not the same.

Karen's just asked if you could come to her office. She heard you'd called two colleagues transphobic, and she just wants to remind you that belief in biological sex is protected, and she'd appreciate it if you could apologise to them, otherwise she would be forced to take disciplinary action.

I feel like the first time you meet your fellow party members is a bit like when you meet a letting/estate agent - the first time you meet will be the best day you ever spend with them because its only going to get worse from there if you dont get on.

Kinda dont want to know whats going down at the YP Conference, but also want a close up on the face of the Green defectors as they realise they just signed up to be hated and marginalised.

Your Party members for the past few months: "Maybe wait until our conference in November before you start calling us transphobic?" Your Party conference in November: tells trans woman not to call transphobes "transphobic"

Right? Of all the fucking groups to go to bat for, it's the rape-apologists who try to co-opt every single protest they attend, whatever the cause.

Hey, Your Parrty stans - remember when you told us all to pay up, turn up, and put our case forward? Meanwhile, Greens and Scottish Greens actually doing the work.

We called it way back when Corbyn started posting here and could speak about potatoes but would not mention trans people. I wish everyone else could listen to the Cassandras even once 🙄 Your "No, not you" Party.

I hear the YP conference convener just called out someone using 'transphobic' and said they want to keep things respectful There it is, lads. There's your party.

Labour stans telling me i need to give Labour the benefit of the doubt... Fuck off, you hate people who get benefits, yet now you want me to give them out? Hows about Labour give the benefits back, and i'll be more generous.

Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary." Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%? When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?

this is the same nonsense we've been hearing about every budget since david cameron first rinsed the country with austerity.

Apart from the obvious AUDACITY of the man, i wonder if his niece and her wife consented to have their experiences of hate crime used by Kier like this. Its not his story to tell, yet he tells it as if its something centring him. Which would be unsurprising, as he is a monstrous bellend.

"Anas Sarwar did that, for us?! 😍" A genuine thought Rachel Reeves expects to cross the minds of Scottish voters.

Today's UK budget could have delivered for people and planet by taking on the rich and powerful. But that's not what it did. 👇

nose down ass up that's the way we cyberstuck

20% on people who say "Going on my Holibobs!" So like VAT but anti-VAT, they have no value, and deserve a tax.

If I had a nickel for every time someone said they were a progressive but “had reasonable concerns” then just repeated conservative propaganda on a topic, I’d have way more than two fucking nickels, I’d be a goddamn billionaire.

Rachel Reeves attacking Zack Polanski for being hypnotherapist is rich coming from someone who lied on her CV to get her job

I am staggered that this is allowed. I am a recovering addict. Clean for 20+ years now. One of the things i am so grateful for was that my addiction was drugs. Gambling addiction is a pernicious, evil killer of entire families.

you could say i deserve it but if i hadn't noticed someone else would have.

Reeves just announced she is going to ramp up the abuse of disabled people with more pointless gaslighting and appeals for access to the pittance that is UC/PIP for the disabled. We know its ideological, the UN already said it contravenes human rights. Labour dont think we should exist - exhibit N

"more face-to-face meetings for determining disability benefits" Reeves wants to do MORE catastrophically costly and cruel ATOS nonsense. Its been proven to be inhumane and not make any savings, the UN called it ideologically driven harm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Man on social media sent me a 3 paragraph message in block caps giving me a torrent of abuse. Like, so vile i was genuinely shocked. My crime? No idea, i just posted a link someone else asked for about a study on wearing high viz as a cyclist. Just found his boss, ngl its tempting.

If like me, you read too many books on cults - I really wish my first thought hadn't been that actor lass from the NXIVM cult who was given the punishment of having to sleep on the floor in a dog bed...

To put that these Motability cuts into perspective... It will save around £300 million. Latest figures show the DWP has spent over £400 million fighting people on PIP appeals. Scrap policies that punish Disabled people & stop pretending it's about economic efficiency! #Budget

'public private partnerships' just means 'privatisation'. at least when nigel farage says he wants to privatise the nhs he's being upfront and honest about it. labour say shit like this:

the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'. even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become. they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.

Treating myself to the mute button, might have a cheeky block for dessert.

The first cat we had when i was a kid was Sylvia; well she was Sylvester until she gave birth on my brothers bed... Gentle sweet little tuxie, one day she came through the cat flap with an entire rainbow trout. Fully prepared with garnish still on it.

Reeves removes certain brands from the Motability scheme for severely disabled people, to signal that even though disabled folk pay for it, they dont deserve nice things. As she speeds away in her free chauffeur driven luxury car as perks, that she contributes zero in MOT road tax fuel etc for.

Labour when they think they've hit upon a cunning plan to end the fight against fascism:

Minimum wage to increase by 4.1% from April? Great, shame the rent is going up by 10%, eh.

We are dealing with some threats to sue for defamation brought by Kate Clanchy against, it will surprise no one who has followed this unfortunate saga, a woman of colour. I understand this isn't Ms Clanchy's first rodeo and if you've also received such a threat please do get in contact.

Lived most of my quiet little disabled life under faux austerity from Tories and some spectacularly horrible New Labour. Taxing people and businesses that horde vast sums like dragons with gold treasure piles, might sound fantastical to the well off, it sounds perfect to me.

Weird how if you’re trans and 17 and seeking gender care you’re a “child,” but if you’re assaulted by a 57-year-old man you’re an “activist”

If you're around Glasgow this Friday, there are still a few spaces left for this talk by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social organised by the Socialist Theory & Movements Research Network. Starting 15.00 in LT 412, Boyd Orr Building. Register below.