Seems like it's a pretty fine fucking line between 'we don't want to do this nasty thing' and 'we are willing to do this nasty thing', eh?

Imagine telling trans people it is good news that a bunch of people voted on if they should support us publicly and 70% said yes. Do you hear yourselves? When are they voting on if they should support you?

Found round the back of the shed, this morning.

Time Travel machine if you're British and were cool enough to be into Mr Scruff in 2002 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oULM...

In other news, today, I am going up the post office tower.

Business in Parliament is running a little late, but the debate on extreme waiting times at Scotland's gender identity clinics will be starting in a few minutes. You can watch here: ow.ly/6jjW50XwYn3

OK - pie discourse - best pie story: In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).* The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner. /1

Not often you see the photographer named before the architect! But heck, Shulman (and Koenig!) did rather knock it out of the park on this one, eh?

Can't help thinking Lucy Rigby KC MP should perhaps have listened to The Naked Week on Friday, before crowing with such enthusiasm about this many announcements made and pretending they were actions delivered. The whole thing, really, but particularly from about 2:45 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Real questions in the puberty blocker study: How happy are you with your nose? Would like like to change it by surgery? How happy are you with your shoulders? Would like to change them by surgery? How happy are you with your hips? Would like to change them by surgery? Continued...

I rather like the visual effect of zooming out, too.

Turns out the ’For Women’ lot are actually against women’s rights. Who could have predicted this from the group that brought you, “If you look too masculine we’ll ban you from the toilet”?

It's not often you get to say there's a new De La Soul album out there for us. So good to be able to say it, today. www.nme.com/reviews/albu...

"No, Flavor, I said pose with a massive *clock*."

New Zealand has banned puberty blockers (of course only for trans kids), until the UK completes their PB trial in 2031. A trial that has still not started. A trial that may never start. A trial that is unethical and will not meaningfully add to the evidence base. UK exporting transphobia again

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I care not for football one jot but COME ON!!!!

Plans to replace timber windows with uPVC ones at Peter Barber’s award-winning Donnybrook Quarter in east London have prompted widespread concern

From a short walk around Torness, earlier today.

This is the video on the bus in Children of Men

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

This weekend's #AmperSand

The job adverts for EHRC Commissioners (4 posts) are finally out. Deadline: 1st December. If you, or anyone you know, feels brave enough to apply, please do consider putting in an application! apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9026?b...

this is traditionally the day when I discuss how close we are, and we KNOW that we are, to the entire of Palace of Westminster just spontaneously going up in flames again

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

@kermodeandmayo.bsky.social I'm sure many have raised it, but I only just learned that the new NYC mayor was the musical director for pod favourite Queen Of Katwe! He's probably the only NYC mayor who's made a rap video starring Madhur Jaffrey, too, now I think of it. Unless Dinkins had one?

Interesting that the judge notes that it is a "political belief" Robinson holds and then proceeds to call it a "protected characteristic". Even though political beliefs are not in fact protected characteristics under the Equality Act – only philosophical ones are. Somewhat gives the game away.

I still love pointing this out every so often.

As @tedgrunewald.bsky.social noted, the Vitrolite in the White House bathroom was irreplaceable. As @pipedreaming.bsky.social noted, the Flushometer toilet had a lot more flush than the Kohler that replaced it. I complain about the marble floor and lack of grab bars, which make it a deathtrap.

AJ Small Projects 2026 is now open for entries

I mean I suspect they could easily beat us at many, many other sports - including soccer, possibly! - but, still, from the land of your poor mother: Fuck you, Trump.

Here's my longer than usual Letterboxd review, which connects Ghostwatch with Paul Daniels faking his own death, Alexei Sayle's Stuff, and The Day Today: letterboxd.com/rayray67/fil...

Modernist Scotland Out now the-modernist.org/collections/...

This is grim. It’s also less than Wes Streeting and Labour have implemented in the U.K. There is no room for smugness on this from us:

Is Kermit River? I would watch the hell out of this

Werner Herzog and Jonathan Meades.

Pretty sure my mum would have been kicked out under this policy.

If what he meant by this was that he proposed removing phones from the Bayswater Group then I could possibly get behind it. But it's more likely I think he should get in the damn sea.

Almost 60,000 women have signed this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social women to say that the transphobes do not speak for them. Meanwhile the Daily Express front-pages seven transphobes, falsely claiming that they “represent women”. If they do not represent you. Please sign. notinourname.org.uk

Camping out on stage at #CheltLitFest with the seven pairs of shoes I wore out while walking 11,000 km for #ThePerimeterBook. The rainstorm last night added just the right soundtrack to my talk! 📖 is.gd/P2BW67

Stepping outside for fifteen minutes during lunch is always good for my mind, I'm sure, but it's also a very helpful reminder that I'm pretty damn lucky to live next to this. #Edinburgh #Photography #Haze

Okay. Now do poppies.

Not fine one of these in a while… #Edinburgh folk, (and anyone else I suppose): can you recognise the location from its clutter?

In general, there’s only one reason why something might breach the ECHR. It’s because it breaches human rights.

It's really telling that mainstream journalists are doing stuff about the *possibility* of the ADF or the Heritage Foundation starting to influence UK politics, when the reality is that they have been here for years, spending huge quantities of cash and succeeding in areas like trans rights.

*downs a glass of non-alcoholic fruit drink* alright, let's fucking go

I offered a dissenting voice in this article about "beauty" in #architecture, though little of it got in. Essentially, I can't see why style wars should wang on self-promotingly through a climate emergency. www.ft.com/content/fd8a... I put the case here too: www.dezeen.com/2023/01/12/a...

C.S. Lewis created generations of people who grew up to be disappointed by Turkish Delight.