RIP Simon Harris. Pioneering producer, Music Of Life label owner, early architect of UK hip hop, and the guy running the rhythm behind Daddy Freddy when he beat his own record as the fastest MC in the world on Record Breakers back in 1989

One week in, and the little fur balls are settling in very happily. I think this morning's sun might be the first time their silver linings have been so nicely highlighted! #Kittens #CatsOfMastodon #caturday

Happy Valentines Day ❤️

I am being told the government can in fact disagree with outcomes of court cases now. Fascinating news to a trans person.

This is what the DfE draft is aimed at

The request to use someone’s preferred pronouns is not an act of violence or oppression. It is a summons to courtesy. Refusal to do so is performative cruelty masquerading as self-proclaimed integrity.

If you didn't know, "You're not trans, you're autistic" has been used to deny trans people gender-affirming care in the UK for years. This would codify it at the school level, not just in the transphobic GIC system. Congratulations, kids will now get rejected before they even achieve a referral 🫠

The draft guidance from the DfE states that it's about safeguarding children and requires a child-centred approach, then promptly declares that in the case of a child wanting to transition, one must consider the effect on everyone else, or whether the child is just autistic 😩

In Scotland, there’s a consultation open about school premises and facilities too. @scottishtrans.bsky.social has produced some helpful materials for those responding: www.scottishtrans.org/protect-tran...

‼️ Help protect trans kids ‼️ UK Govt published its “Keeping Children Safe” transgender guidance for schools. It’s horrific: - bathroom ban - PE ban - supportive parents reported for safeguarding Social transition effectively prevented. Make your views known: consult.education.gov.uk/independent-...

Telling parents is downright dangerous. It will very clearly put many trans and non-binary young people at risk of abuse, bullying, potentially homelessness, among other things. This is the exact opposite of "protecting children". It's transphobia as policy.

Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.

Worth noting that in their continued "unbiased" reporting (sarcasm) the BBC doesn't cover how the Cass Review has been repeatedly discredited by peer reviewed studies, that suicide rates among trans young people have increased or, not a small matter, QUOTES A SINGLE TRANS OR NON-BINARY INDIVIDUAL.

If you were trying to come up with more harmful guidance towards trans and non-binary young people you would be hard pressed to find it. The fact it is backed by Cass shows how wrong it is. We are already seeing an increase in suicide rates among trans young people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trans folk and allies, flood this. It won’t stop them doing irreparable damage to trans kids in schools but in twenty years when this gets studied we’ll be able to say they knew the consequences and how poorly received it was. consult.education.gov.uk/independent-...

Just imagine, today, if children got referred to "clinical support" if they expressed any interest in "gay feelings" with the Government saying that approval for them to be allowed to express being homosexual at school would only be likely in very limited circumstances. That's what this guidance is

The "share your views" consultation link is here consult.education.gov.uk/independent-...

Draft guidance (up for consultation) is here

We (trans safety network) met with Cass during her research on the Cass review and explained how clearly ridiculous it would be to try and bring haircuts and self expression under the authority of being a "medical intervention". She went away from that meeting and produced this crap anyway.

Dear @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social. You're quoted in a BBC News article this afternoon as saying new guidance for schools in how to suppress trans children will supply "reassurance for parents". I'm one of those parents. I actually DON'T want my child treated as sub-human, thanks. Wish you'd asked.

Having read some of the guidance just now via media: It looks horrendous. Much worse than anything we have ever seen. Worse than section 28. Labour hates trans kids. Apparently it is now 'law'. It will completely destroy trans kids lives. I am without further words.

Oh shit apparently school guidance coming out a 4pm today. And I have childcare responsibilities so won't be reading it. I suspect it will be just as awful as the earlier draft. I certainly don't expect anything that will help trans kids. I expect most of it will make their lives worse.

To my great shame I didn't know anything about this project before. And I think it's really, really interesting. ...But that might also be because it's really REALLY similar to a project I put together in the final year of my part II course, in 2006-2007. I must go dig around the archives for it.

A short-lived ‘experiment’ to densify housing on small sites in Croydon led to a boom in new homes and is now being touted as an example for other London boroughs, according to research by the think tank Centre for Cities

Everyone writing this stuff knows that LLMs infer responses to prompts based on models of statistical relationships found in training texts, but they want to think it's a sentient intelligence because it's eating them and they want to believe there is something inside them worth eating.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM CRAIG! Eleanor & Pals, tonight at 11.15pm and then available on BBC Sounds www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvaH...

Hillary Cass was invited to NI to review gender services here and her report is now out. She's lying about trans kids again www.health-ni.gov.uk/publications...

In the wise words of Jonathan Coulton: “…Gotta keep the Canadians down!” #WinterOlympics2026 #Curling

Very clearly communicated argument about the plan 2 tuition fee system by Oli Dugmore

It's here! All power assets are now live on my GB Renewables Map ⚡ That's right, it's not just wind farms any more. Now you can see live and historic data for gas power plants, nuclear, grid batteries, biomass, pumped hydro and even a bit of solar.

@tacc.org.uk are doing some great work pushing back on this, and have a number of ways you can take action: tacc.org.uk/2026/01/02/e...

BREAKING NEWS: Edinburgh councillors have thrown out plans for a ‘green’ data centre at South Gyle. There was cross-party agreement in refusing the plan, with concerns about ‘how it affects the climate emergency’ and ‘how emissions could be minimised’. edinburghminute.com

First #AmperSand of the year and I completely mis-timed it. The tide was reclaiming it within five minutes of me starting!

Golden hour at the coast. A wild and stormy day when I had to hold on to the tripod and a nearby wall to stop both of us ending up in the North Sea. #photography #landscapephotography #photographers

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

Discover why this is my favourite photograph from the 127,000 I took making #ThePerimeterBook — at @hatchards.bsky.social, London, this Wednesday evening. 🎟️ is.gd/Xazks7

We are looking for a new Head of Operations and Business Support. Closing date: Friday 20 February 2026 Find out more here: ewh.org.uk/head-of-oper...

You're telling me the previous decade of escalating conservative rhetoric and anti-trans sentiment was never going to stop at transphobia? I'm shocked. This is my shocked face.

"During the committee meeting, Cllr Campbell challenged officials on a £10.7m underspend in temporary accommodation. Council director of place Gareth Barwell said the saving represented good value for money." Outrageous comment in a housing emergency. www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/mil...

Rough day for Sex Matters

Normally Radio 4 Six O'Clock News is all over anything negative for trans people. Again, not a peep about the failure of the Sex Matters litigation about Hampstead Ponds. They found time for reports on polar bears on Svalbard, a potato glut in Germany, and a tenor falling ill during Turandot. #bbcpm

Adding the first woman’s name to a list that starts at 597 AD. Does that matter? Yeah, it does.

If you're in London, and you're interested in photography or nature, you should check this out. It's an amazing story and wonderful photos.

Reeves' argument here can be applied to literally every single public service that exists.

I also hope it makes organisations who have already capitulated rethink. What do you reckon, @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social? Any chance?

this also raises the frankly wonderful prospect of some Uruk Hai running a nice little boulangerie deep in the bowels of Isengard

Re-upping this article in the Guardian Oz, about my research into the extreme harm being caused by Wes Streeting's puberty-blocker ban. UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia. Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.

Don’t just look at the headline. Read the article. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

the supreme court ruling very explicitly stated that it does not apply to 'single-sex spaces'( a term made up by transphobes ) @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is essentially ignoring the supreme court ruling by trying to segregate trans ppl out of those spaces she will be taken to the european courts

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