I’ve drawn the short straw and am working the night shift this NYE, so before we condemn 2025 to the shit-heap of history, Happy New Year my fellow losers and freaks

Transphobes come in two forms. There is the hateful, insecure, grasping at superiority types, but then there is also the "stupid as a bag of rocks" kind:

Not a woman, but the best advice I've ever seen a woman give to young men is that if they want girls to notice them, stop trying to impress men and figure out how to be your weirdest little self. "Male influencers" say women are attracted to confidence. They're wrong. It's authenticity.

RIP Chris Rea. Gonna pop an egg in my bath later in tribute.

How can you address men's emotional needs at a time when the "feminization of everything" has become the consensus source of all society's problems, and emotional needs are coded as feminine?

quick question, if I have a tennis ball and I throw it overarm into the woods as hard as I can, have I ‘lost’ that tennis ball

you are not owed the affection of your children, but they are owed yours. if this seems unfair to you you are not fit to have kids. they don't get the choice that you do

More than a decade ago trans people were warning that the far right wouldn’t stop with trans people. Now they are coming for disabled people.

When people who work jobs are too important to allow to strike, but not important enough to pay properly, then you need to recognise what you're being sold.

Government mental health strategy: Dear Mental Health Professionals (and unqualified interested parties with valid concerns), We need you to stop telling people that it isn't their fault that the world is so awful right now and, instead, tell them that it is. Yours, HM Government

The fact you can't tax billionaires without them sinking millions and millions into pushing fascism kinda provides the exact reason that billionaires shouldn't exist.

Has this always been an option????

When you can solve pretty much any problem you could possibly face simply by throwing money at it, your problem solving skills will atrophy. When there is, essentially, no penalty for succumbing to unwise impulses, why would you even attempt to exercise self-control?

If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.

Keir Starmer increasingly looks like Rishi Sunak did at the start of 2024: a flustered, tetchy leader of a clapped out government hated by the country for delivering only lies and misery. Unlike the Tories, though, Labour has taken eighteen months rather than fifteen years to get there.

The only acceptable straightness is being extremely gay for your wife

Yes, again, none of “democracy or freedom and equality” are compatible with systematically destroying a subject populace of non-people who have no rights, that you have conquered and now rule over and murder with total impunity.

someone lend Dr Upton a yacht and a cigar because she could do the funniest thing ever rn

"You must vote for this person who will make your life worse, because if you don't my life might get worse" is a thing people are just out there saying every single day like they're the rational ones.

The Convention on Human Rights was created to stop fascism. Now, Keir Starmer insists that the only guardrail we have against fascism is to destroy the guardrail against fascism. The man is both stupid and a coward.

each of us contains the full genetic instructions for both testosterone & estrogen driven hormone loadouts (along with varying combos of both) this can be changed at any time. our genes will even start expressing themselves differently within ~3-6 months. this is an existential threat to fascists.

Judge: You weren't unfairly dismissed, you weren't treated poorly, you had no right to abuse your colleague (who did nothing wrong at any point), in fact you literally committed a hate crime by harassing her. We're not very happy with some of the language your employer used to tell you. Her: I WIN

The only person to come out of the SPeggie/NHS tribunal vindicated and with a completely untarnished reputation is Dr Beth Upton. Not SPeggie, Not the NHS management, Not Four Women Scotland, Not the media, Just Dr Upton.

Unless you're reading this from your private jet, the same system is oppressing us all. linktr.ee/boldpolitics

GCs after SC ruling: "we must abide by the decision of the court!" GCs after Peggie ruling: "we must ignore the decision of the court!"

So many people think to have joy you must take it from others when the only way to receive joy is to give it

NGL the fact that the BBC are reporting the exact inverse of reality on the Beth Upton ruling because the GCs took a rare loss is making me feel a certain way that would be a violation of TOS to express openly.

What use is anything in this post-truth dystopian hellscape we’re currently living in, when objective fact is ignored and then grossly manipulated and re-shaped into “whatever you damn well want it to be”??

Average BBC news article: 'A Brighton woman has broken the world record for the largest marzipan sweet ever constructed, measuring 100 feet in length and weighing over seventy kilogrammes. Attendees described it as 'delicious'. However, we spoke to Sex Matters, and

Dear media: stop running Sex Matters press releases as though they were neutral findings of fact

Tell me again how the endgame of this reactionary RW fascism-curious speed-run our politics is currently on isn’t about removing women’s bodily autonomy

Whereas Labour: - Participated in genocide - Are trying to remove protection from torture - Are trying to lock up 2000 people protesting against genocide - Cut off healthcare for trans children - Have broken human rights law for disabled people - Keep trying to remove support for disabled people

"give me your rich, your MBAs, your qualified health care professionals for us to overwork, underpay, and still treat like second class citizens in an attempt to plug the gaps in the NHS." fuck off. Abolish the Home Office.

that's the point. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, streeting, and our press are engaged in psychological warfare and have been for several years now. they know trans ppl have an increased risk of suicidality and they're deliberately pushing it. wes streeting is responsible for multiple suicides so far.

If you are addicted to heroin you can have your blood tested to help you manage the health risks. But if you are a child trying to access healthcare, in line with international norms, Wes Streeting's position is that you "must" be treated worse.

It's weird how all the studies show that a 4-day week and UBI makes societies wealthier, more productive, and happier, but the RW govt types keep insisting on unemployment, austerity, longer hours, and shit labour rights

Child with undiagnosed mental health disorder: “hey, I think I have a mental health disorder” Parent with undiagnosed mental health disorder: “oh, everyone is like that”

remember folks: it's not segregation when @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social does it it's not conversion torture when wes streeting does it it's not racism when shabana mahmood does it it's not eugenics when pat macfadden does it it's not far right when labour do it. it's just grown ups in the room

Keir: why does no one like me? critics: because you're pandering to bigots? Keir : no that can't be it

Fascism is born out of the failed policies of centrists masquerading as leftists. If centrists actually delivered for the people fascism would never find a toehold in society. Their faux progressiveness discredits the left while lending credibility to the right