Labour’s passive-aggressive violence towards trans adults and teens is already causing genuine anxiety and harm. I will never forgive this Blair infested Labour government for this

INTERVIEWER: Any comment on the fascist guy saying and doing fascist things fascistly out in the open for several decades? LABOUR POLITICIAN: (panicking) I've never heard of Nigel Farage

This is from a BBC article by Kuenssberg - now I know these pieces are meant to be more opinionated, but still. It was studiously neutral on Reform but frames this fight as straightforwardly "Labour leadership wanted to do a good thing but Labour MPs were opposed to doing this good thing". Wild.

TRANS PERSON: *exists* LABOUR: won’t someone think of the children!!! STARVING KID: hi LABOUR: fuck off

And because they can't do that - no one can; it's absurd - we get this, "We expect everyone to follow the rules" sound bite. Which of course is the crux of it: there won't be any enforcement (there can't be), they just expect society to be transphobic enough for it to happen automatically.

It's not illegal to use the right toilets and no one should adhere to Mary-Ann Stephenson's headmistressly call to "follow rules" that serve no good purpose, breach the UK's human rights obligations, will be bad for all women, and debase trans dignity. Make her appoint her sodding toilet police.

Very telling that the Guardian Weekly article showing teenagers' reactions to Australia's social media ban have a bunch of healthy kids saying "Annoying but no biggie, I can wait two years" and one very disabled one saying "welp there goes my entire world."

As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet. Forever.

Muppets Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie bc it includes a song with the lyrics, "your future is a horror story written by your crimes" & nothing says Christmas cheer more than that. Also Michael Caine deserved all the awards for that performance. Perfection. No notes.

In the movie Grease during “You’re The One That I Want” Olivia Newton John sings “…feel your way” and John Travolta goes “YEOWWW” and acts like he gets electrocuted but in the Grease soundtrack this sound effect is omitted.

How can you call for cross-party consensus when you already have it?

Harry Potter, the boy who ruined England

the bbc doesn't even say 'trans woman' anymore. they use the scientifically inaccurate, and transphobic, phrasing 'biological male who identifies as a woman'. just bcos bigots claim something doesn't mean it should carry equal weight to what minorities are claiming.

whale loneliness epidemic

While the Divorced Sitcom Writer continues on his decade-long tantrum that nobody wants to work with him & listen to his bile any more, Robin Ince voluntarily resigns with dignity from his show because he wouldn't just be quiet in his support of marginalised people. What a world.

You just can’t successfully appropriate far right aesthetics without participating in it

What if America were using our airports to aid in the commission of war crimes and threatened us with economic devastation if we attempted to prevent it? Oh wait we're only doing pretend stuff in the papers...

It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.

He’s laundered a genocide. He demonises desperate people seeking asylum. He panders to Reform at the expense of people of colour. He’s implementing transphobic policies. He cuts benefits for disabled people. “Inoffensive”? He’s deeply offensive if you are affected by any of this (Lewis isn’t)

How can this inoffensive man have become so viscerally loathed?

Jesus Christ

Two of this guys most prominent nicknames are: "Sir Kid Starver" and "Sir Queer Harmer" The idea that he is inoffensive can only come from an extreme position of privilege.

1. took part in the chicken coup despite being an mp for 5 minutes 2. is on record to have completely fucked over labour as shadow brexit secretary and railroading both the party and the country into a diamond hard brexit 3. made 10 pledges that he publicly broke to lie his way into leadership

‘Inoffensive man’? He’s condoned and abetted a literal genocide and actively promoted fascist rhetoric. Chalk that down as two reasons why he’s ‘viscerally loathed’

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.

Also, so many journalists are using weasel words to try to ignore the fact that cis children are still able to use puberty blockers.

So far Zack Polanski is the only political leader of a mass membership party to come out in support of the hunger strikers. Meanwhile the Justice Secretary refuses even to reply to MPs demanding an urgent meeting to avert what could well be the tragic deaths of unconvicted prisoners. Shameful.

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

The level of self awareness in the Labour party is beyond embarrassing

shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights

all i'm saying is that there were better options

'AI is coming' I tell the museum stakeholders as I proudly cut the ribbon of our new Artificial Insemination exhibition

Why the fuck should anyone give a damn about Streeting's "personal comfort"? Doctors putting their personal comfort over their patients has been seen as unethical for millenia!

If your female Yautja design has big boobs, a small waist and voluptuous ass instead of being built like a brick shithouse that is taller than male Yautja, you have failed and will not see the light of Heaven

Trans people = Bad Nonces = Good

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

What nobody seems to have tried is "make a society pleasant enough that people actually want to raise their kids in it." Coincidentally, a goal incompatible with "turn everyone into a border guard and massively ramp up the racism."

I wonder why the guy who’s sold out every constituency he’s ever pitched to is deeply unlikeable. Odd!

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

If you guessed “fascism”, then well done! (For non-Brits: this is Britain’s top-selling right wing politics magazine, edited by former government minister Michael Gove)

Another two questions: why did Stephen Pollard use the Jewish Chronicle, a media outlet he helped purchase for unknown owners, to defend Nigel Farage’s overt and blatant history of antisemitism? And why have no mainstream UK Jewish organisations condemned Pollard for excusing antisemitism?

I think people haven’t even wrapped their heads around how much damage this sort of stuff will do to fighting antisemitism and racism in a time of accelerated fascisisation.

we must solve America’s loneliness epidemic

Congratulations you fucking morons

If we're doing the whole 'Corbyn was responsible for Brexit' shtick again, surely the *most responsible* for Brexit would have been his Shadow Minister for Brexit? One 'Sir Keir Starmer QC'?