So @alicenuttallbooks.bsky.social has entered her awesome new book Hexathalon into the Libraro Reader Engagement prize. Please give it a like! And share it around. She deserves all the success in the universe app.libraro.com/manuscript/d...

I think one of the real challenges in discussing anything to do with trans people is that the media simply cannot accept that the anti-position is entirely eliminationist. There is no way to "exist in public whilst trans" that they will accept, right down to celebrating a doctor quitting.

@natashadevon.bsky.social articulating brilliantly - as she always does - the shitstorm that is headed the way of women if Reform get more power. This is war. youtu.be/PGGgzSPFCpM?...

Lost an actual doctor in favour of a transphobic, racist roaster who was objectively dogshit at her job. Good work everyone 👏

I don’t live in Gorton & Denton, but I care about what happens there this week. The outcome for this election will really set the tone for UK politics in the coming years - Either division and hate, or community, hope and inclusion. This isn’t a safe Labour seat anymore. It’s a real three-way race.

The Street Art Mystery is out today 🎉 A story about creativity, courage, friendship – and how art can hold secrets and make us look closer. This is the final outing for the Copseys, and I’m so grateful to everyone who helped bring their journey to life, and to every reader who’s been part of it. 🖤

We are delighted to announce the longlist for the TMWS Book Award 2026. This is for the best book written for young people in the last academic year, as chosen by TMWS students. Congratulations to all those on the longlist. We will be narrowing it down to a shortlist over the next few weeks.

A year ago @alicenuttallbooks.bsky.social released her debut novel - The Zombie Project - and it's absolutely fantastic. It's middle grade but it's brilliant for all ages. It's funny, exciting and sweet and just scary enough. So proud of her! Check it out amzn.eu/d/aNdw2gU

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

THE DAD TRAP is 99p on Kindle today! www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0FG... #KidLit #BookSky #LGBTQ @scholasticuk.bsky.social

One of my best decisions on Bluesky was to follow @louiestowell.bsky.social because she always shares the most incredible lists of books out there for kids - especially kids that are going to really struggle with the way society is heading. Just bought 3 of the books in this thread.

👻 The top middle grade horror books of 2025 are here! @jonezyboy.bsky.social @lindsayncurrie.bsky.social @larryhayesauthor.bsky.social @lorienlawrence.bsky.social @alicenuttallbooks.bsky.social @paultremblay.bsky.social @sjwills.bsky.social gnofhorror.com/best-middle-...

This is the biggest rollback of LGBT rights in the history of the UK. I'm ashamed to even live here.

BREAKING 🚨 The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared. It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating. But politicians still have time to stop this.

🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby! Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something. ukcomicscreators.org.uk

The aim and effect of leaving the ECHR can only be to reduce rights protection in the UK - maybe for some immigrants, but potentially for other groups out of favour with the government of the day, and ultimately for everyone /2

You can't be anti-fascist if you're transphobic. And if you're "gender critical" then you are at the very least a collaborator, if not fash yourself, because "GC" is gender fascism. It doesn't matter how left-wing you think you are.

Haemorrhaging support every day, wrecking what would have quite an easy nice legacy, making the lives of minorities actively worse and making sure I feel anxious and depressed all the time....Sir Keir has played a blinder again!

The Prime Minister is actively stirring trouble and xenophobia.

“I don’t want asylum seekers to live on my street” is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician

The direct line from Britain's weird fringe anti-trans extremist campaign to No.10 Downing Street

Today, along with over 80 partner organisations, we are writing to MPs across the UK calling for robust Parliamentary scrutiny of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) forthcoming Code of Practice. Read the full statement on our website: www.scottishtrans.org/scottish-tra...

Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities

Keir Starmer’s new director of communications isn’t just the founder of Portland Communications – which represented Qatar, Russia and Kazakhstan – he’s also come straight from the board of the anti-trans charity Sex Matters. The government is heading in a dark direction.

The “British person” in this instance was me; I do find it deeply amusing that, as well as being extremely racist about British Indians and their role in British food culture, this America has managed to name the curry that was most famously created in Britain

I know it’s been said but WOW nothing makes me think someone is more pathetic than obsessing over the flag assigned to the manmade borders you’re born in to. Frightened little rabbit boys, they’re so pathetic x

Women from all walks of life are joining together to say: Not in Our Name. We are a diverse group — women of faith and none, women of colour, disabled women, queer women, working-class and professional women standing up in support of the trans+ community. ✍️ Sign our letter at change.org/nion_women

This is a UK organisation, and the petition currently stands at over 40,000. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the majority are supportive. The noise comes from a tiny minority.

what if the UK had a major political party that appealed to people who didn't love pogroms

All three parties want the votes of the same 35% of the electorate because those are the people who will vote for crackdowns, flag-fucking, means-testing, xenophobia, war, bungs from donors and stomping hard upon the sick, the poor and the left, and that is exactly what all three parties want to do.

Flippancy about snowmobiles and fur coats aside, not to mention the risks of emboldening far right misinformation, there's a lot here which is just plain cruelty. Parents can't try and save to buy a child a toy, people can't listen to audiobooks. It really is a "they should suffer" type of policy.

If there is 'a widespread perception among much of the public' that egg-stealing goblins hide in their attic you don't address their 'legitimate concerns' by declaring a war on attic goblins, you point out loudly & confidently the truth: that their beliefs are insane, propagated by nasty crackpots.

Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

Noone gives this take the other way round, do they? No one advises conservatives that calling their enemies communists, extremists, anti-semites, Britain haters etc. "doesn't work" Because political name calling plainly *does* work, if done regularly at sufficient volume with a big enough platform

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.

Question for the media? At what point does the human become merely an "asylum seeker"? And when does the asylum seeker become human once more?

The problem with “strategic silence” or whatever you want to call it from pro-trans people is that anti-trans people are definitely not being silent. So now we have our first proper position on trans rights from Your Party and it’s this. Well done!

Again, if the key touchstone for this new party is going to be Gaza, I ask "what niche is it filling that isn't already filled by the Greens", and if the answer is "well the Greens aren't transphobic enough" then I ask why you think bigotry is a selling point for the Left in the era of New Fascism

I agree with the message but the random Billie Piper has thrown me a little.

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

Guess it’s time for your periodic reminder that mentally ill people are actually statistically less likely to commit violent crimes; more likely to be victims; and more at risk of hurting themselves than others. If you want to curb gun crimes curb guns. Threading some studies here!

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”

I firmly believe that the views and values the Bishop of Oxford shares here reflect those of the majority of UK residents. Farage is false on so many levels. Man of the people? I think not. blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...

Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join me and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent. @friends_earth 👇 foe.uk/ksojs

Learning the shooter was a detransitioner spouting the same shit detransitioners have been smearing all over the country for the past decade really boils my blood at the people who jumped on the chance to salaciously report "the first trans woman mass shooter" yesterday.

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

This, from the Quakers, is worth reading. It's a serene, confident, utter rebuke of the hate and fear that's peddled by Sex Matters. The last two pages are smokin'. If you're on the wrong side of the Quakers, you really need to sit down and have a good chat with yourself.