Wheeling out this classic. RIP Anne "Bone Farmer" Widdecombe

We polled Labour members for their preferred choice to replace Starmer, and these were the results

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

Hastings museum had an LGBT history exhibit and there was a bit on a trans guy and a cis woman who married in 1954 that I found moving

If you’re MP wants a way to object to the updated EHRC Code of Practice (now laid in Parliament), please ask them to sign this Early Day motion calling for the Code to be rejected. If this EDM gets enough signatures it could become a fatal prayer motion🙏 edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

It's all kicking off in Canterbury.

it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad

IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today! These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable. Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

By the time we see the Code of Practice, it will be too late to make sure it's trans inclusive. We have very little time. Reach out to your MP now 👇

Went for a walk and a pint and spotted the best example of free will I've ever seen

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library. 193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Just incredible shoebill awareness-raising from this Hong Kong teens' magazine

In a competitive field where it is hard to stand out, to truly shine for national transphobia, the UK and NHS are absolutely knocking it out of the park. They looked and looked and only found 1 study on puberty blockers + oestrogen Others try and transphobe but we are world class transphobes

There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England. 1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".

Just listen to what Andrew’s nickname was amongst royal protection officers.

This is blackout poetry to me

We're working around the clock developing Chess 2

anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

the whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about

Sex Matters tried to block a ban on conversion practices, but the Council of Europe has voted to make it illegal goodlawproject.org/council-of-e...

To snatch a five year old carrying a school bag from the street and tell the parents nothing as you send that child to a prison thousands of kilometres away is unalloyed evil. Every person in this chain of command should be prosecuted. Every single one. They have to be.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...

I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights

A recipe for any company or organisation trying this nonsense to end up in court rightly accused of unlawful discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. www.acas.org.uk/religion-or-... Which the Supreme Court ruling explicitly says still applies.

i've been asking this all along & critics accused me of exaggerating but that's just the logical consequence of their position - if trans people are to be barred from single sex spaces & a venue *can't* create a gender neutral space, then what? www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

the ehrc leaked the draft guidance answers "what if a business doesn't have space to create gender neutral toilets?" then trans people just can't use the toilet there www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

As the PM heads to the Amazon for COP30, remember that Britain is also a rainforest nation. UK Ministers must support Brazil's plans to save the world's tropical rainforests. They must also set a goal to restore Britain's own lost temperate rainforests: lostrainforestsofbritain.org/2025/11/05/a...

Tired of people missing the point behind Lord of the Rings 😔

Seriously how hard is it to say “This is an outrageous attack on our friends and neighbours who are in this country legally and have followed all the rules to get settled status, who are valued members of our communities, get to fuck frog-face”?

"But now we shall both surely drown", said Sultana. "lol" said Corbyn, "Imao".

Britain's chemical castration plan for sex offenders seems like the most obvious attempt to avoid doing anything about sex offending, while giving the govt an excuse to release large numbers of offenders despite the fact people can and do offend while chemically castrated.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

🚨Meeting point and route change🚨 Saturday 13th September, Epsom, Surrey Trans+ Pride Surrey will assemble in the middle of Rosebery Park, Epsom from 12pm. The march will depart Rosebery Park’s west side at 12:30pm.

I have been watching FOUNDATION Season 1, entirely unrecognisable from the beloved Kate Nash source material

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

This is good; "Minister of Hypocrisy Wes Streeting" "So there we have it. One Irish person is charged with ‘terrorism’ in a UK court for speaking out against violence, while another Irish person is being held up as a victim of unfree speech for speaking out in favour of violence."

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play. ‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC.’

More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy. This seems kinda significant.

Allow me to share one of my favorite tumblr polls of all time

I still can't get over that phobes are claiming a woman openly saying racist slurs at a tribunal made a media circus by THEIR interest & promotion of it, paid for by mystery money (lol, we all know who) is a 'witch hunt'. She wasn't tricked! It's not heresay! She stood up there & said the P Slur!

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:

OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia write to your MPs.