Honestly, what I've learned over time is that in order to truly be intelligent, you HAVE to be humble. You have to be able to admit you don't know something before you can learn it. I hate that modern schooling teaches us to be embarrassed for not knowing something.

LCD Soundsystem and Pulp covered Heaven 17’s “(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang” together at the Hollywood Bowl www.stereogum.com/2324402/watc...

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

The Quakers issued this reply to a GC attack on their trans inclusion policy. It’s incredible in its care and certainty. Its examples of transphobia are spot on. And >98% of Quakers surveyed agree with the policy. Anyone implementing trans inclusion policies should take note. This is how to do it.

As previously mentioned: the state needs to be more accountable to us, not less and definitely we don’t have to be more accountable to the state.

The prob with “refusing to carry” a digital ID card is that your card will still exist on a state database run by a far-right company like Palentir & officials & hackers will still be able to access it whether you like it or not. Combined with technologies like facial recognition & it follows you.

Keir Starmer’s plan for digital IDs risks creating “an enormous hacking target”, a cybersecurity expert has warned, as technology companies prepared to bid for contracts that could run into billions of pounds www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

Wondering why I feel exhausted this morning, then remembered I was trying to write an article on transphobia yesterday. While fielding four different ticket websites for two MCR shows. Anxiety through the roof. But still, words were written and I get to see MCR four times next summer!

So I have a passport, a drivers licence, a national security number, a government gateway ID, a birth certificate, bank statements, mortgage statements, utility statements, tax records, and a p60 - but I will now need a digital ID card on my phone to prove who I am?? Fuck off, Starmer.

This essay is a tour de force. To trans people, it reads as a grim reminder of the litany of indignities and travesties visited upon us by the UK government. To cis people, I hope, it is a bracing and sobering wake up call to how illiberal the UK and Labour have become. 1/ One additional thought:

Best thing I’ve seen all day ..Thankyou 🇬🇧👏😎💙 Trump: “Other countries, and their leaders know that if I’m president, they can’t mess with us. They respect me too much." United Kingdom: “Heyyyyy Donald Trump (ooh, ahh), I wanna know-oh-oh-oh-oh, why you’re such a cunt.” 🇬🇧

BREAKING: They're scrubbing @banksy The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.

My grandfather used to say: “Wasps get mean in autumn because they know their time is nearly done.” Certain people are like that, too…

the sharks, also, with their jewel-hilted mouths, are quarrelsomely carving away under the table at the dead meat

British Election Study data 👇👇 Labour haemorrhaging lesbian, gay and bi+ voters, all heading to the Greens.👏transphobia👏is👏not👏a👏good👏political👏strategy 👏

A new report from University of Oxford researchers shows just how bad the UK media has become at challenging false and misleading claims made about immigration. We expect to see populist politicians making false claims, and weak governments fail to counter them, but journalists can do better.

The emergency alert will go off today at 3pm in the UK. If you need to have a hidden phone, here’s how to disable the alert.

If you vote Reform you will be voting against women’s equality, for more harassment in the workplace and beyond (as if there isn’t enough) Remember 41% of the Farage Foot Soldiers arrested in last summer’s disgraceful riots had already been REPORTED FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE

The only country to have left the ECHR in this century is Russia... and they were expelled. Is that really the example you want Britain to follow?

ROOKIE NUMBERS which of y’all quislings is still voting for Labour smh

Depressing but does explain a lot.

Wrote to my MP about this - probably pointless but better than doing nothing.

This is such a powerful lesson in the authority weilded by central government, that there is so little to stop those in powerful wiping out rights at the stroke of a key. The battle to win back rights starts here but it will be long, expensive and painful.

A powerful anti-rights movement is growing in the UK, threatening to roll back our hard-won freedoms and rewrite the rules on whose rights, bodies and lives deserve protection.

We are aware of the EHRC's briefing to The Times about its draft statutory guidance. The draft is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's explicit assurance (from para 248) that its "interpretation would not be disadvantageous to or remove protection from trans people with or without a GRC." 1/2

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And the language he used (that the BBC was happy to repeat on the 6 Music news yesterday) makes it very clear that he comes from a position of transphobia. It was explicit incitement to violence and therefore a hate crime that tights to belief does not protect.

So many people supremely relaxed about inciting people to violence - and strangely none of them with a skin colour or gender or immigration status which makes them routine targets of violent people.

No lies detected. None.

Saw Jaws on IMAX on Friday. That shark is still scary on the big screen.

Hello September the 1st, hello meteorological autumn, and hello spooky season. Let the leaves fall and the pumpkins bloom... 🍂🎃 #autumn #Halloween

Deeply concerned that changes to trans rights could be approved without MPs or the public seeing details. This risks undermining accountability on issues affecting lives and freedoms. Proposals must face scrutiny before approval. Everyone deserves to know what’s being decided in their name.

I used to think that, broadly, the BBC got the balance and priorities of its news output right. I no longer think this.

Visited Niagara Falls yesterday - view from Table Top on the Canadian side. Despite everything around it the Falls themselves are utterly spectacular. 10/10 did not disappoint. Thanks so much for inviting us, Steph.

Thank you for sharing. I love that breakdown in Noise Jam. I had no idea they used to play out Mama with that. 🚨 flashing 🚨

A new report from TransActual shows that trans and cisgender people face job loss, violence, vigilantism and wholesale exclusion following the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC guidance. Read the report at: tinyurl.com/trans-segreg... #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights

No big deal "It's just till we get in office ..." "It's just sports," "It's just restrooms." "It's just your pronouns." "It's just your name." "It's just your medications." "It's just your job." "It's just your kids." "It's just you."

🚨 NEW 🚨 Sign and share this letter to Ministers to express your business' or organisation's concerns with the EHRC's proposed Code of Practice www.transsolidarityalliance.com/businesses-o...

leftist ska band sending their trombone player to infiltrate FBI headquarters because he’s got the nicest suit but he keeps almost getting caught because of the trombone

An important contribution to understanding why the Supreme Court judgment in FWS is wrong, and will not survive either proper consideration by a full (and fully informed) Supreme Court or the ECHR in Strasbourg. eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-de...

I’ll say it again: I’m vocal on trans rights because 1) I’m a decent person, 2) I have a trans niece whose happiness has skyrocketed since coming out, and 3) all these arguments were used against gays and lesbians in the 80s. And Black people in the 60s. And Jewish people in the 40s…

Generative AI is very much like cryptocurrency in a bunch of ways, but primarily because it’s a solution in search of a problem.

Slightly diminish a band: My Chemical Flirtation

My Chemical Romance performing Boy Division at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ on August 9, 2025 🎥 by me #mcrnj #mcr #mychemicalromance #longlive #gerardway #raytoro #mikeyway #frankiero #meadowlands odysee.com/@LFISky:2/MC...

Gerard Castello-Lopes 1950s

That this is happening is not in the least surprising (we all predicted it), but what’s most disgusting is GC/TERF women denying the direct lived experiences of other women as “scaremongering”. Truly, transphobia breaks your brain. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

half of the Polari Prize First Book Longlist has now pulled out in protest at the inclusion of massive TERF (and ofc historically incompetent fucker-upper of hundreds of schoolchildren's understanding of the Holocaust) John Boyne on the main prize list plus 3 from main list and 2 judges

What an utter absurdity our Home Secretary has created - Destroying British free speech, right to protest and with it undermining democracy. It is not for the government to terrorise the public for political opinions they don’t want to hear.

This. The only threat to anything and anyone here is this government.