The 90s embodiment of a Hammer archetype (tweed jackets, signet ring, occult knowledge), with a hellraising, psychedelic rock-worshipping past, mentoring a teenage girl without being paternalistic or creepy. I wish we could watch the spin-off series Ripper tonight 💔

Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

Trans adolescents accessing the only NHS route to healthcare (WellBN) have been through a stressful year long transphobic investigation. For a year they have sat under the threat of forced medical detransition. With significant negative impacts. 1/2

Opening the book "Gender Trap" by @kevinguyan.bsky.social and are met with two wonderful impactful quotes on classification. #librarysky

This is solidarity

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Seema Malhotra: "Most people have the common sense to step in when necessary, for example when a person of the opposite biological sex enters a single sex facility in error - and when to alert a member of staff." Labour now in the 'lets encourage vigilantes' stage of screwing trans people.

The Centre for Mental Health has issued a warning over the new EHRC guidelines: “We believe [the code] will likely have an impact on their mental health and may make trans and non-binary people seeking support for mental distress or mental illness feel unsafe and unsupported” https://bit.ly/4u7VsJ9

Who the fuck summoned this twat?!? Did some kids wander into a deserted shack in the woods find a leather bound book and draw a pentangle?!?

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Without the influence of climate change record breaking heat like today would be rare or almost impossible. Climate change has made today’s record breaking May temperature 4-5x more likely. Heat records keep falling.

The UK’s spring is arriving earlier 🌷 In our latest Climate Conversations episode, Alex Burkill joins meteorologist Peter Gibbs in his garden to explore what climate change looks like at ground level. 🎥

There are multiple reasons the UK heat is horrific: 1. It’s always ridiculously humid as we’re a small island. 2. Most of our houses were built to have fires to counteract the damp and hold heat. 3. Our positions in relation to the gulf stream. 4. How far north we are so we get sun 16 hours per day

Vonnegut had it right.

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

The anti trans movement is such a cruel movement and, while calling all trans allies and trans women “woman haters” , will actually help usher in more misogyny , homophobia , and destruction of reproductive rights - utterly topsy turvy skepchick.org/2026/01/the-...

If your enemies are Amnesty and the Quakers, and your allies are Trump, Murdoch and Musk, then MAYBE…

The UK is likely going to see its hottest spring day on record by some margin in the next few days. The climate we built for no longer exists. The climate we’re in isn’t even well-defined, as things continue to change faster than we observe the extremes. We are underprepared.

Today’s the anniversary of the passing into law of Section 28 in 1988, the first homophobic legislation in a century. Politicians and media said it was our own fault, told us to shut up and give up. We didn’t. Dont you dare give up now on trans people.

The only thing I dislike more about these people than their snarling bigotry is the way they demand everyone else treat them as nice liberals

Equality is not conditional. Dignity at work is not negotiable. The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. UCU is examining it urgently. This is a significant and unsettling moment and we will not leave branches to navigate it alone. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1451...

Samaritans Report a 40% increase in calls from the Trans Community since April 2025. I telephoned the Samaritans n 1969, in 1971, in 1974, and in 1978 I am still here because of those calls. Call the Samaritans, anytime for free any, from any phone, on 116 123 www.samaritans.org/news/samarit...

Welcome to my childhood. Is it any wonder I am anxious.

Starmer and @andyburnham.bsky.social are to the right of Trump on trans toilet bans. Labour will lose because it has no purpose other than to cost up to power.

That’s impossible, Andy. You can’t nice bloke your way around this shit.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

So the EHRC guidance has been updated from "Fuck trans people's rights" to "I'm terribly sorry but fuck trans people's rights", and it remains glaringly obvious that the government's response to the Supreme Court judgement should have been to fix the law rather than cower in fear of bigots.

giles would never use ai for his slides. find your inner giles

Amnesty International's analysis of how the 'gender critical' hate movement spent millions promoting their prejudices - and furthering the goals of the Christian Right. media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li...

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

There is a special place in Hell for gay men who don't support our trans sisters/brothers/siblings. And a special place in the Labour Party too, apparently 🙄

UK drops in Rainbow Map scoring again, as Spain takes top spot 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-drops-in-...

The UK Government today convinced the Council of Europe to weaken Article 3 and Article 8 of the ECHR. We’re horrified at the possible ramifications of this on minorities in the UK. Key points in Friday’s declaration include a statement that the bar for something to be considered

Bristol Pride dropped UWE Bristol sponsorship yesterday after more than a decade. Pride were facing a boycott by UWE students over UWE’s trans policy changing under EHRC pressure. The new policy means staff and students must use facilities based on their sex assigned at birth. Nothing on BBC. 1/2

Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting both went to Graham Linehan's defence after he was arrested for urging violence against trans people in public, so if you vote for Labour UK you are telling trans people that their safety and lives are the price they must pay for your vote.

When I attended the ILGA conference last year there was a closed session with the Human Rights Commissioner for the problem cases: Hungary, Albania and the UK. I think this map flatters the UK and we are worse than it shows.

This feels like something that has the potential to make things worse, not better. Or maybe I’m just having a bad day.

This 👇

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

The current noise and distraction surrounding @misanharriman.bsky.social’s questioning of recent media reporting is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.

Till the day I die, I will never understand how anyone can look at these grasping, crypto funded, hate filled, facist, flag shaggers and think “I’m sure they have my best interests at heart.”

One thing that I have found very distasteful about the Labour campaign has been its ‘Pride in ___’ branding. Keir, thanks to you the Labour Party is literally banned from Pride. I spoke to an actually solid Labour MP - you know the one - ahead of Pride last year, and she was palpably mortified.

“Labour will always back you” says man who has already demonstrated the contempt & hatred in which he holds you, your disabled child, your trans sibling, your migrant partner, your Palestinian friends, your nan & your job-seeking parent. Fuck off.

Ok, so here's the real headlines from the newly-published BMA critique of Cass: 1) the evidence being weak means it does not clearly support treatment withdrawal either; 2) the policy decisions by NHS and government went beyond what Cass recommended;

No elections where I am today - elsewhere in the UK, this 👇

Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid).

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

wish I'd done more fucking around prior to this miserable eternity of finding out