would you accept this if the words were about excluding a black or brown person? If not then you should be writing to your MP and the EHRC today.

The important point to remember is NO SHE DOESN'T. What was published yesterday were guidelines for service providers. They impose NO obligations on individuals and are NOT the law. People want you to believe otherwise, to intimidate trans people. But they haven't yet criminalised their existence.

‘This EHRC Code Will Make the UK a Hostile Environment for Trans People’ Keir Starmer's Government promises trans people 'dignity and respect' but is overseeing a colossal failure to protect their rights and safety, argues Helen Belcher

Exactly. Beyond the obvious harm this does to trans people, but anyone who doesn't meet people's imagined norms for feminine is open to harassment and abuse. And, not for nothing, will women feel comfortable when trans men walk into their toilets, in obedience to these guidelines?

One of the most psychotic legal proposals I've ever seen

"ChatGPT, the most heavily used AI service, gave wrong information in 46% of its answers, including making up an expenses scandal, giving inaccurate replies on voter eligibility rules and getting the date of the election wrong by two months." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Surely one day these statistics will break through into the minds at Labour HQ. Surely.

Yeah. One of the main ways an LLM can be useful is to replace the simple search functionality that Google has abandoned.

I'm still very proud of this Gabriel Seth I converted. And it was my first sculpted cloak too.

this is a masterpiece

I think voters might be a little more enthusiastic about the Democratic party if their elected officials didn't so clearly despise them

The discovery brings him victory, the kind of victory that isn’t the end of a battle but the beginning of a life.

No, it is not time to uncancel Enoch Powell The racism my dad, grandparents and entire black side of my family experienced in Birmingham in the 60s and 70s was in no small part driven by his nasty, rancid brand of division and racism Enoch Powell was a racist and a demagogue, period

Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something

This is deeply validating. While Labour MPs wield a huge amount of power in the leadership election (including triggering it) it is good to know that the Labour membership are broadly united in thinking that Wes Streeting is hugely unfit to serve as PM.

This will be an interesting test for the UK's political ecosystem. If this is any other party it would be rightly terminal for the individual concerned. Farage likes neither scrutiny or accountability. Significant chance of trying to plough through.

I'm pretty sure I know a few people who would be qualified to act as a Druid Lecturer-in-Residence. Presumably said residence is in the bower of a oak tree, at the centre of a grove no man may find save by the light of the full moon.

Labour MPs may be about to throw the 2029 election away. Surely they can see that Streeting buys them absolutely nothing with the public. He has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds from private healthcare companies. At best, he's a continuation of Starmerism (for all that that term means anything)

This is fucking horrific, but it has to be shared.

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

The 2026 Calarts Producers' Show Opening is a lovely tribute to art & animation (directed by Sofia Kondrasheva & Veda Lee). Every year, Calarts school has a showcase where they select a handful of student films to be screened in a Hollywood theater. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsmu...

Absolute bullshit. The Judge wanted to illegally railroad a verdict and the lawyer pointed out the jury’s absolute legal right to acquit. Which is why right to jury trial is fundamental to a justice system and needs to be protected.

Go get ‘em.

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

This is absolutely bonkers.

A sci-fi world with normal annoyances and regular frustrations and crappy merchants will always be better than a sleek, everything-is-round world in which all the people wear a silver suit and weigh 95 pounds

If you like the Armageddon Steel Legion, the Order of Our Martyred Lady and the Blood Angels, maybe you'll love... www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

It is actually wild just how nakedly bent Mr Rules and his government of service have been in two years. "They're all the same" has gone from tinfoil hat conspiracy to cast-iron truth for millions of people. Top work, dickheads 🏆.

The Met’s refusal to investigate war crimes committed by British nationals in the IDF is an absolute disgrace. Meanwhile, over 3,000 people face action under terrorism laws for holding placards opposing genocide. The Met should serve the public, not their political masters.

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Can Starmer just bloody go already?We are facing half a dozen existential crises, and we have to spend our time talking around the fact that Starmer appointed a sex-trafficker's friend (and destroyer of left-wing Labour) as ambassador to the country run by the sex-trafficker's other friend.

This is extremely true. There is now basically zero trust in any form of assessment other than invigilated exams, or other forms of in situ lab skills demonstrations, etc.

My own bookshop / tabletop gaming and TTRPG / nerd community centre.

Chuffed to see that a new gaming and TTRPG tavern has opened up in Edinburgh, with a strong focus on community building and combating loneliness (and, no doubt, food and drink and gaming). I shall be popping in as soon as I'm able. www.potionsandrations.co.uk

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This is how we used to get humanitarian aid to Sudan versus how we have to do it now because Trump wanted to have a little war iandunt.substack.com/p/trumps-war...

'Exams would be weighted based on 'patriotic national content.'" I despair, I really do.

At this point the only reason to call it the Labour Party is it lasts too long, hurts like hell, and people keep popping in and out to check on your genitals.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

I demand more representations of MY vision of masculinity—where you’re strong when you care for others and weak when you try to dominate. The one where you pass on to your children—whether they’re your own or adopted—love, knowledge, and the tools they need to succeed in life. Less guilt, more love.

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

The French Revolution was not kind to The Aristocats…

What's your favourite bible quote? (Wrong answers only)

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

It is genuinely surreal to watch both the U.S. and Britain decide to destroy their own world-renowned and extremely profitable university systems at the same time.