I hope we can go next year without Starmer and Streeting mugging up like they're Bodie and Doyle and showing their nipples. That was one photo I didn't want to see!

“2026 can be a better year – but only if we demand that those in the political and media mainstream reject these websites [ie - X], this language and these ideas.” Very good, as ever, from @iandunt.bsky.social and a New Year’s resolution we can all get behind. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/409...

NHS trans healthcare is no different to the Epstein scandal. Abusive men gatekeeping. The numbers of trans women pushed into sex work to pay for their healthcare... The damage Emily Maitlis did to trans women and girls? She attacked the victims and went after the wrong people and brags about it.

I can't watch this. It's about how abusive men with power take advantage and manipulate. The shouty men in the comments don't get it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_hv...

Reading stuff about Andrew Mountbatten and the Epstein scandal is pretty rough. Like, how people pander to the rich and the abuse that goes on behind closed doors. In politics the pandering and abuse is no different. It's through words and bureaucracy. The media is pretty vile too.

Cis people have no clue what's happening because it doesn't effect them. "Trans" is just some shit they read about in the newspapers. They don't experience the hard edge of loss of rights or dismantling of healthcare or eradication from public spaces. This is what the media don't report.

Back in the day both the UK and US emphasised standards in politics and truth in media. That legacy has now to a large degree eroded. Today, the right wing operate like the KGB/FSB. Infiltrating institutions, eroding standards, using society to destroy society. Transphobia is one tool.

Keir Starmer (and John Swinney) eulogised Charlie Kirk who was front man for the US far right organisation Turning Point. This is an example of the kind of drivel Turning Point promote and endorse.

Starmer is backing religious law masquerading as "science". Same BS as Badenoch. Andrew Marr gossiping away tried to peddle Labour as a party founded on religion. No doubt Morgan McSweeney and Steve Bannon's friend Maurice Glasman's "clever" plan to own the right wing. *Nobody* voted for that.

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Alan Watts is among my favourite popular philosophers or in his words a "philosophical entertainer". Insightful, accessible, good natured, and often funny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn_7...

The first single (remember those?) I ever bought was a song by Wham! That had my mean youngest sister calling me gay. The first album I had was Queen's Greatest Hits. One nephew pointed out Freddie Mercury was gay. And they wonder why very closeted trans kids in the 1970's kept their gobs shut...

Radiohead are a gang of shysters but even they balk at leaving the European Convention of Human Rights and putting us on the same footing as Russia and Belarus and increasingly the Trump regimes America. As if by magic the billionaire owned propaganda rags begin attacking them Fox News stylee.

Too many UK right wingers and billionaire's etc look at the movie version of America and go omg we want to be like that because it's easier money for their elite. Meanwhile ordinary Americans want progressive taxation, universal healthcare, and I'm guessing decent social security and housing.

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How Biden doesn't get heat I don't know. He slow walked support for Ukraine, was slow on trans rights, turned a blind eye to Israel, sat on the Epstein files, let Garland get away with slow walking stolen classified documents, and squatted the job so no replacement candidate could gain momentum.

Another reason to tell the Trump regime and Kremlin and their useful idiots in Reform and GB News to take a hike. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZnf...

While the stock for tomorrow is burbling away got the first fix for the Kenwood chef done. The old rubber feet had rotted away which is a known issue. New rubber feet installed. Needs to be done so the case paint isn't scraped and the motor has airflow. Now looks as good as the day it was new.

The Guardian. 🙄

The govt footdragged their VAWG policy. They're also footdragging a ban on conversion therapy. UK govt doesn't get governance or society or gender studies and is moonhowling transphobic. No surprise they're bad with both VAWG and Conversion Therapy. Starmer's a coward. Pressure works. Keep it up!

There's nothing in here a McMillan Tory or Wilsonite would disagree with. It's bog standard post-war consensus. Human rights and equality bolt-ons are missing from list but they're not controversial. This is only one third of what should be a longer analysis.

Europe waking up to digital sovereignty, local tech production, and generally shaking off the pervasive data thieving and human rights abusing US monopolies. Buy European. Build European. Fund European. Decades overdue. Better late than never. www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/e...

Design is something we feel, see, touch, or hear. It's incidental or pervasive, ordinary or extraordinary. Sometimes I enjoy a movie but also get a lot of enjoyment out of exploring the often unremarked design and art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBle...

I called Zack out and asked he do better in trans rights instead of dialing it in. He ignored it while making a rare reply to a random man who called out personality cults. 😑 I got bugged by cis men who got all shouty saying it wasn't relevant to the topic or tried to blow smoke up everyone's ass.

We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people. Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6

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Police leaders forgetting non-crime incidents came into existence as a result of police institutional racism and multiple police failings. Actually... not forgetting. They know. We know. #StephenLawrence

I'm sure it's just one off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Apparently Virgin Media want to "hear my thoughts". Keep shuffling data and don't gouge customers probably isn't what they want to hear. It's probably another cynical marketing exercise they want to use to justify some corporate disaster.

I note that banning conversion therapy in the EU would set a global lead and help act as a bulwark against the far right Trump and Putin regimes and tinpot dictators. It will have a global reach and help push back against authoritarian regimes and give people hope. Soft power!

I had forgotten Bad Enoch existed until I read this comment.

Assuming I'm still a Green party member when the leadership elections roll around what alternative candidates are to the current leadership? I'm not voting for any of them if they continue to mess up or ignore trans rights. Zack sure as shit isn't earning my vote for sitting on his hands.

Genociding trans women and trans girls is not a f****** "wedge issue". It's a genocide. So fed up with "allies" blunting holding bigots to account and revealing the horror of what they're doing.

I haven't noticed Zack make a single difference in ending transphobia. I know the bigger campaign matters but I can't help feeling used and thrown under the bus. He gives no sign of being anything other than a broadcast only politician and has no hint of a plan to deal with transphobia.

The Guardian has a financial arrangement with an AI company and elbows decent quality photojournalism out of the way by using AI generated content! They have never robustly challenged Starmer's embrace of AI. They mostly post puff pieces. Classic Guardian talking out of both sides of this mouth.

The cosplay progressives at the Guardian headlining Trump's comments as fact. "Trump tries to sell a cover-up with emotional manipulation" would be accurate. Guardian editor Katherine Viner is not a journalist and only cares about her career and money hence the thoughtless clickbait.

"None crime hate incidents" may be indicative of none reported crime or help form evidence of a pattern of abuse. Not recording them will cause the police to fail in its duties of the prevention and detection of crime. Note also the police are guilty of "no criming" at the best of times.

I grew up in Clevedon and am kicking myself I moved to Bristol in my 20's but then I made a lot of bad decisions in my 20's! I know the town like the back of my hand and will tell them get a bicycle or use Shank's pony. Lazy sods.

I wrote this open letter to my fellow science journalists, but it could very easily be adapted to address @jay.bsky.team and the rest of the bsky team galileospendulum.org/2025/06/05/o...

I note the govt formally apologised for historical homophobia and now the BBC formally apologises for a case of homophobia. The govt has *never* apologised for transphobia and the BBC remains deeply transphobic.

#UK #Genocide #Elbit #IDF Surely the PM has a lot of explaining to do, learning that Elbit systems are actively working with the IDF in an OPERATIONAL setting in Gaza. In the video below at approx. 7 min. being boasted about by an Elbit representative www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZds...

Paul Thurrott is a blast from the past. Much like Seth Godin and Deepak Chopra... C/C++ is a nightmare all of its own. Code isn't the worst of Microsoft's sins. Monopolistic abuse, bad design, vendor lock in, and undermining digital sovereignty are issues too. www.thurrott.com/dev/330980/m...

This is a factor in the UK too, where local journalism has been severly weakened. This means the centre/Westminster is even less aware of people's concerns, and weakens democratic accountability and policy responsiveness

Using "AI" has provable negative impact on personal development and it's reliability is a probability not a certainty. Who would want that and who would want to inflict this on other people?

It looks like John Swinney's pandering to Trump and eulogising the far right grifter Charlie Kirk did nothing for Scotland. Swinney also seems to have missed out on the Canadian market whose domestic production is now booming since Canadians boycotted American bourbon.

Classic Reform. Lots of pictures if grinning fools and the worst of the worst snide policy and grifting. They are the most gullible and self-harming people in politics. The only people doing well out of the Reform grift are those at the top and it's not you.

It's not a major talking point that Labour are reheated Blairism and a 1990's US Republican tribute act. So much of what Labour are doing is their shadow manifesto. It's not in their published manifesto or counter to it. NHS privatisation, workfare, transphobia... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFC8...

Ex miners & other colliery workers are finally getting justice (and extra cash) after fighting for years against the government stealing money from their pension fund.

REMINDER… STUPID PEOPLE, the gullible are highly susceptible to manipulation. They are not to be mocked or laughed at… THEY ARE TO BE FEARED. These are the people liable to do the dirty work for those behind MAGA, Reform and the like.

Back in the day photojournalism was thing and it wasn't cheap. The world has changed a lot since then. I wouldn't call this *the* best but it's a stand out revealing the banality of evil. The Guardian leans on stock photos and now AI... www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2g-...