it really is something how obviously Charlie Kirk's wife did not actually give a shit about him lol. i know everyone grieves differently but damn

Challenge to commentators: don't dismiss transphobia and landlordism as 'side' issues in the implosion of Your Party. It's central. Same as Galloway: you can't build a progressive party on petit bourgeois prejudice and hatred masquerading as "community values". That's what we are seeing play out.

George Monbiot was bragging this week he used to do investigative journalism when at the BBC and slathering himself in the cologne of progressivism. The same Monbiot who embraced the Cass Review with both hands and who blocks you if you bring the subject up.

This is best understood by recognising that this isn’t because *the public* have been wildly radicalising themselves to the far right for well over a decade. It’s politicians and media figures who have been roasting their own brains and egging each other on, with results that are all around us.

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These are so beautiful. @indikon.bsky.social’s daily photos are a joy and a masterclass in ‘noticing’.

An interesting story as a comment on the more fascistic inclined regimes and media owners in fashion today.

Wondering if I can be assed to do Jasmin rice and chicken and a fancy sauce for dinner and plate it properly or just sling it on the plate.

Sign the petition: The Green Party must refuse platforms such as stalls or fringe sessions at Party events, to any organisation that advocates positions which would undermine trans rights. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Adding to my supermarket basket and checking out the soy sauce. Going for the Kikkoman. The own brand is way cheaper but full of cheap sugary garbage.

I was on the loo minding my own business and the light was on in the hallway. A big fat fly appeared out of the artificial sun and began a lazy bombing run towards me. I gave it a swot and heard a feint thwack as it flew off in the direction it came. The things you do for fun when you're poor. 🤪

This may have implications for the EHRC using "AI" to pre-process and/or filter responses to consultations.

So LLM's are *guaranteed* sometimes to be wrong, and in unpredictable ways This is not a tool to rely on

No particular reason

Yup pretty much. You don't need to be a lefty revolutionary to know rip-off Britain is a thing. The evidence shows how self-serving Labour, Tories, and Reform are in that they attempt to conceal this or deliberately make things worse. This is one among many reasons why I vote Green.

Starmer thinks he's God's gift on national security yet can't see how easily he's either traitoring himself or being played. We needed the US on side during WWII and the Cold War but now the US is as big a threat as the Russians. Murdoch is and always has been a destroyer of democracy.

Last night I had another go with doing pork, this time with thin sliced mushrooms, and a cream sauce. This time with a roux, chicken stock, and garlic and lemon. It worked out really well.

trevor phillips gleefully interviewing violent anti trans activist and harasser of children graham linehan in sky news. like i keep saying: british media is far right propaganda.

Starmer is a glutton for authoritarian bigotry and with this ID card thing his donors/McSweeney/etc are talking him into wanting just one more wafer thin authoritarian bigotry...

Wes Streeting is saying one thing to one audience, and a different thing to another audience. He's a man without integrity and a bigot. At a minimum this should trigger a Nolan or ethics inquiry and see his ejection from cabinet. Trans women are women and this is a settled issue.

Bloody hell, Lib Dems growing a spine? The Polanski Effect is real.

At this point, the only European officials who don’t think the Trump administration wants this are likely themselves on the far right.

really can't imagine how that would feel

Fascism was supposed to die in that god damn bunker. The efforts that were made to undo the harm it caused, all being undone by a few selfish, greedy men. Except those men couldn’t do it alone, they needed financial backers and this century’s willing executioners. My heart aches.

George Monbiot is whining now the forces of fascism are giving him a dose of the shits. He wanged on about his early investigative career at the BBC. Not a peep off him now about govt, BBC, and Guardian transphobia nor the fraudulent Cass review which he embraced. Con artist.

Hmmm just a simple google brings up some interesting facts… I’ll do some more digging when I get home. www.thenational.scot/news/2460143...

The vapourware Kickstarter project 'Your Party' has a crowd called 'Our party' who want to take it over. Your Party haven't even got to the point of being a formal party with a constitution or policies or membership i.e. have never released a product. You can't mod a game that doesn't exist...

I know these things don’t make much difference, but I just signed this - it’s going up quite quickly at the moment.

One moment Corbyn is all "peace and equality" project he had in the background. The next moment he's complaining about unilateralism while being unilateral, and peddling "breaking bread with people" when he's selling out other peoples rights while screaming at MACH 1 to the nearest lawyers.

I made a cream sauce for salmon yesterday. It was adequate but I slightly buggered it up. Maybe I should have made a bog standard vin blanc before trying to get clever.

A good primer in how we're being hoodwinked by the establishment. Farage like Trump and his oligarch pals is no saviour. They're eyeing the place up with greed and positively salivating over being the new ruling class. A modern written constitution would sort that out. It's why they hate the EU.

Starmer's making all the same mistakes. He thinks he's God's gift and won't listen. Day to day self-serving positioning. No vision, no plan, no competence. He's leaving all the doors and windows open and rolling out the red carpet for Farage. Clown show. He needs the boot.

The Your Party vapourware shitshow failed Kickstarter project is still rumbling on. Not a single decent leader or leadership partnership, or project manager, or policy and marketing expert among them. They could have hired a project lead with the £1M raised but gave it all back. "The left". 🙄

Kinnock is as dumb as Corbyn and the unions. To them like Tories it's only about jobs and their own greed. What they hate to their core is the idea of the EU as a political and social project i.e. that ordinary people can travel and resettle and aspire. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I miss the days when people used their desktops and forums and blogs. A generation of self-selecting random people interacting via a smartphone and short-form media on a timeline basis is a completely shit experience.

The most chipper trans women are often those who "got theirs" or have a support network or job and have everything happily moving forward. What they don't tell you is what life is like if you have none of that in place, have been abused by doctors, or have no money to buy your way out of trouble.

A good article but people will keep elbowing trans people out of the way when we told-you-so a decade ago. Trans people have been subject to a persistent media campaign of hate and sidelined and erased from the media. People didn't listen then. Perhaps they will now they're coming for YOU.

I've tired of the bigshot "activists" with the loudest voices. There's little strategy there. I'm not getting the sense they're problem solvers but more clout chasers even on fairly simple self contained issues. If you set yourself up as a leader and don't listen you're just getting in the way.

Jeremy Kyle is a disgusting man. What happened to Steve Dymond on his show is just so sad. It should have been jail for Kyle. Certainly the end of his career and anyone linked with this. Of course he's edgelording standing for Reform. 🤢

95% of arguments between philosophers begin with establishing definitions. The other 5% being 4% formal reasoning with 1% being ego. With politicians it's the other way around...

Obviously “we” excludes; - trans people, - immigrants, - refugees & - anyone opposing genocide in Gaza, but it includes; - abusive transphobes, - racists, - zionists, - obscenely rich media owners, - climate-destroying corporations & - American rapists.

Chucky did a speech at the NHS LGBT Conference this week. Here's the transcript.

this one is good too

The best defence is to say so what? All women are women whether born cis or trans. You're not better nor is it shameful to be born one way or another. The Guardian revels in pushing transphobia. Back in the day they were racist and homophobic.

It's getting a bit boring seeing all the high profile semi-celebrity types leaping on the usual sharp elbow bandwagons and quietly forgetting trans people have had out ECHR rights shredded, been target number one of the far right since whenever, and are being quietly genocided.

The NHS is sexualising trans youth & asking them to rate their body parts. Can you imagine how traumatising such questions would be for a 12 year old. "In the past 30 days Has someone performed oral sex on you?" "would you like to change your buttocks with medical surgery?" #TransKidsMatter