History does not judge. But historians will interpret the facts of his premiership. They will look at how he enabled Reform, implementing some of their core agendas; how he chose to limit our rights further; how he failed to put in place protections for our democracy; how he chose to employ … 🧵

A rainforest saxifrage, St. Patrick's cabbage, under rocks only yards from the tall iron cross that marks Carrauntoohil's 1,038m top. Pre-farming, most of Ireland's mountains would have been wooded, and the evidence for that is still hanging on if you know what to look out for.

The police are very bad at three things: * Systems analysis. * Language analysis. * History. Not one genocidal transphobe harassing or inciting violence against trans women and girls or peddling transphobic frauds has been arrested.

One of the first things Burnham did was throw trans women and girls under the bus for a sniff of power and that was before he was elected as an MP. It's funny how some people are reacting to him being equally bad with everything else like this is a surprise.

Zack dialing it in with a box tick campaign to push the Green party. It's bog standard marketing. Nothing more. He doesn't have a scoobies how to stand up for trans women and girls and has thrown us under the bus. That suggests a petulant man who is unwilling to learn.

"Turnout for the election was the second lowest since the role was created in 2012, with just 17.14% of the electorate" Reporting elections without turnout is not only inaccurate, it plays a key role in the mainstreaming of far right parties making them look far more popular than they really are...

I'm going to phrase this in a way which will hopefully cut through for once: Just 0.7% to 0.8% of Germany in 1930 were Jews. So, what was Hitler's obsession with Jewish folks ?

We are deeply disappointed to hear that Plaid Cymru have met with TERF groups today. Plaid's manifesto was explicity positive for queer communities In Wales, and we expect them to adhere to the promises they made - Labour has shown that the electorate does not forget broken promises.

Brought to you by the same people who cheered for Mosley and his Blackshirts.

This essay by Paul Holden doesn't begin to capture Starmer's evil. Nor does it make an issue of the fact Starmer and the Labour Together crowd should be prosecuted for fraud. Apart that, yes, Starmer is leaving power in disgrace. novaramedia.com/2026/07/17/i...

I found this quote from Riley Gaines to be really striking. Straight-up conceding that the purpose of trans sports bans is to normalize transphobia, and to give "ordinary" people "more cover" expressing it in public. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/anti-trans...

"The presidential veto is an expression of contempt for people and their right to happiness and a normal life". Read 👉 buff.ly/sGB0S5V #GCNnews

Zack ain't doing shit for trans women and girls. The Greens have now lost my vote and are going to have to work to get it back.

Hey @amnesty.org @amnestyuk.bsky.social Here’s how you deal with transphobic bullies who threaten to take you to court.

Oh, dear.

Meta have been purple-washing their stalker tech to anyone in the digital accessibility (DA) and AT fields who'll listen. I was at a DA conference last year and Meta were flexing the AT potential. When asked if it was designed with AT in mind the rep slipped and admitted it was an afterthought. 2/

Axel Springer just bought The Telegraph

Nice readable article about use of Smart Glasses. From a DP pov it's problematic for organisations but individuals aren't usually data controllers. Misuse of private information seems mostly informed by case law. share.google/MhobNpvQYpJq...

An essential read!

Back on Twitter, the journalist Jon Stone had an ongoing thread that collected every single article regarding civil rights & liberty violations by the Blair government. The majority of those articles referenced Blunkett as being responsible, & would also quote him at length. To praise *him*...

Given Burnham's tawdry entrance to Number 10 to rescue the still imploding Labour party do we get to call him Crash 'n' Burnham?

I guess Rowling would be upset if we called her far right front organisation "Beria's Place".

If/when the EHRC code comes into force on Aug 5th, we’ll know @andyburnham.bsky.social has chosen to be an apartheid Prime Minister. He doesn’t have to accept that. He can stop this atrocity, or choose to be a Prime Minister who’ll deserve everything we can throw at him. It’s entirely up to him.

It seems worth mentioning that Beira’s Place is not actually a rape crisis centre, but a support service, and the rape crisis centre that has actually been attacked in recent years is Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, following a harassment campaign led by JK Rowling.

Your reminder that Blunkett passed laws which required asylum seekers to sleep on the streets if they didn’t claim asylum immediately on arrival, which were ruled by the Supreme Court to be a breach of the prohibition on inhuman and degrading treatment

Hope to all, says @andyburnham.bsky.social Except trans people, who his party has brutally booted beyond society’s margins. He didn’t even need to specify that exception. As things stand, we can’t possibly be included in any positive vision. Until that changes he’s presiding over an apartheid.

A lot of the media owners are like this to maximise profits. It's the same reason why some companies may own pizza restaurants and manufacture ice cream. They make money on cold days and hot days.

Another hot day in a series of more hot days. A good time to get cheap winter stuff. Yesterday I bought an 'as new' quality waist length feather filled quilted hooded coat for £10. Today bought an 'as new' decent quality brand three quarter length quilted coat with fur lined hood. £34!!

Trans advocacy is very privileged based. It's almost 100% captured by the "got theirs" with job titles. It doesn't mean it's actually good and in some instances has done more harm.

"Dehumanising _____ is the first step towards justifying their elimination" reads the subhead, inserting *politicians*. What about politicians' anti-trans, anti-immigrant, anti-palestine, anti-disabled legislation? Or the Guardian's own countless dehumanising anti-trans pieces? Read the fucking room

No doubt the far right inclined Toby Young is hoping to claim a public relations scalp and go on a fishing expedition. Anything you tell them will be in Washington and Moscow before you've finished your tea.

The Amnesty International chief being "urged to quit" after exposing Rowling's network of transphobia is no different to the right wing media pressure heaped on the Coutts CEO to resign after dumping Farage.

Heritage foundation, they never hid their contempt for women or their ultimate goal of erasing all womens rights But a lot of people, for some unknown reasons, believed them about trans women 🙃

Also just...no it isn't. Politicians aren't an oppressed class. They are the ones welding power. You can't meaningfully 'dehumanise' them in the way you can dehumanise a minority group. They are already elevated above us. 'Anti-system' rhetoric is just an attempt to bring them down to our level

A very clear and easy to understand framing of the data protection issues around Smart Glasses. I've chimed in on a few conversations around these devices this week and even opined that I could see bylaws around their use in public spaces. This all adds to that and goes further. Well worth a read!

As usual the "got theirs" with the shoutiest voices are complaining about things. Do they care about other trans women who haven't "got theirs" for which all the shit happening is 100x as worse? Nope.

Somewhat tired people are very incurious about psychological positioning and design and marketing. Of course all the shoutiest activists aren't curious and uncritically recycle anything where they're thrown a crumb. It's shit like this that got us into this mess. 🫤🙄

Yesterday I tried some Beyond Burger patties just to see what the fuss was about. They're obv not a real burger from the look and feel, cooking, smell etc. No I wouldn't beat the door down for one but they're adequate in a pleasant way for those who are into them.

We’re rapidly approaching a situation in which it becomes legally hazardous to express any criticism of “gender critical” views. The combination of well-funded lawfare and well-funded media moral panic is extremely dangerous to free speech for everyone, as well as obviously to trans people’s rights.

Apparently Burnham has been saying he's going to be "unashamedly Labour". No I don't have a clue what he means either but I guess it sounded good to him when he practiced it in the bathroom mirror.

Like any good Tories the Labour party hate kids.

Yes. I laughed for a moment. But. He leaves a bodypile of dead trans kids behind him. He made evil decisions in the full knowledge of the immense pain he was causing, knowing that each child's life outcome would be adversely affected and that a significant number would not survive. He's a killer.

The Guardian is a laundromat for the far right.

It's interesting watching US newsclips and seeing some meathead declare that the US must dominate the "AI" space and be its leader. * Selling another Wall Street bubble and hoping the rest of the world picks up the losses. * Very rapey male ego. * Expects allies to be Vichy states. No. Piss off.

Well said👇

As a whole no trans orgs get psychological positioning and that perception is reality. That's why they get design and marketing wrong. Many trans activists are good at the backroom technical bit of the job. They're totally clueless for community support or public facing roles.

Starmerism.

Mental health is utterly fucked again. Almost all of that is caused by small minded fuck ups with too much power and money screwing everything up and pissing on peoples lives.

Keir Starmer really fucked the country up bad. He may have done more lasting damage than Brexit. On corruption and human rights the UK is now somewhere between a Soviet era Eastern Bloc state and an African banana republic.

@adrianramsay.bsky.social Don't believe for one second that the trans community do not see what you are doing when you sign EMD 240 after the CoP has passed parliament. There is no way that you were not aware of the EDM or did not have time. Your vote was clearly performative.