Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

Meta going all in on “skeezy” as a business model

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I left them a fair few years back because they wouldn’t stop advertising on GB News so this comes as no surprise

Wasn’t “macrohard” a joke in Douglas Coupland’s Generation X?

Remember when then Women & Inequalities Minister, Liz Truss, appointed a ‘gender critical’ transphobe as Chair of the EHRC? The Christo-Fascist US Evangelical far-right have got their fingers all over our political institutions and (supposed) ‘equality’ bodies! 😖

One of the terms they explicitly call out is “Gillick competence” which is a term from UK jurisprudence, derived from a 40 year old judgment which is foundational to the rights of children and young people

Your Party has now split into the YO Party and the UR Party

This essay is a tour de force. To trans people, it reads as a grim reminder of the litany of indignities and travesties visited upon us by the UK government. To cis people, I hope, it is a bracing and sobering wake up call to how illiberal the UK and Labour have become. 1/ One additional thought:

Had no idea there was a soundtrack album for The Shop On The High Street! Great to see archive releases coming up…

Eurotrash harpsichord

Here’s what we learned:

Just read the phrase "faux-Mexican" and I'm like c'mon Mexifaux is *right there*

Streeting ignored the experts who begged him not to ban puberty blockers. He ignored decades of research, hundreds of studies, he heard trans kids cry to him and beg him not to ban them, and he did it anyway and has the nerve to say he was following "robust science" Fuck off

The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business. Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky.

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

The snake is busy oiling

Azul Y Negro - Suspense This is the cheesiest imaginable Europop circa 1984, truly fabulous. Check out that cover art, that band image, those lyrics… #vinyl #NowPlaying #RotateyDiskers

The Nasty Party

Ha ha there are many bonkers belting interpretations of Sabre Dance but just found this, possibly the greatest version, wordless chorus and clashing sabre FX throughout

Streeting crying about the 42,000 people on the waiting list and proposing to spend less than £3 per person on that list.

Starmerism: is catastrophically unpopular Also Starmerism: radioactive AI ftw

The government is still using Twitter as a communications platform. Given that Labour’s new comms guy was on the board of an anti-trans hate group, meaning he’s closely aligned with Musk’s worldview, I don’t foresee that changing.

How we understand colour is a riddle that introduces us to some of the very deepest philosophical questions…

This is what the self-declared “feminists” who have a beef with an insubstantial “gender ideology” are actually ushering in. All the strategic acumen of a budgie pecking at a mirror.

It is absolutely remarkable to me that you can still use Twitter anywhere in Europe. The cowardliness of European governments is genuinely astonishing

Just watched Kubrick’s “The Killing” for the first time, fantastic stuff. Great movie, super tense, beautiful stuff. Although… when the chess club/wrestler guy gets his shirt entirely ripped off by two cops, that is a bonkers, totally weird moment. I did fully lose my shit at that point.

the nation, unified by Starmer

The far right turnout today is much smaller than the number of people who came to protest at London Trans Pride this year, but the far right will of course get infinitely more press coverage.

So you're telling me the ministers of this Labour government has a penchant for appointing patently unfit people to important roles, against the advice of experts, in a way that is liable to blow up in their faces?

Transphobes, isn’t it just severely embarrassing to be terrified of the incredibly wholesome “just let me be comfortable” demographic whose chosen iconography is an adorable plushie shark? It’s like being terrified of the menace of slippers.

BREAKING NEWS: I am thrilled to be able to report that after a discussion with JPAC, JPAC has agreed to update it's position statement to make it clear that trans people haemoglobin levels should be tested against their hormonal levels, not their Sex at Birth. 1/7

Those people getting confused between "promoting critical thinking" with "unambiguously espousing out-and-out Nazi policies" are not very good at critical thinking imho

While you weren't looking, *seventeen* House Democrats just voted to strip basic rights from trans members of the military and helped the GOP pass their far-right version of the NDAA, similar to what we reported on. This is the most Dems voting for anti-trans legislation in Congress this year.

Rhetoric which has been endlessly broadcast by the Guardian itself, which notoriously and obsessively repeats those globally coordinated transphobic talking points, a vector for LGBTQ+ hate.

Rowling: i've dissscovered proof that Phallophotailits Røye Willuplite w Reggrice ddelrig Poe: King: Barker: Lovecraft: Rowling: Phallophotailits! C'mon! Phallophotailits!!

Calling your movement "Mainstream" is instant confirmation that you stand for completely tepid do-nothingism lol

Stumbled on a copy of “Things Aren’t Right” by Wazmo Nariz (1979), who I vaguely knew as the guy with the wearing two neckties gimmick, and I’m in extreme wacky new wave clover. Still not available via streaming #vinyl #RotateyDiskers #NowSpinning

I've just heard of Jèrriais for the first time, which is amazing (and as a result also discovered Sercquiais, which apparently has only three native speakers left). www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...

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AI hallucinations now driving Britain’s gender “discourse”

Random charity shop early Almodovar DVD scoop. Strangely I haven’t seen any of these with the exception of High Heels which I saw in the cinema back in 1991.

Couldnt resist. (yes, my photoshop skills are crap)

Mandelscum

We got both kinds of trans phenomenology: cosmic horror *and* cosmic joke

"Your Party" is just the "Tooting Popular Front" Yes, I know that is a low-effort crack using an antiquted reference but that is also the operating model of Your Party

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