These numbers are only countless if you can't count to six.

Let’s not forget that Hilary Cass labelled people raising the alarm about this as “shroud wavers”

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

Professor Louis Appleby covered up a policy which killed trans children so that the British government could kill some more through neglect and lack of care.

Gordon Brown thinks enhanced vetting of appointees might be a good idea. Radical stuff, truly. But without reigning in the powers of ministers to override the results of vetting we’re still gonna end up with messes like…

So apparently there is one (1) transgender athlete competing in the Winter Olympics. He is a trans man who is competing in the women’s freestyle skiing. I’m sure everyone is going to be very normal about this.

The Spirit Of ‘68 doesn’t live here

Let it rot into scenic ruination, set up a warren of portakabins for MPs somewhere in the most deprived region in the UK, job’s a good’un

Couldn’t resist getting these cheesy as hell fake posh Dennis Wheatleys

It's been almost seven years since I was referred to a GIC but I've finally now got an invitation to voice therapy on the NHS. Of course I had to ring them to opt in even though I have said in every appointment over the years that I wanted it, including the one a couple of weeks ago...

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Sylvester - Mutual Attraction (1986) Sylvester’s last album, this has those truly sick mid 80s ultra processed shiny slick funk production values (which sound incredible at this distance) plus *that* voice. Real nice. #vinyl #NowSpinning

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“a sentient sun” real cool that the richest most powerful people in the world are quaffing such potent kool aid as they chainsaw the fucking support infrastructure for civilisation as part of an immature fantasy crusade for untrammelled power and immortality

Yes. Not just the removal of rights, but the erosion of healthcare. The policy introduced is not just unevidenced, it goes directly against good practice - it directly acts to degrade and humiliate patients, and strongly signals a lack of care about patient wishes.

Everything is horrible right now so I am spinning a protective psychic bubble from the indestructible cheerfulness of Eydie Gorme #vinyl #NowSpinning

Mandelscum

There is a story here that deserves to be told in its entirety, just for its core literary depiction of what, exactly, Richard Dawkins is.

Been a while since I dug a library album out of the charity shops, but here we have the fearsomely cheesy Sonoton album “Disco”, by the improbably named Quango and Sparky 🪩 #vinyl #NowSpinning

The reason why it's so hard to get through to anyone steeped in Creationism pseudoscience at any level isn't just that their conclusion is pre-decided in advance and the arguments back-formulated to fit it, it's that *they think that's what everyone does*.

It seems both highly explicable and unironic that a person whose books incorporate a willing slave race and an antisemitic placeholder race is a hate volcano in full spew

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Labour’s election offer in Scotland is v-coding The “Ann Widdecombe is woke” farther right than the far right position www.scenemag.co.uk/labour-mp-la...

Botter Call Saul

Managed to bank another inconsequential celebrity interaction today, briefly saying hello to the winner of Glow Up season 7 in the middle of nowhere, Pendle Hill

Remembering the time I went viral on Mastodon (400 likes on a post about moss)

“best of both worlds” jfc 😱

Reminder, this is an example of the BBC's own words in 2019, before they took a landslide into transphobic rhetoric: "Other common transphobic themes of online posts included misgendering people - purposefully labelling somebody as a gender that they do not identify as." bbc.co.uk/news/technol...

I see Michael Shermer’s upcoming book is called “Truth” in the immensely pompous tradition of transphobia-addled dingbat literature

"these figures are much higher than the ones in Appleby's report: 46 trans children dying by suicide over a six-year time period, compared with the six trans children Appleby identified over six years."

Bomb-making “shy 63 year old” called “The Exterminator” online This radicalization is happening to every pensioner complaining about potholes on Facebook

I watched Tàr for the first time today and what a film! Hours later I keep piecing together little facets that reflect off each other, like her sneering reference to Planet Of The Apes ripping off Varese being mirrored in her final apotheosis

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If I was architecting a program like this I’d be looking at using LTI integration to allow multiple courses from diverse sources to be integrated without requiring multiple accounts and logins But I’ve already been laid off because AI is the future so 🤷‍♀️

'Farmer Mrs Maud Lee and her daughter Pat enjoy elevenses at their farmhouse in Keynsham, near Bristol, with their pet lamb Betty. 1949'

Strong “Alan Partridge’s biggest fan” vibes

Very interesting paper about how “biological sex” assumptions become reified in algorithms, thereby potentially erasing the social effects of gender, and failing to account for those don’t conform to the assumptions of those models

I went to a record fair at the weekend. There was a seller with boxes of miscellaneous Japanese records at £1 a go, the inevitable occurred, and now I am committed to listening to a pile of stuff like Safetyzone by M-Band (1986) #vinyl #RotateyDiskers #NowPlaying

Eighty-one years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Call me a debbie downer but I think “we don’t even need a very good rule” doesn’t bode well with respect to safety regulations

Suella Braverman defects to Reform

The Labour Party rn

New research on trans children and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC): With the UNCRC recently incorporated into Scottish law, @fiercemum.bsky.social and I teamed up to discuss the urgent actions needed to protect trans children's rights. brill.com/view/journal...

Reading how the UK Girl Guides has treated a 6 year old child is beyond heartbreaking. This story should be published everywhere except we know the mainstream news would never dare. medium.com/@ParentofaTr...

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Organizations like Genspect are specifically campaigning for “repathologization” of trans people, and this is precisely their goal