4/ And my goodness, what a difference between the UK and Australia. On the basis of this finding, all UK Judges in recent trans cases should be liable for aggravated damages and that Cunningham should be struck off. Paras 312 to 322 are worth a read. $AU8000 for aggravated damages.

A pinnacle pilfered from parliament, in Clitheroe Castle park

Hope springs eternal

A thread on GP approaches to younger trans children, the need for lived-experience informed guidance, and the barriers to getting research published in this field.

So we’re getting a bill to outlaw conversion practices that exempts anything that calls itself “therapy”, is that the plan 🤔

Once the tread on my tyres is worn down it always takes an equivalent amount of time to unwear them

Stopped going to those sites that don’t have a “reject all “ cookies button but make you individually turn off the cookies relating to their 317 affiliated data mining chums No loss

Scotland’s EHRC Committee went from warning that redefining “sex” could harm trans people and undermine trust, to fully backing it within a year, and has continued to pivot further. We can reveal the reason behind this sudden shift, which doesn’t look accidental at all. Ideology shapes institutions

make a band out of two others the bees gees

Officially described myself as “retired” for the first time today. I am 54 years old lol. This is kinda awesome.

Breaking: Jess Phillips resigns as safeguarding minister just ahead of the 1pm news bulletins

Meanwhile in Australia

5th and 6th July the anti trans conversion therapy group SEGM under its front "CAN-SG" will be running a conference on "rethinking Youth Gender Medicine" featuring NHS clinicians alongside Stephen Levine (the quack used by the Trump administration to run many anti trans healthcare bills) as well as

We had joy, we had fun, we had leaders in the Sun

Just raided an Oxfam bookshop, got a pile of interesting looking stuff including a couple of Luce Irigaray books, but to be honest I’m most looking forward to this which has long lists of all the vulgar words through the ages

Starmer just cited "Northern Powerhouse Rail" as an example of how great Labour is for the north, thereby skillfully beating the accusations of complete inepitude

Starmer, the man who has broken every pledge he ever made, lays down what he believes in Top stuff

The NHS effectively doesn't prescribe hormones for under 18s already - but once this is rolled out, they've effectively destroyed CYP medical care altogether. This also maps the arguments they will use with respect to hormones for over 18s - same team have already launched a review.

So, here it is, a single article that does a deep dive into the nonsense infesting the NHS policy proposal on banning gender-affirming hormone therapy for under 18s If you're going to reply to the consultation - and I understand if you feel it's futile - I hope this gives you some ammo to use

Oh so there's a plan for two consultations to be run on updated service specs for NHS adult gender services in '26-'27 according to this contract: www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/7d3ed...

Currently inclining to the idea that this private press album might be the greatest piece of spiky new wave DIY snark I’ve ever encountered. But then I’m only half way through the first side and I don’t know what offputting slurs might yet drop. #vinyl #NowPlaying

Labour TikTok video soundtracked with “Toxic” by Britney Spears but they replace “toxic” with “forensic”

Top tier Sandy Nelson album innit. C’mon you got The Jerk, Come On Do The Jerk, Bongo Rock, and Beat From Another World all in big red letters there and they sell it for a pound? #vinyl #NowPlaying

"Report On Probability A" but it's a chain of people reacting to reaction videos that closes in on itself

Hmmm this page with the consultation results (showing responses heavily against the interim specification) has, completely not suspiciously, disappeared from the NHS website following the April publication of their new service specification. Anyone got a working link or copy of the information?

Have had a noisy copy of this maximally camp banger LP for a long time, but I have finally managed to unearth a minty copy. God damn this is sooo good. The faded price sticker suggests it had been sitting in the shop a looong time waiting for a sicko like me to roll up… #vinyl #NowPlaying

honest-to-god electric monks lol

I mean the first point is bullshit because it buys into Cass’s framing that those treatments are aimed at “mental health improvements” when in fact their intended benefit is to facilitate or inhibit feminising or masculinising physical changes

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

That’s a health and safety nightmare, mate

Noting Baroness Falkner, the former EHRC chair, now signing up to chair this “let’s leave the ECHR and maybe repeal the human rights act without replacement” fash manifesto gabfest

promptgeneering like

Um, what's that NHS evidence reviews? Lack of tissue for what?

A weird headline here in that the Warburtons fire spotter was actually Dave and not the actor who played Dave in Bank Of Dave

I can’t explain it but Neil Young CD singles are somehow the most cursed physical format music items I’ve ever encountered

Novelty teapot nightmare fuel

Having Empire Strikes Back wallpaper in my bedroom as a small child seemed neat at the time but actually entombed my childhood in wraparound fascist symbolism that gave me nightmares for years

How infuriating to hear the chairman(?) of Asda on the Today programme implying that land use for solar farms might significantly hurt UK food production. It's nonsense. Golf courses use more than solar ever will & beef/lamb production is huge yet provides a tiny fraction of our protein & calories.

Counterpoint: the events of January 30th 1649

Dawkins’ novel is called I, Claudia

Top 15 TV shows ever by gut instinct I Claudius Wolf Hall Twin Peaks Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy I May Destroy You Look Around You Bleak House (2005) House Of Cards (UK) The Strange World Of Gurney Slade Sapphire And Steel Blake’s 7 Columbo Day Of The Triffids (1981) The Day Today Detectorists

Some amazing names in there, and Amol Rajan

There’s that hypothetical “regret” that the NHS uses to infantilise people and deny care with again

did the court order his wife and children and friends to return to him yet

In a post promoting the British Army and their actions, Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, actually used footage of Bloody Sunday. There are no words.

I watched “I Saw The TV Glow” as an in-flight movie on the way to “Lesbians Who Tech” (those were the days) and it was one of the most emotionally wrenching things I’ve ever seen, one of the few movies that really made me cry. So brilliant. Wish there was a UK disc release.

To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.

Another killer Ligeti LP rescued from charity shop detritus.

This is a political programme shared across Labour, Reform and the Tories, based solely on a whipped-up, insane fear towards a minoritised group that has done nothing wrong, and is systemically oppressed by the state, for simply existing. And professors defended a figurehead of the oppressors!