Dude on The Pitt, after choking on broccoli, complaining about all the vegetables his wife is making him eat: "I ain't ever choked on a Sausage & Egg McMuffin."

Do people understand yet that this was never about reasonable concerns. That no compromise would ever be enough for them. They want to be able to actively discriminate against us. They want us not to exist.

Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome

Here’s a bit of advice that might help you, if you ever find yourself in a sticky spot with officials of any kind: at the point where somebody tells you there’s no need to get the lawyers involved, we can just clear this right up now - that’s the point you should get a lawyer.

no way man 😭

This guy's not wrong, but we've spent most of the last decade laser focused on policing the left and letting dubious right wing cranks opine about who the 'real racists' are, while indulging any manner of anti-immigrant bigotry - and look where that's gotten us!

the world needs more guinea pig cartographers

not gonna provide free labor or be counted among their everyday users to help em generate revenue and yes im judging you for it

It’s amazing how directly the ‘standing up for the status of gay people’ thing just became virulent homophobia.

"Poverty is the leading cause of all ill health.. so austerity had a major role to play in spiralling mental illness since 2010" Natasha Devon on the hypocrisy of the Tory leader blaming social media for a surging mental health crisis.

one of the reasons i am always on about elite persuasion is that i have seen elite persuasion operate in real time. as toby documents here, the radical anti-trans push in the uk didn't come from some "bottom-up backlash," but was orchestrated and organized primarily at the most elite levels

the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter

Just so. I’d add - it’s very different to e.g. Brexit: that was a Tory government accidentally digging itself into a deep hole and having to scramble to get out. The Bathroom Ban is our internationally remarkable media outlets flexing their muscles and over a decade, forcing their will on everyone.

Pratchett’s politics evolved over the series, because he wrote them over the course of most of his life, and his own thoughts evolved. This does not make his politics “hard to pin down” unless what you’re trying to do is avoid describing the conclusions he reached about, say, trans rights, HELEN.

yeah, my “millennial anthem” was just Night Ripper, which i listened to obsessively in 2005/2006

Here is a poster full of different kinds of sandwiches.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

This is so true, then a few years later it got beaten by Celine Dion!

In an effort to protect the feelings of TERFs, the government has basically said that being called a bigot is worse than doing bigoted things, and that it's bigots whose rights we need to protect because their bigotry is something they feel very strongly about.

Can it really be true that: a) the Women's Institute has had trans members since the 1970s, b) the UK passed a law in 2010 requiring them to be expelled, c) nobody noticed this until 2026? it seems that we may have to consider the appalling vista that some lawyers are very bad at their job

This is the thing. The government, in full collusion with the Tories & the media, want us to believe that including trans people in public life, as they have been included for a quarter-century or more, has not just been a mistake but a dangerous mistake, and they need to be excluded again.

Interesting to note how the Statutory Guidance (and Act) encodes, legitimates - indeed ushers in - hegemonic value judgments with phrases like "reasonably object." In apartheid South Africa, or segregationist USA were white people's objections to sharing facilities with Black people "reasonable"?

“British politics is tired,” Andy Burnham told his supporters on Friday, as he launched his campaign to become MP for Makerfield. “It needs a new script.” It’s hard to disagree with this assessment. Unfortunately it’s becoming just as hard to work out exactly what he wants to change about it

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

The GCs are livid at Bridget Phillipson today by the way, if you needed more evidence that even a bathroom ban isn’t enough to get them on side.

Peck’s presenting this as sleight of hand, a creative technicality that you can imagine Oxbridge twats thinking is very clever, but then you get to “a spin doctor will be quoted as a cabinet minister” which is just straight-up fraud

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

He was arrested on Monday and taken into custody. During his interview, he said he had no negative feelings towards Jewish people. 73 minutes after he was released on *Tuesday,* he was heard saying it would be good to blow up a Jewish school. news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...

It's just obvious that there is no good reason, at all, for the government to legislate what toilets you can go into. This is a thing that civil society was quite capable of working out. We're here because the GCs found civil society didn't share their rabid obsessive hatred so they played the refs.

Beyond hideous, what is being done to trans people on the UK - by the so-called EHRC, the so-called Labour Party and the so-called justice system.

Meet the new toilet monitor, same as the old toilet monitor

Sharing antisemitic conspiracy theories is really bad and grounds for withdrawal as a candidate. But being mates with the leader of the British Union of Fascists is also really bad and I can’t help noticing a) what we’ve heard more about and b) who’s still running.

Maybe this is because you can't turn on the radio without hearing hourly updates on the number of people arriving in small boats.

*Our own* wingnut cranks are horrific, very nasty people, often very racist to boot. It’s because of their abysmal views that they naturally sympathise with Israel’s fascist expansionists, and have historically found Israel/Palestine a useful stick to beat their opponents with. That’s what it is.

What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.

ICYM Latest blog is on how I am fucking terrified about climate change and you should be too. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

Now ask his assistants

All of this is just so frustratingly stupid as well as cruel and unnecessary. And it’s all because a small bunch of ridiculous busybodies couldn’t mind their own damned business. This benefits no one. It really is loathsome.

Thread of incomprehensible excerpts from the EHRC’s new guidelines on single-sex spaces. No alt text in thread unfortunately, but there is a link to the guidance itself. The amount of bother involved in all of this, turning a thing that wasn’t a problem into a massive problem for lots of people 🤦🏻‍♀️

This is a licence for lawful bullying. Not just of trans people, but anyone that does not present gender in a conventional way. Utterly abhorrent for a supposedly free society.

Absolutely disgusting here, official guidance here guaranteeing loads of people get harassed for their appearance, regardless of their gender etc.

Stunned, appalled, shocked etc to see actual tax reform from a politician. This from Wes Streeting today. A thread on why capital gains tax is broken. It's too low AND too high. & why this is a good proposal.

The West, all too aware that the coming decades will see millions upon millions of climate refugees fleeing the uninhabitable tropics, is paving the way for making sure they can keep all those people stateless.

“The fact that he is known as a vulture capitalist should tell you everything about how inappropriate this deal is [for Thames Water]… these kinds of people are there to suck the lifeblood out of our utilities and public services, and this deal should not be rushed through.”

What Ben Gvir did to those trying to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza is entirely the face of the Israeli regime, it was just unadorned with the PR mask they like to present to the rest of the world, so certain governments can carry on sending them arms with plausible deniability.

Compare and contrast. Net migration falls by nearly a half www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... Voters believe net migration rising www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... This is what happens when political rhetoric keeps making out migration is an issue to be solved.

To mark Grace Jones’s 78th birthday, please enjoy her insisting that ‘Pull Up to the Bumper’ is simply a pleasant song about the joys of manoeuvring a long, well-waxed limousine into a very tight space, and ‘shame on you’ if you think otherwise! 🚘

One of the most psychotic legal proposals I've ever seen

This headline is fuel for the right-wing anti-migrant reaction machine, but the article reveals the employer knowingly brought her to the UK under a visitor visa to employ her, then denied her a work permit—and most importantly!—refused to pay her any wages. This looks approximate to modern slavery