Men fyi - there is always an option to say nothing and it is often the correct one

Ironic how Americans see guns as a sign of their freedom, and nurse Pretti was shot because he was legally carrying a gun.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Something to keep in mind about Minnesotans protesting unarmed with guns being pointed at them is that they more or less ALL have access to a gun, but are choosing not to bring one. Bravery isn't holding a gun. Bravery is standing up to other people holding a gun.

#EpsteinFiles #trumpSteinFiles #VictimsDeserveJustice

How the supreme court's gender ruling affected people of colour - Hyphen hyphenonline.com/2026/01/26/t...

It’s still hard to believe that a major UK party could have this as their agenda. Unfortunately hard but not impossible.

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.

You’ve got to love how actress Kelly Marie Tran, one of the most harassed people ever to be on the internet, still leapt up to defend trans people in a recent interview. No one would blame her for keeping her head down and shutting up forever but she will NOT and I admire her for it ⭐

How easy would it be to project an image in infra-red light onto a screen so it would be invisible to the naked eye, but would get picked up by a digital camera?

The substantive difference between the model of me that exists in my mind (which is definitive) and the models of me that exist in other people's minds is that the latter are crude partial copies, distorted by their perception of my external form; whereas mine was already there, and is complete.

There are people trying to stop others from using whistles, and next they'll say it's ableism. As your disability advocate friend, I will be the first with serious sensory sensitivity to say that I would rather be in pain than someone get abducted, or shot. Block/mute this argument, it's an op.

Why isn't there a general criminal offence of zoicide?

From a recent protest against a transphobic hate group...

Reform UK foreign class: he describes Farage and friends (7,9)

Imagine not only being this oblivious to the damage you are doing, all the while you are doing it, for long enough to have been called out on it multiple times; but also, having the gall to complain when you don't get a sweetie for stopping.

The GOP is going to 40%+ of the Vote in the midterms. Let’s be clear what that means: 50m+ Americans are willing to tolerate (if not actively enthusiastic about) a government engaged in brazen, unapologetic extrajudicial killings of their fellow citizens. THAT is the deep rot in American democracy

Trump and his ilk continuously flood the zone with a constant barrage of inflammatory rhetoric and actions. Because of that we the moderates and liberals are constantly in a reactive state. We react to the new assault. It’s time for offense. NATION WIDE GENERAL STRIKE. Close this shit down. STRIKE

Was going through my wardrobe at the weekend, getting rid of some old stuff that's unlikely ever to be worn again. I found some old (>15 years) pairs of men's trousers that were not part of suits, nor particularly expensive, but nonetheless looked very well-made compared to my own work trousers.

I posted a @zoebread.bsky.social video yesterday to underline the rot of the Labour party control of Manchester yesterday and I'm posting another today. Fuck Andy Burnham, and Labour collectively.

Damn proud of Minnesota.

“To be perfectly blunt,” Dr Pearce says, “there is an eliminationist movement operating in this country."

“…contributions from campaign groups that have argued that there is “no such thing as a trans child”, or that we “have to reduce the number of people who transition.” This, she argues, can be considered as part of “a drive for trans people not to exist”” Even those “happily transitioned”.👇

Says biology

I won’t stop reporting on the Epstein survivors fight for transparency, no matter how loud the headlines get or how many they roll out.

The UK should send Donald Trump an invoice for unpaid royalties on town names.

Give this guy a carrot 🥕 This is an excellent suggestion 👇

One day I talked to a friend about the chaos in LA. I joked that no one was gonna start taking it seriously til a white person was murdered. While I'm happy to see people in MN go hard for their neighbors, I hope it leads to justice for immigrants, brown, and black ppl in this country.

We'll be doing this all again in 50 years if you don't whack all these fuckers immediately

I come back to one thing right now. Believe Black folk. When we warned about abusive and trigger-happy “law enforcement”… When we pointed out the hypocrisy of the Second Amendment evangelists… When we said gutting the Voting Rights Act was ominous… BELIEVE BLACK FOLK. At least most of us…

I’m begging lefties and liberals to stop posting things that erase the reality of how violent the US has been to Indigenous people and Black people (among other US populations) ever since its inception and along the way. PLEASE. Do not copy conservatives by erasing history.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

It's baffling to me how Ireland is only on 65.30% of our quota for this (see citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...) given our apparently vehement support of Palestinians. If you've not signed yet, do it, and get 5 friends to do it too. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#... #speirgorm

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jan 25 Herald: Good interview with activist/scholar Ruth Pearce about how UN Convention on the Rights of Child is being adopted in Britain but then ignored when it comes to the rights of trans kids because of UKs increasingly "eliminationist agenda."

Men, when you mention abolishing urinals in favour of universal self-contained cubicles: That would be an inefficient use of space! Men using urinals: * _ * _ * _ * #Stalls4All

Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

Now is just the later I have waited long enough for.

My friend Make me This Please Help

There are still far too many online forms with "Mr" first in the dropdown selector for "title".

It must have been so tough "in the trenches" on a £94k salary plus expenses in a building full of subsidised bars and restaurants. As for abuse: I'm trans and disabled, and the levels of abuse this government has deliberately stoked against me and mine are unprecedented. Absolute fucking ghouls.

Their claims towards inevitable AGI are akin to claiming they can teach the solar powered calculator collecting dust in a drawer in your house how to love. It's so stupid on the face of it that it can only be the result of a concerted propaganda effort leveled at people too lazy and dumb to learn.

Reminder that Sex Matters want to obstruct banning of conversion therapy - go to @goodlawproject.bsky.social for more. Sex Matters work hard to silence anyone who offers support to trans community and will do it by any means they can thecosmicshamblesnetwork.substack.com/p/a-difficul...

For the curious (as I was) wondering about Sex Matters, who I’d never really heard of, here is a court filing including a deposition by one of SM’s trustees, ‘Dr’ Michael Biggs (PhD Sociology) aka Henry Wimbush It’s long. But I couldn’t stop reading files.eqcf.org/wp-content/u...

(2 of 2) "His opinions are likewise inadmissible because any probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion, waste of time, undue delay, and are undeniably cumulative."