I took an afternoon off to watch Only Yesterday, and was very pleasantly surprised. A beautiful Studio Ghibli slice-of-life film that’s well worth your time if you’ve watched all the hits.

Quote with a 10/10 album

Every time this happens I get the same feeling of sitting at the back of the classroom, minding my own business, and then the teacher suddenly shouts my name. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wugz...

The BBC are under fire over "censorship"of right wing views lately but here they censor the language of their own executive complaints unit, replacing the neutral and internationally accepted term "trans identity", with the politically partisan and inherently trans-skeptical term, "trans ideology".

In the article reporting the BBC ECU’s rebuke of Martine Croxall for changing the wording of a press release, BBC News change the wording of the ECU’s findings report to add the phrase “trans ideology”. The unrepentant lack of professionalism from BBC News is, sadly, not surprising.

“That looks revolting” “Do you want one?” “Please!”

The BBC has upheld 20 complaints about Martine Croxall’s visible contempt when reading out a press release that contained the phrase “pregnant people”. Good. Her behaviour was unprofessional and wholly inappropriate for a newsreader. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Don't get on your Ezra Klein nonsense" incredible this is extra funny to me because I came of age politically when Ezra was the hungry outsider criticizing Dems from a new media platform (blogs) and now he's the establishment getting reamed out for his terrible political instincts

"Progressive" leftists doing interviews with the Socialist Worker

I think my local WhatsApp chat is about to kick off - dog owners versus fireworks enjoyers.

Reminder that if you have pets, Classic FM are going their usual night of calming classical music for pet owners. (I mean, it’s just normal Classic FM but they take messages from people with pets and I guess it makes the humans feel better) www.classicfm.com/music-news/r...

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Interesting that the judge notes that it is a "political belief" Robinson holds and then proceeds to call it a "protected characteristic". Even though political beliefs are not in fact protected characteristics under the Equality Act – only philosophical ones are. Somewhat gives the game away.

Dear Apple: I would pay good money for a modern iPod. I know you wouldn’t do this in a million years, but hear me out: - Seamlessly sync my Apple Music playlists and albums - Offline playback - A simple cut-down interface with a click wheel - 3.5mm and Bluetooth I would buy the shit out of that.

Just when you thought @techconnectify.bsky.social couldn’t take the dishwasher discourse up another level, Alec does it again. (If you’ve not seen the other videos in the series, they’re brilliant) youtu.be/DAX2_mPr9W8

This quiz is amazing in showing how close current transphobia is to being 30 year old reheated homophobia:

I'm gutted that I can't do ffconf this year, but we attended as a team last year and it *hugely* benefitted us, especially as we're all remote ffconf.org/why-attend/

They are forcibly de-transitioning trans children/adolescents. Those most severely impacted are aged 11-15. The risk to this group is very high, and NHS England/NHS Sussex know this. They don't care at all about the safety or well-being of trans under 18s.

I sometimes have chats with NHS managers about how to “restore trust” and it’s amazing how poorly they react to the suggestion that people who harm patients should lose their jobs.

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

What's it like inside your head?

Captain Picard has a thing or two to teach BBC News

With the end of my current contract at Gymshark coming to an end in Feb…and with the holidays inbetween, I’m starting to put the feelings out for a potential next gig Give me a shout if you’re up for a chat!

Funny how the effects are reversible in cis kids but not trans kids.

Horrendous reports from the railways this evening. We can choose to live in a better society than this. We choose cruelty.

I wish you could impose silence on people the way others impose obscene amounts of noise. Ban fireworks.

The LibDem's equalities spokesperson calling for the Government to hurry up in delivering segregation of trans people from society. The party needs to get its house in order on LGBTQ+ rights urgently.

1/🧵 I inspected the prison known as X. While sipping my tea, I looked at the latest responses from transphobes to the Times article, which reported that the EHRC draft Code could be delayed by up to a year due to the Regulatory Impact Assessment. Here’s what I read:

Here's the question. The EHRC has briefed that the draft statutory guidance is basically the same as the Interim Guidance. So why, if the draft statutory guidance gets the law right, did the EHRC choose to take down the Interim Guidance in the face of our Judicial Review?

You'll have to ignore the buckets of anti-trans campaigning commentary in the piece, but the basic news is quite simple. The EHRC has failed to get the government to accept its anti-guidance in haste. Something is holding it up, perhaps for another a year www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This is becoming more and more common. Infuriating behaviour. (It’s important to note that I’m not talking about children here, I’m talking about adults and teenagers who are having long conversations)

I thought we were supposed to be nationalising rail, not franchising it to dodgy companies with no ambition to deliver what the country needs.

Headline: Chancellor broke housing rules by letting out house without a license. Louise Haigh, probably: “She’ll be asked to resign, right? Right?” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Headline: Chancellor broke housing rules by letting out house without a license. Louise Haigh, probably: “She’ll be asked to resign, right? Right?” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thornbridge have made a Jaipur Radler, and it’s quite nice.

Disappointing to see Tanni Grey-Thompson respond to a question about trans inclusion in the Equality Committee today by making unsubstantiated claims about “women being shut down for having an opinion on women’s sport”.

Come on, let’s sell out @ffconf.org again this year! We’re really lucky that the foremost front end conference is here in the UK. Get yourself a ticket!

This is not going to work. Our best attempt at enshrining and encoding rights has been the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and it’s already being whittled away. What makes you think a written constitution, produced by a government polling with historically weak numbers, will do better?

We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak". But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.

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This is chilling. YouTuber filming hillforts threatened by a land owner who then called their private security on him, all for filming on a public road. youtu.be/MgOAmNAjkyU

The Del Toro Frankenstein is very good.

This is the same “legitimate concerns” phrase that was used as a get-out-of-jail-free card for broadcasting transphobia on TV and in the newspapers for ten years.

It's impressive how every single one of these things looks exactly like a nightmare vision included in a piece of media from the last 30 years

The Scottish Greens ended the day of councillor defections with more members than they'd started the day on. It's more than disappointing they left the party to sign up to a non-entity instead and they were active campaigners - but saying they left a huge hole in SGP member numbers is simply false.

Happy 100th birthday to the Yamanote Line! The Yamanote Line is Tokyo’s equivalent of the Underground’s Circle Line, but carries far, far more passengers. It’s been heavily engineered to maximise capacity, and carries 5 million passengers every day. youtu.be/wuhCtUo74jQ

New Opinion Article: Your Party is a waste of time whatthetrans.com/opinion-your...

Lucy Powell’s election clearly shows Labour has got it wrong, and must change course.

The Your Party Scotland branch has deleted their account because a bunch of trans people asked why they are comfortable to work with so many transphobes.