Worrying about that old white haired guy and his grandson fixing their vintage silver car up by the clock tower in this terrible weather! If they’re not careful they’ll be struck by a bolt of lightning…

It’s always “protect the dolls “ until it’s a trans girl who doesn’t cis pass , or until it’s a trans girl who you don’t fully agree with, or until it’s a trans girl who needs help, or until it’s a trans girl who made a mistake , or until it’s a trans girl you don’t think should be speaking

While i was writing the Brexit Tapes i got a DM from someone who had backed it, whose name would be on the credit list. They apologised and said that the list, as published, would contain their dead name. Was it possible to change it? or at least remove it before print. /1

posting this today cuz as far as i know you don't need to show your ID to use a forum yet

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

Sharing the 1990 Bisexual Manifesto once again to remind everyone that bisexuality was NEVER binary

The Farmers Guardian say didn't expect to be writing a piece supporting me - but Greens have always been the party most serious about our food and farming sector. We need serious system change both for the cost of living and for our food security. www.farmersguardian.com/blog/4531069...

So, just in time for pride, I've got a gender update: Hi y'all. Most of you know me as Fin (I read that in the voice of Troy McLure and now I'm laughing too hard to delete it) and I've been a they/she/it kinda vibe for a while, but. Friends call me Fi. And I'd prefer just She/Her.

Playing with my pencil case whilst waiting for builds to run

A new study of 445 adolescents treated at pediatric gender clinics in Canada found that after a mean 2.4 years, 94.6% still identified as trns. Of the 353 who started hormonal treatments, 1.1% discontinued them. www.jahonline.org/article/S105...

New from Dazed: We speak to the activists and regular swimmers behind the movement to keep the Hampstead ponds inclusive: https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/69529/1/the-women-fighting-for-trans-inclusion-at-hampstead-heath-ponds-sex-matters

They desperately need their car. It was their last vestige of safety after they had to leave an abusive situation, and it was taken. Ideally, we would be able to raise more than the money they need to get their car back, money for secure housing. But at the very least they need their car.

I am suddenly glad I set our game in York so I didn’t face several hours of Kieron’s “twang” — I’ve already had enough psychic damage from “American” accents this fortnight.

MCM, Dragonmeet, and DragonCon take a stance against AI, but the UK’s biggest board game con stays silent - despite pushback from attendees. www.wargamer.com/tabletop-ai-... #UKGE #BoardGames #TTRPG

Oh, I've got a real one. Put your character sheet or playbooks in the manual. Is "mark a box when X happens?" a big deal or hardly important? I don't know, and won't know until I download a fucking PDF.

This post not only tore the Ace Combat community apart but it also revealed something else: many “fans” of the series can’t read

The more I experiment with LLM agent coding the more I realise that this is a technical debt machine. The number of people who will get really excited about how many apps they can launch in a week and have none of them land or be worth carrying on working on in week two let alone week 8 is huge.

The Supreme Court has today "strip[ped] fundamental human rights protections from potentially hundreds of thousands of severely disabled people" say a group of National Charities for disabled people. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

Jess O Thomson is one of our strongest soldiers show some respect

Very important to remember. Has the UK ever experienced, under any elected Government, as profound a withdrawal of protections for minoritised groups as the unelected Supreme Court has delivered in its recent decisions?

Seema Malhotra: "Most people have the common sense to step in when necessary, for example when a person of the opposite biological sex enters a single sex facility in error - and when to alert a member of staff." Labour now in the 'lets encourage vigilantes' stage of screwing trans people.

There's rumours we might be seeing a trailer for the sequel to "THAT" wizard game this week. To all of you who bought the last one, and said "I don't support her transphobia, but the story means so much to me", you've got a second chance to take a stand and not give her money this time.

"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 1/🧵

Curious from the Guardian. I didn't "warn the party" - it wasn't a party meeting! I said progressives needed to separate those thinking about voting Reform from the Reform leadership. I didn't say we "need to seek to understand" - pretty clear it's about inequality. Other than that - perfect!

I agree with this, but would narrow the scope of the problem: the inability to be vulnerable. It takes a willingness to be vulnerable and put down your ego to understand your characters, your story your world. Otherwise, expression is merely projection... which most conservative "art" is.

I find this so fascinatingly out of touch with the world. Like if someone at your table who is blind says they read a book and the narrator was really bad, would they counter with “BUT YOU DIDN’T ACTUALLY READ IT” expecting anyone there to think they’re not a huge fucking dick?

we may think statements like this aren’t enough and don’t matter, but an extremely normie, super-Christian woman I work with is *obsessed* with Pedro Pascal and completely reworked her priors regarding trans rights solely because of his opinions on the matter

I would like AOC to run for three reasons: 1. I think the D candidate in 2028 is strongly favored to win regardless of who it is 2. We need to elect someone who understands the moment and is committed to a new reconstruction 3. Of all plausible candidates I am most convinced AOC meets that bar

Over 80 clinicians, researchers and academics have signed an open letter raising serious concerns about NHS England’s recent evidence reviews of gender affirming hormone treatment for trans youth. Read the full letter here: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/05...

"Everyone's using AI" Okay, who are you trying to convince? Because every time I see this take, and it's a lot, it screams insecurity and shame, it reeks of desperation. You sound ashamed of offloading your thinking to slop merchants and desperately wish it was the case that everyone else is too.

Some super helpful responses - please keep them coming...

the timeline— trans people: fine whatever if you’re going to be so weird about us, let’s talk about it channel 4: we’ve set up a debate where the audience are encouraged to shout PENIS! at Munroe Bergdorf whenever she talks trans people: yeah okay we’re not doing this again

bless my mum – this transphobic law has been properly on the table for less than a week, day 1 she didn't know what BDMRR meant and now and she's sending me Slovenian philosophers performing Lacanian analysis of gender to prove that trans people exist. 0 to 1000 in four days, utter queen.

Saw this and ofc @tkingfisher.com 's world came to mind.

Huh, curious, for all the allegations by the gender critters that "no debate" was a keystone of Stonewall's stance on trans rights, it seems to be a phrase made up by them and not used by Stonewall

A reminder that one of the reasons why I didn’t apply to UKGE this year is their support of AI crap (not only they don’t have an anti-ai policy, but they were sponsored by AI-generated projects). So if you’re at UKGE next weekend, please support my friends and colleagues who make human-art!💙🙏

“Providing” me with a separate gender neutral toilet is not respectful or dignified, it is humiliating, degrading, discriminating and denies my very being. I am a woman and forcing me to pretend i’m not for bigotry’s sake is fucking egregious

Trump (or Trump Jr) seemingly mistakenly invested $1M-5M in Kura Sushi (sushi restaurant chain) instead of Fujikura that is related to AI industry. Previously, all their investments were related to AI. This is now one of the trending stories in Japanese media.

If current tech has intelligence of any sort, then it has rights. If it has rights, then how we currently use it is tantamount to slavery and we should probably halt all current/future use/development until we develop an ethical framework for INVITING it to work with us. I don't see that happening.

People aren't having it in the comments, at all. Any trans or non binary person that needs an accessible facilities key should get one from @essehouse.bsky.social. Not only will they send them for free if you need them to be free, but any monies raised get spent directly on community initiatives.

Hi, it's @nightkristina.bsky.social here, and I will be reporting on Trans Pride Falmouth this afternoon. Although the protest begins at 12:00, the protest organisers are already gathering at the Prince of Wales pier.

the average TERF origin story is indistinguishable from a psychological break from reality

THE CHAFF PROJECT Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great! How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public. Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

EHRC Code: 1. The point of the Equality Act was to prevent discrimination. So if you were discriminated against, you had (in most cases) a route to make a complaint, the law to back you up and a route to make inequality expensive enough that most companies complied (to some extent).

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

I regret that leaving Monkey Cage was necessary, but I will never regret leaving people who considered siding with hatred was more important than siding with our many non binary and trans listeners - each day I see the further empowerment of hate , the more I realise there was no other option

For business owners, the important part of the new ECHR advice is this: 13.179: There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex. [...] Therefore, it is unlikely to be proportionate or practical to ask for further evidence of a person’s sex.

Reading this it's rarely hit harder to me how disconnected amnesty are from grass roots hate researchers. This is a great report in that amnesty have a lot of weight but there's so much information amnesty seem to just not know

A quick history lesson, from the last few centuries of the fight for women's rights: The restriction of women from access to toilets is known as the "urinary leash". This was (and still is) a structural deprivation of places to wee, effecting a restriction of access to public life more broadly.

This is why you really shouldn't trust the immediate reporting on, eg, the code, or about legal cases. It is genuinely remarkable the extent to which reporting does not get even the most basic details correct. Please wait for actual analysis from the law and policy experts working in this space.