Tom Peck still a massive prick, I see, additionally

Three placards from the demo.

The Independent are already asking cisgender wheelchair users to explain why trans people should have no access to toilet facilities rather than asking anyone who is trans and disabled about how it affects them

When we were fighting to make PrEP (effective HIV prevention) available on the NHS, the Daily Mail tried to set it up as a conflict between hedonistic gays and people needing surgery. Sad but unsurprising they’re employing the same tactics now, pitting trans and disabled people against each other.

"The Labour government has made a choice, one rooted in the patriarchy, to further police women’s bodies and exclude people who do not conform to arbitrary standards of femininity. We reject their Code of Practice and the colonial, misogynistic, sexist, and transphobic assumptions they employ" 1.

and, thanks to Wes Streeting, the NHS

I'm fast becoming a single issue voter and that vote is letting trans people live their lives

As I've repeatedly been saying - claiming you're improving people's rights but doing so by deliberately excluding certain groups from those rights and thus suggesting they're not 'people' (people born overseas, trans people, the disabled) is a day one fascist trick. I won't vote for it, who would?!

Here's my first impressions FAQ on the EHRC document. Questions welcome. sandraduffy.blog/2026/05/21/f...

Let my people piss. Let my people move across borders. Let my people live

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

Going to the Déjà Vu Museum in Berlin and wondering whether you've been there before, this is #content www.tiktok.com/@zoebreadtok...

Well this is a shame. There's a great track record of placements at NMS and going on to good careers.

Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2611793...

Oh great, Burham is now having a go at universities, implying higher education takes away from technical education. Very tired of this crop of Oxbridge educated Labour politicians claiming that it‘s one or the other: apprenticeships or universities (& that universities should lose out). Fuck off.

Essay question for GCSE Music 2026 just leaked

me spotting cyclocross riders in the breakaway at the Giro

The Country Show being cancelled is infuriating

I wonder what Will Self does for the rest of the day having got up at 5am on a Sunday to chortle and snort on Laura Kuenssberg's edgy show, for cash

One of the big protests yesterday really can point to years of enthusiastic sponsorship and support by major media outlets and senior politicians, and it isn’t the one asking for civil rights for Palestinians: that’s the one that gets the cops dragging away your gran for t-shirt crimes.

Fuck Eurovision and fuck you if you're watching it tbh

Of course I own a copy of The Guardian's top novel

The kids booed when there was transphobic bullying and cheered to moments of trans joy and it was genuinely such a lovely afternoon. One audience member rang his son who is a librarian to ask him to order in the book immediately because he said “stories like this need to be in every library” 🥹🥹🥹

Texas Children's caved and ended care under pressure in April 2022, over four years ago and they still got targeted by DOJ and Paxton. NYU caved and they still got served with a grand jury subpoena. Caving and abandoning will not save you. You have to fight these bastards or they will destroy you.

Ref not even allowing a restart now he has delivered the goods for the deep state

I sometimes feel insane that we don't constantly talk about the time Labour gave a black guy who was poised to unseat Nigel Farage the sack because he was a better poster than Keir Starmer

Existing in the UK is ever more unsafe for many people, whether migrants, Jews, Muslims, trans or disabled people, and anyone blessed with melanin. Life was never especially safe for any of these groups, but this is a breathtaking escalation of violent hate. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Goodnight for real this time

“It’d be bad if Reform won another seat”. Yes I agree, take it up with the guy who created the vacancy.

Fuck Labour, Trans Rights Always without apology, Free Palestine, stay safe everyone in London opposing the fash tomorrow, goodnight

Nah

The president of Cornell hit some students with his car, lied about what happened, and cast himself as the victim. Cornell's trustees, palpably aghast at the idea that a powerful man could be held accountable for his actions, have issued an official statement saying fuck the students

🧵 Wayback Machine director Mark Graham is thanking the hundreds of journalists speaking out in support of the #WaybackMachine and the importance of preserving the online historical record. 🌐📰 Read Mark's letter ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/11/a... @mark.bsky.social #WaybackMachine

Blimey

Bearing in mind that recognising this as genocide directly accuses ministers in both the Starmer *and* Sunak governments of the type of thing that might get them arrested and imprisoned, in Britain or elsewhere.

'In an unusual arrangement, the restitution will not be to the country of origin, but to a UK body, the Institute of Jainology, for deposit at the University of Birmingham.' 'The manuscripts will go to the Birmingham Centre of Jain Studies...at the University of Birmingham.' 2/3

This is an appalling case and Germany deserves far greater international opprobrium over it and similar actions. It also shows why citizenship-on-probation, and other measures that create hierarchies of rights within the same society, must be resisted without compromise.

there's not one person at the NYT, the atlantic, WAPO, the guardian, the new statesman, or any of the other hundreds of outlets pushing anti-trans hate that will feel one twinge of guilt today despite having built - almost from scratch in less than 10 years - a machine made to produce this outcome

Presumably the Makerfield CLP haven't even been asked what they think?

The one interesting detail in this cookie-cutter article is that the gentleman who calls the limit "crazy" drives _to_ Govan every day rather than, you know, living there.

Anyone?

We welcome the election of Dr Manivannan as an example of what we hope will be a more open and inclusive democracy that welcomes immigrants as both voters and representatives.

It is a sad sign of the times, and the state of our public discourse, that what should have been a proud moment for Scottish democracy has been marred by partisan spin, attacks on Dr Manivannan’s identity both as an immigrant and non-binary person, and media failures to confront disinformation.

i'll always remember where i was when i heard that Wes Streeting had resigned as health secretary in order to challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership: i was at home, checking the news to see if Wes Streeting had resigned as health secretary in order to challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership

“Your last Labour MP resigned after siccing private detectives on journalists who revealed some shady donations linked to his organisation. He’s standing down as a favour to me. Vote for me btw.” bsky.app/profile/nadi...

consider just for an absolute fucking tiny second that what you people are seriously doing is going to the electorate with "we can't find, in our entire parliamentary party of hundreds of people, one competent person"

the Burnham Experiment is not going to succeed. you are going to lose this by-election and frankly you will deserve to