Not being entirely facetious when I say that I have used toilets based on my gender identity as a cis woman all my life and I do pretty strongly feel that it violates *my* rights and dignity to be assigned to a toilet based on what someone is presuming about my body.

How many times have I argued that Trump was using white identity politics to consolidate power only to be told by the pundit class and “objective” journalists that the failing of the left was its continuous embrace of identity politics while they were completely blind to whiteness as an identity?

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I look at Instagram most days, and its always trying to get me to click on Threads. Every time I fail to resist, I feel like I’m in a room surrounded by people trying desperately to pick fights about stuff they don’t care about.

very much enjoying the quote tweets here.

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Big fan of people moving off X, but I really feel like the takeaway should probably be "it's bad if your critical communications infrastructure is a proprietary platform" rather than "let's replicate Twitter on Bluesky".

A number of people on this platform have been claiming that it's not up to government to shorten people's time on remand, however far beyond the statutory limit that time extends. Well, take it from a very eminent retired judge. It is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

7 Dec: ordered H's cmas present 8 Dec: dispatched via evri 8 Dec-3 Jan: present boings around Evri's system with three contradictory notifications a day 4 Jan: give up and cancel ebay purchase 8 Jan: order new one, this time sent by DPD 11 Jan: "delivery attempted photo*". THAT'S NOT MY HOUSE.

not saying this whole thing has gone too far, but my 8yo has just explained to me that she identifies as the one with a messy bedroom. 🤨

The Friday Murder Club (original and best) returns today with a story that reminds us of how much women were at the mercy of their husbands AND of the judicial system in the 19th and 20th century. We go to the maritime communities around the Wash in Lincolnshire.

The bit politicians aren't saying out loud is: "But you don't understand how much hassle it is to treat very rich people equally under the law. Seriously it's HAAAARD. It causes us all sorts of problems for us. If you knew how HARD it was you'd be content with our decision to just leave it."

reposting with Alt text because it's too good not to share with pals using screen readers

Blue sky, sorry for this, but are any of you a city/regional transportation planner, or know someone who is a transportation planner? My kid is writing a paper, and needs to ask some questions of a transportation planner, and her source fell through PLEASE let me know ASAP

corollary: the more inclusive, non-hierarchical, anti-hegenomic etc you want your space to be, the MORE hardcore you have to be about defining acceptable standards of behaviour and appropriate and proportional ways of implementing them.

I feel like this is very light on details of this demographic! Mumsnet has been around for decades: has it continued to pick up new users, or is that 25-44 considerably more 44 than 25?

Like, it's never "what is the carefully and fiendishly assembled plan for hegemony, ruthlessly executed," it's more likely "what is the psychotic war that a bunch of different power brokers can be convinced to sign on for for different and mutually exclusive reasons"

❄️ Leeds City Council has activated the Cold Weather Protocol in Leeds until at least Monday, meaning extra emergency accommodation is now in place so no-one needs to sleep on the streets while temperatures stay at or below freezing.

I finally watched K-Pop Demon Hunters somehow completely unspoiled and the girls were delighted when I was OMG!!!!

looking at make-up and the site helpfully gives you everything in price per kilo. I did not need to know that this eyeshadow is 13% of the price of gold. (I’m not getting that one, the ones which are 5% the price of gold are more my style.)

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. Hello, I’m the inexplicable decision to pave a cycle lane with red bricks that get very slippery in the rain, OR a very narrow path just above Cressbrook in the Peak District.

we had a GREAT party last night, and this morning I (4 cans of Camden Pale Ale, 2 glasses of cava) feel great, and H (3 large cans of 0% Guinness) feels awful. the girls woke after 10 and are both snuggled up with screens, although occasionally the words “six-seven!!” can be heard from the 8yo.

I, like most British people, assumed we had jus soli until the Irish referendum when I found out that we’d already done the racist thing in the early 80s.

As American moves towards eliminating jus soli citizenship, a reminder that the people of Ireland voted to do the same This resulted in precisely 0 benefits or opportunities accruing to existing Irish citizens But it did let us be cruel to a bunch of kids, so who is to say if it was good or bad

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship

I was 19. Ran a woman who knew me and my mum from church choir. She’d recently left her husband and moved into a flat in the converted Nottingham Women‘a Hospital and was showing me a photo. I said, “ooh, I was born there, could have been that room!“ She looked at me pityingly and said, “Oh—

Watching the total donations shooting up after the Xmas Day Message is so beautiful. Thank you all! 💚🎄 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Played Roblox with the kids and now we are all doing real-life impressions of me running past the thing I’m trying to pick up six times whilst everyone shouts, “NO Moo, pick it up! You’re supposed to— No, the raiders are coming! Not that‘s a rabbit! use your AXE!”

Our Christmas Eve film? 8 Femmes (2002) (I watched this about twenty times between 2002 and 2005 and this is the first or second time I’ve seen it since. it’s gooooood!

🎵 on Christmas Eve Eve all mummies sing where the f*€k did I put that f*€king thing 🎵

was persuaded to buy 11yo a subscription to Simply Guitar, feeling DEEPLY sceptical that she would actually keep it up by herself, but it’s been six weeks and she’s done two or three lessons a week with no prompting and I’m super impressed.

“Moo, you know the men in old movies that wear blazers and have firm handshakes and says “sir” a lot? I like that.” 8yo apparently has a long-term plan to be the family’s sole representative of masculinity,

It’s 27 years since Who Framed Roger Rabbit came out and Leeds still doesn’t have a mass transit system.

BBC News, which is currently platforming the latest "freedom of speech row", does not appear to have covered the SHU academic whose research was curtailed because of complaints from the Chinese government.

We sang a carol concert with our LGBT+ choir tonight, and it is fairly informal so I got the girls to come up and sing with us as we blasted out the Hallelujah Chorus. at the end I said, “did you enjoy that?” and 8yo said in genuine curiosity, ”Yeah it was fun — but I don’t know WHY it was fun?”

Reading the new Philip Pullman and asking myself once again why middle-aged men are allowed to publish self-insert fanfic.

Time for the best Christmas salad!

Lgbt Labour only makes sense if you assume their purpose is to promote Labour interests within the lgbt community and not lgbt interests in the Labour Party.

Can anyone at the Telegraph explain why David Walliams being dropped from Harper-Collins in response to their investigation is not the dreaded Cancel Culture? Is It just because they did it?

I‘m 40% of the way into The Rose Field and I don’t think it’s achieved Bechdel yet.

Basically this

Had 2 messages on Monday reminding us that school shuts at noon today, 4 on Wednesday, and 6 so far today.

With £1,000,000 now spent Allison Bailey loses again.

Leeds council’s secondary school catchment areas are bus-route agnostic. our catchment priority school is a mile and a half away, no bus, walk or cycle through an industrial estate & across a couple of major junctions. I don’t mind cycling it, but I’m not happy with an 11yo doing it alone!

Cycling UK have recently stated that their annual 100 Women in Cycling award won’t include any trans women or non-binary Over 50 current nominees and previous winners have rejected or returned their awards. I know many of them personally I’m proud of my cycling sisters. All of them

UNISON members have elected Andrea Egan as the union’s next general secretary. Full details and turnout information are available here ⬇️ unsn.uk/43AqMWf

Something must be done about *them* breeding too fast, rather than *us* consuming too fast. All too often, residual population growth is used as a scapegoat to shift blame from rich-world impacts, which means that the people in places where growth is still occurring are themselves scapegoated. 11/13

I tried to make gingerbread houses from scratch a couple of years ago. This turned into making gingerbread slabs for elder child, and shortbread slabs for younger. Much learning.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides