In 2009 a cop shot Oscar Grant while he was handcuffed on the ground and managed to beat a murder charge by saying "gee whiz, I thought I was grabbing my taser when I grabbed my gun instead! whoops!" he got convicted of involuntary manslaughter and served 11 months. He's one of like 2 cops convicted

Engaging with a dangerous predator. Photo from my collection, writing on the back says “Hazel and Warnie”.

They really killed that woman for disagreeing with them.

We now go live to Mar a Lago:

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Some people are just impervious to any lessons history or common sense can offer us.

There's your Nobel Peace Prize winner, btw. Hats off to everyone involved. Great job.

fuck the usa

Someone has to do it

The bombing of Venezuela is an act of aggression: unprovoked, unjustified and unjustifiable.

The thing to understand is no compromise would be enough for the GCs. It is not enough that they are allowed to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces. Everyone else must be forced to do so. It is not enough that they are allowed to speak their views. Everyone else must be forced to listen.

As I said recently in The Guardian: "Despite their hopes to the contrary, anti-trans campaigners have not won the hearts and minds they believed the Supreme Court would give them" So they turn to this; desperate, fascistic calls for the destruction of those they hate (framed as ideas, not people).

agreed all-timer line

The kitchen fires burned late, heating the ovens as extra cakes, pasties, and pies were baked golden. Bands of moles plundered the orchard, wheeled great cheeses from the storerooms, and lugged forward big barrels of spiced nettle ale and burdock cordial from the cellars.

[explaining bisexuality to a really stupid guy that is way too into the movie Blade] OK, so you know Blade’s whole deal right? Well-

Absolutely shocking. We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases. We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.

Centrists always blame poor comms and external factors because you can’t acknowledge the obvious fact that they keep doing things that are unpopular with their voter base. It’s really not very complicated!

Paige Thomas, 28 – who finally received her autism diagnosis last week after three years on an NHS waiting list – described the development as “in your face, Becky!”

They invited Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to the Harry Potter set THIS SEPTEMBER?!?

Saying it out loud quite happily now

This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time "Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?" Chair says "have English as a second language" Caption changes the meaning entirely "Don't speak fluent English"

It has taken Patrick's ma nearly 6 decades to get an apology from the State for the murder of her child. They don't class it as murder and no one who ordered this or took part in it has, or will be prosecuted. Patrick's mother is 88 and was too ill to hear the apology thejournal.ie/psni-issue-apolo…

lots of people in the quote replies dunking on this but it's always worth the reminder that these people are not ordinary folk, this is an orchestrated and well funded attack on a small section of society by ghouls who have nothing else going on in their lives.

Spot the point at which UK governments decided austerity was a good idea

And none of that gets to the really cool question: what does it say about our "elite" if someone can be a Nazi in school and a: not be expelled b: actually go on to have considerable influence despite knowledge of said person having been a proper nazi since school

“If you were a member of the public, you would think that grooming gangs is the biggest threat to children in our country,” says the director of Britain's Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce “But in the overall statistics, that represents just over 0.5% of offending” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

Sure, because one of the first things you notice about 'gender-critical' voices in Scotland is how *silent* they are. It's not like they've been amplified like an air raid siren by virtually the entire national media or anything

For some reason this comes across as weirdly aggressive

this is whose reputation they're trying to whitewash www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

LGBT+ people in Scotland should see the Record the same way Scousers see the Sun imo

running a "woe is me" front page story to support someone purely because her target was a trans woman is repugnant. she was basically called racist and a bully in court! there is no sympathy merited here!

My thread earlier focused on the discussion re. FWS - but I just want to draw this out really explicitly: The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.

Absolutely completely and utterly awful person, imagine being a completely normal voter in East Kilbride and knowing you've gone from "Abortion is bad, but Cryptocurrency? Crypto is very good!" SNP-to-Tory defector weirdo Lisa Cameron to this absolute danger? What did they do to deserve these MPs?

I think at this stage we should point out: kicking up a huge legal fuss, losing hugely on all the merits, and playing up a ruling in your favour over a minor technical or procedural point, is a well established strategy in the UK *because* the press will absolutely 100% play along with it.

Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”. The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”

If the reporting on the Peggie decision tells us anything, it should be that the way news gets reported in this country has little to do with truth, and much more to do with narrative - as well as whose heavily spun press release lands on journos desks first.

so Beth Upton was - very publicly - put through hell, monstered, harassed, abused by the press, by politicians, by her opponents lawyers and by the most rabid, fanatical online hate movement for... nothing

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

trump getting that MRI

Every time I try to upload images ro bsky it crashes and reloads- any advice?

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Me: (Just a regular ordinary lawyer, and definitely not a crackpot pursuing a wacky personal jihad) The gender wars

to use a crude Hungarian proverb "you could starve a brain cancer"

Like we’re all clear this is as dangerous as it is farcical right