Eeeeeeh. This is *a* path we're traveling. It's not evident is *the* path, or the *only* path. It could be this particular path leads to such an inefficient waste of capital and physical resources that a very possible global economic collapse makes "the cool stuff" further away than it might be.

Disabled anti-cuts activists have heavily criticised the TUC after it drew close links between personal independence payment and employment in its response to a government review on the future of the disability benefit. #TUC #PIP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/anger-over-t...

If you still don’t get it: ESA and UC are supposed to allow us to pay our most basic expenses. PIP is to those that are disabled because we have considerable extra expenses, judged to be about £1200/ month. Access To Work is to help us get a job and stay in it: equipment, support worker etc

ICYMI: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #medieval

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This works flawlessly as a silent film

Years ago, Farage 'cancelled' a 100,000-person Brexit march in London at the last minute due to 'safety concerns'. I sent a FOI to the Met. They never applied for a legally-required demo permit or spoke to police re safety. They never intended to do it, but got the publicity anyway. This is that.

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1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

Samaritans Report a 40% increase in calls from the Trans Community since April 2025. I telephoned the Samaritans n 1969, in 1971, in 1974, and in 1978 I am still here because of those calls. Call the Samaritans, anytime for free any, from any phone, on 116 123 www.samaritans.org/news/samarit...

18th October 2017: Less than 10 years ago there was broad, cross party support for trans people just living their lives. This bigotry at the highest level has been astroturfed into existence in less than a decade. It's a lie. A con.

meanwhile in 21st century England i've been unable to register with an NHS dentist since pre-covid

A short tale that doesn’t show me in a particularly good light, but whatever The small Essex town in which I live is not renowned for its diversity of culture or vibrant underground music scene 1/

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Nice to be taking a job away from AI for once!

I feel like this started with the US Tea Party and never stopped

I wonder if the publication in question feels there is enough of a hook now.............

Most importantly: as a cis woman; a feminist; a historian - this will *never* be in my name. Then: an equalities body that chooses to exclude a specific group; chooses to limit human rights of one community - it is an equalities body that has already dismantled itself and any legitimacy with it.

Teenage boys get non custodial sentence for rape, but cheer yourself up by knowing that trans men and women who just want to go to the toilet have been further dehumanised and alienated www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The BBC Lifeline Appeal for #ME from Action for ME is now available on YouTube. youtu.be/qmDSP8idEXw?...

We have asked you to contact your MP using our advocacy guides (link to our full guide shorturl.at/9lhU7 or to our shorter guide here shorturl.at/pxwux). This is showing results so please keep doing it if your energy allows..

This week's Friday murder is set in Grosmont, a village which didn't actually exist in 1841. Despite a church, a reasonable permanent population and an ironworks, Tunnel - the area around the tunnel on the Whitby and Pickering line - didn't get named properly until the 1850s. Nevertheless...

oh my god they were roommates

I can't believe how many politicians are saying "let's ban trans people from public life, but in a way that is respectful". Are you fucking thick? Who is this for?

7. How? • fight over cleaners of all genders. If you have people going in then it’s not a single sex space • make people police everyone to a level which pisses off cis people because suddenly the press will care • make policing trans people as impossible as you can

5. Harassing someone in the loo because you think they might be trans? Still unlawful. Just about. The code? Tries very hard to make it the norm.

2. What the new code does is the opposite: it makes it complex and expensive to be inclusive and privileges those striving for inequality’s discomfort over equality for everyone.

This is the thing that’s always got me about this. I know the bigotry is the point and all but we should be raising so much fucking fuss over this first point. Nobody minds a cleaner or plumber or tradie working in any toilet. Point this out endlessly. Never shut up about it

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i can't get over it. All the fuss. All those sanctions. Didn't they get kicked out of Eurovision for a bit? And now we're like 'actually, about that oil.....'. Shambolic. We are truly living in spineless times

Aberdeen FC. Bravo. 👏

This headline is fuel for the right-wing anti-migrant reaction machine, but the article reveals the employer knowingly brought her to the UK under a visitor visa to employ her, then denied her a work permit—and most importantly!—refused to pay her any wages. This looks approximate to modern slavery

YOU'RE VILLAINIZING YOURSELVES, YOU GIGANTIC SCROTUM

This is also the case for HRT; any oestrogel needs to go live in a dark, cool room once we get to 25°C.

Also worth checking if your meds increase sun sensitivity - surprisingly common and best to be cautious about.

Schrödinger's AI: at once so easy to use anyone can instantly become a thousand times more productive and so incredibly difficult but if you don't start learning it today you will be left behind and reduced to the status of eternal technical laggard.

This, from Amnesty International, tells you all you need to know about transphobic bias in UK mainstream media.

"we consider the demands of GC actors to be the same as those of ultra conservative Christian groups."

"There is no evidence that in countries where legal gender recognition is based on administrative system this has caused an increase in violence against cis women perpetrated by trans people."

"As a result of backlash and a change of government, GRA reform was shelved, even though 61% of respondents to the English consultation agreed with the removal of the requirement for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria."

Amnesty International's analysis of how the 'gender critical' hate movement spent millions promoting their prejudices - and furthering the goals of the Christian Right. media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li...

Of course I drew the whistling potato. #art #potato

On the tube

Gov straight up admitting that any attempts at gender policing are unworkable because "There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex." So bin it??

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.