Christmas crop top and booty shorts, because I’m way too thicc

Why would David Lammy sell out the last remaining colony in Africa, a non-self governing state whose right to a free & fair referendum has been continuously frustrated by settler-colonisers' Moroccan Royal rule? Under US influence and for football World Cup contracts, it would seem...3/

This man won one of the largest majorities in UK electoral history, is a white guy who was a prosecutor and prior to the election was beloved by basically all sections of the press. The fact he's been unable to use any of this to achieve anything is incredible.

How many other regional employment tribunals make the news speaking of ideology

Truly hilarious that Starmer's best argument for saving his own skin is that ditching him as prime minister would threaten the UK's close relationship with....Donald Trump

They should be arrested for misconduct in public office.

The PLP be like…maybe they have legitimate concerns. You like to listen to those

I am smiling :)

They need to clean this mirror

Wes be Streeting

Standing by the PM when he hid in a cupboard over a summer of far-right rallies, but turning on him to sabotage a sorely-needed course correction in the government’s economic policies

Aaronovitch calling trans people fascists is a bit fucking rich, given he keeps being happy to take money for being on panels with actual fascists

the BBC is going to get worse before it gets worse

A thoroughly enjoyable Ace Frehley poster from a 1979 Swedish pop/rock mag. Which it seemed entirely right to post.

sure enough a bit of googling shows that this was actually from a then 39 year old ex-footballer in 2022 www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

Most of the people I know who’ve had their hips done are in their 50s and 60s. Not least because surgery on a 78yo is pretty risky and they’re not going to get many years out of a new hip

My only comment on salary sacrifice schemes is that E wanted to do it for cycle to work but they wouldn’t let him because it would bring his salary below the minimum wage

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

Hashtag Milton Keynes strikes again

They blocked me but this is the weird fake post that they post then delete periodically and @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social always reposts. It's weird and creepy

Every time. She won’t tell the personal story of all the trans people and allies she and her husband got blacklisted or had commissions spiked from a bunch of places

Fun (or not so fun) fact - the author of the “BBC bias” memo is a lobbyist for the American Pharmaceutical Group. U.S. pharma companies recently threatened to abandon the UK unless the NHS pays more for its medicines. They also donated millions to Trump’s campaign and inauguration

Again, "trans issues" are focused on. It's all Trump, Gaza and trans when the memo mentioned these topics: US Election Racial Diversity Biological sex and gender Israel-Hamas war The battle begins about what all this means. People will be trying to steer the crisis www.youtube.com/watch?v=23_O...

It's actually worse than this - Prescott tried to argue that the BBC had inappropriately hidden the fact that a Trans woman in pro wrestling had been part of storylines where she "won" trophies against other women - a fictional sport he treated as if it was real.

there was a guy interviewed in the street about this who was drinking a buzz bomb in the morning and said "up tommy robinson" twice and even he didn't like it

What motivates people to be transphobic is immersion in the kind of society that legitimises and breeds transphobia. It's on tv, in the papers, in social discourse. Removing a phone in school means kids will see it on laptops. Removing laptops means they'll see it on tv. @charlotte2153.bsky.social

If Epping Council won it'd have been disastrous. That doesn't mean hotels are an acceptable form of accommodation, only the other day @ramfel.bsky.social released a report into how bad conditions are in them. It's that this government's alternatives are worse 3/ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

There is precisely one person who should get to play James Bond at this point and that person is Natasha Hodgson.

Let us simply not check that figure after they stuck most of the BBC in the US behind a paywall a few months ago to increase revenue at the expense of British soft power and influence.

All you need to know. Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.

This is a very good piece, but Lewis is still too (understandably) scared to contradict his colleagues on air about the anti-trans stuff

Healthcare, social assistance, asylum – being a journalist in Britain is, for the most part, shaping the offical narrative to why people should live in worse conditions and be even more miserable. And if you're really lucky you might get a Press Award at the end of it

I came across a clip from yesterday from LBC of John Sopel and Emily Maitlis talking to Shelagh Fogarty about what's happening at the BBC and they all conceded the complainant DID have a point about the BBC's pro-trans bias and it was just three people being transphobic for a couple of minutes.

Similar to the Hinsliff article about GenX radicalisation. Beam. Own eye. Speck in others. No understanding

If you’re discussing the rise of a global fascist movement that is now strongly exerting itself domestically and you’re *still* wittering about the speech tyranny of the kids and the baleful influence of Stonewall, then that’s pretty wacky, folks! It looks unserious and self-indulgent at very best!

A group of powerful national journalists choosing to single out the healthcare of a vulnerable minority for a campaign of intense laser-like scrutiny would, in an humane society, be described as an insane radicalised pogrom. But on Normal Island, that's a Wednesday.

Imagine the cognitive dissonance of being one of the “centre left” people who thinks the right are wrong about most of their wild BBC criticisms, bar on “trans”

The political editor of the Sunday Telegraph repeating all the right-wing lines about the BBC on Channel 4 News, down to “trans issues”. I’m tired

My nemesis on to shit on us again

Resign

When Rosie Duffield is in on it I think we can safely say the anti-phone campaign in Brianna's name is actively at odds with tackling transphobia

Today is one of those days where, whether or not you have any opinion on what is going on in the news, isn’t the problem. Days like today are awful because you know that the trans community who are going to end up picking up the tab. Things are only going to get worse. I’m so fucking exhausted.

Personally I think BBC, especially news, is mismanaged. It's reporting on certain areas, obviously I tend to focus most on immigration, but others as well, is incredibly shoddy. It has huge issues. Not being right wing enough isn't one of them. This feels like an attack to undermine press freedom.

Just to get this straight in my head, we've gone from "BBC badly edited a piece about Trump, but was accurate overall", to the "BBC isn't transphobic enough and is all woke", and we're still arguing, regardless of the myriad of issues with the BBC, whether there's a genuine right wing attack on it?

Men like this are transphobes because they are, deep down, misogynists. They simply believe they are better than women at everything, and in trans women they have found a group it is alright to descriminate against. This man believes cis women are his physical inferiors, and needs you to know that.

...but in general so much of the 'should Labour pivot to the left to win back the Greens?' chat inside and outside the government ignores that 'the Labour 2024, Green 2025 voter is basically the Labour voter that has done worst out of the government's policies and the broader economic backdrop'.

This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to. She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.