It'll be a stressful few months as I wait to see if the risk of leaving Squarespace is something we can bounce back from. In my mind, I had no choice if Assigned was to weather increasing government interference in trans speech. But a safe financial decision, it was not. Please join if you can.

PSA.

Those bigoted transphobes saying @amnestyuk.bsky.social doesn’t care about women’s rights are ignoring the enormous amount of human rights work Amnesty has done for a very long time. Of course then these people say “women’s rights” they actually mean “transphobic hatemongering”.

It's getting pretty feckin' wimdy lads. Shame the wind is actually HOT.

I really can't see what's defamatory about any of this. But then I don't have $millions to throw at vexatious lawsuits, so what do I know?

Thread 🧵 There may or may not be a useful link at the end of it, I couldn't possibly say 🤫

Blooming clock :) A bouquet every minute! dr.eamer.dev/clocks/bloom-digits/

“There has been no gender critical solidarity with Muslim women suffering under bombs and torture, no calling out of the Iranian government for their mass executions of demonstrators including women…”

If children are old enough to experience transphobia then they’re old enough to be supported in their transition.

okay fine i'll read the thing based on the first skim i did i'm not holding my breath, but since we're cited repeatedly i'll engage in good faith.

Seriously, my background isn’t even in science and the “objective reality” thing just gets my hackles up. If your hypothesis doesn’t survive contact with “objective reality”, maybe it’s not the right hypothesis? Sheesh.

I see the gamete explainers are out with their “objective reality” bollocks (pun intended) again. I’m blocking on sight. Take that shit back to the Nazi place.

Renewal cancelled. They're gonna hassle me. I don't care. I'm done with them.

If I could change one thing about myself, it'd be to expunge my internalised, deep-rooted shame (I've done nothing wrong, the shame relates to my sense of who I am). I've made some progress on this in the past couple of years, but I still have a way to go. It's so corrosive.

I do not celebrate his death. I celebrate that he can no longer hurt people. It looks the same. It is different. Death comes for all of us, good or bad. But when it's a bad person that dies, the living get the peace of mind that they are no longer injured by that person.

Struggling with the motivation to go for a bike ride today. I think the endless heat is getting to me :/

Norway pay their female international players the same amount as their male players and have done since 2017.

An astonishing return to form from Enid Blyton.

Huh. So an Uber back from the airport is literally 1/3 the price of an Uber *to* the airport. 🤔

Every time my daughter is on one of her overseas adventures I end up watching her flight idly on flightradar24, and it always makes me a bit teary to know that she's up there either on her way to or on her way back from some amazing place. I remember showing her how to get the bus home from town 🥹

What Ciara said

I've been with the AA (American friends: no, not that one - it's the Automobile Association) for 30 years, it says here. Every year they whack up my renewal cost and every year I have to phone and threaten to leave until they reduce it. I think I'm done. They can get fucked.

Straight up bonus event!!! Let's goooo!

I can only conclude that the "Starmer is a decent man" cohort are blissfully unaware of their own privilege. If you're not poor, disabled, an immigrant, Palestinian or trans (not an exhaustive list) I guess you've been relatively unaffected by the Starmer government attacks on these groups.

The Greens are calling on Burnham to change the law and protect trans rights 💚

The "Starmer is a decent man" trope is fascinating. Because I can reel off a list of *actions* he took or oversaw that seriously call into question that characterisation. The "decent man" supporters have, so far as I can see, just vague hand-waving to back up their stance. What am I missing?

It’s crackin' flags in Manchester. If you're going to melt, you might as well do it in one of my T-shirts. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts

"The government's schools guidance constitutes a form of ‘Ambient Conversion Therapy’ by embedding systemic pressures that will undermine trans children's identities and wellbeing 24/7" - @natacha.bsky.social www.wearequeeraf.com/english-scho...

This is very much a “me” thing, but I’m struggling not to feel personally responsible for a burning planet. Yeah, I know. It’s daft and unhelpful. Also, Big Oil: mission accomplished. Slow hand clap. Enjoy your bunkers.

Just skimmed some info on the gov's new schools guidance on trans kids, and IMHO it's significantly worse than Section 28 was. What I find genuinely astonishing is that there are people who clearly believe that trans people can be bullied, conversion therapied and legislated out of existence. 1/

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Looking at the Met Office temp map for the next few days, trying to figure out if I can escape the heat for a few hours (without making a ludicrous journey). Nope. <sigh>

Idk, the heat must be making some folk VERRRRRY grumpy. Instant block, anyway. Also, I’m not a fucking OAP. Cheek! 😂

Cat on a hot tiled roof

TERFs are attempting to infiltrate Mermaids by applying for their Trustee vacancies, in an attempt to sabotage the organisation from within. Please apply if you are able to, to prevent this: mermaidsuk.org.uk/jobs/

Reem Alsalem has pestilentially leveraged UN accreditation to promote her anti-trans bigotry for years

Clive, you’re part of the government that’s introducing the most draconian trans segregation rules of any developed nation. And I’m including Trump’s America. The U.K. is actively anti-trans. In the media, in public spaces, in workplaces, in the NHS… Not because of Reform. Because of Labour.

If you spend all your time hanging out irl and online with people who actively hate a particular minority, it could (I suppose) come as a shock to discover that members of that minority are real people, and that the policies that you've helped deliver have real effects on those real people.

As the updated CoP is set to come into force, I think there's two lines of messaging it will be helpful to push. 1) Trans people never asked for this. None of the disruption and expense is their fault. It's because gender critics have pushed and pushed for blanket exclusion of trans people. (PTO)

These figures are alarming but won't come as a surprise to many (including me). Decision-makers are so insulated from these realities, they have no idea what life is like for the majority of people. That's a real problem.

Trump: “I gotta be sure of one thing, that we don’t have lunatics having control over nuclear weapons”* 😂🤣 *response to a journo asking “what happens next?” at a NATO presser

Anyone, anyone, Bueller? #bsnm #endofterm #thankyou #teachercards

I’d cover the entire roof in silver foil if I could 🙄 Morning, I guess.

Katie Hopkins has been visiting the hateful Moygashel bonfire, where last year they burned effigies of refugees on a boat, and this year they are burning a mock up of a mosque. She is running an event in The Europa Hotel, owned by Hastings hotels, this coming weekend. Let them know your thoughts -

I don’t think journalism was meant to become a machine for refining and selling people’s grievances back to them

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My body is definitely telling me I didn't manage to dial it back 😂 (I'm fine, just a bit sore and tired. Managed to stay properly hydrated through the entire ride, which helped).

I wanted to take some pictures in the garden that use colour to get across just how hot it is...