Super duper fun fact of the day: alternatives to Amazon-owned Audible exist 🙃

Love to see Chappell Roan using her power for good. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/24/c...

Today I am feeling smug. I did the ironing. I made a batch of granola. I did the money. I did loads of little jobs that needed doing. It's incredible what you can do when you should be working on your assignment 😆

A cartoon about autumn....

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

It must be a while since I had tea out with husband, but the next bit of my assignment involves copying and pasting from multiple sources, so can't be done easily whilst out. This morning I tidied up my story, and sent it to son to give me his verdict.

Brianna didn't die because of her self-harm or social media use. She was murdered in a transphobic hate crime. Here is the interview I gave to Owen Jones at the time, as the only trans journalist reporting on the trial of her murderers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xke1...

After this was published my dad messaged me to say "What the hell was that cartoon all about" and maybe he is right... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Got the words down to the upper limit we're allowed - I'll worry about adding things back in tomorrow, and what I can sacrifice to permit it 🙄

If you feel you must put this owl on the wall of your toilet, despair not, for I can draw one for you! www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

ALL: please spread far and wide. The Trans Exile Network was aware of preparations for this and supports it. We will release a PR of our own shortly also. Note that Amnesty are supporting. There will also be more from TEN shortly on another initiative. Stay safe transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/10...

Managed to edit lots of extra words out of my assignment this morning, but there's still 200 to go to reach the upper limit of what's allowed. This afternoon I made a start on the reflective piece to explain how I'd used the course material. This one's only 350 words including all quotes - teeny 🥺

Science keeps proving what Trans+ people have always known: hormone therapy works - it reshapes bodies and saves lives Labour and Wes Streeting aren’t following science; they’re waging an ideological war. Their crusade against Trans+ healthcare is cruel, reckless, and dangerous

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Internal documents reviewed by the New York Times reveal Amazon's goal to replace 600,000 jobs with robots.⁠ When we support our local businesses, we create a more stable economy—one not at the whim of billionaires. Support your indie bookshop today and every day 💓⁠

First draft all written up. It's 1,000 words too long, and there's things I still need to put in there, but honestly - 1,500 words is so TINY! I'm sure they think they're being kind, seeing as it's the first one of the year, but what about the verbose amongst us? Has anyone considered our needs? 😆

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The aim is to get the first draft finished today, then it's edit, edit, edit! Went to the gym again this morning, but with both my knee and my back out of commission it was extremely limited what I could do. If nothing else, the walk there and back was good for me...

Honestly, the mainstream media reaction to Zack Polanski entering the elites’ own conversation space… …with widely-held public opinions… …tells you everything you need to know about why our mainstream media is a closed shop, broken, and no longer fit for purpose.

200+ TfL staff face sudden deportation thanks to govt’s cruel sudden changes to the Skilled Worker visa @rmtunion.bsky.social and @greenparty.org.uk stand with these workers We heard from workers unable to sleep at night not knowing if they'll be forced to leave Govt must shelve the changes

CLIMATE CHANGE IS COMING FOR YOUR PETS (and everything else)!! Here are some handy pro-pet hints for dealing with climatastrophe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Boy forced into girl's sports because someone wasn't paying attention when they did his birth certificate. Birth certificate trumps everything no matter what. Just what they wanted, right?

Jewish community leaders in Birmingham Standing outside Villa Park Saying they support the ban of Maccabi Saying it's nothing to do with religion, or against Jews "It's a genuine safety concern against hooliganism from Maccabi"

Here's a version of the English nursery rhyme, "The Grand Old Duke of York" 🎶 about the man who says he isn't going to call himself it anymore ... though whether he should be taken at his word ... 🤔 youtu.be/hoETmTJM014

If you don’t stand up for trans people when they’re alive then using their death to push your policies looks like cheap exploitation:

The EHRC has removed its interim guidance on the Supreme Court ruling on gender But this guidance is what Virgin Active gyms and other organisations used to ban trans people from their toilets and changing rooms... so what now? https://t.co/pnAgMzmVbr

Dropping the ECHR would mean no treaty protection against this in the UK.

Look how much talking son and I had to do - he sent me back for a refill!

Wow, Bridget Phillipson is DEFINITELY floundering! Let’s keep up the pressure…. www.instagram.com/reel/DQClCl1...

"It should not be remarkable that it is compassionately written and gives weight to the claimant’s perspective, but – for reasons we understand all too well by now – it is": Freddy McConnell on last week's landmark decision. goodlaw.social/uq0l

Curious how the Graham Linehan story is being spun, including by the BBC. He was arrested on suspicion of the criminal offence of inciting violence; but the BBC is now conflating his incitement with a "non-crime hate incident".

The level of monstering going on here slurring an entire section of the public as predators. This is Germany 1933 all over again.

What is this shite? Celebrating the roll back of rights against a marginalised community? Who's funding this gravy train? Who will be the actors! And lastly, I think it's all a bit premature. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Good news: I have reached the word count for my assignment. Bad news: it's only half written. Still, the more I write, the more their is to edit down to deathless prose, right? 😂

How would a wealth tax work? PMUK's @stephenstroud.bsky.social chats to 5Live's @felicityhannah.bsky.social #TaxWealthNotWork

Despite the ceasefire agreement, Israel continues to kill Palestinians and block aid to Gaza. Our government must not look away while Israel continues its genocide, just at a slower rate. We must pressure Israel to abide by the ceasefire: stop arms sales, implement sanctions.

Students: cost of living is soaring and we can hardly afford to feed ourselves Government: I hear you - how about higher fees and more debt?

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I hurt my knee last Thursday. How? I was walking in town, on a level pavement. There was no reason! As it's stayed sore, I've been putting more on my other knee and my back. Today, my back clicked ominously. Is it my age, or something? I am fed up with everything being sore all the time 🤬

The UK government is so concerned with protecting British people, it has done nothing to help Brits kidnapped by Israel from the flotilla and wants violent fans of an Israeli club to be allowed to rampage through a British city.

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Football fans aren't banned from games because they are at risk. Football fans are banned because they are the risk. This isn't complicated.

Please sign and share if you can 🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. 38d.gs/rezg

‘The exceptionally limited edition book.’ (My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books)

EHRC accused of ‘bullying’ government to push through "harmful and unworkable proposals"