Referring to Linehan as a comedy writer in 2025 is generous for someone whose "Anti-transgender activism" section of his Wikpedia article is now longer than the "Life & Career" section

Ask members of any minority group whether they believe in the moral character of the British public.

here's a blistering hot take: as much as we joke about "detransitioning from a haircut," cutting your hair short is a significantly more irreversible (in the short term) process than taking hormones for a month. You're not getting the hair back without time, but stopping a short HRT regimen? Easy.

Kair Starmer simply cannot continue as Prime Minister. He is entirely unprepared for this political moment, and is handing the country to Reform on a platter. No matter your politics, you would have to be a fool to support this inept man as PM.

This is best understood by recognising that this isn’t because *the public* have been wildly radicalising themselves to the far right for well over a decade. It’s politicians and media figures who have been roasting their own brains and egging each other on, with results that are all around us.

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and when labour get wiped out it will be completely deserved. their tolerance for actually evil stuff like this deserves to be met with electoral annihilation.

Worth remembering yet again how deciding to be aggressively antitrans elevated KS from a complete provincial nobody to a national newspaper columnist and international rightwing celebrity, & how she's steadily leant into every dimension of that role.

tonight

Freeman was following the same trajectory just the other day re: George Floyd. Trial balloons to see if GCs are ready to start “””protecting (cishet white) women””” from foreigners and black people.

Reform: if we deport 2 million people, we will "save" 200 billion pounds Liberals: check your sums, it is only 100 billion

I'm sure our internationally recognised human rights lawyer prime minister will speak up about this any moment now

He’s got his huge headline which has set the news agenda seen by millions, no one will see your graph apart from a few thousand people, Labour are going to come out with “actually we’re scrapping it today” or some other response to the right of Farage, the escalation continues

I’m sick of people posting facts and graphs about how Nigel Farage’s numbers are wrong. Fascists don’t care about facts

"there would be tighter restrictions on bringing spouses and children to the UK." I have to wonder if the independent journalist parroting the reform commentary without challenging it has any idea how tough the rules currently are (this is rhetorical, I know what the answer is)

“Labour is so cautious, it’s frustrating” it’s not caution, they just fucking hate the left. Their entire ethos is hating the left.

What happens this time, when the lads realise their new allies are mostly a bunch of annoying, aggro leftist swine, and the enemy they need to defeat is the editorial staff of the Times of London? Great things I’m sure, brilliant success.

And we’ve been here before: in 2016, when the lads decided they would root out and destroy the Fake News that gave us the Leave vote. What happened? They swiftly realised that meant fighting the Sun and the Mail, and decided it was much better to fight Twitter nobodies, Facebook, the Canary.

I agree. Also, it was probably intensely stupid to have spent a decade portraying Britain’s anti-racism campaigners as terrifying, treasonous, totalitarian extremists while at the same time saying racist views about migration are what everyone thinks, and disagreeing is shitting on the working man.

GOING FROM BINARY TRANS TO NON-BINARY IS NOT DETRANSITIONING

nobody ever believes me when I say this

You'll definitely find that tickle kink stories tend to have rather laughable worldbuilding

the woman who wrote "Now What Actually Are The Logistics Of Force-Fem, The Novel" would ask these questions

I shouldn’t be allowed online because I see terrible things

question have we tried pissing on the flag instead

the draft for wyffh 27 is done. 23k. gimme a day or two to edit.

the fact they're out here running "abigail spanberger will trans your kids" against one of the most conservative candidates out of the Democratic Party is a great example of why actually standing up for trans people, especially kids, is the only way to go

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

The Meta glasses are controlled ENTIRELY with hand gestures, but they are assumed to be some kind of "huge advance" for disabled people. No explanation given. I'm so fucking annoyed at this kind of ignorance in tech journalis.

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

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with the rise of the galaxy edge and the iphone air and the inevitable other stupid-thin phones that are about to follow, the era of the “it’s thin and it’s light and it’s like I’m barely holding it in my hand and— oh shit I’m out of battery” phone is truly here galaxy s10 vindicated at last

It’s worth recalling that McSweeney was at the time Labour’s Billionaire-Bungs Acquisition Officer - a job that was effectively obsolete, in a member-funded party that did not seek bribes from squillionaires.

...dear Dem politicians & pundits, 1) the sports debate was never a serious issue, it was merely a wedge to launder in anti-trans policies (see: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...), 2) they are now going after trans ppl's *rights to exist* – that's where the battle is now! take a side in that!

Sainsbury's corn flakes, 1973. From the Sainsbury Archive. Its a little too 'Wicker Man-ish' for me... www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/se...

I've said it before, I'm saying it again now, and I'll be saying it in the future: use sunscreen in your face cream, every day, regardless of the weather or season.

he's spent the last 18 months claiming trans women are a serious risk on women's wards i don't believe a single word he says this is a man who spent the election calling for segregation and who has almost entirely replaced our healthcare with conversion practices based on christian pseudoscience

evangelicals don't want to "ban sex," they want to rule by rape. (which entails total control over sex and over the bodies of subordinate gender classes & children thry patriarchal sexual authority.) critical difference

Strangely, nobody in politics or media fancied touching a story that amounted to “We, the important politics understanders, intentionally inflicted Boris Johnson and diamond hard Brexit upon everyone by lying like fuck to the public in unison for two years.”

I mean sure, but all of this stuff came out in graphic detail five years ago and nobody wanted to talk about it because it showed - at best - that the entire national press had got the most terrifying political scandal of the decade exactly wrong, with truly devastating consequences for the country.

every photograph of my desk setup hints at its edges at the terrible mess that consumes all parts of the desk not protected by the Big Mat

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.

“If you don’t like it you can leave” update

I wanna be one of those people who writes their books in coffee shops at ten in the morning, not while wearing ugly shorts and an old t-shirt in bed an hour after midnight

very close to being done with the draft of the new wyffh chapter. 1.5 scenes to go. it’s been a struggle to get anything written tonight for body reasons but I’ve clocked in like 2.3k words, which isn’t bad.

If you're still running Windows 10, here are your options: - Upgrade to Windows 11. - Jump through the strange, esoteric hoops Microsoft has provided to give you exactly one more year of support. No one knows how to do this. - Switch to Linux. That's it. Pick one and leave techies alone.