Labour: "The first duty of any government is to keep the country safe" also Labour: "We are clear that the Palestinian state must be demilitarised" Keir Starmer is an arrogant colonial toad.

It’s time to ask what the fuck is going on at Sky News. It’s no owned by Comcast which owns MSNBC who told employees in a memo that Kirk was a “tragic loss” and that “We should engage with respect, listen, and treat people with kindness”

It’s an extremely white take. Keir Starmer can’t simply do a speech and say racism is not acceptable while he supports genocide in Gaza, has racist rhetoric on immigration and his cabinet has no POC that actively support their communities. It needs action not just words

“The computer acts like a computer” is such a profound and such a mundane result, all at once. It’s far more shocking that reasonable-sounding people have argued that massive datasets contain within them a secret truth that only will be revealed by… multinomial logits

This isn’t a slippery slope. It’s a cliff. The moment you take one step, you’re already at the bottom. Phase one seems to be making it voluntary at first, while shaming businesses like food delivery apps that hire contractors (it’s lawful not to check a contractor’s right to work) into adopting it.

Today seems to have really set off autumn. Big increase in yellow leaves on the trees on the street. The rain overwhelming everybody's gutters is probably adding to the vibe too :p.

After all the complaints about VTM Bloodlines 2 departures from the original, it is amusing that the PCGamer demo build preview today reads almost like a review of the original Bloodlines minus the bugs (good writing and a strong sense of atmosphere let down by awkward combat).

He is another one of these types, quite common in the venture capital industry, who has had his head turned so much by technology and founders that he has forgotten he actually isn't one

It's also just reinforcing the narrative that men can't help it (and therefore, can they really be blamed?). Drugs are needed because they just can't control themselves. It distracts from the real reason: power that rapists hold over their victims. Male supremacy cannot be allowed to be questioned.

UK meritocracy and social mobility update from The Guardian

OK. But let’s not use the word decolonise okay? scottishhistorysociety.com/scotland-and...

The Green party view to get rid of the Home Office is the most common sense policy on the table. Every Home secretary and minister need to be deradicalised, evil and dangerous the lot of em.

“UK law allows the government to take ownership of water companies through special administration, where the government appoints administrators and creditors, such as banks and bondholders, receive compensation, which is substantially lower than market value and excludes shareholders altogether”

Wes Streeting is a traitor. It's the whole point of him, the only reason he is even being considered for leader. He has betrayed the class he was born into and other LGBT people repeatedly and reliably and that reliability is the basis of his career.

Because I've seen some prominent cis allies saying that they hope Streeting's most recent words are a good sign: this is the entire point - he's always got some reasonable sounding words to placate cis people as he continues to meet with transphobic bigots and enact brutally transphobic policies.

There have been racist attacks against British born people of colour so let’s call them what they are: Racist Intimidation marches. Anti-immigration marches my ass

Finally, an excuse to reprint the op-ed we run 6 times per week

In case it's not obvious, Wes Streeting has designs on supplanting starmer as leader/ PM possibly. And many in labour will think "a gay leader! a brilliant way to show our tolerance". But streeting is a self loathing anti trans piece of shit. So. That'll also be a disaster.

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

Wes Streeting watched trans kids cry in front of him and then sided with the groups that teach parents how to torture those kids.

"therefore I resign"

This is the same rationale for repression applied not only to all sex work, but to kink, polyamory and all non-normative sexuality and gender identities. Straight fragility can not imagine you as anything but an existential threat to * their* story. Which is why they must burn the witches.

GOOD

I know it's not exactly news by this stage, but I can't help find something morbidly fascinating about LGBT+ Labour's craven uselessness in the face of this wildly transphobic government. This is the first thing they've posted in 2 months. Bailey supported Bridget Phillipson for deputy leader btw.

The problem with Lewis's essay is that it presents the desire for communal belonging and national pride as an apolitical impulse that gets catered to by the right, rather than in fact being a set of political sensibilities which tend towards certain inevitable conclusions.

Streeting ignored the experts who begged him not to ban puberty blockers. He ignored decades of research, hundreds of studies, he heard trans kids cry to him and beg him not to ban them, and he did it anyway and has the nerve to say he was following "robust science" Fuck off

Yvette Cooper shunted off to foreign jaunts but replaced by Shabana Mahmood … Wes Streeting making entirely useless attempted apologies to trans people with no action… Keir Starmer acknowledges people of colour exist in this country too late… Labour’s farcical attempts appear nicer are a joke

Went to bed super early. Awake now. Can't sleep so I'm going to have a Tom Collins and watch an opera.

He gave a speech to the NHS LGBT+ conference, spouting platitudes about respect while reciting 'sex-based rights' transphobia in the next breath. It's window dressing for continued policy of excluding trans people from meaningful involvement in trans healthcare policy. More Labour crap, basically.

A quick scan of those jailed for the 2024 riots include a Haulage business owner, home renovator, manufacturing engineer, roofer. Racist scum come in all classes, including the billionaire CEO of Tesla www.itv.com/news/calenda...

This is insanely bleak

Must be noted that the largest 'child friendly' gaming platform is an active danger to children not games with nebulous (and probably LGBT) 'mature' themes on Steam www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The impulse to say that erotica CAN'T say anything of value, that porn MUST be mindless indulgence, is an extension of this problem by the way. Sex and kink are just parts of life. Art that explores both primarily can touch on other subjects meaningfully as well. Stop trying to silo everything.

(1) the lack of reference to Hansard, (2) the lack of on analysis wrt Goodwin, (3) the impossibility of ANYONE being trans under s7 by their analysis, (4) their analysis of s195 being based on folk taking performance enhancing drugs… Sorry, Lord Hodge, but someone needs to mark your homework.

I am not interested in ‘not everyone who was there was a fascist’ conversations. If you attend a demo called by a fascist, you are taking part in a fascist demo. It should not be difficult to grasp this.

It's not good or a start. He doesn't speak about the rally he speaks about his concern for the flag and the police, not the rise of fascism. He's been stoking division and anti-immigrant rhetoric for a year and using the precious police to quash anti-genocide protest.

My white grandparents lived through bombs dropping on them they had no running hot water, woke up to ice inside the windows in winter and an outside toilet. They did not bat an eyelid at their son’s fiancé other than “she’s so gorgeous” so my patience at the idea poverty causes racism is low

So now that it’s confirmed that none of the messages on the bullets were pro-trans, maybe we should have a national conversation about how multiple newspapers repeated a lie about us on their front pages hours after doubts had already been cast over it?

This is, as ever, a completely unevidenced statement designed to do one thing and one thing only: create a two-track sector where "research" happens only in the places deemed deserving of its warm reputational glow. The rest of us (often trained at some exceptional places ourselves) get to eat it.

lol fuck you

This is extremely offensive. Most research is unfunded and we are expected to continually produce at the same level on an ever-shrinking amount of allotted time. They have always traded on academic’s love of their research and willingness to invest their free time to it.

The @yankees.com never held a moment of silence for any trans person murdered. They have not held a moment of silence for any of the victims of the genocide in Gaza. They did not hold one for George Floyd, even when other MLB teams did. But they held a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk.

That Labour deputy election is turning into even more of a fix than I imagined it would be.

Whose lives get to matter here? Can we have a heart-to-heart about that?

America has been on a path of steadily increasing political violence for a long time now. It didn’t start with Trump and MAGA. I simply don’t think this event is the historical hinge point liberals or conservatives are speaking about it as, and nor do I think it will be, within the grander scheme.

Paradox: The problem of fascism’s ascent in American politics is both completely separate from and deeply interwoven with America’s relationship with violence and in both cases it’s because violence is enmeshed in the very fibres of America itself. It is the cause, context and consequence.

Funny how this keeps happening?

REF was always a stitch up that had universities competing against each other for dwindling carrots on sticks. Whoever is “asking” these questions knows what they’re going to find and it will be a pretext to make even more cuts to a broken shoddy system of university funding lol

Yeah this is bad. It’s not transparency it’s fishing for cherries to pick to justify funding cuts.

This is a very strange thing for a member of party that is openly stoking racists tensions to post. Don't get me wrong, it's welcome. But could you ask the Prime Minister, who you endorse each time you sit behind him the House of Commons, to tell the Truth?