UK's Labour Party abandoned transgender people. The gambit to pursue rightwing voters by abandoning a targeted minority failed, and now they're facing the prospect of a historic loss. US Dems could learn a lot from their failure. Great piece from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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If you want something cosy and kind to counteract everything, then you want to get in on this

Another Sunday, another interview in the New York Times where two cis men politely discuss if trans people are actually human or not. No consensus reached! Oh well!

Prepping the filming of a new episode, so posts will be sparse this week ... in the meanwhile here are the links to five episodes of the show to get you all caught up before we begin the Halloween Horror-Thon on Friday! (Links in the comments)

This Galaxy Quest fan theory makes a lot of sense.

So we're at the 'we don't have to bake gay cakes but you have to bake Charlie Kirk cakes' stage of this fucking nonsense.

Now this is Content

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When I tell you I can entertain myself for hours on end, I be doing stuff like this 🤣

You see Jesus was a Jedi... And won the Belt

'Please open your device and scan your Citizen ID to access this toilet. Please ensure that you are attempting to use a toilet which corresponds with your biological sex. This toilet is remotely monitored for invalid access attempts.'

The upshot of them escalating their bigoted claims to this level is that it makes most people doubt everything they say about trans people. Very few people believe a lie to this degree of ridiculousness.

Well don't I feel stupid

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This petition gained a million signatures yesterday. If we can keep up that growth it will terrify people at the Labour conference. #PapersPlease petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

Reminder that "gender ideology" isn't a thing that exists. No one can define it. It's not real. It was a term made up by the right and pushed Daily Wire hosts because "trans people having rights" isn't scary, but ideologies need to acquire new members through propaganda to perpetuate.

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

A 30 percent tariff on upholstered furniture? JD Vance must be beside himself. None of us are free until couches are free.

Ah, the cranberry. If headache were a juice.

Delighted to reveal 'Magic, Maps, and Mischief'. This has had quite the journey to publication. Want stories about neurodivergent people finding one another in a world trying to limit them, writing *by* and autistic person. Pre-order now: mybook.to/magicmapsand... Cover by @lizdelton.bsky.social

BREAKING: Wholesome On a work call, a colleague mentioned R2D2 and C3PO in a story and our coworker said, "I've heard those names before but that's it." I tossed a pic of them in the chat and she said, "The wee gold man is cool. He'd make a great decoration."

One time Baywatch did a crossover with Pacific Blue, aka Baywatch on Bikes. Prepare to be underwhelmed! The vid is now public, please share! youtu.be/uQjVYw_wUpw

A long time ago I used to think "Yeah the US has tons of horrific problems that need addressing, but at least they aren't as bad as China with their concentration camps, horrific wages and working conditions, and social credit stopping anyone from criticizing the government" Welp

Just a reminder that if you enjoy a book, please leave a quick review on Amazon or Bookshop dot org, or wherever. Even if it's only a sentence, it really, really helps get the word out to other readers.

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Just in case you missed in among all the digital ID talk today - Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority Blair was spotted outside Trump Tower this week, as was Rishi Sunak www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I love everything about this

Ask an immigrant with indefinite leave to remain how easy it is to sort out ID when getting a new job *right now*. This is a total disconnect from reality, racist, and stupid.

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

Here’s something that all of you in the UK can do that helps trans people and is good for you too. Not to mention preventing a massive waste of government money.

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

"Who would have predicted this?" - Black women did. - Trans people did. - The *entire* disability community did. - The anarchists did. - Post-Evangelicals did. "Well why didn't I hear them." You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

what if we kissed on the pretty freight machine

The 19thNews/SurveyMonkey polling echoes a Mar 2025 poll from Data for Progress which found 55% agreed that “families & physicians should be the ones making decisions about transgender youth medical care, not the government” and just 33% supported government bans. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

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Perfect fluorite crystal found in the Yaogangxian Mine in Hunan, China Photo: hu_jingliang/IG #crystals

Chun King Foods (1947-circa 1996): A line of canned, packaged, and frozen ostensibly "Chinese" foods and meals. Popular options included egg rolls, won tons, noodles, chop suey and more. The branding/license limped along in Canada and the UK for many years after its U.S. discontinuation

He's either banning lip balm use across all branches of the military or the US is declaring war on a random country.

reminder that Dracula was a contemporary novel, i.e. set in the year it was published, which was 1897 and Coca-Cola was first commercially bottled in 1886 you can 100% depict Harker, Van Helsing, Morris, Seward and Holmwood chugging at these motherfuckers while they go huntin

I had to ring Revenue today and despite being on hold for 25 minutes, the rep was able to get everything sorted for me in about 5 minutes.

Giving this another push, as it is this coming weekend.

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Labour really love "detecting potholes" as an excuse for various technologies that are clearly unrelated to the quite easy job of pothole detection. A while back they were saying "AI" could be used for this, with no explanation of where the up-to-date photos of every square metre of road come from.