New from me. A years-long battle with Valve's ineffective moderation rumbles on as bigotry and harassment is given persistent passes on Steam. It leads to lengthy, sometimes traumatic, processes to get content that violates Steam's own guidelines removed – if it ever is. In @theguardian.com.

Disappointed with the Tune and Fairweather digital version of Scholar’s Index - not sure how you’re supposed to read this at all. It’s a PDF rather than a epub so can’t change font things, and format is 2 pages side by side like a book rather than a document. Should have tried the free sample 😞

GenderGP’s Helen Webberley refers Hilary Cass to the GMC for misconduct Non-substack archive link: archive.is/zMLWR

Article on the Guardian about “profound autism” and honestly I stopped reading when it mentioned using IQ. If you think IQ is legit and not an awful metric based on racism and ableism I don’t think you should be allowed within 100 feet of psychology or healthcare.

Genuinely, correct, this is completely out of character for Kiryu. At every opportunity, RGG has completely shit the bed. This current group seems to be nothing but shitty dudes letting their shitty beliefs come out and have said fuck you if you don't like it. This current RGG is done-zo.

Novara interviewing Maurice Glasman with predictable results. Politely asserting that trans people should not have the freedom to transition and express their identity as they wish is, in fact, fucking monstrous. I already had low expectations for @novaramedia.com, nevertheless I am disappointed.

Employment law in the UK is a joke., Employees get treated like disposable waste by most companies. This needs to change. It has nothing to do with immigrants and everything to with large companies screwing good people over for obscene profit.

www.annafreud.org/news/new-tra... Teaching staff? Parents? Know a school who could use this? Our lovely wider team at Anna Freud Centre are now able to offer free school training to support neurodivergent students. Please share. #Autism #ADHD etc.

I’ve had a male dermatologist for years who has seen me down to my pants, and a male student for one of my smear tests, and I would infinitely prefer them to having a TERF ghoul within a mile of my body. Do I need to start asking docs and nurses if they are trans-friendly before I get seen?

There should be a rule that before anyone is allowed to talk about a minority group on TV, members of that group get to review what they're planning to say and decide whether they have to wear the hot dog costume from I Think You Should Leave

OH: “Was it called the Demon Core before they started playing with it with a screwdriver?”

Job application done! Applying for a job in your own team always feels weird but at least it's ticked off the to-do list

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps. I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... I think we should have a day off in mourning

I thinking finding out girls could have boy names via the Famous Five was probably my first time thinking about not being a girl, must have been around 7/8 years old. Although, in a very me thing, I never actually read the books. I played the text adventure instead.

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

The thing about Brewdog is that wankers, by definition, will drink anything anywhere, so it's not sustainable to make them your core demographic. This also applies to everything else.

Everyone in the UK right now

I remember when we were 12-18 months out from AI white collar job automation, 12-18 months ago.

I said when this was announced that the only ethical response was everyone leaving and joining trans inclusive groups in protest. I’m impressed by the hundreds of women who have:

Diablo IV PC cooled with real human blood is still going strong two years later, says guy who won it aftermath.site/diablo-iv-bl...

Happy Friday 13th! To celebrate the success of the UK establishment's continued "clarity" on trans exclusion, I am delighted to share a major update to my blog post "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" The biggest change is an entirely new section on harms caused. ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...

We're getting some questions about what the decision means for people who are intersex. One of our claimants was intersex and after FWS their employer asked them to start using different toilets. The short answer is, it doesn't mean anything because the decision doesn't address their position. /1

where's the Greggs

This should worry everyone. It’s anti worker as well as transphobic

I feel I must point out that “trans people can just use the accessible toilets” does not consider the lack of provision for disabled people particularly in public facilities.

My feed this morning is a mix of joy and despair and it’s just gonna be one of those days.

Once again trans rights are coming down to who is more likely to sue you; anti-trans activists with their billionaire sponsor or trans people who are sharing the same £20 note around in gofundmes

"In a pivotal step, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the forthcoming EU Gender Equality Strategy 2026–2030, increasing pressure on the European Commission to strengthen protections for trans people within this framework."

One of my cats has been begging me all morning to go back to bed and I’m wondering if my boss will take that as a reason to do no work today

I share this only to help those contemplating whether to tweet "I support Palestine Action".

Every day I think about how the UK is still under a red flag alert for genocide of trans people from the Lemkin Institute www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale... Every news story or update about trans rights must be read through this lens for you to understand what’s going on

Literally - Cass used the fact that children diagnosed as trans enough to be put on puberty blockers continued to be trans as they adolesced, as proof that puberty blockers were a problem. They were hoping more children at the service would stop being trans and looking for a means to make it happen.

In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

My favorite exchange on Twitter in the history of the site

Transphobia is misogyny is transphobia is misogyny is transphobia is misogyny...

I have resisted the urge many times in the last few weeks to jump into a “well actually” conversation about the accessibility regulations with “the equality act exists* and disabled people still need to do shit that‘s exempt from the regs” *at time of posting

The best 'accessible' PDF is something that is not a PDF. A well-tagged PDF is more accessible to people with some specific access needs. And if you don't know what those 'access needs' are or what 'well-tagged' means, treat the first sentence as gospel.

If nothing else, you’ll get a load of fun video game recommendations

Adult female oat

Join us at our #a11y -focused event on February 26th: 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh... @kitation.co.uk will use video games as a comparator to look at how we can introduce fresh ideas into our work as the compliance-lead approach has run out of steam. #FrontEndSheff #Sheffield

Post a banger that’s not in English youtu.be/tHTwHFhqtRg?... Honestly HAZUKI’s solo albums have been my fave music over the last couple of years

Data from at least one large study suggests that more than 50% of detransitioners subsequently retransition again. I am looking for anyone who has transitioned twice and is not currently cis, to interview for a study I am working on about on retransitioners.

A chicken is cheaper than a house, happy to help with further expert analysis

I graduated as a dev in 2011 and there has been conversations about women in tech even then, feels weird and disheartening that we’re still having that conversation 15 years later. Has anything been learned?

Downside of learning BSL at a university is all the other students being half my age

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

“Please enjoy the museum”: Relooted is OUT NOW! Please share!