One of the biggest signs that the UK is a deeply sick society is how much it hates and fears children.

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

I went to a big trans network meet up yesterday and it was mostly lovely, but I felt like such an old woman because I winced every time a British trans women would pronounce 'oestrogen' the American way (with an 'eh' rather than an 'ee').

Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers

So it turns out my daughter mentioned to her friend that I went from being her Dad to her Mum, he told his parents and bless then they looked up all kinds of resources to talk to him about trans people- he was mostly just jealous of the fact that my daughter has two Mums.

Star trek had a lot of hard lines over the years, but this remains the fucking hardest

Every remaining Labour Supporter:

Finally got around to having a big clear out and I threw away the orange concealer that I used to use to disguise my beard shadow- because thanks to a lot of laser and electrolysis I won't ever need it again!

Chomsky is a piece of shit, Norman Finkelstein showed how you fucking respond to nonces.

Of course the DoJ managed to commit a sex crime whilst releasing the documentation of sex crimes.

However rancid and morally bankrupt you think TERFs are, they are worse. They believe in nothing but their own comfort and exercising power over others. They think they should control your body and the bodies of everyone you love. They think they should decide who lives and dies.

This was my attitude to drugs when I was 17. If you still think that they are a substitute for a personality, you need to grow the fuck up.

Schrodinger's Greens: Simultaneously a place where the middle class aren't welcome, whilst also being too middle class and alienating to working class voters.

I went on a HET-funded trip to Auschwitz when I was 18 and I'm sure back then (2009 or so) we talked about the fact that the Holocaust was so tied up with eugenics and hence killed racialised groups (Jews, Roma and Slavs) as well as other 'genetic threats' (disabled or queer people).

The Guardian agreeing that liberalism is long dead and in it's place is just centrism.

On the subject of student loans, I've just paid mine off! I graduated in 2013, got a good job and started working in 2014 so have taken 12 years to pay mine off. My brother graduated in 2015, got an equally good job and his loan has only gotten bigger over the past decade.

Student loans were basically an accounting trick, as when they were brought in and expanded they allowed the government to treat what had previously been an area of public spending as an asset. This changed like a decade ago when the ONS insisted that this was dodgy AF, so now we're stuck with them.

BBC News says it has authenticated a video that shows Alex Pretty saying "I smell bacon" in the vicinity of ICE agents.

Today in any song can be about being trans: Fat Lip by Sum 41.

It's a real shame transition isn't as instantly available as the transphobes insist, because "willy nilly" would be the perfect term for feminising bottom surgery on demand.

Weber would have a field day with this (although he was empirically wrong about the protestant ethic producing capitalism).

Teams does have one great feature: if you need to avoid the screen timing out, you can start a teams meeting with yourself. Really useful for when you're thinking so deeply about work that you're going long stretches without typing or moving the mouse.

Jay Den is my special little guy and I love him.

I can confirm that Sex Matters has been refused permission to bring its anti-democratic, exclusionary, and bigoted challenge to the inclusive space at Hampstead Ponds. More to follow.

The vast majority of people do not hate or fear trans people. This is a hate campaign orchestrated by a small number of wealthy, well-connected bigots who have to use their capture of institutions to impose their hateful views.

A reminder that the original paper on 'Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria' used the EXACT same dodgy methodology as Wakefield's original study (interviewing parents who already believed that the MMR caused their child's autism/their child had rapidly developed gender dysphoria).

How we see it, and what the data and evidence tells us. Trans women are not a threat to cis women. We now have over 79k signatures saying the same www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/28/t...

If the Greens defeat Farage in Gorton and Denton, it'll change politics forever. I think that's worth donating a few quid to, don't you? donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/parliamentar...

I swear at least 30% of reactionary politics comes down to the most intolerable fucking bores using the state and press to try to force normal people to be friends with them.

Were any Harry Potter libs (the ones whose entire frame of reference is this series of children's books) British? Intuitively I assume they must have been, but the only ones I can recall are USian.

I was a child obsessed with Harry Potter and I read the books a lot- but even at this age I understood that they were stories for kids and didn't have much political depth other than "it's nice to be nice" and "racism is bad". It probably helped that I was aware of, and had even read, other books.

Really want a hazard striped dress, it'd scream forklift certified (which I'm not).

Evidently the sign of a real man is having strong opinions about ladies fashion.

So all I have to do is wear these and men will leave me alone?

God, tired of working in mysterious ways:

We don't know if Limewire could feel, what if it grows up feeling abandoned and judged for being full of malware?

This is so heartbreaking, that poor girl. No-one remotely involved in this wanted to exclude her, just a few absolute freaks with far too much power.

Brass Band Demon Hunters

Tonight I went back to the gaming club I used to play at for the first time since I came out as trans. And I had a lovely time, no-one treated my any differently than they did before. Also the elegant children of Slaanesh massacred the mewling spawn of the corpse emperor (won by like 5 points).

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

Philosophers love their hypotheticals and thought experiments so much, they're not going to let a little thing like "evidence" get in the way of insisting that they're right.

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"Mummy, how do cats have kittens? They don't have arms, so they can't do the special hug".

John Money’s research absolutely shows the value and importance of medical ethics in research - so watching the same mistakes be made again with the puberty blocker trial is brutal.

A reminder that the civil service, almost all of which are paid orders of magnitude less than this, have much stricter anti-corruption rules than MPs. We're not allowed to accept as much as a free sandwich.

no other president would be brave enough to threaten the swiss with battleships

My daughter has two Mums. She deserves to have relationship education that doesn't stogmatise families like ours.

I have watched the first episode of Starfleet Academy and I'm afraid that I am in love with Holly Hunter. Her voice alone does things to me.