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.

thinking again about when my best friend (who is german) had to borrow our friend's android phone to apply for his settled status after brexit bc the app you needed to do it on wasn't available for iphone.....they make it as hard as possible, and this was someone who has a phone/access/literacy

Nearer to three quarters now. I wonder when it'll hit 1 million?

Quite apart from anything else - This is going to go down *so* badly in the devolved nations. The "Brit Card", in Northern Ireland? Are you out of your mind?

Indeed

I called it: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/25/keir-starmer-expected-to-announce-plans-for-digital-id-cards Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards Measure could be announced as soon as Friday as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration to the UK

Okay, so what happens with Starmer's digital ID 'Brit card' for those adults who don't carry smart phones? (They exist, and they're mostly old.)

Haz rote wurds. Got an antho deadline coming up...

Ooh, do you suppose this might be why the Bony T. Liar foundation is suddenly bleating about digital ID cards and pot-holes all of a sudden? A Blairite dead cat on the table to distract from Blair's culpability in the Libyan civil war (and other crimes against humanity)?

The attack on affirming care for trans adolescents is that they don't want us passing so well that there's no frisson about having sex with us. That plus the fear of not knowing for sure one way or the other.

One of the reasons why the Right oppress trans people while also consuming vast amounts of porn about us is that they want to keep us poor, marginalised and available for low paid sex work. They hate the idea of our having other options.

Amazing piece by @echomikeromeo.bsky.social: "if we want to tell stories about the past that not only make historiographical contributions but also help people get healthcare [etc] we must start by ensuring that we are in community ourselves and are responsive to community pressures and needs".

Tony Blair's think tank badly needs to be stabbed in the thought shower.

Runaway capitalism devours its people then itself.

Don’t look, Cthulhu!

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3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

I guess it's the same reason nobody consults trans people when making policy decisions - it's more comfortable to treat every minority as being lesser, and therefore not worthy of having a voice 😒

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

"So you see, while they're all suffering from headaches that they can no longer cure they'll forget aaaaaallllllll about those wretched Epstein Files!"

Meet the crew of my upcoming space race fantasy, First Mage on the Moon! 2/2

Meet the crew of my upcoming space race fantasy, First Mage on the Moon! 1/2

The richest man in the world is a racist with the emotional development of a 12 year old, his friend who finances the right believes he’s fighting the Antichrist, and the President is a dimwitted sex criminal who thinks he’s a polymath. Curtailing their influence is literally the government’s job.

Great summary, and I’m in the middle of this writer’s book and it’s really interesting.

It's childish, but I just want to be in the room with him saying this so I can shout, "YOUR presence is unpleasant" in his face.

Happy 71st Anniversary of the Hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, when school children gathered at Glasgow's Southern Necropolis to seek out the rumoured kidnapper of small boys! Read our Cameron Johnston's take on the legend, Surviving Life, at the link below. @cameronjohnston.bsky.social

Rapture day ... I got thrown back

Why did Count Dracula land in Whitby and not Scotland? He was scared of Glaswegian kids with knives.

The birth rate in the UK is not enough to sustain the country for much longer, especially with an ageing population. Without mass immigration, both of qualified experts and the 'unskilled' workers, we're absolutely screwed.

1. Turns out caving to fascists is a terrible fucking business model, never cave to fascists, not even once 2. I am happy this is resolved because now I will be able to watch the final episode of Alien:Earth www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

Key's died on my laptop, unfortunately it's one I need for my PIN so I'm not getting into it till I get that fixed

speedrunning Christianity from "our Lord and Saviour Charlie Kirk preached love thy enemy" to "in the name of Charlie Kirk Almighty, I will burn all heretics" in twenty seconds flat

Reform wants to scrap indefinite leave to remain and replace it with 5 year renewable visas which can't be accessed if you ever access benefits. Basically turning every immigrant in the UK into people vulnerable to exploitation by employers they rely upon to stay in their homes. archive.ph/nOA6x

He's definitely plotting to get rid of Starmer and become PM, and has realised transphobia might get in his way. I mean, his other major areas of liability are his relationship with private health care and his personality and he clearly can't change either of those....

Reading games press, Spikeybits.com reporting anti-fascist statements from GW senior staff and contributors including @mikebrooks668.bsky.social with "stay out of politics" commentary. Deleted SB from feed, I think they should be included among fascist-adjacent gamers, of which there are sadly a few

It would be nice if any other party noticed that saying simple things that are pri Palestine, trans rights, or about supporting basic human needs, are getting major positive reactions from the public, while pandering to the far right is causing plummeting polls (except for Reform).

This nasty piece of writing (archive.is/To1OA to avoid giving money to that rag) has been popular with the Scottish terven, which should come as no surprise because their bigotry extends into misogyny and they can't stand to see anyone outside their hateful bubble success.

Slept late and woke up stiff, in quite a lot of pain. Been out and now out of spoons. Lying down with cat and writing the rest of the day off; got tickets to a thing this evening but no, early bed

Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

guessing this is also the prompt they fed to ezra klein and every other centrist hagiographer with the instruction "this but make it sound fancy"

"look they really want Gilead, if we want to win we have to promise them Gilead" is the genius centrist wormthink now it seems

Your reminder that legislation to curb the rights of trans people to use restrooms or do anything else means everyone's behaviour, clothing etc will be opened up to intrusive and unwanted scrutiny and potential challenge in our daily lives. This is not a 'them' issue. Trans rights are human rights.

Plus it's actually cheaper to join this "actually exists, has structures for governance and campaigning, has parliamentarians and councillors and an actual policy platform, and a name" real party than it was to join the botched Your Party member platform

They aren't even pretending to believe in free speech any more.

About to chat with esteemed friends and colleagues about 'writing the magic' - in the context of what we do, and our contributions to the excellent and brand new handbook of the same name. deadinkbooks.com/product/writ...

A bunch of stories we really loved, a bunch of stories we'd love to see more of, and a Lot of stories in which a bad adult gets turned into (metaphorical or literal) bacon: it's time for DWJ's short fiction of the 70s and 80s! zencastr.com/z/1eIt9L0F

Just throw the majority of Democratic voters who are women (and others who believe women are people endowed with certain inalienable rights) under the bus = lose all principle in order to pursue a losing winning strategy?

I'm not sure all of them are yet committed to our physical eradication or incarceration but that's their direction of travel. They are getting annoyed that most people don't comply with their desire that we just shut up,go away and stop being difficult.

GPEW seeing a big spike in membership this month should bury all the complaints that having a strong pro-trans rights line would hurt their breadth of appeal. As if the continued successes of the SGP weren't evidence enough of that. Transphobia isn't popular or compelling on the left.