Shabana Mahmood’s special advisor threatened us with an injunction and two different lawsuits last night in an attempt to block this story linking her to a notorious vote rigging case. I think it’s strongly in the public interest. So here it is. www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/exclusive-sh...

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Is it time for a slowly degrading vegetable stream yet?

big well done to "gender critical feminists" for giving themselves enough brain damage from online hate to conclude "raising children is a job for women" is a feminist position

I do not wish to be melodramatic, but I think it is good to be trans and I will die before accepting that transness should ever perish from this Earth. iosphere.beehiiv.com/p/5-honey-ar...

Honestly the biggest threat to LGBT rights (and broader rights) at the moment is the government is set to introduce guidance that pushes an entire community out of public life. That should be at the top of any LGBT org’s agenda + particularly during a lab gov www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

One year ago today. Our small, skilled, volunteer team hasn’t stopped since the FWS judgment, and we need your help. Will you support our work? www.zeffy.com/en-GB/donati... Most of what we do is behind the scenes, but here’s how we have used your funding so far:

Stonewall are trying to triangulate to a centre of gravity, without thought to how to move that centre with urgency and with a strategic approach ill suited to a rollback of existing rights where public opinion is split. If we let the momentum of backlash slip now, it’ll be a decade to fix this

Nothing says feminism like going after women’s charities archive.ph/2026.04.15-2...

Not trans people, ‘on trans’ Dehumanisation

I’m so sorry to all the short kings out there, Rosie Duffield says you are no longer men x

have British politics nerds properly absorbed the fact that Steve Hilton is going to be the Republican nominee for Governor of California? like, David Cameron's Steve Hilton. Steve "what if we didn't wear shoes to cabinet meetings" Hilton. anyway he's a full-on ethnofascist now. and also Californian

We have to bank the wins where we can or we will all flame out in unproductive despair. Hardly anyone thought last year that we could kill the code of practice, but we did. It’s taken political, public, media, legal and protest pressure to get here, to move the needle even slightly - but we have.

the world can pry em dashes from my cold dead hands

wahoo! my despatch from Budapest on the Hungarian election is out! you can give it a read here, it's very jolly and - I hope! - fairly informative: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

One for the history books of Labour’s role in this moral panic

they only asked for the meeting on 17th march? they know it likely wouldn’t be turned around in this notice and wrote specifically so they could create this headline didn’t they?

YES 🇭🇺

we get the politics we deserve

group of transparent ghouls that in any serious society wouldn’t get the time of day but have been enabled by the courts to become a leading player

The growing case to protect FOI www.mysociety.org/2026/04/08/t... Great summary by @juliacushion.bsky.social of responses to recent threats to freedom of information We, @mysociety.org & others are exploring what an FOI Network could look like Next online workshop: Wed 15 April luma.com/y12euvs2

…. solemnly nice

wish this were me rn

Bluesky is dying. No not because trans people speak to me tersely I mean the code base

Lots of debate on here about what MPs do, how exposed they are to the problems people in experience in their day-to-day lives, and what they can do to change policy - here is something I wrote to try and shed a bit of light on that

putting the rest aside for a moment… You are a queer publication offered an op ed like this. What do you do? Ideally you push for an interview, give them a platform only with actual accountability. Worse, you could run the op ed with analysis and a response. Just publish it uncritically? Mad

ahh so that’s how a reporter free newsroom works *wes streeting* pink news oped www.thepinknews.com/2026/04/03/w...

your ma stares at boats

on balance, I would rather social media had not achieved a ubiquity that has destroyed, perhaps permanently, the social contract and the very fabric of human connection, but otoh it’s fun that there are astronauts up in space right now who have almost certainly seen the “moon’s haunted” tweet

Just saw someone sharing a 38degrees petition on here. Just a reminder that the Parliament petitions website has petitions Parliament have to pay at least notional attention to, while 38degrees is just a way of getting spammed by 38degrees asking you for money for petitions that get ignored.

lmao what

The consultation is here: tinyurl.com/38uc2rdv . @allsortsyouth.bsky.social, @thekitetrust.bsky.social and @theproudtrust.bsky.social have produced response guidance to help you: tinyurl.com/2xbx899e. Responses from teachers, youth workers, parents and carers are particularly important.💪

The government's draft of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 sets out proposals that would have a profoundly negative impact on trans, non binary and gender diverse children in schools and colleges. Please respond, and speak up for trans+ children's right to learn (links in comments)🧵

naturally

I thought they were the party of 'single sex spaces' anyway?

For my newsletter, I wrote about all the ways @katmabu.bsky.social's campaign challenged the conventional thinking about modern campaigning: www.burnsnotice.com/kat-abughaza...

i am sorting some admin ahead of bottom surgery quite soon and the words "girl that's a lot of lube" from my gp practice pharmacist are going to live rent free in my head forever

screaming crying throwing up

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

The brave men who go about carrying signs that say "There is no such thing as a transgender child" or "Children cannot consent to puberty blockers" are, for those that have a public record, former members of violent religious cults. They just found a different way to harrass and heckle women.

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Patriotic poppers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🫡

“i’m still punk” i whisper to myself as i turn down the music in my car so i can see better

A contemporary horror story theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

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