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I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Excellent piece by @notrightruth.bsky.social about trans community as the antidote to trans despair. ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...

"Britcard"

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'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package. Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage? Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Today, due to the recent spread of (false) narratives about trans perpetrators of mass shootings, I decided to look up search stats for the term “trans shooter.” The term was hardly used at all before May 2022, when the shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde happened.

the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business. Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Draft EHRC guidance on Equality Act is unworkable for businesses 👇👇👇 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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“Their rule of thumb seems to be that, as long as the tone is cheerful, there's no need to examine the ugliness of the words…” Great post from @kevinmkruse.bsky.social campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-white-ci...

The problem is that ‘this is not who we are’ is coming to feel a little empirically unconvincing. It might help if the PM actually stood up and made the case for a liberal, tolerant and inclusive country.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

i'm writing a feature for a major US outlet & i'd like to interview people who: - are dem voters - feared the worst of trump from early on - felt frustrated/dismissed/ like those fears weren't listened to reply/DM me

I found this really interesting and insightful 👇

Brilliant to see so many MPs signing @lisasmartmp.bsky.social open letter to Bridget Phillipson calling for proper scrutiny, debate and a free vote on EHRC code of practice. 💥GET YOUR MP TO SIGN(resources to help you @transsolidarity.bsky.social and @transactualuk.bsky.social )

Im an adopter. I have quite a few young people in my family network who are in, or have been in these institutions, and they are *dreadful*. Excessive profits for the companies and young people living in dire poverty, exposed to criminal exploitation living in them.

This 👇👇👇 And particularly so given the toxic views he made his living espousing.

"The idea of mass deportations as a realistic political agenda would have felt as far-fetched two decades ago as the idea of your non-white friends being strapped into a plane does now. This, in itself, should serve as a warning." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How many times, in how many contexts, from how many internal and external researchers, or from how many CEO's are people going to have to receive this message before they believe it: "Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

British Election Study data 👇👇 Labour haemorrhaging lesbian, gay and bi+ voters, all heading to the Greens.👏transphobia👏is👏not👏a👏good👏political👏strategy 👏

The proposed EHRC guidance is now with the government. It'll need to be extremely careful about what it does next. The dangers are legal, political and administrative. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Its blood cancer awareness month, and I'm really grateful to @lymphomaaction.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to talk about what its *really like being queer with cancer. (I'm writing a book chapter on this right now, so watch this space) lymphoma-action.org.uk/support-you/...

As EHRC leaks a final draft Code of Practice to the Equality Act to the Times then delivers it to govt and attempts to wash its hands of the impact on trans people, its important to recognise and call out the shell game we're in. EHRC will say 'we're just following the Supreme Court judgement' 1/3

BREAKING 🚨 The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared. It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating. But politicians still have time to stop this.

Must read on the mess were in: UK & reactionary centrists 👇👇👇 (yes another doozie from my brother @polphilpod.bsky.social 😁)

Let's just break this down shall we? A) Due to a lack of alternative, government approved, routes some people do have to use alternative visas to seek asylum. B) Some people enter the UK on a visa and then the situation in their country of origin changes. 1/ www.thetimes.com/article/0c52...

Safe and legal routes to enable people to seek asylum. Right to work so people seeking asylum to live dignified lives while their claims are determined. And a high quality claim determination system that has the goal of getting as many claims as possible right first time. Another world is possible.

Really helpful for anyone trying to understand autistic meltdowns (and autistic people generally!) Better

Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵

100%agree with @sundersays.bsky.social here. Shameful, toxic, dangerous stuff👇

Really enjoyed this on contemporary liberalism (and its failure to meet the fascist moment). Also by my brother @polphilpod.bsky.social so extra fun for me 😁

This is a sight I thought I'd never see again - my family walking ahead of me on a hike. Even looking at it makes my ❤️ sing, so here is my mini thread of appreciation for the @nationaltrust.org.uk and for the freeing power of mobility aids! 🧵

Excellent thread by @sachacoward.bsky.social on the fallout from the Polari Prize longlasting of an anti trans author

94 per cent of Britons live small lives

The EHRC is not changing course on their bathroom ban. They don’t care what the consultation said. So what happens now? 🧵 archive.ph/inGpF

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

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This is really excellent on our understandings of - and the reality of - intergenerational inequality.

I went to an early preview of this and loved it - sign up, help raise money to support the Palestinian people *and* laugh your ass off 👇👇

From us in The Guardian yesterday: "You look at the bathroom ban that’s being proposed and you sort of realise that, although we may consider the UK quite different from a country like America, it’s a bathroom ban that would make someone like Donald Trump proud" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Must read from @iandunt.bsky.social on the devastating prospect of the EHRCs draft Code of Practice becoming law with no debate and no scrutiny. Human rights being rolled back behind closed doors 👇

Agree with @danielsohege.bsky.social here. Totally morally bankrupt.

I cannot understand how it is possible to deny that these are crimes against humanity, that this is genocide. Our governments complicity is deeply shocking to me. 👇👇

The EHRC – the body which is meant to protect our human rights – is proposing guidance which would turn the Equality Act into a bathroom ban. If this becomes law, it would force trans people out of public life. And terrifyingly - this is all happening behind closed doors 🧵

The Joint Committee on Human Rights and Women and Equalities Select Committee have recommended against the appointment of the proposed new EHRC chair. Worth reading their reasoning in full: committees.parliament.uk/publications...