And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*. That the bourgeois are not human.

papped at Kew Gardens

Star Wars spin-off soap set among sex workers on Yavin 4 against a backdrop of rebellion heroes being generally contemptible and occasionally extremely dangerous as clients

The decision in FWS says I may only be discriminated against as a woman by someone who doesn’t know I’m trans. This makes transmisogyny as a multiplicative, intersecting account of the discrimination I experience formally closed off to judicial notice. Transmisogynistic harm is legally impossible.

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It is incredible how nobody cares about the lives of trans kids. I expressed disappointment to a former colleague that his run-down of Streeting's politics didn't mention the whole literal-social-murder-of-trans-kids thing and was met with incoherent, spluttering "how dare you?" rage.

the UK now has the least transphobic Health Secretary in years (nobody)

"The UK Supreme Court’s decision in Dillon demonstrates an intense form of regressive judicial activism at work in UK constitutional law." I fear this is right. Our current SC is not simply 'conservative' and failing to develop the law, but actively dismantling parts contrary to its narrow vision.

I'll bite. What's wes streeting? Is it some urban planning regulation?

Financial crisis is being used to bypass tenure protections. University of Essex fired me & 11 others from the Business School in a clear targeting based on our philosophical orientation & social justice commitments. Please sign the public statement: sites.google.com/view/mmpubli...

It's basically a form of weaponised incompetence. *Starmer surrounded by broken crockery* Commentator: "Were the dishes unwashable?"

There's always an ex-soldier, isn't there, that centrists imagine could be catnip to right-wing voters, seemingly not realising that the racist animus is about domestic supremacy. It's like the way they think support for the EU is left-wing. Nosce te ipsum, liberal - imperialism is YOUR project!

Wondering what on earth I can do to help limit the flow of grant applications - it's so hard not to do them, it's almost like they come out of me without me even knowing

Just really something how Keir Starmer, in basically his final action as Prime Minister, is looking to make it crystal clear that torturing children is not only something he has no objection to, but that it is something he actively condones and wants to protect through primary legislation. Legacy.

Friend got arrested, police smashed their hands in, when they arrived at hospital the nurse asked if the police have done it - they see the injury often!

This is true!!! In my case, I later discovered that I had once transed a complete stranger by pulling up alongside them on my bike, in a dress, at some Elephant & Castle traffic lights

If you're a juror on a trial where you even *suspect* the defendants are guilty of an offence carried out as an act of protest (because they've also been banning recent defendants from talking about Palestine), you absolutely *have* to acquit them, because you now don't know what the Judge will do.

I'm finding it genuinely distressing that cis commentators don't seem to have the foggiest clue what an unspeakable monster Streeting is - they are just like oh noes more PPPs

As a cis woman, I won't comply with trans segregation either. I won't go where trans women aren't welcome, & I will not tell anyone my sex assigned at birth for gatekeeping purposes

I just read this and it is great

while utterly bananas on the level of electoral strategy it is interesting that this is the precise complement of the theoretically principled Lexit-adjacent position to the effect that the EU is a white-supremacist project

As Labour returns to Parliament next week and sets out its new framework for excluding trans people from public space, a timely reminder from the electorate today that nobody wants their fucking shit.

Enby represents!!!

This is cool

It's not "iMmIgrAtntS" Shabana, is the utter shit show you &§ successive Westminster parties have inflicted on the country. When people say Britain is Broken, they mean things like this. Private companies, Venture Capital and the rest are literally mugging the working class and you don't give a toss

Things that I noticed to be much more commonplace in society than people who exoticise them seems to realize: 1. Queer men that date men and women. 2. Older women with younger men in an ordinary (non-fetishistic) relationships. 3. Zizeks. There's a Balkan pub full of them 200m away from my house

BREAKING: First Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Zoë Garbett has been elected Mayor of Hackney – huge congratulations!

LOL incredible www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox1E...

Blessings of Beltane be upon you, b3ta. Artist: Captain Howdy https://b3ta.com/board/11427857

I live on a council estate in Starmer's constituency and there are only Vote Green signs up here, but there are a few Vote Labour signs up in the windows of the £2m victorian townhouses on the other side of the street

Every sincere effort to engage with what normal right wing voters think reveals a completely unhinged racial grievance. Just a total non sequitur.

not enough taxation discourse

If it's too late to go find Kurt and tell her she can just be a girl I'm not interested

LOL as this scrolled up into view my peripheral vision parsed it as a Graun article about an ancient Greek text in a Loeb edition

The original is so much better too

here is the english version of the poster put out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) yesterday:

Gonna start posting the readings for my weekly reading group cos it's always such cool stuff. Next week: "Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: the case of subprime" by @pashukanist.bsky.social and Mary Robertson: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

[Anakin and Padmé meme] you mean mythical deities like FDI and GDP, right?

I just love Hannah Spencer so much for wrong footing everyone. Also, just look at her name. She could've been a princess.

I just read Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth, having never seen it, and I enjoyed it a lot but I'm glad I never sat through an actual performance cos [SPOILER ALERT] it is just a 3-act shaggy dog story with the punchline "I'm a metaphor for England I can do what I like because I've got special blood"

You arrive at two doors guarded by these two men. One of them knows how to sell a contradiction and the other does not.

I'm looking forward to reading all the 'OfS is bad' stuff later on in the judgment, but I think that as employees, as activists, as trade unionists, etc, I think the idea that culture warriors can reasonably be restricted above and beyond the question 'is this speech unlawful' is a valuable outcome.

wowee (final para of the judgment:)

Please Labour I am ON MY KNEES BEGGING YOU to leave Starmer in post please please please we need him to lose his seat while he is PM please it is very very important that you let us have this

The call is coming from inside the house

I would make a tamarind-based bottled condiment with a label that looked like the cover of The Yellow Book