Anyone who thinks the trans panic is about protecting women hasn't been paying attention.

Day 363 of #365DaysOfSmiles Meanwhile in Ohio

This has now gone beyond selection bias. The media is now in the realm of extreme cis-supremacy…

My hero 😍

This is the best article I've ever read on this thorny issue: hanslindahl.com/blog/is-pcos... So good to hear views from an author who is 'out' as intersex. Clear, sensitive and helpful! Bravo to Hans Lindahl and to @acbaker.bsky.social for sharing it.

Call it a hunch but: AI and robotics will only make everyone fabulously wealthy *if* it's all built on open models and open, accessible infrastructure.

WhatTheTrans: Your favourite politician's favourite podcast 💁 ft. @zackpolanski.bsky.social @boldpolitics.bsky.social

Ok um WTF democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...

Because it’s not about crime, it’s about color.

Alongside many campaigners, the Green Party have absolutely dragged the Labour Government to finally end the child cap. Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long. This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Slowworm Glowworm Porpoise Seal Powder blue sturgeon fish

After the Cass Review it is absolutely astonishing that the National Screening Committee for prostate cancer allows men on it! Surely permitting men to be in spaces where decisions are being made about men’s healthcare would constitute bias…?

This is such an important issue. Please sign and share

Genius

Greens - Lower bills through nationalising our public services, wealth tax on assets and huge increase in investment in our public services. Labour - ID Cards, random statements about flags and Austerity 2.0. But apparently the Green Party are the "vibes era?" Make it make sense!

it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people. it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper: cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

I LOVE TO HEAR IT!!

W.i.t.a.f

The Congestion Charge went live today - so it's a great time to talk about a book (published this year) I recently finished reading. Did you know JRR Tolkien wrote a short satirical fantasy about how cars and congestion were ruining Oxford in the 1960s? Congestion has plagued Oxford for decades. 🧵

Genuinely brilliant from Private Eye.

Solidarity with my colleague Mothin, who experiences frequent and appalling racist abuse. Out and out racism is alive and well in this country. And its perpetrators are emboldened every day that politicians and journalists describe immigrants as an invasion, a swarm, or a flood.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?! Oh wait, I know what's wrong with people: they've been fed lies + hate by the establishment media for so long they've turned into rabid cavemen. Still, this fills the rage-fuel tank for my activism engine. Working 'til this 💩 stops. Solidarity @mothinali.bsky.social

Notice how it’s somehow the government’s job to legislate a few Bible verses on human sexuality over our entire country, but it’s suddenly “not the government’s job” when it comes to the +2,500 Bible verses calling for a generous use of wealth that prioritizes the poor.

We’re an island nation. The one thing that’s guaranteed is wind and waves. Why aren’t we exploiting these natural power sources more? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Every once in a while I think about the time I was trying to tell three male coworkers about a study that had shown that men think their female coworkers talk more & interrupt more, even though, in fact, men talk & interrupt more, but I could never finish telling them, b/c they kept interrupting me.

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

London councils spend £5.5 million every day on homelessness. While we have 90,000 children growing up in temporary accommodation. The housing market is broken, it’s an emergency fuelled by corporate greed and government policies that put developers’ profits ahead of our basic right to a home.

Never been so happy by being proven to be not ambitious enough - when I read the political strategy motion and said “150,000 members” never did I imagine it would happen to quickly! Welcome to all the new members 👋 Here’s hoping we’ll hit 200,000 by the new year 🤩

Farage: epic grifter

With all the milestones, how extraordinary this is can get lost! Last Sunday on the BBC I announced we overtook the Tories at 124k members. That's +26,000 members in the last week. Hope is feeling normal again....

Pochin's comments were just "poorly phrased"? To be upset at the sight of black and brown people on TV in 2025 is - obviously - racist. It's the same reaction as Jenrick in Handsworth, or the constant attack on immigrants across the political spectrum. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Who could have foreseen that leaders being hateful and bigoted would lead to more of the general public being hateful and bigoted?

What a sweet combo of updates

Confirmed - @zackpolanski.bsky.social is the doctor 🟦🩺

A reminder on Intersex Awareness Day: all intersex people deserve to live free of forced medical procedures and they should thrive with respect for their bodily integrity. 💜💛

Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering raising income tax next month. Of course Labour are planning on going after working people while conveniently ignoring the super-rich who are hoarding this country's wealth. The Green Party is clear - time to tax wealth, not work.

I have licked all the icing off the gingerbread house and I’m wondering why the walls won’t stay up a memoir

If Reform can go from nought to sixty in 5 seconds (in terms of support & prominence) why can’t the millions of left-leaning people do exactly the same for @greenparty.org.uk ? It’s not beyond the realms of possibility. The old two-party monopoly is dead. Be part of the change. ✊💚

Congratulations on your win, Lucy! For Bold Politics - like and subscribe: @boldpolitics.bsky.social

Extraordinary packed scenes everywhere we're taking the Green Party message. Darlington - another stop on the trip of the North East where we're making hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

Now that Bridget Phillipson wasn’t elected as Labour’s deputy leader, can she focus on her public functions and deal with the EHRC guidance? Publish it as a Command Paper so that Parliament can scrutinise it properly.

Instead of individualistic climate solutions we need to nationalise water and run it to meet our needs instead of profiteering.

Last night in Darlington was amazing. So much energy. So much determination. So much hope. And we're just getting started. Join.greenparty.org.uk

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

"Yet even once it became clear that Reform had actually lost, the script barely changed. Footage from the result showed the visiting caravan of Westminster-based journalists crowded around the losing Reform candidate" bylinetimes.com/2025/10/24/t...

What would you do if you got democracy's Golden Ticket? youtube.com/watch?v=fpM9...

Wow. Words can't quite sum up all the goodness in this piece. Essential theme tune for today's dystopian crudscape. I salute you @oliveklug.bsky.social