This is a manifestation of one way that social media is corrosive of liberalism is that it directly attacks a really important part of liberalism, which is going “that seems like a mistake, but crucially, it’s not my mistake”.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

gays keep winning. big brain straights in the dirt. Keir starmer were coming for you next #traitors

I've reposted this by Tobias Barrington Wolff a few times in the decade since it was published. Its arguments are all the more urgent for the UK where this path to the erasure of trans people from public space is being aggressively pursued by legal and political means and where Labour has caved

"I was able to have a perfectly pleasant afternoon with trans people by politely holding my tongue long enough to have a mundane business transaction." You know, there's a lesson to be learned here if he bothers upon reflection.

listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public

can't believe cancel culture finally came for Prince Andrew 😭

imagine you have to have a leg amputated. you have a choice of two surgeons. one of them is the leg nullo guy, who will be aroused by it. one of them is a normal surgeon. the quality of the surgery is equal. who would you pick?

holiday fit ☀️

there has never been a presidency that has spent more time on LGBTQ issues as this Trump administration. they are wholly obsessed with queer people. the time/effort on LGBTQ issues is coming 97% from the right. i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?

Two flavors of critical thought in psychiatry: - Mental health and illness are fundamentally subjective (derogatory) vs - Mental health and illness are fundamentally subjective (complimentary)

some of you may be decade long globe emoji zizek followers across multiple sites. and you may ask what song I would do at karaoke. the answer is - Robyn dancing on my own, and then karma police with @leftoutside.bsky.social

It is actually fairly unhinged that this is happening in the UK. We are such freaks, like it’s actually embarrassing

*screams*

And if the contorted logic of this statement is that smartphones and social media radicalise their users with the kind of transphobic bigotry which led to Brianna's death, then the entire Labour front bench should have their phones confiscated immediately.

Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn

extremist minority living parallel lives discovered in SW1

the nice thing about politics is I don't need to pay any attention at all. greens are weirdos and losers, but they don't want to ban me from public places and labour do, so they're better

The problem with this argument is that if the affordable mandates lead to even a modest reduction in building they quickly become self defeating. If a 25% mandate leads to a 20% reduction in supply then you are constantly exchanging two market rate homes for one affordable home.

I still have the letter I got back from William Hague when I wrote to him as a queer teenager arguing for the end of Section 28 and the equalisation of the age of consent - he confidently asserted that Section 28 would never be repealed and age of consent never equalised.

I have no idea who these people are, but I love how just from the photos you can tell they haven't been popular in a decade www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

you haven't done an equalities impact assessment on your policy to ban trans people from public places

In an environment where there are regular anti immigrant protests, anti-semitic attacks at an all time high and where racist harassment on twitter appears to be de facto decriminalised, it seems odd priorities www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries. time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

THANK YOU. THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY EVERY BILLIONAIRE IS A POLICY FAILURE. IT'S THE INSTABILITY LARGE CONCENTRATIONS OF POWER CREATE. NOT THE LOST REVENUE.

tradeoff between a safe environment for families and 'atmosphere'. the fa should hire flare bum man to consult

The national picture shows waiting times for gender identity clinics that far exceed the NHS's recommended maximum of 18 weeks. But drilling down into the data from our investigation, 'The Gender Clinic Files' reveals huge disparities across the UK 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

smoking is nature's ozempic

elite centrist/lib transphobia is one of those classic contrarian things where they’ve built up a huge pile of facially convincing “evidence” that collapses immediately if you put it under serious scrutiny

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

trans rights strike at a fundamental base of individual liberty: if we do not have control of our own bodies, you don’t either

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

what's up with people who wrap their suitcases in clingfilm? weird paranoia, Nigel farage coded

Many shocking things about the last 24 hours; but the contrast between the Labour government’s response to peaceful protest against genocide, and its non-response to violent racist protest against liberal democracy, is high on the list.

"Charlie Kirk gave me the courage to be more transphobic" is a wild thing to put in a both-sides hagiography www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

STARMER: hey I'm appointing this close friend of the world's most notorious paedophile to be US ambassador :) BRITISH PRESS: ok :) [One year later] BRITISH PRESS: wait a minute

got a Radiohead code then got kicked off for being a bot. never liked you anyway, genocide apologist thom yorkey

the US follows where Wes streeting leads

fun moral dilemma - is this the worst thing anyone has ever done that isn't evil?

I'm so sad

queer rights are being destroyed by the government, and the movement to protect us has booked liberty x to headline

The largest number of arrests in a single day this decade! Wow, that must have really dealt a serious blow to the criminal underworld in London. Dozens of car thieves, street robbers, drug dealers and fraudsters off the streets…

Wonderful punchline to the thoroughly depressing story about the planned protests around the country yesterday and today. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Labour govt has been incredibly disappointing so far in general, obviously, but the trans stuff is the real area where it has tipped into actively and maliciously making things worse for people for no reason other than ideological derangement

Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.

Everything is horrible. The govt wants trans people banned from public space. Contact your MPs. Malicious compliance. Civil disobedience. Destroy the labour party ❤️

Well that’s nothing! Apparently if you don’t vote Labour you’ll get Reform and THEY’LL be the ones doing this. Who would you rather have destroying the lives of minorities? Those red ties are so comforting.

When I first came out, I made an effort to try to go to LGBT events and meet people. I made no friends, it was very lame. Anyone going to an open event to make friends probably lacks friends for a reason. So I went back to hanging out with the same lovely people I always hung out with.

On my way out to get arrested by the labour party.

were the veronicas the west's answer to tatu? and what does this say about 00s geopolitics?