I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement. Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.

My short experimental film (Untitled)2025 screens in the London Short Film Festival. It is an evocative incantation to trans and non-binary ancestors forgotten because of land theft, colonisation and enforced binary genders which damage us all. www.shortfilms.org.uk/programme/pa...

“God damn them all.”

Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night

Eight people are on hunger strike, several apparently at imminent risk of dying, because our law punishes more harshly those opposing genocide than those supporting it. (And under a so-called Labour Government.) How on earth did we get here? www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...

Ahhhhhhhh thank you thank you to Ollie @pagesofhackney.bsky.social for choosing BAD LANGUAGE as one of your books of the year 🥰 and alongside the equally witchy WAX CHILD by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken. www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/christmas-20...

A thought experiment

It’s here! For @letterboxd.social, I wrote a special starter pack about the rarest of gifts. Here are 16 Black Christmas movies to cheer up your holiday!!

Farage just said “I didn’t wear a mask last time and I won’t wear them this time. This is nonsense.” Here he is, not only wearing a mask, but also getting vaccinated…

"The only way to stop bullies is to stand up to them. Anti-trans campaigners have been making legal threats, trying to force trans people out of public life. They thought after the SC decision the whole world would suddenly agree with them. But they've misunderstood the law, as well as human nature"

Good

Yeah isolation is one word for it. Another is "apartheid".

I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.

Lost for words at where we are, the absolute cruelty

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"Were proud to provide the PIP, so people can be more independent and be more fully included in society." *Person shows any semblance of independence* "NOT LIKE THAT!!!!!!"

This is all the more mendacious when there is good evidence that the whole moral panic against trans people (which didn't exist 10 years ago) is spearheaded and funded by US right wing money #r4today

According to Webb, it's scientists who support trans people who "have been captured" by an "ideology", not himself and his mates in the media who are opposing their very existence... if that's not bias #r4today

Every American posting that they’re moving to Ireland when actual refugees are being turned away.

Also never give money to the US Red Cross 👍🏼

Keir Starmer says he had “uncontainable fury” about his niece’s homophobic attack in 2022. Here’s a look at his party’s anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric and policies since 🧵 From op-ed by @jamiewareham.co.uk

Well we could talk about the fact that everyone I’ve met who has recently moved to Walthamstow appear to nearly all be white and from the home counties, and the homeowners are definitely armed with £500k from mum and dad

Bezos literally makes this much money in *minutes* every day of his life. It's like if any of the rest of us donated $5. bezoscalculator.com

It's hard to overstate the impact Taylor had as an AIDS fundraiser. $100 million is an estimate that doesn't include nine-figure bequests to AIDS charities.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

OK, book/list fans, here's the @burleyfisher.bsky.social Books of the Year 2025, inc our Zines of the Year + BF bestseller list. My picks 🧵 burleyfisherbooks.com/blogs/news/b...

A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).

....and a million plays on the podcast too! Thanks everyone for the support. Let's keep growing! 💚🙌🏼

Birmingham council tried to slash workers wages &when the workers responded by taking industrial action the council decided to bring in agency staff to try & break the strike. Those agency workers are now striking too #GMB reports from the @unitetheunion.bsky.social picket line this morning

All facts here in a great 🧵

the way bbc news’ impartiality seems to work is that they’re softer on the right to avoid accusations of left-wing bias, and they’re harder on the left to avoid accusations of left-wing bias

FAFO voting Reform innit

What a freakin tragedy and yet all I can hear in my head is that narcissistic twat shouting Drill baby drill www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Remember those lost. Fight the stigma. Educate.

Hardly the only time this government has let rightwing online trolls guide policy if we are being totally honest. This is rooted in the idea that disabled individuals should be "grateful for gruel". It's perception over reality as policy, no matter the way it reinforces the perception. 1/

A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE www.thebulwark.com/p/backlash-b...

When Hundred Reasons, my brother in law's band, headlined the Royal Albert Hall only weeks after the disgraceful For Some Women Scotland decision Larry Hibbitt wore a t-shirt with a trans flag. It meant so much to me. Hate will never win.❤️

Super excited about this Good Law Project and Not a Phase gig at Wembley. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get. Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are Labour going to get rid of leasehold or what

A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

So true. Its uncomfortable to watch.

Night Bird, 2020 Relief printing combined with charcoal, acrylic, gold leaf and hand stitching by US printmaker and mixed media artist Delita Martin #WomensArt

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“War on drugs” falls into the same category as “Weapons of mass destruction.”

The Labour Government refused a 1% asset tax on the super rich, yet raised taxes on people already struggling. All whilst their "black hole" turned out to be utter nonsense. Active choices to refuse to fund our communities which they desperately need. Join.greenparty.org.uk