Those of you who know my work know that misgendering on death certificates has been a preoccupation of mine for several years now. I have been really concerned to hear that even though we now have specific guidance on the issue, there are some Coroners who have not been following it.

orgasm coverage requires a proper good girl diagnosis and a signed letter from at least one mental health professional

Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Read elsenet: “fix it with a poxy resin”

It’s dangerous to go alone.

hey cis people, go financially support trans folks while we’re alive! @katiedoesthings.bsky.social appliances keep breaking ko-fi.com/lexidoesthings @nightleek.bandcamp.com surgery recovery needs ko-fi.com/arrowonionbe... @floppyguy.bsky.social artist needing support ko-fi.com/thefloppyguy 💕💸🏳️‍⚧️.

TV adverts speaking of special deals “this Black Friday” without any kind of indication of when that is.

British citizens who marry foreigners will have to make sure their spouses have a minimum income of £12,500 for 3 to 5 years, or they won't get indefinite leave to remain, the UK government has proposed. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...

This morning I have: Cried Scrolled Screwed bits of my desk together This morning I have not: Done any law

For decades, Greebles have been used as stimuli in psychology studies on facial recognition. Greebles come in five families (Samar, Galli, Osmit, Radok and Tasio) and two genders (plok and glip). Though nobody is sure where they come from, science owes these odd creatures an enormous debt.

Would not any administration be faced with these problems? In other words, while it's gratifying to find Reform realising running stuff is hard, it's not that they can't run stuff for toffee; chronic underfunding of local government means THERE IS NO TOFFEE

Paging @pisci.bsky.social and @gardengrump.bsky.social ... oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

Oh it’s online mental health self harm time again I see.

I agree! I tried to write about this.

This is really what the signs on loos etc have always meant, of course.

Change one letter and ruin a candy Double dicker

We are disappointed that, due to legal pressure from transphobic campaign groups following the For Woman Scotland decision, two eminently reasonable quotas in our party's election regulations have been suspended. These suspensions are profoundly anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-feminist... 1/4

Yesterday/today is the 25th anniversary of the wedding of Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas and thereby also of the birth of the law of misuse of private information. #Article8

Kings Cross has sprouted a transphobia kiosk should supplies run low over the festive period.

A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday. #Cloudflare #Teletext #TeletextArt #Art

Electrolysis is weird. Pretty much anywhere I shrug it off: a few amusing tingles. But on the upper lip even with numbing gel applied it’s all the pain and I can’t just breathe and appreciate the sensations. Ow.

With a hat-tip to the Millennium Fulcrum @millenniumfulcrum.bsky.social podcast episode on "The Transformers Movie" and @garius.bsky.social , have a performance of "Run With Us", the closing theme to "The Raccoons", performed live by "The Cybertronic Spree". youtu.be/DRPbKIXoEsI?... #RunWithUs

Full podcast episode is here. And remember, this International Men's Day, be strong enough to be gentle bsky.app/profile/mill...

Urquhart/Storin is, however, absolutely the most fucked up dynamic ever put to television. And it has gotten more powerful over time, not less.

i can be trusted with vintage typography equipment

Brilliant series, phenomenal lead performance. I wish Richardson had done a Jackanory in character as Urquhart.

Hot goat.

dolli incapax: not legally permitted to transition (From Brick's Law Dictionary)

PRINCESS LEIA UNDERSTANDS YOU NEVER TALK TO COPS DO YOU

Silent Hill has the flauros, the plot object pronounced by the equally vigorously pronounced Dahlia Gillespie. In the spirit of agencies north of the border being “Police Scotland”, “Transport Scotland”, “Boundaries Scotland” the national anthem is now… Flauros Scotland.

Repressor but far too pretty to be ruined by a mere hormone.

Can someone who speaks economics explain (a) what productivity means, (b) what it means for a public service like the benefit system, and (c) why this measure should be comparable between industries and between the public and private sector?

Tintinuviel.

girls can put :wq in a channel with thousands of members, as a treat

Clownflare deserving its moniker today I see.

You need more skincare products when you have thirteen fingers.

Shout out to authors and the written word!

Fragment from a dream. “We need a new capital to unite the regions: Ruislip!”

I can't help but wonder whether the Labour party I remember of my childhood in Gateshead, effectively a near racist cabal of closed shop bullies, is just something most other people missed. We warned you what you were voting for. We bloody warned you. Labour always cave to racists.

The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.

We're stuck with it, but determining someone's legal rights based on a nebulous combination of birthplace and parentage is actually pretty fucking weird, and it'd be better if we talked about it as an unfortunate practical necessity not a natural phenomenon

Just casually doing things that I know will cause me harm. As you do.

Start your Queerstmas shopping early ✨👉 awkward.gay 👈✨

Hilarious that the minister raises Bitty Sinnott’s case in her argument against the EHRC’s trans exclusion proposals.

say what you like about him, but streeting has a unique historical opportunity now: to become the most hated wesley in internet history since crusher

Since it is apparently time to engineer cultural cohesion, we should set out a plan. The aim, of course, is that we should all ultimately adopt the culture native to Essex. It will need to be staged so in the first phase we will be requiring Yorkshire people to be more Scottish.

If you live in the Camden Town Wardin London - make sure you’re registered to vote and have ID so you can vote OUT this transphobic Labour Councillor at the Council Elections in May 2026! 🗳️ Send a message that transphobia isn’t welcome & #VoteGreen @camdengreenparty.bsky.social

Important questions of our time. I was disappointed that apparently they don’t pronounce DVD Day-Fow-Day