Agreed with most of this. A huge number of my friends are Lib Dem activists who joined the party when it was a principled, liberal, one that was clearly to the left of Labour. Pretty much all of them are now vacillating between fury and despair as to what the party has become.

In the UK today the de facto position is that you can be subsidized by the taxpayer, through charitable tax relief, to campaign for the pathologisation and elimination of a group nominally protected by the Equality Act, but not for its protection.

this is a garbage article noone should bother reading but if you do here's an archive link Tldr; Stonewall successfully got bigot bothered into the fucking ground and is working alongside the bigoted guardian UK to try and put a positive spin on it and hopefully come out the other end smiling.

Abolish Stonewall.

QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood.

Brain feeling very weird today. Neither wanting to do anything nor keen to do nothing.

daunting

The Georgian State Dancers are said to have inspired Terry Nation in the creation of the Daleks. With the audio on, you can see why. 😀 #DoctorWho

I want to talk to you about cycling and hip arthritis It surprises a lot of people, and needs to be more widely understood I have a hip replacement next month, this thread is my experience, but I know others have found the same 🧵

Bunch of racist twats in Norwich market square with a banner about “protecting British women and girls”. Fortunately a tiny gathering and easily avoided but still menacing that they’re even there.

"I've brought you some cheese"

If you travel basically anywhere in Great Britain, by road, rail, or air, you see the work of Margaret Calvert. www.thamesandhudson.com/blogs/all-ne...

Fellow 80s British kids, I have the earworm from hell so you have to share in it: Ooh, Bodyform! Bodyformed for you... And you and you and BA BA-BAAAAA (ba ba-baaa) BA BA-BA BA-BA BA-BAAA (ba ba-baaa) BA BA-BA BA-BA BA-BAAA (ba ba-baaa) Bodyformed for you.. And you and you and you-ooo-ooo!

Singing the Hormuz cruise blues...

"I'll kick its tyres a bit and if it still quacks like a print server I'll work out a plan to get it into service." Apparently I am mixing my metaphors somewhat today.

There's something relentlessly depressing about intelligent people singing to me the praises of LLMs. Either I'm right that they're environmentally and intellectually exploitative and little good can come of them, or I'm an old woman yelling at the cloud; neither is a cheering possibility.

"Hey guys, wouldn't it be funny if we named our research-stealing machine after someone whose research was famously stolen? ROFLcopter!"

call me radical but I simply believe that the leader of this country should know things

we've arrived at the prime minister defending himself with "I am so broadly incompetent and totally unaware of my surroundings that I shouldn't be trusted with a car much less the nation". so it's a normal week for keir starmer

This is definitely slop coded.

The four edges of technology: Cutting edge Bleeding edge Clotting edge Tetanus edge

Vibe coding is when you use vibrators instead of fingers to type, yes?

It's like banning star wars because it would be really fucked up if someone actually blew up a planet

What is mogging and does it have anything to do with cats?

The real autism test is how much you argue with the questions on the autism test.

Alt text for image: the painting The Irritating Gentleman by Berthold Woltze has been altered so that the titular irritating gentleman is JD Vance, and the exasperated lady he is vansplaining at is the pope

my procrastinating ass when it comes to getting my life together

Typically clear and thorough demolition by @profmarkelliott.bsky.social of the claim that the forthcoming Bill providing for alignment with EU law is constitutionally objectionable. Recommended to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. publiclawforeveryone.com/2026/04/13/t...

I wish someone would put me on a dumbbell and rotate me.

New rule: if you can visualise the cubes embedded in a dodecahedron you’re trans.

And when they come out, hold on to that new girl because she will work way harder as she did before. Promote her a few times then she'll probably start declining promotions because she's "comfortable in her position" but still doing the jobs of 3 people. Ya know Normal shit.

I was talking to a newly out friend and said if I was a business consultant, I'd tell hiring managers to hire boys with sad eyes and a professional but uncertain look about them, and to be very encouraging of them l. If they overwork themselves habitually, try to encourage therapy.

Niche meme: picture of Larry Grayson and a door labelled “Bab Al-Ijtihad”

So then let’s get this thread started! Matthew Goodwin is speaking in Budapest at 17:00 CEST this evening, at this event hosted by MCC: mcc.hu/en/event/202... And I’m signed up to go. Updates in this thread The tag is: #BadLossBudapest

Forgive the impudent piggybacking on someone else’s excellent article, but you'd like to read more about English’s old dual pronouns, here’s a piece of mine in which I gathered up the remnants of the dual across Indo-European, from Sanskrit to Slovenian. dannybate.com/2024/03/27/t...

Happy Praying Mantis Appreciation Day, to all who celebrate… CHILD PRAYING MANTIS: Dad, who are we all praying to exactly? DAD PRAYING MANTIS: Depends which religion you belong to CHILD: So not all people follow the same religion? DAD: No, son… we’re in sects

Ian will be much missed. I remember he was fantastic company as one of our Guests of Honour at Recombination back in 2007, being splendidly erudite and silly in our Professor Yaffle game and regaling us with tales of his Forbidden Warhammer Tome.

With enormous regret, SLAB is today advising supporters not to vote for ANY Scottish Labour candidate in this election. There are several pro-trans Labour candidates standing on 7 May, but a vote for them would now sadly be an endorsement of explicit transphobia. #NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow

At Scottish Labour Conference in Feb 2025, a leadership-backed motion to adopt a transphobic policy on single-sex spaces in schools was defeated. Party members and affiliates voted it down. Today Scottish Labour's leadership put that transphobic policy into its manifesto for May's election anyway.

So yeah, no more slurs in British law, please, and I'd rather you called me a tranny than "biological male" because at least then you'd be honest about your colours.

It is a slur to refer to trans women as "biological men" or "biological males."

I scanned through the PDF (linked below), and the only mention of trans people in the whole document is in the paragraph about excluding us.

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

In my experience, it’s the duck owners who routinely face bills.

What sound (if any) did level crossings in the UK make before the modern "wig-wag" sounds?

It says something about Minecraft that I'm not very familiar with it and yet I can unequivocally agree that Norwich Castle is indeed "Minecraft-ass"

I think freedom of association is the most glaring weakness in the current gender critical legal position in the UK, and probably the issue that will force a legal change.

"Every now and again, someone is nice enough to invite me to go and look at a half-finished construction scheme, so I can marvel at the cleverness of a modern engineering project..." A day out on HS2.

If you were asked to translate Beowulf into modern English, how would you translate ‘Hwæt’?