Wonder when I will stop being afraid of ghosts.

Incidentally, my all time favourite legislative drafting is the start of the Theft Act 1968. It starts with the basic definition of the offence, and then breaks that down into each individual term in the definition. www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/6...

Free law article titles: "Always Speaking? Put a cork in it."

Uh, hm.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

What happened to the good old days when you applied for shares by pinning a cheque to a form clipped from a newspaper, eh?

NEW BLOG: The government is right to update the Cabinet Manual – wide consultation can help it do so @peterr48.bsky.social explains the background of, need to and potential problems with updating the Cabinet Manual. He calls for the widest possible political and expert involvement.

"Will there be any consequences for me if I make a mistake? Is there a written HR policy for that? If I'm required to do this then I want training."

"Can you provide me with instructions on how to correctly identify women? What method should I use?" "I'm afraid I cannot 'use my own judgement' because I am not an expert in or well read on biology. What if I make a mistake? Can you provide clearer instructions?"

Why am I awake and looking up details for my Nana’s house? (Yes, it’s because a friend in my dream wanted to move there. But this is a silly reason to be awake)

At the cinema for The Mandalorian & Grogu (it's fine). Group comes in, talks over the trailers, notices the title card in horror. "Is this Star Wars?! We came for Michael Jackson" Reader, I could not help myself. "Eh, it's still a dude in a weird outfit spending too much time with a little kid"

DO ANY OF YOU HAVE A SPARE £1.2MIL PLEASE IT'S URGENT

Happy Pride Month 🌈

Dignity and respect from my MP, sadly.

Does it have any mushrooms?

Thoughts from the Let's Encrypt folk on what to do with web cryptography in the face of quantum computing. letsencrypt.org/2026/06/03/p...

Can we at least keep calling it EDI?

Oh Sarah you're so brave for staying when your wife transitioned! Wait so my life partner tells me she's gonna somehow get even hotter by growing some tits, and you think I'd choose that moment to leave?!?

Ed Davey’s greatest stunt yet?

Gosh, not taken the down fast from Hitchin to Cambridge for a while. There was something waiting on the new viaduct so presumably they were shuffling trains or some such.

Pick a selfie from your gallery and turn it b&w

Pondering minced oaths, which imply an oath mincing machine into which one places raw oathy chunks

Vote derpy puffin!

I expect it will be a big draw. A BIG DRAW - GEDDIT?!?! Hahahaha oh dearie me

It’s also worth considering that “judicial activism” cuts both ways. Many of the court-borne advances in human rights in the 90s and 00s were criticised as judicial activism.

As an academically minded lawyer it’s interesting to ask whether the Supreme Court is better or worse than the House of Lords. As a trans person it doesn’t really matter if it was the Supreme Court, the Appellate Committee, or the Grand Council of Plippyploppycheesenose that came for my rights.

While I know Jennie and the overwhelming majority of Lib Dem members support fighting for trans people’s rights, I’ve long been underwhelmed by the leadership and parliamentary party. Monday was a welcome change. More please!

“You were born a man”, says a bigot. I bet that was painful for my mum.

It is important to set quantitative and achievable goals and in that spirit I have decided I will be 20% more gay this month 🏳️‍🌈

Horrid.

TATTOO MY FOREHEAD WITH XON AND SEND ME THE BITS

Dunno why, but feeling particularly bleak today about being trans in the UK. It feels like no matter how much we support each other, no matter how many court cases we fight, how many parliamentarians we pressure, the boots march ever closer to our faces.

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I am once again wondering whether "no, the legitimate concerns racists don't have a point, fuck off, they're racist" might have been a better way of combating the far right.

It wasn't everybody. In point of fact, only a few people were kung-fu fighting. The rest were doing judo, karate, Systema, and French boxing.

most cis people, even the well-meaning ones, are fundamentally incapable of meeting this moment. the transphobia is just too deep. they have to face it, understand it, consciously remove it from themselves. too few do.

Get your MP to ask for the EHRC code to be disapproved by signing this motion (EDM 240)

NO LABOUR AT PRIDE NO LABOUR IN GOVERNMENT

I remember looking on in shock and horror as the world at large shrugged and let Russia annex Crimea, that weekend in 2014, so I probably shouldn’t be too surprised that we seem to be chill about letting Israel help itself to Southern Lebanon. Fucking hell, though.

There's something about the introductory music for this video on a British Rail computer system that sounds deeply sinister and apocalyptic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkLU...

In fairness many of us have said phrases in the past that we wouldn’t consider saying today just as James Murray just confirmed. Phrases like “I intend to vote for Labour” or “Labour are pro-lgbt” for example.

One advantage of modern technology: the solar panels contractors don't have to put a ladder up to inspect the big hole in the solar panels; they can send a drone! For added amusement it looks like the hole might also have been caused by a drone.

Also reminded of teenagers on our estate having a typically loud teenage conversation with one coming out to unsurprised friends (I mean even my undeveloped gaydar picked him up), and one replied "You told your mum first? Oh my god that's so gay..."

Unicode proposal: tag sequence containing the genome of an animal to generate its emoji.

as part of the BBC’s on-going commitment to representing a diversity of ideas, June will be Pride & Prejudice Month

its Dont Kill Yourself June, the month where you dont kill yourself. this also applies to all other months except obviously in that theyre not june

my outlandish wish for this pride is id like no more trans people to die

Justin Webb is a biological dailymail identifying as a journalist.

Justin Webb is a loathsome bigot, but I suppose we can thank him for getting a confirmation from the new Health Secretary James Murray that he, too, is a loathsome bigot. (Webb asked Murray if he believed trans women are women. Murray said he no longer believes that.)