Told the tuxedo cat. Did not tell the orange cat. Sigh.

My name is Cat I'm hip and cool Don't give a fig For human rule "Don't lik that bred" They say to me But when they're gone I LIK. Whoopee!

Just sternly told the cat 'do not lik the bred' and it's nice to be reminded that social media can be cheering and unifyingly silly

2) Directly support young trans people and their families to access private care. They are not getting help from the NHS in England, this is a fact. If you can afford it, donate directly to a young person. I'm already crowdfunding for Isaac (link below). If not, share fundraisers when you see them.

There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England. 1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".

The Cass review, used to justify an ideological decision to withhold medical care from trans teenagers, is throughly discredited. The Health Secretary and NHS England are lying to patients and their families and to the public. This is severe institutional transphobia. bbc.com/news/article...

People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason

My hairdresser and friend opened her business last week. Tonight it burned to the ground. This is devastating. I’ve set up a fundraiser. If you haven’t done anything for international women’s day yet, here’s a chance to support a women-run business in need: www.paypal.com/pools/c/9nhn...

live updates here. you can smell the smoke across town now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out. I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

I have a mum and three older sisters and perimenopause was like some horrid surprise with no manual. 40s is when it'll hit many of us, earlier also not unusual. I thought it would be a nice reprieve from periods. It's not, at all, but HRT helped me and many with some of the many types of bleh.

What a day for Italian rugby! Scotland were a delight too and heck yeah Rhys Carre and all. Sometimes the 6 Nations hands out such joy.

The theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay is #StandingInWater. Gone for a bit of an arty one today. Two waders which I think are probably redshanks; bills a bit short for godwits. #birds #photography

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

A development such as this has been a goal for HIV researchers for decades. It is important because people who are faced with difficult treatment regimens are less likely to be compliant. Single Daily Tablet Shows Powerful Results for People With Drug-Resistant HIV share.google/RjULDFVtCYI9...

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

Hiya book lovers! Today is St David’s Day which is the national day of recognising Welsh people for being hot and talented and cool. How about you go read some Welsh books (here’s some fun romcoms!!) and enjoy a lil Catatonia and several Welsh cakes x 📚💙

Please don't post photos of dead children, or videos of dead children, or yell DONT LOOK AWAY. You are sick. Log off. Touch grass. You have PTSD and are inflicting it on us all. If you are not in media/ a conflict researcher/ etc you do NOT need to consume Horrors. Blocking lots right now.

the Greens keep saying the kinds of things that people who vote Labour agree with and Labour keep calling it dangerous extremism, and I’m not sure you could plan a better voter alienation strategy

You can stop talking about Matt Goodwin now! Perhaps instead talk about Hannah Spencer, the person who actually won.

A nice thing happened! Campaigning on hope can work! Posting lies to constituents is not actually a good strategy! Top work Gorton and Denton, and hooray for Hannah Spencer.

I have angry feelings about the way that the trans community is often described as the "canary in the coal mine", like we're the group that you look at to see if the danger is about to become great enough that you need to act. Like we're the first symptom of a new holocaust that you can wait for.

Imagine being like this. Maybe we actually were all once like this. Be more like this guy!

I was so prepped to be all f you and the Kodan Armada you rode in on, but it's a comic book sequel and that feels delightful. We can have nice things!

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour... Link here for those wanting to see Labours lies.

this is an absolutely astonishing feat of independent journalism, top to bottom, and proves that the only way to truly fight billionaires is not being funded by them. just…read the whole thing.

This is a very interesting thread that ends with a citation of the 2017 conference where the plan to turn the world against trans people was first proposed, in plain sight, and we can see now that it has been followed closely. All GC people need to understand their complicity in this.

The Shed Olympic downhill skiing team hit a snag when their captain ate their skis.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

One of the things I find frustrating about sci-fi is that because of the American influence of it, all of the planets are called things like Zexion 5 and Danshassia 7. I’d call them things like ‘Nether Roundthorpe’ and ‘Spheresbury’. Gravity Bywell. Chalfont St Globeby. Bishop’s Goitre.

Trying to invent a comic-book-like villain that is not one that exists already and oh wow I underestimated the assignment. Taking 'large alien starfish who creates smaller copies of itself that attach themselves to others and bring them into the thrall of the original' off my list

This is amazing and I am excitingly quite good at it

Blindboy referred to how we’ve all been conditioned to argue online as ‘turn-based combat’ & I can’t get it out of my head. That’s exactly what it is. A pointless gamified system that no one ever really wins, designed to keep us all busy fighting each other rather than the actual enemy

Thought I’d just pass on some relationship advice my grandma once gave to me: if you’re unhappy with your partner or spouse why don’t you replace their head in every photograph in your house with a picture of your celebrity crush? x

It’s half-term and I’m planning to do some cooking and making activities with my children. Wrote about the joy of making here alomshaha.com/the-joy-of-m... and the thread below includes FREE videos of fun things to make with kids

These headlines are designed to cultivate rage, hostility, and anxiety towards trans people (while misrepresenting the British government as “pro-trans”). The media are manufacturing panics about trans existence and visibility, much like what they used to do about gay people. It’s recycled bigotry.

‘Trans children need to be supported & respected in order to be safe at school, in order to access their right to education,in order to enjoy their childhood. Instead, we're seeing a complete ban on access to appropriate toilets, PE, accommodation on school trips, a complete erosion of their rights’

Just a few hours left for this, but it's plenty of time. Even just answering the "overall do you agree" question can be meaningful. Speak against this endless cruelty.

This year we’re doing an open call for ordinary day diaries from the LGBTQIA+ community, and specifically we’re asking people to record their day on the 12th February. Whatever you get up to, we’d love to have it in our collection!

UK folks: if we care about what is happening in the US with ICE, we must take steps to push back against anti-immigrant and refugee policy by our own government. Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.

anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

the whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about

filled out the horrible settlement consultation and I’m sorry, the question that is framed as a negative so that you have to ‘strongly disagree’ with something not happening?? This has enraged me

If you have ever wondered what happens in The Traitors if one of the traitors has fundamentally misunderstood what they are meant to do, watch The Traitors Ireland. The producers must have been watching through little cracks in their fingers while sweating.

And once again #TheGuardian lables #ADHD as a mental illness when it is in fact a NEURODEVELOPMENTAL CONDITION. Is this an agenda on behalf of the UK goverment who can't afford to deal with ADHD appropriately? I think it's an agenda. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.