While ‘gender critical’ transphobes go around claiming trans people are a threat to kids, a known TERF stood by as a man threatened trans protesters with a knife and encouraged him outside a performance of ‘The Cursed Child.’
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While ‘gender critical’ transphobes go around claiming trans people are a threat to kids, a known TERF stood by as a man threatened trans protesters with a knife and encouraged him outside a performance of ‘The Cursed Child.’
Happy second day of spring (southern hemisphere) here are a bunch of ‘Tiddlywinks’ daffodils in celebration 🌱
Who among us could ever forget Michelle Obama's 8 year reign of eugenicist terror.
Quill pen embroidered in coloured silk and metal threads, England, 1680-1699 (V&A Museum, London)
Some good news. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
#GardensHour A bit late…🫣🌸🌱
The World Health Organization (WHO) is set to release a new guideline on the health of trans and gender-diverse adults — potentially setting a new benchmark for care, policy, and legal recognition worldwide. 👏🏻💕
They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
Now confirmed August 2025 had the lowest boat crossings since 2019, and the fewest migrants on them since 2021. After a rough first half to the year, things could be turning round. Governments "one in one out" trial with France started at the beginning of August.
Reform have arguably had more coverage for a content-free press conference than the Govt has for a major policy development affecting millions of parents
Great explainer: The ECHR is protecting everyone in the UK 🚨 "Reform has touted its plan as a 'legal reset'. But it is better understood as a total rejection of the UK’s postwar international commitments to protect the human rights of everyone within its jurisdiction." https://bit.ly/3JYzaI8
"all the characteristics that make progressivism unappealing to normal people." Third Way language cop. Also, Nate fucking Silver has no business talking about "normal" people.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
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Church interior with, at left, church official explaining altarpiece to visitors. How great is that? Hendrick van Steenwyck, 1608.
he played an evil goblin jewish banker in the first one, if the antisemitism wasn’t a dealbreaker for him then i guess the transphobia isn’t either
Welp.
Hate heat? Climate disasters? Love saving gas? Butterflies? Native bees? NOW is the time to flood comments if you want to fight the dictatorship’s proposal to raise greenhouse gas emissions. 🌱 www.regulations.gov/commenton/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194-0093
Something that constantly irritates me along these lines is the widespread assertion that sex-segregated facilities are a matter of "privacy". Communal changing rooms are definitionally *not* private! You might feel more comfortable in a segregated than unisex one, but that doesn't make it "private"
Indian food in Britain is part of British cuisine. So is Caribbean food. Out of curiosity how many times have you been to the Uk and where have you eaten?
Hugs. Lots of them.
Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
I remember thinking "wow it's good he's in charge, he's an intelligent, competent and basically decent person" so I'd just like to apologise to anyone who has ever listened to me and advise you never to do so again.
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You guys see where this is going? Right?
A lot of smart commentary types went real quiet with that horseshoe theory bullshit, didn’t they
He's listed as a trustee here. register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-s...
What does that even mean?
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Season Finale is up. And it is a corker, if I say so meself.
#SeptemberHaiku🌱 Big ole grasshopper Landed on my basil plant Bug looking for lunch?
I love the legitimating term gender critical. It’s like mitochondrial theorist. Or eugenicist. As though it’s a branch of science.
Oh my god it got worse
A reminder that this is who Sex Matters really are: yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
FFS!!! The New ‘Executive Director of Communications’ - Tim Allen - was a Trustee at transphobic lobby group ‘Sex Matters’ until this morning!!! 😖😖😤 Don’t tell me the ‘trans lobby’ are powerful while transphobes sit in Number 10 Downing Street! 😠😡 👉🏻 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
As always with very posh boomer men, they can't imagine a world where the govt comes for their family. That we are discussing joining Russia outside the ECHR, torching hard won rights & protections for ALL of us, because a few people are scared of refugees proves the UK has lost it's fkn mind.
i by no means am in a position to criticise other parties for sheltering people whose views i consider repulsively transphobic. instead i will offer this reflection on the Jeremy Corbyn Party for Jeremy Corbyn Fans: he and everything he does is incredibly impermeable to and unaccepting of criticism
Oh my god that’s pathetic jesus christ
A row of burritos! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuva...
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I'm preaching to the choir here but I'm dismayed people are still using a site owned and manipulated by an obvious fascist. I think if you'd asked them 5 years ago if they'd use a fascist's social media site they would have said god no, of course not
🌱September opens with a flourish #PinkMonday #Roses #Bloomscrolling #Gardening #Flowers #EastCoastKin
bats are one of my top 5 cutest animals. vampire fiction did them dirty.
The comments made by Adnan Hussain are unforgivable. A #YourParty figure spewing transphobic rhetoric on birth sex is not left wing. This is what we voted and fought against within the #GreenParty. Thats why we will hopefully see @zackpolanski.bsky.social as our leader
It can. It just won’t. And nor will the Corbyn and Sultana party.
Yes, they have really mastered the task of being both stupid and vicious.
Corbyn: This is Your Party. Me, getting excited: Really? *My* party? This guy after checking my birth certificate: No.
Thank you! Let me know what you make of it.
Nigel Farage Slammed For Skipping Days Of Parliament To Be A 'Trump Cheerleader' In The States
William Colbert thought that tea was destroying the British working classes.
lmao didn’t realise that was you! Great book everyone should read (Going to finish it on holiday next week)
Thank you so much!
I’m not convinced that universities really care about this. I am convinced that they want more through put.
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from. I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR." It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
I wrote about this for the Jewish Chronicle. British food has always been permeable.
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Agree about Starmer and remain and therefore the betrayal.
Dare I suggest you read my book in which I say this? English Food: A People’s History.
I don’t think it did, not really. I think this was Astroturf.
Thanks – I’ve been meaning to dive into this series!
First day of #meteorologicalautumn But #astronomicalautumn isn’t until 22 September, so we can pretend it’s summer for a few more weeks. Whichever seasonal calendar you prefer, have a good week, take care. 🌱
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
Probably. The woman in question approached me at an abortion rights rally – I note this isn’t listed as one of the front organisations. We had a drink, and she struck me as absolutely barking, though rather clever.
It’s another Tufton Street enterprise, isn’t it?
Pity her principles don’t include supporting transgender people.
Somebody once tried to recruit me into the revolutionary communist party. I’m moderately certain that she really was communist.
Yuk!!!
Trevor Phillips is another Times journalist. Ridiculously right wing
#Feminism #womensrights #transsexuals #transwomenarewomen #transrightsarehumanrights
Regarding the instance of the transgender couple described on the ECHR website? www.equalityhumanrights.com/human-rights...
Can’t find this story – where is it reported?
Bridget Phillipson wants to 'reform' the ECHR and specifically the right to private and family life. This is what Starmer's war on refugees and trans people has come to. Labour MPs need to get rid of him and the rest of his crypto-fash crew. #noconfidenceinStarmer
American Lady (Vanessa virginiensis) nectaring on Pacific Aster at #PtReyes earlier this month.💚 #Invertefest #Butterflies #NationalParks #NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🌱
Some personal news: My Son is officially canceling his second coming until y’all are actually ready to listen to Him.
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*taps the sign*
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Toys are a luxury. Of course they are. Remember that wonderful Tory minister who insisted that the murals be painted over in case they looked in any way welcoming?
It includes audiobooks, toys, and photocopying. Just despicable
"The Independent previously revealed that a key factor impacting transgender people having hormone treatment withdrawn was the Cass Review ..." There was nothing to 'reveal,' Independent. That was literally the plan and the goal. 🤦♀️
always good to check the edit history on Twitter as they can sometimes be revealing What Douglas Carswell has written today is awful bad in its final form, but his original tweet was worse He's not correcting a typo "From Epping to the sea, let's make England immigrant free" just showed his hand
![Douglas Carswell @DouglasCarswell From Epping to the sea, let's make England Abdul free 5h [Quote tweet @GBPolitics] NEW: Epping locals vow to stop paying council tax after the High Court ruled that asylum seekers can stay in a hotel [@DailyMail] Last edited 1:27 PM · Aug 31, 2025 60.9K Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreiaumorv4doqx6ozqqxlsrvs4rne3cuqiyetljv3cdwozck6vszoxq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![Douglas Carswell @DouglasCarswell From Epping to the sea, let's make England immigrant free [Quote tweet] @GBPolitics *NEW: Epping locals vow to stop paying council tax after the High Court ruled that asylum seekers can stay in a hotel [@DailyMail] 1:25 PM Aug 31, 2025 509 Views There's a new version of this post. See the latest post](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihz7cel6hmysoidvh5whqaenwplsnan2nabdaega3dc6rmdzunree@jpeg "Click to view full size")
paging Dr Miller........paging Dr Miller..
Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it. This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
Reminder that this dork exists The handfish, a cunt who overlooks that the benefit of being underwater is swimming everywhere to occasionally decide to walk around on the sea bed like a chump
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Archibishop of York, "We should actively resist the isolationist short term knee jerk, in this case, send them home" "Nigel Farage is saying the things he's saying but he's not offering any long term solutions to the big issues which are convulsing our world which lead to this"
Yes, she said some stupid thing about how it was her middle-aged finger, and actually she was listening to Madeleine Burns already. I think that first repost was testing the water.
her views are that trans ppl should be eradicated and she's expressing those views by spreading neonazi propaganda on her x account & funding every single transphobic court case in the case you jus know she's making political donations to senior cabinet ministers like @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social too
Buy a Bible with unusual margins and you will be a bibliographer.
An addition: buy a Bible, read the Jesus bits and you’ll be a woke socialist
We've seen this play out already with the Tories and UKIP.
The Isenheim Altarpiece in its closed state, by Matthias Grünewald, who died OTD in 1528. A terrifying, visionary masterpiece at every level (and there are many).
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SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧