"What happens when transmasculine people have to use the ladies' har har har" We get fucking assaulted. It's just not talked about as much because people don't give a shit and keep making the same joke over and over again.
You know what, it’s rare I hear a genuinely new argument from a transphobe that isn’t just a standard talking point, so, fair play, I’ll give this some credit. Also, sorry, what the fuck?
A big one for anywhere actively enforcing it is how they are planning to a) 'know' and b) log someone's "birth sex", given that you can't tell by looking/hearing, asking someone in a public space could constitute a breach of someone's right to privacy, and sex is special category data under GDPR.
First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.
How would I get by without AI? If I need a factually-dubious opinion expressed in a cliched manner with unearned confidence, I’ll just talk to a straight white cis man. I can get by on small-batch, locally-sourced, artisanal mansplaining, the way we always used to.
Do try to remember that the EHRC guidance only affects service providers and not employment, so if you work somewhere where there are toilets or changing rooms for employees that aren’t open to the public then your employers are wrong if they try to stop you from using facilities for your gender
Why the hell is the basket man in Wicker played by Alexander Skarsgård and not Hugo Weaving?
if any of you know anyone who still thinks that the flagshaggers are 'just proud of their country', i want you to sit down with them and read these court documents together
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Final Fantasy VII Revelation Director Assures Fans That The Base Game Will Conclude The Story. (Repost)
Final Fantasy VII Revelation Director Assures Fans That The Base Game Will Conclude The Story
Any potential DLC will be considered a spin-off
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the weirdest thing ppl do with minorities is treat every interaction like some deep insight into the state of the community, no you met a person who was nice/an asshole, it will happen many many times again, you need to get used to it the way you have with people who are not minorities
I feel like at least some of this self corrects when you stop giving yourself mental medals like "ally" and just act normal with other people who are in fact for the most part, also just normal people
Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · yesterdayA PSA to my fellow cis people who are (or want to believe they are) trans allies If you are getting pushback from trans people and your reaction is to be all “no! not me! I’m one of the good ones!” please remember that “being one of the good ones” is something you DO, not something you ARE
Because I am TERRIBLE at timing, I'm selling my boxed #Transformers Predaking mere DAYS after everyone is all knackered from #TFN! Boxed, complete (haven't even applied stickers!). Selling Due To Broke. Also, enjoy the description. I am once again Back On My Bullshit www.ebay.co.uk/itm/11734011...
I believe this is true, and it’s why I’m willing to invest time in yelling at the BBC to be better at stuff in a way i simply won’t bother with the Telegraph
Paul Evans@pauledevans.bsky.social · 2d agoThere's a lot of smack talked about the BBC on The Bluesky at the moment. They are far from perfect, and they are for sure guilty of platforming Farage in a way that's elevated him to the prominence he has today. But it's still an exponentially better establishment than most other UK news sources.
If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.
The plan is for a big volunteer nurdle effort tomorrow and Tuesday, after both high tides. So from 6 in the morning to start on Tynemouth Longsands. Details/info/context in the pic (attached twice with half of alt text in each). WhatsApp for organising here: chat.whatsapp.com/KXTZ6zO69si0...
![There is a major volunteer effort kicking early in off from 6am Monday morning
Longsands at the High Tide Line starting from Crusoe's to clear nurdle plastic pollution from our beaches and everyone in Tynemouth has a part of play. More teams being assembled and will branch off to other beaches so watch out for information including Monday Afternoon after the second High Tide.
Based on expert advice the organisers have come to the conclusion that:
• The insurers contractors are equipped and staffed only to handle the Fish Quay and nearly all of the equipment needed in the North East unlikely to be here for days. We can leave the Fish Quay to them but Tynemouth needs to step up, nobody else will.
• The Tides this week, in particular Monday and Tuesday, are such that there is a golden opportunity to put a dent in this which otherwise we will regret. Residents here would never forgive ourselves if we let that happen.
• With each High Tide this week more and more pellets will refloat and form the nice neat lines along the High Tide mark, easy for volunteers to sweep up.
• It's been possible to locally manufacture enough filtering bags this weekend to support a big effort. Enough people who have already been volunteering have developed experience using them.
• There's scope for others less experienced to sweep up material with just a couple of minutes training (without touching a single pellet). You brush/scrape it, they will filter out the pellets.
So, if you have some time to spare before work, please come down. Don't expect perfection but do come and help. A few do's and don'ts:
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Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · 2w ago25 tonnes of nurdles, more than 1 billion nurdles, were spilled into the Tyne last week and are washing up on our beaches, north and south of the Tyne. Likely one of the largest ever plastic pollution events in the UK. There is remarkably little mention of this on here.
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
He also wrote this 23 years ago and somehow his career remained unaffected www.theguardian.com/society/2003...
It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think.
When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.
Its objectively worse if a terrible person was nice in private, because that means they chose to be this way on purpose
it's not that i'm celebrating his death, it's that his absence makes the world better, let's be specific
Rod Liddle used his platform to praise neo-nazis Golden Dawn. Wrote how he wouldn't be capable of *not* to raping kids as a teacher. Assaulted his pregnant girlfriend. Anyone in the press and political class know *all* of this and eulogise him anyway. This is who they are.
Well that's a very interesting insight into how much Rosie does care about the rights and dignity of women and girls, in any way that really matters.
Libby@captainlibatron.bsky.social · 2d agoDear god
Oh no. Exactly what everyone who knows literally *anything* about it said would happen did in fact happen. Wow. So now all the other know nothings in other governments around the world who are planning on giving away everyone's privacy will stop and think for a single second, right? Right??
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...