Jimmy Cricket Guardian obituary by me: www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Jimmy Cricket obituary

Northern Irish comedian who became a household name in the 1980s thanks to many TV appearances and his own ITV show

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Look how simple those questions are and it all falls apart. Now look at the questions media outlets usually opt to ask, instead.

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 3h ago

EHRC chair challenged on how to enforce single-sex toilet rules www.channel4.com/news/ehrc-ch...

“We can always tell” at 2m30s: www.channel4.com/news/ehrc-ch... The head of the EHRC is an anti-science bigot. This interview would be hilariously bad if it wasn’t by one of the people responsible for trying to enforce segregation of a minority group in the UK.

EHRC chair challenged on how to enforce single-sex toilet rules

We spoke to Mary Ann Stephenson, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

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This is going to be daily or near enough. Well-funded legal challenges will hit anyone and everyone who dares to challenge deliberately discriminatory rules. Even if every govt body surrendered, they will go for pvt companies and then individuals. None of it requires comment, just repetition.

Given everything that’s going on, this was the perfect night to see David Byrne’s American Utopia at the GFT. Staggeringly beautiful and joyous.

Gl*nner did this stuff all the time. Tagging celebs, phoning them. Some of it was, admittedly, because he is absolutely bananas, but most of it is calculated. These folk know their careers are in the toilet. They have to generate right-wing outrage and media attention in order to earn a living.

It’s important to view this for what it actually is: a Linehan-style attempt to make a big stooshie and have the press report this as a ‘feud’ with a much bigger, much more successful artist.

David, in Brighton, in 2026@davidbtn2.bsky.social · 7h ago

Ok, so Madonna who's attained a level of success, wealth, critical acclaim and global adoration from the public and her peers that Roisin Terfy could only dream of has jumped on the 'TQ bandwagon'? 🙄 This same Madonna who in the 1970s was dancing with us in underground queer NY nightclubs... 1/

From the awesome Hannah Spencer

A new essay for all my trans siblings and our allies. "As the UK enters a new era of state-mandated segregation, I find myself asking: was it all worth it?"

What we have won

It was the largest trans protest in British history. We travelled from across the country to central London. We were joined by allies, especially cis gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer people who re…

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This is what happened 5-10 years ago in the UK. Journalistic seriousness was stripped from trans journalists and columnists despite trans topics dominating headlines.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 5h ago

I pitched both of my usual outlets about the Cunningham stuff, one said yes, one said not right now. In 2019 I would have had a dozen editors competing for my words on this.

This is horrific, and what the EHRC code wants to mimic.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5h ago

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

I’m not saying I’m not a domestic goddess. But today I sold the iron and ironing board I bought when I moved in 2017. Still in their sealed packaging.

“It’s important to point out that this isn’t content posted by third parties on Facebook or Instagram, these are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars.” Read the full story:

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Hate group LGB Alliance are organising a parliamentary lobby against the conversion practises bill on 1st September. lgballiance.org.uk/conversion-p... these people hate all LGBTQIA+ people.

Our Policy & Public Affairs Coordinator Flo has written a guest blog for the wonderful folks over at @lighthousebks.bsky.social about what we can do now in the face of feeling loss and despair at the EHRC's Code of Practice. You can read it here: lighthousebookshop.com/posts/what-c...

the level of “…all I said was ‘do you want the meal deal or just the burger?” in that Roisin Murphy tweet tho

David, in Brighton, in 2026@davidbtn2.bsky.social · 7h ago

Ok, so Madonna who's attained a level of success, wealth, critical acclaim and global adoration from the public and her peers that Roisin Terfy could only dream of has jumped on the 'TQ bandwagon'? 🙄 This same Madonna who in the 1970s was dancing with us in underground queer NY nightclubs... 1/

I've heard that the GC event in Belfast encouraged people to join trans supportive groups in order to change 'hearts and minds' from within. Organisations need to take note that this is most certainly a problem and it needs nipped in the bud.

"The Labour government has made a choice, one rooted in the patriarchy, to further police women’s bodies and exclude people who do not conform to arbitrary standards of femininity. ..we reject their Code of Practice and the colonial, misogynistic, sexist, and transphobic assumptions they employ" ✊🏼

Aliza Adi (she/her)@alizaadi.bsky.social · 9h ago

The bar may have been on the floor, but this Labour government has still managed to crawl beneath it Labour's dangerous Code of Practice cements its place as the most misogynistic administration women in the UK have had to endure in a generation #DoNotComply

Here is a starter pack of people and organizations working for trans rights in the UK, plus people who regularly post on the topic. The UK press is hopelessly anti-trans, so give these folks a boost: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Gunna wheel this one back out...

She Guevara@sheg7.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The only trans people mentioned in the epstein files are victims. Hundreds of known anti-trans people are in them, though, either rubbing shoulders with the rape-cult, an active part of the clique, or trying to gain access. Are you getting it yet?

yaaaay!

Claire@floweringc.bsky.social · 9h ago

For anyone who's been influenced by @scriblit.bsky.social , the co-op seem to be drowning in peach magnums right now

Speaking as one of the many "bearded men" Rowling has attacked repeatedly, this thread is absolutely spot on.

Sacha Coward@sachacoward.bsky.social · 11h ago

Let's talk about JK Rowling's 'bearded men'... I want to vent something that's been on my mind: The way transphobic groups and individuals are also actively homophobic. I've experienced it first hand, and know many others have too. 1/

web.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"

Cis woman on now speaking about how much she has been challenged, had security called on her because she has PCOS. Says she's never had a problem with trans women but multiple problems with GC women. She's on the verge of tears.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations officially comes into effect today. See our full statement with @transsolidarity.bsky.social and @transactualuk.bsky.social on our website here: www.scottishtrans.org/ehrcs-code-o...

Until there is legislation, business and charity policies and budgets and the everyday lives of trans people will hang in the balance of judgment after judgment where the FWS case law pings around the court system with hard to predict consequences

The best YouTube channel ever made has just dropped another of the best YouTube videos ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7...

Johnny Depp's Bed

YouTube video by Bobby Fingers

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