I'm desperately trying to work out what actual swears led the author to this choice of words. It could only be better by adding the classic American misplaced bloody. "Oh, bloody for crying in the piss!" perhaps.

Startling Lady of Gore@postnatodepression.bsky.social · 6h ago

American writer attempting natural-sounding British dialogue:

Halloween early costume test. A lot to do still. Can you tell who she'll be?

It's been a stressful week. My email sign offs have been ramping up.

So you don't want to look like a thickie thickie dum dum... but you still think asking trans folks and their allies to "define a woman" is the ultimate gotcha... ...a short Fred.

The approval of the Jackdaw gas field is an environmental catastrophe. But also, side-eyeing this from an industry which has lost THIRTY THOUSAND JOBS in the past five years, what the absolute fuck is this justification?

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 2d ago

From the govt's press release: "The developer estimates that Jackdaw will create 27 new direct jobs and safeguard 273 existing jobs that would otherwise be lost." Odd that so much is made about this being good for jobs. Your nearest out-of-town supermarket likely generates more jobs.

Hey @bma.org.uk don’t you think it’s time you revisited your opinion on the Cass Review?

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 2d ago

I needed to keep quiet about this but this is what I was working on earlier this year. My publication “Harming Children: The Effects of the UK puberty-blocker ban” was evidence used for this! I had to submit a lengthy affidavit via NZ local trans group PATHA. Let’s hope we can overturn more now.

I'm a fairly simple person. Will sell my soul/firstborn etc. for the govt to give my community its human rights back. This is the hill I am dying on.

sorry, you're telling me that this transphobic trust truly tipped tommy teepell's dad timmy to tap tommy to timorously try to take down the silver tongued town hall tentpole el-sayed?

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d ago

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

There are days I think Top Tips for Loving a Lizard is the best longform thing I have written. I'm not expecting everyone to agree but I really think it is worthy of your time.

StephenCox Wiz-4 "funny raunchy romantic, satisfyingly twisted"@stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 2d ago

I am 50% of the new @wtpress.bsky.social title Wiz Duos 4 with @samarcand.northsky.social 's Marooned off Ceres. Two first contact love stories - tender, funny, queer and intimate. Available all sorts of places all links here (and at Bristolcon) wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove...

I needed to keep quiet about this but this is what I was working on earlier this year. My publication “Harming Children: The Effects of the UK puberty-blocker ban” was evidence used for this! I had to submit a lengthy affidavit via NZ local trans group PATHA. Let’s hope we can overturn more now.

New Zealand High Court rules puberty blocker ban unlawful

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

I think my gripe with Labour tackling predatory car park charges and ppl not wearing headphones on transport is that yes sure fine great to both of those but I can’t really bring myself to care about shit like that when trans women are dying of cancer because the NHS refuses to treat them

You have many options to donate to help UK trans people: 1. Gendered Intelligence (support for trans people) 2. Mermaids (supports trans kids and their families) 3. Trans Legal Clinic (free legal help for trans people) genderedintelligence.co.uk mermaidsuk.org.uk www.translegalclinic.com

Barbara Fantechi@barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 4d ago

Is there an organisation supporting trans people in the UK we could donate to?

PAID VO CASTING CALL - PLEASE SHARE: Casting a female or NB voice actor who identifies as neurodivergent for a supporting role in season 2 of audio sitcom 'It’s a Superpower??'. Records over 2 in-person sessions in late April 2027, plus one day of additional VO in early May 2027. (1/2)

You have many options to donate to help UK trans people: 1. Gendered Intelligence (support for trans people) 2. Mermaids (supports trans kids and their families) 3. Trans Legal Clinic (free legal help for trans people) genderedintelligence.co.uk mermaidsuk.org.uk www.translegalclinic.com

Barbara Fantechi@barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 4d ago

Is there an organisation supporting trans people in the UK we could donate to?

sophie-molly-reports.beehiiv.com/p/transphobi... This is truly shocking

Transphobia Took The Life Of My Chronically ILL Daughter

Joelle Plow (She/Her) tragically lost her life whilst waiting for a hospital bed on the haematology ward during an urgent hospital visit.

sophie-molly-reports.beehiiv.com

It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.

Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social · last yr.

A woman weeps over the genocide in Gaza as she waits to be arrested as a terrorist for holding up a piece of cardboard. Parliament Square today.

Wiz-4 at #Bristolcon, details in comments "who knows what aliens would look like, or think, or how they would have sex? Maybe they’d reproduce by cutting pieces off and repotting them, like his Mum’s geraniums." @wtpress.bsky.social @samarcand.northsky.social #books #read #SFF #alien #funny

sadly just became aware of the governments new ban on trans dignity in hospitals. I work in the NHS and I'm pathetically closeted at work, doubt I will ever manage to come out now. I hope I can do more to advocate for my patients on this than I have been able to do for myself.

quite pleased to see my timeline filled with people complaining about this all of a sudden because 1. I am so used to struggling on this broken app when everyone seems to have no problems 2. It means the people I’m surrounded by care about alt text!

james@james.claims · 3d ago

can whichever bluesky developer or contributor who fucked the alt text modal up so bad it deletes every second character I type please ask Claude to do it again but with no mistakes this time thank you

Being trans in UK since 2024 election: -Puberty blocker ban made permanent -U18 HRT ban -Gender Recognition Certificate now meaningless -Trans Section 28 -Welsh ADULT surgery withdrawn -Transphobic language & hate normalised -Civil service toilet ban -Hospital ward ban -Hear it's "dignity & respect"

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 4d ago

The NHS promises "privacy, dignity and safety" for all its patients in new guidance that directs hospitals not to respect trans people's identities. Also, somebody impersonating a trans organization in Texas sent fraudulent texts to Republicans. And, nobody trusts Republicans on trans issues.

my second cousin once removed shouts "i object" and that's it, my healthcare halts...

Cwiar Cymru@cwiar.org · 4d ago

NEW: FOI requests reveal NHS Wales used unverified 'family concerns' to stop trans surgeries

Every so often I quietly think “I wonder if friend/family/colleague/acquaintance/someone I met in passing that one time ever think about me when the next new way in which I’m rendered a second-class citizen drops in the news” and remember that’s a silly question because no-one’s checked in in 2 yrs

"For years, trans people have used wards in line with their gender identity, under the NHS’s own guidance – without any harm. The NHS was built on the promise that everyone counts. With this guidance, it has decided that trans people certainly don’t – and some of us will pay for it with our lives."

The new NHS guidance for trans people could put lives at risk

The NHS has decided to make it even worse for trans people – by forcing them to use wards based on their ‘biological sex’.

metro.co.uk

It is time for the #MathCoffeeSelfie I want to see a good hustle today! Let's go!

It's a safe and inclusive space, ironically, because it is so heavily gate kept and people deeply value the quality of the space they've built there.

And our waiting lists for gender-affirming care weren't doing it quickly enough.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ@sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · last wk.

the nhs to trans ppl: we are absolutely trying to murder you.

Today's announcement from NHS England was as bad as we expected. It is cruel and unworkable, and is phrased such that it is likely cost the NHS a vast amount of money as it is subjected to even more gender-critical lawfare. Trans+ people, and the NHS, deserve better than this.

I have already heard from trans constituents who are avoiding essential NHS screening and treatment for fear of being treated without respect and dignity. Ministers told me: “the revised guidance will support the privacy, dignity and safety of all patients” How exactly does this do that?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Trans women no longer to be placed on female-only wards under new NHS England guidance