today is my ninth year of being officially on the hrt. happy and sad.

Completely untenable to have someone who talks about a minority group like this in charge of anything, let alone being the final say in matters of equality and human rights

The UK on the other hand has GCs within Labour, top medical institutions, EHRC, medical journals such as the BMJ, and of course the British press. At every level GC's have done complete institutional capture of key influential positions to erase trans rights.

a live stream of spacewalk 97. absolutely incredible that this is even *a thing that can happen*. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW-V...

U.S. Spacewalk 97

YouTube video by NASA

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a spider ran over my bed and evaded my hands and then hid behind my pillow someplace. it was elsewhere when i picked the pillows up. it was of significant size and heft. it is a harmless critter and i still hate knowing that it's there. somewhere. ready to make a random itch much more manic.

i visited Confelicity bakery in Edinburgh earlier today and got myself a cinnamon roll thing and it was yummy. it is an entirely gluten free bakery and for someone with coeliac disease like me that's pretty amazing.

They should rebrand it as a 'Genuine UK trans experience for cis people'

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW: Lumo is running services between London and Scotland lasting more than five-and-a-half hours despite having no available toilets 🚨

There is no conflict of rights between cis women and trans women, only a conflict between the goals anti-trans, anti-feminist hate groups and the broad interests of all women

long live the people's poet: Rik fucking Mayall. youtu.be/EZQvfxHlU9Q

Long Live the People’s Poet

YouTube video by Black Metal Archives Label

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Amnesty UK have apologised to JK Rowling for rightfully calling out her anti-rights rhetoric. Shame on them. A human rights organisation should not cave to pressure from billionaires, especially those who wish to make supporting human rights a terrorist offence. xoxo BASH BACK

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026

Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.

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Please sign this UK government petition to compel AI companies to reveal whose books they used to train their data petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

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Sex Matters is a charity that loves to hate trans people. And your tax money is paying for it. The stuff they spin isn’t just false, it’s dangerous. So we reported them to the Charity Commission with a dossier of evidence on their staff & trustees. ✊Help us fight back: https://goodlaw.social/anrx

And on The Tube in London... the people speak out.

“We’re not asking for permission to be here. We’re playing.” In February, USA Rugby banned transgender women from competing in women's matches. It was, on paper, a massive blow to the Baltimore Ferals, one of hundreds of teams affiliated with International Gay Rugby. Instead, they kept playing.

i would really like to go swimming. it is very hard to figure out what might be acceptable as a non passing trans woman. if i present as male i will get yelled at for having boobs. if i present as female i will get yelled at for "lying".

The Odyssey is such a hit that apparently the author has already churned out a prequel called “The Iliad”? Typical Hollywood.

TERFs gloating about ruining - Amnesty Girl Guides Women’s Institute Stonewall The Pink Paper 1000s of small business forced to bankrupt themselves changing loos While they’re getting off on destroying our society they want you to think trans folks are the problem.

the internet feels like a dead mall now. which makes a lot of sense when you realize that the internet and malls were literally created for the same reasons, and then ran themselves into the ground with data collection and gambling. youtu.be/xB0MLdQ9O4A

The Internet is a dead mall now

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This is the context of JK Rowling putting a survivor of rape or sexual assault on blast for having the gall to seek help

1. TERF activist J.K. Rowling is threatening to bankrupt Amnesty International (UK) with lawsuits because the org dared release a report criticizing anti-trans organizaitons. The UK's laws are designed to allow rich people to suppress speech they do not like. Subscribe to support our journalism.

TERF Activist J.K. Rowling Threatens To Finance Wave Of Attacks On Amnesty International Over Report On Anti-Trans Groups

“They have sued organizations into the ground.”

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It's also available here. Please share and spread this report. Trans folks in the UK can't for fear of lawsuits by gender critical groups. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...

my rent, that is paid for by government benefits, was briefly within the LHA rates. this year a rent hike means it isn't any more, and the extra is going to have to come out of other benefits. ive calculated the government has paid a private landlord about 80k since i have lived here.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Brilliant to speak at the launch of some groundbreaking new research on rent controls being published by the New Economics Foundation and the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Rent controls are an idea whose time has well and truly come.  📸 @aldoshoots

i wanna go swimming but it's weird and difficult as a non passing transgender person.

does anyone else have nightmares where they can't enter their phone PIN any more

@chriswaves.bsky.social your cameo in the new Leftist Cooks video was really great 😅

really good video by benn jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social talking about the course of capitalism, primarily from an american perspective but relevant to all of us. terrifying and insightful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy...

The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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I especially love this diagram.

See ya to Starmer. A solid Good Riddance from a very public sociologist. averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-se...