The trouble with being a British trans person now is that you are being segregated against your will while all the normal push back routes of a democracy are being actively denied to you. When people are treated like that, they find other ways to resist, and this worries me.

For some unaccountable reason, I really like this project.

Hackaday@hackadayofficial.bsky.social · 2d ago

Making One Fender From Another

UK got the vaccine end of the 70s, so I was probably in the last few to get measles in childhood. I have never been sicker. I didn't know anyone who died of it and it wasn't one of "Those things that kill people". Doesn't mean kids didn't die though. You gotta look beyond your own experience.

Ward Q. Normal (he/him)@wardqnormal.bsky.social · 2d ago

"When I was a kid, nobody died of measles." Yes, because WE GAVE EVERYONE A VACCINE TO PREVENT DEATHS FROM MEASLES.

Supporting a friend who's getting grief at work over the toilet thing. Join a union, folks!

I made a complaint about Tonia Antoniazzi's conduct: her objection to a transgender person being in the same ward as her mother. I think you should too. labour.org.uk/resources/co... I'm sure they will ignore it or decide that she did nothing wrong, but they work on numbers as well as substance.

Does anyone have a link to that Tonia Antoniazzi X post? I don't use X, and can't find it. Going to put in a complaint, I think.

I've cracked how to build large interconnected network graphs like the one this is a small part of. I know this is of use to some people somewhere, but it's such an esoteric thing I am having difficulty finding where.

Jenny List@jennylist.bsky.social · 3d ago

Tonia Antoniazzi's gender critical activities are well known and long standing, here's her network graph.

Tonia Antoniazzi's gender critical activities are well known and long standing, here's her network graph.

The Tonia Antoniazzi who is the member for Gower and scared her mother might see a trans person in hospital is the same Tonia Antoniazzi who is the subject of this Guardian article about cranks spreading 5G conspiracy theories. You couldn't make it up. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How baseless fears over 5G rollout created a health scare

Misconceptions about the technology and lack of consultation with local communities may have boosted conspiracy theories

theguardian.com

It's not so long ago you'd have had people concerned that their parent would have had to share a hospital ward with a black person.

This will kill people

Trans people should use hospital spaces according to biological sex, NHS England says

New guidance says trans patients should be cared for on single-sex hospital wards or bays that align with their biological sex.

bbc.co.uk

ILGA-Europe welcomes the Hungarian National Assembly’s vote to repeal the anti-LGBTQI provisions introduced by the 2021 propaganda law.

Hungary repeals anti-propaganda law | ILGA-Europe

ILGA-Europe welcomes that the Hungarian National Assembly voted yesterday to repeal the anti-LGBTQI provisions introduced by the 2021 propaganda law. The new legislation is a narrow implementation of ...

ilga-europe.org

It is so dispiriting, to be constantly be under attack just for being who you are.

Anybody who remembers the late 1990s shouldn't be at all surprised by Metalica's stance.

In case anyone is in any doubt as to Janet Murray's long-standing gender-critical position in her work.

Mark Grimshaw@markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 6d ago

Janet Murray is now publicly harassing a random trans woman for choosing to get gender affirming surgery, and her real life friend for donating some money towards funding it. Janet works for the Telegraph and the Mail. This is the state of British journalism. Harassing people for being trans.

I dont want nobody bad mouthing comic sans these days bc this AI thumbnail scratchy font is literally everywhere I look and people just go with it

I know in 20 years time I am going to be dealing with Labour supporting student-aged baby-transes wailing "But they've chaaanged!".

Lying in bed thinking about UK segregated bathrooms, and wondering how we'll eventually walk back from this. I'm guessing it will come as part of EU re-entry, and they'll have to be dragged kicking and screaming into it. So a decade or more of this. How are we going to make that happen?

My city installs three-door toilets. That's not inclusive.

Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · last wk.

This is a sick joke. This is segregation not inclusion. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Terfs are quiet at the moment, a significant lull in the volume of news stories about trans people coming through in my corpus feed. This usually means they have some big story brewing, so stay safe everyone.

They really are acting out the events in Idiocracy, aren't they. Better buy Brawndo shares quickly, it's what plants crave.

Terms of reference published for Welsh Gender Service review. Seems the whole thing was based on a higher referral rate for FtM bottom surgery. #terflogic jcc.nhs.wales/policies-res...

Just a reminder and to hang up my shingle, I can create network graphs for any online visible network. Anything: your local tech cluster, your target market, your professional field, or a subset of politics like the one the screen grab below is just a very small part of. Linked data and GraphML.

Jenny List@jennylist.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm just going to leave this here, it's a network graph showing Mary-Ann's connections in the gender-critical world. Given that she's already deeply embedded in anti-trans activity, it's difficult to judge her on anything but that.

From my podcast, a tale that might explain the HS2 overspend. Please support me if you can, it really helps. ko-fi.com/post/Theres-...

There's Something Rotten In The State Of Buckinghamshire

Jenny's Bench published a post on Ko-fi

ko-fi.com

Many of Maggie's positions would be seen as well to the left of today's Labour party.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Celia Walden calls for necromancy.

Where are these "No go zones"? They've been talking about them for years, but we never get given an address. Can we see them and judge for ourselves? I mean, surely they're real, right?

Sarah Owen MP@sarahowen.org.uk · 2w ago

It is deeply irresponsible for any politician, let alone a senior Conservative, to peddle the same far-right nonsense about Luton that we see from the likes of Yaxley Lennon and Reform.

Jeffery Archhole gone. He'll sweet talk his way into heaven, then two weeks later he'll have to resign in disgrace and be kicked out.

I just applied for a corporate editor job. Outside my wheelhouse but I was surprised to note that my CV ticked all its boxes. It's a punt, but worth a try.

I'm just going to leave this here, it's a network graph showing Mary-Ann's connections in the gender-critical world. Given that she's already deeply embedded in anti-trans activity, it's difficult to judge her on anything but that.

Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@stephaniejane.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are judging you, Mary-Ann Stephenson. We are judging…

I can't say it's an architectural gem, but memories going all the way back to my childhood.

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2w ago

Demolition is underway today at the Odeon cinema on Gloucester Green. The site is being redeveloped as a 145-room aparthotel, trading as ‘Wilde Oxford’, which is expected to be complete in late 2027. The ground floor will incorporate a community space, cafe and bar.