A message to trans + people in the UK. Carry on using the facilities you feel most comfortable in from tomorrow. Your comfort matters. Your right to exist in public life matters. The guidance is completely unworkable and it will fail!!

Powerful unions boycott Labour Women’s Conference over trans ban Unison, Aslef, Usdaw, and the Musicians’ Union will not attend Labour Women’s Conference in September over the decision to ban trans women from formal proceedings at the event 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 metro.co.uk/2026/07/29/m...

Powerful unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans ban

metro.co.uk

By popular request, here's how to add Bluesky replies as your blog's comment section! This requires some technical know-how for now, but I'm hoping that we see some no-code solutions for this pop up soon, like Ghost or Wordpress plugins. emilyliu.me/blog/comments

Using Bluesky posts as blog comments

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Emily Liu@emilyliu.me · 2y ago

also, any replies in this thread will appear as comments on the blog post itself. made possible by the aforementioned Open Network 🫡 ft. @shreyanjain.net's reply below

devs! want to build something on #atproto but not sure where to start? check out this "Call for Projects" with a bunch of ideas, ranging from protocol frameworks, to entire apps, to bots

This is an interesting one. www.politico.eu/article/uk-r...

UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns

Peter Hendy threatened to withhold public contracts while seeking disciplinary action.

politico.eu

Well this feels a lot better than threads, haven’t immediately been launched into corporate social media