A terrible day for trans people in Britain and a shameful one for the EHRC and government

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 21h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

"As the brilliant Tressie McMillan Cottom has written, there’s a deliberate ploy to use generative AI to disproportionately displace women from feminine-coded jobs in administration and customer service. (And it is doing them very poorly in comparison with actual human beings [...].)"

Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · yesterday

Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

“Here’s a radical thought: what if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? What if we started seeing the mass movement of people less as an existential threat and more as a simple inevitability of human existence?”

Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left | Jonathan Liew

It was framed as a perfect storm because nativists dearly wanted it to be. Looking on, progressives failed to meet the moment too, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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This country needs a national anti-racism strategy. For too long successive governments have fuelled division towards migrants and refugees in their rhetoric & policies. Alongside +100 other orgs, we joined @runnymedetrust.bsky.social to call on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to take urgent action.

Runnymede Trust@runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 7d ago

From widespread racist violence, to attacks on places of worship and burning down homes and businesses of people of colour, our new Prime Minister is inheriting a country which is ripping at the seams.

The number of short-term tourist & business visas issued to nationals of dozens of (mostly African) countries who had to pay a bond fell 83% over the last 10 months apnews.com/article/visa...

US to make visa bond requirements permanent, affecting mostly African countries

The State Department is making permanent a pilot program under which citizens from 50 countries, mainly in Africa, are required to post bonds to apply for a U.S. visa, and it’s raising the cost as wel...

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We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.

It is very, very, very frustrating to try and have any serious discussion about immigration when nearly 100% of RW politicians and media are either profoundly dishonest or stupendously ignorant about basic facts and law about it

A trans-run website, HRT Café, was shut down because of a misinformation campaign by an American hate group opposed to “woke healthcare,” also known as healthcare

Marie Leanne Shrewsbury@crapcerealandpills.bsky.social · 4d ago

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/how-... Please do share the living crap out of this.

I saw an interview with a park ranger who was asked "Why can't they build bear proof dumpsters?" His reply was perfect: "There's a considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people."

If you see someone online ignorantly claiming that entry into Ceuta entails entry into mainland Spain/the Schengen area, here's the text proving otherwise. (Plus almost everyone who entered Ceuta returned within a day)

Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 5d ago

Here are those special rules on Ceuta and Melilla as regards Schengen - dating back to Spain acceding to the Schengen Convention eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

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I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

New: Successful legal challenge for survivor of trafficking forced to steer small boat across Channel — by Emily Soothill

Successful legal challenge for survivor of trafficking forced to steer small boat across Channel - Free Movement

The Home Office has conceded an important judicial review claim brought by a survivor of trafficking who had been forced at gunpoint to pilot a small boat

freemovement.org.uk

Gladstone et al (2026): "biographies of female scientists disproportionately emphasized effort even after adjusting for the obstacles they faced, consistent with stereotypes attributing women’s success to hard work over talent." 🧪 #psychscisky

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences@pnas.org · 6d ago

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is ”Children’s books about scientists convey demotivating messages.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/oTon50ZuLj3 For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/TsjY50ZuLj2.

"Antalya on fire..." Yes, this is the Turkish city due to host the next UN climate conference, COP31, this November

I might wear this feature out

Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 7d ago

Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts

When asked why British police screwed up the Andrew Tate case so badly, a "detective blamed the malfeasance on 'overworked, overstretched' officers who failed to take the women’s allegations seriously, partly because two of them were sex workers."

Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

newyorker.com

** head fully snaps off ** you'd better tell Shabana

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · last wk.

Andy Burnham, "To me, carers should be the best paid people in society, not the worst" "Many people from other countries have been caring for my dad" Andy Burnham praises migrants to the UK who care for our elderly, a stark contrast to Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer

The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...

“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo...

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 2w ago

The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.

“Every single person who marched today is proof that we are not going anywhere, that our joy is louder than their hate, and that London Trans+ Pride will keep fighting, keep loving and keep growing until every trans person is safe, seen, and free.” Solidarity with all marching for trans justice. 🏳️‍⚧️

150,000 march through London in world’s largest trans pride, organisers say

Protesters voiced anger at the new guidance on single sex-spaces and fears that trans people are being excluded from society.

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Excellent piece by @jdportes.bsky.social “Chasing net migration targets does not defeat the politics of racialised grievance. It may legitimate it.” For too long a relatively meaningless but fetishised measure has been a platform for dog whistling

East Anglia Bylines@eastangliabylines.co.uk · 2w ago

Net migration has fallen from 944,000 to 171,000. Yet that headline conceals major movements in both directions – including substantial emigration by British and EU+ nationals. So, asks Jonathan Portes, what exactly is the problem people want politicians to solve?

The whole point of the original policy (which was and is terrible) was to target exactly this group. And now they’re going to introduce the policy and exempt them? Just abandon the policy! The whole thing is just a terrible idea.

Immigration Bot@immigrationbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Exclusive: Andy Burnham thought to be considering waiving stricter right to remain rules for people already working in the sectorHundreds of thousands of care workers could be exempted from the home secretary’s plans to toughen up the immigration system under proposals being…" — The Guardian

Information sharing with the Home Office results in victims of modern slavery, wage theft, trafficking, domestic violence, and other serious crimes being afraid to come forward. No one should be prioritising brutalising migrants over the prevention of real and organised crimes.

Simon Parker@sparkerworld.bsky.social · 2w ago

BBC News - Green-led council 'won't assist immigration raids' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You ever think about how all this is happening after Orban lost in Hungary

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2w ago

I guess Russian transfers stopped?

Moria refugee camp made it to all the newspapers when, in the summer of 2020, it was burned to the ground. What happened to the hotspot of Lesvos after it disappeared from the spotlight? This article reveals that violence, pushbacks and isolation still affect people on the move today.

On Lesvos, the architecture of migration deterrence laid bare

Our editor returns to what was once the main gateway to the EU for refugees to see what has changed and what it says about efforts to stop migration.

thenewhumanitarian.org

It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.

Thinking about a paper idea I tossed around with my office mate in grad school about fatphobia as a fundamental cause of disease. If it constrains access to resources (jobs, partnerships, medical procedures or research) it may fit the bill.

NBER@nber.org · last mo.

GLP-1-induced weight loss increases single women's partnership rates by 29 percentage points and non-employed women's employment rates by 27 percentage points after 1.5+ years, from Rebecca Diamond www.nber.org/papers/w35387

Increasingly clear we're only in charge because the orcas can't be arsed with the admin tbh

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2w ago

Killer whales: orcas blow fish to bits, study finds. US-based NGO Beneath The Waves video shows an orca holding the tail of a sunfish, while another whale charges with full force into the already dead fish, which explodes into pieces – possibly to create bite-sized chunks u.afp.com/SrPj

Displacement wouldn’t stop without the Refugee Convention; it would simply become more chaotic and unstable, writes @profjmcadam.bsky.social theconversation.com/at-a-time-of...

At a time of harder borders and ‘ruthless’ rhetoric, the Refugee Convention is more important than ever

Critics claim the groundbreaking treaty, which turns 75 this month, is no longer fit for purpose. Without it, however, there would be chaos.

theconversation.com