I can't be trusted to reliably remember my meds (thanks, ADHD!) so I made a stupid little app to send me reminders. in case anyone else would find it useful: apps.apple.com/gb/app/simpl...

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did a march with some good friends, was briefly interviewed by the amazing and utterly delightful @jessothomson.co.uk AND had a tiny bit of battenburg. I honestly couldn't imagine a better day. 🏳️‍⚧️

ACAB includes toilet police 🏳️‍⚧️

in other news, I've been forgetting to take my HRT and other meds so regularly now that I've forced myself to learn a bit more swiftUI and have a reminders app going through review and available soon! I just needed something simple to bully my ADHD-addled brain into gear and I think I've nailled it.

trans pride in London today so to paraphrase my friend Matt - I hope nothing goes wrong with the internet today, everyone who can fix it will be busy there for a bit 😘

I need a get-rich-quick scheme I think. all my current schemes seem to fall in the get-even-more-skint-quite-slowly category.

Wes Streeting should be held accountable for the deaths of children he caused by removing their medical treatment on ideological grounds, despite warnings from experts. His resignation is not enough, he should be prosecuted for the deaths he's responsible for.

The new Rainbow Map is out. The UK used to be a beacon for LGBTQ+ rights in Europe, topping the list in 2015, but over the last decade we have dropped year on year. We are now barely scraping a score above the continent’s average.

Rainbow Map

Europe's LGBTI Rights Rankings 2026

rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org

I don't know about you but I'd quite like to see a crime-fighting pope. Hell, I'd pay good money to see a Batpope.

Right. Let's go do a protest, shall we?

The problem with being a uh "destinctive looking" 6ft tran with multicoloured hair is that everyone in the office knows who I am and I spend the first 30 seconds of a conversation bewildered and confused trying to work out who this person is based on a tiny Teams version I've seen of them before

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

I miss Dixons - standing under those harsh lights, comparing kettles while my wife drifted beside me, still mine, still real. Now she is gone, the shop is gone, and I cradle a boxed toaster like I once cradled her, livid at what woke has taken from me.

Pub anyone? I need to drink away any memory of this week. Get me on a tube to Chalk Farm.

So, so close to finishing my new portfolio site. Does that mean I can have a night off as a treat? 🥺

Well, I managed a few weeks without obsessively listening to Ethel Cain's last album, and over the last two days it's snuck back into heavy rotation...

transgender for everybody ✊

in 2026 we are NOT hustling, we are NOT grinding, we are doing just enough Job to have money for Video Game

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

You can only call it “design system” if it comes from the System region in France. Otherwise it’s just “sparkling component library”.

I know I'm very very late to this party, so apologies to everyone who's seen this post before - but I've finally got the Liquid Glass update to my iPhone and it's worse than anything I for have imagined. Genuinely outrageously ugly.

The BBC reporting the Sandie Peggie case as her "winning" when in fact she lost against the poor trans Dr who had done nothing wrong - and in fact was a victim of Peggie's hate campaign - is nothing short of shameful. I'll never pay the lisence fee again. The BBC should be defunded.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 8mo ago

If the reporting on the Peggie decision tells us anything, it should be that the way news gets reported in this country has little to do with truth, and much more to do with narrative - as well as whose heavily spun press release lands on journos desks first.

the high-pitched squeal you hear while watching formula e is not from the cars, it's the sound of all the children's souls trapped inside the trophy. It's colossallly, terrifyingly ugly.

Formula E's first free practice session of the year has been delayed by an hour - which has led to some great off the cuff TV coverage by Sam Bird in particular. Much more technical insight than usual. Love it.

Design systems were built for a world where humans made every pixel by hand.

the best goth weddings are in churches playing Skinny Puppy on Halloween (Congrats Steve and Mari! 🖤)

When I hear that the singer of Moloko has been radicalised by the American evangelical Christian-funded anti-trans campaign, I'm reminded that Sing It Back is one of the worst songs ever to have been held in regard by anyone ever.

ACAB includes Inspector Gadget

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Just deal with people being different than you.