Signed. Please i don’t need protection from trans women, go do something useful instead

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 52m ago

Any cis women who are disgusted by the Burnham government's transphobic policy of segregation can sign the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition, which is now closing in on 110,000 signatures. notinourname.org.uk

This is the most loser-coded image imaginable, big "villains in an '80s breakdancing movie" energy

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 55m ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

This must hit different if you no longer believe in material reality

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

NEW: Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan's Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, defeating Rep. Haley Stevens in a massive victory for the party's progressive wing in a battleground state. https://to.pbs.org/4fPHHJQ

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary in major victory for Democrats’ progressive wing

The real test of El-Sayed’s and progressives’ strength will now come in a November matchup against Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman who ran unopposed for the GOP nomination.

to.pbs.org

@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.

Journalism has become the art of stubbornly refusing to draw the obvious conclusion

looks like the earnings call went well

I think we need to brace ourselves for a new and more extreme outbreak of racism and Islamophobic slurs from Trump and the GOP as they head into a Fall election in which their prospects are deservedly grim. Hate is their stock-in-trade and they'll be slinging it big time.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h ago

Republicans didn’t take long to get the open bigotry going

Jim Cramer just now on Elon Musk and why you should buy SpaceX: “Because our minds are small and his mind is big.”

I know she's incapable of ever admitting she's wrong about anything, but even I'm surprised that Kemi Badenoch has chosen this particular hill to die on

To explain for foreigners: our energy regulator rubber-stamps price rises; the water regulator tuts while rivers fill up with human shit; the press regulator wags an occasional finger, and the national equality body enforces press campaigns against groups of people they hate and wish to damage.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6h ago

Britain, where the national equality body is a boobyhatch jam-packed with wingnut cranks who fervently believe their job is creating weapons for police to hammer minorities that the press hates and wants to harm.

Trump owes more than $100 million in unpaid taxes, so this is just a giant free check he gave to himself with taxpayer dollars

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h ago

“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

thus do we understand half the reason for the NYT’s seething anti-Mamdani grudge

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 13h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

People were using images from Google Maps/Google Earth as fixed, authoritative research data for uncovering war crimes in conflict zones. Suddenly, investigations into, say, mass starvation in Sudan could be subverted: it's really being caused by a 200 meter high Alf that lumbered out of the sea!

We can could cook up various metaphors to describe what AI is doing to society. Try this on: what holds human societies & governments together are our shared beliefs on reality, as determined by the scientific method, our shared "facts", & our belief that such knowledge is even *possible*...

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

These businesses aren't just wasting billions - they're replacing skilled workers with defective chatbots. As I've written before, AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our technological society. 79/

This is Stock's "collateral damage" in action

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 4h ago

Cis woman on now speaking about how much she has been challenged, had security called on her because she has PCOS. Says she's never had a problem with trans women but multiple problems with GC women. She's on the verge of tears.

British media trying to pull a Charlie Kirk over a dead racist pedophile wife-beater is just more proof that ruthlessly and brutally denazifying British news media is going to be important.

"Among Whaley's concerns: affordable and high quality health care for everyone, medical debt relief, lower utility bills." www.freep.com/story/news/p...

Downriver candidate could become Michigan's first transgender state rep

Joanna Whaley, a hospital chaplain from Lincoln Park could be on her way to becoming the first transgender state rep in Michigan's history.

freep.com

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

when the revised code dropped a lot of lab mps where like "wait, how do services be trans inclusive if they want to?" &, like, they can't. that's the whole point this is what we've been trying to tell you for almost 2 years & you've been blithely ignoring us

i've found many cis people either: ▪️ don't know anything about this at all ▪️ or imagine it *allows* service providers to be trans-exclusionary, rather than *mandates* that & are only now catching up

Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 4h ago

This is what we need to hear more of. And we need to forgive people when they say this. Better late than never - we need more people to speak up and speak louder however late they join the fight.

The line is, "Of course people deserve a second chance, but their repentance has to be real, consistent and thorough-going, and it has to be reflected in a real change in their conduct, not just excuses."

Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 3h ago

Hello I'm an idiot

You’re not dealing with morons here

Thinking again about the marble Bari Weiss bust that's set up in the common room of the fake 'University of Austin' university she started in property owned by Harlan Crowe, the billionaire Nazi memorabilia collector that bought a Supreme Court justice

The original guidance was as close as you can get to a common sense intergration and balancing of everyone's collective and individual rights to dignity and privacy. Which is why they had to get rid of it.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4h ago

In 2011, the UK government response to antitrans provocations was "Don't be so bloody stupid".

web.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"

A court ruling in 2025 by the supreme court decided the govt couldn't have possibly meant precisely what the government said in a lot of detail when the act was originally published, an instead must have been interpreting the EA2010 as excluding trans people in most goods and services.

For anyone confused about the response to the EHRC guidance today, compare the guidance on trans people in single sex spaces with the guidance released in 2011 after the Equality Act 2010 was originally published assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a79b7...

Hodges is an occasionally useful guy to keep an eye on, mainly because he’ll say things that his less stupid colleagues are smart enough to keep to themselves.