New date for the parliamentary mass lobby - for reference it was posponed due to the heatwave in June making the original date unsafe for obvious health/wellbeing reasons. If you have an MP who you feel would engage, please do reach out to them for an invitation on the 9th. See the link for details.

TACC@tacc.org.uk · 4h ago

www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...

Do you believe me now? Do not travel to the US.https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/us-colleges-world/2026/08/05/detentions-international-scholars-airports-raise-alarm

Detentions of International Scholars at Airports Raise Alarm

A Johns Hopkins University researcher was detained at an airport by immigration officials and later released. Cases like hers make travel fraught for foreign scholars.

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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

Home - Not in our name

Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

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The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to stand still and take it, we're supporting a legal challenge led by a trans person and a trans inclusive organisation. But we can only do this together. Will you join us?👇 goodlaw.social/ldco

NEW | Since the Telegraph decided to use my name in vain… FROM A LEFT-WING AGITATOR WITH A BOOK TO FLOG brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/from-a-lef...

From a Left-Wing agitator with a book to flog

This edition is a bit meta. Consider it a sequel to yesterday's Rod Liddle obituary.

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current discourse feels like

The *only* acceptable questions from strangers in a public ladies are "are you waiting/queuing", "is there any loo roll in that one", and "do you have a spare tampon."

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · yesterday

If someone asks you “What is your sex?” In a toilet, they are the weirdo. If they ask you “What sex were you assigned at birth?” They want to know what your genitals looked like when you were a baby. I would look at anyone doing this in the same I would look at Rod Liddle talking about porn.

What our country is doing to kids is unconscionable.

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

The EHRC's Code of Practice has been condemned as a "system of segregation", "impractical and inhumane", and even "genocidal in nature" It comes into force today

EHRC says 'sex questioning' will be "rare" – but evidence suggests it's increasing

The chair of the EHRC has claimed in a letter to a Labour MP that sex questioning under the updated Code of Practice will be “rare and exceptional”

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NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

Liddle to be celebrated

An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.

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-Punched his pregnant girlfriend. -Said he would rape the kids if he was a schoolteacher. -Said chiild sex abuse porn should be legal. Allison Pearson in the Telegraph...

A youth-led uprising in India has stirred hopes of greater solidarity among Indian Dubliners. Late last month, a small group gathered on O'Connell Street to support the "cockroaches" movement that had taken to the streets in their country of birth.

A youth-led uprising in India stirs hopes of greater solidarity among Indian Dubliners

Late last month, a small group gathered on O'Connell Street to support the "cockroaches" movement that had taken to the streets in their country of birth.

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important to remember this is not new information and was known at the time. a choice was made to conflate Berger's dispute with her local party and the serious crimes she was a victim of, and that's on the part of journalists as well as Berger herself.

Kate@rebelraising.bsky.social · yesterday

So Luciana Berger was abused by a fascist who is now a Tory candidate despite his criminal conviction over it, but at the time she allowed everyone to think that the whole thing was about "the antisemitic Labour left"?

Do try to remember that the EHRC guidance only affects service providers and not employment, so if you work somewhere where there are toilets or changing rooms for employees that aren’t open to the public then your employers are wrong if they try to stop you from using facilities for your gender

Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.

So Luciana Berger was abused by a fascist who is now a Tory candidate despite his criminal conviction over it, but at the time she allowed everyone to think that the whole thing was about "the antisemitic Labour left"?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · yesterday

This is all horrific stuff, and I invite you to go back to 2018/19 and reread her columns, newspaper interviews and podcast appearances talking about it, and then decide who it sounds like it was, that had been doing all this.

Same vibe (Auschwitz camp personnel on a day off from doing genocide)

Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Anti asylum hotel protesters near the New Bridge Hotel, Newcastle, earlier today from my ‘Rebellion!’ series.

Thinking of UK trans folk today as the EHRC's bullshit bog ban comes into force 🏳️‍⚧️💜🏳️‍⚧️

It's simultaneously a sophisticated Chinese bioweapon and also a completely harmless cold that doesn't require masking, says GOP

RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."

Economist. It's always the fucking economists.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

4 August 1943 | A French Jewish girl, Marguerite Sznajderman, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 12 February 1944 in a transport of 1,500 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 1,229 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection. She was 6 months old.

He's right of course. Comes to something when M&S is left of centre

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

I actually think that the confusion over this question—the mistaken idea that perverts and preachers have opposing projects—is responsible for a lot of the stagnated and remedial quality of sexual politics discourses.

Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · yesterday

There’s no contradiction between this kind of pornographic misogyny and puritanical misogyny of the old Christian right. Both use sexuality to enact men’s domination over women. That one sect forces sex and the other prohibits it is largely a matter of taste.

Related to current discourse about academic practice in the UK, can I recommend, if your institution subscribes, that you engage with the UK Research Integrity Office. From my experience, they're really good at helping you think through some of these dilemmas: ukrio.org

The bar for a “far left” bubble is in hell: • stand up against the global rise in the far right • reject fascist attacks on human rights • don’t accept misogyny, rape, homophobia, transphobia, antisemitism or Islamophobia as “the new normal” The rest of the political spectrum? They failed.

chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold

Have seen people ask about Helen Joyce on a train reading porn involving schoolkids, why they love Rod Liddle so much and reminding them Belfast already told them to fuck off