Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 11h 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

Just realised I was in a women's public toilet with a male-bodied person about four time today. At one point with two of them!! Yes, I've been babysitting

TIL that Gerard Way created a new Spidercharacter called Peni Parker and can I just say that seems like a mistake?

You know what, it’s rare I hear a genuinely new argument from a transphobe that isn’t just a standard talking point, so, fair play, I’ll give this some credit. Also, sorry, what the fuck?

Bernard Cribbins on the set of "Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D." (1966). #DoctorWho

Polanski said a stupid thing but it's not quite as stupid as you'd think if you read the outlets that only reported the second paragraph

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 7h ago

Why are you commenting if you don’t know the specifics of the case!!!!!

I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…

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.

🧵Scottish anti-abortion groups are still attempting to make this disinformation take off in MAGA occupied 🇺🇸 No, a teacher was not ‘sacked’ for being anti-abortion. She was not sacked at all. She’s now being booked for speaking gigs 🙄Please share to debunk… www.thenational.scot/politics/264...

Respecting freedom of speech does not mean a removal of consequences

REPORTS have been circulating of a teacher supposedly being sacked on the same day she told children that she opposes abortion. As a teacher, I am…

thenational.scot

Boots theory is just a pop culture phrase for part of the poverty trap - A phenomenon where escaping poverty has large upfront costs but not tackling those costs has greater long-term costs, locking people in poverty. This is not a seriously contested phenomenon. It's very well researched.

"How come people keep getting really mad at me online?" asks guy holding a gun to his feet, rattling off "hot takes" and insulting beloved public figures without prompting

Will Stancil really does have a fetish for being yelled at, there's no other explanation for being deliberately insulting and dismissive about Terry Pratchett online

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 · 23h ago

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.

EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.

🚨🚨Today the EHRC Code of Practice goes live. Our voices have been ignored. We will not stand for this. We will not stop until our rights are restored. The CoP does not change the law. Inclusion can happen. The vast majority of the public do not want this. WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT 🏳️‍⚧️✊♥️

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 21h ago

From @greenparty.org.uk

The only bathroom policing I'll be doing is getting in the way of anyone questioning someone else's right to be there

Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

I know I keep saying this but I'm a summer where the country is LITERALLY ON FIRE cutting back environmental criteria on stuff is ABSOLUTE MADNESS.

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 22h ago

Net zero/environmental criteria, and demands like tackling domestic violence and improving local high streets, will be scrapped from new social value model Haigh & John Healey will also direct Cabinet to “maximise the use of public procurement... to deliver innovation & growth in every postcode”

Oh good, an announcement saying lots of trains are going to have less carriages today, so if yours looks overcrowded just wait for the next one.

Corruption is as corruption does

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 22h ago

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

To be fair, job creation and wealth creation are the only "social valuess" the govt recognises, they're just being consistent

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 22h ago

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

mad fucking props to Dr Wilson for looking at the internet going absolutely stupid at her and going alright, fuck it, round two let's go bitches

Amnesty UK just excluded “A Growing Threat – the Anti-Rights Movement in the UK” from Internet Archive. "Like a Snowball: The Growth & Impact of the Gender Critical Movement in the UK" is still up. I've added alternate archives of all five pages & documents. www.transgendermap.com/issues/group...

Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

This is sad - weren't we talking about the Trashcan Sinatras recently? pitchfork.com/story/trashc...

Trashcan Sinatras’ John Douglas Dead at 63

The news arrives four days after the release of their new album Ever the Optimist

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Nicola Sturgeon brought the Greens into government in large part to balance out the more reactionary tendency within the SNP, and I think she was probably surprised by how much of her party sided with the reactionaries when it came down to it

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nicola Sturgeon has warned John Swinney that the SNP risks losing more votes to the Scottish Greens under the party’s current policy direction 👇

This is, as usual, wildly biased an inaccurate reporting. I'm so tired. The Scottish media will never get over how much they hate Sturgeon, I assume because she's a working class woman who doesn't cave to their pressure

"losing *more* votes to the Greens" is the absolutely key phrase here: Sturgeon does actually get it! The wing currently in the ascendence in the SNP are all absolutely convinced that the end of the BHA saved them, as opposed to SNP polling remaining flat from before collapsing it until this year

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nicola Sturgeon has warned John Swinney that the SNP risks losing more votes to the Scottish Greens under the party’s current policy direction 👇

Happy International Owl Awareness Day! Please enjoy this photograph of ornithologist Herbert Brown (r) with an elf owl, the world’s smallest owl