And hey - if a pilot needs GPS in order to fly then that person is not ready to be a pilot and most certainly not a commercial pilot. If you're interested, there is research being done on pilot over-reliance on technology. Here's just one article I found on it. medium.com/faa/the-dang...

The Dangers of Overreliance on Automation

Safety Concerns and Mitigation Strategies for Pilots

medium.com

One of the bigger problems the 2025 ruling has introduced is establishing that, instead of resolving equality cases based on trying to as best as possible integrate everyone's right to be treated humanely, we use philosophical debates about what someone's true legal essence is to decide rights.

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 17h ago

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"

Will Stancil framing this idea as about aristocratic frugality rather than poor people being simply unable to afford the lower cost tariffs on existence available to the rich underlines how he's cemented his position as a professional idiot for hire.

Tristan Grayford@tristangrayford.scot · yesterday

So to reject it out of hand (he admits in the comments that he appreciates how ultra-low-cost garments don't last as long and are a false economy) *and* insult an absolutely beloved author at the same time *and* be upset people don't like it? It's just being pretty stupid. bsky.app/profile/supe...

"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.

"And in real life, Rod was kind and generous. He came to dinner at my house, and brought his family along to one of my Christmas parties, no doubt turning down far grander invitations to be there." Hitler was an animal lover, you know... Doted on his German Shepherd dogs...

From @greenparty.org.uk

The Code of Practice goes live today. It *does not change the law*. No member of the public has a right to demand details about your sex and expect to be told anything.

TACC@tacc.org.uk · yesterday

🚨🚨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 🏳️‍⚧️✊♥️

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.

Cis allies, ratio the absolute shit out of this please. All of you.

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 20h 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

Mary-Ann Stephenson, resign!

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 20h 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

Good morning. Welcome to the UK, where our equalities watchdog has a handy guide on how to hatecrime people you don’t like the look of in public toilets and the Tories are standing a Neo-Nazi local government candidate who was jailed for antisemitic harassment.

This would be the front page of every paper and subject of every current affairs radio show if a left wing party had done it. As it stands I doubt we'll even see the gushing about Badenoch's political judgement slow down.

Patch Thompson@patchthompson.bsky.social · 21h ago

British politics is deeply unwell

I think we're probably less than a year out from the first person to lose their job because a robot started an online grievance campaign against them

a wolf☺️🐚🐟🚲📻📺@okami.mom · yesterday

HAHAHAHAHA cdn.prod.website-files.com/663bd486c5e4...

🧵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

Do me a favour - Post this link every time you see someone talking about the EHRC guidance. Help the community stay safe in a hostile world. www.essehouse.co.uk/pee-in-peace-program

Esse House UK

Esse House UK offers accessible toilet keys through the Pee in Peace Program, supporting trans rights and community needs.

essehouse.co.uk

If you feel powerless to effect change for the trans community, then play a part in enabling us to stay safe, secure, and included. We need to build the infrastructure that protects our way of life from hostile groups and individuals. Help us. www.essehouse.co.uk/donate

Esse House UK

Esse House provides community support for trans individuals, offering emergency assistance, inclusive homes, and independent living options.

essehouse.co.uk

Kieran🏳️‍🌈@diptripping.eurosky.social · 19h ago

And to my cis followers, if you can afford to, please donate. Or just share! Esse House do some fantastic work!

The problem is in the system, and while individual actions can help alleviate it (and we should ensure that we are doing what we can), the issue can only really be resolved by gutting the social, political, and media apparatus that has allowed this inequality to flourish.

The thing that's bugging me today is that no matter how much we as people and communities can do to reassure our trans friends that spaces we control will be welcoming and safe for them, there will be a constant uncertainty over their safety in any other space - in most places in the UK.

Today makes me sick. I can only imagine how trans people are feeling. The insane law coming into force is a sham, a disgrace in a supposed civilised society. I can say to trans people, you are loved, seen and respected by me. Give them dixie, don't change and keep being u. See you in the ladies 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

The UK Government is being taken for an absolute ride by these people www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts

Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss

theguardian.com

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

This filth want locking up more than a bunch of grannies holding pieces of paper do.

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d ago

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Counterpoint: I think we’re obligated to loudly condemn racist, bigoted, hateful men that beat women and speak about their desire to molest children, especially when they became wealthy sharing these hateful views so widely, and are praised by the British press and political elites. Your response?

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 3d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

perfect illustration of how these people will ignore all sorts of horrible bigotry - often towards women, including domestic violence - if the bigot in question demonstrates the correct level of transphobia

Libby@captainlibatron.bsky.social · 3d ago

Dear god

Be interesting to see who mourns the death of a journalist who was arrested for punching his pregnant partner and who said he couldn't become a teacher because "I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids." Bet it's the "protecting women and children" crew

Dear god

Lol. Yeah. My dead name is Euan. So what! i own it 😎 Cute photo of me too 😊

Should be pinned to the top of every single intercommunity argument about tactics. In particular: the people doing the kind of direct action work that other people like to fantasise about online are ABSOLUTELY not talking about it online, are you high? Doing the work > masturbatory discourse

Astrid@astridsramblings.bsky.social · 3d ago

One final take: The people doing the hard yards of effective work, whether grassroots activism, legal work or lobbying, do not talk much on here about it. Because it’s difficult, exhausting interpretations are too bad faith, and the other side can see your posts. Bluesky is not the real world.

An excellent piece demonstrating why 'every one of those people is a problem for a sane society' demonstrates that Helen Joyce is a classic totalitarian. blog.beagmcd.net/why-helens-w...

Why Helen's Wrong

... and why her position is definitively totalitarian in nature.

blog.beagmcd.net

I've already made it clear that I'm not interested in continuing a struggle session into a second or third day. Do what you like but I will simply mute you rather than waste all our times. I regard myself as accountable, true, but there are more useful things I can be doing.