the level of “…all I said was ‘do you want the meal deal or just the burger?” in that Roisin Murphy tweet tho

David, in Brighton, in 2026@davidbtn2.bsky.social · 2h ago

Ok, so Madonna who's attained a level of success, wealth, critical acclaim and global adoration from the public and her peers that Roisin Terfy could only dream of has jumped on the 'TQ bandwagon'? 🙄 This same Madonna who in the 1970s was dancing with us in underground queer NY nightclubs... 1/

I am unsurprisingly in favour of the Hot Muslim Takeover of American politics.

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.

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 · 9h 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

I would simply pour boiling hot tinned mulligatawny soup over Bert’s head until his screams of agony could be heard in Felpersham #TheArchers

wonder where the EHRC stands on “women using the men’s loos in nightclubs because the queue for the women’s loos is too long”

I… what?

Matt Simpson@brickie78.bsky.social · 7h ago

Presumably in response to your benefit-of-the-doubt response, since it was posted immediately afterwards

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.

full of cold and feeling rotten, but what’s worse is I forgot to make my overnight oats last night 😢

Just a reminder that: - this isn't for workplaces and if your work is trying to implement it scare them over discrimination claims - the onus is on the service provider, not the service user to comply - the code *itself* says enforcement of toilet facilities is unworkable and low priority

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 11h ago

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.

if all the AI tools were removed from my work software overnight my job would actually be easier lol

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 19h ago

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

"The Equality Act always discriminated against trans people, we just read it wrong for fifteen years" is right up there with the standards of jurisprudence we're coming to expect from the Anglosphere these days.

nice of Joanna Williams to admit she’s not an author though

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 9h ago

They linked to me in that Telegraph article about Rod Liddle ffs. I didn't even warrant a name, just 'transgender activist'. At least they called me 'he'. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...

I totally assumed MacGyver had been created in-universe by Groening! Love finding out 'wow these things are actually real in US culture' decades after I've watched the Simpsons episode in question. Found out that McGruff The Crime Dog was real this year!

Alan Burns@alanburns.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Amazing how after three decades I can still have these moments of suddenly realising that something *wasn't* created by Matt Groening/some Simpsons writer but already existed, and was either being directly referenced on The Simpsons or, in this case, (very lightly) parodied

"Be Kind" doesn't mean be kind to bigoted, physically abusive paedophiles, Joanna

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 10h ago

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

Good deed for the day was rescuing a mouse from the clutches of our cat and releasing it humanely outside, where it likely fell victim to one of the many other cats in our street instead

And now in the Evening Standard. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Green-run London councils to resist new trans guidance on single-sex spaces

Lambeth and Waltham Forest councils have already signaled they will resist new guidance on single-sex spaces over risk it leaves 'trans people open to discrimination'

standard.co.uk

Caroline Russell@carolinerussell.bsky.social · yesterday

I’ve written to the Mayor of London: “I urge you now to work with councils across London to support their efforts to make sure the (EHRC) guidance cannot be used to diminish the everyday rights of 🏳️‍⚧️ trans Londoners and to seek the wider adoption of these approaches across our city.” [1/3]

Aw, I knew his days were numbered but I’m going to miss Lewis, I enjoyed the slightly baffled energy that he brought every week #SewingBee

fucking hate it when rob gives away our lambos

Adele’s is giving Fast Food Rockers #SewingBee

I feel like at least some of this self corrects when you stop giving yourself mental medals like "ally" and just act normal with other people who are in fact for the most part, also just normal people

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · yesterday

A PSA to my fellow cis people who are (or want to believe they are) trans allies If you are getting pushback from trans people and your reaction is to be all “no! not me! I’m one of the good ones!” please remember that “being one of the good ones” is something you DO, not something you ARE

I would simply force Bert to eat the salty liquorice until he chokes to death and not a jury in the land would convict me #TheArchers

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

Interesting center right people: complete right wing nonsense and something horrendous about trans people. Me, liberal, smart: my brain is so nourished with ideas right now.

LiLBaz@lilbazza.bsky.social · yesterday

Yo, where are all my respectable bigots & impoverishers of the poor at so I can have a chummy intellectual chinwag in the marketplace of ideas about how to monster the vulnerable but politely?

I don't want to add to any ratios here, but there have been a few incidences of 'I am deeply saddened and shocked at the reaction to the death of [X very nefarious journalist and proven abuser]' Yes, that's kind of the point. These responses act as a warning and deterrent against abusing your power.

Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 3y ago

Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.

Sharks may not be full of plastic! Finally, some good fuckin' news!

Dr Alex Bond@thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d ago

The finding: no plastic (>1 mm) in any specimen. In marine plastic research, that's a rare and genuinely good result. It suggests pelagic elasmobranchs here may have lower plastic exposure than we'd assume, and gives us a solid baseline to track change over time.

Small town terrorized by shark. Media starts giving a lot of airtime to the shark, allowing the shark to explain the logic behind its attacks. Shark becomes popular, and successfully runs for mayor on a platform of "sticking it to the woke anti-shark elite".

weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

let's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?

in the epic The People Vs UK Media court case of our dreams, Liddle wouldn't be Exhibit A, but he'd certainly be an exhibit. handsomely remunerated throughout his life for spraying bile across the pages of whichever sociopathic rag would pay him. nice to the right people. had the correct prejudices