Ms Chatelaine
@theelaineg.bsky.social
She/her: Writer, Greens councillor, trans person, living with fibromyalgia My novella, Unexploded Remnants, is available wherever you can buy Tor.com books
Another glorious vindication of Kemi Badenoch’s impeccable political judgment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate
Kemi Badenoch says Joshua Bonehill-Paine will now advise the Conservatives on tackling extremism.
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Scrivenix—a Flatpak application that downloads and installs the Windows version of Scrivener plus WINE on Intel Linux. Has a GUI installer that includes License activation (you need a license key for the Windows version to do this). https://github.com/adgalloway/Scrivenix
GitHub - adgalloway/Scrivenix: A WINE based application for running Scrivener 3 seamlessly on Linux
A WINE based application for running Scrivener 3 seamlessly on Linux - adgalloway/Scrivenix
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Got to be honest. I am really disappointed @TheGreenParty are not LOUDLY condemning trans apartheid today - the biggest attack on LGBT rights in UK history. Over the last eight years, I’ve seen the Gender Critical intimidate everyone from Stonewall to Labour into silence.
The Trans+ community is under attack from false narratives in the media, politics and increasingly the courts. The evidence tells a different story - stretching back to Roman Britain.
Gender diversity in the UK can be traced back to Roman Britain, archaeology shows
The Gallae were a group of transgender priestesses in ancient Rome devoted to the goddess Kybele. Archaeology suggests they lived in Britain in 70 CE
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“We just refuse to recognise trans people as the sex they transition to.” This is not women vs trans - as demonstrated by terfs continually having to threaten individual women or women’s orgs with legal action. The framing is a lie. This is terfs v trans. @mrjamesob.bsky.social #LBC
1/ Urgh. Just caught 5 mins of Shelagh Fogarty talking to some elderly terf spouting the usual crap on @LBC.co.uk “Women who are trans are men” “I don’t expect to see a man in the Ladies” “You can tell by their voice” “Why can’t they use the mens - most men wouldn’t mind” “Trans people have…
If you're wondering where the fuck they get these weirdos, "Amanda holds a B.A. in history from Yale and an M.Phil. in international relations from the University of Cambridge." This is the chattering class. This is the ruling elite. This is how their rotted brains work.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3h agoIf I had a terminal illness, my My Make A Wish request would be to sit in on an editorial meeting at this magazine www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
I've heard that the GC event in Belfast encouraged people to join trans supportive groups in order to change 'hearts and minds' from within. Organisations need to take note that this is most certainly a problem and it needs nipped in the bud.
I'm predicting now the court case where the transphobe objects to the "discrimination" of being kicked out of not just a trans *inclusive* group but of a straight-up trans *support* group they've joined solely to be a wrecker.
@transmetalmum.bsky.social · 3h agoI've heard that the GC event in Belfast encouraged people to join trans supportive groups in order to change 'hearts and minds' from within. Organisations need to take note that this is most certainly a problem and it needs nipped in the bud.
Government had the chance to reject the EHRC Code before it came into force, after 166 MPs signed an Early Day Motion calling for it to be disapproved. ICYMI 👇
Can MPs overturn the EHRC Code of Practice? Nearly 100 MPs sign a motion calling for it to be disapproved
93 MPs have signed a motion calling for the EHRC Code of Practice to be disapproved - what could happen next to stop it from being approved?
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The EHRC code of practice - that came into force today - has been called a "system of segregation”, "impractical and inhumane” and even “genocidal in nature” ICYMI:
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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Got the keys to my new place, move booked for tomorrow morning for the bulk of my stuff. Didn't expect to need to get carpeting and white goods, I'll need to be sorting those out pdq.
My new fave response to pro-AI idiots is “Let’s turn off the wifi and see you write/draw/etc”. How did these people think we functioned 3+ years ago? Fuck, how did *they* function? I’m thinking they didn’t.
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 9h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations officially comes into effect today. Read our full joint statement: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/08...
Hahahahahaha I wanted to type something here but I'm laughing too hard "could you still get through an entire workday" what the fuck, man, you just sharpied "I am incompetent" on your forehead.
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 9h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
If you’d like to read the report exposing the anti trans people ‘Gender Critical’ movement in the UK - which sadly Amnesty took down after bottling it due to legal threats from the Edinburgh Funder - here it is. Like_a_snowball_final_.pdf - Google Drive drive.google.com/file/d/1PSsa...
“Those challenges will likely expose the hidden traps that make public life harder for anyone who doesn't conform to an ever-narrowing set of gender stereotypes," @jamiewareham.co.uk
🚨 BREAKING: The EHRC Code is being challenged in court just hours after coming into force 🧵 What we know so far 👇 📩 Get a detailed explainer with analysis, in our Saturday newsletter. Join 10K readers: wearequeeraf.com/subscribe
The Burnham premiership continues its approach to the future which is "wildfires? lets have more of that please, the young can be put to work to put out the flames" www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
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Or, for that matter, what happens when a trans person doesn't comply. Because this is statutory guidance. It's not a new criminal code. You can't call the cops on someone for using what you think might be the wrong toilet.
There a million things wrong with the EHRC guidance, as you all know, but for me the weirdest thing about it all is that its authors don't even seem to be aware of the possibility that someone asked to leave a "single sex" facility might refuse.
Popping on to Bluesky to say thanks to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for his comments today on #LBC re the UK’s shameful trans apartheid laws 💚🏳️⚧️. Inevitably it’s triggered the plethora of anti trans people fronts disguised as “women’s rights” groups that suddenly sprouted in the UK from 2017.
The persecution and state sponsored demonisation of trans people in the UK is real. Banning and humiliating us will have zero impact on the number of girls and women who are attacked. Please check: There is not ONE recorded case of a trans woman assaulting a c!s woman in a public lav in the UK.
This is a good resource, which will hopefully grow. I'm a cis person, but will support these venues because they're obviously nice people. #trans #glasgow #ehrc goodweeplace.com
Good Wee Place
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The EHRC's new Code of Practice comes into effect today. Here's what you need to know. transactual.org.uk/know-your-ri...
