thepig993
@thepig993.bsky.social
autistic, liberal, democrat, and Liberal Democrat Crawley Town fan against my better judgement
In 2011, the UK government response to antitrans provocations was "Don't be so bloody stupid".
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 11h agoweb.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"
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 · 14h agoOur 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
Well in British Elections every count has a Lib Dem with a Spreadsheet so powerful that it could run the Large Hadron Collider who can tell you exactly what’s going on.
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · 19h agoit's only possible bc their constituency populations are so strong but i genuinely think the UK does it right by not announcing any results until they've counted everything
I'm obligated to point out that Bruno Guimaraes is closer to 29 than he is to 28.
The same attitude led to the "fixing church roofs" comment about Lib Dems
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 14h agoThis is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning
Embarrassing points gap to second place. What are they doing on the continent
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 24h agoMI6 is top European foreign intelligence service, finds peer review
Rob hints at this but it’s worth reiterating that a major failure of the Starmer government was their inability to convey a consistent antiracist message or uphold norms. They confused anger about ‘the boats’ with generalised racism and since they couldn’t denounce the former they avoided the latter
Rob Ford@robfordmancs.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms
Am I weird for enjoying Blighttown the most of any DS1 area
I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders 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.
Yes it really mostly doesn't. This is where old-school conservatism has a point in that what matters is how people (elites especially) conduct themselves, rather than whether the letter of the law is strictly followed
open all borders. stop having them be closed 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴@dov.bsky.social · yesterdayi wish i still believed in the frankly imo dubious idea that how healthy a civil society is depends entirely on institutional design
Couldn't make the York game. Then I look up the result and they have Scott Lindsey as manager having sacked the guy that got them promoted???
This is, imo, absolutely the consequence of politicians, media figures and others being actively unwilling to condemn this behaviour
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · 2d agonews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
He’s 💯 right here. Easy to focus on the horse race of who could be the next one, but the real fix is breaking apart the system that allows these guys to rise in the first place
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2d agoInfantino is not the problem ft.trib.al/5qdaL5k
always enjoy posts suggesting that Farage only won Clacton because Labour failed to support the candidate, suggesting as they do a degree of faith in the ground-level Labour machine that rivals 'the way Russian politics TV hosts see the UK'
Personally I would not struggle to avoid that barrier
COINTREAUPRO@strings.bsky.social · 4d agoSo… they’re working
I'll be honest I had assumed that the FA had withdrawn support for Infantino being re-elected ages ago
I can understand why Lucy Powell doesn't frame the issue this way, but it would be useful if the wider Labour world did: the current NEET crisis exists in part (and is being made worse by) multiple very deliberate policy choices made in the first two years of this government.
Jim Lauder@mrjlauder.bsky.social · 3d agoFirst, on this bit, Reeves and Starmer are culprits more so than Tory edu ministers - min wage hikes, emp NI, new workers' rights (all stuff I agree with in the abstract) all piled on at once... Yes, you're going to get a NEETs issue. That's pretty basic economics.
Good god the Bed of Chaos is a terribly-designed boss fight. Genuinely awful
Shrinkflation is entirely consumer-led too
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d agoI think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
What a map. Chaos everywhere except Scotland.
Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 3d agoGeneral Election Nowcast - 02/08/26: LAB: 213 (-198) | 24.1% (113 Short) RFM: 152 (+147) | 24.0% CON: 104 (-17) | 19.7% LDM: 76 (+4) | 11.0% SNP: 42 (+33) | 2.8% GRN: 20 (+16) | 11.4% PLC: 16 (+12) | 1.3% RES: 1 (+1) | 2.7% Oth: 7 (+2) | 3.0% electionmaps.uk/nowcast
I have mixed feelings about lockdown because while I coped with it better than a lot of other people I know (being someone who doesn't generally go out much) it also reinforced habits I'm still actively trying to kick now (for example, not going out much)
I am used to the AI settling cities like this. I am not used to seeing cities like this in the *Ancient Era*
Remembering the twitter account "Racist Pets"
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 4d agothis is really just not a lot of fun
People will say anything. "Kamiina Botan is bait". No it isn't. That's not true.
Dumbest meme OAT is the assertion that every Western state is actually an ethnostate tbh. No sorry but this word does actually have a meaning even if annoying people online overuse it. Most states in the EU are definitively, affirmatively, clearly legally defined as states of all their citizens.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 5d ago100% of the people who say France is a French ethnostate are illiterate
