In the last year the trans community have been subject to one of the most brutal and shocking removals of civil rights in modern Britain, under a Labour government. If opposing that reversal is a priority for you, the ONLY option in Holborn and St. Pancras is Zack Polanski.

They've figured out that affluence makes it easier to get expensive assessment proving you have a disability, and apparently decided that the fair thing would be that rich & poor neurodivergent folks should both be screwed over & demonised together

Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 3w ago

In no surprise at all, access to diagnosis helps people get a diagnosis. Rather than focusing on PIP costs, or how people who can afford to go private do, surely this should be a sign of how we need faster, better, diagnosis on NHS for neurodivergent individuals. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Had a fantastic time playing this at UKGE earlier this year, so excited to get my copy!

The Neon Caster 🎙 Tabletop Vtuber@theneoncaster.bsky.social · last mo.

OKAY the campaign is formally and finally LIVE! Please support City of Espers - a TTRPG as Black and Queer and Fabulous as I could possibly get it. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t... #tabletopgaming #crowdfunding #nerdlings

Trans people deserve so much better than having to live through hostile politics that caricature their existence as a problem. Behind all the “legitimate concerns” and “careful reviews” lies an entrenched fear that being trans is bad and is something doctors, politicians, etc should try and prevent.

Cwiar Cymru@cwiar.org · last mo.

The Welsh Gender Service has now released a statement regarding the cancellation of all surgeries: 'We have been asked to immediately pause referrals from the WGS for gender affirming surgery and existing scheduled surgeries while further independent clinical review work is carried out.'

Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar

For those unfamiliar with how dangerous the UK media is, Dr Beth Upton, a NHS doctor that had the temerity of living as a trans woman, was hounded by the UK media after a (coincidentally vicious, racist, hateful bigot hated by all her coworkers) sued the NHS. Dr Beth Upton had to flee the country

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You gotta zoom out and see the big picture. The UK media does this same play all the time. They’ve hounded people to suicide or fleeing the country; they whip up moral panics; they constantly spread racism and bigotry. But Arday does not have to be innocent in order for their actions to be wrong

All of these can be true: 1. Arday was a serial fabulist. 2. He deserved to be fired. 3. He did not deserve to be hounded to death by a rabid media. 4. The people who first attacked him are far worse humans than Arday ever was. This is not confusing if you understand that reality is nuanced.

Trying to make Arday a perfect victim only leaves the next Black person there's a hareassing media circus about just as vulnerable. He was found out, he resigned, at best a niche mid-section news piece for a day. Instead he was continuously tormented, THAT'S the problem! THAT'S what needs to change!

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Attempting to make him into a martyr who did nothing wrong is weird and oddly patronizing. The brutal excessiveness and glee of the press coverage was wrong *even though he was a serial fabulist and plagiarist*, as comparison against other serial fabulists and plagiarist like Boris Johnson shows.

Academia and its millennia long history would not exist without autism and adhd send skeet

猫好きな人@valoisdubins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

From her piece in UnHerd:

It genuinely hasn’t occurred to me that the Arday situation had anything more to do with trans rights than it does with the implementation difficulties of a land value tax until today, and I really don’t know why so many journalists are convinced it does

Richard Carr@richardcarr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There’s a specific tone and lane here that’s abhorrent

I love my Blackness and think that Black people, like all minorities, taking pride in our Blackness is healthy. But so many people and groups, purporting to be supportive or not, forget the person and just use us as a black prop for whatever point they're making

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Indeed. SS embodies the whole sorry mess, in that hardly anyone in it ever saw Arday as a person. For Cambridge he was a way to buff their credentials, to be discarded when he became embarrassing. For Sodha he was a prop to air grievances about “gender ideology”.

Jason Arday resigned from Jesus and the education faculty and asked people to stop nine days ago in his resignation letter That should have been the end of it, but instead it became a blood sport for the press and monetised social media alike - the money was too good, the attention too valuable

Posting in anger which is always a good idea... Arday never should have been treated as such a public figure by the media in the first place. But right-wing twats writing columns will do zero self reflection & move on to dehumanising the next person of colour to step out of line & then fuck up. RIP

Xander@xandereddy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How else are they gonna remind every Black British academic they're waiting on their downfall if not a media circus?

When you think about it, it's actually pretty cool that the UK government has a button they can press to make everyone with a phone immediately shit their pants.

This is slander, his sandwiches views alone absolve him of this comparison

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival@lappypercival.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Paddington Bear is Kemi Badenoch

In case you thought you’d already heard academia’s worst thing this week: you were wrong.

How else are they gonna remind every Black British academic they're waiting on their downfall if not a media circus?

Chaminda Jayanetti@cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2mo ago

fwiw I don't think "Cambridge University professor most people have never heard of committed professional malpractice" should actually be national headline news

I have decided my new model for Star Wars analogies: The Grand Republic - French Third Republic decaying into Weimar Germany The Empire - Nazi Germany/Vichy France New Republic - French Fourth Republic First Order - Chinese Warlord Period Theoretical successor state - Julian Dynasty + Charlemagne

The administration of Soho and the whole West End should be taken away from the City of Westminster and given to the Mayor of London. It belongs to all Londoners, not just the handful of Mayfair billionaires for whom Westminster is determined to destroy it.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Council wants pubs in London’s Soho and West End to ban standing

senior lecturer in digital economy and society: think positively. maybe it’s a creative act, what if they’re building connections, perhaps this is just how their brains develop….in a way it’s quintessentially social fifty five year old ruining the morning bus: i’m da king of blasting tiktok

Others have noted that this gigantic march hasn't gotten the level of attention it deserves—so let's amplify the story. This seems like a good writeup from the Independent. "An estimated 150,000 people marched through central London in the world’s largest trans pride event, organisers have said."

150,000 march through London in world’s largest trans pride, organisers say

Protesters voiced anger at the new guidance on single sex-spaces and fears that trans people are being excluded from society.

independent.co.uk

where’s your banner now lads

Riverdale is the closest anyone has got to Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure in America. You must have watched at least up to the middle of Season 6 of both shows to engage on this one I’m afraid

Piet Mondrian's work on the London Underground is exceptional.

Bluesky during England-Argentina

“All the roads that lead anywhere significant are winding” I’m gonna beat u up

My god, they aren't targeting trans people just to get at other people. They are targeting trans people to target trans people. And they are targeting other people. We don't just exist as a warning for the rest of you, fuck me.