There’s a lot of noise about workplace toilets. The law is simpler: under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, a lockable cubicle counts as a separate room. That’s what compliance looks like in practice.
tacc.org.uk/2026/03/19/w...
“I was with you, until you said ‘pregnant people.’”
I get this a lot. I’m an abortion provider, and the CEO and President of an org known for abortion advocacy. Let’s talk about why I use inclusive language — and why I’m not stopping. 🧵
TW: child suicide.
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The NHS continues to fail trans kids.
This child’s suicide was preventable, the coroner said, but not by the NHS as it is currently operating.
How to keep your phone safe from Emergency Alerts.
Steps to secure your iPhone 1. Search your settings for 'emergency alerts' 2. Turn off 'Severe alerts' and 'Emergency alerts' 3. If this does not work, contact your device manufacturer.
Steps to secure your Android: 1. Search your settings 'emergency alerts' 2. Turn off 'Severe alerts' and 'Emergency alerts' 3. On Huawei devices running EMUI 11 or older, search your settings for ‘emergency alerts’ and turn off 'Extreme threats', 'Severe threats', and 'Show amber alerts' 4. If this does not work, contact your device manufacturer.
Other mobile phones and tablets: Depending on your software version or phone manufacturer, emergency alert settings may be called different names. They could be called 'wireless emergency alerts' or 'emergency broadcasts'. You can usually find these settings in one of the following ways. - Go to 'message', then 'message settings', then 'wireless emergency alerts', then 'alert' - Go to ‘settings’, then ‘sounds’, then ‘advanced’, then ‘emergency broadcasts’ - Go to ‘settings’, then ‘general settings’, then ‘emergency alerts’ Then turn off ‘severe alerts’, ‘extreme alerts’ and ‘test alerts’.
If you have a secret or hidden phone, the government's Emergency Alerts could reveal your device, even if it's on silent or do not disturb.
The government is testing emergency alerts on Sunday 7 September. If you're worried this could reveal a phone, you can follow this guide to turn off the alerts
Good luck to the students getting #TLevels and #ALevels today.
In case we've forgotten - and we probably have - this is the Covid cohort we assumed would be fine. Spoiler, they weren't. But they have done amazingly and we should give them way more credit than they get.
Here's a reminder thread /1
Today in 'no shit sherlock'
Wonder what might have caused that?
Maybe a 10 year hate campaign by the press, media and politicians, driven by lies and disinformation from dodgy 'feminist' groups funded by the US religious far right?
Nah, must be trannies just existing.
Unfortunately, Europeans are gonna have to rethink their old ideas about AC being a decadent luxury as their weather gets closer to what it's been like in the US
Hi Christine, thanks for this. I'm aware of the conference and it looks really good. I'm even wondering if it's time for a trip to Glasgow in fact!
The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found.
tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...
Good luck to everyone lobbying UK Parliament today. I’m away this week or I would be there.
I see the Royal Festival Hall is asking trans people and those with disabilities to share the same toilets. This is both unfair on people with disabilities and breaches the Human Rights Convention by treating trans people as a third sex.
I hope everyone ignores their stupid signage.
Another scandalous aspect of our broken ADHD dx system is that sometimes people with an existing dx and meds in one area move home to another area - and are told they cannot have their meds any more until they queue up to be reassessed AGAIN! Which could take years.
🚨 Adults over 25 are being cut off from ADHD assessments in Coventry & Warwickshire. This isn't just bad policy—it's systemic abandonment.
Read why this matters, and why we must resist:
www.davidgrayhammond.co.uk/p/abandoned-...
#NeurodivergentRights #ADHD #AuDHD #NHS #ActuallyAutistic
And this! What in hell? Imagine sitting in a meeting deciding to do this. Imagine being that person, those people, diverting essential services away from kids & families who really need them! Imagine being able to look yourself in the face every morning.
Imagine being the person who said this. Imagine saying this, publicly, about any other group of people.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Please, don’t let Jonathan Joss’s story die down. Please, don’t do this to Indigenous people on Pride month. Please, recognize his whole neighborhood was in on his premeditated death and killed his dogs and burned his childhood home.
PLEASE REALIZE this is a hate crime against a gay AND Native man.
Freedom of assembly and association (but not for trans+ protesters). Respect for private and family life (but not for trans+ people) Freedom of expression (unless you are criticising the regulator). The degree to which the EHRC has become unmoored from Convention rights is quite shocking.
As a contributor to the book, I am personally invested in celebrating it - but I'm really sorry this happened to you and everyone else affected by this mess.
YESSSSS! 🔥🎉🔥 This was a very, very wise move by Boundless/Unbound. Now they need to pay everyone else.
💖✊🌈 It will rise again!
There is something so shameless and teflon about the way Unbound/Boundless have behaved. Like they are taking pride in extraction and the impoverishment of authors.
Totally this. Some folks think it’s cool to shrug off lost freelance payments, as if it’s vulgar to talk money.
More on the Unbound/Boundless story. The exploitation never ends. 😡
And if you are neurodivergent you may never learn these very mercurial ‘rules’. 🤔😶
The Unbound/Boundless disaster shows how long authors will suffer in silence for fear of upsetting publishers and looking like a troublemaker.
All trad published authors learn to do this to a lesser or greater extent, it reflects terribly on our industry.
“Don’t you think it’s funny how everyone’s suddenly autistic? They just want that fat £3k-a-week pay-packet from His Majesty’s coffers so they can sit around playing Xbox and being pansexual. Makes me sick.”
A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work
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** BREAKING ** UK Lesbian and Trans rights crisis (UK 2nd item today) - #lgbt #lgbtq #humanrights
UK police nationwide announce confirmation of guidance that male officers must be used to strip search trans women irrespective of anatomy:
news.npcc.police.uk/releases/new...
