Asked about JK Rowling's opposition to trans rights, Dugdale said: "I have a huge respect for JK Rowling. I've had the pleasure of meeting her before and I think her story and how she came to be this prolific, incredible children's writer in this city as a single mum writing in a cafe is phenomenal and an inspiration to so many women across the world. "I think she's been a really powerful political advocate [for] improving the lot of single mums, making a case for tackling poverty and inequality in all its forms, and there is absolutely a place for her in public life to share her experiences and tell her story and make a difference."

lmao

"I believed in it; I still do," she said, but added that pushing for self-ID was "not top of the list" of Stonewall's priorities. "We are an LGBT organisation, of course we're going to be there for trans people, so that's integral to who we are and what we do. But our priorities now are very much focused on things like securing justice for military veterans and compensation for what they've endured. We're currently working very hard to ensure that there's a ban on conversion therapy in this country, which is incredibly important."

lol

‘Things could go backwards’: Kezia Dugdale on safety, LGBTQ+ rights and the future of Stonewall Exclusive: Former Scottish Labour leader says she feels more scared as a lesbian today and calls for a kinder debate on transgender issues

slightly ruining my own day by reading about just how hard Kezia Dugdale and Stonewall are going to push trans people in front of the bus

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

man you’re just gonna have to take my word for it I guess

alright alright enough of this Hormuz shit let’s talk about the real issues: why does Don Henley on the cover of I Can’t Stand Still look so much like Tucker Carlson

yOu NeEd To UsE 3d PrInTeRs FoR uSeFuL tHiNgS

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

the very last in-person tickets are there for the taking but you can also buy streaming tickets

Germans don’t speak that much German in Germany

in subway station ENTIRE platform speaking German. dachte ich hätte einen Schlaganfall

going before the commons to explain that you didn't know the butch tgirl was problematic when you watched her get kicked in the balls

mopping my brow after things get hot n heavy cowboy style and realising with rising horror that the sweat means my perfectly rust-coloured hanky has now darkened to brown

Baby goat Nova!

@postoctobrist.bsky.social I feel the need to let you know that we have goats roaming the cliffs in my hometown and they newest baby is called Nova. She is very cute.

That is unless the government is somehow more favourably disposed to Peter Mandelson’s associations (random spies, international child traffickers) than mine (transgender tops), and that would be insane. There’s no way that could be true

Because apparently they don’t give a fuck about *anything*. If I’d only known I could have been Cressida Girldick by now

As someone who self-excluded from a government career at an early age because I assumed liking it when women tied me up and hit me would make me fail the vetting, I’m having the sort of ‘what do you mean they brought back Erasmus after I graduated’ feelings about this scandal

problem is there’s just no other clothes you can wear that will clue people in that you might be a cowboy

the hanky code for a cowboy is ‘rust,’ which is almost indistinguishable from brown, signifying a shit kink

nobody lost as much at the signing of the Hanky Code Accords as the gay cowboy community

Ludwig Kietzmann @Ludwigk Hi, sorry I haven't responded to your text, video games basically don't have loading screens anymore 11:01 pm • Nov 15, 2020

this week's episode features perhaps the two things i'm perhaps proudest of creating in the audio medium: 1. playing "rawhide" on the synthesizer and 2. the demented drive-time radio bumper i cut together with a bunch of creative commons sound effects and an actual mayor (!) calling in

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if you are a Marxist academic do NOT have kids

Vicki and Antigone stand on the bank of a river on a sunny evening (in Scotland)

thank you to @postoctobrist.bsky.social for this lovely pic of @wretch.bsky.social and I 🥰🥰🥰

me for like the entire final quarter hour of this

I have ADHD and custom belt buckles and so forth take time to make and you may have to live with a subpar western fit. I’m sorry

I’m very hyped to do the @nogodsnomayors.com show but I’m very worried that I may not have sniped the timing on some of my more deranged cowboy fashion purchases in time

wow, that’s some big up

‘It's where Starmer and his entourage ate during his visit to China in January, a trip intended to thaw Anglo-Chinese relations after years of Tory froideur. And in one regard, at least, it worked: the Chinese loved him. They loved that he ate with chopsticks. They loved that he said thank you in Chinese. They loved that he came to this particular restaurant twice and ordered exactly the same things off the menu all over again. And I suspect, most of all, they loved him just for being there, while recognising in him one of their own, a modest bureaucrat interested in calm, order and obedience.’

new frontiers in baffling Guardian shit: is Keir Starmer Chinese?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

there are only a small handful of tickets left for these

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee