I often think about the fact my grandparents raised 9 (nine) kids on a single salary. I have what should be comparatively a well paying job and that is *inconceivable*

Just why is it that unionist parties have so many racist candidates? 🤷‍♂️

I know passionate supporters of LGBTQ+ equality in Labour who have felt increasingly marginalised in the party and unable to support the leadership's view.

But to see the manifesto include anti-trans policies rejected by their own party conference must surely be the last straw for many.

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<loading rifle> pope's weak on crime

tough on pope, tough on the causes of pope

if you can't get even *hothersall* to think up a tortuous reason to defend you, you've absolutely fucked it

do you have any idea how unbelievably transphobic you have to be to alienate duncan Hothersall from scottish labour

I'm not unmuting him though lol

I'll stand up now and say this is a principled and brave position and I commend Duncan for it.

For the avoidance of doubt, following the publication of the explicitly transphobic Scottish Labour manifesto this morning, I will not be campaigning for any Scottish Labour candidates in the upcoming election, and I will not be voting Scottish Labour either.

#NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow

Every candidate for Scottish Labour is running on an explicit platform of trans segregation, even the ones you like, do not vote for a single one of them

• Delivering single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex, in NHS wards, schools, sport and everyday life by upholding the Equality Act and delivering clear instructions to public services on how to comply with their legal obligations to women and to trans people. • Keeping women's prisons for women, instructing the Scottish Prison Service to remove all biologically male prisoners from women's prisons within days of the election. • Recommit the NHS to delivering single sex wards on the basis of biological sex, and ensuring patients can request same sex provision wherever possible.

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

The adoption of this policy, alongside other transphobic policies on the NHS and prison service which directly contradict expert advice in these areas and will cause serious harm, means anyone who supports trans people's rights cannot in good conscience vote for Scottish Labour candidates on 7 May.

Not only is this a betrayal of young trans people in Scotland, and the commitment to LGBT equality for which Scottish Labour has stood since it faced down public opinion to repeal Section 28 as one of its first acts in government in 2000, it is also a betrayal of Scottish Labour members' wishes.

At Scottish Labour Conference in Feb 2025, a leadership-backed motion to adopt a transphobic policy on single-sex spaces in schools was defeated. Party members and affiliates voted it down.

Today Scottish Labour's leadership put that transphobic policy into its manifesto for May's election anyway.

With enormous regret, SLAB is today advising supporters not to vote for ANY Scottish Labour candidate in this election. There are several pro-trans Labour candidates standing on 7 May, but a vote for them would now sadly be an endorsement of explicit transphobia. #NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow

Don't Forget My House, by LIKING GAP 2 track album

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Round of invites to listen to a preview of our upcoming record!

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I feel bad for some of the good, optimistic people who got involved with yp but honestly I don’t think there’s an electoral alternative left of the sgp and if you want to organise left of em you’re best not doing it electorally

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Don't Forget My House, by LIKING GAP 2 track album

would recommend checking out his full discog — many pwyw, including the fantastic recent liking gap record losealeg.bandcamp.com/album/dont-forget-my-hou...

II, by Balaclavichord 6 track album

flashback to this for #LunchtimeListening . david roy’s balaclavichord releases are quieter, more unassuming counterparts to the main losealeg records and I’ve always preferred them https://losealeg.bandcamp.com/album/ii

well I’m glad nobody bizarrely gambled a promising career in politics on this or anything

oops

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

More on this: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

It's worth noting here that these aren't bombings. This is demolition

The IDF are able to freely walk around here and rig these obviously residential properties with demolition explosives, so it's not like there's any threat at all to them

This is, VERY clearly, the war crime of wanton destruction

Seems a good day to remember that, in his book An Intelligent Person's Guide To Modern Culture, Hungary's favourite right-wing thinker Roger Scruton implied that the Pet Shop Boys made a 'minimal contribution' to their own records. They successfully sued him for libel. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/enterta...

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