Ahem.
When cis people say they need a "civil discussion" around "trans issues," what they really mean is they want a discussion amongst themselves about how quickly they can get rid of us, over tea, preferably before the rush-hour traffic.
If you are a cis woman who is opposed to being used as a pretext for establishment transphobia and trans exclusion please sign this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social. Now fewer than 300 signatures needed to get it past 100,000!
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We know privatisation is a neoliberal scam. screwing all of us!
The issue is how to make th changes that people want to actually happen when Labour, Tories, Fib Dems and Reform all oppose them.
Our only option at the moment is to VOTE GREEN!
@greenparty.org.uk
Our new FOI reveals that EHRC Chair moved quickly to arrange a meeting with 'For Women Scotland' to discuss prisons, hospitals, and redefining “sex” in law. Meeting minutes were heavily redacted.
tacc.org.uk/2026/04/14/e...
We spend the 6th largest amount in the world on the military. In 2024/25, Defence Spending was £60.2 billion, up 7.7% on the previous year (adjusted for inflation).
You could return every single public sector salary to 2008 levels (as resident doctors demand) more than three times over for that.
Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
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“We support the dignity of gay people but getting married or having kids should just be between a man and a woman.”
“We support the dignity of trans people but sex is what is assigned at birth and gendered spaces should be based on biology.”
There is no “dignity” with discrimination. Just saying.
“A cis teenage girl lying about being on her period to avoid a sex act she’s uncomfortable with would arouse sympathy.
"When a trans girl does the same, it’s treated as a serious crime."
While everyone is glazing the pope, perspective is crucial.
And a reminder: if you've got some extra coin to spare, toss some in the plate of trans journalists telling trans stories from trans perspectives, because the transphobic corporate media damn sure ain't going to do it.
Undoing this travesty will not be enough.
There must be retribution.
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People peddling complete drivel can get published in mainstream media more easily than breathing, as long as it’s anti-trans.
But if you are a trans writer trying to get something based on peer-reviewed research & solid data, getting into the media is like trying to break into Fort Knox.
In fact Ms Leavitt the world is simultaneously laughing a loud and hollow laugh... and holding its head in its hands.
The United States has never looked so stupid and played and ridiculous and dangerously unhinged and it's all down to one man.
Odd to recall that, confronted with atrocities like this, the choice of a Labour government was to criminalise protest against it.
How on earth can the trip planned by King Charles possibly go ahead with Trump making statements like this?
It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people.
We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government.
This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US & Israel have been murdering innocent people.
"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."
Private equity controls our lives from the cradle to the grave.
Profiteers from hospitals, nurseries, housing, care homes, undertakers.
Business model - high prices, low staffing/wages, high debt, asset-stripping, tax abuse.
Life commodified & financialised.
Profits for the few, misery for many.
On #marxistmonday Che Guevara reminds us that "the life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”
It's important to note that whatever Trump does next, he will be doing through attacks launched from British military bases. If Starmer does not stop him using our bases immediately, he will be legally responsible for the coming genocide.
So Israel has now killed very nearly as many Lebanese as Israelis were killed on October 7, including 100 children and there’s hardly a word of condemnation other than from Carney and Macron. Why no international outcry at the ethnic cleansing that’s taking place.
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This is the sort of double tap attack Russia regularly uaes in Ukraine to kill first responders and survivors.
We rightly condemn it there as a war crime.
It is here as well
Apparently lgbt articles in Sweden often times will dead name trans people and use this as a reason and I am sorry but theres never a good enough reason to dead name us.
Govt to relax planning rules for intensive factory farms; despite local opposition, concerns about water pollution, air quality.
My local council refused planning permission for the 7th McDonald's restaurant in town, near a school.
Govt allowed it without visiting the site.
Backlash long overdue.
A tall, narrow multi-story concrete frame construction is surrounded by traditional bamboo scaffolding for exterior finishing. The building features small, repetitive square ventilation grilles and circular decorative concrete panels on its facade. A set of bright yellow pipes runs down the exterior of the adjacent building. The ironic lyrics of 'The Tower of Song' are a self-reflective enquiry into the songwriting craft which Leonard viewed as a form of imprisonment where he is "tied to this table" by "twenty-seven angels". Originally titled 'Raise My Voice in Song', this is considered a keynote work that captures the blend of pain, passion and wit that characterised his career. https://youtu.be/nceRfJJZcP4
Yeah, my friends are gone
and my head is gray
I ache in the places
where I used to play
I'm just paying
my rent every day
in the tower of song
Leonard Cohen, 20th century
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Since water privatisation, the shareholders have invested LESS THAN NOTHING of their own money in the companies 👇👇👇
@uniofgreenwich.bsky.social research shows why we need PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
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This is Apartheid.
It's morally disgusting - and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide.
To see the Labour Government defend Israel repeatedly will horrify the British public - it cannot go on like this.
When we reported terrorist posts and accounts, Musk’s platform left 93% of them on the site:
https://goodlaw.social/220z
This reminds me of when you travel in a developing country and they have different rates for locals and foreigners. Feels like a sign of severe economic decline. Also, let's be real here. We basically nicked all this shit. The least we can do is let them see it for free.