Trans Day of Visibility 2026 As always, TACC is here to amplify the voices of the transgender, non-binary, and Intersex community. Our voices are continuously ignored, but they will be heard. On this Trans Day of Visibility, we are sharing some of the voices from our open letter: “Biological Sex” and Its Variants are Transphobic Slurs.

"The BBC has a duty of care for all members of British society, especially those with protected characteristics. We don't use racist terms in the name of balancing racist beliefs. There are ways of describing trans people and the trans community that are perfectly clear without being offensive slurs. Your current practice is actively harmful to the trans community and fails to meet your own editorial guidelines. The BBC must do better or they will never recover the trust of the LGBTQ+ community. "

"The use of 'biological' in this manner is anti-scientific and shames an institution which once had a proud role as a supporter of science and defender of enlightenment values. Further, the fallacious binary thinking it promotes leads to direct harm not only to trans people but also to intersex people, including infants who have no means of defending themselves. Language must accommodate lived experience; when it does not, we find ourselves with a situation in which bodies are forcibly altered to fit language, devastating lives. We can be better than this."

'I support this petition as someone who works in crisis support and regularly speaks with trans people in acute distress. Language framed as “biological” is often used to dehumanise and exclude, with real psychological consequences. Terms like this are routinely weaponised to undermine dignity and fuel distress. This needs to stop.'

🧵1/2: Our voices are continuously ignored, but they will be heard.

On this Trans Day of Visibility, we are sharing some of the voices from our open letter: “Biological Sex” and Its Variants are Transphobic Slurs.

This sounds brutal. I’m so sorry and hope you find a better outlet for your talents soon. Thanks for your skeets which I find v informative.

In shock news, the surfeit may not have been lampreys 😱

Meme. Painting of King Henry I, wearing his crown and looking like a man who will stop at nothing to get eels. His faces is lined, and he the skin under his eyes is drooping. He looks worn and tired, like it's 6 AM and he's been binge-watching Sex in the City all night. His hair doesn't look old and haggard, though. It is a dark, rich brown, and he has a full beard and mustache combo that would be the envy of many a hipster. You know he's the king by his attire. He's wearing a large golden crown with spikes and fleur de lis, and a fur cloak with a fancy gold collar. There's no missing him, though it's fun to imagine him trying to blend in at a CVS while dressed like this. Despite his tired aspect, he looks intent and determined. His eyes are hard. As well he should. He is facing death, but fuck that. Bring that man some eels. Meme text reads: "Eels are for kings Regret is for other people"

Are the eels plotting to kill you?

Maybe. They did in Henry I in 1135. And you might be next.

Henry died after eating a meal of eels (carnes murenarum). Eels disagreed with him, & his doctors warned him not to do it. But kings want what they want. And Henry wanted his eels. 1/3
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Awesome :)

Line chart of reported cervical cancer deaths per 100,000 women in the United Kingdom from 1950 to 2021 where the rate falls from about 8.6 deaths per 100,000 in 1950 to about 1.7 in 2021, an approximately 80% decline.

Death rates for cervical cancer in the United Kingdom have fallen by 80% since 1950—

Cervical cancer death rates among women in the United Kingdom have fallen by around 80% since 1950. You can see this reduction in the chart.

This progress happened for a couple of key reasons.

We need politicians to be better educated too, and make it harder for them and the FS industry to bamboozle us. Everyone shd understand pensions, gilts, bonds etc as well as the levers available to govt, business and ordinary people to manage their money effectively

Screenshot of search snippet from The Independent, https://www.independent.co.uk Headline: Let's talk about Dame Karen Pierce – the midlife woman pushed out of her job for ... 6 Feb 2026 — Her name was Karen Pierce, and before Mandelson ever got to the American capital, she had been hailed as “The Trump Whisperer” because of her ...

She was known as the Trump Whisperer before Mandelson

Can’t stop thinking about them and their families who must be sick with worry

We’re looking for a writer We’re hiring a writer who can make the world’s largest problems understandable to our large Our World in Data audience.

Please help share what must be one of the best jobs ever. We are looking for a writer to join @ourworldindata.org to work with our fantastic team including @maxroser.bsky.social and @hannahritchie.bsky.social. £80k - £120k / ideally full time / location flexible
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This isn’t a debate between “development”& “conservation.”

It’s a war between short-term greed and long-term survival.

Our forests aren’t luxury green spaces,they are life-support systems.

Destroy them,& we destroy the air we breathe,the water we drink,& the climate that keeps us alive.

She reportedly parted ways with Bezos with a jaw-dropping $38.3 billion in Amazon stock. Their divorce settlement included a 4 % stake in the online retail giant or 19.7 million shares. Under the agreement, Bezos kept 75% of the couple's Amazon stock, along with voting control of her shares. Jan 11, 2023

MacKenzie Scott has given away over $19 billion in the last 5 years and experts say she's 'changed entire fie... MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations as 2024 comes to a close.

MacKenzie Scott, worth $41.1 billion, is on a philanthropic tear and has donated an estimated 46% of her net worth.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started.

Just. Tax. Them.

Text on a blue and pink background reads: Participants needed for PhD study. Reshaping self-reference: a cross-linguistic description of non-binary grammar. Identify as trans, non-binary or queer and gender non conforming. Be over 18. Be anywhere in the world. All languages welcome, but languages I am particularly interested in will be listed in the caption. All information detailed below. A trans flag banner in the background.

A researcher from the University of Essex is recruiting trans speakers of any language, but particularly speakers of Italian, Arabic, Slavic languages, Celtic languages, Native/Indigenous languages of the Americas and Australasia, African languages

Email s.nartus@essex.ac.uk

#TransResearch

Does Lord Robertson draw his pension?

Britain's shadow workforce is paid as little as 65p an hour. Who cares for the carers? | Frances Ryan Carer’s allowance turns 50 this year, but it’s no reflection of the labour of the millions who cook, clean and nurse behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Today is the 50th anniversary of
Carer’s Allowance.

I wrote about the 6 million people in the U.K. who are unpaid carers - and why it’s time the state stopped asking them to prop up the broken care system whilst pushing them into poverty and ill health. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The lightness of the cake is legendary. (Alt - as this image is worth it: Photo of the Artemis II module descending to the flat blue sea after its successful mission. There are three red-and-white striped parachute sails fully extended…..Or is it? One sail is in fact a Tunnock’s teacake)

A UK government spokesperson said:“We are deeply saddened to hear about the deaths in French waters today. Every death in the Channel is a tragedy and a stark reminder of the dangers posed by criminal gangs exploiting vulnerable people for profit. We will continue working relentlessly with the French and our partners overseas to prevent these perilous journeys. “The French authorities are leading the response to this incident and we are supporting their investigation.”

The same copy and paste we get every time from the government when we see yet more tragic and preventable loss of life. All while focused on reinforcing the hostile policies which lead people to be forced into using dangerous irregular routes in the first place.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The Schrödinger Strait

image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

We had many happy hours in the old Bate Museum and are looking forward to going again at its new home.

I tend to abhor the political use of "working people", especially when repeated ad nauseam, due to the way it is coded. Invariably it is "these people are deserving. These people aren't". It is especially harmful when coupled with cuts to disability support. It basically says it is fine to do so.

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

Your full Green Party slate for Oxford City is now live. We have such a wonderful collection of local activists. You can vote Green anywhere in Oxford.

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Promises, Promises: A History of Debt Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.

Iirc David Graeber made points about debt and morals in his excellent radio series, Promises, Promises. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

That’s a smile to rival the Mona Lisa

eBay appears to have some, delivery by Wednesday

Also WAIT (Why Am I Talking?)

Bees sleep between five and eight hours a day. They enjoy company and even hold each other's feet.

Lovely pattern! I’m with you on this, having almost finished a knit. The pattern has errors which were quicker and easier to fix with separate pieces.