It is always old white men.

Honestly, that "guarantee" in the 2014 legal-opinion has always been over-reported and under-enforced, but a lot of Western media does not care to investigate the realities or nuances of what life is like for queer people in the Third World. C'est la vie.

Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed"

remembered a good tweet

An image showing a mosaic of the 10 winners of our awards.

Pride in STEM is 10 this month, and we are so proud to celebrate these 10 change-makers who were proposed and voted in by the community.

Read about their work, their impact, and their commitment to improving the lives of LGBTQIA+ people in STEM and beyond, here:

prideinstem.org/2026/04/01/t...

This sounds amazing, but when I was looking into things for the 2026 eclipse I find that the weather in Iceland is pretty cloudy that time of year, so I'd be worried about not seeing it.

Spain however... 👀

Update: anaesthetic wore off. Ow.

FBI agent Denise played by David Duchovny and Dale Cooper, played by Kyle Maclachlan, Twin Peaks 1990

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.

Wisdom tooth extraction was a lot easier than expected, now to load myself up on painkillers before the anaesthetic wears off...

Reminder: Margaret Thatcher died 13 years ago on this date!

I propose to raise a toast on her behalf—a G&T, obviously. (And good riddance to bad rubbish.)

Scientists claiming to have found "The Male G-Spot" is so funny to me. Firstly, because the results are unsurprising to anyone who has spent time with penises. Secondly, at last men get to experience scientists explaining their bodies back to them. Lastly, did they forget the prostate exists?

Hardest thing right now is that Apollo loves sunbathing but he's not allowed unsupervised garden time until he's recovered from surgery, and I need to bring him inside so I can go back to work...

I'm already dealing with a shoulder injury and I would really like it if the random pain in my hip would just chill out and wait until after the wedding without completely screwing up my ability to go to the gym...

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5.

My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

From Clickhole's "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It’s Like To Be In Space," Barry Wilmore: You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.

One of the very best from Clickhole

I wonder how many people are even aware these are slurs?

Transphobes started using "Tim" to refer to trans women by a masculine name and likewise "Tif" for trans men, it's coded misgendering, as they'd regularly refer to us as Timothy or Tiffany to insult us. UK journalists using anti-trans slurs.

April — 2026

"Gender Criticals" are masters of Britain
Only some very tired human rights lawyers stand before them

TOILETS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

"Moon's haunted"

Kerbals are, yes.

Their spacecraft... Also built different (derogatory).

This is Sharif University in Tehran, after the US destroyed it overnight.

It is (was) Iran's top university & amongst the world’s best for civil engineering. It was also home to many anti-regime, student protestors.

The academic base of Iran is being exterminated.

War crimes. Terrorism.

And she grabbed all the science experiments from the capsule while falling at 500 kph.

Started playing KSP again. Sent Val to Mun. Barely enough fuel to get back to orbit. No docking clamps, need to EVA back to the command module. Haven't unlocked RCS backpack. Managed an unpowered jump. Return to kerbin. Forgot chutes. Val jumps out at 6000m with personal chute.

Successful mission.

Look what you have become. A RAT in the desert.

Are cis people aware that a large number of UK journalists don't even call us 'trans' any more, they call us 'trans-identifed'?

So I had a good time.

Screen Twitter: This Ethel Cain situation is wild. If you don’t know, he’s a man pretending to be a woman who posted a photo of his cock and balls on Instagram — a classic pervert move. Of course, plenty of people are defending him because “trans.” What I find frustrating are those who can clearly see the behaviour is wrong and perverted, yet still insist on calling him “she” and “her.” Please stop gaslighting yourself and insulting women by indulging this fantasy. You saw HIS penis HE is a pervert Never forget that when you call these men "she/her" you are engaging in verbal fellatio.

The mere existence of trans bodies - in this context, as a photoshoot that is quite clearly about how people looking at trans women can't seem to be normal about them - makes these weird-ass people confirm the very point the photoshoot is about.

You are the pervert, actually, my dear.

It's my Hen Party today! Off to see some muscular men in very little clothing 👀

Also this is my first attempt at my bridal makeup, which I am doing myself, and I think it looks ok? Just need to work on application more than anything.

I can rattle off a litany of complaints about Grey's Anatomy, but 24 episodes a season lets them do SO MUCH with so many characters and yes I want more shoes to have that luxury.

Trans women are biological women. Trans men are biological men. Please stop using the phrase “biological” to distinguish cis from trans people. Cis does just fine and you’re also revealing your own ignorance of how biology works, as well as underlying inherent transphobia, even if unintentionally.