Literally this morning. This isn't some random transphobic account, it's a prominent figure in UK anti-trans politics, with 160k followers, routinely promoted and RTd by Rowling, "Sex Matters", etc. Just openly calling to completely ban being trans.
What are trans folks supposed to do with that?
As the wonderful book The Intermediaries by @bschillace.brandyschillace.com makes clear, Magnus Hirschfeld (founder of the Inst für Sexuellewissenschaft) did understand the message that queers are queers. But many others in Weimar Germany didn't.
Revelation gets a bad wrap for its dubious fandom, but 21:1-4 is sublime. I read it at both my father and father-in-law's funerals.
One of the very best loved verses among Quakers.
I can access it as a single-page PDF via my university library. Could send to you, but I don't have DMs turned on for Bluesky. If you have a public email address, happy to send it that way. (Aware this sounds like a scam response!)
I'm part of a group in my faculty running EDI professional development sessions. We have good material and participation, but so often the people you most want to attend simply don't.
Two-panelled frieze of cats howling at each other, surrounding several copies of an anthropomorphised full moon with multiple facial expressions.
French girls (from Le Chat Noir, now at the Musee de Montmartre):
Voulez-vous couchez avec moi, ce soir?
• 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
I'd post the "are we the baddies" meme, but I think it's superfluous. FFS.
This is tragically beautiful.
Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun in their studio - me in the middle
Painting of woman in grief, Robert Colquhoun
Painting of still life with mandolin, Robert MacBryde
Painting of The Spectators, Robert Colquhoun
Travelled 3 hours each way from Northampton to Lewes today to see The Two Roberts (Colquhon & McBryde) exhibition curated by @damianbarr.bsky.social. So glad I did. Wonderful and moving art by two queer Scottish artists that should never have been forgotten.
An icon of neurodivergence, *with* a double happy ending. Delightful.
Tosspot, git or bawbag (the last being a Glasgow slur) would do nicely as alternatives. 😆
People who have followed me for a while know I often say that the purpose of a system is what it does. And countries are systems, so if the US elects people like Donald Trump, that's its purpose. If Israel invades all its neighbors, that's its purpose.
As a systems thinker, I agree entirely! Really incisive use of POSIWID.
Publication of an article on Unherd is already a massive red flag for being either very conservative or Putin-defending (or both).
Evil looking anthropomorphised bunny rabbit at a bar. Arms crossed, big staring eyes, tongue out, ears folded over. Definitely trouble.
That bunny is giving vibes of the song by Michael Stipes in the short film Olive the Other Reindeer: "we're not so bad - except for that bunny".
Are there now vegetarian/vegan Scotch pies? (I grew up in the west of Scotland but don't have much reason to go back now.)
Their Matthew Passion broadcast (right now) is lovely.
Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime under international law.
Updates: Iranian bridge cut in half by strike as Trump warns ‘more to follow’
Enjoying the Microsoft jokes but actually there's something really impressive that it's possible to conduct a remote login to a laptop *outside of Earth orbit*.
Storm Dave has been named
If you miss Storm Dave you can catch it again on Storm Dave+1
Although even the keenest advocate of on-site working couldn't expect IT to travel to the client on this occasion.
Because there are plenty of rich people there and they don't give a toss about the planet?
BREAKING: Andrew Milne has been arrested.
A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police told The Tribune: "Detectives investigating allegations linked to the purchase and sale of freeholds in Sheffield have arrested a man on suspicion of fraud and blackmail."
"People who are in these fields say the stupidest shit" (Dr Alex Hanna) is an excellent short summary of the GenAI hype machine.
This is an excellent book for #TDoV - a really well-described history of early queer and trans advocacy and science. Utterly compelling.
It's a mystery to me why the churches who believe that Christ is more-or-less present in the eucharist use 'bread' that tastes of nothing, while those who believe it's all just symbolic use proper bread. [Disclaimer: I'm a Quaker, we don't do outward sacraments.]
A friend took her toddler to our local church messy play and they made Easter biscuits that included small Jesus figurines. The prominent JESUS IS NOT EDIBLE sign over the craft table unintentionally kicking off the next Christian schism.