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NEW: Last week’s newsletter had ‘IT’S A COUP’ in big red letters on front page of NYT. Well, guess what? It still is. We have to stop framing what’s happening as in any way normal. It’s a coup & a collapse in the international order & none of this is ‘normal’ broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...

submitted 11 days ago • 51 comments

ILGAs Annual Review has been released. You'll need a stiff drink to read it.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

GNU The Vivienne.

submitted 54 days ago • 8 comments

Why is it that every time I hear a car go by playing xmas songs, the song is Last Christmas, by Wham?

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

To all those spending tomorrow alone, like me, I hope you have a good time. I'm aware this can be a difficult time of year, and, if you're struggling, I'm told Sarah Millican's #JoinIn initiative is very good. Find the joy tomorrow where you can. Merry Christmas!🎄🎉🎄

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Workhouses were abolished in 1930.

submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

Dear @keirstarmer2.bsky.social, Please move the laws around political & campaign financing to the top of your list Or… Expect 1 term that ends in handing power of this country to a foreign billionaire proxy PM and his little puppet Yours, The people of this country paying attention.

submitted 90 days ago • 126 comments

#ResistanceUnited You don't have "sexual relations" with an underage girl. There's a specific word for that. Four letters, starts with R.

submitted 68 days ago • 105 comments

My New Year’s Resolution. What’s yours?

submitted 68 days ago • 563 comments

I'll be posting more #Discworld #AIArt w/ #PratchettQuote but limiting myself to 1-2 #PratchettQOTD posts. "Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them." #cats

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Healthcare Snark

submitted 75 days ago • 502 comments

A 12yo girl has now been charged with manslaughter after an 80-yo man was kicked to death in a park in Leicester. A 15yo boy has already been charged with murder. Maybe these are the kids Wes Streeting et al should be worrying more about.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Reform is a party of and for millionaires, which voted against workers’ and renters’ rights, rail renationalisation and GB Energy. We cannot allow them to pitch to Labour’s left. To tackle the cost of living, let’s tax extreme wealth and bring utilities into public ownership.

submitted 75 days ago • 7 comments

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." -- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917

submitted 75 days ago • 1004 comments

You can’t just walk up to that door. Can anyone tell me how to find out why a senior officer from the antiabortion, ‘homophobic hate group’ (SPLC), Alliance Defending Freedom is at Westminster?

submitted 75 days ago • 28 comments

It's simply astounding to me that we really don't have anyone in politics or the media in this country challenging the idea that immigration is always bad and that we shouldn't be helping people seeking asylum.

submitted 75 days ago • 9 comments

It really is such a terrifying thing just how normalised dehumanisation is in the uk i dont really know how you come back from this

submitted 75 days ago • 8 comments

When I had a violent stalker who would graphically describe how he would have me gang raped, puncture my organs and and break all my bones, I was told the police "couldn't do anything". Consider this a reminder that they absolutely ✨can✨ do something. They just don't care about YOU.

submitted 76 days ago • 632 comments

Alan Bennett's diary, 15th December 2020.

submitted 76 days ago • 87 comments

Boris Johnson is terrified that we will ditch Brexit, rebuild the UK with the EU, do well economically and… …that will show him for the fraud he is.

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"More people died from homelessness than homicide in Nashville this year.” A friend shared this photo from yesterday's memorial at Riverfront Park.

submitted 76 days ago • 701 comments

Sometimes when things get overstimulating, you can pretend you’re a turtle and hide in your cardboard box shell. Lessons from Dandy

submitted 75 days ago • 42 comments

This is really bad www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/b...

submitted 75 days ago • 861 comments

Perfect

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

A reminder about Dotty’s Stocking Project! Please share ❤️

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

I've set up a little project this year! Dotty's Stocking Project is about filling a stocking in memory of a passed pet, and donating the contents. Want to get involved? Hashtag #DottysStockingProject so I can see! ❤️

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

I dont think it's that simple. Identities are incredibly meaningful to people--community, history, culture, language, meaning, embodiment. What gets called IP is often their appropriation but not always.

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

12 Morrisson's pigs in blankets is an adequate midnight snack, right?!

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Every paper of note could be publishing a story on this right now, totally defanging the right wing anti-trans momentum in several countries- but they aren’t. Not one. The Cass report is a sham, through and through, and it’s being used to legitimize destroying the lives of innocent trans people.

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

Honey, lemon and Jagermeister. Dunno if it's fixing my cold, but it's deffo taking the pains away. Tastes like a liquid Jakemans sweetie.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

THIS is actual gender Ideology

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments

NYPD better put 10x as much resources on finding these scumbag killers as they did for that other shooter

submitted 85 days ago • 29 comments

My love for the humble potato waffle cannot be overstated. They are heavenly.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s poem is called ‘Needles’.

submitted 84 days ago • 21 comments

This cannot be overstated: if you've seen anything about trans people via the newspapers, BBC, government ministers, or even bookshops - most of it isn't merely inaccurate, it's deliberate, calculated, malicious lies and propaganda, or baseless bigoted conspiracy theories at best.

submitted 84 days ago • 4 comments

Each year my wonderful pal Rachel arranges Christmas gifts for Ireland's unhoused children. As of last week, there are 14,996 ppl in emergency accommodation in Ireland, inc. 3,448 children. It's a tiny thing to bring joy to them. If you can at all, please consider donating. www.merrylilsanta.ie

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

There's a coordinated smear job against pediatrician and USPATH president, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy , involving the biggest names on the anti-trans side, JK Rowling, Billboard Chris, Elon Musk, Jesse Singal, and Azeen Ghorayshi. It started in October and today is a further continuation of that.

submitted 85 days ago • 57 comments

If you are a man working in any industry, know of other men who act inappropriately to women, and do nothing….you are a huge part of the problem. Act. Speak up. Call it out. Otherwise you enable misogyny. Don’t.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

16 MILLION PEOPLE NOW LIVE IN POVERTY IN THE UK - a staggering 24% of the UK population. @trusselluk.bsky.social urgently need our help to provide emergency food, support & hope to people this winter Please join me in supporting them if you can👇🙏

submitted 87 days ago • 13 comments

Oh wow two whole days without spreading transphobia and labour apologia whoohoo

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments