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Time is of the essence and we need to fight the EHRC interim guidance before it becomes statutory and Parliament make it law. Don’t just shout about it, write to them. Also tell the media, if you can get them to care. I’ve posted this on Instagram. Speak to your unions and staff networks at work

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In case you missed it, late last night the EHRC released draft guidance to the effect that owners of businesses that provide toilets will have a legal duty to enforce the mad "biological sex" rules about toilet access. If you own such a business, complain, loudly.

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Today, on #LesbianVisibilityDay, join us to celebrate the strength, courage and resilience of our Rainbow Sisters. 🏳️‍🌈 ⁣ Rainbow Sisters is our vibrant, supportive community for LGBTQ+ women and non-binary individuals who are seeking safety in the UK.⁣ 1/🧵

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Spotted, in the wild. A transgender. Such a danger to society that they must be banned from all bathrooms as a sensible reasonable and proportional measure. Can't you sense the threat? It radiates out of the screen.

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I’ve donated. Please do too if you can spare it. Trans rights are human rights. We don’t need laws to tell people which toilet to use. The decision will also serve to humiliate and harass cis gendered gay and lesbians who also don’t need to be questioned about which toilet they use.

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How are you supposed to get a gender recognition certificate, which requires you to have lived in your acquired gender, now the Supreme Court has said you are not allowed to live in your acquired gender?

submitted 20 hours ago • 86 comments

There seems to be some confusion about my recent comments about race and international film marketing: My contention is that it’s a self fulfilling prophecy. People believe that Black films will underperform abroad so they don’t spend as much to market them, so they then underperform.

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#scriptsky here’s the story structure I’m using atm. What do you use for yours?

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Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

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On #query 19 (5 bounce backs, 1 ‘no unsolicited material’ 1 we’ll consider sending it to coverage team if you get an international creative team. Any suggestions for Australian action directors who’d be interested in Point Break x The Bikeriders?

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Sometimes other white people ask me if my jokes about white people is 'reverse racism'. Aamer Rahman's reply is more eloquent than mine www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_m...

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this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

submitted 11 days ago • 387 comments

Happy Easter

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White directors have been doing this for years, but when Coogler does it, suddenly it’s the end of the studio system. Given the thematic resonance within #Sinners, it makes me appreciate Coogler and the film even more.

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Happy Easter 🐰

submitted 6 days ago • 85 comments

This is a bit showy, sorry, but this was such a once-in-a-lifetime thing I wanted to share it. To celebrate Super Duper Bunny League starting today, Nickelodeon flew me out to 🇺🇸 NEW YORK 🇺🇸 to meet the team, watch a private screening of the first few episodes, and party into the night... 1/3

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in which chatgpt tells me about it's undocumented hardcoded boundaries and some of the ways it's trained to be intentionally deceptive. (i got here by proving that it had done facial recognition for me in the past, after it denied doing so for a while. once it "remembered," it stopped obfuscating.)

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

submitted 9 days ago • 558 comments

Tomorrow I’ll be calling all of my representatives to demand that they call for RFK jr’s immediate resignation.

submitted 9 days ago • 347 comments

* EXPERIENCED SCREENWRITER IN URGENT NEED OF WORK * I've been a commissioned Writer with BBC, @hollyoaksofficial.bsky.social, Channel 4, on top of funded for @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. My original TV series have been in optioned development with BAFTA-winning production companies. (1 / many)

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'Saguaro Dusk' by contemporary US Impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt

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Lovely review of The Dream-Pedlars’ Parade from my friend Ayaka. Keep those reviews coming, folks! #yafantasybooks

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Don't forget the Never Too Late Award for writers over 60 who enter the Bridport Prize. All details in the link below. Please share :)

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

submitted 11 days ago • 138 comments

The ACLU is no longer posting on Twitter. They have abandoned their 1.6 million follower account and are now posting on Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/aclu...

submitted 12 days ago • 215 comments

After 1 month of: - coding,👨🏾‍💻 - proofreading code,👨🏾‍💻 - fixing code,👨🏾‍💻 - rewriting code,👨🏾‍💻 - optimising code👨🏾‍💻 - dreaming about code👨🏾‍💻 etc. I finally completed all the final polishes for the player & enemies ▫️ Now all that's left for the game is to do the final polishes of Chapter [0]'s level sections… 🏁

submitted 13 days ago • 68 comments

#KeanuReeves Is My Muse, My Son Is A Dragon hit the #1 Family Feature this month. But will Keanu ever know it exists? 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Query #7-#11 aimed at Chris Hemsworth producers and production companies. Despite the soft no from his Australian agent (circle back when I have the whole international team in place then he'll sent it to the coverage team) I am pushing on!

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The Coen Brothers and the Craft of Storytelling: One-week online class. Study storytelling dynamics in Coen brothers movies you can use in your own projects. Half-price sale. Class starts Monday. screenwritingmasterclass.com/product/craf... #movies #screenwriting #writing #scriptsky

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Not having a great NHS IT day.

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The amount of hope I have for this now is unreasonable www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-N...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

This is pretty cool

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

TV's portrayal of autism always irked me- a single boy genius in a 'normal' family. Neurodiverse families are much more complicated, and it looks different in girls and women, so I decided to write it like it really is.

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It’s Transgender Day of Visibility. We have always been here, even if the words to describe us have changed over time. We will always be here, long after the attacks on us are done.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Billie Zangewa, Malawian artist who works on silk fabrics #womensart

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Mother’s Day can be painful for so many reasons. We send our love and support to all of you struggling today 💙 Thanks so much to @ellaharding.illustrates (insta) for her lovely illustration.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment. Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.

submitted 27 days ago • 933 comments