a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate'
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are
his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
A terrible weather forecast, just misery for nine days and hope on the tenth.
I do not know if I can wait this long
"WE WILL NEVER BE SILENCED" anti-trans campaigners shout, while appearing on the front page of every single newspaper and interviewed on all major news platforms in the country repeatedly for the past 10 years. Pretty sure you have the wrong definition of 'silenced', but okay.
Bought one (1) children’s toy on Vinted and now the algorithm is screaming “wait, you must have a CHILD? Forgive us for thinking you want anything for yourself, here is baby clothing and nothing else”.
Uggi the dog and a copy of The Night Guest
GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
Alan looks down at Onion, a small brown and white dog who is straining on his lead in the direction of the closed door of the George Orwell pub. ☹️
Onion, unable to comprehend why we are not going to his favourite pub.
The language our allies need to defend us out there can actually be this elegant all the time, as long as you know what you're saying 🏳️⚧️
transphobes using money and power to bully little kids is absolutely no different from mobs turning up to intimidate refugee families, and you should treat anyone who so much as excuses either of these things with complete contempt
the nominees were
-a campaign to get lifechanging medication for extremely sick children
-a campaign to improve access to justice for victims of rape and sexual assault
-a transphobic hate campaign that managed to convince some judges to make the worst ruling in Supreme Court history*
(*winner)
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.
Rich people would rather spend a fuckton of money on something shit than speak to a person who isn’t also rich.
Will I ever hear a 6Music news update that doesn’t mention migrants or small boats ever again, feels infuriatingly unlikely.
1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers. We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah. Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.
msf.org/msf-denounce...
“See-gyoo”. 😭
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
I agree, and appreciate someone qualified backing this up, but also, you don’t even need to be trained in behavioural psychology to know this, this *should* just be common sense, that you can’t just frighten people into being well enough to work, that these stresses will just make them worse
What an anniversary, Susie – which makes me think it must be about that long since a friend shared your music with me, and that’s how I found your work. Glad for the ways in which the internet can be good.
I rant about this a lot but I can’t for the life of me understand why BBC 6 Music News gives a daily update of how many people crossed the channel in small boats yesterday
From a news values perspective alone, it makes no sense
The fact that they call it DEI when it is EDI in the UK shows you how brainwormed these rightwing fucks are.
Edible crab is the common name for a species of crab, which perhaps explains it!
This is why disabled people and trans people must be in solidarity with each other at all times - transphobia cannot exist without ableism. The idea that you have the right to another person's medical details and that your opinion on their care should carry any weight at all is ableist at its core.
ai has already kind of materially ruined the basic act of looking at pictures
THE SWIFTS ARE BACK.
The only European countries with worse gender recognition are Hungary, Russia and Bulgaria. Well done UK, formerly competing for best position for LGBT rights, now way down the bottom.
I’d believe for sure that school girls avoid mixed sex toilets, but I’d also believe that the reason for that isn’t that trans kids are using them.
