Carmina Biryana

Booked my ticket for @qedcon.org this morning. Looking forward to seeing the old gang, setting the world to rights, and raising a toast to a genuinely wonderful team.

@riseburycrisis.bsky.social 💀

You're using a secondary school level of biology to defend a culture war position. How did you go from cheering on someone else's local women's football league to using the phrase "male pattern body"? I've been off the internet for a while but this sounds exactly like a conspiracy theory.

You seem so sure of this for someone clearly using common sense to extrapolate out to the real world. "It's about doping, no wait, chromosomes, or maybe testosterone? No actually fairness, no wait, M2F."

I'm sorry but you have been taken for a fool by someone over an issue that doesn't affect you.

It's true, I've had a lot of autism.

So why aren't all league players getting their T-levels checked then? Because it's not actually about fairness, it is about singling out this one suspected trans person.

I'm trying to put myself in a few positions here:
1. The person being asked to take a testosterone test.
2. The other players *not* being asked to take a testosterone test.
3. The families, friends and fans of all involved, none of whom are getting their T levels checked.

This isn't about fairness.

So complain about doping, not trans rights. You've said this person may not even be trans. What if they were intersex and had no idea? Who tested their testosterone levels in the first place? This is such a swiss cheese situation I find it more edible than credible.

Ok? But testosterone levels vary between people. There are always going to be outliers. Your issue here is with transphobia itself, not whether this one person (out of how many footballers in this league?) is trans or not. What does homo/bisexuality have to do with sports ability?

Well excited to be hosting the one on 14th! Will probably be up for a pint afterwards if anyone coming fancies it 🍻

@draustphd.bsky.social there have been no issues in sports like roller derby where trans women are explicitly welcome. Even in women's football, there's hardly an army of trans women qualifying for selection in major teams. Where is your evidence for this claim? What counts as an independent poll?

It is the hope that kills us!

@sliderulesyou.bsky.social wishing you a glorious Tuesday (slightly ahead of schedule), you beautiful sunbeam ✨🌻🔥

Well done mate! This is super cool 😍

Right??? It's very clearly empty promises unless we are serious about abandoning our commitment to uphold human rights. Just feeds the idea that politicians all lie, they are all the same, and it's completely hopeless. Oh and also growth, somehow.

I'm surprised there isn't a strategy of quick and longer term wins that get publicised at regular intervals. Put £comms behind that instead of platforming the bogeyman. Minimum wage, housing, employment rights, waiting lists etc. There's some good stuff here!

Not just the electoral system - the whole machine. You win an election and then discover you actually don't have the power to change the things you want to change. Or you're part of a coalition with absolute pricks whose job it is to stop you (Iike the London Assembly).

Was recently clocked as non-binary by a heckler in Lowestoft, which I was actually quite touched by (I present very pretty and girly. The prettiest, really). I hope you're well, you strange, angry, drunk, young person.

"tHe aDuLtS iN tHe RoOm"

Reminds me of any politician who wins on a promise of hope and then becomes part of the same creaky old slop that permeates all government. Leads to depressing "they're all the same" conclusions by the general public (doesn't matter if they're not at first).

Absolutely. Labour spent £500k on comms in the runup to all this. For what?! They needed to have a list of quick wins to shout about, and give people something long term positive to vote FOR. Bitterly disappointed.

It's not too late for chaos with Ed Miliband. He still exists, somewhere... out there.

To think they could have spent that cool half a mil on a comms strategy highlighting positive things they've done instead of giving Farage's face yet more airtime. In a cost of living crisis, waste like this is heartbreaking.

So much for the free market!

If we'd known each other back then, you could have come down the Black Sheep Bar in Croydon every Thursday with me, £1 a pint, non-stop metal, then stumble back to Big Goth Bob's for (completely legal) magic mushrooms. Didn't know how good we had it!

Pretty sure a lot of them are survivors of abuse tbh.

Really grateful I was fully immersed in nu-metal when this was released.

This is a brilliant thread 🏆

Meanwhile, in Runcorn "All stick and no carrot makes Union Jack a dull boy"