Alisdair Calder McGregor

Sergio Parisse

Literally every Real Ale pub in the land will offer you a sample if you ask. That's part of the fun.

a foundational belief of the modern right is that there is no such thing as organic disagreement with their policies, it’s all directed from the top down

they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying

‘Gender critical’ transphobes are the puppets of the anti-bodily autonomy/ anti-gender right-wing US Christo-Fascists

See the FiLiA conference this weekend - all about removing bodily autonomy and consent from trans people, surrogates, sex workers … yet somehow they call themselves “feminists”? 😖

Oh I wouldn't say completely; their hatred for trans people is very genuine, and their commitment to erasing the independence of children likewise.

See here: bsky.app/profile/kate...

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.

“It is attempting to solve a problem that wasn’t a problem before AI showed up" is ABSOLUTELY the defining quote about how AI gets rolled out in every use

www.404media.co/what-happene...

This is why they are aiming to use trans kids access to healthcare as a weapon to eliminate Gillick Competency, which also underpins young people's access to abortion.

The point is that the influential people at the top - who are the link to the US funders - are deliberately using transphobia as a weapon to get useful idiots on side with curtailing women's rights.

Do the frogs in Portland know "We All Stand Together"? If not, there's a rather beautiful wee anthem just waiting for them to pick up.

'A man of achievement matched by few': Tribute to Lord Campbell by Alistair Carmichael With a formidable list of accomplishments including Olympian, parliamentarian and King’s Counsel, Menzies Campbell was also a man of enormous loyal...

"Olympian, parliamentarian, King’s Counsel. The list of achievements is formidable...but it only shows a fraction of the whole picture. What it doesn’t show is a man capable of enormous loyalty and kindness to his friends"
🕊️ @amcarmichaelmp.bsky.social pays tribute to Menzies Campbell
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I'm not sure they will manage it, but they're definitely trying. The attacks on Gillick laid their true aims bare IMO.

With all due respect to Tom (seriously, not being sarcastic), I think he's wrong. Anyone who thinks this has not paid attention to how the successfully completely reversed the trajectory of trans equality in the UK in only 10 years.

They will probably manage the same with abortion.

There's like a whole range of savoury or meat pies in UK cuisine; it tends to weird USians out because apparently pies are always sweet over there?

The crust is Hot Water Crust, which is specifically for savoury pies.

For Gala Pie the filling is a mix of Pork and Chicken. Other pie fillings exist.

We can, all of us, debate til the cows come home, the merits of direct action against property in Brighton.

But that horse has bolted.

It is the usual storm in a teacup, and stand by for multiple finger-wagging op eds from the usual suspects.

I'm not going to break my policy of not sharing screenshots of bigots, but my god it has given me a massive schadenfreudey giggle to see it all kicking off (Pru) at the transphobe conference. Proper handbags at dawn stuff.

Hopefully they'll wear themselves out infighting and have less energy for us

Bridget Phillipson 'delaying trans guidance to help deputy leader bid' The equalities minister is accused of pushing back publication of a code on single-sex spaces until after the Labour election ends

“Labour members have begun voting in the deputy leadership race. The vote will close on October 23 and the result will be announced on October 25.”

So I guess Bridget Phillipson will drop the trans-exclusionary legislation without discussion on 24th October then? 😣

Yes of course

It's bloody exhausting living in grief and fear.

🧵⤵️

Grief because I used to be a citizen of a continent and now I'm trapped on a little island.

Fear because the vast majority of the media and political establishment in the UK are hell-bent on removing the human rights of my loved ones.

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One of the reasons that the Liberal Democrats have an explicit section preventing parliamentarians being mandated by the membership in this way is that the SDP types that split from Labour were fed up with being mandated into far-left positions by factions within Labour.

A lot of really nice pieces in this lot:

Beeching/Marple closed railway stations that have since re-opened (because the one in my home town counts so it could always be my starting point)

We seem to have lost the understanding that you study things because you want to know more about them, not because you want them to give you a job.

'Transferable skills' are so-called precisely because they are not career specific, my god.

(There's a LOT of these)

Go around all of the things that EU money paid for in deprived areas of the UK that then voted Leave.

I got the email notification about this from Spreadshirt last week and promptly deleted my account. If you have one, you should too.

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. None of this is being done in secret – the...

The UK Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence (and has been for years)