🏳️‍⚧️lilith🏳️‍⚧️

"we do not support terrorists in this country, unless we want to outsource the killing of Irish republicans off the books of course"

watching my partner play FF16 makes me wonder if this game was originally meant for something else and had the Final Fantasy brand stuffed onto it sometime in the last 8th of development

My only thought would be that Greenbelt isnt seen as useful for people (no matter how much it actually is) whereas scrapping allotments is getting rid of land thats being used by people.

its wild how they tie themselves in knots to use all the panic inducing buzzwords possible in these articles, it doesn't even read well.

Northampton is a case study in how not to design a town

You know, all this handwringing about the safety of children by the government rings very hollow when coupled with them making trans healthcare impossible to access for minors and writing RSE guidelines to bully trans kids

RTD opens up about his season finales.

Mockup drawing of a UK parliament petition where the petitioner has asked for "good thing please" with description "we think the UK needs this". Government responded: "No."

Every UK petition is like this

There are two, one for brain tumor research and one for adding legal protections for police animals

Not exactly a compelling list i grant you.

'Parental rights' have done incalculable damage to LGBTQ kids across the generations and it depresses me that anyone who isn't LGBTQ just doesn't care.

man, the online safety act would be a much bigger deal if every YouTuber with more than 3 subscribers hadn't been advertising a way around it for the last decade.

(this isn't to say its not a big deal to be clear, the implications on censorship and free expression are enormous)

This post brought to you by me rewatching Patlabor for the first time in years

If your watching an english dub of an anime made in the last 20 years there is an 80% chance of @samriegel.bsky.social being in it

a screenshot of humble bundle advertising harry potter merchandise

thats... disappointing

The point about Charities being apolitical is an interesting get out of jail free card for this.
There are a bunch of anti trans charities that don't seem to have to hold up this pretence of apoliticism. Why do these supposedly pro trans ones have to then?

Photo of a chicken standing outside a KFC

"We need to be in the room"

My mental health has improved exponentially since I changed my Apple Watch face to the Snoopy one.

I get a cute animation of Snoopy every time I check the time!

so the police won't investigate direct discrimination against trans people?

is there even a point to the equality act for us at this point?

Its almost like this proscription was implemented to have a chilling effect on the protests calling out both the Israeli and Uk governments for their respective roles in the Gazan genocide

This isn't a bug, its a feature.

A Screenshot of DuckDuckGo, experiencing an outage of their search service, directs users towards its AI service instead.

"our actually useful service is down. don't fear, why not have some environmentally destructive bullshit instead"

🙄🙄🙄🙄

My great grandparents had to flee their home nation of Austria in the 1930s and its sickening to think that in the intervening 90 odd years states are still scapegoating minorities to maintain power.

Kinda horrifying that me and my partner are having to figure out what rights we can live without and which ones are red lines that mean we have to flee the country

Gender questioning, but only with one acceptable answer

Just like the exploratory therapy with a mandated destination

Its all just thin veils around legislating us out of existence

Oh absolutely! Should probably have worded that a bit differently to make sure that was how it was read.

If you're building a new UI library with the aim of it being adopted en masse and you're not baking in accessibility features from day one, I find it really hard to take you seriously

If you're also writing smug "advanced users only" shit in your docs as well I will find it even harder.

Screenshot of a letter titled "Your Freedom of Information Request" addressed to "Dear Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective". The letter states, "Thank you for your request, detailed below, which we received on 11 June 2025." It includes the quote: "During a recent meeting between the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the Women and Equalities Committee, Baroness Kishwer Falkner referred multiple times to an "81% satisfaction rate" in relation to the EHRC's performance or public perception." The letter requests "The full source of the 81% satisfaction rate cited by Baroness Falkner, including: - The title and date of the survey, report, or research from which this figure is drawn. - The commissioning body, if applicable. - The sample size, methodology, and target population of the survey." Contact information is provided: "T: 0161 829 8100 E: foi@equalityhumanrights.com Arndale House, The Arndale Centre Manchester, M4 3AQ equalityhumanrights.com".

Screenshot of a document regarding a Freedom of Information Act request. It lists three points asking for: "The specific question(s) asked that produced this figure," "Any documents, reports, internal communications, or datasets held by the EHRC that provide further detail, breakdowns, or analysis of this satisfaction figure (including demographic data or comparison with previous years, if available)," and "A direct link (if publicly available) or a copy of the original source document(s) or dataset(s)." The document states, "This request is being handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000." The response indicates that the Equality and Human Rights Commission does not hold the requested information. It further clarifies that Baroness Falkner did not refer to an 81% "satisfaction rate" at a meeting, and the figures quoted refer to media sentiment analysis, with additional information available on the UK Parliament website here.

🧵We sent an FOI to the EHRC about the “81% satisfaction rate” claim. We got a response back.

Which revealed a letter to the Women and Equalities Committee.

What we found goes far beyond a misleading “approval rating.”

committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Car and aircraft fuel have had lower taxes or outright exemptions for years.

Its estimated that letting the freeze on fuel duty expire could bring in 15 billion and taxing aircraft fuel could bring in 10+ billion annually.

Oh absolutely. As with almost public infrastructure it pays for itself with improvements to social mobility in record time.

Idk if they coined the term but @slimemildred.bsky.social did a video about "The Liberal Mind Prison" and i think this mentality of not being able to visualize any kind of material improvement is a really clear example of this

Also "it will never happen" is the rallying cry of boring liberals who have given up on pushing for things to ever get better.