George Potter 🔶

Cannot stress how bad shit is about to get if you want to build any kind of PC.

Galaxy brain meme. Panel 1: Jonathan Harker found paprika hendl spicy because he is pathetically English. Panel 2: Hungarian paprika ranges from mild to very spicy; it's perfectly possible our friend Jonathan was served the spicy stuff Panel 3: "paprika hendl uses sweet paprika" recipes change quickly over time an dplace, Jonathan may have been served a regional variant Panel 4 (text running off bottom): PAPRIKA USED TO BE SPICER holy shit it used to be spicier before sweeter peppers were cultivated in the 1920s. plus the machine to remove the spicy pith and seeds was only invented in the 1860s. 19th century Hungarian cuisine was simply spicier than its modern counterpart. not to mention how even "mild" paprikca can cause indigestion which is why it's so frequently served with sour cream

WELCOME TO THE DRACULA PAPRIKA DISCOURSE!!

(meme from tumblr, not my own, original link seems to be dead now)

Transgender women have been playing women’s tennis in USTA for 50 years!

Fifty years. No issues. Actual members fine with it. Until a small number of people decided to hound trans women out of their communities for no reason but spite.

(The govt could stop this at any point by the way - they are choosing not to because they agree with it)

this feels like another iteration of the "what if I give a homeless man money and he buys booze" thing. So then he bought booze, so what, you are not his personal life coach. You did your bit now go live your life.

Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman

Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.

There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50

Congressman Henry Cuellar was indicted for money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy, allegedly taking about $600,000, mostly from Azerbaijan, to influence U.S. policy.

President Donald Trump pardoned Cuellar, because Trump supports money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy.

I don't see what the problem is - if the accomodation would benefit a non-disabled person, then why shouldn't they make use of it too?

If the answer is "it's costly and we can't offer it to everyone", then I guess that's fair enough, but in most cases there's no especially good reason to

Contact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion.

goodlawproject.org/about/contact/

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

as i keep saying. the person to be mad at is squarely @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social

she has created a legal loophole that is being abused by christian extremists and she is refusing to close that loophole

paul conrathe is the guy behind most of these vexatious lawsuits. he's a christian evangelical

The Labour Chancellor has delivered a Budget whose headroom is still small, and is based on a series of optimistic assumptions and tax rises in an election year, and your story is...litigating which one of the chess competitions in the 90s was the *real* under-14 champion? Really?

It says we’ve not changed.

Our own government is posting about remigration and America is silent.

Even in the halls of congress, fellow lawmakers silent as Black lawmakers stand alone on the hill pointing to targets on Haitians and Somalis.

America still saying Black lives don’t matter.
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to even bring that claim via charity commission im p sure you'd have to have standing which is a ball ache of its own.

even then as we've seen with others; your members can be like 90% straight people according to your *OWN RECORDS* and including them isnt a breach of legal aims to support "LGB"

it would be laborious as all hell to bring a legal case against WI here - no doubt bigots would try it any way and it would absolutely disrupt operations.

Stonewall for eg told me personally that batting off bigots had been taking up more and more of their time meaning they couldnt help as much.

“They’ve been so respectful and so understanding of the decision, but profoundly sad,” she said. “I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”

This part is *infuriating*. This cis woman heard an 80 year old trans woman say, 'This is the only place I've been respected as a woman IN MY LIFE.'

And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'

Absolutely pathetic.

There's going to be a lot of people telling trans people in the UK to "calm down" and their expressions of rage "are not helpful" to the organizations caving to fascism.

Fuck em. This is not about being helpful. This is about being recognized as equal human beings by society.

Like, this is why they're targetting those organisations. They're shooting fish in a barrel because they know those organisations can't fight back. The organsiations that want to be trans inclusive are allies, not the enemy. Don't let the actual villains convince you otherwise

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.

It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

The fascinating thing about the Starmer-Badenoch era is it really shows how much leadership cues matter even in an era of low partisanship and a fragmented public sphere. Starmer has transmitted learned helplessness to the centre-left, Badenoch has transmitted clown behaviour to the right.

Thames Valley Police have been accused of an attack on free speech and the right to protest this morning, after effectively banning an anti-monarchy protest in Windsor

Campaigners from Republic were to hold up a banner saying 'Charles, what are you hiding?' as the German state visit passed through.

This shouldn't be a novel point - the Labour Party didn't disappear or even notably suffer when the Conservative Party embraced the NHS, the Conservatives didn't disappear when New Labour embraced the Third Way and the Green Party has only put on support while major parties back action no climate.

The article explicitly notes WI had had a trans-inclusive policy *since the 1970s*!

“So, what did you do wrong?” | Lyric Essay November 2025 is the first National Care Leavers Month, so here is a piece about the question I get asked most when people find out I grew up in care.

“I grew up in care, not prison. I say it like a fact, like my phone number, recited without thinking. But none of that matters, because they want an answer.

‘So, what did you do wrong?’”

This is a great piece of writing by @matt-taylor.bsky.social

Federal Council also has an imbalance towards women, the absence of the gender balance quota has meant that a male TERF didn't get uprated.

This is objectively very very funny.

terfs back in the day: we don't want to strip trans ppl of their rights we just have concerns about self id

terfs now: trans ppl don't exist and shouldn't be allowed to participate in society. anybody who disagrees will be subject to vexatious lawsuits

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social: sounds reasonable

"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”

What does this do for women's rights?

Joanne will never run out of money because people keep buying her stuff, and so this will keep happening. SLAPP after SLAPP until trans people are completely drummed out of public existence and nobody will do a thing about it

btw you should be blaming everything on @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social.

i don't just mean the transphobia. i mean the explosion of bigotry against all minorities and women since labour came to power.

it's all on her and she's done fuck all about any of it.

it's her job to fix all this shit.