The Randomiser Podcast

Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!

The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.

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Two young kākāpō chicks being held during a health check. Credit: Lydia Uddstrom.

The #kakapo chicks are coming thick and fast! We're now up to 10 hatched. Here are Tiwhiri-A1 and Tiwhiri-A2 receiving a health check at Yasmine's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. 📸: Lydia Uddstrom #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds #parrots

Really good piece - especially to make all your cis friends read, the ones who support trans rights but feel confused about some of the rhetoric out there about puberty blockers, etc. Really grounds it in reality (as major news outlets seem unable to do.)

Dear Lucy Three weeks ago you wrote me a bizarre letter in an attempt to hold on to voters who Labour have for too long taken for granted in Gorton and Denton. First, I’d like to give my apologies for the delay in getting back to you. I've been busy on the ground with Hannah Spencer talking to voters about the issues that matter to them – lowering bills, protecting the NHS and rebuilding our public services. You'll appreciate most of your letter is out of date now, but I'm sure you'll have seen the poll that came out today, that puts us in first place and Reform in second. Labour are a distant third and it’s now clearer than ever that your party cannot win in Gorton and Denton. If you are as concerned about stopping Reform as you proposed in your letter, the course is now clear: in the spirit in which you wrote to me, you should now urge your members and former voters to back Hannah Spencer on the 26th February to stop Reform and make hope normal again. Kind regards, Zack Polanski Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales P.S – Hannah looks forward to saying hi in Parliament!

Dear Lucy Powell,

A response to your letter:

I'm ecstatic to share my feminists@law article (!!) co-written and steered by @sandraduffy.bsky.social . I want to thank them publicly for rooting me on & the editorial team who were very supportive. Please read.

First of many I'm hoping...

journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...

One of the things I find frustrating about sci-fi is that because of the American influence of it, all of the planets are called things like Zexion 5 and Danshassia 7. I’d call them things like ‘Nether Roundthorpe’ and ‘Spheresbury’. Gravity Bywell. Chalfont St Globeby. Bishop’s Goitre.

A picture of Worf from TNG with a canary’s head. There’s a space background.

Canary Worf.

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them!

The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

Cass had the data and government resources to investigate whether this moral panic was true but instead of looking at it critically she just reinforced the panic.

As always, Adams was a prophet…

‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban Members warn NFWI decision has opened up toxic culture that deters younger women from joining

The Women’s Institute was pressured to exclude trans women by the threat of litigation brought and paid for by JKR’s legal fund.
So now the newly trans-hostile WI groups are haemorrhaging members and many groups are folding, closing opportunities for all women.
Well done JK and the GCs, eh?

JKR is truly the feminist who’s done the most for the patriarchy…

‘As with Section 28, young people are presented with a choice between state-mandated abuse, or staying in the closet. The overall aim is to stop trans children from existing altogether’

Belinda Chandra and the Doctor are surrounded by red images of the villains they battled, including the Rani, Omega and Mr Ring-a-Ding. Art by Scott Gray.

Doctor Who: Season Two!
#DoctorWho #DoctorWhoArt #NgutiGatwa #VaradaSethu

4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 unrolls carpet outdoors while Person 2 with short hair pulls cart full of more rolls.] (2) [Continuing uphill.] (3) [After going over a bump that takes them downhill, both people catch carpet roll that’s falling off the cart.] (4) PERSON 2: You’re *sure* we started installing the wall-to-wall carpet on the right side of the wall? PERSON 1: The other end of the room *must* be getting close by now.

Installation

xkcd.com/3206/

Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory — Jessica Kant When I first wrote Anatomy of a moral panic in February 2024, I had only a faint glimmer of what was to come.The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous ye...

Part 3: "The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous year told a different story. This massive, messy dataset was brimming with increasingly vile headlines that only seemed to metastasize with time. ... two years later we know how the story turns out."

The anti-trans propaganda push is one of the best examples I know of real-world disinformation in action.

"Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out."

It's forbidden to dump bodies in the river sign from Dalek Invasion of Earth.

#DoctorWho
Roses are red,
My heart is a quiver...

Doctor who jokes:

How many Time Lords does it take to change a light bulb?

None. The light bulb just glows really bright then changes itself.

Star Wars jokes:

Q: How many Bothans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Many, but they’re all dead.

Help us appeal the High Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project

We always knew this would be a long and hard fight. We are going nowhere.

We will fight until the battle is won:
https://goodlaw.social/m3oe

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

I have a new business!
I sell the finest second hand German crockery in The Berliner China Shop

The High Court rules the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful. What next? This is a big judgment. But not everything has changed

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The High Court rules the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful.

What did the judgment say and not say, and what has changed and not changed. And what happens next.

Quick explainer by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Good news. And yet again our backward island drifts away from progressive change, choosing instead to see if it can’t just get its own head a wee tiny bit further up its own arse.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Calling transfeminist researchers! See our call for abstracts below - deadline 1-15th March (with full papers in August)

Almost like patriotism was an inherently toxic idea used to silence dissent from power…