Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

Editor of Trans Britain. #Author of Pressing Matters. Lifetime Achievement Award PrideOfManchester 2021. Drove an 8 year old #EV called Peggy and now drives Olga who is brand new.
Posts about #climate mitigation, #trans moral panic, #books. Was #retired. Checked out but unable to leave. She/Her.

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2024-09-18 07:55:52

BBC Hires ‘Gender and Identity Correspondent’ With Links To The Anti-Trans Movement
https://lucyfromnaarm.com/p/bbc-hires-gender-and-identity-correspondent

2024-09-07 10:15:44

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@npub1tjp…80vr How many reset buttons does one man need to press?

2024-08-29 10:18:58

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 I imagine there’s a basement room somewhere containing the actual Labour Party chained and in their underwear, hoping someone will realise they were kidnapped and come looking for them.

2024-08-28 17:23:03

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Notice the lack of solar, the lack of EV charging — things that ought to be standard and are cheaper if done during the build. And I bet the insulation is the least they can get away with.

2024-08-14 06:58:03

Seeing fall poll numbers, Trump targets trans people in Montana
Can we all agree it was never about ‘just asking questions’ or ‘reasonable concerns’? One thing for sure folks, don’t you dare try crawling back to feigned ignorance about trans people when this cycle with the fascists is over. After eight years of abusing us for supposed populist gain both sides of the Atlantic, ‘I don’t know anything about them’ is busted.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/seeing-falling-poll-numbers-trump

2024-08-11 19:27:59

“Richard Dawkins lied about the Algerian boxer, then lied about Facebook censoring him”
He claimed Facebook had suspended his account for stuff he posted on X. In reality the company stepped in because his account was hacked.
Attention monkeys can never keep the story straight.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/richard-dawkins-lied-about-the-algerian

2024-08-11 10:30:41

A local park is having a music event. So that means a pile of stinky Diesel generators pumping out oxides of nitrogen and particulates to introduce the kids to asthma. There were six of these palletised generators, each rated at 150kW — almost one megawatt. No wonder the acts could be heard two miles away.
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/112/942/895/636/479/898/original/5e1ab8055532127d.jpeg

2024-08-10 20:07:05

This week it’s been quite striking this week how the riots have affected people.
In the estate where I live, where one third of families could be parsed as ‘immigrant’ in some way, there is real fear about racists coming here and how to prevent that. Even the white Australians on an extended stay here are afraid.
Tonight a neighbour described a broad daylight road rage attack on a local taxi, telling them to ‘go back home’
Many local homes are putting up lights and cameras.

2024-08-07 10:38:00

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@npub1r7e…mre3 “Sustainable jet fuel” comes from the same distraction mill as “carbon capture and storage”. They’re both designed to let polluters carry on emitting CO2 as usual.

2024-08-01 10:11:20

Doctors’ Union Calls For Puberty Blocker Ban To Be Lifted (no paywall)
https://www.thetimes.com/article/991b73cf-89c5-4e67-a108-fd31ce2e4d0b?shareToken=479e8bc39aff6c81cf9ffccbe644f55a

2024-07-25 06:25:23

Making bigotry reasonable? Why the trans community in the UK is scared of Starmer
https://kierkegaardslunch.blogspot.com/2024/07/making-bigotry-reasonable-why-trans.html?m=1

2024-07-20 14:22:55

Media Boosted Anti-Trans Movement With Credulous Coverage Of ‘Cass Review’ — FAIR
https://fair.org/home/media-boosted-anti-trans-movement-with-credulous-coverage-of-cass-review/

2024-07-19 14:06:48

I put off a grocery top-up visit this afternoon, figuring the payment terminals would probably be down. Looking at my list I realised the only thing I had actually run out of was apples. Then I remembered the picnic area outside here has an apple tree sapling gamely trying to grow into a tree. It may only be four foot tall but it sports half a dozen apples a year. So I went and picked an apple to eat and felt I’d taken the digital apocalypse to its logical next stage: foraging.

2024-07-19 07:17:37

Journalists: ‘The protection of our confidential sources is a sacred principle for which we are prepared to defy authority’
Sun Journalists: ‘Bollocks to that. We breached the confidentiality of a Zoom call planning a climate protest, recorded it,and handed the recording to the police like good agents of the state.’

2024-07-17 07:28:03

Elon Musk says in a hissy fit that he’s going to move Space X from Hawthorne California to Texas because he doesn’t like a new law that doesn’t affect him. The law in question protects the identities of trans kids who come out at school but don’t want their parents to be told (because, y’know, the parents may yank them off to conversion therapy). Musk had a trans kid. The kid, now grown up, wants nothing to do with him.

2024-07-14 16:35:10

Jo Maugham has essentially set out the questions that a public enquiry would one day ask Wes Streeting. Streeting has made an unforced error during the first week in post — all presumably because he’s frightened of billionaires and the right wing press. This is going to blow up in his face.

2024-07-12 15:02:49

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@npub1k4q…3lsq And they’ve never noticed that we use ‘they’ all the time to refer to a person when we don’t know if they’re a ‘he’ or ‘she’ user.

2024-07-12 07:10:24

Good Law Project are in court TODAY for a one day hearing to challenge the legality of the last government’s literal outlawing of puberty blockers for trans kids. The ban was a rushed move in the dying hours of the Tory government, using powers meant for genuine emergencies and with no political scrutiny.
https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/trans-pubertyblockers-cf/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=_crowdfunder_transypemergencyregs&utm_medium=social_media&utm_content=05-06-2024

2024-07-06 08:48:29

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So far…
Richard Hermer KC as Attorney General
Sir Patrick Vallance KCB as a Minister of State (Minister for Science) in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
James Timpson OBE as a Minister of State (Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation) in the Ministry of Justice

2024-07-06 08:45:54

Keir Starmer has now given life peerages to three non-MPs so they can be appointed as ministers.
Ministerial Appointments: July 2024 - GOV.UK
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ministerial-appointments-july-2024

2024-06-26 13:21:06

Y’know I used to think that it was a big enough act of cultural vandalism that the BBC had literally taped over crucial elements of our shared memory just to save money on buying fresh videotape. But today we learn that Paramount has apparently deleted the entire archive of MTV content. Now I’ve never watched MTV and won’t miss what’s crassly destroyed by beancounters but I invite you to imagine them deleting … oh let’s say the entire archive of Star Trek because it’s their property and they can

2024-06-26 09:45:52

Thinking about things this morning I realised that I’m not actually scared of what Tories or Labour might do down the rabbit hole that Gender Criticals dug for them (except to the extent that operating the levers of power when ignorant and inept can produce carnage all the same). No. My most powerful emotion is utter sadness at how politics and what passes for political discourse has slithered down to this level of crassness. Don’t we all deserve better?

2024-06-25 18:58:15

I’ve been thinking back to the days when, as a consultant or as an activist, I was privy to things before they were announced. It never occurred to me to run off down the bookies or do whatever else might have enriched me with insider knowledge. And, for the people calling such a thing “a flutter”, it’s not a flutter. It’s cheating and planning to defraud the bookies. It’s grubby and even if you didn’t know it was illegal you’d know instinctively it was immoral.

2024-06-18 09:54:47

Erin Reed: In a major move, UN Women, the United Nations Entity tasked with women's equality and protection from violence, has called the gender critical movement an extremist "anti-rights" movement.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/un-women-calls-gender-criticals-an

2024-06-13 20:12:59

Can’t believe I’m back with the central heating on in the evenings this week. I tried holding out but just felt cold.

2024-06-11 07:59:45

Viral disinformation: How 51 million watched a viral video featuring a bogus doctors’ group pushed by Elon Musk, against trans care that is approved by the real professional association they pass themselves off as. And, yes, of course the Cass review is now part of the weapons arsenal.
The rank dishonesty of the movement targeting trans folk should be all you need to understand.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/bogus-doctors-group-pushed-by-elon

2024-06-08 06:45:44

A new poll in the US reveals that 77% believe their politicians use transgender issues as a distraction.
They’re treating YOU as fools.
They’re treating US as disposable pawns.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/norc-poll-77-say-elected-officials

2024-06-06 17:44:15

NASA sent a new space capsule into orbit, built by Boeing — like they’ve learned nothing. It’s had that many aborts some of the parts will soon age-out. It took off with known helium leaks and, now in orbit, it’s got some more. Honestly, what are they thinking?

2024-06-03 12:18:10

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Are those corridors for BIOLOGICAL WOMEN™️? Try to concentrate on the REAL problem sir !

2024-06-01 17:43:12

Six years ago I encountered this man, Bob Culbertson, playing his Chapman Stick on the pavement just outside Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco and bought some of his CDs to bring home. The style is quite mesmerising.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dYKB6Lag-wg&si=XCFbk_tc4PQ5hLaq

2024-06-01 09:52:17

I can’t help feeling that it would be incredibly ironic if Victoria Atkins’ outrageous step of outlawing the prescription and possession of a narrow range of GnRH agonists (so-called ‘puberty blockers’) led to desperate families either obtaining old-style anti-androgens with actual documented risks or — shock — going straight to the cross-sex hormones which blockers were supposed to buy time from. Literally ‘unintended consequences on steroids’. Welcome to prohibition.

2024-06-01 09:24:18

Two serious US commentators start out discussing Trump’s convictions and end up discussing the ways a reelected Trump would use his power to come after them and how they might end up fleeing to Oslo.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rest-is-politics/id1611374685?i=1000657315724

2024-05-30 13:14:07

Those of us with functioning memories will recall that this allegation was in wide circulation six years ago in 2018 but couldn’t be stood up because the owners of The Apprentice wouldn’t release the tapes. Now a former producer’s NDA has expired …
Trump Said N-word On Set of Apprentice, Says Former Producer
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/just-in-former-apprentice-producer-claims-trump-said-would-america-buy-a-n-winning-and-its-on-tape/

2024-05-30 07:56:30

This morning Britain is running on just 2.09 gigawatts of gas-fired electricity (6.9% of generation). We inch closer to the first time the country runs without fossil fuels for the first time. https://grid.iamkate.com
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/112/528/949/843/104/411/original/34769eb1590ffd2b.jpeg

2024-05-29 11:27:32

The speed of Starmer’s policy reversals is dizzying. Nothing changes the fact he lied though.

2024-05-27 09:41:04

If you’d like to watch a lot of Tories losing their seats here is the BBC’s election night coverage from 1997. It’s a good way of deciding how long you’d need to stay up to see the same this year, or whether your best bet is to go to bed and just get up early instead.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XoL_tT046tI&si=LYIpfeqsKuABCFBi

2024-05-26 10:51:19

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@npub1yyx…qa5g “But.. but.. Mum said to watch out for cages”!

2024-05-26 08:03:25

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 This could start a trend like the habit of sticking the ‘-gate’ suffix on everything. Child locks are for cupboards. 😂

2024-05-24 07:54:55

TOMORROW: It’s twenty years since Parliament overwhelmingly passed the Gender Recognition Act. That means it’s been law for longer than many young trans people have been alive. This is the foreword to Volume 2 of my book series about achieving that landmark, Pressing Matters.
NB. The reason Commons passage was the definitive vote stage was because the Bill had started life by being debated and voted by the Lords and then moving to the Commons.
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/112/494/976/144/729/852/original/3d00390c5098c2c5.jpeg

2024-05-13 19:14:10

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bxf-xpYKteo&si=CEyfK4oN68dQN54A

2024-05-13 16:32:22

If you were living through a societal collapse, remembering that such things play out over years until a sudden rush at the end, what would it look like day by day?
How does that differ from the world you’re experiencing?

2024-05-12 09:17:32

Computer Weekly: Government plans to scan bank accounts of disabled people will lead to another scandal.
https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Government-plans-to-scan-bank-accounts-of-disabled-people-will-lead-to-another-scandal

2024-05-11 18:21:13

Just a tip: If NHS England succeeds in shutting down alternative routes for trans people to buy cross sex hormones that are legal to buy over the counter in other countries then they will have completed a proof of concept of the means to shut down unofficial ways of buying oral contraceptives and morning after pills. They’ve already tested how to shut down a crucial one of its kind clinic by painting it as scary…

2024-05-10 11:38:26

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Is Starmer saving up enough whipable votes for a confidence vote?

2024-05-08 05:28:42

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 The progress we make will be in spite of governments rather than because of them.

2024-05-06 11:17:15

“Down with fascism, up with CEEFAX” 20,000 votes, beating “Britain First”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lRlKPtJkGPM&si=rci4bjpdrz_oYUnR

2024-05-05 17:45:39

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@npub1w30…dh68 This is the memoir containing a meeting with Kim Jong-Un that never happened, yes?

2024-04-30 10:25:43

In a landmark ruling, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that gender identity is a protected characteristic, and that Medicaid bans on treatments for gender dysphoria are unconstitutional.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/4th-circuit-gender-identity-is-a

2024-04-27 10:07:44

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 That makes a sizeable part of Kent into ‘badlands’ where middle class stockbroker ramblers had best not stomp about carelessly.

2024-04-18 09:36:43

An ordinary British woman is in jail for holding a placard informing British jurors that they don’t have to convict climate protestors if it goes against their morality. Meanwhile a former US president is repeatedly making statements on social media which can be interpreted as intimidating jurors, witnesses and court officers in his criminal trial whilst it is in progress. Go figure.

2024-04-09 09:36:14

European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68768598

2024-04-05 14:27:09

United Nations adopts historic, first ever, resolution on intersex rights
https://www.advocate.com/news/united-nations-intersex-rights-resolution

2024-04-04 07:14:46

Help protect trans people’s right to safety
This legal action fundraiser is still about £9,000 short of its £30,000 target.
https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/help-protect-trans-peoples-right-to-safety/
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/112/211/707/662/754/335/original/0dc52e29e394a224.jpeg

2024-04-01 21:23:25

Dominic Cummings took time out on Easter Sunday to rant that ‘trans does not exist’.
Incidentally, what ever happened to that low earth orbit satellite company he used our money to buy a stake in because his Brexit led to our departure from the EU’s proper GPS consortium?
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/01/dominic-cummings/

2024-03-31 10:38:40

My electricity tariff drops to 24.665 pence per kWh from tomorrow. That’s still about 50% higher than what I was paying before the whole industry price gouged us two years ago on the back of a broken gas-driven pricing mechanism, but it means at least that my motoring is back down to 5.7 pence per mile so long as I keep filling up at home.

2024-03-31 10:23:22

‘Libs of TikTok’ founder added to hate watchlist for anti-LGBTQ+ extremism.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/30/southern-poverty-law-center-chaya-raichik-libs-of-tiktok/

2024-03-20 17:04:59

Transgender patients facing a years-long wait for NHS gender care are being handed a "death sentence", says the mum of a trans woman who took her own life.
Data obtained by Newsnight and analysed by the BBC found it would take 10 years to clear the backlog of people waiting for first appointments in gender care.
https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68602939.amp

2024-03-17 15:48:29

Can I just say dear Mastodon that you’ve been an absolute delight today. You’re just the perfect mix of intellectual and funny. Don’t change.

2024-03-16 10:17:26

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@npub1r7e…mre3 This should be called a Buttdive.

2024-03-15 15:36:54

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@npub1r7e…mre3 This doesn’t feel like it adds up. It’s one thing to say that a seat pushed you into the controls (presumably initiating an immediate dive) but that doesn’t accord with the previous report of all the screens going blank and the controls unresponsive (although if one pilot is crushed into their yoke then the computers would average out an opposite input from the other pilot attempting to pull the stick back.

2024-03-15 14:59:23

Statement from Dr Helen Webberley regarding the regressive policy which the NHS in England is introducing in the face of opposition by global trans healthcare experts…
https://www.gendergp.com/message-dr-webberley-wpath/

2024-03-14 15:13:39

I’m intrigued that Gove needed to explain today that his extremism diktat doesn’t apply to gender critical groups (many of whose members signed a declaration which amounts to a call for the elimination of people like me). What that tells us is that GC beliefs are feared to be so close to being caught by the definition of extremist that it has to be spelled out that they’re officially not thought to be. It’s like being rude, not racist apparently. Eliminating trans people is just rude I guess.

2024-03-13 12:33:38

How much do you need to donate to the Conservative Party to get away with being racist to Rishi Sunak? I ask as a tariff structure seems to have emerged.

2024-03-09 12:18:53

The UK is the second most miserable place in the world - with one central Asian country... - LBC
Well,, I guess that’s official then.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk-second-most-miserable-country-in-the-world/

2024-03-09 09:07:10

Dozens of anti-LGBTQ bills die in Florida…
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-tide-is-turning-dozens-of-anti

2024-03-04 15:50:28

You know that 14th Amendment? Meaningless.
I just hope the right wingers in a job for life realise that Trump will have no need for their Supreme Court when he’s installed as King.

2024-03-04 14:05:33

The Tories have polled their lowest ever support.
Could it be that, the longer they cling on, the more everyone resents them doing so and depriving the country of the opportunity to make another start?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/rishi-sunak-labour-conservative-support-liz-truss-b2506525.html

2024-03-01 12:11:58

Instead of getting bogged down in the proposition of whether delinquent former presidents have immunity from prosecution it strikes me that the United States really needs to tackle whether Supreme Court judges have immunity.

2024-02-29 19:32:21

India’s first equal opportunities policy for transgender people…
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/112/016/428/542/379/096/original/e252b4adf13a35ff.jpeg

2024-02-22 21:09:10

John Lewis axes LGBTQ+ exhibition after anti-trans backlash to feature in staff magazine.
How can organisations claim to have inclusive values when they’ve lost their backbone and cave to intolerance?
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/21/john-lewis-exhibition-lgbtq-cancelled-trans/

2024-02-21 15:43:01

Nex Benedict —a nonbinary, Native American, 16-year-old— was reportedly beaten to death by three older female students in the bathroom of an Oklahoma high school. The school refused to call an ambulance for the injured teen and didn’t inform police of the attack until Benedict was later admitted into the hospital — they died from their injuries the next day
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/02/teen-beaten-to-death-in-a-school-bathroom-bullying-attack-the-school-didnt-call-an-ambulance/

2024-02-17 11:27:36

The story about Wellingborough isn’t about the locals turning to Labour (they didn’t); it’s about Tory voters choosing to stay at home or, in some cases, vote for the harder right Reform party.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CW2YbeZbZqs&si=kWbOYnu5bxZyf8RK

2024-02-16 13:56:35

They say a picture beats a thousand words. Don’t let your professed desire to be an ally be the empty kind. Trans people have people in real power, people with big platforms, and people with malicious intent ranged against us for various kinds of personal gain. You can’t fight that off without breaking sweat. Don’t be a well-meaning bystander.
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/111/941/467/571/880/285/original/32ef2c3e16053e8f.jpeg

2024-02-16 13:32:59

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 The opportunity lies in ditching the overused and now meaningless empty promises to ‘stop migrants’ or ‘cut taxes’ or ‘be cruel to minorities’ and offering instead a genuine message of hope to actually deal with the real problems that people face just surviving in a washed up ‘has been’ economy. A party that delivered on realistic promises to end the drama and work collectively on solving problems, rather than manufacturing catchphrases, would be a breath of fresh air and renewal.

2024-02-16 09:44:54

Maryland could become the next state to pass a transgender sanctuary law.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/maryland-could-become-next-state

2024-02-11 16:34:35

This interview with April Ashley on Thames TV serves as a reminder of how long cisgender people have been obsessively asking questions whilst treating us down the ages like some new novelty. 40-50 years later we’re still the new and concerning phenomenon.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5CY2pHMA_cQ&si=EH2M8rZ8Wgtum5fm

2024-02-09 15:14:02

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@npub1r7e…mre3 Still time left for the Conservatives to blame Esther Ghey for having a trans child. DARVO isn’t quite done.

2024-02-08 14:49:37

Just had a radio station ring me up (no names, no pack drill) asking if I’d like to go on this afternoon to talk about Rishi Sunak. “Oh God no”, said I, “Excuse me as I put my running shoes on”. She got the point and rang off. And that, my darlings, is how you manage stressors. It’s all a game to the media but YOU don’t have to play.

2024-02-04 09:32:10

Debunked: Misleading NYT Anti-Trans Article By Pamela Paul Relies On Pseudoscience
“The opinion piece by Pamela Paul relies on routinely debunked disinformation and gets factual information wrong about transgender care. It is the latest NYT published piece to do so.”
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/debunked-misleading-nyt-anti-trans

2024-02-03 17:56:17

Owen Jones with Jess O’Thompson: We have to talk about transphobia.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xke176ZHW-s&si=oT2lT_8ksRtVVy49

2024-01-29 18:54:09

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@npub1vzt…dqaf @npub1g0t…tvm4 In Manchester we have actual cargo bikes for hire on street corners. The bikes, painted bright yellow, are unlocked for hire with an app and the bin portion includes kiddie seats. I often pass them with two or three children seated whilst Mum pedals them to the local shops.

2024-01-26 22:10:35

The TRON Suite by Wendy Carlos. Everyone knows Switched on Bach and the Clockwork Orange arrangements but this is less well known. For once it’s worth visiting the comments to read fans appreciating her work. The description also credits her with the invention of ‘tape baking’ to rescue deteriorating magnetic tapes.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=P5RcNuQXuR4&si=VgKViUcOUxAEG30D

2024-01-24 12:13:32

Nancy Kelley (former Stonewall CEO) tackles the claim that “lesbians are disappearing”
“Over recent years it has become increasingly common for trans-hostile commentators, journalists, lobbyists and even politicians to voice their “concerns” that the lesbian community in the UK is disappearing, or somehow being erased by a growing trans community.”
TL;DR No of course we’re not disappearing!
https://diva-magazine.com/2024/01/24/are-lesbians-really-disappearing/amp/

2024-01-22 09:03:30

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 We had a high marginal tax band in the sixties under Harold Wilson’s government and, though there was grumbling, there wasn’t a mass exodus. Britain hadn’t gone crackers over facilitating the non-dom class back then either so, to begin with, London wasn’t packed out with the obscene rich.

2024-01-21 11:17:27

Tensegrity is one of those physical demonstrations designed to confound people who think everything should conform to common sense or gut feel. A tensegrity table stays up because it conforms to mechanical and physical principles, regardless of anyone’s gut feel.
https://youtube.com/shorts/FGZdE61GKAE?si=ktbUGMuW-4hbiPmF

2024-01-21 10:41:01

This week marks six years since my book Trans Britain was first published and I’m pleased to say it’s still going strong. Many thousands of people have valued the book for its style of telling the true history of trans people in Britain, over the generations before we became a political punchbag. If you want to get past the lies and deceptions told about us then this is the first place to go. Make sure you read it and help spread the word as we begin year seven of explaining the truth.
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/111/793/490/869/292/330/original/5ece9f2ee3878327.jpeg

2024-01-19 13:36:27

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@npub1r7e…mre3 Normal people have to drop their phone overboard in the sea (and STILL a backup exists)

2024-01-17 13:37:00

Some of Trump’s cult want folks to believe that Trump is the Second Coming — a Messiah sent because … duh… The Lincoln Project took that unhinged idea and hit it back out of the park.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xOi2cYz5nXE&si=FA9e4KgJmZi6gzfu

2024-01-12 09:20:00

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@npub1yyx…qa5g I can’t help wondering how much has to do with the fact that borrowed money costs money these days. That’s a bit of a shock for businesses founded in an era where borrowing was virtually free.

2024-01-11 17:30:30

This speech to the International Court of Justice will be played a lot over the years ahead.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yhsWyBWGoCU&si=6Jb97A6f2R6y9oOQ

2024-01-03 09:46:06

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 I can’t help feeling that the overbearing instincts of the footsoldiers has a lot in common with what played out in CSCI. They don’t have uniforms in inspectorates but the powers attract a certain type.

2024-01-02 11:14:59

Two days since the year transitioned and I’m managing to respect the date’s new form of address. There will be unintended slip ups I’m sure — fewer these days as I don’t write cheques or letters — but if I do slip then I’ll just apologise, correct myself, and we’ll all get along without drama. Already I can’t see the year as anything other than 2024.

2024-01-01 18:21:48

How the media promotes transphobia
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oAMM3l156Oo&si=uMbQJ2tSYCDxLoZe

2023-12-24 11:34:24

Tonight we’ll be just one week from the end of 2023 and so I’m pretty sure the electricity system will be ending it with a total demand of 250TWh. That’s Terawatt hours — a thousand Gigawatt hours or a millions Megawatt hours, however you prefer. That continues the down trend from the days when we used 318TWh, as recently as 2012 and in spite of having 940,000 electric vehicles which were (checks notes) supposed to melt the system down. Coal is 1% and gas is down markedly already.
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/111/635/132/466/791/212/original/82f2249733bb4f81.jpeg

2023-12-22 12:33:08

Fifteen brands that went ‘woke’ in 2023. But did any go broke?
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/12/20/15-brands-that-went-woke-in-2023-but-did-any-actually-go-broke/#page/3

2023-12-19 11:01:28

The Brianna Ghey murder trial has become a full-on circular firing squad. I guess that’s what you get when each of the only two possible defendants blames the other. You have the prosecution case and then two defence barristers also doing prosecution of the other defendant.

2023-12-15 15:26:49

So I’ve added another week without plugging my EV in to charge. That makes seven weeks in all. As I’m still on 39% (after starting with 80% on 27th Oct) I’m in no hurry to grab the plug. I have a longish errand next week so I may plug in after that.

2023-11-12 09:52:13

If you’ve never seen a purpose built dedicated EV charging hub before here is the original one in Britain. I visited this back in March and I must say it’s a very agreeable place to be. I spoke to someone from GridServe at the Norwich one and he rattled off their plans for building more, although I chided him because most of them seem to be in the south. That said, I also visited the Rugby Moto hub recently and they’re expanding
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tqFx5OLDYvk&si=HAZCWAEqBBq1_pQy

2023-10-29 18:54:18

If you don’t believe the climate scientists then maybe listen to the actuarial risk managers in business…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=X-FJvzgrM00&si=8jSrU_j4gCHBZJc_

2023-10-10 13:39:29

Just spotted that Queer Lit, Manchester’s lovely Indy bookshop has moved into exciting new premises with 50% more shelf space at 27 Great Ancoats Street (next to the old Express building). This is more than ‘just’ a bookshop now. It’s a bar/coffee shop, community culture hub, and safe place that will soon be bustling with book readings and other meeting events.
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/111/210/973/468/190/812/original/09893ae586691635.jpeg