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This is big news. Ending the puberty-blocker ban in New Zealand is massive. It puts Cass & the entirety of Labour’s flagship anti-trans policies in doubt. Yet no mainstream media platform has even mentioned it. Indeed most alternative media, like @bylinetimes.bsky.social have failed to mention it.

I think one of the more important skills you can have in 2026 is knowing when someone is performatively using progressive coded language to argue for something that is fundementally not progressive because they can claim a perceived moral high ground.

hello @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social I was just wanting to congratulate you on the deployment of the Bin Guardians. this is an excellent move. please continue in this direction.

💛💜 Today is Intersex Awareness Day. Most of us grew up learning that everyone is born either male or female, but human biology is a little more complicated than that, and that biological sex isn't always as straightforward as the boxes we're asked to tick.

Much like Sir Gawain searching for the Green Chapel, Jack has adventured through the nightmarish AI forests to bring you some very lovely demos. An act of true heroism and bravery if there ever was one.

Currently wondering what message the UK govt thought it was sending by dressing up the Minister for Net Zero in a literal Shell logo.

Our 2026 Radical Book Fair programme is LIVE and fizzing with the energy of this year's theme: Building a Better Now! The fair will be made up of book stalls, activist stalls, events, workshops and more! Assembly Roxy, 5-8th November lighthousebookshop.com/events/edinb...

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RECLAIM THE NIGHT, RECLAIM OUR SERVICES SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, EDINBURGH MON 26TH OCTOBER, 5PM CALLED BY SISTERS AGAINST CUTS. SUPPORTED BY AMNESTY UK FEMINISTS, THE STUC, THE YOUNG WOMEN'S MOVEMENT AND WOMEN AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT.

A reminder: Jason Arday was innocent. "A fresh investigation by scientific publisher Taylor & Francis has concluded without substantiating plagiarism allegations against Jason Arday, the former Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge."

oh hey that game I recently wrote about it is on sale! and it’s also on sale on switch, I think! play the house in Fata Morgana

Went to The Basement on Broughton Street for birthday lunch stuff yesterday (it ruled) then today got an email which read like it was from the exit survey of a very insecure kidnapper.

This is Dublin Rape Crisis Centre's donations page. Now would be a really good time to show your support for all their work - including education on consent. www.drcc.ie/donate/

This article on The House in Fata Morgana is a front for an existential crisis over a defunct history park, which in itself is a front for an article on how incredible The House in Fata Morgana is. Thank you so much to @mothership.blog for letting me write this! It was a really great experience.

I think we can all agree it would be good and healthy if our estranged parents took the time to really reflect, to do some real therapy and really OH GOD NOT LIKE THAT

As far as I can tell, literally every article on this quotes the same "expert" — a former estranged father who has an entire blog dedicated to absolving parents of any responsibility. He also sells $995 "consultations" where he will blame your kids for cutting you off.

I really wished for not this actually, I dont think the s.a. victim whose bodily autonomy was stripped should be used like a slasher franchise villain and controlled by players, but then again thats all of fortnite, meaningless signs with nothing signified. Pure decontextualisation slop.

It is Day 16 of the UCU workers' strike against senior management at Edinburgh University over 1000s of job cuts, worsening conditions & the inevitable fall in educational standards. All this while senior management enjoy record pay increases. While the Principal fiddles, the university burns ...

At Portobello 'Joy for All' with @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social We are here today until 3pm, please pop in to Portobello Town Hall and say hello.

The Committee for Academic Freedom has launched an investigation into Professor Arday’s hiring, and appointed Steven Pinker - listed as a referee on the CV of Arday’s accuser - to the panel. Because Cambridge should not have the freedom to decide its own appointments?

A Vancouver woman has detailed allegations of sexual assault against Geordie Greep. She and Greep's former keyboardist spoke to Paste about what happened on October 8. READ: www.pastemagazine.com/music/geordi...

Guess how many complaints have ever been made about it. Nice round figure.

Join Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh at the Equality Network Event Joy for All. Saturday 17th Oct, 11am-3pm Portobello Town Hall EH15 1AF

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Actual Cancel Culture of a significant cultural figure [unlike where far right extremists engage in hate speech & are held accountable]. It’s extremism like this, & the disinterest of the current UK Labour govt in stopping the shift to the far right, that’s deeply worrying.

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

new rule: if a university denied someone tenure, or let them go because it canceled their classes, or has shut down the department or program they used to teach in, that university's PR department forfeits the right to put out a celebratory statement when that person wins a Nobel

Spotify asking me to record an Artist Message for Spotify Wrapped and I cannot begin to tell you how much I would rather die.

Day 12 of the workers' strike against worsening staff conditions at the University of Edinburgh, with the resulting deterioration of educational conditions for students. On the picket lines, staff & students share spaces, determined to resist this decline ... (1) Teach-out poetry ...

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Do you want good tortoise news? I thought so. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On 7 October, a video shared by Stand Up to Racism Scotland, with the caption This is what happens when you keep telling racists that they have "legitimate concerns"... appeared to show a group of black-clad men ‘patrolling’ the streets of Glasgow while making racist threats.