Linda Henderson

Wonder why lgbt people might be interested in whether other countries are electing pieces of shit? Oh yeah here’s an example of why: www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/18/j...

Like, Trump already has us on the brink of a for-real World War for no sane reason, just because he likes throwing his weight around and it didn’t occur to him that Iranians shoot back. The energy policy of the far right is going to destroy the lives of tens, hundreds of millions of people.

I think this becomes quite understandable in the context of an international fascist movement that has swept much of the planet in a decade, with horrifying and very extreme consequences for the entire species

I had a canvas picture fall on me yesterday. Got a bit of lingering pain in my hand last night, but thought I'd survived relatively unscathed. Today my shoulder is hurting and I feel like I've been kicked in the ribs by a horse with muscle spasms all over the place. I fucking hate fibromyalgia.

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

one of the greatest examples of journalism in the UK for the last 30 years was Brian Deers work exposing Wakefield's abuse of autistic children re vaccines. and it wouldn't exist if he were just a "neutral observer doing objective journalism". No. He gave a shit about the kids! that's all it took!

The thing with bounces, they tend not to stay up. Especially if the words and promises that caused them turn out to be empty.

What's that you say? A UK study aimed at proving that ADHD and autism are over-diagnosed actually found that we are still under-diagnosing both, and lack access to assessments remains a huge barrier to support? What a shocking and unexpected conclusion! www.politicsuk.com/p/fonagy-rev...

Voyager is my favourite Star Trek TV theme. I think the Wrath of Kahn just edges it out of the overall number one slot despite Horner recycling a lot of it elsewhere.

Another one here where the British press just smashed fuck out of a member of the public’s life for no good reason, just because they wanted to and nobody will stop them doing at. And they’re still going, even now.

This won’t be reported widely, but Jason Arday has been cleared of plagiarism for a second time. Still nobody has been held accountable for this man’s death.

He's going for eugenics. He means "sick" people have no goals and no worth to society and are only concerned with their own immediate needs. As a chronically and currently incurably ill person I can categorically state a cure is not my only dream. It isn't even top of my long list of hopes.

Like, are we serious? A figurine? That would have to be approved by WB, and go through extensive design work and production tooling? This thing was probably in the works before the trend even became a thing.

this is only further convincing me this "trend" was astroturfed by WB

Finally people have managed to combine their passions of rampant pedophila and raging transphobia into a singular point of soulless capitalism. Every single peron involved in this should [ ]

The government strips away more support every year until our lives become unbearable and the only assistance they're interested in introducing is euthanasia. They get their think tanks and pet journalists to write ever more obvious hit pieces. 8/

They cast disabled people as either so pitiable death was a kindness, or as villainous, worthless 'useless eaters' paid for by good, hardworking families. A campaign so successful that, when disabled people were killed, nobody really raised a fuss. 3/

Imagine if a prominent trans person posted this? The ‘gender critical’ transphobes would be jumping up and down on Mumsnet, have a front page Times article saying how all “trans activists” (aka trans people) are violent, while running to the billionaire bigot to fund intimidatory legal action!

Rowling Watch: 0: number of times since 4/15 that Rowling has tweeted on X in support of women’s rights, to protest discrimination against women in the workplace, or to denounce the real-world threats to women’s safety 279: number of times she’s tweeted transphobic hate.

So JK doesn’t just have one yacht, she has a “support yacht” that follows her “normal” yacht around. And she has the gall to describe one of the most impoverished demographics wanting nothing more than to exist…?

The UK TERF movement essentially boils down to a bunch of entitled middle-aged Karen’s who were once criticised for some mild transphobia, and instead of apologising and moving on, they doubled-down, demanded to “speak to the manager”, and made their entire personality a bigot who won’t “weesht”! 🙄😖

Wait - has this whole period of Labour governance been a Channel 4 experiment?

It remains baffling to me that you could never get any of the 60s social psychology experiments past any ethics board of a modern university and yet channel 4 can run a way worse experiment with literally zero oversight or regulation anytime they want

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Miatta can clearly see right from wrong but she's rowed into line twice with a Labour government siding with Shell and Donald Trump on climate vandalism, and into line now on cruel immigration reforms. What is the point of Labour if they can't even do the basics to protect people and the planet?

The Women’s Rights Network are now attacking the mental health charity Mind for supporting trans people with their mental health during a time of unprecedented attacks on their rights. These are the “legitimate concerns” “worthy of respect in a democratic society” the Labour Party has normalised.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Sometimes it feels like the difference between Labour and Tories is that Labour take the time to lie to your face first before enacting harmful policies

I haven't read it, don't currently intend to, but my guess is it's bloated, morally questionable at best, repugnant at worst, superficial in concept, highly derivative, pseudointellectual verbose waffle that's in serious need of a stern editor. Much like her books.

Pay attention to the ableism being thrown around with respect to Christina Applegate finding out she doesn’t have MS. People acting like it’s a relief or a blessing. Like she’s “better off now”. She’s still sick. She’s just sick without answers. I guarantee it’s not a “relief” for her.

The problem is the Cass review was never a medical document, if it was the very obvious methodological flaws would have been dealt with before it was published. It’s a piece of propaganda to be waved around as evidence by people who’ve already decided they want to take away trans healthcare.

This is truly pathetic from Ministers. Labour’s claim to more than 27 new Jackdaw jobs doesn’t hold up. The green economy is >£100bn a year and growing fast. There is no future in fossil fuels. The Government knows this, but chooses profit for Shell over protecting our climate.

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.... Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Dr. Gustave Gilbert, U.S. Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Diary

Note that this decision was pushed back to make sure it happened after the Holborn & St Pancras by-election. They're literally mocking the public here. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Being trans, she was forced to wait for a single bed room and told that she could neither be placed in the men's or women's single sex wards, despite there being several beds available on both."

Won’t lower energy bills. Won’t boost energy security And creates just 27 jobs. Compared to all the benefits of investing in renewables and insulating our homes. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/zac...

'We're resolute about the need to drive climate action. But that has to be part of a transition'. Opening new gas fields as part of a transition to net zero makes about as much sense as restocking your drinks cabinet as part of a transition to sobriety.

21st October 1966, 9.13am. The clock stopped permanently, just like the 144 lives - including 116 children - extinguished. All due to the greed, callous indifference and negligence that ignored warnings and let the disaster happen. Not a single person was ever prosecuted. Cofiwch Aberfan 💔

is the *Labour* party really going to let its Home Secretary argue for semi-permanent indentured servitude?

Desperate stuff Home Secretary originally argued (very misleadingly) care workers shouldn't be allowed to settle because their wages were so low that they'd be a fiscal cost. Now she's arguing they shouldn't be allowed to settle because they'd get better paid jobs www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This fucking framing of everything as a popularity contest between the people that propose x or y, with nothing including genocide or ecocide being an issue of substance, is the worst aspect of our media.

This is not about "climate campaigners" and framing it this way is totally ridiculous This is a blow to the planet and us all

andy burnham and @lucympowell.bsky.social are framing disability and mental health problems as a 'moral failure'. keir starmer said the exact same thing. these ppl are nazis. this is just nazi shit. im not being hyperbolic. calling disability a moral failing is nazism. this gov is dangerous.