I was off work for 7 weeks recently, because The Departmental Bully turned his attentions to me. I am in.fucking.awe of the colleague who reported him for same, because her bravery means that I was believed immediately and I now don't have to work with him (and not because I've been moved sideways)
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I was off work for 7 weeks recently, because The Departmental Bully turned his attentions to me. I am in.fucking.awe of the colleague who reported him for same, because her bravery means that I was believed immediately and I now don't have to work with him (and not because I've been moved sideways)
Not quoting because too many characters, but the "significant number" of people who were not granted asylum and whose accommodation is being funded: how many people is this, actually, and why is it so hard to find out?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Not quoting because too many characters, but the "significant number" of people who were not granted asylum and whose accommodation is being funded: how many people is this, actually, and why is it so hard to find out?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Ah, it's time for my annual refusal to take part in the village Remembrance parade. Great stuff.
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Ah, it's time for my annual refusal to take part in the village Remembrance parade. Great stuff.
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Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?
I had a really great work-related experience yesterday. It may come to naught; but even if it does, I felt really appreciated and recognised for what I do and what I have the potential to do in the future. So that's nice.
September 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I had a really great work-related experience yesterday. It may come to naught; but even if it does, I felt really appreciated and recognised for what I do and what I have the potential to do in the future. So that's nice.
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Exclusive: Marks & Spencer confirms to QueerAF that bra fitting has not been limited to cisgender women only, despite claims in the Scottish Sun that the brand said it would only provide them to 'biological women'.
Marks & Spencer has not banned Trans people from bra fittings
Exclusive: Marks & Spencer confirms to QueerAF that bra fitting has not been limited to cisgender women only, despite claims in the Scottish Sun that the brand said it would only provide them to 'biological women'.
www.wearequeeraf.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Exclusive: Marks & Spencer confirms to QueerAF that bra fitting has not been limited to cisgender women only, despite claims in the Scottish Sun that the brand said it would only provide them to 'biological women'.
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Great historical bilingual pun. Last week I learned that the French left wing would caustically refer to the appeasement-pushing British PM as “Monsieur J’Aime Berlin”. I mean, that’s classy.
FACT OF THE DAY. 3 September 1939. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced on BBC radio at 11:15 AM that Germany had not responded to the British ultimatum to remove its troops from Poland and so “this country is at war with Germany”.
September 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Great historical bilingual pun. Last week I learned that the French left wing would caustically refer to the appeasement-pushing British PM as “Monsieur J’Aime Berlin”. I mean, that’s classy.
Fa la la la la, just joined the Greens.
September 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Fa la la la la, just joined the Greens.
Bad thing: MOAR TERRIBLE EMAILS from dreadful not!boss, who claims I have ideas above my station
Good thing: formidable women telling me exactly how great I am
Great thing: invitation to do a guest lecture next semester whoop whoop (bet he'd think that was above my station, too...)
Good thing: formidable women telling me exactly how great I am
Great thing: invitation to do a guest lecture next semester whoop whoop (bet he'd think that was above my station, too...)
September 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Bad thing: MOAR TERRIBLE EMAILS from dreadful not!boss, who claims I have ideas above my station
Good thing: formidable women telling me exactly how great I am
Great thing: invitation to do a guest lecture next semester whoop whoop (bet he'd think that was above my station, too...)
Good thing: formidable women telling me exactly how great I am
Great thing: invitation to do a guest lecture next semester whoop whoop (bet he'd think that was above my station, too...)
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An absolute masterclass from UK Quakers on how organisations of all kinds can stand up for the rights and safety of trans people, even post Supreme Court ruling and with all of the EHRC's cruelties:
www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
www.quaker.org.uk
August 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
An absolute masterclass from UK Quakers on how organisations of all kinds can stand up for the rights and safety of trans people, even post Supreme Court ruling and with all of the EHRC's cruelties:
www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...
In the last week, we've started a homemade cake swap with my stepkids' dad whereby we use the (adult) kids as cake mules when they go to and from his house for dinner. This is the sort of queer familying that makes my heart sing.
August 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In the last week, we've started a homemade cake swap with my stepkids' dad whereby we use the (adult) kids as cake mules when they go to and from his house for dinner. This is the sort of queer familying that makes my heart sing.
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Really sucks that the term "AI" gets used for both genAI hyped by tech bros and rigorous ML tools made by researchers & used in applied epi, healthcare, weather modelling etc. that can actually save lives
August 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Really sucks that the term "AI" gets used for both genAI hyped by tech bros and rigorous ML tools made by researchers & used in applied epi, healthcare, weather modelling etc. that can actually save lives
This bank holiday weekend, I discovered that there's a whole group of people who are extremely keen to defend cis men's rights to be naked in public in a way that makes me super uncomfortable to witness when I have a 10yo in tow.
August 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This bank holiday weekend, I discovered that there's a whole group of people who are extremely keen to defend cis men's rights to be naked in public in a way that makes me super uncomfortable to witness when I have a 10yo in tow.
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Makes me think of some birdwatching advice I once got: If it's a bird? It's a crow. If it's a beak with a bird attached? It's a raven.
July 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Makes me think of some birdwatching advice I once got: If it's a bird? It's a crow. If it's a beak with a bird attached? It's a raven.
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The arrogance of saying "Labour needs to actively cause harm to marginalised communities because that's what ordinary people want" is astounding. They don't. When you look at their policies in context, they chose to push them. It is not "aloof" to call out bullshit.
July 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The arrogance of saying "Labour needs to actively cause harm to marginalised communities because that's what ordinary people want" is astounding. They don't. When you look at their policies in context, they chose to push them. It is not "aloof" to call out bullshit.
They've finally demolished OP! I'm actually really sad that they didn't swing an actual wrecking ball through it.
www.youtube.com/shorts/aiVk-...
www.youtube.com/shorts/aiVk-...
Goodbye, Owens Park Tower! 💜
YouTube video by The University of Manchester
www.youtube.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
They've finally demolished OP! I'm actually really sad that they didn't swing an actual wrecking ball through it.
www.youtube.com/shorts/aiVk-...
www.youtube.com/shorts/aiVk-...
I note @jon4highpeak.bsky.social isn't one of them. Why not, Jon?
108 Labour MPs have signed the reasoned amendment, including key figures like Meg Hillier (Treasury select committee chair), Debbie Abrahams (Work and Pensions select committee chair), and former transport secretary Louise Haigh. This is over a quarter of Labour's MPs. So far.
June 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I note @jon4highpeak.bsky.social isn't one of them. Why not, Jon?
I am no longer of the lab, but most of what I have done over the last two days is procure ice cubes for 100 people.
During heatwaves it’s important to get creative to keep cool in the lab
June 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I am no longer of the lab, but most of what I have done over the last two days is procure ice cubes for 100 people.
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I’ve been making my way through the Welfare Reform Bill and this paragraph on the gov.uk website is genuinely disgusting.
Receiving a decent disability benefits rate “encourages sickness”, does it? Funny, I thought it just enabled severely ill and disabled people to eat.
Receiving a decent disability benefits rate “encourages sickness”, does it? Funny, I thought it just enabled severely ill and disabled people to eat.
June 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I’ve been making my way through the Welfare Reform Bill and this paragraph on the gov.uk website is genuinely disgusting.
Receiving a decent disability benefits rate “encourages sickness”, does it? Funny, I thought it just enabled severely ill and disabled people to eat.
Receiving a decent disability benefits rate “encourages sickness”, does it? Funny, I thought it just enabled severely ill and disabled people to eat.
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No one is happy with Labour.
A u-turn on #DisabilityBenefits cuts is a first step to regaining a party people can vote FOR not just use as a vote against the Tories.
Show us vision, Labour. A country where we support each other, not abandon our most vulnerable.
#TakingThePIP
A u-turn on #DisabilityBenefits cuts is a first step to regaining a party people can vote FOR not just use as a vote against the Tories.
Show us vision, Labour. A country where we support each other, not abandon our most vulnerable.
#TakingThePIP
June 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
No one is happy with Labour.
A u-turn on #DisabilityBenefits cuts is a first step to regaining a party people can vote FOR not just use as a vote against the Tories.
Show us vision, Labour. A country where we support each other, not abandon our most vulnerable.
#TakingThePIP
A u-turn on #DisabilityBenefits cuts is a first step to regaining a party people can vote FOR not just use as a vote against the Tories.
Show us vision, Labour. A country where we support each other, not abandon our most vulnerable.
#TakingThePIP
*applause*
🧵 NEW: APPG on Poverty and Inequality's response to the Pathways to Work Green Paper reveals SHOCKING evidence - disabled households face £1,067 extra costs monthly (67% of income) yet government plans devastating cuts that will push 400,000 into poverty. Thread👇#TakingThePIP
June 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
*applause*
Unusual levels of frankness from Royal Mail, here.
June 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Unusual levels of frankness from Royal Mail, here.
For today’s office trip, I combine my collection of staying-dry-while-camping kit with my “sick” powerchair. It’s possible I’ve peaked. (Direct quote from passing morning-after-the-night-before youth, there.)
May 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
For today’s office trip, I combine my collection of staying-dry-while-camping kit with my “sick” powerchair. It’s possible I’ve peaked. (Direct quote from passing morning-after-the-night-before youth, there.)
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look i'm not saying they're perfect but as a general rule of thumb, if you find yourself asking "am i or the Quakers going to be on the right side of history on this issue", you may have fucked up
The Telegraph going after the Quakers because the Quakers won't be assholes to trans people.
That opening paragraph by Daniel Martin is lol. It's Helen Joyce doing the accusing.
That opening paragraph by Daniel Martin is lol. It's Helen Joyce doing the accusing.
May 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
look i'm not saying they're perfect but as a general rule of thumb, if you find yourself asking "am i or the Quakers going to be on the right side of history on this issue", you may have fucked up