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Watching Dispatches from Elsewhere
It was so good to see a show with a trans person shown as someone who gets to be loved in any way other than as a sex object.
Then they had the mandatory "Trans woman gets jumped walking home at night" scene, so a Content Warning for that.
December 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Did the GCs spam report @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social ??
Says they're suspended.
Bluesky
seenpoliceuk.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Arrghh need to learn my lesson and not buy anything in Black Friday sales - up to £300 of stuff nicked by delivery drivers reporting things as delivered, and companies not believing me.
December 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
BBC:
Well ya see, the flu numbers are up 50% because flu season started early!

So uhhh not because the NHS decided to cancel flu vaccinations for at risk people?
Hospitals facing unprecedented flu season, say NHS bosses
Record number of patients in hospital in England with flu for this time of year, figures show.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Just in case people think it stops at trans people - a friend and her partner (another woman) have just been suspended from their jobs and under investigation for holding hands in public.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hour in to trying .Net 10 and Visual Studio 2026 and I already want to throw very heavy things at Microsoft.
From menus vanishing, to git integration missing basic functionality, to packages trying to build in a different version of .Net to the one selected, it's a mess.
But have to use it for work.
two men are standing next to each other and one of them says there 's too many garbage files i need more time .
Alt: angelina jolie is hacking a computer and says there's too many garbage files i need more time .
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I know I'm late to this party, but wtf?
This appears to be EHRC lying as the committee didn't say it wasn't warranted as the committee hasn't considered it yet.
Falkner also does the old "not our fault the law is transphobic lolololol" and "FEMALE & transphobe rights > trans soz".
Special review of the EHRC’s accreditation not warranted | EHRC
The Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions’ Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) has confirmed that a special review of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s accreditation is not warranted.
www.equalityhumanrights.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
BBC is bragging about personally attacking asylum seekers going to hospital.
Good job BBC.
Really showing that lack of bias 🙄

Let's be clear:
We do not let them earn money.
We demonise them.
They are kept slightly better than prisoners.
The least we can do is make sure they don't die.
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Labour today:
But if employees have rights, then employers won't ~take a risk~ on them!
And then there won't be any jobs!

Excuse you, Labour?
You expect us to believe all employers will stop having new employees?

Weird how they can break this pledge, but can't "break" one to tax the rich.
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Lul.
Had a £multimillionaire in my mentions explaining about how terrible it is to live in a £multimillion flat, and how they definitely can't afford to pay their taxes.
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The UK could switch to renewables for the price of two nuclear reactors.
Everyone's energy bill could drop to standing charge only, to cover grid costs & maintenance.
If we pushed further, we could export that energy to pay for that too.
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Listening to the budget.
The rhetoric is transparent lies.
She's not doing austerity, while explaining she's cut so much, the debt is reducing faster than expected.
That she's helping workers and "mom 'n' pop" businesses, while explaining she's handing out enormous tax breaks to big businesses.
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
BBC on cost of living crisis:
We spoke to a couple feeling the pinch with a combined income of £67,000...

*Average* combined income is £35,000.
People with £5,500 a month are not at the pointy end of inflation.

Utterly out of touch to present them as a family in food poverty.
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Starmer can get absolutely f**ked.
PMQs right now:
"We should do everything we can to prevent suicides"
Coming from someone who has worked hard to increase trans suicides, especially kids.
And he says this on TDoR.
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Headline today: Labour is removing human rights from asylum seekers - right to family life.
This should be enough for anyone who isn't already convinced this "Labour" government is evil.
Even the Tories knew this was a red line.
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Minister trying to bs his way through making the OSA even more draconian.
Keeps saying "don't worry about free speech, suppression of trans resources, etc. because nothing will become illegal unless it puts children at risk!"
In the same breath as explaining anything on the internet is fair game.
The BBC is under attack - should the left care?
YouTube video by Pod Save the UK
m.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Tim Davie, the Tory plant, given the shove for
*checks notes*
not being right wing enough.
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign - live updates
It comes after a leaked memo criticised the editing of a documentary about Donald Trump and accused the BBC of bias in a number of areas.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Labour: *Points at Reform* don't vote for racists!

Also Labour: "she will model her new measures on the Danish system – seen as one of the toughest in Europe"

Touche Labour, I won't vote for racists. Weird of you to tell people not to vote for you, but 🤷🏼‍♀️
UK seeks inspiration from Denmark to shake up immigration system
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is taking cues from some of the toughest migration laws in Europe.
www.bbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
My D&D CV:
I hope to bring this chaos gremlin energy to your campaign 💜😈
"Clean It Up!" // LYRIC VIDEO from HAZBIN HOTEL - IT'S A DEAL // S2: Episode 4
YouTube video by BULBA
m.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
While I love that Lit RPG* is such a saturated genre that there are multiple series about being reincarnated as a slime, and "Deck Based" is an entire sub genre.

I hate that I know more series about being reincarnated as a farmer, than as a woman.
October 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Weird how he's actively opposing private trans healthcare, despite these being the longest wait lists and this being the only realistic option for trans people because of him.
All while having de facto privatised 10% of all (other) healthcare.
Private hospitals carrying out more NHS appointments and procedures
Using spare capacity in the private sector is key to the government’s target of ensuring that 92 per cent of patients in England should wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment
www.independent.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
BBC keeping up with their top class investigative reporting, opening their headline scoop with:
"A BBC reporter obtained the book from a bookstore"
They bought a book and then read it.
This is not news, and not something to brag about.
Royals face further embarrassment as Virginia Giuffre’s memoir to go on sale
Publication comes in same week the King will be first British monarch to pray with the Pope since the Reformation.
www.dumbartonreporter.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Mae Martin's series Wayward hits hard.
Not sure it's subtle enough to call it an allegory for conversion therapy and having to live as a queer person surrounded by cis/het people and being edited out of everything.
October 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I despise how so many shows are purpose built for a second season, rather than telling a complete story.
Especially when they know a decision won't be made until after it airs, so season 2 won't come for 3 years 🙄

Anyway, I'm enjoying foreign language TV that doesn't do that.
October 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Nothing says "we're a lefty party!" like threatening to cut funding and shut down universities for not banning anti-genocide protests.
This is the "free speech watchdog" who fined Sussex university, Brighton, for not being transphobic enough and not stamping out trans people protesting harder.
Universities risk sanctions over Gaza protests, watchdog says
Arif Ahmed says freedom of speech does not mean the freedom to harass and discriminate Jewish students.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM