Will Bone
@williambone.bsky.social
Marches dwelling bisexual. Working in the UK EU TCA space. Love a Level Playing Field. Connections Next Gen Lead, ask me about professional wargaming. All views are my own. DV Survivor.
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Will Bone
@williambone.bsky.social
· Nov 20
"Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look. The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash" [Times]
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
To understand the desperation bleeding from these leaks you need to remember that the anti trans movement in the UK have a pre determined timeline, as they view it, for what will happen.
The SC judgement was a tactical victory for the anti trans movement in the UK. No point denying it 1/x
The SC judgement was a tactical victory for the anti trans movement in the UK. No point denying it 1/x
Now I've woken up a bit more and had more coffee: the Russian invaision of Ukraine was meant to demonstrate both Russias power and its new, modernised, post conscript Kontraktoi forces. Most of those are currently fertilising Ukrainian wheat fields, and now Russias back to the conscripts. 1/2
We really do need to underline this for people - because somehow the prevaling myth seems to be Russia is winning: the invasion of Ukraine has been the largest political, military and strategic blunder by a state since the Franco-Prussian war. Maybe greater
Russia has lost on every concievable axis
Russia has lost on every concievable axis
Not a single strategic goal has been met. Russia's losing a Vietnam's worth of soldiers every few months. The economy is sprinting toward stagnation, while Moscow is turning more and more every month into a Chinese vassal—all while the Kremlin's allies topple elsewhere.
Staggering historic failure.
Staggering historic failure.
February 17, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Now I've woken up a bit more and had more coffee: the Russian invaision of Ukraine was meant to demonstrate both Russias power and its new, modernised, post conscript Kontraktoi forces. Most of those are currently fertilising Ukrainian wheat fields, and now Russias back to the conscripts. 1/2
Another thing thats occurred to me: if the US military wants to keep distance from the Epstein Files maybe dont copy the city states where child rape was considered part of the bonding experience in the barracks.
It's actually amazing how Laconophilia has successfully laundered the reputation of a polity whose maximum size in population and territory was smaller than that of an average medieval kingdom with an infinitely smaller cultural output and far fewer military successes
And then Spartan Oliganthropia enters the chat
February 16, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Another thing thats occurred to me: if the US military wants to keep distance from the Epstein Files maybe dont copy the city states where child rape was considered part of the bonding experience in the barracks.
I think it depends where yoy look on that one: certainly Celtic Catholocism has elements of the old faith running through it both physically (certain trees must be in graveyards) and spiritually (survival of Green Man ceremonies). Im not that convinced by Wicca's claim of centuriew of secret worship
I don't think you can meaningfully reconstruct what has long gone away, I don't think it did "persist in syncretic forms" in the way that people insist, and perhaps most of all, I don't agree with the motivation, which I find a trojan horse for nationalism and, yes, antisemitism.
The point of my thread is not some sort of defence of the idea that you should be Christian, it is a rejection of the idea underpinning 102% of neopaganism in modern Europe.
February 16, 2026 at 9:31 AM
I think it depends where yoy look on that one: certainly Celtic Catholocism has elements of the old faith running through it both physically (certain trees must be in graveyards) and spiritually (survival of Green Man ceremonies). Im not that convinced by Wicca's claim of centuriew of secret worship
Reposted by Will Bone
This ruling is disappointing but one thing is clear: the EHRC’s draft code of practice got the law wrong and must be changed. Women's and men's toilets can be provided on a trans-inclusive basis for customers and service users. [1/3]
Today’s judgment makes one thing very clear: the reality of trans lives still goes ignored by the courts.
Read Jo Maugham’s response to the crisis of empathy that’s harming the UK’s trans community – and the law 👇
https://goodlaw.social/np26
Read Jo Maugham’s response to the crisis of empathy that’s harming the UK’s trans community – and the law 👇
https://goodlaw.social/np26
Trans lives are real and they matter. The courts must recognise that
The High Court’s decision is wrong and we will appeal it
goodlaw.social
February 13, 2026 at 6:12 PM
This ruling is disappointing but one thing is clear: the EHRC’s draft code of practice got the law wrong and must be changed. Women's and men's toilets can be provided on a trans-inclusive basis for customers and service users. [1/3]
Labour acting as though you're entitled to every left wing and centre left vote *despite repeatedly telling said voters to fuck off* obviously having no impact. No its clearly Polanskis fault for not rolling over when Labour asked him to. Should the Lib Dems also have withdrawn their candidate?
Yeah, about the whole progressive alliance, tactical vote thing we need to do to stop Reform...
This could be a challenge
This could be a challenge
Robert Peston, "Wouldn't you regret Reform UK coming through in Gorton and Denton if The Greens split the left vote?"
Zack Polanski, "We cannot say that Keir Starmer's Labour would be a left wing vote"
Zack Polanski, "We cannot say that Keir Starmer's Labour would be a left wing vote"
February 12, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Labour acting as though you're entitled to every left wing and centre left vote *despite repeatedly telling said voters to fuck off* obviously having no impact. No its clearly Polanskis fault for not rolling over when Labour asked him to. Should the Lib Dems also have withdrawn their candidate?
I mean why not also acknowledge that "free speech culture" seems to mean "I want to use slurs and get upset when people tell me to fuck off?"
Recently, @kenwhite.bsky.social wrote that “free speech culture” is being invoked as a rhetorical shield for the powerful and a pretext for state censorship.
I disagree. Hypocrisy and grifting don’t discredit the idea that underpins our strong legal protections for free speech.
I disagree. Hypocrisy and grifting don’t discredit the idea that underpins our strong legal protections for free speech.
February 11, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I mean why not also acknowledge that "free speech culture" seems to mean "I want to use slurs and get upset when people tell me to fuck off?"
Sue Gray also springs to mind
"History is women following behind with the bucket."
So Morgan McSweeney has been replaced by Jill Cuthbertson and Vidhya Alakeson. Antonia Romeo is about to take over from Chris Wormald. Steph Driver may return to fill Tim Allan's vacancy.
Sense that now there's a mess to mop up, get the women in
So Morgan McSweeney has been replaced by Jill Cuthbertson and Vidhya Alakeson. Antonia Romeo is about to take over from Chris Wormald. Steph Driver may return to fill Tim Allan's vacancy.
Sense that now there's a mess to mop up, get the women in
February 11, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Sue Gray also springs to mind
Jesus thats a mental image
Stasis: it was crystal clear after they got wiped out in Scotland over ten years ago that Vote For Us And Our Very Wealthy Donors, Or The Kitten Gets It was finished as a viable form of governance. Everything since has been shrieking and flailing, frantically trying to pretend it was still a goer.
Keir Starmer is the bandage Labour can’t rip off for fear of opening old wounds | Rafael Behr
The party’s MPs know their leader is failing but they are paralysed by fear of a contest with no obvious successor, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Jesus thats a mental image
Wales: Cymru
Ireland: Eire
Scotland: Alba
Ireland: Eire
Scotland: Alba
Many endonyms are way cooler than the English word:
Albania: Shqipëria.
Armenia: Hayastan.
Bhutan: Druk Yul.
Croatia: Hrvatska.
Egypt: Masr.
Estonia: Eesti.
Finland: Suomi.
Georgia: Sakartvelo.
Greece: Hellada.
Hungary: Magyarország.
India: Bharat.
Japan: Nihon.
Jordan: Al-Urdun.
Korea: Hanguk.
Albania: Shqipëria.
Armenia: Hayastan.
Bhutan: Druk Yul.
Croatia: Hrvatska.
Egypt: Masr.
Estonia: Eesti.
Finland: Suomi.
Georgia: Sakartvelo.
Greece: Hellada.
Hungary: Magyarország.
India: Bharat.
Japan: Nihon.
Jordan: Al-Urdun.
Korea: Hanguk.
February 11, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Wales: Cymru
Ireland: Eire
Scotland: Alba
Ireland: Eire
Scotland: Alba
*Looks shifty in British*
The aversion to learning different languages and proud willful ignorance for only knowing English is entirely unique to the US. Every time I travel most people I encounter can speak multiple languages. I don't get why the US is like this.
February 10, 2026 at 4:16 AM
*Looks shifty in British*
Its really kinda, bitterly, funny that Disneys first move having bought LucasArts was to ditch the rambling, somewhat contradictory and wildly inconsistent existing Star Wars canon (not including my beloved Wraith Squadren) to ending up in *exactly* the same place.
Is it because you watched it?
Here's why we have a bad feeling about The Mandalorian and Grogu Star Wars movie after that Super Bowl trailer: https://bit.ly/45ZF5oB
February 10, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Its really kinda, bitterly, funny that Disneys first move having bought LucasArts was to ditch the rambling, somewhat contradictory and wildly inconsistent existing Star Wars canon (not including my beloved Wraith Squadren) to ending up in *exactly* the same place.
I appreciate the need to get differing perspectives etc but I came away from this interview just thinking "what on earth were LBC thinking here? What was the journalistic and public interest in this interview?"
It's only if your worldview - like that of grooming gangs - is that girls from poorer families are just disposable playthings for the rich that this is all a hilarious joke.
'If you're not in the Epstein files, it just means you were a bit of a loser,' claims Andrew's ex-girlfriend Lady Victoria Hervey | LBC
The ex-girlfriend of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has defended her former flame by saying anyone
www.lbc.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 PM
I appreciate the need to get differing perspectives etc but I came away from this interview just thinking "what on earth were LBC thinking here? What was the journalistic and public interest in this interview?"
Fucking Wales would like a word
Italy has a belter of a national anthem. Second only to the Soviet Union. You really need a tune you can put your back into.
February 6, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Fucking Wales would like a word
The Fins are smiling. The end times are upon us
February 6, 2026 at 8:17 PM
The Fins are smiling. The end times are upon us
If you put thr correct amount of butter ie artery clogging, on a crumpet it puts it on for you
butter can be a lipstick no one can stop you
February 6, 2026 at 8:45 AM
If you put thr correct amount of butter ie artery clogging, on a crumpet it puts it on for you
K1 Black Panthers wrecking Russian built T-searies would be all ROK would need as an ad for its defense exports.
It's so stupid, this simulation depends a situation so pessimistic that it's pretty much a depression induced fantasy. Like ok, game out Trump keeping us out, but Poland is basically NATOs tank strapped guard dog
February 6, 2026 at 8:42 AM
K1 Black Panthers wrecking Russian built T-searies would be all ROK would need as an ad for its defense exports.
So long as that FUCKING SQUIRREL gets drop kicked in live action I'm a happy man
everyone acting like their tav will be decanonised should probably remember that the concept of a sequel allows for them to not be present at all!
Baldur’s Gate 3 is set for its own TV series on HBO!
It will be a continuation of the story from the Baldur's Gate 3 game and will be helmed by The Last of Us co-creator Craig Mazin. https://bit.ly/4r2FWxm
It will be a continuation of the story from the Baldur's Gate 3 game and will be helmed by The Last of Us co-creator Craig Mazin. https://bit.ly/4r2FWxm
February 6, 2026 at 8:38 AM
So long as that FUCKING SQUIRREL gets drop kicked in live action I'm a happy man
..... that is one of the perks of a Braavosi origin in the Mount and Blade mods.....
Apparently the only person in Westeros who understands the abstract concept of finance is Littlefinger, and this is like halfway implied to be due to his Braavosi Racial Bonus.
February 6, 2026 at 1:07 AM
..... that is one of the perks of a Braavosi origin in the Mount and Blade mods.....
Windrush migrants died overseas in countries they'd left as tiny children or had never lived in trying to come home. The fucking audacity of this prick
Starmer speech is a mess, even ignoring the Mandelson bit. In the space of a few minutes he has criticised Goodwin, said the left doesn't support "core British values", described the idea that Windrush migrants were vulnerable as "liberal vanity", called out Gaza marches and criticised homeschooling
February 5, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Windrush migrants died overseas in countries they'd left as tiny children or had never lived in trying to come home. The fucking audacity of this prick
Another joy of being a warhammer fan: I never need to worry about this dream
February 3, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Another joy of being a warhammer fan: I never need to worry about this dream
The filmed adaptation of Coriolanus with Ralph Fiennes and Gérard Butler was set, superbly, in a 90s era balkanised conflict
I like my Julius Caesars like I like my men: in sharp business suits.
February 3, 2026 at 1:06 AM
The filmed adaptation of Coriolanus with Ralph Fiennes and Gérard Butler was set, superbly, in a 90s era balkanised conflict
See also: Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
'Want to get stupider? Try Racism (TM)'. Never fails.
February 2, 2026 at 5:51 PM
See also: Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
1) Neronian Literature
2) Roman Economy
3) Beginners Ancient Greek
4) Hellenistic World
5) Roman Near East
2) Roman Economy
3) Beginners Ancient Greek
4) Hellenistic World
5) Roman Near East
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university
1) principles of animation
2) fashion & textiles
3) advanced fine art practice
4) form & purpose
5) building a vocabulary
1) principles of animation
2) fashion & textiles
3) advanced fine art practice
4) form & purpose
5) building a vocabulary
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university
1) General Relativity
2) Artificial Intelligence
3) Principles Of Microeconomics
4) Particle Theory
5) Management Accounting
1) General Relativity
2) Artificial Intelligence
3) Principles Of Microeconomics
4) Particle Theory
5) Management Accounting
January 30, 2026 at 10:43 AM
1) Neronian Literature
2) Roman Economy
3) Beginners Ancient Greek
4) Hellenistic World
5) Roman Near East
2) Roman Economy
3) Beginners Ancient Greek
4) Hellenistic World
5) Roman Near East
But there are limits. Why should I disagree respectfully with someone who thinks I should have less rights because of who I love? Why should I show respect to someone who thinks friends and family of mine are intrinsically worth less? There are lines where we should be able to disagree firmly!
Exactly 👏
"There is a responsibility on all of us to bring some of the heat out of politics and put the truth back."
"Democracy is at its best when we can respectfully disagree."
"There is a responsibility on all of us to bring some of the heat out of politics and put the truth back."
"Democracy is at its best when we can respectfully disagree."
January 29, 2026 at 7:23 PM
But there are limits. Why should I disagree respectfully with someone who thinks I should have less rights because of who I love? Why should I show respect to someone who thinks friends and family of mine are intrinsically worth less? There are lines where we should be able to disagree firmly!
See also: Highlands and Islands
Areas where the lowest percentage of people agree 'the police can be relied upon where needed' are West Mercia (42 per cent agree), Dorset (43 per cent) and Warwickshire (45 per cent).
Unsurprising: the way forces have dealt with shrinking budgets is to go 'this huge area has *one* police officer'
Unsurprising: the way forces have dealt with shrinking budgets is to go 'this huge area has *one* police officer'
January 27, 2026 at 11:11 PM
See also: Highlands and Islands