Notices by Alisdair Calder McGregor (a_c_mcgregor@topspicy.social)

@goatsarah gender laundering?

@stavvers Only because 99% of PE teachers are dickheads

So I'm at LibDem Conference

There's been a tiny group of TERFs here, being horrid.

In response several hundred pro-trans rights LibDems made this happen:

#TransRights #LibDems

@goatsarah This is why I've had to stop talking politics to my father. He isn't actually interested in the facts; he just wants his opinions to be taken as true, even when they are bullshit.

I am incapable of letting bullshit stand.

@kaia ALT+0128

Interesting that the takes on Biden stepping down are all either total doom, or absolute relief; there appears to be no middle ground in anyone's feelings about this

@Polychrome Why not both?

@goatsarah Difficult Second Album

Apparently the Tories are having difficulty raising money for essentials.

Welcome to our world, fuckers!

#UKPol #UKPolitics #GeneralElection #GE2024

We're called a General Election - by mistake! #UKPol #UKPolitics #GeneralElection #FuckTheTories

Hey UK peoples; sign this:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/661601

Petition: Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards

#TransRights #FuckTheTories

@goatsarah probably a crap shag anyway

In case it matters to anybody who might be looking at safe havens as the British political system slides towards fascism with a side order of transphobia, Germany has just relaxed its gender determination laws *significantly*

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68801392.amp

@cstross A friend of mine who has visited the US extensively once told me that he believed the fundamental issue with the US is that it's a very very conformist society with a founding myth of rebellion, and the tension between the two is the core cultural disconnect.

Reminder: "Julian Assange is a shit" and "The US prison industry is horrifically inhumane" are not mutually exclusive propositions.

@goatsarah @pseudomonas So what's the point of them federating?

@goatsarah I'm still massively surprised that the door plug didn't hit something important in the tail of the aircraft when it detached.

@goatsarah @christineburns @CriticalCupcake TIL a new euphemism 🤣

@goatsarah

We're into the part where the right treat dystopian fiction as a guidebook instead of a warning again, aren't we?

@goatsarah Of course they are. Why do I suspect they are only talking about Women here?