Was in the uk for the last week.

Yeah

The reason I am a liberal: if I had absolute power, there would be so many bodies. I would do it with the best of intentions.

I am a liberal because I believe nobody should ever have that kind of power.

Apparently the Tory press is going to lead with their desire to remove all equality protection in law for trans people.

Ineptly because, it turns out, they don’t understand equalities legislation.

And also they’re going to get annihilated so they can’t do it anyway.

But it seems this is now accepted political discourse in the UK, and I would like one, just one opposition party to have the balls to say in response, “you are terrorising trans people and you need to stop”.

But they won’t, because all parties in the UK (yes, all of them) have quite a few people who actually agree with the Tories on this, and it’s more important to avoid upsetting these people than it is to take a stand and say that what amounts to state sponsored terrorism against a minority of your population who just want to live in peace is wrong.

I remember canvassing my council ward in 2012 as a well regarded Liberal Democrat councillor. They phoned their neighbours so they could get their abuse ready.

And after I lost my seat 2 years later, they all told me how much they liked me.

I can’t imagine how much worse it must be for this guy.

Still, I find it difficult to have sympathies for the people who stole our EU citizenship and declared war on trans people.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli…

Mystery as Tory MP becomes 79th to quit even after campaigning for six days

Aaron Bell said it was ‘with a heavy heart’ that he was stepping down, raising questions about why he had been on the campaign trail since Rishi Sunak called the snap summer poll

^{Archie Mitchell (The Independent)}

There’s an HRT shortage in Portugal.

I have been going round different pharmacists. Usually they give me estrofem. This time I got Zumenon.

Allegedly they’re both the same forumation of estradiol hemihydrate.

So why the hell have I just collapsed in inconsolable tears with absolutely no ability to explain why?

FFS

Ok, I appreciate that this is the epitome of 1st world problems. I am not looking for sympathy here.

But having 2 homes in different countries is weird. You end up duplicating shit to stop feeling strangely displaced.

I have the same worktop in both kitchens. The same desk. The same TV cabinet. The same door lock.

I. HAVE. THE. SAME. LIGHTBULBS.

Just saw this via the London Reconnections blog and, oh my god, I think you could not do a worse job of redesigning the tube map if you tried.

“Paint all the lines the same colour. Send a train into London centre from Zone 6. Which identically coloured line does it emerge from on the other side? Fuck knows. Good luck!”

I mean, look at Oxford Circus? Which are the through lines? No? Me neither.

And this is promoted as “accessible”. God help us all.

esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/…

Mind the map: a new design for the London Underground map

A modern take on the London tube map with updated accessible colours, a re-classification of lines by type, and line symbols scaled by frequency

^{Kenneth Field (Esri)}

Someone on Bluesky yesterday was like, “actually how about national service for Boomers and Gen X doing customer service jobs?”

And I’m like, you want to put me, a nerd with zero fucks given and oppositional defiance tendencies, into a customer service job that I can’t get fired from?

You know Police Academy, right? You remember Mahoney, right?

I would have SO MUCH fun!

(And yes, I have worked customer service, but back then I needed to be polite to the ghastliest of customers)

Dear UK TERFs, I just used a female loo in the UK, and have this to say:

Fuck sake. Some of you are fucking animals. If you piss on the fucking seat, fucking wipe it up, FFS.

Someone just exhaled their vape in my face. My body took objection to this and immediately tried to die.

One second I was breathing. The next I was not.

Fun (am ok now. Bit of a headache)