Doctor Who episodes as Discworld novels. 🧵

1. The Colour of Magic (1983)

Brilliant event supporting Flints first ever pride! As LGBT+ hate crimes rise across the UK, it's more important than ever to support smaller, grassroots prides embedded in our community. As wonderful Lisa Power 🏴‍☠️ said every pride is someones first pride 🌈

If Simon Hart took no action on the sex dungeon guy, just think for a moment what other gems he is sitting on. I bet he has the BEST stories.

A Conservative donor, who paid for private jet flights for Rishi Sunak, has £14 million of his assets frozen due to fraud allegations ft.com/content/c857fc…

Just googled Mark Menzies, aside from the Times story about paying off 'bad people' with campaign funds, he:

- was arrested for getting a dog drunk
- paid a male escort to provide him with methadone
- went on a junket to Pero
- Big tobacco loves paying him to lobby for them

My first real sign that Black Sails might be something special was when I heard they’d cast Toby Schmitz.

I can’t overstate the influence this man had on us, inspiring and guiding us over cold beers, turning this gang of mad actors into a loyal crew.

Long live Captain Jack 🏴‍☠️

I arrived on #BlackSails two weeks late. New town, dead of night, scared, alone. A chap appears below my balcony, wielding a six-pack, ‘Welcome to pirate camp! Can I come up?’ The collegiate strength of #BlackSails has much to do with the remarkable ⁦Luke Arnold⁩ 🏴‍☠️

Good news from Sweden 🇸🇪: Parliament has voted to simplify the process for legal gender recognition! Read more via RFSL rfsl.se/en/aktuellt/ne…

Not seen this before. It’s a distillation of why plutocrat billionaires use playthings like The Sun & GBeebies to pretend that they represent the interests of ‘ordinary people’. People who will be measurably damaged by the loss of things they are persuaded to hate: EU; ECHR etc

Today, we dropped a 30ft banner to say fuck the Cass Review. Trans youth know what they want and need. It’s not being pathologized or patronised. It's accessing the support they deserve, whether safe housing, education or puberty blockers.

I think about the intro to Dworkin's piece all the time: 'You won’t ever know the worst that happened to Nicole Brown Simpson in her marriage, because she is dead and cannot tell you. And if she were alive, remember, you wouldn’t believe her.'

📢‼️After some careful reviewing and collation of information we now feel we can respond to the Cass Review

Please see our response below 🧵

The #CassReport has a number of significant methodological flaws in how it approaches evidence, and the ideological drive behind it

I cannot stress enough how much I want more research to be conducted in sexual & gender minority health - but this cannot be used to withhold care

An important message from Gay's the Word

Today we remember the 40th anniversary of the raid on Gay’s the Word bookshop

....and how we fought back!

10th April 1984 - 10th April 2024

youtu.be/YGjLX1RsIUw

'If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions'

I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance.

Why? I'll tell you why

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I was going to post a response to Streeting’s presumably official midnight tweet but then I thought, I’ve learnt not to magnify trolls, terfs and trans baiters so why should I give oxygen to such scientifically illiterate behaviour?

Wes Streeting's financial links to the private healthcare sector since the last General Election wouldn't fit into one screenshot🚨

So we've popped them all below👍
If this concerns you, please RT this thread💙

❗️❗️❗️We are looking to speak to LGBTQ+ people in the UK to help improve drug and alcohol support and services for our communities!

Please see the images below for more info!

There it is. He's said it.

Rishi Sunak would leave the ECHR to get flights to Rwanda off the ground.

This is so, so dangerous. Sunak is desperate to appease the right of his party and the country will pay the price.

We need a change of government now.

When you build a proper society and not one purely around property ownership and naked greed