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Just finished #RideOrDie. Outstanding television! Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer are stunning together… Then we have the beautiful Calam Lynch and Ed Skrein 😍

@RyanJL @mellis107 Yes! It’s now part of my daily vocabulary and I laugh every time. It’s so daft! 😂 #AnnDroid

Has anyone else binged Ann Droid and developed the very annoying habit of randomly shouting SUE SUE SUE throughout the day?

You guys want a funny thread? Remember the MCU Phase 1 post-credits scenes? Nick Fury tells Tony Stark about the “Avengers.” Tony meets Thunderbolt Ross at a bar. Mjolnir in a crater. Thanos. Every stinger was a surprise, *and then they paid off.* But post-Endgame…

Statement from Féile an Phobail

can’t believe we have to do everything around here #samwilson #anthonymackie

THIS is Captain America

I feel sorry for my friend Sue. I shall forevermore call her Sue Sue Sue. #AnnDroid

I know it’s based on a single book but I really want a second season of #FiveStarWeekend. Jennifer Garner was incredible (of course).

Oh, good Lord. Are we doing this again? Look, J.K.. Your mentions tab is not civilisation. You have stared into that radioactive little snow globe for so long that you now mistake it for the planet. Perhaps it is the mould talking. Have you considered moving to a better castle? Humanity has more than two settings. We are not divided into loyal disciples kissing your ring and howling gender goblins trying to abolish womanhood before lunch. Admittedly, your most famous exercise in world-building involved sorting every child into one of four personality boxes, so perhaps complexity has always been an unwelcome editorial development. Most people are working, shopping, caring, commuting, losing their keys and wondering why butter now requires a finance agreement. Meanwhile, Saint Joanne of the Infinite Reply Thread is on the battlements announcing social collapse because an account called TransWitch93 called her a cow. Threats are vile. Abuse is vile. Report them. Prosecute them where appropriate. Then stop using them as census data. Becauee we can all see this is where your intellectual laundry "accident" begins. Into one drum go abusive posts, healthcare arguments, prison policy, sports rules, individual crimes, semantic disputes and every teenager with a flag in their bio. You set the machine to MORAL PANIC and pull out one enormous red sock labelled GENDER IDEOLOGY. That is the analysis of a coward. A deliberate coward. Your thinking produces a Manichaean cartoon so hackneyed that an editor would send it back with PLEASE ADD NUANCE written across every page because: - Every criminal becomes a mascot. - Every lunatic becomes a spokesperson. - Every institution that disagrees with you is “captured.” - Every institution that agrees has “recovered its sanity.” - Every critic is a bully. - Every admirer is the silent majority. So, then trans people become Schrödinger’s witches. Guilty if they float. Guilty if they sink. Suspiciously evasive if they ask why you threw them into the river. How dare they?! And spare us the underground-resistance routine. You possess one of the loudest megaphones on Earth. Newspapers print your moods. Politicians court your approval. Lawyers stand ready. You have enough money and influence to turn a bad afternoon online into a professionally typeset historical crisis. You are the most comprehensively broadcast “silenced” woman alive. You could pay to have people killed and never set foot in court. Your problem is not lack of speech. Your problem is that speech has failed to purchase obedience. You may call trans women men. Everyone else may call your fixation cruel, incoherent and grotesquely disproportionate. They may also call you a bellend. That is also free speech and freedom does not expire when the applause stops. Also, Orwell is not a clapped out pullstring doll that you can drag from his grave whenever somebody disagrees with you. Woman means adult human female. Pull again. Sex is real. Pull again. History will vindicate me. Pull again, and a laminated picture of George Orwell falls out of the casing. You might think you have proved that your argument is two plus two. What you have actually done is scrawled FOUR in capital letters ten thousand times and declared everybody still examining the equation an enemy of truth. Then you threaten them with legal action. So, your timeline is not a census. A viral post is not a town square. Mumsnet is not the collective soul of womanhood. (Thank Christ) Outside your screen, trans people are working, eating, laughing, missing buses, filling in forms and buying shampoo. They are not a philosophical invasion force. Trans women might be women. Trans women might be men. Most people don't really give a shit because most people don't care what you think. Most people aren't gazillionaires and each of them will always have more in common with your average trans person than they ever will with you.

marvel, give him back to us.

Well @tfwrail PAYG is useless! Bridgend to Ty Glas… You’d assume tapping in at Bridgend and then at out at Ty Glas would be straightforward right? But what they don’t tell you is you’re meant to tap if swapping platforms… Upon inspection it does say on your FAQ but not clear.

I am deeply appalled and angry to see “Firework” used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it. I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for. My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.

Why does everything good get ruined? I know, I know! First world problems… The point system for @McDonaldsUK is now so RUBBISH! It used to be so good! 😢

This @OfficialAli_G thing is so… 😬 Nobody wants it @SachaBaronCohen 🫠

There just HAS to be a series two! #ANNDROiD I’ve enjoyed every single episode!

The show won't work. It'll collapse, or be cancelled. Essiedu (Snape) is already receiving death threats before a single episode has aired. An Italian actress has been cast as Parvati Patil, a canonically Indian character. Stanton's parents had to disable all of their daughter's social media within an hour of her casting announcement due to racism and, again, death threats. She is eleven years old and already articles dissecting her skin colour have since been written. The cast is already fracturing. Lithgow nearly quit over Rowling. Nick Frost publicly distanced himself from her views. Essiedu signed an open letter supporting trans people, while playing a character in a show exec produced by Britain's most prominent anti-trans voice. The show is also biannual, not annual. Season one arrives Christmas 2026. Deathly Hallows, if they get there, lands around 2040. John Lithgow will be 95, almost guaranteeing he'll die during filming, much like Richard Harris died aged 72 after just two films. The story itself is a now a logistical trap. A Black Snape being hung upside down by the Marauders, spending years fighting for blood purity, then dying for the cause of a white woman he loved. Those scenes cannot be written cleanly anymore. Every choice will generate a fresh brand new controversy from absolutely every angle and political sphere. This franchise requires a sustained decade of audience goodwill to function. That goodwill simply does not exist anymore, as her base is now the most vitriolic, toxic abusers, a narrative at some point (if not already, seemingly) HBO Max will have to adresss. The three child leads have not signed long-term contracts. What happens when they're 18, 19, 20, with fully formed opinions about the woman whose name is on the tin? The magic is a dead horse.

We Told You J.K. Rowling Would Come for the Gay Rights Movement Next. Now She Has. J.K. Rowling is now attacking the gay rights movement, and gay men and lesbians need to understand exactly what that means. Transgender people, gay people and lesbians have warned for years that this campaign would not stop with transgender rights. We were mocked, shouted down and accused of hysteria. We were told that it was only about language, only about sport, only about prisons, only about toilets and only about “protecting women.” We said that once the removal of one minority’s rights became publicly acceptable, the campaign would widen. We were right. Rowling has now written that the gay rights movement is “host to a cannibalising ideology.” Those are her words, not an interpretation invented by transgender activists. She is no longer merely commenting on one transgender policy or one court case. She is publicly portraying the gay rights movement as corrupted and destructive because so many gay men and lesbians continue to stand beside transgender people. As a gay man, I regard that as homophobic. She is attacking my movement, my history, my family and the community that fought for people like me to live openly. She does not get to stand outside our community and decide which members belong within it. She does not get to tell gay men and lesbians that our solidarity with transgender people has contaminated our own liberation movement. We told you this would happen. This progression did not appear overnight. It began with what was presented as an accidental social-media interaction—a “slip of the finger.” People were told not to overreact. Rowling then insisted that she respected transgender people and did not wish them harm. But the occasional post became a sustained political campaign. Her enormous platform helped move hostility towards transgender people from the margins into Britain’s newspapers, political parties, courts and public institutions. She did not do this alone, and saying so would let too many institutions escape responsibility. Governments, judges, regulators, newspapers, broadcasters, campaign organisations and political parties all made decisions of their own. But Rowling was not a powerless observer. She amplified campaigners to millions of followers and financially supported the For Women Scotland litigation that featured in the process leading to the Supreme Court’s restrictive interpretation of “sex” under the Equality Act. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention explicitly referred to Rowling’s financial support for that litigation in its June 2025 Red Flag Alert concerning anti-transgender and anti-intersex developments in Britain. It warned about identity erasure, segregation and the removal of protections. That alert is the Institute’s human-rights assessment, not a judicial determination that genocide has legally occurred. It is nevertheless an exceptionally serious warning from an organisation established to identify dangerous patterns before they escalate further. Amnesty International UK has also investigated the growth and influence of the organised gender-critical movement. Its May 2026 report, Like a Snowball, describes a movement that has gained substantial influence over British politics and media and places anti-trans campaigning within a wider anti-rights environment. Amnesty does not treat this as a neutral academic disagreement in which both sides are merely debating definitions. It examines how a minority’s protections, dignity and participation in public life have been systematically challenged.