" Two trans rights victories and a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘bathroom ban’ "
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/08/06/trans-ehrc-ban/
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Sue Briccay 
@essjayjay@tech.lgbt
mastodon 4.7.2+glitch.techlgbt 
Ace lesbian
Musician and songrwiter
LGBTQIA+ rights
Black Lives Matter
Antifascist
Nobody is equal until we are are all equal.
Nobody is free until we are all free
"You are what you do, not what you say you do"
People who shove bigotry onto my timeline will be blocked / reported.
Likewise people who shove nudity / sexual content without a CW onto it as well.
419 Followers
397 Following
45 Posts
Joined October 23, 2023
Pronouns:
She / Her
AKA:
The Duchess of Spring - essjay@kind.social
Thursday Five List | Lets Go Retro
Kate Rusby - "The Village Green Preservation Society"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRK6U5vIHCs
Donald Fagen - "Memorablilia"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHB___J7EPE
Johnny Bond - "Hot Rod Jalopy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LDAkrqtBio
Steely Dan - "My Old School"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCX635Z7_PE
Josh Rouse - "1972"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxuTHkjAf_E
Replying to
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
My text alignment is always to the left, but it invariably strays into the gutter:
https://www.numberanalytics.com/blog/the-ultimate-gutter-guide-for-print-production
Tune Tuesday | Travel Songs
Michael Nesmith - "Rio"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yciLq5kYFnU
Well colour me surprised /s ...
Burnham's seamless shoo-in as party leader was yet more Blair Institute / Mandelson / Labour Together fuckery:
Jukebox Friday Night | Hot or Cold
Arrow - "Hot Hot Hot"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws-L6h0JSZU
#Music#JukeboxFridayNight#HotOrCold#KingOfSoca
Thursday Five List | I Feel Great | Soul Train Special
Staple Singers - "Heavy Makes You Happy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA9BKNUmV2c
Irma Thomas - "All I Know Is the Way I Feel"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-AHqBh03Rw
James Brown - "I Feel Good"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-rn7i_ETYc
Nina Simone - "Feeling Good"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHs98TEYecM
Etta James - "Oh Happy Day"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d49r43JCS_U
My kettle now seems to be reflecting my mood.
Once upon a time it used to make lively "I'm just heading towards boiling" snap, crackle and pop noises.
Now it just issues long, low mournful moaning noises as a prelude to coming to the boil.
Weird. 🤷♀️
Replying to
@passenger
Back in 2016 a bunch of British fascists and racists decided to poop in their beds by voting to leave the EU.
Having spent 10 years lying in poopy beds, the same people have decided that they actually like lying in a poopy bed and getting angry about it.
So they're going to poop the bed some more so that they can get even more angry about it. 💩
@JediSoth @patrickhadfield
Replying to
@Natasha_Jay
Tell me about it. 🤦♀️
I once thought I'd bought a ticket to see the Cure live.
It turned out that the tickets I had bought were actually for Placebo.
However, I'm pleased to report that I enjoyed the gig just as much as I would've had it been the Cure. 😉
A happy new year to you lovely fedizens.
Here are a couple of addresses you might want to avail yourselves of in 2026. 😉
🏴
Freepost Plus RUHU-TXAZ-LYAB
Reform UK
180 West Regent Street
Glasgow
G2 4RW
🏴
Reform UK
FREEPOST RTLT-ZXHY-KSDC,
83 Victoria Street,
London
SW1H 0HW
Please keep these to yourselves, it would be a terrible shame if they became public knowledge. :blobcatangel: 
Replying to
Replying to
@alice@lgbtqia.space
There is a definite gap in the market for 'dumb' products.
#LudditesRus
Replying to
@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
Sadly there are plenty of yoon bigots in Scotland who will buy shit-rags like this.
And vote for Reform.
Believe me, I witnessed it when I lived in Scotland.
Replying to
@sharongascoigne
Many happies! 🥂
Have a lovely day.
Fridge magnet heist gangs not withstanding.
Replying to
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
I know, I'm just teasing you. 😉
Heavens knows, there are very few simple pleasures left in this fucked up world.
Replying to
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
I get very outraged about thinly disguised posts that shamelessly beg for boosts.
So I 'favourited' it instead, just to outrage you back. 😂
Replying to
Replying to
@MikeDunnAuthor
Starmer, the Blair Institute sock-puppet, is * well * to the right of Thatcher.
Replying to
@eclectech
IKR?
These supermarket aisle signs.
Once I spent at least an hour walking up and down the aisle called 'Seasonal'.
Could I find any salt and pepper?
Nope.
Replying to
@Nickiquote
However, in the absence of a chip buttie, a crisp sandwich will get you through.
BTW Christine Balfa is the world's greatest triangle player AFAIC (as well as being a singer and guitarist).
Here she is in full 'clunk-a-clang-a' action with Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys:
Replying to
Replying to
@NormanDunbar
Apart from the horrendous 8 bit colour clash, at least the Speccy had a happiness chip. 😆
@AbramKedge @raymierussell
Replying to
@sharongascoigne@mastodonapp.uk
I now have a mental film clip playing on a loop:
It's early morning. The daring fridge-magnet heist is being planned with military precision, Ocean's Eleven style.
The gang is sitting round a table in a kitchen that has seen better days somewhere on the Pan estate.
Granny: "Listen up you little gits, you are going to create a diversion to distract that woman in that posh photo gallery place.
Lewis, you will be sat revving up the get-away wheels in the High street.
I'll heist the fridge magnet and we'll all leg it to the Skoda, and have it away up Holyrood Street, then double back down Lugley.
That'll confuse the filth.
Let's go to it! "
Replying to
@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
Then as they grow older and are no longer a 'boy band', they change the name of the band to Rman. 😉
Replying to
@quasirealsmiths@beige.party
Take the Gay Train ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1JmCY
Duke Ellington, "Take the A Train"
Replying to on lgbtqia.space
re: Transphobes & Rod Liddle
Replying to
@RonInDortmund@mastodon.scot
Nice story bro. 🙄
Rowlings pathalogical hatred of trans and enby folks is well documented.
Are you seriously suggesting that trans and enby people are all against 'womens rights' ? 🤦♀️
@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social
Replying to
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
She should really have a cat called 'Vienna'.
Oh wait, that was * Rigsby *.