hi :3

they/them

[ayeforscotland]

Labour austerity in action.

I fucking said Labour would continue austerity, and guess what? Labour are continuing austerity.

Cutting winter fuel payment for pensioners will lead to deaths.

[ayeforscotland]

A rare picture of myself at my first house party, got to get those priorities straight.

Register to vote. It takes 5 minutes and you only have 2 days left to do it to be able to vote in the general election.

[ayeforscotland]

DAE IT. https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

[ayeforscotland]

New General Election, make sure you are registered to vote^^^

[alwek]

Remember all you. THIS is the post that triggered Rita's ban.

[deactivated203846629-deactivate]

This is the #2 trending post sitewide right now, just below an outline of the ways tumblr staff has historically targeted trans women. Keep it up.

[ayeforscotland]

Why Scotland needs independence now.

Scotland’s Parliament overruled by a government that Scotland didn’t vote for.

[ayeforscotland]

[ayeforscotland]

Now got an utterly bizarre situation in which Scottish Labour MPs in Westminster (and Labour in general) voted against a ceasefire, while Scottish Labour MSPs voted entirely for a ceasefire.

Does this make sense? Not at all. Does it show that Labour is a mess? Yes it does.

[ayeforscotland]

Short-term let parasites are protesting outside of Parliament because they think they have the right to only ever profit off of their investment.

Buying property is a risk, and that risk shouldn’t be passed down to tenants. It also doesn’t give them the right to become unregulated landlords through AirBnB.

One sign implies that this policy is an act of a ‘Pogrom Parliament’ if you want to know how incredibly thick and deeply unserious these people are.

[amisscreant]

With @staff 's recent post saying 1/4 of this site is LGBTQ going around, I'd like to see what the actual demographic is

So!

would you identify yourself as:

LGBTQ+

not LGBTQ+

unsure/questioning

Voting ended onSep 4, 2023

Please reblog for bigger sample size!

[ayeforscotland]

Want to cry like a baby?

[ayeforscotland]

Written by Keir Starmer in the fucking Sun.

Trying to out-right the Tories on immigration.

[elicatkin]

Scottish wildcat kittens born at Highland Wildlife Park | The National

Endangered Scottish wildcat kittens born at Highland Wildlife Park

FIVE critically endangered Scottish wildcat kittens have been born at the Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie.

[i-put-on-the-mascara-deactivate]

I’d just like to clarify that as someone living in a very working class area full of queer people and POC that pro-monarchy is NOT the majority opinion of the English and certainly not the UK as a whole. Don’t let the mainstream media or the fascist anti-protest laws fool you into thinking otherwise.

That being said, pro-monarchy brainwashing is still very much a problem here and we need to keep pushing against it (and try not to get arrested in the process for committing treason or some bullshit).

[guerrillatech]

Someone made an engagement map for TERF tweets

[mentalgearsolid]

Y’all in the notes please be mindful when you say stuff like “it’s time to kill the British.” The people suffering the most from British transphobia are....British trans people.

[britnxyspears]

^^^^^ for serious. British trans folks rarely get to transition at all, and when they don't they're often denied any social transition period. TERFs in the UK aren't here to start laws against people in America, they're trying and succeeding to kill off trans people in the UK. This really isn't the situation to cram on the brits to look and feel better about yourself... the trans body count is tremendous over there. Please have some respect for the people actually effected.

[ethanoic-acids]

Please do keep this in mind. As much as I find the anti-British memes funny, this is a genuine issue in the UK.

I’m a trans man in the UK, I’ve been on the waiting list to be diagnosed for just over 2 years now, and am expected to wait around another 2 years before I get my first appointment (if the wait time doesn’t increase). I will then wait around 2 more years (at the very least) for my second appointment, and if I’m very lucky and am diagnosed in that appointment (which is not guaranteed in the slightest), I’ll enter another waiting list to access healthcare. The service I’m in is considered around average. There are people waiting 6 years for their first appointment in other services, so I am incredibly lucky with my supportive family (in that I haven’t been kicked out or abused, parents still don’t respect pronouns or name) and I have good friends who respect me, as well as only waiting 4 years for a first appointment.

Maybe you could go private if you had the money, right? Go a similar route to trans people in the US? A diagnosis from a private practice can be rejected by your General Practitioner, and any referral you get for hormones or surgery can be completely dismissed, because you weren’t diagnosed by an NHS practice. You would likely have to go entirely private, which is not possible for thousands of trans people who rely on the NHS. This is an issue within the NHS and a completely lack of funding and training for trans healthcare, resulting in horrifically long wait time and difficult to access help, especially given doctors and surgeons have and are having their practices shut down because they aren’t considered proper by the NHS, despite being one of very very few who commit to this kind of work.

The transphobia in the UK runs far deeper than just tweets, and combining the aggressively transphobic attitude of a large portion of the population with the lack of healthcare due to wait times and difficulties with funding, you set up an incredibly difficult and dangerous position for trans people. Maybe this sounds like a bunch of complaints and nothing to people in the US, but people here are dying as a result of this. Please do keep this in mind when making anti-UK memes surrounding specifically transphobia.

[pelontriques]

also, our wait times for HRT have gone up to 6 years through the NHS.

[rococo-the-clown]

There are officially English asylum seekers in places like New Zealand now because other countries have acknowledged that it is genuinely unsafe for trans people to stay in this country.

[amgeforns]

#when you say everyone in [insert place here] should die #you are also talking about the countless number people who are suffering there #and that makes you kind of a cunt

[angremlin-deactivated20250312]

Also you need to understand that while engagement in Britain is off the charts it is NOT because there are a lot of transphobes - polls show brits are MORE accepting generally in fact. What this is actually showing is the small and completely insane network of online terfs in the UK who dedicate unfathomable amounts of time and energy solely to driving up engagement on transphobic content, the numbers are unbelievable. Britain is not a place full of transphobes, it's a place with very dedicated transphobes who have the backing of the government and a certain outrageously wealthy and bigoted author.

[deadrabbitohno]

This expresses my feelings precisely.

[ayeforscotland]

Fuck the DWP.

[smoldragonborn]

their particular set of skills:

[ayeforscotland]

Labour are utter shit.

[moongyad]

Red tories at it again...

[deletesorryiamdumb]

So remember Grenfell Tower?

The tragic fire that killed 71 people when the highly-flammable building cladding turned the structure into a death trap.

The news just came out that the firefighters who attended the scene have got cancers from the toxic fumes created by said cladding.

Dozen Grenfell firefighters diagnosed with terminal cancer

Firefighters and survivors from the disaster have called for medical screenings

Who could have known this would happen?

Insulation firm had research showing product used on Grenfell released toxic smoke 18 months before fire

Inside Housing, news, analysis, and comment about the social housing sector in the UK.

... Oh.

This is what happens when governments neglect to regulate the housing industry, leading to poor quality and dangerous housing. And even in light of Grenfell, nothing changed. Make no mistake, there is blood on the Tories hands.

And 4 years on, the residents still seek justice.

[staffs-secret-blog]

If you bought that new game I just have to say this:

Your teacher professor Eleazar Fig dies at the end of Hogwarts legacy. This happens in all possible endings and can't be changed. And Rookwood is the one who cursed Anne