A historic win for equality in #Albania! Parliament has passed the Law “On Gender Equality”, keeping protections for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and withdrawn a proposal to recognise only two genders. A victory for unity, dignity and democracy. 🧵

Oh wow, look at this new blurb for WHAT WE ARE SEEKING from Cory Doctorow! Preorder links here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

I don't follow baseball or understand its more arcane rules, but it's been so much fun to watch people who do lose their minds over and over on my skyline. Thank you sports fans for letting me pick up a contact high from whatever it is you're experiencing

Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in

man that's a lovely piece of tech horror

Advocates for Trans Equality has endorsed @dewayneforminneapolis.com for Mayor!

Every cis asshole who told a trans person that Newsom wasn't a threat and we needed to stop criticizing him owes every trans person they told that to $50.

wow, would you look at that cough btw the latest blurb on this is @annaleen.bsky.social: "I am in awe"

sent a copy of What We Are Seeking to a bookseller friend

"In less than 36 hours since we announced that we will be sending payments to disabled SNAP recipients in the South—$100 to individuals and $250 to households—we have received more than 12,400 applications, totaling $2.7 million in requests." - they have to close the form tomorrow... no way to cover

Proofs of Field Guide to Dragonflies & Damselflies of GB&I have arrived and look good. Written by Steve Brooks & Steve Cham with many new artworks, photos and detailed maps, make it the most complete guide to British Odonata. The 6th edition in 28 years

If you see this, post 4 female characters you love

also my trans identity is a fucking kitchen table issue and so is abortion you nihilistic centrist FUCKS

Upper Midwesterners: what are good food banks/shelves/etc. to give $ to in our area? I gave to Second Harvest Heartland and to Community Connectors, which runs a halal food shelf in Willmar, Minnesota, but there must be lots of others www.communityconnectorsservices.org/health-nutri...

Pet food is usually not covered by SNAP (depending on where you are), but needing to cover more groceries may take up what you would have spent on it. Many animal shelters have pet food pantries, so check your local if you're struggling to feed your pets.

We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak". But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.

Lia Smith was kicked off her swim team, her college hosted a talk about how trans people's lifesaving healthcare should be torn away from them, and coincidentally she killed herself. Just another proof of trans people's inherent instability. No one should be held accountable for this and no one will

I began my transition in my 50s. I know lots of trans people who began much younger, sometimes even as youth. Do I expect them not to talk about their experiences and their transition milestones because I'll never have those chances? How bitter would I become if that was my view?

Same energy

Bertrand Russell was great, but he was literally an earl. There are levels of “calm” and “cool” available to those with status and privilege that work less well, less reliably, for regular people. The idea that everyone can (and must) face down fascism with this kind of equipoise is simply false.

To me, as someone who is having human rights taken away but with the language of politeness, decency and respect, i actually find opposing these cruelties with polite language cowardly and weak. Heinous things deserve a harsh dismissal not a softie one

If there's one thing I am sure of, it is that future historians will not say "the early 21st century's great fault was not being polite enough to fascists" That said, Russell's letter fucks. When I block fascists, transphobes, and apologists for the genocide in Gaza, this is what the block means

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

Just brushing up on her Marcuse at the protest

I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. Don't leave FSA funds on the table at the end of the year. LOTS of places like homeless shelters etc... would love donations of FSA eligible items. For the past 2 years, I've used left over funds to shop here: fsastore.com - then donate the items.

It should be noted that the entire justification underpinning this policy is Texas House Bill 229, a law that only says that state documents may only have "male" or "female" on them and enshrines definition of "male" and "female" into law. The bill says absolutely nothing about class curriculum.

There are no words for what Miss Major has done for us. Rest easy.

It really sucks Newsom vetoed the HRT and PreP access bills. The stockpile veto is going to hurt. That said, given everything he has been saying this year, signing 8 out of 10 bills is a win for grassroots activists and the legislators filing the bills. It shows your pressure has worked!

If you love trans people, if you love sex workers, if you think we deserve to have families... please donate. The amount of money my friend needs to raise for court costs is shocking. Please donate.

I've reached PLOT IT YOURSELF (1959) in my reread of the Nero Wolfe mysteries and I'm pleased to discover that Archie is trying new things

Rereading @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social for the first time in like 20 years & it's still everything & it hasn't aged a day. Now you can read it too torpublishinggroup.com/the-fortunat...

I should also say that Persona is the first novel I've read since maybe Nevada that made me go, "I didn't know how much I (we) needed this."

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

My dope friend Adrian, who is trans, interviewed 90 transgender Texans. His project is finally out: www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

this has already improved my day 🤣

The way that major healthcare institutions have just decided the rules don't apply when it comes to trans people. Research ethics? Consent? Basic human dignity? Those would just be too inconvenient and it's only a bunch of trannies.

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

Being cruel and bulldozing encampments does not help people. It just disperses them and forces them to start over with gathering needed documents and makes it harder for social workers to find them to actually help. Frey's policies are simply cruelty for cruelty's sake.

This is my favorite Cherryh novel, and an influence on WHAT WE ARE SEEKING—though I confess my memory of it is sketchy. A strange and challenging book, not much like anything else being published in the early 80s. Anthropological SF that's skeptical of anthropology. I need to read it again soon

I actually am interested in the philosophical questions AI raises, but LLMs inspire the stupidest possible versions of those questions. "Is it bigotry to say a next-word-prediction machine isn't a person?" LOL no. In science fiction these themes can be made interesting. (From WHAT WE ARE SEEKING)

new clippings joint from yours truly is now up on @assignedmedia.org! this month, we're taking a look at trans millionaire and pet leopard enjoyer Reed Erickson give it a read!

Not defending the pro-AI trans girl in tech contingent, but I do think there are plenty of cis people to clown on without opening up even the most irritating and politically absurd dolls up to harassment.

PSA: if you ever need a meal and can't afford one and don't want to jump through these hoops, fund a gurdwara. They are obligated to feed you for free with no strings attached

I hope people understand just how horrifying this is as a trans person. You could just be getting in with your life, not doing anything to hurt anyone - and suddenly you find yourself dragged into a horrible legal case where the press is painting your going to the toilet as somehow predatory.

When Jane Goodall gave a lecture near me circa 1995, I waited my turn at her very crowded autograph table and asked her to sign this comic in The Far Side Gallery 5. She was delighted. It's a memory I still cherish. I'm so sad she's gone.

I love this city, and that's why I'm ranking DeWayne, Omar, and Jazz, not Frey. Frey's been mayor for 8 years and he and his megadonors only love what they can extract from the people who love this city.

Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000.