If I did anything that met with broad approval from media outlets like the Daily Mail I'd stop what I was doing immediately and take a long hard look at my life

The language here is designed to denigrate the trans community, with the usual focus on trans women. I don't identify as anything. I am a woman, and the fact it makes DM and their readers rage is nectar for my soul.

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ALSO LOOK AT ME (because I am nice to look at)

Absolutely thrilled to share that I am now a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators. It feels really good to have my work officially recognised by such a brilliant organisation. Thank you @medicaleducators.bsky.social

Watching trans+ people working to remove or restrict access to support networks for those they consider less valid is really upsetting to see. Take your gatekeeping elsewhere. Everyone deserves community.

"Day 9 - Have finally been accepted into the colony as an honorary puffin"

This is what happens when there's historically low trust in the Presidents of the United States of America

Heading to a meeting where I'll be advocating for support for trans+ communities. Doing my last checks before leaving the house and realised I've inadvertently dressed in trans flag colours 😊

Possibly the saddest thing I've ever seen for sale in a charity shop. I guess the manual was not enough.

I think people are forgetting all the good things Wes Streeting achieved as health secretary such as.. er.. wait.. bear with me.. erm.. there was.. It'll come to me eventually, there must have been something.

trans.diy These folks are super cool btw, always good to have more people in the space!

Billed nearly £800 in council tax last month because my council forgot to charge me enough and wanted it paid before the new financial year. I complained. They've rejected the complaint because they needed paying but said "sorry that you feel that our service has not matched your expectations."

Just been reminded of how great the front cover of this month's the psychologist mag is. A rare picture of the early stages of a Pikachu circle pit forming, such as this one I photographed at Download

It's been fab - Well done to everyone involved. I got to deliver a talk about how our current broken healthcare system is a product of trans+ history, but more than that it rekindled the desire to educate myself further. The stories & people you meet are quite something.. I need to know more 😊

What she lacks in skill and technique she more than makes up for in artistic merit

Predicting there are going to be a lot of apologies for racist social media posts and financial impropriety over the next week or so

Well done Byran 💚

Well despite my city mainly voting for Reform, in my constituency we went Green and elected a guy who, if he drinks, looks like he could pick out some excellent IPAs and would then sort he taxi so you could get home safely. Instead of the one who said Diane Abbott should be deported.

Life on the spectrum Do a thing Check thing Check thing again Start over Do thing again properly Finish Worry Look at thing Do thing again Check thing again Be confident thing is finally done Share thing Slowly realise thing couldn't be more wrong Meltdown Spend rest of day correcting thing

Recently signed up to audible and so far my experience is this 'I see you've been listening to non fiction social science books. Have you considered a book by a deeply transphobic and problematic children's author?'

Be great if there were reprints of the earlier ones at some point. I'm missing a few that are just eternally out of stock.

To coincide with @transhistoryweek.com I had the privilege of being able to talk again today about the history of gatekeeping for trans+ healthcare. Its a wild ride but shows how UK trans+ healthcare is historically constructed, and how medicalisation enabled both access and control...

And it’s live.

Despite moral improving the dronejournaling continues. There's a 21 minute drone piece full of ocean waves and distant half dreamed guitar. If that sounds appealing you can get it on Bandcamp now on this, the most holyest of days, Bandcamp Friday jamiephilpinjones.bandcamp.com/album/dronej...

Collectively we'd be far more serious combatants in the gender war if we weren’t so busy painting warhammer miniatures

These are excellent, but make plenty because you do need to sample a lot on the way to getting the ratio of salt and vinegar just right.

The downside of all of this is we will inevitably get a front page or featured article from Stock saying she has been silenced and cancelled. So much irony we're going to need to keep checking Alanis Morisette is OK

Damning detail from the BBC "Mrs Justice Lieven said the OfS had "closed its mind" to anything that would lead to not finding failure to uphold freedom of speech & therefore fine the university. ..also found to have taken a flawed approach to deciding what was academic freedom." archive.is/8yFFZ

Excellent news, and raises huge questions over the purpose of the OfS. It has always felt like a politically motivated group, pushing a very specific agenda that would protect hate speech on campus. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

JUST GOING TO CATCH CHARLIE UP IN THE HOE.

I've been rendered immobile

I've only been the the Houses of Parliament once as a young PhD student as part of an award ceremony. My abiding memory of it is getting caught in conversation with [redacted] who was so staggeringly drunk they could barely string a sentence together

The suggestion that its OK for MPs to drink while at work because their jobs are somehow different is deeply disrespectful. There are plenty of high stakes, high profile jobs out there with long hours, though they probably don't have a bar on site that's subsidised by the tax payer

The time I've put into learning how to do my nails properly is definitely paying off. This might be my favourite set so far.

The sculptures in the linked story are absolutely joyous. It's hard to pass any of them when travelling around Devon without smiling.

Call for research participants! Are you non-binary, aged 18+ and living in the UK? Would you be willing to spend 30 minutes on a survey on your experiences of family? qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... Please share! I am a researcher on this project - A short thread to follow. 1/14

which way, walking disaster

Amazing to think if I did stats like this I'd lose my job, but would be more than able to work in government

I see Nadine Dorries is on the front page of the Mail because she's been microdosing testosterone to increase her energy levels & reduce her brain fog. So wait does that mean cross sex hormones are OK now, or is this just for cis people? I need to know.

I think it's fair to say we are friends now, and lucky for me that she sometimes 'helps' when I do video calls for work.

Two years to the day since a very scared and nervous rescue cat that had been difficult to rehome took a chance on me.

*taps the meme* bsky.app/profile/cuts...

'DIY or DIE' is not just a slogan, but a reflection of how lifesaving DIY can be. It is not unfair to say the community knows more about how to look after itself than most healthcare professionals, and we do an amazing job of taking care of ourselves and each other

I had a bi annual check up with the GIC last week. 3 years after my initial appointment. If I wasn't doing diy I dread to imagine the condition they'd leave me in

DIY HRT save lives, cos the NHS won't save us

Just thought I would check on the waiting times for my local GIC and as I joined the waiting list in Sept 2017 I'm not too far off an initial appt now. So that's currently just over eight and a half years and counting to get any help and support via the NHS.

This will be the reason why universities will end up feeling they have no choice but to provide a platform for extremists. It's a charter for protecting hate by punishing those who exercise their freedom to curate the voices that get heard on campus. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

day two of Quasit and she's finally taken to sleeping in the cat tree rather than under the sofa!