this quote post is part of a vital thread of all the trans people I have met (bearing in mind we shoal together so that's loads), the one (1) detransitioner detransitioned because their family & friends rejected them, & they held huge sorrow about this. I feel so sad every time I think of them.

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I've only got 2 French jokes, this is the best

The system built two exits for poor kids: debt or deployment. Then it trained the left to shame one and the right to shame the other. Meanwhile the people who designed the trap never had to choose.

Things in my gym that look like background Star Wars characters with surprisingly indepth lore.

@playbrarian.uk of interest?

you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe

I'm assuming this is an OBW situation?

Obsessed 🖤

It's really starting to look like someone at the BBC wanted something like this to happen, which is fucking monstrous

Hmm. I assume the snakes are also sentient, so two options for sentient hair. My question is, can you communicate with the beard and/or snakes? And importantly, do you get along? I wouldn't want a beard or hair that I was constantly arguing with.

Oh I remember this! I was staying at my then-boyfriend's house in southwest London, about 40 miles away from the explosion I think? The shockwave woke us up and he went running outside thinking someone had just crashed a car into the side of the house!

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

it was getting dicey there for a minute but ok we can keep the internet

so you've probably heard about the London measles outbreak. A lot of people are talking about anti-vax misinformation, but that's not actually the problem here. The problem is austerity. 🧵

that's our vaccination crisis. not misinformation. it's the cost of busses. GP surgeries in poor neighbourhoods closing. appointments being few and far between and inflexible. jobs not offering paid sick leave for childcare. systems not flexing for parents.

Uni rarely makes biscuits, so when he does, it makes me so happy

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How far back in time can you understand English? A story where each paragraph travels back in time. Unless you’ve studied middle English I doubt you (like me) will make it back further than 1200.

Thy literally put it in the Louvre www.reuters.com/video/watch/...

If you're not here for a gentle Klingon in a skirt you've never been a real Trekkie

In honor of his 16th birthday next week, we have granted Armani a Lifetime Achievement Award.

What a life! Another brilliant interview by @shattenstone.bsky.social

Don’t call me “honey” and expect it to make up for the fact that you SHRUNK THE KIDS

Aw, they're just having a lovely game of hide and seek! 🥰

anyway I know I bang on about it but I have to move house soon & the fewer boxes of tarot decks I have to move the better so if you all could buy some of these (v high quality, UK-printed) handsome fellas I'd be most grateful shop.frankduffy.co.uk/franks-slow-... #tarotsky #queer

WIP on my first week living with a cat

Obviously this is dystopian af, but, I've been at some conferences that could have benefitted from an armed response to speakers going over time...

I've said this out loud a few times this week, so let me say it here too: jaywalking is not a real thing.

Seriously, people, LEAVE THE CLEARLY CURSÈD FOSSILS IN THE GROUND. What, you think things aren't bad enough already, so you just have to unleash this energy on the world??

The Winter Olympics is the gift that keeps giving this year. Every day it’s like Penis enlargement! Drama! Heartbreak! Drama! Everyone fell! Accusations of cheating! DOG!

#Librarymaxxing: signing up for a library card at every library that you can get to make sure you have access to every physical and digital service they offer 📚📜

I love how happy this doggo is. Just having a brilliant day, running with some new friends 🥰

New episode alert! I had the absolute joy of joining Chatting Info Lit and to talk about my dissertation: what I researched, what surprised me, and how it still shapes the way I think about information literacy today. 🎧 Episode link: open.spotify.com/episode/79bD...

This is a great thread. Keep going even when you think she’s got off track. She brings it back to the original analogy. And she’s right.

I think I had a fairly normal journey where AI is concerned. The first place I saw it was in apps. Hard to tell which was first because it wasn't announced but either the meditation app I use for background noise/music or some kind of game

A #poem of rage and love - the sort of poem I write that seems to anger anti trans voices (why they bother to have opinions about what I make I don’t know - they seem a bit obsessed) cosmicshambles.myshopify.com/products/ice...

I looked for this ALL MORNING and finally found it WOULD YOU SURVIVE VICTORIAN INFANCY? textadventures.co.uk/games/view/l... (The hosting is very 2003, but I made it on Twine in 2021 and must shift to hosting it locally)

Behold! I teach you @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social : He is this lightning... He is this madness!

Musk: mama mia da anglo-irish-scot culture offa america, now datsa spicy meataball! [chef's kiss] Joyce carol Oates: [rolling up sleeves] well well well Oates: looks like someone's come back for a second helping Oates: of pain

Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety

This is an excellent and well written thread. Everyone I know working in Higher Education during covid was working incredibly hard to deliver a good experience during a very difficult time.

Wow.

also I would be remiss if I did not reference @katebeaton.bsky.social’s legendary comic when discussing a book by one of the Brontës

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

Tiny Niece was delighted that the Winter Olympics has "a sport for dead people". Turns out she'd made some big assumptions about Skeleton.

So I carved off a lean chunk of the steak before cooking it, And made sure to set it on the edge of my plate, after I was done. And then to look the other way. To let her steal it. I got her her favorite thing, for her birthday - Crime.

had a very respectful chat about theology tonight

POV: you have simply given up on life.

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox