The discourse over Tourettes related coprolalia has dredged up some thoughts I'd buried about the nature of self, and whether who I am is the same me that I was before I nearly died and lost a day of memory. 1/

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting. She had some things she needed to get off her chest

Secret Service killed a guy who went to Mar-a-Lago today with the intent to assassinate Trump. On Twitter there is almost no discussion of this because the guy was a Christian Trump supporter. It’s almost as if right wing influencers on Twitter view Trump’s life as instrumentally as he views theirs.

[Reposting with alt text] Fuck the bbc.

I keep telling yall, Twitter has become "the precious" for a lot of people because they cant let go of the engagements.

I don't have many great skills or attributes but I'm one hell of a damned good hugger and, if desired, snuggler. I can be imposing but I try hard to be more teddy bear than grizzly bear.

And many of them went to the press and whispered that the problem was trans people.

We all agreed "fuck Discord" but let's add "fuck Twitch" to that

I would like to blame my having upset people recently on my head injury from a few months ago causing me pain and making me more irritable but I know that is likely a lie because I have been able to upset people all my life and the head thing is just the past few weeks.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

I continue to suffer from intense existential anguish and dread, causing me to feel overcome with a sensation akin to grief, getting weepy when it is cold & dark and I should be asleep. It really isn't helped by the world being full of pain & misery.

"Without feminism, the sequence of events that led to Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest would never have happened. It’s a reminder that feminism is powerful and important and even transformative, which is why there’s so much pushback..."

I hope I'm not stating the obvious here, but capitalism's "keep the number-line trending upwards" chocolate and authoritarianism's "solve every problem with cuts & purges" peanut butter is basically a Reese's Cup that eats itself.

I used to believe this sort of thing would make them unelectable but I have lost my faith in the British public. This country has literally never been, since it was formed, so anti-immigrant as we are today and it's all because the hoarding classes want us distracted from those really to blame.

The nyt has had a poisonous effect on public discourse, not simply re trans ppl, but thru its pernicious efforts to introduce and validate in the mainstream white supremacy, homophobia, misogyny and the protection of predation.

Another thing I love about Alysa is that her embracing joy, whimsy, artistry, authenticity and prioritizing having a healthy body and mind over aesthetic conformity and optimization blows a massive hole in much of the cultural messaging being pushed on women, esp young women, right now

worth pointing out that "Jews are inauthentic" is a major antisemitic trope, which is why antisemites like Carlson and King love to claim Jews aren't real Jews—rather than just pointing out that Netanyahu is a genocidal monster, which really seems sufficient.

I love this terminology in that the restrictions placed against doctors, teachers, & civil servants too often result in moral dilemma. For so long the US Right has claimed “values” in spite of moral bankruptcy. If required to go against one’s oath or core values, is that not persecution of beliefs?

Ugh bluesky users are so unyielding in their critique of capitalism, it's not even worth cross-posting here, as a vacuous mouthpiece of the elites.

When Robin Ince recommends a book¹ it tells me that it might be an emotionally challenging read but that it is worth the investment. ¹ this is Gisèle Pelicot’s "A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides", published by Penguin in the UK www.penguin.co.uk/books/475698...

RFK is Pestilence, whilst claiming to be for health Trump is War, whilst claiming to be for Peace Elon was Famine, destroying USAID

I hope he enjoyed the hell out of his two-day vacation, because there sure as shit was no "lesson to learn" and he knew before he threw that punch he'd get in trouble anyway. Good on ya, kid.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

Anti-feminism is the collective cultural temper tantrum at the temerity of women who ask if we can be more than exploitable sex objects.

people always go "it's Star Wars, it's Marvel, it's Sonic, it's Digital Circus, it's the specific franchise that's the problem" no it's just fandom

When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.

Wow that franchise took a dark turn

1/🧵 Just saw this awful post by a transphobic former teacher, who unintentionally reveals Hilary Cass to be the crank she is.

Labour will defend Nigel Farage and his billionaire pals as valid voices of the working class before a single Green, even as the young precarious working class make their thoughts on that obvious with their votes. And then they'll insult their living room styling.

"Loneliness *is* a problem. I am inviting you to contemplate how frequently it is treated as a problem for men and only for men, to be solved by everyone else, by doing work on their behalf that can only ever be considered repair if they do it themselves." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

I've said it before but it will always be: Desmond's Nineties Black London sitcom, albeit with a token white actor, with a wide range of Black British representation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond... youtu.be/8uAPK7livSY

I am far more frustrated than it deserves¹ by journalists and the like referring to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor as "Prince Andrew" when that isn't his title, and hasn't been for a while. ¹ i.e. more than zero, because it really shouldn't be bothersome, but it nevertheless irks me

Netanyahu is a war criminal who belongs in the Hague, but it was non-Jewish Poles who defined Polish identity to exclude Jews, and imposed Polish surnames on Polish Jews that were not deeply rooted in their families or identities. You don't have to deny Jewish history to oppose Israeli war crimes.

The irony of these men - who hoard massive amounts of resources, and steal more from the rest of us - trying to tell us that the resources the rest of use have been wasted because THEY need them to replace us is ... something.

sexting you one handed because, y'know (posting on BlueSky)

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

It is good that we teach kids that the most trouble that they can get into for opposing ICE is a few days off school. Fuck ICE

I'm not joking when I say Stoosh got me through a large chunk of my teenage years.

Stryker's "Transgender History of the US" remains one of the best starting off points for understanding trans life in the modern age.

This was before I was born. I am 48. In the ensuing years 1) the limit on personal wealth was lifted, with catastrophic Nazi consequences from an untouchable elite scum class 2) you can work from home 3) you can watch TV on the bus. Do 2) and 3) feel like adequate recompense for 1).

83 years ago, Hans and Sophie Scholl were executed by the Nazis for their acts of resistance against Hitler, together with their friend Christoph Probst. Sophie was 22 years old.

btw this all started with @maitlis.bsky.social, @jonsopel1.bsky.social, and @lewisgoodall.com treating EIGHT complaints about tavistock as a national scandal and a medical outrage more children have died as a result of the panic they created than ever complained are they now criticising cass? no

I have long said that the Peelian Principles seem to be necessary, but are not sufficient, for any group in a community maintaining that community's morals by "policing" those who work against it. Mallory Moore's thread gives a good example how them "maintaining order" can be abused by bad actors.

It seems like the majority of people are just looking at the headline and interpreting this as another "whoops! user data got leaked! our bad!" What was actually exposed was code used in Persona's software. Code showing that this company is doing A LOT MORE THAN CHECKING YOUR AGE.

Not to go all Marvel but: "My parents were from Dusseldorf." "What was their name?" "They had no name. It was taken away from them by pig farmers and tailors."

Keir Starmer's currently looking very confused as he picks up the phone and realises where the call is coming from.

every time someone’s like “why can’t we have a nuanced discussion about trans issues” i want to scream “MANY OF US ARE ALREADY NAVIGATING OUTRAGEOUSLY DEGRADING ‘NUANCED DISCUSSIONS’ WITH LOVED ONES ABOUT WHETHER WE’RE FULL PEOPLE WHO CHANGED OR THE WALKING UNDEAD.” just let us piss & play soccer!

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this is why we don’t comply in advance. relatedly, this is why i am irate at every children’s hospital that cancelled their gender affirming care programs without a fight. when you have the law and the facts on your side you especially have to fight back.

I had been using a keyboard since childhood but I, too, only picked up typing at speed because of real-time chat online. For me it was IRC, MUDs, and EW-too talkers, but it's basically the same story as Dr. Mack.