So excited to have my work featured on @allusionistshow.bsky.social by @helenzaltzman.bsky.social !! www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/... Check it out! @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @concordiapress.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillumedia.bsky.social

oh what a night, when politics made us so happy for once

either the country is beset by hundreds and hundreds of terrorists massing in every major city -- little old lady terrorists, famous film writer terrorists, university student terrorists, disabled terrorists -- or the law is a sick fucking joke

I’m performing at Nerd Nite in Vancouver on Wednesday! I have read three different versions of Dracula in the past month and you should come along to learn why the hell I would do something like that www.eventbrite.com/e/nerd-nite-...

But also, I know I've hit my cap of independent media support that I can personally offer to the venues I value. Independent media that isn't taking a deep dive in the right wing cesspool is expensive to produce, maintain, and continue. It's exhausting to play wack a mole like this.

Shutting the fuck up is free, Ro Khanna www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-congre...

Alternative options (I suggest a combo): 1. steer people to be less fucking racist; 2. throw all this effort and more into stemming the main causes of migration: wars and climate catastrophe. But, as always, alas www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

This is all over Twitter as agitprop to eradicate trans people. If they should actual raw numbers, it would show the thousands of mass shootings committed by white men. But they purposefully distorted statistics in a purposefully skewed scale guaranteed to push trans people to the top.

This is the dumbest propaganda fake statistic I've ever seen. It presents in a rate of per million population when there's only 2.8 million trans people in the entire country. A single trans mass shooter would show up in this and that's exactly what it shows.

They were LITERALLY protesting against JK Rowling's best mate and partner in Lumos etc Baroness Nicholson. Literally. Truth doesn't matter any more. Today they're protesting against HER.

Cultural recommendation for UK folk: Artworks art docs on BBC Sounds. Enjoying one about recorders by Susan Calman (expires tomorrow). Also beautiful Souvenirs by @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social, and a doc about Leigh Bowery by Nick Grimshaw www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

They know exactly what they're doing here with this headline. They're making it seem like a trans person did this despite the fact that the trans person in this story is the victim.

If you were solely going by the headline, you'd be under the wrong impression that this was a trans nurse that did this. In fact, the trans person at the center of this is a doctor who was harassed by this nurse who constantly spouted racist, transphobic stuff to her colleagues. Way to go BBC.

Listen here - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“One-off documentaries are at the heart of Radio 4 and this one was gorgeous…” Great to see @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social pick up @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social’s documentary Souvenirs in this weekend’s @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/audi...

being a fucked-up tranny faggot dyke is way more fun than whatever the hell cishet people do i don't even know like is it some kind of boredom kink or

nope, fuck you www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

this, in the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, is the first time I saw dinosaurs represented as brightly coloured and with feathers/hair. And also...humping??

There's a new episode in your podfeed! Next in #FourLetterWord season is 'dino', which means 'terrible'. Hannah McGregor of Material Girls podcast joins to talk about Jurassic Park, and humans' relationship with language for dinosaurs. Hear/read via theallusionist.org/dino and the usual podplaces

There was a time when you could describe Gaza as an "open-air prison," and people would scoff at the ludicrous hyperbole, and now we're at "Gaza is an open-air death camp" and that's just ... true.

Meanwhile, and this is truly beyond belief, the solution to famine in Gaza is RIGHT THERE. Which is what makes this starvation a deliberate and genocidal act. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

You simply cannot hang art shows that are "free from bias". That simply isn't how art works.

Look mum, I’m in the Radio Times! [Falls back down to Earth] Oh, no, it was that Helen Zatlzman again

We’re having a #Souvenirs live listening party during tomorrow’s broadcast in the Allusioverse Discord, what a great time to join: theallusionist.org/donate

Also perfect for you if you enjoy history, typefaces, Spice Girls, gorgeous music by @martinaustwick.bsky.social

Hey! Our piece #souvenirs is being broadcast on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow, 22 July at 4pm UK time (also available on the internet for a while thereafter), I’d love for you to listen! Especially if you enjoy tales of hurt feelings & petty revenge.

A new episode is in your podfeed! We go on a field trip with @jmcelroy.bsky.social around several of Vancouver's parks, to consider what IS park, also how their names can make us feel about them. Listen, see more photos, read the transcript at theallusionist.org/park

cnn editor: u got that story on ice? cnn reporter: sure did boss, real fuckin hypernormalized, just like u asked cnn editor: first of all, i love it

How do LOBSTERS mate? 🦞 Helen explains all in AMT 407... #AnswerMeThis @helenzaltzman.bsky.social | @martinaustwick.bsky.social 🎧 answermethispodcast.com/2025/06/26/e...

No I very much am contesting the central claim: “Lifesaving” is a perfectly reasonable way to describe a treatment that reduces depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation in a population with high rates of all three!

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS

Aw I’m on the bus to the protest and there’s a family with kids around 4 and 6 years old, and the dad is gently preparing them. “Always take water!” ❤️

oy Toronto! Montréal!! Our live show Souvenirs is coming to you IMMINENTLY, get tickets via theallusionist.org/events or live forever chewed by regret

Montrealers! Come see Helen Zaltzman and The Allusionist podcast live on June 9th! Come for the culture, laughs, and beautiful original music. What more do you want??

WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism. Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.

the show is back from break with Four Letter Word Season! First up, one of the most versatile words: it can be a noun, verb, punctuation, expostulation, full sentence on its own; it can be an intensifier, an insult and a compliment... and a Category A swear, one of your faves theallusionist.org/ffff

Reform has narratives, not policies. When will other parties fucking learn that the way to beat them is by offering counter-narratives, not turning these ones into policies that are cruel, beneficial to nobody, + mightily hypocritical of UK which has treated the rest of the world like a holiday home

Londoners: there's a protest against the Supreme Court's ruling on Saturday 19th April, 1pm in Parliament Square

Very excited that @helenzaltzman.bsky.social is doing a show in Montreal in June!! Just got my tickets!! www.universe.com/events/the-a...

I’ve updated my LinkTree with trusted Myanmar earthquake appeals (ie not ending up with the military dictatorship). If you are able to give a large amount, please spread the donations among them to maximise distribution on the ground ❤️ linktr.ee/meemalee #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #MyanmarEarthquake

Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨ tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk

See also, publishing pretending to give a fuck about marginalized voices in the wake of 2019/2020 and then putting those books out without any support and promptly dropping the authors because of poor sales.