me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

Text to spouse today, about which I’m sure people can guess the context: “Trump and RFK can take a long walk where there is a pier of remarkable shortness and see if that cures stupidity.”

"... found 35 blood proteins that were different in people with #hEDS ... Most of these changes were in proteins linked to the immune system, 🩸 clotting, blood pressure, and inflammation. The largest ... involved the complement system, which helps the body fight infection & control inflammation."

So, it’s fundamentally unreliable and that’s baked into the model itself. But sure, universities, do encourage your students to use it, that’s not devaluing further education at all.

So now that you've symbolically recognised the Palestinians you're going to follow this up with robust & concrete action such as a complete suspension of arms sales to Israel, swingeing sanctions, & the expulsion of the ambassador, right?

Okay, so what’s your vastly stupid reason for being on the Lists for the Camps? (Silly replies welcome) Mine would be my spouse and me attempting ‘curling’ with my wheelchair (with me in it) between social distancing circles when in line for covid vaccinations, thus Not Being Serious Enough.

Can America start using the phrase “the Caged Press”?

It is more important than ever to be practicing self-care. However, the traditional methods are sometimes not accessible to those with ME or other complex chronic illnesses. What are ways that you have found to practice self-care? What can you do today? #pwME #SelfCare #PwLC #spoonie

Is there a hierarchy of discrimination?

This is fucking farcical. Keep firing people until you get someone who says what you want? That’s justice.

Yup. The race riots last year in the UK, they found enormously high levels of domestic violence in those involved. And thankfully she (and the article writer) acknowledges that LGBTQ+ issues come under gender-based violence because they’re all about (not) propping up patriarchy.

As the child and sibling of teachers, I can’t imagine my family just going along with this. Otoh, the way things are, probably if they ignored it, someone in the class would “tell” on them so one would have to tread a fine line. Outrageous prejudice just for the sake of it.

This clause stomps all over every Canadians rights & is always being used to discriminate, attack or abuse citizens in Canada, it should be abolished, the Supreme Court ruled it is unconstitutional! #Alberta to use notwithstanding clause on three transgender laws 🤬 www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

A link to the actual document because I found the one in the article didn’t work. If anyone has a simple list of the companies, that would be great. I’m too tired to try and find them all by looking through the report… www.un.org/unispal/docu...

Ditto UK

Okay. So, I know a lot (relatively) about the US and Australia because as a Brit, that’s what the press tells me about. A bit about Western European countries. The excuse for the others is that they speak English, and therefore we are separated by a common language, or whatever the phrase is ;)

It feels like there ought to be enough high profile people sacked unfairly by papers and TVs to start their own network and newspaper by now! If they could only get it off the ground, I bet they’d have a lot of subscribers, too.

I’m devastated for all trans sports people at the moment. Trans women (as usual) get the worst of it (despite no apparent advantages) but I believe in order to play as a trans man in football, the FA force you to sign something basically saying you acknowledge you’re really a woman, and yeah, no.

In headlights: deer or rabbit? And how old are you, and from which country...?

Honestly, it’s obscene. No money for starving kids, freezing pensioners, or dying disabled people. But money for this. (There may be a difference of scale, but otoh, money is *saved* by eg lifting kids out of poverty and abolishing the 2 child cap is the cheapest way.)

In case any academic friends are affected by this…

“The UK is essentially a legislative dictatorship. If [a]…government—especially one with a massive majority—did not want this to happen, it wouldn’t. And yet…we have a government implementing a sweeping new legal regime…while acting like they’re just going along with a clarification of existing law”

They want to kill not only the people but any traces of their culture as well. The people in charge are genocidal monsters who should be brought to justice; & those “following orders” (especially ones boasting about it) should be imprisoned. As for complicit governments…The Hague would like a word.

Labour: getting disabled people into work, yeah? Or just throwing them off benefits AND making it more difficult for them to get or keep a job or a business? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ffs. The Conservative KCC was exactly as you imagine it was, but Reform’s Kent County Council sounds a complete and utter disgrace. Attempting to ban books from libraries, lying about climate science and vaccines, cancelling most meetings… Very glad to be out of the county.

This is appalling.

Yesterday the UN declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Today Keir Starmer rolls out the red carpet for Trump - Israel's biggest ally and a cheerleader for its atrocities. Shameful.

This is brilliant. Well done those businesses. Any UK trans folk with a business who fancy sticking a link under here, I’m going to be hunting for Christmas presents starting soon (have to start early, for energy and cash crisis reasons) and I’m sure others would like a similar list.

Fuck, no. The only positive thing about Starmer cosying up to Trump was, ”he’s getting a good deal on trade,” according to his defenders (and I didn’t know enough to argue). But offering the UK on a plate to tech bros is the last thing we need.

It never really occurred to me as unusual that my teenage son was the “agony uncle” for various female friends of his (age 14-18), doing emotional labour for others even if, like all teenagers, he sometimes struggled with his own. But I guess it was, rather. Also it got me interesting gossip ;)

I don’t do this about impersonal political things so much (though it makes me ridiculously angry that there’s no law against It) but if someone tells me a disagreement or argument was my fault, or I’m a terrible person, I tend to believe them.

In headlights: deer or rabbit? And how old are you, and from which country...?

This. And it fucking infuriates me. I don’t like people dying unnecessarily at 31, let alone younger, but a fuckton of people do. Most of them are a darn sight nicer than Kirk and no one except their loved ones gives a damn, no matter how violent their death. Cry for the fucking genocide in Gaza.

(1/2) We’ve had the ability to add alt text for YEARS at this point If you aren’t doing it consistently (or adding #Alt4Me if you really can’t) then at this point I’m not convinced you’ll change but I’d be happy if you did. I’ve started unfollowing peeps who don’t use alt text and muting (No alt)

The autistic desire to randomly add to my family group chat with “yes, but you do know that the UK media claims that the Charlie Kirk murderer was left-wing is bollocks, don’t you?” out of completely nowhere, while my 80 year old mother is chatting about the piano tuner.

It reads like a joke being made about how badly America is reacting to the death of Charlie Kirk but then you realise that the scary thing is that it’s actually just true.

A murdered lover. A false conviction. A galaxy on the brink of annihilation. Tim Scott believed his life had ended the night he was framed for murdering the woman he loved. Condemned to rot in a prison orbiting a dead world, he has nothing left—until an alien device called Enigma offers him the one

Hey, my lovely friend Rosemary and his chosen family are really in need of support right now, and I’ve known R for decades and his family through him as he talks about them. They really don’t deserve all the shit they’re going through, so any help you could give would be fab…

Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver

ICC, World Leaders, GOP, US Senate, the American President is just murdering citizens of other countries with no due process or proof of crime. This is a war crime, it’s dangerous, shouldn’t you, idk, *do* something other than ignore it?

Fascinating that my heart rate this evening is determinedly high, no matter that I’m lying down and no more stressed than normal. Also fascinating that a day I’ve literally slept for all but six hours, is the first day I’ve gone over budget in pace points in #Visible. No wonder I’m still tired.

Okay, can anyone tell me: is it just the UK where transphobes pretend that transphobia is really a very liberal, *feminist* position to take? Because it seems to be growing in many countries, but usually as part of the Right;Far Right/Religious-conservative platform, which is where it belongs.

This is a ridiculously large amount when you think about it. Like, it’s about 0.24% of the *world’s* electricity consumption on just the data centers in the US.

Wow, that’s really offensive, didn’t Charlie Kirk say that MLK was evil or something?!

Important letter from @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social re Supreme Court ruling and Lord Hodge’s comments thereon.

Wow, can’t imagine why this has disappeared. Did it disprove The Dictator…sorry, President…or something?

Well I guess it's time to remind people exactly where they stand then, eh?

There were nearly the same number at London Trans Pride this year, but oddly the media didn’t cover the well behaved protest march (which still had plenty of joy) in the same way, nor did the government show any signs (quite the opposite, in fact) of wanting to pander to trans folks…

A new investigation has revealed significant lobbying efforts by gender critical groups. https://www.wearequeeraf.com/freedom-of-information-request-uncovers-gender-critical-bias-within-ehrc/