I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

very grateful for kind / thoughtful responses to latest article; just catching up on them now because i spent the last 24 hours running The Gauntlet

“It is beneath my dignity to let myself be run over by any trolley, and particularly this trolley, burdened as it is by a cape and a stupid hat.” I wrote for Defector about boycotting Harry Potter, the ‘safe’, kindly face of anti-trans politics: defector.com/its-time-to-...

i always love rattling through 50% of my edits with american magazines just by approving 'replace the dashes with the other dashes', 'replace the speech marks with the other speech marks', and 'replace S with Z because we are america'

got back from a nice evening with friends, turned the light on, and immediately cut myself on a screw by the light switch so now i’m off getting a tetanus shot

i will literally never use generative AI for writing, at gunpoint or otherwise. the only application anything ‘AI’ has in my personal work is audio-to-text transcription

Since proponents of conversion therapy have chosen their language to be deliberately confusing and obfuscate their intent, I wrote this primer several years ago to help people spot warning signs. Hope it helps someone.

checking my nails as a bunch of radfem gen zers try to tell me that sex-positive feminism ruined their lives and tried to make them be ‘male-centred’ & slutty & poly or whatever. like babe i am also gen z and when i got my first job i didn’t know people weren’t allowed to sexually harass me

also ngl i find ‘visibility’ an often baffling metric wrt transness but given this is a newish platform for me: i’ve been out as trans for 7 years, transness and trans healthcare gave me my life, & i plan to be kicking and screaming and aiding my people in kicking and screaming forever

got a surprise extra commission so maybe i Can justify writing about lindy west for free…

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

happy TDOV! catch some visible trans people!

this is so good. i really want to write something for these guys. 2026 goal

i went on NPR's It's Been A Minute podcast to talk fanfiction and culture! with the wonderful @offbeatorbit.bsky.social and @bmluse.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/03/30/n...

finished off a weekend at MFF love me tender - life changingly good if a bit overlong littermates - badgood as hell, what is worldbuilding, had a great time rose of nevada - excellent, eerie, brings things together just enough california schemin’ - v paint by numbers but a blast

rose of nevada was really good, coalesced just enough to feel successful imo

please can someone pay me to write about lindy west i am going insane and i cannot justify writing for free atm

my deepest darkest secret is that i know if i became an instagram poet i could do insane numbers

Received word from PIP giving me zeroes across the board for everything, claiming I can cook for myself, dress myself and all other things which are not true. I am appealing with the help of my partners. I cannot live like this. It's all so frustrating. My hands don't work and I can't see properly!

watching basil the great mouse detective. ah the 80s, where you could fully just discharge a handgun in a disney movie

just watched the film adaptation of constance debré’s love me tender at the MFF and was so floored by it i sat there mute through the whole credits

seeing calls to boycott HP being met with ‘but you use twitter!’ as if an IP and a social media website are equivalent lol

officially have a deadline of 30 september to complete my thesis now and am no longer receiving my main source of income. shit’s getting real boys

no more irritating and petty feeling in the world than being a bit annoyed that someone didn’t cite you

I am also working on a sex deception piece atm (in the works / getting legal checks / etc) and am really excited for Sasha's work here

have never watched bridgerton but the reaction to them doing a lesbian season is an amazing study in how many straight women are surprisingly comfortable with being openly lesbophobic if they can phrase it in terms of them, the protagonists of reality, being deprived of something they’re owed

realising that, as a man with two girlfriends, when i’m telling people i want to ‘do manchester film festival stuff’ i should probably not use the acronym

You'll be astonished to learn that the self-described "Free Speech Union" recently took out a court injunction to prohibit publication of a list of its donors... But @petergeoghegan.bsky.social reports it has gained "significant sums from a vehicle linked to... donors to Tufton Street think tanks"

had forgotten my interdental brushes for like six weeks due to moving stress. just finally used one again. this feels like if the leech cure was real

this video slaps - very comprehensive and sharp and very cathartic

crow was eyeing up the food but every time i tried to photograph it it started pretending it wasn’t interested

sometimes i wonder what the funniest thing is that i could refer to myself as where cis people would be too scared to contradict me. ‘masc4masc’ is definitely up there

the amount of people who think elia is my deadname and eli is my chosen name is very sweet. like not to insult a flat 30% of my compatriots but that would seem like an inconvenient way to live my life

WHAT kind of irish is your grandaaaad

local man’s first proper suit

beautiful wife has not had the chance to go to a wedding before today and she was READY

lindy west’s spouse sucks and i am sick of hearing about them but also the pronouns declaration here is insane

seeing a lot of writers panic re shy girl that having a tumblresque flowery writing style will mean they are inaccurately accused of using AI. fwiw i don’t think AI is best identified via a few specific sentences. but it may be useful for people to interrogate whether their writing is lucid…

alex and i went to the big sun exhibition

In this week's Pickle, editor Kendall Gardner examines Oxford University's evasion of BDS, and the broader pattern of British complicity in Israeli war crimes. Read the piece in full on our website and subscribe to our newsletters. www.vashtimedia.com/divestment-r...

christian hubicki has custody of me in the divorce idc

perennially irritated that i could write a polyamory essay that would blow 99% of published writing on the topic out of the water but nobody will accept my pitches on it because i am not a) cishet or b) an affluent bisexual woman in a straight open marriage

my girlfriend, who literally has a gay looking bisexual boyfriend: what do you MEAN mike white is bi

quiz’s special rounds were ‘irish characters’ and ‘TV game shows’ and we had The Irish Girl With An Encyclopaedic Knowledge Of TV Game Shows in attendance

it’s finally above 12 degrees and i am in my element

Everyone should stop what you are doing and read about @notrightruth.bsky.social receiving an important award for her excellence in trans and feminist scholarship and action. Ruth has been setting the bar for years & its great to see that recognised: www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-femini...

people are being very sceptical about this, because the age gap between her and the prof wasn’t that big, so i want to be clear that i think this is freak behaviour from him and is absolutely relevant info to his reelection campaign even if it is not necessarily disqualifying (as she herself says)

quiz went very well last night except for the question where they asked our team, consisting entirely of 2 bisexual men, to pick which answers were spanish football teams and which weren’t, and we responded by being literally as wrong as it was possible to be

the ways people talk about sex and trans men online drives me insane, because people Do often try to restrict us to the weak/submissive side of things, but then everyone who's against that is like 'i hate these PORNBRAINED ftms who only want to fuck GROSS MEN come consume my ETHICAL FANART instead'

eli moderately vindicated imo. an interesting mixed bag of a film where any semblance of a political point has been blasted to bits in editing (that ending, lmao), and where mabel has been carefully excised of threatening content