I have family events coming up soon So there’ll be the inevitable questions about what I study after me saying I’m a PhD student And when I say “cultural studies” it’s never enough of a description for folks So I get to see in real time the light die in their eyes when I say “sexual violence” 🙃

CW sexual violence This is exactly why any work to end sexual violence needs to be anti-carceral. The prison is a site of mass sexual violence, implicitly backed by an industrial complex that does not care what happens within those buildings so long as it makes money and their image is protected.

2026 basically

I had been feeling disconnected from my PhD as a process recently, so it made research difficult, but I’ve just chewed my mum’s ear off for an hour about my dreams and my thoughts on methods and what they might reveal, and now I’m feeling totally reinvigorated! Finishing 2 chapters let’s goooo

she was queer. she was married to a woman. they were raising a child together. her wife was literally right there, she witnessed it.

CW csam

The murder of Renee Nicole Good also demonstrates another obvious and terrible truth that the Movement for Black Lives have tried to tell America about state violence: there's never been a such thing as a perfect victim

An important thread on how Greenland is an Inuit country currently occupied by Denmark and thus seen as a site of conquest by Trump

it is a little disconcerting that none of the people in charge of anything right now seem to know how to do it. like, if you were on a bus and the driver started whipping around all crazy and yelling about how buses don’t need wheels you’d probably be like, hey. this guy shouldn’t be driving the bus

The U.S. has an extensive and bloody history of forcing regime change in Latin America, which is what makes this a continuation rather than an exception. But the lack of obfuscation involved is pretty stunning. They’re trying to equate this to acting on a warrant internal to the U.S.

We're alive to love things, learn things, and make things. That's it. That's our whole task in our short bright flash of life. Love, learn, and create. The more love, learning, and making stuff you put in the world - the love, harmony, beauty, justice, compassion and mercy of existence - the better.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Angelina Jolie in front of the Rafah crossing in the Gaza Strip

CW graphic descriptions of sexual violence Colonialism is rapacious. People often use the language of rape to frame what is done to the land, but there is very literal sexual violence perpetrated during colonialist war, oppression, and expansion in a systematic manner. This is just one example.

Fuck it I don’t care anymore

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CW genocidal transphobia As the UK (and elsewhere) descends further and further into outright fascism, we will see even more of these mask-off takes. These people do not have any legitimate concern for women’s rights or safety. They are simply genocidal.

Yeah this is a good point - it's very small numbers of people as a portion of the country which is great, except for some reason our media and political class have decided that they are objectively the most important segment of the electorate and must be appeased at all costs.

Between the pedo president and an economy built entirely atop the teen-suicide robot we're really being shown how structurally central oppression of children is to the whole system

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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

Merry Christmas! I promise I’m not quite as miserable as I appear here Featuring my new gay shirt* (I received 2 but this was the gayest) You also can’t see how glittery my face is in the photo but I can assure you the new sparkling powder I received is extremely OTT when used as a highlighter

I beat the shit out of the ghost of christmas past the second he threw back the curtains of my canopy bed. not tonight, you ghastly motherfuckers

If i may humbly suggest a couple 6. Dont forget to use alt text its helpful and makes bsky accessible. 7. Theres a setting you can change that makes you need to do alt text for all picutres and gifs before posting so turn that on. 8. Put hash tags in your alt text that shows up in search

Military history devoid of social, cultural, diplomatic, literary etc forms of history is essentially meaningless. Knowing what soldiers and armies did in battle without understanding why they did them, the cultures that produced them, or the industries that supported them is pointless.

Yes. We're spending £476m on the militarisation of Calais - where babies are being tear gassed. The fact people are hearing this for the first time is exactly why I made it the subject of the Christmas Day message. We could be spending that money instead on a fair and managed migration system.

Btw the DWP decided not to pay my UC 2 days ago, because they’re reviewing my finances and I dared ask for an extension due to waiting for things to arrive and because it’s badly triggered my anxiety. This is after them saying I “have nothing to be distressed over”. Merry Christmas, state style.

If I’m not listening to this rendition at Christmas, I have it stuck in my head on loop Honestly if you’ve never heard it before so have a listen. Best Christmas song ever, who doesn’t want to be haunted by the lullaby voice of a fae prince? youtu.be/u2cGdgK8Hgk?...

When I was a lot younger and blonde, a guy said something to the effect of “blue eyes and blonde hair? Hitler would’ve thought you were perfect!” Apparently that was a compliment?? He didn’t understand why I wasn’t enthralled and dropping my knickers for him. White cishet men are a bizarre breed

Greta Thunberg knows how to wield her celebrity well and I’ve got a lot of respect for that. There was barely any, if any at all, mainstream media coverage of the hunger strikers til today. C4 news, for example, covered her arrest on the 7pm news — and thus had to include the reason for her protest.

“I don’t think about the past when a cat hops in my lap. I don’t think of what I should or could have done. I don’t think about courts or life sentences or parole boards. What comes to mind is peace, and a sense that everything is going to be OK.”

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

notice how she wasn't even supporting palestine action. she was supporting the hunger strikers.

Palestine Action hunger strikers launch legal action against UK government https://aje.io/iisss1

Reminder that companies are not their CEOs and workers at all levels are not cool with this shit, and should not have to tolerate unilateral decisions that undermine their work made by a single person

The point about litigation for these terrible people isn't necessarily to win, although they obv do want that too. It's that their backers have almost limitless cash with which fuck over & drag through the courts those speaking out for trans rights disciplining activists & quashing free speech

Over 30 selfie thread (I’m 33)

Why does Rebeka have to beg for 50c while a fucking white racist lady can raise $750 000 for yelling racial slurs at a Black child in a park? Rebeka is a Black non-binary cancer patient who needs financial support to access healthcare. They're not even asking for a huge amount. Help them????

In his acting as Astarion in BG3, Neil Newbon apparently said he performed Spawn!Astarion to be theatrical to contrast a more operatic Ascended!Astarion (I personally do not find this useless per se as Astarion is my video game husband of choice at present but it’s relatively niche I guess?)

lotta people talking about The Times We Live In without saying the words white or whiteness or white supremacy (often opting for some version of ‘power’ or ‘bootlicking’ or ‘cowardice,’ which are NOT sufficient substitutes) and I just think that’s a huge problem/reason things are they way they are

The bank did not get back to me today and have precisely £1.05 in my bank 🙃 I borrowed money from my nan for a bare bones Christmas food shop this evening, as that’s been booked for ages and I’m not confident this’ll be resolved before the day itself and we need food in general let alone that…

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Had to be assertive on the phone to the bank because my regular payments haven’t come in or gone out today, and now I feel like a big meanie even though I was very polite I am notoriously conflict-averse so well done me, I think, for putting my foot down as asking for it to be logged

Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.

a software engineer telling academics that they can do scholarship without actually *reading* scholarly works is a funny and depressing example of our very stupid zeitgeist

I want to report a murder...

in this house we cherish the holiday classics 🎄