Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her. This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.

“..the Supreme Court, the EHRC, the UK government, and data professionals have exposed the state as an illegitimate force” A crucial under-the-hood look at how anti-trans campaign groups like sexmatters and the EHRC are using data to erase trans+ people from public life Please share widely 👇🏼

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo

Diogenes, c4th century BCE

Good bishoping

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

And you sound real fucking weird specifically as an *American* being like “yes these are modern-day Redcoats anyway it’s very important to stay peaceful at all costs and not take the current addled doddering King George’s bait”

Obviously there’s narrative utility in Nazi comparisons but more and more I feel like we should be talking in these terms as well, and forcing elected Dems to grapple with the very real parallels

There is the case of Croft - confirmed in the Scottish Ministers case by the Supreme Court as good law - which conflicts with this judgement and is not addressed in it. There will be appeals in these cases but right now, the law is a total mess and which ones are overturned on appeal will be key:

It's important to note that, as with Peggie, this is an Employment Tribunal decision so it is not case law and sets no precedent. The only interesting aspect of it is the reasoning behind the analysis.

The wonderful @amalelmohtar.com is in the trade rag! With a phenomenal interview about her amazing collection!

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Yeah, when I'm trying to identify the masked thugs smashing a car window and dragging a woman on her way to the doctor's out through the shattered glass, I'm sure I'll be able to get a foot or so away to scan. Absolutely centrist Dem-brained useless pablum.

Bandcamp bans AI music

Thread. [the shorthand about her that is often uplifted on social media always does her a disservice and also does Rosa Parks one too. Glad for this thread]

US vetoes most Ethiopian athletes for the World Crosscountry Championships in Florida by denying their visas. Ethiopia will be unable to record a team result in either the U20 men’s or U20 women’s races, ending its 44-year medal streak. I’m sure the Olympics and World Cup are going to be fine. 😡

African descended people are walking around with surnames like McCalmont and Mcdonald but you're saying it's European culture facing erasure 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement

This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

As Handywoman is a weird name

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

This image is from Birzeit University in the West Bank which was raided by Israel today using live ammunition and tear gas. Over 40 people were injured, mostly students. More than 8,000 students are trapped inside. But it’s controversial to talk about scholasticide.

This is what happens when you elect a guy who actually bikes instead of a guy who double parks in a bike lane sideways.

Nina Power, for those that don’t know, is perhaps one of the few people alive in the UK you can openly call a Nazi without any fear of her suing you for libel, since she lost her suit and through legal discovery was revealed to be obsessed w/ Hitler. She still writes for the newspapers, though!

We are judging you on what you do. What you are doing is supporting the EHRC's maximalist, most transphobic interpretation of a transphobic judgement www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Guardian reports how misgendering can affect mental health when the victim is cis. Doesn't seem so bothered when it happens to trans people. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

RE my last repost: "Oh, so you love criminals" is absolutely a misdirect and a trap. And also, if someone says that to me, my answer is yes, in part because there is no difference between the person I am today and the criminal I may become tomorrow.

I know there are a lot of speculative fiction readers among you. If you haven’t tackled @older.bsky.social Infomocracy series, it is horribly relevant. We played with some of the same ideas in the Leverage S3 finale, political perception as reality.

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

So Trump has said he is going to go in and "run" Venezuela and that US companies will have the country's oil reserves divvied up between them. After he kidnapped their president and his wife. That's where we're at, and we're going to maintain normal diplomatic relations with this man?

let’s also not forget that a trans woman with a popular account on here just deactivated after posting pics of herself in her new years finery and having some fucking creep use grok to remove her clothes and send the images back to her. this is straight up evil technology.

this mf said ‘John Sweeney’

Jay recognises the churches. I recognise the bookshop furnishings. That's a Waterstones, and one with older fittings at that.

2025 was by far the strongest year ever for novels by trans writers from major publishers -- and that's before you get down to smaller presses and self-published stuff, which were also cooking. God, I hope it sustains in 2026 and beyond. A lot of these books sold well! The audience is there!

The thing to understand is no compromise would be enough for the GCs. It is not enough that they are allowed to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces. Everyone else must be forced to do so. It is not enough that they are allowed to speak their views. Everyone else must be forced to listen.

there is a genre of person who hates AI in *their* field but sees how it could be useful in *other,* less prestigious, fields; ignore them. they are not trying to save the ship. they are just racing you to the lifeboats

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

“I heard somebody telling somebody else about a thing that happened to this other guy” lmao staggering journalistic rigor

Whipped through CINDER HOUSE by @freyamarske.bsky.social this morning, then immediately reread the last 25% or so because I was so delighted with it. Loved the spin on traditional elements of the Cinderella story, clever stuff there. Really loved the ballet scenes.

When Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton

And Schrödinger’s Tiny Tim, who both DID and did NOT die,

Renowned Palestinian actor and director Mohammad Bakri has died at 72. Born in Biina, Galilee, he survived the Nakba and spent 40+ years exposing Israeli oppression through film, appearing in 43 works including his banned documentary Jenin, Jenin. Rest in power.

if you're wondering why your trans friends everywhere are a little on edge right now, it's because a story about a radical conservative christian student abusing rules and processes to deliberately target a trans instructor consistently gets reframed to omit the entirety of the anti-trans bigotry

I first read @amalelmohtar.com's The Truth About Owls over a decade ago in an Australian anthology, and I've read (and been read, by @levarburton.bsky.social!) it multiple times since then. Still gets me every time, right in the middle of this amazing collection. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Supporting LGBT+ rights is political in a way that breaches the civil service code and opposing them is not political in a way that precludes charitable status is a... complex position to hold, although one managed by former LGBA hate group with charitable status trustee Kathleen Stock.

Is very good book

Told ya