Zarah Sultana calls for a referendum on the monarchy www.thecanary.co/trending/202... On principle I agree, but repeating the errors of the Brexit referendum with a binary “yes/no” without considering what would replace the monarchy would be madness!

If anyone is interested…

How is it taking them this long to work this out?

I didn’t know it was called the tokenkop, but I knew the symbol I now know is called a tokenkopf is related to the Nazis!

My first thought was, “Yes, you’re the only one feeling sorry for him,” but then I thought further… I suspect Mandleson and any number of sexual predators also feel sorry for him!

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Republican Party one month ago: "Tone down your violent rhetoric, no more name-calling, you're getting us killed!" Republican Party seeing No Kings rallies all over the US: "terrorist supporters, true fascists, Hamas lovers, they hate America"

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

Can someone talk me out of doing a PhD, or tell me it’s a good idea. Either option is possible!

Just seen people complaining about Christmas advertising already… but what you have to remember is that while it’s only mid-October, for most people it’s only 2 pay days before Christmas. Many people will therefore be thinking about buying gifts And non-perishable goods.

And of course if the BBC had outbid Channel 4, the article would have been moaning about how the BBC waste license payers money! open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

I’ve had my first bath for a month… don’t worry I’ve had lots of showers!

@lumiharpy.bsky.social hey there Nary. Thanks for following me :-)

Hello to all the lovely people in my computer... Hope you are most excellent today!!

Those of us who fought for gay rights in the 1980s and 90s were often told we were too loud, too angry or asking for too much by the gays who sat at home. Now they’re the ones saying the same about the trans rights struggle. #ProtectTheDolls

Post something orange, quickly I dare you! IYKYK!

Apart from boredom… happiness reigns.

Is there an iPad compatible app for BluSky?

I'm pretty sure that art is meant to reflect society… not society reflecting art!

In fact, ages before this fash-inflected anti-trans movement, I always hated being called a "pregnant woman" because a) it was tautologous and b) my gender wasn't the point, the point was the pregnancy. Nobody calls me a journalist woman.

I’m not a woman because I had surgery to give me a vagina. I had surgery to give me a vagina because I’m a woman.

And a reminder; If anyone grabs you in inappropriate places such as sexually or on your boobs to 'prove' you are or aren't the gender you say you are, it's sexual assault. Prosecute every single time. Take legal advice.

What a brilliant word… Wordle 1,465 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

So much has happened since this post on 4th June. So in case anyone was unaware I was travelling to London for vaginoplasty the next day. So the day came, arrived as required at 7am. Was told that I would be operated on in the afternoon, so I tried to relax (almost impossible) until then.

The worst thing about X and Musk - loosing the place where I met all my friends (even if I didn’t meet any of them yet in real life) and the splintering of how I could let them know my news.

Big day today… I get introduced to the orange and violet friends which will be my constant companions on the next 12 weeks and beyond!!!

Trans on a train.

V-day minus 1 😱

The UK Labour Government is following a path which demonstrably will lead to this. Make nice with monstrous ideas, you become monsters yourselves, Labour. www.comicsands.com/lesbian-illi...

V-day minus 4!

V-day minus 6 :-)

Doctors (the medical ones) are so called because they (traditionally) completed a doctorate prior to practising. On the other hand in the UK surgeons are Mr/Miss because they qualified (traditionally) through an apprenticeship.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... Stop telling people they can’t trust Farage, and start demonstrating why they can trust you!

Just a little reminder from when Kemi 'Masterbrain' Badenoch pulled the plug on an investigation into Falkner and her shenanigans. A fish always rots from the head. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-6721...

Humans are now working harder in order for computers to (pretend to be) creative (while actually just steeling from real artists!)

What he described is r*pe. He thinks a woman doesn't have a right to say no if a man paid for dinner.

I’m so excited and nervous too… only three weeks till I become 🍆 free

(... which is more than Reform, by the way)

Well I wasn’t expecting it to rain. Seeded the lawn.

If you wouldn't accept Nigel Farage's framing on migration or use his rhetoric, stop accepting anti-trans framing and using their rhetoric. Trans people do not 'identify' as their gender any more than you identify with yours. We are that gender. End of story. As for 'biologically male/female' no!

I should have been shocked to see The Telegraph using dog whistle racism on a billboard… the state of the world is such that I wasn’t. (reposed as I forgot alt text)

If you are a feminist academic, you should sign this letter. forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

🧵In March I wrote about how Trump's attacks on science & universities followed the authoritarian playbook & set out Qs as warning signs for escalation. 🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised full post: christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si... 1/15

Labour can never “look tough [enough]” on immigration to satisfy people who are voting to stop immigratiom; they need to take hold of the narrative and promote the reasons immigration is good.

Been away from Blusky and been busy. Another semester of lectures over, just 5,000 or so words to commit to …well Word… before Mid May. Then off to have a weird growth I’ve had since birth removed :-)

Good morning sweet people in my phone. Cold but beautiful walking to Uni this morning. (Yes my floor is a mess!)

"Musk is probably confusing 'SQL' with 'Microsoft SQL Server'" The Social Security Administration uses Microsoft SQL Server too. The agency's ODS's and data warehouses don't run on SQL Server, but SSA has a massive Sharepoint intranet that runs on ... a Microsoft SQL Server cluster.

Look up your name in GIFs …I will!!

This may be important for lawyers representing trans people in court. Australian judgements can be used in the courts of England and Wales. Murdoch used an Australian judgement when he was battling HMRC in a London court and won the case on that basis.