Always feel slightly smug when the NS site says this but I'm already in the connecting train it insists I couldn't make.

You should not forget her.

I believe that anime fansubs of old shows never released in English as well as manga scanlations of titles never licensed/dropped prior to completion in English are Good, Actually. That’s the way I find out those things even exist at all, such that if a legal version does come out, I will pay for it

"I can't relate to teen characters!" so you don't, like, remember what it was like to be a teenager? you don't remember the awkwardness or the strong feelings or first romances? you can't relate to someone whose circumstances don't match your current ones? unorthodox display of hubris, but very well

The world deserves an adaption of Sexiled: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out, So I Teamed Up With a Mythical Sorceress! Because not only is it great but it will also upsetti spaghetti a subset of people

OTD 48 years ago Jane Suck and I wrote the post punk electronica manifesto New Musick in Sounds. I’m still very proud of this: we caught something in our fevered queer brains. Note the very early (the first?) use of the term post punk. Articles included Kraftwerk, Eno, Devo, TG, the Residents, Ubu

Tbh I think i prefer being judged by a jury of my peers than just some guy in a wig who is literally one text away from being caught by yer da's paedophile hunter group on facebook.

Australian actor Guy Pearce: "I have never been so disgusted by a group of people in my life as I am by Israelis. Everyday I witness their utter disregard and disdain for Palestinian life. It is shameful and sets humanity further backwards with every vile act like this."

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

This is your sign btw that you should call Mastercard

I've spent the entire twelve years of being out trying to ruin boobs for Glinner specifically. Glad my hard work has paid off.

Not an exaggeration to say Magica Riot has genuinely changed my life via the success & reception they've had, so I wanted to commemorate them as I move from their launch to their continuing adventures! So here's a classic anime hero shot by @ambisweetiepie.bsky.social of my queer PDX magical girls!

In between those two thoughts: I have been a broke queer in need of books to read and I'm not going to judge what others in that situation do. Please support writers however you can. But regardless, read, and learn, and thrive, and pass the knowledge on to others. Here endeth the lesson 3/3

At the same time, I see Anna's as the place my books will live if censorship drives them out of the mainstream. Trans writers urgently need a backup that's robust against suppression, and while piracy wouldn't have been my first choice, it's the best thing we've got 2/3

As one of rather few trans women with a Big 5 publishing contract, I hope people will buy my book or borrow it from a library. Not just because I need money, but because I want to retain that access. Trans women's books should be in bookstores and libraries, and publishers like to see line go up 1/3

God I'm so sick of how "Activist" is used to un-person trans people.

imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like

Like so many 80s fixtures, getting its start in the 70s

White Dwarf had an ongoing flame war in the letters pages because its reviewer said Twilight 2000 was a moral abomination steeped in Reaganesque power fantasies.

reading Michael Sheridan's book on Xi and thinking how terrible it must be to be publicly denounced by your own mother, then remembered the time she caught me hanging round outside the off license.

Odi , odi Sranan! Wan switi Srefidensi gi alla Sranan Sma tap a grontapu! Simons en Simons feliciteren alle Surinamers over de hele wereld met 50 jaar onafhankelijkheid. Moge de komende 50 vooruitgang, eenheid en voorspoed brengen voor het mooiste land ter wereld! 🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷

though not as bad as wArFiGhTeR.

The bar acceptable racism has been lowered, such that it will make no difference to Farage in the polls and elsewhere. We conceded this ground years ago, and Labour in government have been at best hypocritical and at worst, have wilfully ridden the wave of racism.

Fun fact: transphobia is a vote loser in the US as shown in e.g the 2022 elections.

This never would have happened if Lee Hazlewood were still alive.

oh I feel that

Nailed it "Super Space Sheriff Gavan Infinity will pay homage to the Space Sheriff Gavan series from 1982, the first in Toei's Metal Hero tokusatsu series"

"People who say they're mad about capitalism are actually mad about living in a capitalist society, which in my mind proves something"

If you're still a zionist in 2025 this is the sort of thing you have to tell yourself, a fairy tale in which Israel is the victim and people who dislike genocide are just brainwashed.

Dude's having a normal one

Sorry to everyone signing the F1NN5TER apology form right now but I can't articulate how predatory and negligent it is to set up GenderGP With Racing Stripes instead of just telling people to get on DIY - something which has never been easier to find decent information on bsky.app/profile/kati...

A seeming contradiction resolved if you understand our elites are not human anymore. ( Only half joking) I do think most petty crime is done from economic necessity at least, but also that we just don't see a lot of crime as crime e.g traffic offenses.

SCHANDE!😡 Echt een enorme schande en minachting is dit.

Arbeidsinspectie beschermt arbeiders niet, maar verlinkt ze bij de Vreemdelingenpolitie. Dit is van de zotte en onacceptabel! 1. Stop met werving van inspecteurs bij politie. 2. Gooi verantwoordelijken voor deportaties de inspectie uit. 3. Stop samenwerking tussen inspectie en Vreemdelingenpolitie!

no, this is just lesbian foreplay

It would also give *Ryan Lizza*—who could, in theory, have leaked this info at any point over the last 12-16 months—a role in both RFK’s appointment and the untold preventable deaths. But Lizza either isn’t self aware enough to realize that or is too busy selling Substack subscriptions to care

Vandaag is het 72 jaar geleden dat mijn overgrootvader Willem, van mijn vaderskant, overleed. Hij is mijn eerste voorouder die na de slavernij geboren is. Hij is ook de enige voorouder die op onze plantage een stenen grafsteen heeft. Trots dat ik van hem afstam.

Dit is een belangrijk onderzoek: de Nederlandse overheid faalt in het beschermen van werknemers tegen uitbuiting, omdat ze "migratiecontrole" altijd en overal belangrijker vindt.

LMAOOOOOOO

Funny that a search on Darfur, Sudan or RSF on this account shows no mentions. Hrm.

Sorry people called you out and made you feel bad but, in fairness, that was because you said, with your own words that you typed on your own keyboard, that you liked it better when the United States of America bombed people while saying nice things about the gays.

The myth is circulating again that it was more radical otg activists and assimilationist gays ("boots and suits") teaming up that was responsible for queer communities' gains late '60s on. The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵 Let's start with Stonewall...

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

One from the archives: In 2023 Ayesha Hazarika said it was ridiculous the Cheltenham Racing Festival took place in March 2020 But at the very time Cheltenham was taking place in March 2020 Hazarika sneered at those who were demanding more scrutiny of the decisions the govt was taking on Covid

Today is a pretty good reminder of why No Kings and such is so off-putting to me: it's because liberals have learned so little, and so many of them think this is simply a path "back to normal." and any attempt at showing them the deep rot of their political beliefs ends in "fuck you commie"

Apropos of nothing, but if you are seriously defending ride flagged B-52s you are saying that a) you don't think of non-Americans as people b) you think of queer Americans purely as human shields c) you convinced yourself that the lesser of two evils is actually fine

Being misgendered is awful indeed but not an excuse to just deny the legitamite criticism you received for you queer washing American imperialism. You make it seem that everybody just called you slurs, which wasn't true but is convenient.

This sort of thinking is typical of your average lib: everything is immediately a massive crisis if the Dems lose the elections, but nothing is ever done to create structural solutions to these problems when they are in power, nor do libs put any pressure on the party to solve them when they are.