I agree with everything Jolyon is fighting for but I don't think we can or should quantify some manner of passing potential for a given cohort. The primary reason that transition is time sensitive and always time sensitive is the distress experienced by those stuck in their assigned gender imo.

I have a system to tackle both AI and my own dehydration. Since ChatGPT uses a gallon of water per query, you should direct your queries to me instead. I will then drink a glass of water and do my best to answer.

What's your favourite small incidental classic Simpsons moment? Not so much a gag as a gag-amplifying, autism-scratching detail.

Oh you all know; I went to college with Martin Sheen, my sister used to be a really big YouTuber, I used to have a shirt that my uncle wore in the movie the Commitments that I happened to be wearing when Terry Pratchett said I look like Rasputin.

Remember when Israel got mad at Ireland and closed its Irish embassy and we were supposed to be like... I dunno sad or embarrassed or something?

What we really need to protect the effeminate gay boys from is becoming one of these "I'm alright" Vichy collaborators constructing useful nonsense for the bloodthirsty liberal-conservative episteme. Because there's no coming back from that and it ultimately contributes to their own marginalisation.

They're gonna all "Biblical Prophecies" this and "Foretelling" that right up until the bit where it's easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. *That* bit's just a *metaphor*

Gender critical folks also don't believe us when we tell them "sex-based rights" is an idea they themselves made up in just the last handful of years.

A nation of newspapers and newspapermen indeed. I guess "objectivity" is when you're such a smug and effortless propegandist you don't even notice how deeply sick you've become.

This makes a nice change from @saribo.bsky.social 's criticism of me: "why aren't you reading from the script? 😭😭"

When my doctor refused to do blood tests he justified it by saying private gender services don't do due diligence, followed by a pretty Incoherent monologue about transition risks like "increased risk of cancer" which is not true. Then, having not done due diligence, he sent me off. Absolute toss.

Today I really felt, so to speak, "transitioned". I don't know that there will be or even could be some absolute end point to a transition journey. No doubt there will be plenty more change ahead. But, with no makeup on, just wearing whatever, I looked in the mirror and I saw her.

The purpose of an America is what it does.

Calling on every Irish person to write to your TDs, the Taoiseach and Tánaiste expressing your total unfiltered disgust over our cooperation with the US military. The upcoming visit to the White House on St Patrick's Day must be a humiliating scar on the legacy of every politician who participates.

This is already outdated given the brazen Trump speech. Just shameful evil stuff.

So what, I guess Israel has a right to defend itself by firing a bunch of missiles unprovoked and then waiting to get bombed to bits, all so they can spend even more of their GDP on gruesome weaponry; and help to keep two different evil corrupt governments in power?

Try telling Americans that free health care is actually FREE in other countries and you will meet, head on, the cruelly insular and one-sided nature of the American media.

Everyone's radicalised. Liberals need to (ahahaha) Grow Up! No one wants a centrist candidate. Be realistic. Try to think about this pragmatically. Let's live in the real world. Liberalism is dead.

'tis a fine day to be a UK Labour hater. A fine fine day.

Here it is again, folks: "Grow Up" - meaning "internalise the logic that allows people with more power than you to behave in ways that you are not allowed to" It's "fall in line" for liberals.

Yes, Neilly wrote, angrily.

Why does the billionaire fear the trans? Wrong answers only.

My favourite example of a failed US adaptation of a British sitcom is "Gavin Newsom", the completely unfunny, slimy version of "Keir Starmer" which is itself a particularly shit political farce.

It's true. Posting video essays to Twitter just leads to being called slurs I wasn't familiar with. But when I post our video essays here on Bluesky, most people are like "I already made a video about that."

It's really unfair that TERFs can say whatever they want about the physical appearance of trans people when I have to be all dignified and not deploy all my harsh and hilarious zingers. And accurate. Accurate zingers.

There is literally no AI. There's just generative content.

I tried to explain the upcoming UK by-election and how exciting and important the Green surge is and for a moment Sarah - who is not good with names - thought that @zackpolanski.bsky.social was called "Gordon Endenton"

I think this is turning out to be one of our best essays

Sarah getting her paperwork in order for Irish citizenship. Evidence of hating Bono: check.

This premiere is happening now and I can't wait to see it but I'm trapped under a sleeping baby. You'll have to watch without me

They say that moving house, having a young baby, and making a video essay is the most stressful time of your life.

I think, as much as Esther Ghey is acting like a useful idiot for the forces of transphobia, IMO it is just wrong and heartless to leap to an interpretation of evil and lovelessness. The world is transphobic as normative. She may be a fool, but that does not revoke her love or grief.

Canva's more popular and overused elements got lucky that AI slop became society's overwhelmingly hated aesthetic.

Nice. I'm in the new Pillar of Garbage video. I'm not the main one. That's the Pillar of Garbage person. But I'm a second other voice, later.

We're starting a whole new exciting intimidating chapter. Unfortunately this is in part to escape the transphobia and cruelty of my hometown. More details in Sarah's thread.

In case you missed Neilly and I's livestream, we're MOVING! To Cork! We're ridiculously excited, its a new start in a place that will be hopefully more forgiving than our very rural (and apparently very transphobic) area. We are trying to raise enough money to help with moving expenses.

"Sartre’s injunction to remember that antisemites are primarily “amusing themselves” is true of most right wing discourse, no matter... how terrible. As such, the right are strongly averse to any sort of reality-testing." @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

We still get a lot of comments on our Childism video from people that think edgy internet-brained rudeness is a good cover for this basic admission they're making about themselves

Starmer vs AI is like hearing that Noel and Liam Gallagher got into a fist fight backstage with Ricky Gervais. You can't be expected to pick a side. You can only hope that, in the ensuing scuffle, they fall down a manhole and land on unexploded munitions.

The reputation Dublin (wishes it) has of being a cheeky friendly city is actually (and increasingly) intimidation, harassment and public insult from a cohort of men with nasty nasal voices scoring somewhere between JK Rowling and a rubber chicken on the witty scale.

Pithy observation about some really awful thing

If you wanted a check-in on the Overton window; these days not actively threatening to invade qualifies as "calm and reassuring"

Why are people calling the woman in Kansas city who set fire to a future ICE facility a "wine mom"? Is it ... because she's a woman? She hasn't been identified (and hopefully won't be) She is not a Wine Mom. She is a radical activist.

There's a doorway protected by two AI guards. One always says "Absolutely! It's not just X it's Y! " and the other always says "For sure! It's not just Y it's X!" And the question is, how do you most effectively seize the wealth of and enact retributive justice against our tech overlords?

Going live in less than ten minutes if you're into that kind of thing

So apparently billionaires get their fortunes by writing down ideas like "3D printing a new kind of helicopter on Venus" and then emailing it to a pedophile I guess.

We'll be going live this evening at 8 with news! Maybe you wanna come hang out and chat with us. Link: youtube.com/live/4qTXpIZ...

You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you'll have sore boobs for a while NGL and you'll probably cry a lot, oh and people will be awful! But also it'll be pretty good, honestly. Much better orgasms.

Streeting desperately texting Mandelson: "Hey babes, listen how should I distance myself from you in the eyes of the British public?"

Bad Bunny: conveys the entire history of beauty through dance and music and also at the end synthesises a new element. Kid Rock: hey yo yo. *points into crowd* yo.