Flat Earth *and* Hollow Earth is such an interesting combination.

A bunch of smug assholes are being extremely rude to Mal over this post as if "People writing stories about underdogs tend to model their villains after what they see as the dominant groups in society" is some really out there stuff and the only explanation I can think of is misogyny.

i will never accept this excuse out of a society that demands you take on 5 to 6 figures of debt to commit to a degree for a career at age 18

"Erm excuse me 🤓☝️, that work of fantasy fiction isn't presenting a materialist critique, it's just doing vague, vibes based stuff that is open to interpretation." Yeah bud, first time reading fantasy?

The unstated assumption of everything Cass says is that trans outcomes are inferior to cis outcomes. The Cass review was, as @fiercemum.bsky.social observed, cis-supremacist. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's a good book. You should give Alyson money in exchange for it.

It's kind of wild to see people still making this argument given how the right behaves in public while winning over and over again.

The government know exactly who they are working with herE and what they are doing.

This is very much that "containment" thing I was talking about recently. Much of the UK medical establishment, has accepted that they can't completely eliminate transness (not for lack of trying), so they will settle for making our lives hell so as few of us come out as possible.

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition. Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.

Government ministers have provably seen the evidence on Bayswater Support Group. We have letters demonstrating this fact. They continue to engage with them as if they were a normal parents group. transsafety.network/posts/wes-st...

Refusing social transition is also an active intervention and one that makes children fucking miserable

We've been repeatedly promised a full ban on conversion practices in the UK by successive governments and yet we've seen more momentum behind banning youth from social media, a thing that conversion therapists have been actively advocating for.

Thinking about the Relate counselor who very much encouraged this mindset in my ex again.

The only smart way to engage with electoral politics, if you really must, is to work on the basis that every candidate is a scumbag you are engaged in a complicated negotiation with. Which is why it's fucking dumb to ever publicly tell any politician that they have your vote no matter what.

Am I going to have to mute that one YouTuber's name again until you all recover from the shock of her still having shit politics?

For fucks sake don't link to The fucking Sun harassing an individual, named trans woman. What's wring eith youse?

A prominent journalist at The Sun, John Kay, drowned his first wife in the bath in 1977. They paid for his defence. He continued working for them for decades, was promoted continually, and twice won reporter of the year. When he died in 2021, guess what the papers didn’t mention in his obituaries?

In 2005 Rod Liddle was arrested and accepted a caution for assaulting his pregnant girlfriend. He continues to have a career in journalism because the British press is fine with violent misogynists.

They labelled noviolent protesters that they murdered as terrorists and their base and the right wing media just accepted it. If they just wanted an "excuse" to declare martial law they'd have made one up.

I was just thinking about this. If Bsky is blanket geo-IP banning everyone from Gaza, as proven by this Gazan journalist: 1.) This disproves the theory that these are Cambodian scammers 2.) Bsky knows these accounts are authentically in Gaza - but bans them anyway. Hm.

Watching pro AI people in Reddit discussions about slop PRs (code edit submissions to open source public software projects) complaining "What's the problem just review the PRs, if they're good merge them" really underlines a lot of the problematic way that AI boosters devalue respect for labour.

According to Steam, Slay The Spire, FTL. Genuinely surprised Loop Hero didn't make the cut.

I find it interesting that when I said that enacting a transphobic policy as a preemptive measure was shit, I got yelled at on the basis that otherwise WI's existence could be under threat. Turns out the greater threat seems to have come from the policy itself. archive.ph/xTPy7

Donate to the @goodlawproject.bsky.social crowdfunder to appeal the decision from the courts today. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

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I have never once, in any actual trans space, experienced any pressure one way or the other about my medical choices tbh. Like I'm not saying it never happens, but it's rare enough that I've never come across it.

Here are our FAQs on what the High Court's judgment means. goodlawproject.org/resource/faq...

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The problem is that some on the left know one fact about antisemitism, which is that “anti-zionism is not antisemitism.” This is like if the only thing you knew about racism was “it’s not racist to criticize Liberia.” It is true in most cases but you’re not actually anti-racist if you stop there

May Labour's Yvette Cooper, the former Home Secretary, be remembered always as the politician who imposed the ban at the behest of Britain's powerful weapons industry, so it could continue to profit from the deliberate massacre of the people of Gaza

Today's decision is, however a massive vindication of all those who argued the ban was a deliberate attempt to silence and criminalise the dissenting voices of campaigners trying to save lives by shutting down the suppliers of Israeli genocide.

The proscription order remains in place pending an appeal. Until further legal proceedings are complete, it remains a criminal offence to support or promote Palestine Action.

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

@moderation.bsky.app this is not what I joined Bluesky for. Please explain how this account violated the rules without ever posting.

Also, a lot of these discussions are phrased like children (remembering this goes up to teenagers) have no opinions or ability to take action on their own. "Don't change the child's pronouns" sounds so much nicer than "when the child tells you their pronouns, punish them for it."

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

Thinking about this, the pretence that the Supreme Court's rulings are laws of physics and this by Leon Rosselson... mainlynorfolk.info/leon.rossels...

The tl;dr of it is this: people think trans breastfeeding is monstrous because it is an artificial version of what is generally reified as "natural" womanhood. It's ultimately a reaction against the historicisation of things we see as an eternal given.

In an exclusive for the Daily Mail, we can reveal that the Code of Practice for Service Providers applies specifically to the provision of services.

Breast milk made by trans women is "not milk" "and "not breast milk" in an ontological mystical way whereby despite being composed of largely the same molecules as breast milk induced in cis women who aren't the natal parent, it doesn't have the Holy Spirit of milk present in it that the baby needs.

One of the persistent weird claims of the GC movement is that transfem breastfeeding (induced via similar means to inducing a lesbian co-parent, or another relative to breastfeed using domperidone especially in cases where natal parent can't give milk) is that trans women's breast milk isn't milk.

It's happening!

It frustrates me so much that people pretend that there's *nothing* the government could do other than full throatedly endorse FWS vs ScotGov. Incredibly clear that, when they want to, British governments are fully comfortable with the idea of making new primary legislation to overturn SC judgments.

"I have some Reasonable Concerns about trans participation in women's sports which is why I support a worldwide crusade against transition care and trans recognition and want trans people unable to participate in public life or exist in society." "Because of the Reasonable Concerns. About sports."

The distinction being made between "migrant" and "taxpayer" is unsurprising, but extremely revealing.

Taking prog for the mental health benefits. Specifically the benefits of bigger tits.

The internet was a mistake. Streaming video was a disaster.

This is straightforwardly antisemitic and anybody trying to argue that it isn't is either deliberately wasting your time, trying to normalise antisemitism and/or too pig ignorant to bother engaging with other than to tell them to shut the fuck up tbh.