(Go) Go face lasers, you're burning up hair molecules (Face lasers, go face lasers) (Go) Go face lasers, you're killing all the follicles (Face lasers, go face lasers) You are supreme, the dolls'll scream For face lasers

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

THE POWER CUT #2 OUT NOW! A fanzine about @imagecomics.com 's The Power Fantasy, by @kierongillen.bsky.social and @casparw.bsky.social A collection of essays, roundtables, comics(!) and beautiful beautiful art. www.tumblr.com/thepowercut/...

i'm sorry but i put up a gofundme a few days ago to try and make rent (again! which sucks but i'm still unemployed and we don't have alt housing and we have a way to go and not a lot of time to do it if i'm gonna have a check in by the 5th. boosts appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/trans-wome...

Looking up this song's lyrics led me to @eruditorumpress.com's thoughtful, troubled, troubling essay about Dave Carter—one of the most brilliant songwriters of her generation, who died just four months into her transition—and I find myself wanting to cry, yet again. Even those who love us, deny us.

There is another world, just a short way away from ours, in which The Butterfly Conservatory have just finished playing "Phantom Doll," and the song is sweet, melancholy, silly, funny, and so very far from being the last song Dave Carter wrote before we ever got to know her as she knew herself.

As the government's preferred EHRC leadership candidate, Mary-Ann Stephenson will have to meet with the Women and Equalities Committee prior to her appointment. One thing people can do is email members of the committee and ask them to scrutinise her position on transphobia.

Mary-Ann Stephenson was very active in feminist politics in Coventry during the 2010s. I can confirm she is extremely transphobic, although she always kept her nastiest comments behind closed doors. This proposed appointment should be resisted in the strongest possible terms.

When your self-actualization has been framed as a catastrophically undesirable outcome to everyone around you, when the common depictions of you are mocking, hateful, and cruel, you will go to any lengths to avoid the conclusion that you are in fact the monster that everyone reviles.

Implement a 100% tariff and run a movie: The Last Two Jedi

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

The absolute monstrosity of this.

as a rule i am very much in favour of picking our rhetorical battles, at least in terms of public comms. but we cannot cede a single fucking inch on the "biological woman" framing without accepting permanent status as second-class citizens

This presumably means that every group, club or association with more than 25 members that is explicitly for a specific gender now must en masse expel every trans person? A massive trans purge from all men's and women's groups, whatever the legal structure of said group.

This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen a supposedly sane organisation commit to text. We can be banned from both men's and women's toilets, but also must not be banned from all toilets? Kafkaesque.

www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre... At the worst end of my expectations even given how poisoned the EHRC now is as an institution, and snuck out late on a Friday in an act of maximum cowardice. This is going to lead to so many lawsuits in both directions over the next five years.

Been trying since the decision hit, in my online trans circles, to be the calm and unafraid voice that counsels against panic and despair. But as the night has fallen I feel a chill on me beyond temperature. The world got colder for my UK sisters today.

What are the odds that Musk tweets some shit as an April Fool's joke that has actually political effects

Perhaps unsurprisingly given that I am closeted still (but not for much longer!) I don't have much time for the Trans Day of Visibility. Visibility is not what the trans community has needed for some time, at least in the sense of broad awareness that we exist at all.

I did a cover for @kierongillen.bsky.social and @casparw.bsky.social's THE POWER FANTASY #9, in the latest solicits.

This week's newsletter! The Power Fantasy stuff, including Jamie's cover, issue 1 free to read and a 100 page zine! The return of Golden Rage! Stuff! Things! #comics

People are talking about Iain (M) Banks and gender again on the skyline so I thought I'd re-up this:

Truly essential.

All trans women are my sisters but Izolde is my *sister* and she deserves the world. I don't have any money to give her but maybe somebody out there does.

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

What I've been working on for the last few months! Got to work with some fantastic humans and create something in community with a burgeoning fandom. Good for the soul. A love letter to a new thing is perfect for Valentine's Day.

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Stop advocating for trans people by referring to us as canaries in the coal mine. The whole point of the canary is that it's an acceptable sacrifice to protect the people who actually matter. We are not a *warning sign*. We are real people. Our lives and rights matter in and of themselves.

Happy THE POWER FANTASY VOLUME 1: THE POWER FANTASY day!* *In all shops now, not just some comic shops.

I've been up to something, because 2025 is the year where we carry out our promises.

Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people. Identify those people and block and shun them.

I wince at people calling every single thing a distraction. Even if it is a distraction it’s still 1) a thing that is actually happening 2) a thing that is hurting people 3) a thing that also needs to be fought and illuminated “It’s just a distraction”feels so dismissive.

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

This is truth. SO many of you have no idea the sputtering, wild-eyed meltdown you would trigger. Criticism means nothing coming from marginalized person; they've already decided we don't matter. But YOU? You're supposed to be on THEIR side. And I can almost guaranteed they just assume you are.

The responsibility for resisting and correcting this behavior shouldn’t fall solely on a specific gender. If you’re a man of conscience and you see another man mimicking Nick Fuentes, fuck him up on sight before the women even get a chance. I mean that.

Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man

I know that laws are fake and nobody's going to enforce them on Elon Musk while he and Trump are still in each other's back pockets, but it's still an eyebrow raiser, somehow, for a billionaire to just be actively tweeting out "I spent the weekend committing clear federal crimes hbu"

If this all ends with someone typing "ignore previous instructions and launch the missiles" I hope we at least find out about before everything explodes, because I would like to spend my last few minutes alive laughing my ass off

We will save each other, mourn those we could not, and we will remember their mindless, barbaric sacrifice at the hands of this monstrous "normality" they are so keen to preserve. And we will laugh when every one of their idols is dust between our toes. This, I promise.

My hope is for us to all live long enough to be around to see a generation of trans youth who won't believe our stories about how bad things were back in the day.

"My heart goes out" is gonna be the latest cryptofascist shibboleth isn't it

“Love” is not enough. Are you ensconced within his fiefdom? Does he own your soul? Does your home quiver with his very heartbeat? The King in Pink and Yellow, “Mr Blobby”, has been carving his will into the flesh of the UK for decades. Our rivers are his veins. To sail upon them is to worship!

I don't want to see any more "lol he just legally declared everyone female" legal-interpretation posting from allies. You think that'll protect us? You think the fascists are fae, bound by literalist rulings and loopholes? You think their declarations of war don't count because they have a typo?

Lying to doctors is a virtue. We are not people who have the luxury of being truthful.

regular PSA as always that when you doctor says "please do blood labs in the middle of the cycle" you should smile, nod, and then do labs at the end of the cycle. mid cycle data is completely useless and is actively harmful to your health for the levels that most endocrinologists mandate per WPATH.

i think opponents of trump also have to resist the temptation of intellectualizing his outbursts or attributing them to some recognizable goal. the fact is that trump is obsessed with greenland because it is big on a map. he wants canada because it is also big on a map. that's it.

Is it me or is there no fine-grained notification options on Android sufficient to tell Bluesky to stop notifying me about new followers specifically? I am getting a bunch of new follower spam.

*over increasingly loud booing* it is possible for both frugal shopping and cooking practices to be sensible life advice for many poor people *and* for some poor people to have compelling reasons not to be able to follow it some or all of the time