Owen Jones has been banned from 'Labour' Party conference - but Maya Forstater is welcome. And they wonder why progressive voters are deserting them in droves.

I dreamt I met a guy who used to play keyboards with Henry Cow. I was surprised to wake up and remember that Henry Cow is a real band, but they sound like a dream.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Sobbing to Hoodies All Summer again. It describes so beautifully the three best things about the UK. Immigrants, working class and socialism. "If we don't hold each other down, we won't make it."

So @benwritesthings.bsky.social asked me the other day if we use fairy or pril? An incredibly gay question. My off brand dish detergents reply with a question of their own: Ben are you a Glamorous Moment or a Fruity Paradise kinda gal?

Remember that article that went around about how children's book illustrator isn't a job anymore? My friend who works in children's books was like "what?" I don't know who the hyperbole helps. Actually, no — I do know who it helps

We are obliged as thinking people to think, talk, work, act, and live as though none of tech's fascist dreams will come true because they won't, and that their thoughtkiller machines will fail because they will. I sincerely believe artists' lives are at stake and are being lost when we don't.

Basically you have the world's richest most powerful people saying "we've invented technology that will eliminate all writers and artists & we're very excited about it." Then you have the press say how excited THEY are about it. Then you have artists/writers saying there's nothing we can do about it

Jackson Pollock walked so that Street Trash (1987) could run....?

what would YOU do if you time traveled back to 2007?

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Here is a video of a man remembering a story about another man that he loves and admires and respects. Really nice to see, particularly right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AKE...

I dreamt I met Vince Vaughn and he wouldn't shut up about his wonderful husband.

Make it crystal clear for everyone in your life.

That old familiar feeling of being the skeleton key to a whole new moral universe 🫠💀🫠💀🫠💀🫠💀🫠 (Seriously though, keep up the excellent work @goodlawproject.org 💖 ty!)

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

"If she was a president, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln"

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

The 1931 equivalent of photoshopping someone's face to be smaller and smaller.

I love her so much <3 x

I thought he didn’t care because “haha i’m rich”. Well he clearly does care. It’s eating him up inside. Let’s celebrate that!

Right Now from memory: "I like an escalator b/c an escalator can never breakdown. It can only become stairs. You'll never see an 'escalator temporarily out of order' sign. Its always 'escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. We apologize for the fact that you can still get up there'"

It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us? ✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter https://goodlaw.social/wu1u

Strongly recommend searching for "the man who" on @letterboxd.social and reading the list of films aloud for as long as you can stand it.

BOOM botulism, a lesser known Venga Boys song.

here's the nut of my appeal to cis people on the escalating transphobia: do you really want some college debate club dweeb who fooled a bunch of dealerships into buying him a state senate seat deciding how you dress and act and live for you

Streeting ignored the experts who begged him not to ban puberty blockers. He ignored decades of research, hundreds of studies, he heard trans kids cry to him and beg him not to ban them, and he did it anyway and has the nerve to say he was following "robust science" Fuck off

Cesar Romero — Lusha Nelson, 1935

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 13,1944

How bisexuality looked in the 90s. (Idk why most of the cast promo images from this film are missing Ramon Santiago. Such a babe!)

Comics, everybody!!!!!!!!

If you care about freedom of speech, Boycott DC Comics. If you're an artist or writer working with them, stop working with them and fuck up their money. Encourage your peers to stop working with them. If it can happen to her, it Will happen to you. Drop DC from your pull list, call up your shop

This cover hit newsstands in December, 1940. It took actual courage to put this out into the world. The comic was accused of being Jewish propaganda. Their offices got threats. Jack Kirby personally put his body on the line.

Jack Kirby killed Nazis.

I will never get bored of seeing Taylor Mead's performance in Coffee and Cigarettes. Such a sweetie. I saw him in a corridor at Tate Modern once and I regret not telling him how much I love him. I know being a gushing fan can be kinda creepy but I really think he was a guy who could handle stardom.

I need a video game where you get get to play as the Siren of Atlantis, the Cobra Woman, the Queen of Technicolor, Maria Montez.

Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy (...something to think about. details in alt text.)

"A year after leaving Substack in early 2024, newsletter writers are making more money peddling their words on other platforms." digiday.com/media/former...

Today is the birthday of cartoonist & illustrator Nell Brinkley (Sept. 5, 1886-Oct. 21, 1944). During her nearly four decade career in New York magazines & newspapers, she created the Brinkley Girl, a popular symbol of young women in the early 20th century.

@merrittk.com ...hence all the Nintendo shout outs.

Conrad Veidt (left) and dog.

Well, there we have it. Keir Starmer comes to the aid of a man who was arrested for inciting violence against trans women.

Looking at this masterpiece and wondering about the garbage you'd get if you typed "wally wood parody comics of ernie bushmiller nancy done in style of carl barks, dick tracy, al capp, and then milton caniff" into Midjourney

Did @theabigailthorn.bsky.social get a time machine? Or a 120 year old stylist? Is Ernst Bachrach taking her publicity shots? Uncanny.

Last night I dreamt I was an intern for a movie studio working on 3 remakes. The Naked Civil Servant with a full cast of black actors, The Girl Can't Help It, with a glamorous fat actress playing the Jayne Mansfield character, and Cruising reimagined in the style of a cosy daytime tv mystery.

trans women have been prime targets of fascism, and thus, at the forefront of anti-fascist resistance for as long as we have existed, folks

Looks like the singer in every post punk band in Dalston, 2007

Pansy Manners, I suggest some of you learn some