Watching the internet go from a space which felt truly free to a highly regulated and corporatised wasteland is one of the more depressing things I have seen in my life.

Apparently I have some Feelings about the holiday season now. I really wish I could afford therapy so I could talk this out without making it someone else's problem lol

i really fucking hate to do this but this is about what I need to cover all the extra costs this month with all the shit i need to do to heal up during this nightmare of a recovery process. anything helps 🩶 ko-fi.com/faerynn/goal...

There is a deep sickness in this country where we give the undeserving rich everything they could possibly want whilst those who deserve support are denied it at every turn.

The hardest part of being trans is regrowing the spine you chipped away at for years

Man it's so exhausting that when you post a vent or an observation about something bad there's always, *always* someone who will pop up to go: "It's going to get worse :)" yes thank you I was under no illusions otherwise but good of you to hammer it home

once again expressing my strong support for Kash Patel being allowed to fly private planes to his girlfriend's concerts and go to sporting events and generally do anything other than his actual job, really the best case scenario for a Trump Guy running the FBI

Watching the internet go from a space which felt truly free to a highly regulated and corporatised wasteland is one of the more depressing things I have seen in my life.

we only have 1 hour and still need $430 please please share and help if you can!!!!

As always: Community is a relationship built through the actions we take together. It is not something anyone is owed. If your actions are harmful, you need to reckon with that, or the community you build will also be harmful.

Watching the most comfortable men on the planet stroke their chins and wonder aloud "Mayhap these christofascists have made a convincing argument within the bounds of sensible and civilised debate!" as said christofascists burn the rest of us alive is getting real old.

bro fell under 100k followers for spending all day calling trans women nasty and supporting the violent exclusion of trans people from society by religious extremist fascists and regrets it now 😭

if trans people were demons there'd be a lot more eviscerated bigots and corrupted nuns, just saying

not one person on earth has ever earned a billion dollars

Anyway during my week away I had a lot of time to reflect and ponder on what I want to work toward. I'm actually feeling pretty optimistic that 2026 is going to be a year where I manage to improve a lot. I have a plan again, which is nice.

Me, respectfully: You're nasty and I'm actually so much more virtuous than you.

I'm not a believer in the antichrist but if he WAS real calling himself Mr. Beast would be a power move. Just saying.

Bigots should be afraid to express their opinions in public.

I dilike 'rights' as a framework for discussing the concepts Human Rights embody because within the discourse 'rights' are positioned as these things that the state has the right to grant or take away. Human Rights are not that; they are elements that, when breached, justify violence to restore.

Watching the most comfortable men on the planet stroke their chins and wonder aloud "Mayhap these christofascists have made a convincing argument within the bounds of sensible and civilised debate!" as said christofascists burn the rest of us alive is getting real old.

This will be a popular opinion but I think you should eat literal shit.

That this is the average British columnist explains so much about this stupid country.

I'm just blocking Your Party folks at this point btw. I simply do not have the energy to explain why grabbing that burning stove over and over again isn't worth it.

I fixed my own boiler which I think means I am basically invincible now (it just needed to be turned off and on because it overheated, a thing I did not know boilers could do)

"It's not political" is an odd thing to say while describing the conservative mindset, though. The desire to be the hegemonic demographic, to impose your perception of "norms" on everyone else, is pretty political.

There's a lot of white people who think they are owed a veto over PoC living near them or existing in the same spaces or at all and instead of brutally suppressing them we just smile and let them constitute one of the largest voting blocs

hey no reason does anyone know of any deep sea footage that doesn't focus on "look at this cool thing we found" but more like just... "here's what shit looks 5000ft underwater"? where it's just the flashlight and little bits of debris floating past?

Almost everyone would work if they didn't have to. They just wouldn't work for other people, by and large.

Hey I wonder how people as incompetent as Starmer and his flunkies overthrew this guy so easily I mean he’s so on the ball

Losing your job is not a disaster. It’s a setback, and you can rise above it. Losing your integrity is a disaster. It’s a watermark that will forever define you.

Call the GP to book an appointment and get told they need to send a text message that opens a form that doesn't have the options to actually tell them what the appointment is about. Healthcare in this country is a fucking joke.

Oh yeah I also turned 37 whilst I was away. Do with this knowledge what you will.

also the final leg of my trip reading was given over to The Locked Tomb I enjoyed Gideon the Ninth overall even if it was broadly in spite of the protagonist but (maybe controversial) I am halfway through Harrow the Ninth and it is not working for me at all, not sure I'll bother with the third.

I have made it home. Go me

"Cancellation" only sticks if you're, say, a trans school teacher or an academic who deals with facts not right wing orthodoxy. It isn't for the rich and powerful.

People try really hard to make this stuff complicated but it is actually very simple if you just don't listen to the interests of abusers. 🤷

If you've used your platform to hurt people, any redemption precludes keeping a platform of any kind. That seems like it should be obvious.

If you've used your platform to hurt people, any redemption precludes keeping a platform of any kind. That seems like it should be obvious.

By doing it via undemocratic, unaccountable infrastructure they believe they can avoid consequences and craft a future where the only ideas allowed are ones they approve of. This sounds melodramatic but it sadly is not! It's just a plain fact.

On a broader level this is the resurgent fascist movement attempting to seize control of all forms of media and expression through extrajudicial means.

I cannot sleep in this airport and I have to be here for another 14 hours so this is going to get interesting

Spent a lot of time catching up on my to be ready list whilst I have been away and I gotta say Dorley Hall really stands out in terms of prose. By far the easiest to just slip into this far.

Considering a rebrand away from the Goose if I can find a decent pbp so apologies in advance for the confusion if that happens.

Thank you to Your Party for taking my request on board and collapsing before this was a real concern.

It's the life of Brian sketch but they couldn't even decide on names before splitting

Semi-regular reminder that the Trump administration has a confirmed body count of over 300,000, mostly children, and that's before getting into all the people they have disappeared internally.