Join just me this time around for a shorter episode, and a preview for the topic of our next regular episode! And find out how a Swedish holiday has parallels with both Garth Greenhands and R’hllor… 🌱🔥

An anti-trans Dem in Michigan is trying to disqualify a trans woman running for the same seat over not using her deadname. She doesn't even have to, her name is legally changed. State Dems are rallying around her. We spoke with Joanna Whaley, the candidate. Subscribe to support our journalism.

It’s not just about tequila and sombreros. Cinco De Mayo reminds us that victory and justice can be won against the greatest odds. La lucha sigue! Sí se puede! 3/

On the 5th of May, we honor the victors of the Battle of Puebla, which helped keep Mexico free and end slavery in the United States. 1/

So nobody finds it weird or bad that Israel is giving orders to citizens of an entirely different and sovereign nation? That they’ve just invaded? Violating all kinds of so-called international laws? Nothing? Not worth any intervention?

Happy International Workers’ Day! 🚩

Post you in another country Featuring @virginie.bsky.social !

“The EU’s highest court has found Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law to be discriminatory, stigmatising and in breach of basic democratic values…” This is a crucial decision. The court rejected the political claim that LGBTQ+ representation is “propaganda.” We must keep fighting politics that dehumanise us.

We’re back in Middle Earth with another Patreon episode! This time we join back up with Frodo and Sam for the first time since the Fellowship split up. We end up discussing a fair bit of history and folklore as these medium hobbits make it through the Dead Marshes! 🕯️

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

Well, Orban has lost. This means he is not going to try a J6 bullshit, or Jair Bolsonaro games. "The election results, although not final, are clear and understandable. We did not get the responsibility and opportunity to govern the country. I congratulated the winning party." t.me/uniannet/189...

I regret to inform y'all that Hans Zimmer fuckin sucks.

King Henry VIII:

Hundra dagar har gått sedan Israel förbjöd 37 organisationer från att verka i Gaza. Läkare utan gränsers livsuppehållande arbete för den palestinska befolkningen har nu blivit nästan omöjligt.

Matthew Neumann, a trans man who directs the LGBTQ Foundation of Kansas, won’t surrender his now-invalid license, so he will vote with a U.S. passport that misgenders him, and that will cost him $165 to obtain.

"sorry I can't come to your once-in-250-years party. I'll be busy doing something it would actually make much more logical sense to do four days later. I bumped it up on purpose so I could throw it in your face. eat shit forever, amen" there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago

More photos from Israel bombing Rafie Nia Synagogue in Tehran

USA och Israel har redan bombat ett stort antal bibliotek i Iran, flera av dem förvaringsplatser för ovärderliga historiska källor. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Happy news! It appears that South America now has its first-ever active footballer who is out as gay or bi in the men’s professional game. There continues to be an outpouring of positive messages about Colón winger Nacho Lago and his boyfriend, in Argentina and beyond. For @outsports.com #LGBTQ

Our manager is supervising our preparation for the recording of our next Patreon episode! 🏰

A woman wrote a message in cow’s blood on a mosque in Uppsala, including drawing what looked like a swastika. She’s been arrested for vandalism and hate speech, but police say that the circumstances of the crime make them doubt a political motive. What??? www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/kvin...

Sett på anslagstavla i Gottsunda centrum… Ja, låt oss affischera i orten och uppmuntra till återvandring. 🤢

ICYMI, we released an episode discussing season 1 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdom (as a whole)! And we’re joined by an irl friend of mine!

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations. A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes. We are completely lost.

We wrap up A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1, and we’re joined by my friend who went into the show (mainly) unspoiled! Which leads to some good discussions about shocking moments, confusing moments, and how our brains experiences differed having read the books or not. Come join us!

What is my cat saying? Wrong answers only

Happy Trans Day of Visibility🏳️‍⚧️ I'm Jane. I create art and recipes. You can see all my work and help support me by subscribing to my Patreon: Patreon.com/fightingpride93 #transdayofvisibility

This #TransDayofVisibility, we’re sharing our episode about gender nonconforming people in history and how certain characters in A Song of Ice and Fire parallel them. Just to remind you: we’ve always been here. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.podbean.com/ew/pb-kksht-...

Look at our manager’s assistant, hard at work to make sure editing is done right for our upcoming episode

What a writer thinks ISN’T political is always a huge tell. Even something as straightforwardly man vs nature as To Build A Fire is about toxic masculinity—“Any man who was a man could travel alone.”

With all the discussion around “unfair advantages” in sports and the IOC banning trans and intersex women, I thought I’d make a thread about other athletes with kinda unfair advantages. Because as many people have pointed out, when cis athletes have exceptional physique it’s celebrated.

The IOC made the decision to re-introduce gender policing for the 2028 Olympics. Here are the facts.

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

I remember when @dannyvegito.bsky.social criticised use of ChatGPT (I think?) and people kept commenting saying things like “but I only use it for X or Y” and he responded, “I’m not a priest. I’m not going to absolve you.” And I think that’s the perfect response and applies to a lot, including this.

"A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal... It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir."

What a horrible woman

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

One thing that really gets me about these bans (also pointed out below) is how it highlights the logical inconsistency bigots have when it comes to trans folk & intersex folk. These rules block both trans women and many intersex women. Bigots love to say that sex is binary is natural + binary but…

This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

Yesterday the Indian government removed people's right to self-identify as transgender The fact that this did made no news, even on LGBTQ focused sites like Pink News is just insane.

Exactly why moving to the center doesn’t work. If people want right-wing shit they’ll vote for right wing parties, not Right Lite

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Boss, just got a new tranche of things that are no longer relevant. Yeah they fell out of the news cycle. Haven't been mentioned in years. Yeah, it's Russian. And the Middle East. And the digital. Sounds like everything's just been completely sorted out, in that respect. Germany, also wrapped up.

Taking away medical transition for trans people under 18, while bringing back surgeries on intersex *infants* shows just how much this is about the belief of the existence of a 'normal' that is stable and unproblematic. theportugalpost.com/posts/portug...

Swedish gov't report had to be withdrawn due to non-existent references: "We don't know what happened." Meanwhile, literally everybody knows what happened. #AIslop

Eid Mubarak and Free Palestine. Hands off Lebanon and Iran. 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷

I was reading a book that takes place in Australia, and for a second I forgot that ”thongs” mean a very different thing in Australian English compared to the English I’m used to.

Just saw the play “Vi är Orlando” (“We are Orlando”), about the shooting at Pulse. The play is based on interviews with survivors, family of dead, and other people in the community. It was so fucking good. Powerful. Extremely painful. But respectful. I cried so damn much.

Regnigt Uppsala står ändå upp för en human migrationspolitik ✊