RIP Anthony Head. Best known as Giles to many, but to me he’ll always be the Nescafé man ☕️

happy pride to christians who are dreamworks smugfacing, insecure straight passing people, women who are dressing for a hot summer day out, and the prideless

Not to flog my own person dead horse but this is the consequence of the fact this country doesn't actually know how to talk about it's own very specific relationship with race and would therefore prefer to talk about MLK and George Floyd than Dr Moody, Notting Hill, Brixton and Stephen Lawrence

it showed great early promise and then burned out completely after exhausting everyone's good will?

disco elysium

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

> did they transition or did they just get a cool haircut > they're a renowned trans scholar ma'am > open the book

polaroid sounds like a slur for antarcticans

didn't know he was married to Florence Welch

hearing a lost media oblivion midi file in 2026 is fucking fascinating to me

Absolutely breathtaking interaction

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

Guardian: This brutal new drama about the resurfacing of homophobia which is scary, and transphobia, which we agree with 😉

Among the many oddities is this paragraph. If you try and “share a joke” with a stranger at a bus stop, then *you* are the person who has failed to even remotely integrate into London life. It’s the first rule anyone learns.

no it’s not. that’s not true

"changing sex shouldn't relegate you to an underclass" is also a broad statement that doesn't need to nail down every dimension of changing sex--social, phenotypic, or otherwise--while being concise about the heart of the issue.

[legal disclaimer] “observably” is not a reference to a process of literal observation or series of concrete observations undertaken or proposed to be undertaken but here functions as an non-warrantied token of asserted rectitude that has no redeemable value

this is bad unless it's the dog thing which is good and normal actually

just saw someone claim europeans shouldn’t complain about this heatwave because historically summers there are very mild, which is such a perfectly self-contradicting thought it may as well be two mirrors reflecting a single brain cell back and forth to each other for infinity

growing suspicion that Zero Parades is for the dolls

I'm concerned people think I'm joking about this.

the timeline— trans people: fine whatever if you’re going to be so weird about us, let’s talk about it channel 4: we’ve set up a debate where the audience are encouraged to shout PENIS! at Munroe Bergdorf whenever she talks trans people: yeah okay we’re not doing this again

a lot of people really do say ‘twink’ because they’re not allowed to say ‘faggot’ any more

Whale is important

Some of them have occasionally been honest about the strategy. Helen Joyce, 5/25/22: "We can't win this by saying you know there's 60 x million people in this country and we've got to persuade all of them or a great majority of them. We've got to get through to the decision makers."

I just don’t understand how the leaders of this movement are allowed to say this stuff and still be treated as respectable. This is Sandie Peggie’s lawyer saying she suspects that “all” trans people are fetishists!

You can tell a lot about our current cultural moment by reading the TVTropes "Headscratchers" page for Jaws, where multiple entries basically ask, "Why is the shark so unusually large and aggressive?" and the replies all explain that Jaws is a movie about an unusually large and aggressive shark.

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When I reported on the 15 Minute Cities protests in Oxford I was struck by the way lots of people I spoke to described themselves as a car driver in a way that really felt like an underrecognised form of identity politics. Having said that OH MY GOD

I worked as a lifeguard and swim instructor for three years in my teens. This is spot on. Non-paywalled version gcaptain.com/drowning/

a pretty telling thing about how all this works is that Anheuser Busch aired this infamous "craft beer is for effeminate geeks" superbowl ad at the same time they were aggressively buying up craft breweries around the country. None of this is real it's just Marketing 101. Market segmentation!

living in Britain is so funny because there’s three easy things you can do that will set a decent part of the population to driving you out of public life and openly fantasising about murdering you and they are - be an ethnic minority - be transgender - ride a bicycle

happy nine year anniversary to the #DarkUniverse

Re-upping the chaff project today because it's a genuinely good idea and suddenly super relevant If you are a cis ally, please seriously consider wearing a trans flag badge. Not an ally badge; a badge that makes people go "are they trans?" Cause good trouble for us, please.

Post links to trans creators selling trans flag pins here I'll need a pin for my coat and another for my jacket and the other cis people who will be joining me in doing this AND THAT MEANS MOST OF YOU will also need them And you could use some spares, spend wisely YOUR LINKS GO HERE ⬇️

Fantastic thread "What the new code does is the opposite: it makes it complex and expensive to be inclusive and privileges those striving for inequality’s discomfort over equality for everyone" 👇

I keep coming back to this bit of the equalities guidance highlighted to me by @lines.ink. It is now considered impermissible stereotyping to assume someone holds negative attitudes towards gay people just because they express negative attitudes towards gay people

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

This is a fucking brilliant idea - such a cheap, simple and easy way to help trans people. Not an ally pin. A trans pin/flag/badge. Make weirdos wonder “could they be trans”?

My favourite were the ones who would say in 2018-9 that PR would mean “extremists would be involved in our politics”. A real “have you read the news lately?” moment.

I’ve been officially jokerfied on this: occupy was a mistake, the entire “1% vs 99%” framing was a _catastrophic_ mistake. We’ve raised a generation of simpletons who think that “as long as anyone is richer than me, I shouldn’t have to contribute” is socialism.

Lindsey Buckingham: You Make Loving Fun…yeah it’s a great track, that’s all there is to it, and we had grown enough by that point to let the music be the music, none of us were innocent, but it hurt John I think, it hurt him to play that song, because he knew Christine wrote that song about Grogu

Ok gang, it's time for: Kara Transvestigates Various Fictional Characters. But don't worry, we're not going after any low-hanging fruit here!

you ever read something so french that you need to go flirt with someone who is not your spouse

calling this the "would quite like a real award, not just an SF one" font/design combo

incredibly human sounding quote

oh geez, when i shared that post i had no idea Little Bunny Foo-Foo literally scoops up fieldmice and bops them on the head. yiiiikes... unfollowing now, thanks for the heads up