"I totally don't hate trans people, I just obsessively extrapolate from and oppose even the most mundane, basic statement of support for them."

Ah, the old line of "Gaza could be a feudal autocratic slave petrostate" pops up again.

It's just so morally insane and upside down that there's a general understanding that hitting another person is wrong *except* when the person being hit is the most vulnerable and fragile type of person around.

On a similar note… Dr Jane Clare Jones is getting caned for her support of the bill, and every one of those disagreeing with her are GC.

"they need to be done in an inclusive way" This was literally an "Open Iftar" meal explicitly designed for non-Muslims to attend! That's the whole point of the event!

"How many different types of racism can I fit into one and a half lines?"

Britons, c. 420 CE:

Raving antisemites stick together

The idea that kids are in fact small human beings in their own right rather than a kind of human-shaped pet is something a lot of people really struggle with

if you get angry about kids in pubs i think fundamentally you are just quite an antisocial person

Gonna tell my kids about that ancient history once upon a time when Chelsea were good at football

Going to restaurants that don't serve food I like to own the libs.

Robespierre wept

One thing I think a lot of people don't get about "consent classes" thing is that it's not just about teaching you how to make sure someone else is consenting, it's also about teaching you how to recognise when someone is violating *your* consent.

Yeah, it can often take people a while to fully comprehend the violence and abuse they experienced, particularly sexual violence. Even when they understand it, people are often mentally resistant to admitting it.

Yeah, well "Pakistani" without the "stani" is also obviously an abbreviation, does that stop it being a racist slur?

Multiculturalism is the normal state of human society and monoculturalism is the unnatural aberration.

Sretan Bajram! ☪️

"Fun" story: several Yugoslav war criminals have been imprisoned in my home town.

Yup, it's an age-old mechanism for justifying harassment. Find a justified (or at least reasonable) stance in opposition to someone/thing coded as belonging to/associated with a particular demographic group, and then constantly shout it at random people of that group in totally unrelated contexts.

"What're you in for? Embezzlement? Armed Robbery?" "Nah, I was shovelling snow in New York without an ID"

It's very revealing how people could talk about how insular ultra-traditionalist religious groups like Amish and Haredim can often be deeply controlling towards women and children, but instead they want to point and gawk "hey look at the gross freaks!"

I continue to know absolutely nothing about Hasan Piker and every time I come across his name affirms this as a good life choice.

Fresh from being the Westminster case study of the month, the Danish Social Democrats are on course for their worst result in more than a century, having bled votes to the Green Left. Meanwhile, the Danish People's Party they had allegedly vanquished are resurgent.

Yeah, Madonna has quite explicitly denied claims that Penn hit her, and to my knowledge none of his other partners have ever claimed he did either?

Paul At Ray Eddie's

Yu-Gi-Oh: It's Time To Dune!

I've Had It With These Motherfucking Worms On This Motherfucking Dune

So, a year on from this rabbit hole, and I fingers crossed have a journal article coming out about this very soon! Come for the Bosnian diplomatic history, stay for reasons why you can't trust Wikipedia but far too many still do, and how Bosnia revisionists have repurposed the same for Ukraine.

He's absolutely just going to demand a few random soldiers "go and get the nuclear" and refuse to believe that this is something requiring god knows how many types of specialist staff and equipment.

The thing about paramilitarism in the Troubles as a phenomenon is that it very rapidly became something with its own self-perpetuating momentum. Actually prosecuting a guerilla war is hard. Going around cosplaying one and abusing anyone you want while feeling like a big man, that's much easier.

Same energy

Men always trying to put Sabrina down...

Looking forward to Invincible Season 4, and totally sure that everyone will be very normal and careful about *that* storyline with Mark and Anissa...

"The notion that the federal government would subsidize birth control," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social, "is increasingly anathema to a Republican party that is committed to male supremacy and women’s subordination."

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.

Spider-Man: Tom Holland's Cuck Fetish

One of the striking things about US Civil War public memory is that memorials to Confederates were typically paid for by Dixiecrat state and local public authorities, while those to John Brown, Thaddeus Stevens and other White abolitionists were often privately funded by Black communities.

I think a piece of media that genuinely dealt with this in a good, nuanced way was the CW Supergirl storyline about Maggie's relationship with her dad. That his homophobia to his daughter was motivated by an anxiety about racism from White work colleagues if he wasn't traditionally macho enough.

It's a conservative mindset that people feel there must be some inherent moral order to the universe, that there's a certain way things are supposed to be.

I mean, I prefer Pepsi either way, but I honestly can't stand the full sugar versions of either Coke or Pepsi, Diet or Max every time.

Underrated liberating part of being a trans gal, have to say.

The truth per Ilham Aliyev is of course that it was really built by the Caucasian Albanians.

I mean, if you're unwilling to vote for Dems over them not sharing your exact stance on a couple of issues, you clearly don't actually "loathe" Trump all that much.

"Last night was not like... a St Patrick's Day celebration" I mean, despite its secularisation as an Irish national day, *Saint* Patrick's Day *is* a religious event, it's right there in the name!

My first @bsky.app post! Feels very appropriate that it’s a repost of my @goodmorningbritain.bsky.social interview by my wonderful friend, ultimate ally and all round beautiful human @katbrownwrites.com

Robinson, like many before and since, was treated as just a normal right-wing pundit by British TV media for quite a while...

Increasingly my thoughts in response to every time I see someone say "I want my country back" or similar like this: