Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

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What we kinda need is a draft law, I think, that we can shop to MPs. Say hey this is what a coherent trans-inclusive new law would look like, this is what a trans-inclusive addendum to the Equality Act would look like. I think we need to stake our claim. The dick whisperers certainly are.

listen to @bloodwork.show

as a bisexual man, let me say this: trans people are my people. when you hurt them, you hurt me too

at lockerbrook

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I feel like belated and really quite lacklustre response to Andy Windsor being a massive nonce bastard is quite indicative of how our society, or rather our Establishment, basically just tolerates pedos and abusive men generally tbh.

Obvs delighted about Prince Andrew losing all his chintzy titles, but when I see or hear his name, I immediately think of Virginia Giuffre and then my mind jolts because I constantly forget she's now dead and how bloody awful that is. Have an incredibly shit rest of your life Andy.

Man with stubble, "Small boats arrivals are 37,000. There are over 4 million kids in child poverty. And 4.5 million who can't get a dentist appointment" #BBCQT "We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"

I will be playing a Silent Hill inspired Dark Ambient set on Thursday Oct 30th, 8-10 PM EST at twitch.tv/IXmartyrXI. Hope you can join me. #darkambient #industrialmusic #silenthill

my contribution to the deathism discourse

perfect album from 1989 (that isn't doolittle)

joke's on you, my november will be awful whatever i do

so something that stood out here was about affordances for violence never being allowed to threaten the state, order etc and i'm reminded of idiotic right wingers in america insisting that the second amendment gives them a constitutional right to overthrow the government might write on it later

Pg 13. www.cia.gov/resources/cs...

last big family meetup my mum literally got one of these out lmao. everyone thought she's a weirdo (and they're right)

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. goodlaw.social/ncfw

Telling that among the PLP and their media flacks simply saying "racism is bad" is considered a major realignment.

25 Oct 2025 -- Following Health Secy Wes Streeting making blocker ban permanent & leader Keir Starmer's several U-turns on whether trans women are women, 91% of trans voters no longer trust Labour on trans rights vs 96% who no longer trust Tories. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

One of the most important political messages on the internet.

green trees yellow sun blue skies

this says nothing about blairism, but it says a lot about this guy

💯 ziblatt's very relevant here i think

You may choose one person to tell you the aristocrats joke it’s already been done and cannot be done better

sure, the bread's good. the service is terrible though. i was in there for hours before anyone appeared

phillipson is a bigot who has reintroduced section 28. it's hilarious that she's been embarrassed in this way but it's absolutely appalling that she remains free to abuse young queer ppl.

Pretty much everyone named in that article - including the journalist - is wearing a hot dog suit

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Hex Wrench does sound like Alan Key's American cousin, to be fair.

omg new zanias

this just about sums it up for me trans rights and housing are two of the big battleground issues on the left right now. greens have really clear stances, your party don't. the infighting just adds to this lack of seriousness

on my third outfit of the day. sodden

Wrote a thing www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...

🛑🛑BREAKING Israel halts the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza and resumed heavy bombardment across multiple areas, a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement

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it's on the river that the sky betrays an infinite space and it was on it that i felt the same

Everyone from Bari Weiss to Mike Johnson has been out running their mouths about antisemitism. Andrew Cuomo's doing so tonight on live TV. @saulelbein.bsky.social has a very important question: what the fuck are these guys talking about?

Il y a soixante-quatre ans, le 17 octobre 1961, la police française massacrait des Algérien·nes qui manifestaient pacifiquement pour leur dignité.

it failed to guess roger ii of sicily so it's not that amazing

have to drink a lot of it for that to be true

why is the java client library for k8s so bad

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

@timbale.bsky.social here's one for you

Historian @davidolusoga.bsky.social shares the forgotten stories of Black Britain in this week’s free film on Hay Festival Anytime, part of our #BlackHistoryMonth spotlight. Dive in! www.hayfestival.org/anytime

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

yo like idk how aware people are in general of just how STUNNINGLY rare even this level of pushback actually is, on national TV. Against this guy of all people. This stuff actually makes people think twice. Something other than just totally unmitigated hegemonic messaging.