People treat it like there’s some kind of competition for who’s been victimized the most and not a collaboration to make sure we’re all victimized as little as possible

"Hey Shannon, what's the mood?" Thinking about how people have managed to coopt feminist language to subtly denigrate men, rather than bring women equality. How men wanting tool-shaped soaps is "fragile masculinity" but women with rose soaps are "enjoying femininity"

Absolutely spot on - and also completely in line with their essential purity/taboo ideas of sex. Tale as old as time: this kind of sex is dirty, but I want it, therefore the dirt 'belongs' to the object of desire, who can be sectioned off and disposed of as contaminated, while I remain clean.

mostly it's that we didn't understand how things worked then but also I do believe that to some degree some of those things felt possible because they *were* possible, or it was possible they might become feasible. just. possible isn't inevitable.

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

A concrete thing every UK person who cares about trans rights can do right now: 1. Email a link of this report to your MP, with highlights from the executive summary in your email. Ask them what it means for your constituency and their party - highlight trans people's legally mandated human rights

you shouldn't get to say "we will not tolerate any form of discrimination" while discriminating, actually.

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake ::clap clap:: if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake ::clap clap:: look, we’ve all been fooled before when a deep-fake makes us sore but kindly doublecheck your source, it might be fake ::clap clap::

Here are the authors who have pulled out of the Queer Polari Prize due to the inclusion of self-identified TERF/Gender Critical author Boyne. They deserve support & I think it’s worth buying from an independent bookshop or borrowing from a library!

the initial draft of the syllabus I'm writing describes genAI as "a fascist environmental catastrophe disguised as a plagiarism machine, marketed to people who dislike thinking for themselves" maybe that's too much for the course policies section but my heart knows what it knows

🧵 A Thread of UK University Statements on the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Guidance Against Trans Inclusion This thread catalouges statements by UK Universities in relation to the Supreme Courts transphobic ruling and the EHRC guidance for trans segregation. I'll try update it daily. 1/?

Musk has no technical skills whatsoever, but he wants to appear smart. So he takes bits of information like this, told to him by junior engineers, and regurgitates it to appear smart. Musk did this with the Twitter stack and Twitter's senior architects called him out publicly, then he fired them.

TERFs who don't even skate are dogpiling manufacturer Bont after they put out a message apologising for their head of marketing in North America's inline department celebrating the trans sports ban by Donald Trump.

Note that a key point of the case was that Peggie was sacked on the basis of discriminating against and bullying Dr Upton in the workplace. The courts refused Upton's request for keeping her name private and the judge ruled against that giving license for newspapers to continue the harassment.

I've been chewing on what it means to be a man in a second Trump term, especially when we're surrounded by bad examples

"when people know their rights we can't do our job" sounds like your job violates people's rights then

78-year-old climate protester Gaie Delap has had her prison term extended for being “unlawfully at large” when govt contractors were unable to find the right-sized tag for her wrist, which would have allowed her to complete her sentence in the community www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Also a sport where the international governing body for the sport has an explicitly trans-inclusive gender policy. Long Island Roller Rebels are a WFTDA team. The Women's Flat Track Derby Association's official position is that trans women can play women's roller derby.

Roller derby is a weird nutty absurd sport with a ridiculous amount going on at any given moment and a lot of different ways for different types of body to be good at it, many of which aren't obvious.

when there are three people shouting on a roof and you close the entire street to get a fire engine to get them down, what is most disruptive here is not the protest, it is the *policing of the protest* but obviously no authority is ever gonna take responsibility for their own overreactions.

if you require the force of the state to enforce the gender binary it probably isn't actually inate. i know that everyone knows this already and you can't debate them with facts and logic but this is driving me fuckin nuts

I do actually believe in science pretty clearly and am opposed to attempts to enshrine the political order of sex according to a bunch of ideologues in law.

Why do we need AI to spot pot holes? The reporting isn't the problem, we have millions of citizens with eyes and broken suspension. The issue is the resources to repair. Surly paying the massive bill for pointless AI reduces the resources available to repair the potholes. I don't get it.

Anyway the good news is that there is no recent history of government IT contracts that were purported to save money but actually incorrectly identified criminal activity leading to bankruptcies, suicides and a national scandal.

Instead they're offering American companies with billions in venture capital investment everything they need to create cheap knock offs of the output of plucky British media companies, artists and writers. Truly bizarre and there is no way I can imagine it working out as a positive for the country.

The pious lip service given to free speech in this country is as hollow a sham as has ever been found in any country, anywhere.

What happened was that non-accepting parents of trans youth began to feel social pressure to get the standard treatments for their gender dysphoric kids so they burned down the field so even accepting parents can't treat their kids now.

the enforcement of the gender binary is central to patriarchy & patriarchy is deeply connected to colonialism & capitalism so like none of this is a distraction its very important and everyone should care abt all of these struggles bc they're all interconnected

a happy falling angel/rising ape day to all who celebrate merry Hogswatch, everyone

sometimes the dog really is a mood

Reminder to those using binary rhetoric about the anniversary of birth in Beit Lechem -- 1) The baby was Judean, & Beit Lehem was certainly more Judean than Philistine turf 2) One needn't be sloppy or revisionist about history to condemn what's happening now 3) "Palestina" was the Roman name +

Just realised we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century. What the FUCK?

the dog is on the bed the dog is curled up behind my knees the dog is not trying to use my feet as a chew toy wonders never cease

Transphobes holding "HASHTAG WE CAN ALWAYS TELL, MA'AM, SIR, MA'AM" in their left hand and "If you don't tell us what your genitals looked like when you were a baby, we might forget and accidentally fancy you" in their right, and trying to fit them together like a neanderthal screwing in a lightbulb

Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous. #Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts

I guess given that Microsoft's regular attitude to updating any of its products seems to remain that the way forward is to double down on the worst bits of all previous iterations and remove any redeeming features, the insistence on shoving 2020s Clippy into everything is unsurprising.

'there was only one bed' is not a situation you want when you're supposed to be sharing a twin room with your mother

gradually working around showing all social media platforms pictures! of my dog!

it just makes me sad when a show gets a perfectly adequate tent and then puts it up badly. and then I fail to pay attention to the plot because I'm muttering "tighten your guys and move your pins out a foot, dammit"

trampling the virgin snow of this shiny new social media account with, ofc, inconsequential fanfic pet peeves: if you're going to lift someone the same size as you and run with them over rough ground WHY would you do it in a princess carry have these people never picked someone up - (hi guys)