Well the @cpxmcr.bsky.social October lineup is looking spectacular. Just makes me wish I had more free time, I want to watch everything!

Making a little guy into a bookmark #finalfantasy

I suppose this is the point when I should say again that: the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined* what this country is really good at is producing culture

Anyway here's a reminder that if you want some arthurian adventure in modern day Anglesey with queer characters and some laughs, you should take a look at my book Ynys Môn here: books2read.com/u/bwO600 Yeah, nailing this "self promotion" malarkey

Things are bad sometimes but today I went on three whole boats - @ssgreatbritain.bsky.social (ok, that one's a ship), a water taxi, and a tapas bar which is on boat. Boats are good

Every actor taking part in the new HP audiobooks is an enemy of trans people

me, a person who got a wrist tattoo on saturday, approximately hourly: why does my wrist hurt so much?

NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**

Promised myself a doing nothing useful day today. given I'm the type to "just do a quick mop" on a sick day, let's see how this goes

Labour’s Section 28 moment reveals the ugliness and dishonesty of its authoritarian transphobia…

The important thing to understand about this case is that it's not about the crossing. It's part of a whole slew of cases where the ultimate aim is to establish "gender ideology" as a political/ideological belief so that organisations can be prevented from being trans inclusive. 🧵 1/7

Actually the four presentations of autism are sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic.

I'll keep banging the drum here, but the Prime Minister went on national TV and endorsed Great Replacement Theory. That was *before* he borrowed from Enoch Powell. How much longer are some people going to pretend these things aren't directly connected?

I know I'm in my 30s because I'm weirdly invested in the one big great tit that bullies all the others off the nut feeder. I should name it

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“don’t demand better things, that’ll just help Reform” “don’t criticise Labour, that’ll just help Reform” what exactly can we do then

I've been running this campaign for over 3 years and it's probably ending this month. Feels weird, but I'll then not be playing D&D any more and can play some fun new things! (That said, campaign 2 with this group's likely going to be my homemade space pirate game, Pirates of the Red Spot)

Still my absolute favourite character

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

this squirrel just flipped itself at the edge of the smooth plastic dome by its feet to get at the peanuts i put out for the birds. the SQUIRREL PROOF DOME has become a tool of the squirrels

There was no ideological heart. There needed to be a clear project to make people's lives better. Instead the "pragmatic" project of cuts to vital lifelines continued. It felt like a continuation of Tory policy because it picked up exactly the same talking points without any plan to transform them.

the upside of making far too much bread for yesterday's pizza boscaiola (I may have forgotten how much faster sourdough works when it's warm) is leftover homemade bread for breakfast

I just finished Queer as Folklore by @sachacoward.bsky.social (very lovely person, we met at a couple of museum conferences) and am rotating it in my brain alongside how important fantasy and folklore have been to me (bi, nonbinary, didn't have the words for a long time) personally

“Every horror movie is about grief now” buddy what do you think most ghost movies are about?

last night I dreamed that there was a big national scandal where it turned out Edward VII was illigitimate and overnight they kicked Charles out and replaced him with a builder called Larry who was the real true king and his first act was to introduce "UBI to everyone, no backsies or it's the chop"

If you truly were an "unflinching" ally, you wouldn't have flinched when we told you to show up as people not organizations. Trans people want you to show up, as yourself, to show us that YOU personally support our rights. Then you can act on that conviction to change party leader opinions.

Finally cured the rhubarb and custard soaps! I blame the humidity for how long it took

Between this and the bizarre re-invention of the e-visa a few weeks ago, there’s more than enough proof that both the media and politicians alike not only have zero idea how the immigration system currently works, but have no interest in learning about it either.

I think I might be slightly less hostile towards Union Jack bunting going up in small towns for VE day if the country wasn't happily marching ever more willingly to the beat of fascism's drum.

The thing that Starmer and Labour refuse to understand about Reform and immigration is the issue is not political, but libidinal. It is symbolic of an itch, an urge for a Final Solution. What they want is something no mainstream politician can offer, and to them, only Farage ever legitimately could.

Exciting bird update

The British adoption of American-style bathroom laws is a fascinating example of the "I have a bad idea, you have a bad idea, we trade so now we each have two bad ideas" principle, also seen in British subway construction costs (reimported from Singapore and Hong Kong).

look, they're not taking as much as the squirrels were, but THAT IS NOT FOR YOU

When on earth are they going to learn that their number of people deported figures are meaningless to absolutely everybody. Liberal people are appalled and racists don't believe it or do not think it is enough. This is a dead end in which Labour with wither and die.

TERFs and their fellow travelers are a minority of obsessive, grit-toothed freaks with disproportionate power and influence. That they are shocked - SHOCKED!!! - that people don't agree with them tells you all you need to know.

Christ almighty. Who needs Reform when Labour is chock-full of reactionaries like this?

You're not poor, sick and/or miserable because of the blue haired nonbinary Starbucks barista, or the Eritrean postal worker, or the disabled character in a Dr Who episode, or the feminist walking simulator videogame. You have a right to be angry, but find the right targets. 💰

Katy is right about this, as usual, and further, what this ruling does it basically make it unsafe to be a non-feminine woman, or one who doesn't meet the beauty standard generally, in public. It's a movement to push women back into the domestic sphere.

For particularly the younger trans and non-binary individuals out there, but everyone though more generally, I can't tell you things will be okay. I can say that there is so much support for you, so much love. That's what drives change. Just look at this and not the bigots today 👇 1/

Men do not need to put on a dress and go into a public restroom to abuse women and children. They usually just go home. Or don a clerical collar. Or wear a badge. Or they just do it in public, wearing pants

Top story today is that the EHRC will pursue the NHS and other bodies if they don’t comply with the new ruling (i.e. scrap policies that are trans-inclusive) 🙃 Parliament can easily pass an amendment to explicitly include trans women, but that would mean doing the right thing for once 😒

For all our trans siblings harmed by today’s judgment if you’re struggling or feeling low, please reach out: • Galop: 0800 999 5428 • Mindline Trans+: 0300 330 5468 • Mermaids: 0808 801 0400 • Switchboard: 0800 0119 100 You are loved. Support is here.

flying in the face of the United Nations "The United Nations has affirmed the right of trans persons to legal recognition of their gender identity and a change of gender in official documents, including birth certificates, without being subjected to onerous and abusive requirements."

Fuck the UK supreme court, trans women are women

ooh this looks fun!

We have enough of our own stupidity here; we have no need to import any from America.

Many disabled people live independently. Many disabled people work full-time. Many do both. Many do neither. And it can change over time. Disabled folk aren't a monolith, it is a huge spectrum of abilities, boundaries, symptoms, and qualities of life.

I would underline: these people are the enemies of public understanding and they should be treated as such, with the same hostility they apply to others. They are not there to help - they are predatory, encouraging spite and ignorance, and deliberately inflaming resentment.

It's a soap-making kind of Sunday. These ones should end up kind of a rhubarb and custard vibe if the colours work (with a plum and rhubarb scent because I don't like how vanilla soap discolours)

My stomach still hurts slightly from laughing so hard at @questingtime.bsky.social. Literally eye-wateringly funny