"No One Likes Torturing The Omelas Kid But The Anti-Torturing Activists Were Mean To Me Online Once So Who Is The Real Monster?" my latest for the Atlantic

Dear all the people who are campaigning for a Conversion Therapy ban that you 100% know will sit alongside continued state mandated conversion therapy and conversive pressures of the NHS and UK state. What's up?

me when I see a dog: 🫳

there is a sizable amount of cis ppl on here who believe that every trans person who they perceive as rude is actually a right winger or bot pretending to be trans bc real trans ppl would always be deferential to them and agree w them on everything

I don't think it should just be free and easy for NHS staff actively involved in Trans healthcare to be presenting talks at hate group events.

Shouldn't need saying but this too is obviously correct.

One of the most pernicious developments of the trans sports panic is the mainstream normalizing of major nationwide media outlets naming and shaming minors with no consequences whatsoever. Kids are having their lives ruined daily and it’s become so common I rarely see people comment on it anymore.

The world is becoming harsher for transgender people right now. Darkness stretches before and behind them, and the pain is growing. Their wish remains simple — to love who they love and live true to themselves🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 This is why we must join hands and change the world with compassion.

Local newspapers like @liverpoolecho.co.uk doing the work, the national press shy away from. Thank you @liverpoolecho.co.uk. In other news Nigel Farage has been invited to a Downing St rally about combating antisemitism, Zack Polanski has not been invited. Make of that what you will!

Evergreen headline.

How they treat trans people is how they will eventually treat everyone else… They are just practicing on us. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Anyone telling you to vote Labour today to stop Reform is telling you to sacrifice your dick so theirs doesn't have to go into the blender.

A distressed trans woman who recently moved to Edinburgh received this reply from a GP Practice. "Sophie - to let you know, I’ve been told by MacKenzie Medical Centre, Edinburgh, that they and no other GP practice in the city wil honour either their oath or a bridging prescription."

To me the most insulting thing about comparing Platner to Mamdani is that there was a nationally visible campaign orchestrated by bad actors saying that Mamdani allegedly makes Jewish people feel unsafe. The Nazi tattoo guy gets NONE of that smoke at all. Please make that make sense.

“We could see the largest drop in Black representation since the end of Reconstruction." Garrison Hayes, Ari Berman, and Pema Levy discuss the Supreme Court's death blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the law that defeated Jim Crow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajPY...

This is true about conservative politics in general and why it all feels more or less like wishcasting (derogatory) anytime they speak. They're putting out a model for a world that no one wants to live in. Imaging they have support of a silent majority they've duped themselves into believing...

Turn golf courses into solar farms.

And it’s live.

Can someone explain to me why we shouldn't police incitement to hatred against some groups but we should against others?

I’ve edited this post three times. Some of my responses were mean. Some were measured. I just want to say that any time you think about abandoning the South, it says more about you than it does anything else. There were 4.8 million Texas voters that didn’t want any of this.

What happened at the Supreme Court is about anti-Blackness and curtailing Black political power. Trump as a corrective to Obama. Anti CRT/ DEI as a corrective to Black Lives Matter and Black progress in education and the workforce. Anti-Blackness is America’s favorite manner of self-harm.

Depending on my mood; Great Destroyer or Zeroes and Ones

Proof that the companies behind AI are less human than the AI themselves?

Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa

I love this essay very much!!!!

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i literally don't care what reform do. i care about what labour are doing and labour are trying to kill me. you're not gonna fucking gaslight or fearmonger me in to voting for the labour party. the labour party is fucking disgusting and it's been hijacked by far right cranks.

Ministers are deciding RIGHT NOW whether to scrap Palantir's NHS contract. This Trump-linked surveillance company has no place in our health service. I've signed, will you? the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...

Shabana Mahmood's reforms to settled status are an immoral crusade against those who keep our care system running. The government needs to backtrack now. My article for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social 👇 tribunemag.co.uk/2026/04/andr...

we have to believe a better world is still possible. that’s the necessary precondition for it to actually become possible.

If you're a cis person who thinks that Starmer and his government being appalling on trans human rights is a non-issue because 'nobody's perfect', rather than a telling insight into a fundamental lack of respect for basic human rights law, and a necessary warning for all people to heed...well.

‘But what about the genuine concerns of women?’ Lots of white people had genuine fears during segregation. Most probably didn’t think they were racist, but accommodating them was bad then and it’s bad now. My sympathy for someone’s fears ends when it’s used to oppress others.

This cartoon by Naked Pastor is SO GOOD. Sums up what I’ve been saying for ages about what happens when you start gatekeeping womanhood (and spoiler alert it’s the opposite of feminism).

With alt:

Now they want to ARREST us if they don’t approve of what we are WEARING, the misogyny does not stop

it is pretty funny that transphobic posts on bluesky are always liked by 99% men. the bots and fake women trolls don't consider bluesky worth their time so you get a more accurate picture. organised transphobia is a male dominated movement.

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

Absolutely. The fuck. Not. And any of my countryfolk knowingly deciding to vote for surrendering yet more of our culture to English millionaires who would be happier if we all died are clearly a bigger threat to our nation than any immigrant.

Ok, I filled a BBC complaint about it and so should you You can find my complaint in the alt text, but I urge you to write your own if able. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

To me, Ghibli works are about showing us that the world is beautiful and there is much to love *even with* the darkness that people are forced to confront in it, and I feel like there's a lot of media that wants to use those aesthetics but avoid the substance of the work.

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and large language models. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich"

Politicians have to give us everything we want. That's what they're there for. We should want that & never be satisfied with their excuses. This is the richest & most powerful country in the world that can give us all good lives. If you don't think it's your place to make demands, poor you.

Actually saying “no” to abusive relationships & not empowering people who are doing genocides is a very strong & a good thing. Not giving money & support to people who refused to protect (took some away!) the civil rights of me & my friends don’t get votes. Same concept as why you don’t make friends

If you're riding for Rowling, you're riding for genitally-obsessed fascism. Period. Full stop.

Write to Stonewall. • Tell them you supported them in the past. • Tell them why you won’t be supporting transphobia. Cut direct debts. Don’t by the merch. Tell your direct contacts.