if you terfs actually spent time reading radical feminists instead of selectively quoting them you’d realise, very quickly, that ‘gender critical’ is just bigotry rooted in patriarchy. here is catherine mackinnon:

So I chaired a panel at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair yesterday, about #WeirdPride and unruliness, with two fantastic queer, neurodivergent, nonbinary writers and activists: @acaciathorns.bsky.social and @cjdebarra.bsky.social. I loved hearing their thoughts on this. www.youtube.com/live/vTW_j-H...

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Sharing an upcoming publication with the chapter I co-authored with @fergus.oolong.co.uk Embracing Monotropism and Flow It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School Ed. Rachael Davis @claruineill.bsky.social & @suereviews.bsky.social www.routledge.com/It-Takes-All...

So a transphobe is threatening @northwestbylines.co.uk with defamation over this 100% accurate and factual piece of Journalism. Support us by sharing it far and wide 🏳️‍⚧️ northwestbylines.co.uk/news/equalit...

One of the more difficult parts of having a monotropic brain is the unevenness of expectations it can generate. People will see me blaze through certain tasks & expect me to be a correspondingly competent human in other respects, then get perplexed (or frustrated) when I need help with “the basics”

I rarely talk about the process of getting my work published but this one is a definite exception. I have never experienced this before in my career. Both of the TV editors working with me on this piece were let go in the middle of the editing process. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...

The… the bbc that wrote an article about trans people that only took from a “gender critical” group and included quotes from a lesbian rapist? That bbc? Lmao. These people are actually deluded to think the bbc is left wing and pro trans.

Ten years ago in Paris, every country pledged bold action to cut emissions and tackle the climate crisis. Since then, the super rich have burned through twice as much carbon pollution as the bottom 50% of humanity combined. It’s time to #MakeRichPollutersPay 👉 bit.ly/47Lncer#MakeRichPollutersPay

Pretty amazing light in Edinburgh just after sunrise this morning.

We'll be at the book fair on Sunday to share masks, info and excitement about all these fantastic community groups! 12-3 to accommodate our members' needs. Especially come find us if you want a large amount of masks for your business! We want to pass a recent acquisition into the community asap

There's a lot of focus in neurodivergent advocacy spaces on emphasising the positives of monotropic thinking, but it's a build with notable downsides, made worse because so few people can naturally empathise with them, so they imagine it's a perverse stubborn choice & not a default setting

Monotropism isn't just about being really interested in a few things - it's also about problems task-switching, motivating oneself to do tasks not related to key interests, struggles not bringing them up in conversation, stress & anxiety when wrenched out of deep focus & potential obsession.

I dunno, I just feel like hills aren't half as lethal as they're cracked up to be

i can’t believe people were trying to dissuade me from starting trek with lower decks because i “wouldn’t understand the references” as if it isn’t super accessible on its own with incredible joke density that all land perfectly on the merit of excellent characterization and absurd plot lmfao

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Well Labour does know everything about being disappointing and letting people down eyyoo

Instead of Spotify, we're trying out apps including Tidal, Apple Music, Libby, Bandcamp, & the NPR app. What are your favorite sources for music, audio books, & podcasts?

The Greens seem to be picking up where post-war Labour left off - tackling inequality through fairer wealth distribution and stronger public services. Shame Labour won’t return to its roots; the Greens have seized the space they abandoned. @greenparty.org.uk @scottishgreens.org

People love to tell disabled folks to “take responsibility”. Take responsibility for what exactly? For being sick? For not getting better? For needing social supports? What they really mean is “we don’t want OUR taxes helping YOU survive”

Sycamores are incredibly productive trees. Not just the volume of leaves they produce (this one has only shed about half its messes, and already covered an area larger than it is wide) but also its plentiful helicopter seeds, which rapidly root and shoot up - they're a major weed in areas like this!

When I found out that I'm intersex I knew, statistically, there were lots of other people like me out there, but only about a dozen were publicly visible. It has been a great joy to me to watch this movement grow over the decades and begin to exert real pressure for our human rights to be respected.

There goes the one remaining concrete defence prone were able to make of this Labour government, 'they are implementing their manifesto'. (The other defense I still see is 'they are actually very competent and are doing what needs to be done', which is too vague to count.)

Episode 1 of my new podcast with @tanyaadkin.bsky.social Neurodiversity in Discussion... This time we're talking about monotropism, lilipadding, and you know we've got those tangents! bit.ly/4qNIEH4 #Neurodiversity #Monotropism #Lilipadding #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic

At this year's @lingcomm.bsky.social conference, we learned that the UK has been celebrating National Linguistics Day on November 26th, and everyone immediately went, hey, can't we make that World Linguistics Day? Well, now it's only 20 days away, so time to get your celebration plans in order!

Ok since the worst people in the world are accusing the BBC of pro-trans bias, I guess it's time to talk about how this summer the BBC completely dishonestly edited me to cape for transphobic bullies 🧵

A listener to that programme would have no idea that both Stock and Sullivan have been accused of bullying. Several of these instances are easily corroborated. The BBC decided to cover up this information, because it got in the way of the programme they intended to make.

If you're part of the LGBTQ+ community within Canada and have chronic pain, a research group I'm part of would love for you to share your experiences. We're especially looking to connect more with transgender and nonbinary folks. bit.ly/41OyKcI

I'm bewildered that @bsky.app has decided to do the Facebook thing of hiding a subset of the replies to any post, seemingly at random, under 'see more replies'. Turning off the default-on option to completely hide anything their mods have deemed 'rude' hasn't helped with this.

According to the study’s authors, COVID vaccination was effective in all ALL groups and in persons with OR without major chronic conditions. The study has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... 🧪🧵⬇️

Nooooo, surely not!

Watch now! The recording is available for our 2025 Annual Meeting featuring MIT Research Scientist, Beth Pollack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=15WR... #massmecfs #mecfsreseach #longcovidreseach #chronicillnessresearch #invisibleillnessresearch

just thinking about billionaires panicking because all their money couldn't stop mamdani and that warms my heart

The emptiness of this shop feels like a very on-the-nose metaphor.

The grand jury refused to indict felony charges so DOJ brought a misdemeanor. The trial jury acquitted—note: that means that every single person on the jury voted for acquittal. There wasn’t even a single vote to convict. joycevance.substack.com/p/prosecutor...

the absolute gall of these bigots to complain about someone allegedly giving them evil looks AFTER THEY HAVE DECIDED SHE IS A DANGER TO THEM AND THEY'VE TRIED TO GET HER FIRED AND/OR BANNED FROM USING THE BATHROMS. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm often maddened by cars being given incredibly wide turning spaces, making pedestrians spend two or three times as long crossing the road - with cars travelling faster, because they can.

I barely feel like I understand TikTok, and now it's constantly pestering me to get on another platform I understand even less, but which sounds even worse ('lifestyle community'? 😬) #Lemon8

You can’t pander your way out of supporting genocide and arresting those that protest it, looking trans kids in the eye before taking away their healthcare and accusing the NHS of “anti-whiteness”. The dude has a majority of 528 and is toast.

I'm loving this philosophical and neuroscientific exploration of play, uncertainty, learning and more. @jdkiverstein.bsky.social backs up my conclusion that the surprise-minimisation principle in the predictive processing approach is useful, but a little off: we often enjoy *just enough* surprise!

Anti-black racism 'baked' into Met, review finds. This is 26 years after the Macpherson report which concluded that the Metropolitan Police was "institutionally racist". Little changed. Leaders of major political parties incite hatred. None charged.

you can watch Dracula’s Ex-Girlfriend and The Prince AND the next two episodes of Philosophy Tube for free this weekend if you want go.nebula.tv/philosophytube

What a fantastic conversation! Also on YouTube: youtu.be/blHOHXQwmR0?...

Deploy more solar, get more electricity. 🫡

I still have my mutual aid asks, but today, I want to get help upvoting this ask for a book project I'm participating in. we need more submissions, which means we need more amplification. www.reddit.com/r/cfs/s/4HnG...

I would seriously consider paying £36 for this course, but not after clicking on an 'enroll for free' button. 😐 #coursera

A lot of nyt folks, me among them, believed we could change the culture and the coverage from the inside. That by working within channels, we could convince the leadership of its obligation to cover trans ppl fairly. In hindsight I’ve come to think I was naive.

Also, my peeps, if you're skeeting a fucking wall of text, you should copy that wall, and PASTE IT INTO ALT TEXT! Go to SETTINGS>ACCESSABILITY > REQUIRE ALT TEXT and slide the slide to on.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.