A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

My BBC DG manifesto. 1. CBeebies and CBBC to get two hours on BBC1, from 4 to 6pm so old people get to see something that isn’t about property or tat in the attic. Because not everything has a price, Auntie Joan.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Lower the maximum wage.

Every now and then, my "hit the button enough times and something good will happen" approach to photography pays off.

Reminded to my fellow UK OFMD fans that both seasons are only available on iPlayer for one more month 💔 Line up your alternative methods of viewing in preparation 🏴‍☠️

Hello my friends! If you've somehow missed my panicked posts, I was just laid off for the second time this year, and we're a mere teeny weeny (ha!) $1695 short for November bills now. Can you help? A quick share can go a long way! Paypal: affirmationgin at gmail Cashapp/venmo: showupforthis

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

“A real, genuine, hope chest, carved by Oberon’s own hand from the four sacred woods of Faerie—oak and ash for bracing and balance, rowan and thorn for pattern and protection.” “Rosemary and Rue” by Seanan McGuire LEGO build by me. Inspiration by @seananmcguire.bsky.social's wonderful universe

anyway I love trans people and I love this decisive, unambiguous win for the “shut the fuck up about trans people, you freaks” caucus

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

$1695 secures November! We've made progress (thanks to y'all being freaking AMAZING!!) but we have to keep going. If you see this, will you please share it? The more folks who see it the better as I navigate my second layoff of the year. Paypal: affirmationgin at gmail Cashapp/venmo: showupforthis

So, Disney movie ten years ago starring Lupita Nyong'o called Queen of Katwe about a Ugandan chess player and her success Look who did the first song on the soundtrack! Not a bad singer for a politician

lmfao turned on my indie new york radio station to start work and they're playing Do You Hear the People Sing, i love it here

Here you go…

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

Boosting this for my friend Gin (I know here, she's good people). Absolutely take care of your needs first but if my followers can help her out at all while she is dealing with being laid off during these ridiculously unstable times, I know every dollar matters. 💜

During tonight’s Trick-or-Treating, our 3-year-old got more and more excited. “More houses! More candy!” Until he suddenly looked to the sky and shouted (verbatim): “Can I eat the moon!?” Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t, little one. Be the cosmic horror you want to see in the world.

“Dozens of adoptees have been deported to their countries of birth in recent years, according to the Adoptee Rights Law Center. A man born in South Korea and adopted as a child by an American family—only to be deported to his country of birth because of a criminal record—took his own life in 2017.”

Behold! A salad

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I’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

I would also like a brief but life-changing encounter with WWII-era Christopher Lee but maybe not the type he means

Hi yes hello! Is anyone out there super wealthy and secretly longing to pay rent/utilities for a single mom and her little family during her second layoff of 2025?? Just got the news that I'm being laid off from my job of two months after being laid off from my job of a decade earlier this year 😭😭

Up early in the UK and my timeline is full of baseball ^^;

The saga of the beautiful husky who needed a home, & the BlueSky folk who stepped forward to make an old-fashioned internet miracle...has had a lot of developments I've been too busy handling to update you all on. She's ON HER WAY! The whole story, for all to read: www.patreon.com/posts/142111...

Fyre updated today to say that the power chair has arrived and soon it will be in regular use! Wonderful news, so happy to hear this.

Meet the man who built a 15-foot-tall sea glass Christmas tree www.popsci.com/science/sea-...

Pitching cosy British crime drama in 2025 youtube.com/shorts/Qvli_...

Little Holy Island retreat. Hiked for hours in the dunes. Prayed in the ruins. On the outcrops. By the sea. Watched the sunset. Waited for the stars to open up. Saw the milky way. Saw a comet fall from the sky. Split into two. Burn up over the land. Red and white coals in the darkness.

Fuck, man… 😐😐 For comparison, looks like it looked this way before. The whole right side building and the passage between it and the main one is gone… you couldn't ask for a better symbol of what he's doing :|

Good morning, I wish everything for you that you wish for trans people 😘

I have a reader in England (I know, shock) who really, really likes the Alien series. I have forgotten and cannot find their handle. If this is you (we've spoken before), please say something?

Dusk on the Riviera Line last week, between Exeter and Starcross. If you look east at dusk, the sunset may be briefly reflected by the sky, which is then reflected by the river (tides permitting).

C'est le mauvais pantalon, Gromit! Et ils ont mal tourné !

At Chester Zoo today, saw this juvenile orangutan teasing an adult, they both seemed to be having fun!

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Speaker Mike Johnson has been desperately, absurdly trying to fear-monger about these nationwide peaceful protests against authoritarianism being "hate America" rallies full of "radicals." The people here:

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

Sorry, what? There is no “race debate”. There is racism, there are racists. This isn’t a legitimate political polemic, this is hate speech and hate crime. Can we stop trying to wedge the bigotry of fragile white men in to public discourse? Doing so is hate-washing and we need to stop it.

"He even went for a carvery on the third day, before finishing the bag for dessert. The next day - Monday - the HGV driver was sweating profusely and "did not feel right", but put it down to the pork he ate." I love him, just the most diabolical himbo energy.

As someone who has studied the circulation of terms “subversive” and “communist” in the lead to and through McCarthyism as empty signifiers to justify violent suppression I feel like I’m both amazed and unsurprised how transparently and unsophisticatedly “woke” and “antifa” are now doing the same.

Regularly think of this all timer

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

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The one that always gets me is that the last American born into slavery died the year John Lennon released “Imagine.”

this is what my brain pictures when you tell me that you’re generating AI content