(1/3) Thread on fatphobia and ableism for #DisabilityPrideMonth: www.heardinlondon.com/post/why-fat...

A partner has a stock response to those who claim they don't have limits: "So I can remove a kidney?" It's a joke, but people need to realise that kink can involve some rather intense play. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." #bdsm #kink

#auspol #aukus

#auspol #racism #firstnations #indigenous

i feel seen. 🖤

#endometriosis #endo #sexwork #sexworkiswork

It's true 💯

This was always the plan

Those who kan not remembir science are condemned to repeate it.

Starseeds' "Sonne Mond und Sterne". ❤️ #musicsky

If your "passive income" requires someone else's active poverty, maybe you’re not a genius. #TaxWealth #EndPoverty

News: "Toronto choked by wildfire smoke, records world's worst air quality." Toronto's current AQI: 274. Delhi: "Those are rookie numbers."

One financial institution i had to deal with wouldn't let me access my account because, even though i provided all the relevant identifying information, my voice was wrong; the implication was that i was trying to commit fraud. #auspol #trans #transgender #lgbtqia #lgbt

Just saw stats on my music collection. 764 artists. 798 albums. 4628 songs. Huh. #musicsky

hi it's 2am on nonbinary people's day and I want to say thank you to everyone who uses they/them for me or rotates my pronouns, I see you and it is extremely affirming! gdq especially is a place I actually get they'd and I'm at the point where people sometimes say she and it feels weird. Huh!

Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity and happiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.

With the constant flow of stories about the NDIA denying supports for disabled people _clearly_ in need of such supports, the government's approach to the NDIS is feeling very much like "We have to destroy the NDIS in order to save it". Supports, not submarines! #auspol #ndis #disability

"Aruma chief executive Martin Laverty, who was involved in the campaign to establish the NDIS, said ... 'What we're about to see in Lucy's circumstance is she could be worse off under the NDIS than the life she lived before it was established'". #auspol #ndis #disabliity

So many health 'professionals' approach chronic health issues - particularly in women - like: "Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but your issues are all psychological, and you're just lazy." #chronicillness #medicalmisogyny

#porn #sexuality #research #academicsky

#auspol #disability #agedcare #unemployment

PSA: There are significant communities of English speakers outside of North America and the British Isles. (English is spoken by 128+m people in India alone.) For some of us, it's even our native language! (Also! Some of us live in the southern hemisphere, where June is winter in temperate climes.)

i've listened to "April in Paris", by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, so many times, but i'm still startled by its grammatically correct use of 'whom': "Whom shall I run to?" #musicsky

It turns out that having a transphobic organisation, one funded by a transphobic billionaire, in the comments section of one's post, together with their supporters - bsky.app/profile/alex... - isn't particularly fun. Who could have guessed? #auspol #lgbtqia #lgbt

#trans #transgender #lgbtqia #lgbt #discrimination #stigma

#auspol #wapol #sexwork #sexworkiswork #decrim #humanrights

#auspol #climatechange #renewableenergy

#sexwork #sexworkiswork

This is so bloody true & important! #kindness #fake #psychology #discernment

Of course not, because that might result in recommendations that men change their culture. #dv #vaw #auspol

Listening to one of my favourite shows on the 3PBS live stream, "Soak": "Post-minimal and alt-folk". #musicsky #naarm #melbourne

"biological sex" is an incoherent concept and the only reason people *want* it to be real is to do violence to trans & intersex people a body cannot just be a body, it must be a set of errors & divergences from a schema. autonomy must be—at best—secondary to the systems that seek to circumscribe it

Gotta say, i'm a big fan of friends sending unsolicited nudes. 🙂 #nsfwsky

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

"The findings highlight that most OnlyFans users in Turkey do not see themselves as 'sex workers'; instead, they refer to themselves as 'influencers'". [ full article paywalled ] #sexwork #socialmedia #academicsky

Same people who never shut up about government spending and debt want to spend hundreds of billions on nuclear power and defence #auspol

So the NYT, which has taken point on a "legitimate concerns" campaign against trans people, minimising (at best) trans voices, is now appealing to journalistic integrity? Well then, and i can't emphasise this enough: They can get unfucked. #trans #transgender #lgbtqia #lgbt #media #journalism

"[W]e demonstrate that when rejection is powerfully elicited ... areas that support the sensory components of physical pain (secondary somatosensory cortex; dorsal posterior insula) become active." #pain #rejection #rsd #neuroscience #academicsky

Idk know how many more times that we see examples to understand that anti woke is anti black Literally anything that is woke just means Blakc were involved and they weren't happy to be slaves A black doctor? A negro could never be a real doctor! A black pilot? Woke A black professional? Woke!

A wonderful consequence of people saying things like "I'm literally dying of thirst" when they're parched is that health workers hear things like "I'm literally unable to move due to the pain" and seemingly 'translate' it to "I'm having a bit of trouble moving". 😐 #chronicillness #chronicpain

#climatechange #auspol

Missouri governor openly bragging that his state's onerous age-verification bill caused Pornhub to stop being accessible in the state. Censorship was always more important than safety.

Further to a comment on my previous post, the idea that £3.6m in 'gender-critical' spending indicates being "not well-funded" is .... something. Particularly in the context of major media outlets doing the work of 'gender-critical' propagandists for them. #auspol #lgbtqia #lgbt

"Key Findings" from Amnesty International's report "Like a snowball: the growth and impact of the gender critical movement in the UK", media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li... #auspol, would love an analogous analysis of .au media. cc: @drcollette.bsky.social #trans #transgender #lgbtqia #lgbt #gender

sometimes you will bend over and break yourself to help others - enabling them to live and be happy. and they'll forget. toss you out. if you're autistic, this may be more likely to happen to you as well.

And here in Australia: "Raids on sex industry workplaces are often framed as efforts to detect and deter exploitation and trafficking, but instead result in targeting Asian migrant sex workers for visa checks, visa cancellations, detention and deportation." #sexwork #sexworkiswork #racism #auspol

Don't steal from SWer culture if you don't support SWers... Part 1

Australia isn't short of wealth. It's short of politicians willing to ask rich people for some of it. #auspol

#sexwork #sexworkiswork

"Of the 18.5 million people above the age of 15 who needed to see a general practitioner ... one in four said they had delayed doing so at least once or avoided doing so altogether. "'Potential barriers to Australians seeing a GP include cost, service availability and waiting times'." #auspol