Have you even seen twin cheetahs? These cheetah siblings are inseparable and both the same species. Send this to any cheetah you know for confirmation. Tell them "wow look at these pictures of you and your twin!".

Labour got co-opted by the UK political establishment, as it became an establishment party. That establishment has self-radicalized (via the press) and drifted to the far right, taking Labour's leadership with it (in hope of being "electable"). Stick a fork in it (the establishment), it's done.

*Every day of the 21st century has been a primer for understanding how fascism took over previously civilised nations like Germany, Italy & Spain. It’s tragic to watch England, in particular, sleepwalk into fascism. It’s decent decision to ban Queer citizens from everyday places mirrors’s the …

Also my long-held (slightly naive) opinion: British people aren't uniquely cruel or stupid, but almost every trusted media source in our country has been CONSTANTLY selling us on the virtues of being cruel and stupid. If our tabloid press went away today, I think Britain would improve massively

It’s kind of pathetic how the uk government only do things backed by loads of money - attacking rights, commercial crap etc Nothing is understood or thought about. Ministers are taken in by people with money. Without fail.

reading about the May government for a thing and mad, mad, mad that a Conservative Prime Minister said this nine years ago, I hate how much we've lost since then! I hate it so much! www.theguardian.com/society/2017...

After Wes Streeting claimed he was “improving the NHS”, the truth starts to come out. It’s not just trans children Labour is killing.

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And both parties talking to the Heritage Foundation.

It's one thing to have two political parties that are the same, and another to have them being authoritarian.

Why is the government refusing to act? Because the Starmer Party benefit from the same donors, the same corruption!! open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

For example, the reason TERFs could exercise so much power here is simply that the media network is so densely concentrated that a clique of aging, established, upper-middle class liberals afraid of their own political irrelevance wielded enough influence to make everything about themselves again.

“The police force accused of anti-white racism following the murder of Henry Nowak is over five times more likely to subject black people to a stop and search than white people, according to the latest figures.” Policing has an institutional racism problem… against Black and other racialised folks.

If there was more space between "just how a leader looks and acts in the dominant meta-narrative" and "sadistic controller and abuser" we wouldn't keep ending up in these situations.

in "nothing new under the sun" - this article from 1987 by Sandy Stone is fascinating (be warned the language is a little dated, she dives right into the transphobia without warning and doesn't address race at all which bothers me but still....) sandystone.com/empire-strik...

England has become a terribly hateful country now governed by division and bigotry, MP’s no longer speak for the people but for those who can afford to donate the most, so corrupt #MPs #corruption

After a while you just have to stop pretending these guys are anything but angry men who want to kick the shit out of stuff because they’re pissed off about how their lives and prospects have noticeably got worse over the last 20 years. And no one has offered them a reason why that is except race

It is almost as if all the research showing the clear connection between white supremacy and transphobia was actually correct.

These "don't know what a woman is" people should be asked what _they_ think a woman is because I can pretty much guarantee that the answer is entirely misogynist (a thought prompted by someone shouting 'you'll never be a lady' at me & realising they mean something entirely derogatory by 'lady')

Yeah, but the thing you have to remember, and this is very important, is that Farage is a cunt.

One of the fundamental reasons policing doesn't work is because the police are dangerous to victims of crime.

And also get in the sea with all this crap policing transness too. And arguing about who is under most persecution. It’s divisive and unwelcome. All trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming and intersex people are in this together.

British politics just lurches from one screaming fit to another. Politicians have no ideas, policies or vision but they brim with hatred, resentment and spite. I truly believe we’d be better ruled by lottery. Pull the names of 1000 citizens out of a hat and let them rule. It can’t be worse than this

1/🧵 The Supreme Court has today overturned Cheshire West and removed important protections for severely disabled people. This case hits all the keywords: guidance, segregation, “never had the right”.

This is absolutely disgusting. The UK Supreme Court is a violent institution which increasingly appears to be totally out of control.

They say their racism out loud now, because there's no one to challenge it. Not one single person interrupted this plastic fascist as he spouted his hate. The National Front is now a mainstream movement, and we let it happen under the guise of freedom.

So with some pretty fucking extreme racism in the mainstream now in UK politics im sure nothing untoward will come from the fact the EHRC just opened the door to “being uncomfortable with sharing a space with certain people” being a fine reason to segregate people

The top five British people mentioned in the Epstein Files.

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This Labour government is a “Kratocracy”; governence by bullies. It is not just trans people in the firing line it is disabled people and refugees/immigrants as well. All marginalised and too powerless to fight back against the wealthy bullies. Class war, only Labour is on the side of the rich.

Surely someone must have written a good piece about the current pretence that white cis women are most at risk from strangers (racialised, transed) rather than their own fathers, uncles, husbands and boyfriends? So weird to watch the pretend co-opting of some radical feminism without that truth.

I am once again wondering whether "no, the legitimate concerns racists don't have a point, fuck off, they're racist" might have been a better way of combating the far right.

There are 4 Greens currently working in Parliament. 2 have signed the EDM. Where are the other two? There are 3 leaders. None have put out a public statement yet and it's not for want of lobbying. Thoughts and prayers won't do.

Transphobia is often a marker for other stuff. Not least because it's been manufactured into almost being socially acceptable. It's like a dye injected under a microscope slide, or those radioactive markers injected into the blood stream for a PET scan.

this video by @jjbbllkk.bsky.social is a) absolutely bang on point and b) interestingly the issue he is talking about really informed the UI design of my forthcoming app (this isn't the finished UI - still laying stuff out - especially the synth part )

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

It really is no coincidence that large parts of Westminster have remained on Musk's X as the algorithm increasingly promotes a distorted view of public opinion.

It's just insane how the minute any Labour MP becomes a minister, they must instantly go on the media to demonstrate how transphobic they are and how they plan to push trans people out of society. There is no dignity in segregating trans people from society. archive.ph/jfMFG

This pride month, to celebrate, help destroy the labour party, all of it, burn it to the ground, even the “good ones“ can get fucked, fuck them all

Your semi-regular awkward reminder that I've got signed copies of my really weird out-of-print book for sale, and they're nearly gone, so there's that sense of urgency and all the rest. ko-fi.com/s/7292dd0671

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

Reading various opinion pieces and analyses of the UK youth employment crisis, I have yet to see any honest/detailed assessment of Brexit, and Covid shutdowns as significant contributory factors. Such glaring omissions won't do those trying to find solutions any favours. Time to acknowledge reality.

Without a critique of authority you end up at a position of believing everything is just about fighting for who gets to select the right one and while the idea of benign authority is superficially convincing, protecting it in the long run leads to this refusal to critique any authority as authority.

I didn't dedicate as much of my life to transitioning as these people dedicate of theirs to trying to stop people being trans.

I don't really know why this is a surprise to anyone - Starmer purged _anyone_ with principles in the Labour Party - they will ALL toe the line when the time comes - this includes Burnham (I mean he's already showing his true colours even before being elected)

"how did we get here" because a government that everyone seems to treat as "left" is doing everything it can to undermine democracy, the rule of law and peoples rights

It's been said that "the cruelty is the point" but I doubt that really gets to the root of it. It's not cruelty for cruelty's sake. They enjoy it. They get off on hurting other people. It's sadistic bullying and in any just world these people would have no power to enact it systemically.

I mean at what point does the general reader/viewership recognise that the media has largely been captured by the same money funding: politicians, lobbyists, think tanks etc most of it is the same stuff selling us the same message or do we all just carry on pretending that it's somehow different

We keep seeing it proven, again, and again - there is no widespread constituency for trans bigotry and anti-trans repression. It is a phenomenon of elite capture, funded almost exclusively by a small network of billionaire freaks attempting to create a large public distraction from their looting.