have just seen someone criticise the new adaptation of mary shelley’s frankenstein for failing the bechdel test…. Media literacy is dead

excellent article by @tabbykibugiwriter.bsky.social on continued inequities faced by Black women in sexual health: national.thelead.uk/p/sti-crisis...

folks i think it is actually politically expedient to stress that "gender affirming" and "confidence building" are contiguous and similar but *not identical*.

🧵: the availability of new injectable formulations of PrEP is going to be enormously difference-making in our collective mission to tackle HIV inequities. more people than ever before will be able to use medications that are essentially 100% effective at preventing HIV. /1

Our horror at the genocide in Gaza, at the mass murder of civilians on Oct 7 2023, and at today's atrocity in Manchester, comes in each case from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.

literally no correlation here except to massage the notion that the cause of palestinian liberation is antisemitic and to manufacture consent for genocide from jews (which, itself, places jews in harm’s way).

“I’m pleased to see that, after five years... some people involved in this national scandal are starting to face consequences. But we cannot claim to have moved on from the venal political culture that brought us the VIP lane until the ministers involved face consequences too.” goodlaw.social/f2e9

i'm back 😜

for a second i thought Dyson Airwrap Co-anda 2x was a new tv programme

An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt. nyer.cm/6ApBXER

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

not only a masterpiece - a truly exceptional investment in art, spirit and vision that has more or less been obliterated under the thumb of late stage capitalism

Sensing Starmer's departure, and aware his performative hatred of trans people has fatally harmed his own ambition to become PM, he utters some warm words - and commits less than £3 per person to tackle the problem his bigotry helped to create. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

home tomorrow

please admire this regal weight bench i saw today

holiday has been very good for getting rid of inflammation (the enemy of condition)

i have the best workouts on holiday

you can’t tell but i am in 🇦🇱

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

last check in before holiday. been holding at 96ish kg since competition (97 here) and happy with what the rough starting point for bulk will be.

I'm doing the World AIDS Day Red Run in November to raise money for Prepster and @thelovetankcic.bsky.social! Donate to my JustGiving page here: www.justgiving.com/page/edftmxxx Any and all donations appreciated🥰

the term “performative male” has just finished judith butler off

111/NHS direct is a joke. Having to misgender yourself to the people there for no reason is outright humiliating. It's designed to put trans people off reaching out for healthcare support. There were years of surveys that worked on finding respectful ways to gather this information, disregarded.

this is brill. the section on dialectical materialism is very well written.

What are the drug & alcohol needs of queer people in the UK? This new community-based research hot-off-the-presses, stunningly authored by @benvyle.bsky.social

This is a 5-year postdoc position! One for the queer STS / medical humanities and other scholars out there. What a cool opportunity

Exciting new post-doc fellow post just announced at University of Edinburgh - working alongside The Love Tank on the new Medicine Without Doctors collaboration. Closing date 02 Oct 2025. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

most people on this app have bad taste and no sense of humour,,, proving carrie fisher in ‘when harry met sally’ right once again

read alongside a roughly inverse pattern in A levels, record levels of As, paints a deeply unequal portrait of who is seeing school through to A level.

beware of moral entrepreneurs; someone is *always* profiting from your panic.

if a gay man socialises and doesn’t post a picture on his instagram story, did he make a sound

read this

increasing pet peeve is books stylised as “NOUN/ADJECTIVE: a novel”. we know!!! we can see!!

think this film was written and, more importantly, edited by my dog

in a safe space (a friday afternoon screening of freakier friday filled with women and gays xx)

same, frankie

A new gonorrhoea vaccination programme launches today across the UK. Vaccination is being rolled-out across NHS sexual health clinics. Find out more about the vaccine here - www.queerhealth.info/projects/menb @bashhuk.bsky.social @england.nhs.uk @ukhsa.bsky.social

this man and his amazing collaborators’ books taught me how to read! thank you for everything ❤️❤️❤️

a good time to remind folks that, if you aren’t having sex at the moment, you can take PrEP in an event based capacity when you know you are going to and then immediately start daily dosing again (if you’re going to be having sex again regularly). it’ll save you using pills you don’t need to!

‘I want to be a Lioness’: research shows more girls than ever engaging with football

the assassin is such fun television

what level of horny or prudish do you have to be to think this is “real fuckin sexual” lol

what a shame he couldn't apply this to his own rampant zionism

always use protection

we do not wonder enough whether pavlov heard a dog’s bark in the sound of bells for the rest of his life