Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

Though I have wept and fasted, wept and mourned, I have not prayed For gods, like minds and bodies, Are not simply born - but made. The watchword of our elders “be gay, do crimes” Served well enough, for simpler times But let’s turn this shit to eleven: It's time for “be trans, conquer heaven!”

I feel fucking awful when I see someone begging on the street and can't do more to help. I feel this way, in part, because of my political beliefs. Political beliefs are protected the same as 'gender critical' ones. So, the government must be obligated to end homelessness to avoid upsetting me.

I have often wished for better material treatment. I don't recall ever wishing for more dignity.

The grim irony in all this is that transphobes in the UK can now safely support self-ID, because identifying as trans no longer means anything practically.

Touchscreen broken. Typing using mouse plugged into phone. Tedious.

“asked if he’d changed his mind he replied i’ve changed what i would say” is so revealing too, oh yeah i never believed in anything, it’s just a change in messaging because they said it plays better

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fire/Fog

An Eastern king asked his vizier to make a ring that would bring the sad man joy, and the joyful man sadness. After some time the vizier returned with a ring which bore the inscription: "You do not recognise the bodies in the water"

Was ol' Plato right, with the warning he gave? Is all life just a shadow, on the wall of a cave? Well - for 5 o'clock shadow, come try Burma Shave!

I've written a lot about Star Trek, but I think this still stands up as my definitive piece: www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek...

Star Trek as a whole is pretty well summed-up by the fact that it has some really emotional episodes about artificial life forms grappling with their personhood and rights and stuff, interspersed with episodes where they create and destroy obviously sentient holograms and never think about it.

nice argument, unfortunately i have already depicted myself as the desirable runner duck and you as the undesirable runner duck

There's a good joke about non-constructive proofs

Appearing before the House In American Activities Committee to gravely swear that I do not recognise the bodies in the water.

Woke up with the overwhelming urge to make "uncleftish beholding as an SCP", whatever that means.

This list of Wikipedia editors promising to strike from editing unless the Wikimedia Foundation reinstates its workers fired for unionising is on track to soon become the second-most supported proposal of any kind in the entire history of the site.

Even with an AI generated Churchill on Question Time, it's still a more left wing panel than they've had in years.

Today’s the anniversary of the passing into law of Section 28 in 1988, the first homophobic legislation in a century. Politicians and media said it was our own fault, told us to shut up and give up. We didn’t. Dont you dare give up now on trans people.

This is the transfem athleticism excellence that they fear

"God is non-binary" is missing the point. The question is: does God bleed? If it bleeds, we can kill it.

idk why everyone is complaining, i think it's cool that they are building the ship from CONTACT (1997) on the white house lawn. the liberal media says it won't work again but they are IGNORING that approximately 18 hours of static was recorded on that fateful day. explain THAT

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

the collective noun for homophones is a heard

[Baba Yaga sitting in Chicken Cottage, obviously disappointed, but enjoying a peri peri wrap]

“ ‘There is a collection of myths under the heading, 'What doesn't kill us makes us stronger,’ 'Kids are resilient.’ ‘But science tells us trauma & adversity do not usually make anyone—kids or adults—stronger or better. It far more often does the opposite, poor health & shorter lives,’ Cutts said.”

There's an editor solidarity strike here! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

this mural in Margate station pointing out that tseliot is an anagram of toilets won a Margate civic society town pride award

It goes without saying btw but literally in that extract you have an example of Labour taking an unpopular position (abolishing section 28 was opposed by 54% in 2000!) because it was the moral one, and something something about labour being a moral crusade or nothing at all.

Notice how she wants us to associate two quite different claims: 1) Pushing too quickly for marriage rights would have been unpopular, so it was good to accept slow progress 2) It's good to *actively make things worse* on trans rights. These are very different things!

Seen this shared a lot and - lol I'm gonna be real - Labour ain't never winning back left-liberals with this kind of attitude The fact that Labour folk think the current UK situation - a bathroom ban facilitated by a Labour govt - is an example of "getting it right" is chilling!

One of my favourite London heat facts is that in the summer, temperatures on the tube regularly exceed the legal standards for the safe and humane transport of livestock.

Oh yes, I’ll be having a brat summer Beers Raves And The creeping, lingering feeling that I’ve let life slip between my fingers, what was once a thin, barely-audible whine now a deafening tumult, as though someone has turned up a radio which bawls out my errors and follies, numbing and v

Americans think British people are wimps for complaining about the heat. But what you don't realise is that most British houses were actually built in Britain, a cursed island that hates us.

that student? herman melville

What is and isn't a disability is partly social, as well as medical. If you don't want trans people to use disabled toilets, then don't make being trans into a disability.

I work in tech, not the arts, but can confirm that being only one of these three things isn't great there either.

oh you're hanging out with friends again?? ok well.. enjoy your echo chamber. i will be out with my enemies having a productive and intellectually enriching night of angrily stating and restating our standpoints on today's most important issues

no no, i said Peter Murrell was "in bed with sturgeon and salmond" not "sleeps with the fishes"

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

I feel like the photographer could have gotten a little closer tbh

In a turn of events that will be shocking to nobody, I've accidentally missed my JSA appointment for basically the exact same reasons I lost my job.

Due to popular demand.. The true size of California compared to the United States

DEFINITION OF THE DAY dehydrate, n. A measure of how quickly Doctor Jekyll can return to normal.