Transphobia is electoral poison for centre left parties. You paying attention, Hipkins?

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I do like to really put characters through shit and this song really captures the feel of going through some shit, but also has the kind of triumphant ending that should come after an ordeal. #pretendpanel

#WIPSnips "north" Not everyone shares the same sense of urgency

The most basic tenet of centrism is that you either vote for them or you get fascism and they don't much care which

I’m told my acceptance speech upset some of the BBC journalists who were in the room. I said what I said and it’s the truth 🤷‍♀️

Sherman was an idiot to drop a slur around people who might be motivated to use that action against her, and especially an idiot for thinking apologies were the end of the matter. She's taken part in this kind of witch hunt, she knew how this works.

10th covid shot done, haha, suck on that RFK jr you prick

This is the history many people don't want you to know occurred even as it's happening again all around you.

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

so purely political, ideologically against democracy, anti-democratic in practice, and with the probable outcome that the nz public will be flooded with *specifically* far right disinformation at a much greater rate than they already are.

Love the bit where the notoriously cunning and wiley Odysseus wakes up the Cyclops by stage whispering "I think it's asleep!"

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Schrödinger's trans kid. We can only be sure they're *really* trans if our mistreatment kills them!

Whoever came up with the idea that bad guys don't just have red lightsabres for the aesthetic but because red lightsabres are EVIL LIGHTSABRES should be tarred and feathered, stop trying to explain things that don't need to be explained

This quote in its original context is about how wet zombies are gonna kill everyone but, uh, I'm sure that's got something to do with trans people, probably(???)

My complaint about this headline has been upheld by the Media Council — they have found it to have been misleading and not accurate. I understand that Stuff has been instructed to publish a summary of the ruling today, but I have not yet spotted it. www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/john...

Was just today reading about tragic early 20th century lesbian poet Charlotte Mew, who was a bloody good writer and always carried a black umbrella. I think she could net someone an oscar

Wrote probably the most tearjerking scene I've ever written tonight. One day, should you people get to read this, it's gonna wreck you

ACT is a danger to anyone who is not a wealthy white able bodied person. They get their donations from the ultra wealthy who not only have a personal interest in making our lives worse but are also just generally vindictive and hateful against anyone in a minority group.

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

It really depends. Sometimes I need music to get me in the mood, I often have particular songs that I associate with particular projects (for my current thing I'm listening to Laufey's "Lovesick" a lot). But when I'm really deep into writing I prefer no distractions. #pretendpanel

15 favourite tv shows off the top of my head Doctor Who Beast Wars Fargo Pluribus She-Ra Steven Universe Twin Peaks Neon Genesis Evangelion Infinity Train Fantasmas Don't Hug Me I'm Scared The Muppet Show Frasier Bob's Burgers Utopia

#WIPSnips "chosen" A short talk about death

My advice to the the passengers in my car? Before calling out my boozing, try shutting the hell up and helping me get Jeremy into the driver's seat before the cops arrive

Hey #pretendpanel, I will have to go for The Decemberists' "Oh No!" "There's a song that is sung where my people come from, and it's best if it's not sung alone."

I'm still not sure these big multimedia projects are a great idea - it's both difficult and expensive to obtain all the constituent parts - but Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson is a really exciting choice to run this (read her novel The Principle of Moments, it's fab). Also: hat

It's been three years since the very poorly received last season of the tv show and six years since Baby Yoda was in any way zeitgeisty (the second he became "Grogu" it was over). The Ashoka and Boba Fett spin-offs were unwatchably bad. Why did they think this was the film to relaunch Star Wars with

Alan Moore on now.

As long as cis women place trans women in a category that is not “women”, whether overtly or subconsciously, transphobia will absolutely continue to thrive, and women’s rights as whole will continue to be trampled by patriarchy. Patriarchy depends on artificial social hierarchies.

Ah yes, surely it couldn't possibly hurt to give men another way to immerse themselves in a fantasy where consent doesn't exist, that won't have consequences for anyone

The Virgin Suicides. Why did my parents let me watch a film called "the Virgin Suicides" anyway?

#WIPSnips "immediate" Not every world will feed you

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Seems like instead of banning kids using these platforms we should be trying to stop them from fleecing pensioners for all they're worth with AI slop

The Post asked MPs about their use of AI and I'm fucking livid. Especially the guy using Grok, a tool that famously allowed users to create nonconsensual sexualised deepfakes. You think the standing orders are "complex" and need a tool made by a neo Nazi to make sense of it? Get a grip. #nzpol

its good to see RNZ still covering this, but I WOULD also like to see the PM and MFA being grilled about this more regularly, if at all

Given how enthusiastically Sherman took part in the attacks on Benjamin Doyle I wonder if she can appreciate now that animals like O'Brien will always turn on those who feed them

"Specific". Always always miss that first "i".

Timely reminder that Ani O'Brien never cared about women's sports, didn't support abortion law reform, and does not give a single shit about challenging homophobia. She's a conservative mouthpiece whose only value to her allies is ticking some identity boxes to launder their bigotry. ~fin~

But at least those kids won't get to be trans, that's the main thing

There is a Māori woman in the US that has been taken and detained by ICE despite having a valid Green card. Where is the NZ govt on this? Letter to Peters from David Farrier. What can be done? #nzpol

Ironically trans women have also been banned from the oppression olympics for unfair advantage

There are only two days left to sign the petition by Migrants Against the Acceptable Standard of Health Aotearoa to remove the archaic and eugenicist rules that have seen so many disabled and chronically ill migrants deported form the country, including children. Please, please, PLEASE sign this.

#queerwriters "turn". Here's a bit from the first draft of The Half-Child's History in which our hero considers mortality or lack thereof

The right are putting people in concentration camps and starting wars pretty much at random, but no what we should be concerned most about is a lib with a Bluesky account who at best interrupted a party. Thanks RNZ.

It can't be emphasised enough that so many of these supposedly serious journalists are just men who like to harrass women

It's so cool how you can just sort of declare yourself an important opinion-haver and suddenly you're an expert on who should get medication that fixes their brains.

#WIPSnips In which Slip does not see the inherent value of saving the world