Walker’s piece shows how powerful groups are working to reshape language around sex + gender. They work across interests and even countries, normalizing increasingly reprehensible language. But contrary to what The Atlantic would have you believe, none of those interests are trans people ourselves.

The thing that leaps out for me from this is the contempt in which she holds readers of romance. Like all romance readers will want is the next ladleful of slop. May I never hold this level of contempt for anyone experiencing anything I created.

I know I’m twice as good but fuck does it get exhausting having to be twice as good just to survive.

If you put the words "LOCAL FOOL" in place of Elon Musk, the headlines make more sense. People who cover him should try it to see if it helps clear up their reporting. Local Fool Says He'll Build A Colony on Mars Local Fool Says AI Will Cure Cancer

What a not a suprise!

A magical day for the premier screening of ‘Melt It!’ a film about the legendary comedy act ICE MAN … his set was an attempt to melt a block of ice in 20mins Fantastic & I can’t wait to see its journey from here. Keep an eye out ! @wringham.bsky.social

Waaaa I don't speak Spanish waaa I'm gonna watch the show with words I can understand The words:

Tim Allan, who just quit as Starmer's director of comms, was on the board of the trans-eliminationist hate group "Sex Matters", whose director of advocacy Helen Joyce urged transphobes to get through to "decision makers" so that the "numbers" of trans people could be "reduced." That's what they did.

Former board member of Sex Matters and arch-Blairite transphobe, ah well

When Trump latched onto the phrase "gender ideology" in his EOs, it stood out as overtly eliminationist language. But popularized originally as an anti-feminism slogan by the Vatican, it became endemic in the UK in the past decade and has become arguably the most visible explicitly anti-trans term.

Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way

I’ve worked at the Southbank Centre for over 8 years now. In that time I’ve become desensitised to mad conversations that wouldn’t happen anywhere else. But in my first few years I noted down ‘overhead’ snippets that would be ridiculous in any other setting. I’ve just found those notes. Strap in.

This is the ur-grift: it’s not the get-rich-quick scheme that makes you rich, it’s teaching other people how to sell it to someone else.

the idea that making art is embarrassing if you don't do it well enough to make a career out of it is an objectively harmful and toxic brainworm.

Unlike 1 & 2, which focused on the US, here I talk about how the UK and US feed off of each other, shifting language and upping the ante with increasingly absurd, even libelous claims. The UK even became a purveyor of a conspiracy theory claiming the *Trump administration* was hiding "trans crimes."

@robertdallasgray.com, @brokenchanter.bsky.social, I think you’ll like this.

"It starts with reading a Maurice Glasman column, then going to a Blue Labour fringe and you end with the grotesque chaos of a Labour MP - a Labour MP - declaring that treating people decently, caring for the planet, and working constructively with our neighbours is somehow a bad thing "

This @adamneely.bsky.social video is phenomenal

I think even before AI, we all kinda forgot that 90% of the fun of making art has always been "I finally get to show you the world I've spent years walking around in." I think we lost the fun, really.

Just beyond parody at this point

Part 3: "The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous year told a different story. This massive, messy dataset was brimming with increasingly vile headlines that only seemed to metastasize with time. ... two years later we know how the story turns out."

the thing i'm waiting for with the ai romance novel lady is for another scammer to figure out that purely ai-generated material w no human authorship is generally not considered to be protected by copyright in the US rn, and saving themselves the 45 mins per book by reselling hers

As others have said, that AI romance publisher seems familiar: “She could describe the whole process of composing a novel…But she was not interested in the final product. She "didn't much care for reading," she said. Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces."

An excellent and dare I say necessary read on the subject at hand, especially if you're either a writer on music feeling alone at the state of the field these days or anyone who ever read someone's thoughts on music that inspired you to discover something wonderful you wouldn't've otherwise.

this this this. THIS IS A SCAM but because it's in a genre the NYT fundamentally disrespects, all boundaries of journalistic ethics are just ignored. bsky.app/profile/lind...

when i started working as a journalist in 2014, there were trans reporters in multiple national newsrooms. almost all have left. the high output of anti-trans articles & the near absence of articles by trans journalists are two sides of the same coin: institutional transphobia in the UK media.

I wrote something related in Small Town Joy too: for a time, people could live frugally on benefits/enterprise allowance scheme etc and focus on making music or starting record labels, writing zines and creating scenes.

(AI is horrible, the main subject is horrible, it’s a good piece because it has lots of useful information in it)

good piece

The reason techbros aren't going all in for these, by the way, is quite simple. They're quite difficult to harness in order to funnel huge amounts of wealth upwards. Look at the community energy movements and the co-operatives around the world.

There are genuinely transformative technologies around that have the potential to revolutionize our societies for the better: solar panels, heat pumps, various forms of regenerative agriculture. But the thing is they have to be accompanied by social change and a rebalancing of global power.

Every new build house on rightmove's colour scheme

So remember kids that Alex Massie not only used r*p* as a tool to beat trans people with, not only lied about r*p* statistics but also spread shit about the women abused by alex salmond.

Whoa Black Betty

It's hard to overstate the degree to which the general public is being lied to about trans people

I've sat in a meeting with Cass. I've seen leaks from others. She is pig headed and believes she's right. The attitude is one of patronising superiority. They think what they're doing is curing a mass mental illness and that overrides listening to any of the people explaining to them.

Every time I see Alex Massie's name cited as any kind of political authority I just remind myself of how he called for France to celebrate and have monuments to the Nazi-collaborating traitor Philippe Pétain.

Worried about this MAGA style book censorship happening in our schools. “some librarians told The Ferret they are “thinking twice” about putting potentially controversial books on display, concerned that they could face organised online campaigns and doxxing.” www.theferret.scot/books-scotti...

Alex Massie trumped up a fake campaign in the times to claim hundreds of rape convictions for women in the justice system were actually trans women despite the numbers covering several hundred more convictions than there are trans women in prison for any crime.

The guardian discovering what people have been talking about for years re: substack and hate. This blog of mine is from 2024, referencing things @judedoyle.bsky.social was exposing in 2021. www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/2024/01/who-pays/

Sorry, here's the article www.wasafiri.org/content/a-un...

A great article about Fossil Free Books which I found via @regretteruane.bsky.social 's instagram. The elephant in the room is that the English literary elite is riddled with Zionist extremists who don't see Palestinians as human. I never felt the same way about the Chair afterwards either.

lots of people (on Both Sides™) had fun with Trump's “transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison” debate line without stopping to think, even for one second, about the humanity of the actual people involved

No matter if you support the Scottish Greens or not, if you value democracy you will oppose misdirection scams by fascists. #Holyrood26 #Holyrood #ScottishElections #Antifa

The most infuriating thing about this article (and why I feel justified linking to it directly) is that it's actually good, decisive journalism. It doesn't feel the need to consult the other side for "balance." If only they had listened to trans people who were warning about this years ago.

After operating since 2009, Sheffield’s main WI is set to close because all the volunteers running it are leaving. Trans exclusion means spaces for all women are being lost. www.shwi.co.uk/post/2026-me...

(To the tune of stingray) Bluesky! Book post! Doo do doo doo do doo! Bluesky! Book post! Looking forward to these, by @georgepenney.bsky.social and @stuhennigan.bsky.social :)

It's neither controversial nor surprising that the puberty blocker ban corresponded with a number of vulnerable young people to give up hope. At least it wasn't an unexpected outcome until they started trying to cover it up and hide the bodies to help justify their ideologically driven policies.

The thing that's the most egregious about this cover up is that before all this happened, there was evidence from similar policy changes in the United States of rises in suicidality amongst trans youth (and also significant drops in youth LGBT suicide with pro LGBT policies).

just want to remind everyone that if you spoonerize “Vampire Weekend,” you sound like a vampire