Getting some really mixed messages here @notsafeforweasels.bsky.social

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

Terrible photo of a lovely little sketch I got from @pudgical.bsky.social too 🥰

Made it to @londonfurs.bsky.social for the first time since it went ticketed (I couldn't miss @pudgical.bsky.social as guest artist!). Had a nice time - found it less overwhelming as it was less busy than it had been getting, and for me this time around with a high concentration of friends :)

Every single day of this administration, I have thought of my late professor Joe Nye and his work on soft power. Every single day of this administration, Trump finds a new way to hemorrhage soft power from a country that once had more to spare than any in the world.

This is either engineered to create mass chaos in the cruelest possible fashion, or is a consequence of complete incompetence. I suspect both, though by different people in the chain of command leading to this executive order.

"in the early 2010s there would only be a few dozen articles a year in UK outlets mentioning trans people (60 in 2012 for instance), but it was over a thousand in 2018, and over 7,500 in 2022. The overwhelming majority of these articles were highly negative" www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

I'm rewatching Helluva Boss after people were saying how much it's been spruced up for Prime and yeah Bee is hot and I'm definitely a furry raver.

That the current anti-trans movement has moved so far that the Macrons are caught up in it is one thing, but it's not new - it's standard operating practice.

I'm finding it really interesting to see a light turned on what so many trans and gender diverse people experience regularly in their offline lives, and have for decades. The last time a classical music colleague asked me what was in my pants - openly, in rehearsal, without pushback - was 2019.

The issue here is not that it is or should be derogatory to call someone trans if they are cis. It’s that as a result of these allegations Mme Macron is constantly harassed by evaluations of her body in every pic, and now must expose details of her personal life & medical history to make that stop.

Oh cool therapeutic castration is back too. Love repeating the mistakes of the early 20th century

They are also saying the cause of sexual violence are hormones or other biological factors, while it has been well researched and it is actually about asserting power and control over women.

It's been a while since I've watched a Nuzlocke and I'm now LOCKED IN by having my identity entwined with a lil' Psyduck.

'A picture is worth a thousand words' factoid is actually just statistical error. State Visit Georg, who lives in Windsor...

good morning

One of the items on the list of things I've got wrong in my life was "mocking local newspapers for being full of people pointing at potholes" because now there aren't any local newspapers and the potholes have turned people into nazis

Apparently The Discourse (TM) is once again here, so: I'm a non-binary trans person who experiences dysphoria and who is medically transitioning. Trans people who don't medically transition - for whatever reason - are not taking anything away from medical transitioners. Punch up, not sideways.

Uncomfortable with folk confidently decrying the messages from the Kirk shooting suspect as fake based primarily on 'people in their early 20s don't talk like that', having been a neurospicy reader of adult fantasy novels as a kid with friends from a similar mould.

It's the WiFi bro. Definitely the WiFi. Trust. (For real though the frequency with which live demos fuck up, no matter how many times you've rehearsed...)

It's taken noticing how wary seeing Union Flags up the last few weeks to make me suddenly realise that I'd misunderstood the main point of dog whistles as being about in-group signalling, while it's now nakedly obvious that it's more about making the targets feel insecure and threatened.

I'm not sure which take is more on the nose - that they've designated the group that they made up as a terrorist organisation, or that they've declared antifascism to be terrorism.

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.

morning field snacks

The thing that gets me about this is that so many of us have known this for so long, and so many people have faced pushback for saying it, and even if by some miracle something changes now, there will not be an ounce of retrospective reflection from anyone at all who insisted it wasn’t

Called out 😅

This might be my husband’s most favorite thing I’ve ever drawn.

This isn't a debate. We don't put our points forward against the far right in the marketplace of ideas and a bunch of people who were just hanging around waiting for a reason to wipe us all out go "oh okay you've got a very good point there, we'll turn our swords to ploughshares & live in peace".

The evidence didn't matter before Kirk got shot. The evidence won't matter now he's dead. We can't be having these conversations with the right over violence as if they are held in good faith.

I think you'll find that this isn't true.

i know SO MANY but this one is really the one that absolutely fucking destroys me every time. laughing at this for minutes at a time. hear it hurgling,,,

Reading about the gov signing deals with companies to deliver a new kind of nuclear reactor that doesn't exist yet, for which the fuel comes from Russia & China, to provide energy for AI data centres that aren't solving a clear problem, and feel like I'm losing it. news.sky.com/story/uk-and...

So this is out of the extreme far right US media landscape now and confirmed in a press conference by the governor and being reported in mainstream publications. And... Why? Why is this being reported from the investigation when there is no sign of the roommate being involved or part of the motive?

Okay, but have you ever

I am tortured by this t-shirt. Was it intentional? Did the designer know that this is not a raccoon, but rather a raccoon dog?

I still sometimes just

the shooter was just a cis dude but even if he was the most trans person to ever trans it wouldnt justify rounding up all the trans people for crimes they didnt commit, really wish people in positions of power would be saying this

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

"And advocates" Christ alive they are so desperate to stick these to us that we're getting into 'hey this person once said something positive about trans people CHECKMATE FUCKOS' territory

This gives me feelings and none of them are good news.sky.com/story/why-to...

Just...accept that trans people are your peers and equals. Sometimes your competition. Some of us are shitheads. Most of us are pretty decent. Please don't apply that fucked up 'sponsor a child today' attitude towards us - or anyone.

Please let trans people be potato people. We are so often tired. (But also acknowledge that we can be genuinely excellent. Not 'well done kid, here's a sticker' - genuinely, frighteningly excellent. For ourselves, not as a teachable moment for you.)

Some worldbuilding of mine: I always thought that the Bell Telephone would be the perfect design for anthros to use, so I decided that’s the one that stuck in my world! Here’s a little thing I did showing that off back in 2022. #art #furry #furryart #worldbuilding

⭐️New⭐️ Weasels are the UK's smallest carnivore. They like to eat voles, mice and small birds. They have a long body and short legs and are related to otters and stoats. folksy.com/items/8553021 #Weasel #AnimalArt #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm

I would think calling for the overthrow of UK Parliament would invite some sort of response but that's before you recall that the sitting prime minister has less respect for himself than even Elon has for him