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I want to talk about trans suicides and 'distress'. Specifically in the context of this thread and the climate of sheer hostility that has been fostered by government policy and societal apathy towards, if not outright endorsement of, trans suffering. Many folks chalk this up to "gender distress".

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Sad that Disch is not with us to see this

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BREAKING: 15 people charged with gambling offences following the gamblegate scandal of the general election, including former Conservative MP and aide to Rishi Sunak, Craig Williams. The sleaze scandal was one of the final nails in the Tory govt’s coffin.

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Ok this seems unfair

submitted 19 hours ago • 74 comments

This will be up on YouTube at some point after and I'll post a transcript to my newsletter

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Are Wes Streeting and NHS England covering up trans suicide data? 🧵

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every Labour MP seems to be posting out this graph, purportedly to show a massive drop in NHS waiting times. You’ll note there’s no vertical scale, and no lower axis… without them, that graph is meaningless

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My tremendous power as a trans woman is transitioning did not make me look like my mother

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Nonbinary intersex activist Jim Sinclair on Sally Jesse Raphael's show in 1989

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Was actually wrong, I'm just two days away form having a full year's worth of stats. It's going to come in at just under 1,100 articles about trans people in the Guardian, Times, Mail and Telegraph over that time, almost all attacks. That's an ave of 3 a day every single day from just those papers

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His name is Andry Hernandez Romero. He is a young professional from Venezuela. He is a makeup artist. He is a gay man. Andry was a target for abuse in his homeland of Venezuela. He was viciously humiliated daily — the victim of discrimination for his sexuality. He was also being persecuted for…

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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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I’m going to coin a law - call it Maugham’s First Law - and it is that nothing Wes Streeting ever says turns out to be true. 🧵

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Echoing points made by others today, in a country where getting an abortion or gender affirming care or protesting a genocide can be felonies, I am going to need everyone to stop talking about "the rule of law" and "innocent people" and "criminal records."

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Good Law Project holds a copy of new NHS Guidance published yesterday and it is clear that Wes Streeting is continuing his war on trans people. Remarkably the national health service is now directing GPs to cause harm to the community. 🧵

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Remembering Mike Hawthorn, the UK’s first #F1 world champion (in ’58), who was born #OnThisDay in ’29. Click below to listen to the #AndColossallyThatsHistory podcast that Richard Williams & I recorded last year about Hawthorn & his great rival Stirling Moss. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

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I want you all to look at this conclusion in the fucking eye, next to the actual things said by the trans women interviewed. From the repeated testimony that trans women have no family support, are unhirable, and need to both survive and pay for transition care, the researchers concluded THIS.

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Happy Thatchers deid day 🥳🍾🍻 #Thatcher youtu.be/DUlj48Rvp1c?...

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A perennial problem I experience with raising alarms about the ways that abusers are being given power by the state to perpetrate abuse is people saying "the victims should report it to the police". The police have a 1% case clearance rate for abuse even where the victim was an adult.

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NHS new service spec for trans children out: It has so much: Transphobia Conversion abuse Healthcare violence Bad science Weaponising of 'safeguarding' to attack trans kids Invasive assessment Denial of healthcare Oppression

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So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes. Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵

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Elon Musk streaming POE 2 on his private plane while listening to “The Final Countdown” and everyone in the in-game chat is whispering him to kill himself. Now that’s cool.

submitted 9 days ago • 209 comments

I often think about this chart and how warped americans’ perceptions are about literally everything and the huge hand fox news has played in it by demonizing tiny tiny percentages of people (from today.yougov.com/politics/art...)

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

as Elon Musk continues to shred science, Mike Taylor reflects on inaction by @royalsociety.org svpow.com/2025/04/04/t...

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Hear me out: the Moebius Strip Club...it's one dancer repeatedly taking off the same top on infinite loop

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So many autistic people have said something along the lines of "i just want to know what the rules are" and I finally figured it out Rule 1. You must pretend to know what the rules are Rule 2. You never confront someone about what the rules are

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Here’s the thing about UK gender clinics that the Streetings or the world need to understand. They envisage them as conversion therapy centres that grudgingly let a few persistent people transition. They don’t realise that’s exactly what they used to be.

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There are two problem-solving approaches: 1) identify a problem that you want to solve, then find a method that will solve it or 2) pick a method you want to use, and go hunting for problems. The second way is the stupid way, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that it's the default method in tech.

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The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today. Some very brief highlights: 🧵 1/8

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I'm never going to lose sight of the fact that letting the bankers get away with 2008 is a huge part of what caused the current political mess. I don't just hate them for robbing my generation of a future, I hate them for the fascism.

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They girlboss yassified Gilded Age space tourism. It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism. This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!

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Trump Assures Wall Street He’ll Go Back To Just Fucking Over Poor People Soon http://theonion.com/...

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I guarantee by next week, in exchange for tariff relief, Trump will be demanding from companies political donations to far right causes, rollbacks of DEI, purging LGBTQ employees, and cessation of funding to civil society orgs that support progressive causes.

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As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵

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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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Over 2000 letters sent to Keir Starmer already, telling him that we do not want the NHS included in a Trump trade deal. We’ve only just launched 💙😮 Send yours here- it takes seconds! 👉https://bit.ly/TellKeir

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Harvey Price time then. In 2016, I had an ill fated stint as the Social Media Producer on Loose Women on ITV. It was a disaster, I should never have applied for the job, I certainly shouldn’t have been given it. I could do the actual job standing on my head, but the politics of the place…woof.

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Other hot take for the day: It's no surprise that in the wake of austerity cutting funds for women's services, cutting routes to financial independence for women, men have grown increasingly sexually violent and misogynistic in their expressed beliefs, political attitudes.

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“boys feel isolated and lonely as they grow up” the media and political classes discuss this serious problem very seriously “trans kids feel isolated and lonely as they grow up” the media and political classes unite in fury because trans kids shouldn’t be allowed to grow up at all

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Happy trans day of visibility, everyone. I’m so visible that this man just smashed his walking stick in half against my forearm

submitted 15 days ago • 172 comments

Wrote this in 2021 - visibility means danger for trans people, but we cannot underestimate the power of seeing and connecting with one another.

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If you haven’t read and shared this solid take-down of the Telegraph puff-piece about Sullivan you should. No wonder trans people and our allies, like @mimmymum.bsky.social are banned from writing in mainstream media, transphobic “journalists” would be exposed and embarrassed all the time.

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Yesterday evening Darren Jones apologised on Pestons programme for his comments comparing Personal Independence Payments received by disabled people with kids getting pocket money. On LBC a couple of hours earlier Rachel Reeves backed the comparison.

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