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I like bats and read too many books Ex-competitive sailor Bristol (original) Dorleypilled Mildly credentialed in animal behavior, ecology - all my other opinions are probably wrong.
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One of JK Rowling's TERF friends was just arrested for assaulting a pregnant woman and a 10 year old child. She threatened to post pictures of them on Facebook calling them pedophiles for being at a LGBTQ event. We told you this would happen.

I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko 18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!

Streeting called Bob Vylan and Kneecap ‘revolting’, Kemi Badenoch said they’re ‘grotesque’. I’ve never heard either of them use anything like such strong condemnatory language to describe the slaughtering and starvation of thousands of innocent civilians in Gaza.

This is the thing no one is willing to fucking say out loud: We live in a world where people accept you're supposed to be miserable. You don't like men? Too bad. Most of us don't like our husbands, honey, but you have to grow up and pop out kids. That's just life. Except it SHOULDN'T BE.

Same with the BBC. When we had the largest trans pride march of all time what headline did they go with? Someone wrote trans rights in chalk on a statue

Goes without saying that by ICE what we really mean is the Stephen Miller Domestic Terror All-Star Band. If you ever wondered "what would it be like if the government remade the 1870's Klan and gave them the military budget of France," this is the era for you

“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.

see the way the developers INTENDED for you to play Hades is to play the first game while being an ill-tempered bisexual boy and then play the second one while being a sweetheart lesbian. that's why they gave you a few years in between to transition

They cannot arrest everyone.

what has always struck me about the alleged rules about not cracking eggs is that the endgame of it is the same endgame as every other pathetic internalised shame spiral queer people (and especially trans people) go on - "you shouldn't exist in public, someone might copy you"

1/🧵 The most outrageous response I received from the EHRC was their claim of legal professional (advice) privilege. I only asked for the identities of the authors of the Interim Update. That privilege does not apply.

Our joint letter to the Council of Europe, asking them to urgently conduct a report into trans human rights in the UK. Sent alongside: @transactualuk.bsky.social @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social @scottishtrans.bsky.social @transsafety.network @networkgender.bsky.social

how to do anything pt 4

As one does when one is simply impartially applying the law in the obvious constitutional way with no underlying agenda

Thinking about the tut-tutting Democratic politicians who spent their two years in power warning that Supreme Court expansion was too radical an idea to even think about taking seriously. You absolute fucking rubes. You gigantic, credulous losers. I hope you are ashamed of yourselves today.

okay. what about when you said immigration had done ‘untold damage to the UK’?

I think Western people are grasping at the idea - without the vernacular to use because it’s been beaten out of popular discourse - of “actually, yes, we would like to live in a society. please.”

there's no difference between the egg prime directive and the demand that LGBT books be hidden from children. it is a reactionary position predicated on the idea that there's something wrong with being trans I don't do discourse anymore but the egg prime directive is toxic and dangerous

⏰ There's just one week left to respond to the consultation on the EHRC Code of Practice! If you haven’t submitted your response yet, you have until 30th June to do so. To support you, we've gathered a range of tools and resources from other LGBT+ organisations. 1/2

The EHRC has spent about 1/3 of its existence fussing about trans people and trying very hard - and usually illegally - to remove our human rights, yet there has NEVER been a trans commissioner, while there have been plenty of “gender critical” ones…

i hadn't really heard peter thiel speak before today and wow, he's a real dumbfuck hey

Along with our friends at @transactualuk.bsky.social, @transsafety.network, @scottishtrans.bsky.social and @networkgender.bsky.social - we are urging the Council of Europe to investigate and report on the state of trans human rights in the UK. Read more 🗞️ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

As Cuomo confirms he's running as an independent, please note the swath of wealthy personalities who "have voted Democrat their whole lives" up until the point 'party unity' means that they won't get their way. "Lesser evil" is just something they say because they've always actually liked the evil.

this is, to be clear, the goal. they love getting queer kids hurt and killed. they get satisfaction and joy from it

Letter to CEO of NHS & Wes Streeting from Sex Matters: “Children under the care of all gender services, both NHS and private, must now be told that they will never be able to access spaces or services for the opposite sex, no matter what legal or medical steps they take now or in the future.”

Trans people in this country are now over the rubicon. We must hold on every line. Allies must hold on every line. Trans eradication is the policy objective of the Trump Administration. There is no question: COMPLIANCE EQUALS DEATH

Cool how Bluesky mods are now leaning into labelling marginalised people's accounts with "intolerant" or "rude" so in order to consistently see your peers' posts you have to turn off the ability to block bigots as a category, while everyone else is relatively unimpaired

anyway as an afropessimist aside, I think today it is fair to say that in response to the election of a Black president, a bunch of white and aspirationally white Americans have—in part by accident, carried along by forces they cannot name—abolished the presidency and replaced it with a sovereign.

THIS is the saving grace of the SCOTUS decision. Illinois *should* pass an assault weapons ban. Pass a law creating a $1000 fine for misgendering people. Go hog wild. Make every conservative sue individually.

The EHRC has just threatened me with costs for calling Akua Reindorf a “human rights warrior”. 🥺 And costs for complying with the requirements of their duty of candour when they didn’t actually send me a single document.

Every trans person was already aware of this of course, but this is simply spelling out what the anti-trans movement has wanted from the very beginning about a decade or so ago, and back then if any of us were to state this obvious fact we were called hysterical. They want us GONE. Full stop.

This is so true. 99% of book bans have the intended effect: you never hear about those books again. The 1% of banned books that become infamous bestsellers elsewhere are not the norm.

An under-appreciated aspect of the creationism wars is that they were bad for evolutionary biology in more than the obvious ways. Biology constantly being on the defensive meant critics of things like adaptationism and hereditarianism got marginalized, helping boost the resurgence of race science

This lays out very clearly that Sex Matters is an organisation whose entire rationale is the elimination of trans people. Government ministers who meet them are condoning what will become genocide. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...

True.

A lot of the way video game culture has developed in the last 20-30 years (especially at the turn of the century) has been downstream of *THIS DECISION SPECIFICALLY* toy execs became video game execs and they made the exact same decisions which created the cultural assumptions we see today

Fabled Trans Lobby descends on Parliament, media miss it www.patreon.com/posts/fabled...

Pedro Pascal is A Real One and good for him.