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Nerdiest of nerds, Bristol via London. Like scifi, fantasy, RPGs, and have a keen interest in space exploration. Play D&D 5e and learning Italian. The photo really is of me on a camel. Never. Again. LGBTQ+ ally. TERFs and SWERFs unwelcome here.
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

submitted 18 days ago • 157 comments

Saw @marycoughlan.bsky.social in Bristol last night, for the umpteenth time since 1988 at the Mean Fiddler in Harlesden. Fabulous gig as always, really liked the arrangement of 'Ancient Rain'. Apologies to anyone sitting near me as I sang along 🤐

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Dear The News, nobody is "born a man" or "born a woman". They're born a baby.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

submitted 24 days ago • 240 comments

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

submitted 25 days ago • 219 comments

Today I replied to a journalist's request for a quote about US government officials doing something exceptionally insecure and stupid with: I'm going to need a minute to come up with something more printable than "fuck no."

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

TransActual and FGEN statement on the Sullivan Review: We reject the conclusion of a report on data collection by academic Prof Alice Sullivan as biased, inadequate & potentially harmful to all citizens of the UK, whether trans or not. Full statement: transactual.org.uk/statement-on...

submitted 52 days ago • 6 comments

Visiting London today so as usual called in at my favorite shop in the world, Waterstones Piccadily, where I was able buy this and ask @danacea.bsky.social to write me a message. She was super nice to this random nerd too. Second copy (originally bought and read on my kindle)

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

City Council declares Boston a 'sanctuary city' for transgender community www.nbcnews.com/news... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

submitted 56 days ago • 6 comments

1. First #ttrpg you played? B2 Keep on the Borderlands, a classic! 2. First you ever ran? AD&D, self-written (over 40 years ago) 3. Played the most? 5e 4. Run the most? AD&D 5. Favorite? 5e (no THAC0!) 6. Most recently played? 5e (on Monday evening) 7. Most recently run? not DMed since school.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

New decision from the CJEU this morning on trans rights. “If the purpose of collecting those data was to identify the data subject, those data would appear to refer to that person’s lived gender identity, and not to the identity assigned to them at birth.” curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/... #GDPR

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments

Haven't seen this reported anywhere but a judge overseeing Florida's attempt to age gate all social media pointed to the failure of D&D to make him worship Satan as a kid to suggest the state needs actual evidence, and not just vibes about a social media moral panic. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...

submitted 60 days ago • 121 comments

Right now, Kemi Badenoch is doing more to defend JD Vance than the US is doing to defend Ukraine.

submitted 66 days ago • 41 comments

Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

submitted 71 days ago • 837 comments

The best explanation for Trump’s Ukraine strategy (from someone with a long career in D.C.): The deal was always going to be so unacceptably bad that Ukraine would have to reject it. Trump can then say we tried to make peace but Ukraine (& Europe) didn’t want peace. And wash his hands of it.

submitted 71 days ago • 39 comments