CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️

With all caveats regarding her previous anti-trans actions, thinking a lot right now about Marge Piercy's 'Woman on the Edge of Time' and its cyberpunk future-imagining chapters. It feels incredibly, frighteningly close.

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse

We hate kids. Like SO MUCH. We vote for the guns. We vote for the bombs. We protect the rapists. We have LEOs physically restraining parents from trying to save their children in Uvalde. We just blew up a school in Iran. We love Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. They run the country.

the fact that the Iranian government ALSO murders lots of Iranians does not make being bombed constantly somehow less shitty. i know this is apparently a hard concept for some

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously,

1. Hating their government

2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

Want to write a completely untrue claim in a national newspaper to again attack support for trans kids.

No need to back up your claim with science.

Simply mention that "Dr Cass says...."

Want to put in place a terrible policy that will harm trans kids?

No need to provide evidence.

Simply cite 'The Cass Review'

Now, anti-trans actors don't even have to pull out some terrible articles from the past.

They don't have to cite 1987's "The sissy boy project".

The can just cite 2024's the Cass Review.

This is the entire purpose of the Cass Review

Money is infamous for how unethical his work was.

Green's most famous child patient devoted a whole PhD and research career to how abused and harmed he had been under that 'care'.

It is beyond a joke that Cass can rely on this 'evidence' as proof that gender dysphoria is a phase.

Most of these studies ran from the 1940s to 1980s.

All were deeply unethical.

Their goal was to prevent homosexuality.

Bakwin 1968 Deviant gender role behaviour in children: relation to homosexuality. Lebovtiz 1972 Feminine behaviour in boys Money 1979 Homosexual outocme of discordant gender identity/role Zuger 1984 Early effiminate behavior in boys Green 1987 The sissy boy syndrome and the development of homosexuality Kosky 1987 Gender-disordered children: Does inpatient treatment help

Oh yes this is the proof Cass is relying on:

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Just a few more crackdowns bro please bro I promise bro we only need a few more I swear I am begging you please just a tiny bit more crackdowns I swear this time it'll work please I need this bro

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

Genuinely laughed out loud at whether Starmer actually knows anything

I genuinely thought that everyone knew - even Starmer and his supporters - that he didn't win the last election, the Tories lost it. The idea that that's not the case is truly blowing my mind.

They've been punching pretty hard against disabled people economically - access to work cuts happening right now are staggering - and that's definitely cost them a lot of liberal/left wing support

bigotry is a libidinal pleasure for a lot of people!

Imo what is happening on x is that the algorithm loves racist and anti semitic content, and the people who are on there marinate in it all day, and the epstein files has offered an excuse for even left identified people to indulge in the trangressive pleasure of public bigotry as a little treat

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Sometimes the world is good

The greens have done a decent job of noticing a big chunk of disenfranchised people who they can just stand up for and get support despite the media hostility, but the system itself is fucked.

Like, they are not exactly speaking in complex ciphers. They see the world as a Manichean struggle between strong white folk and treacherous Jews who can control anyone non white effortlessly and cause white folk to become race traitors by feminising them. It is an entirely coherent worldview.

One day, one beautiful day, people will learn to recognise fascist dog whistles. "Islamists and woke progressives" means brown people and gays. "Told how to vote" means the Jews did it because brown people and gays don't have agency, only cishet whites and Jews.

For years, politicians have insisted that scapegoating people seeking sanctuary & throwing migrant communities under the bus is the only way to win election.

Yesterday proved what we already knew to be true: people are far kinder and wiser.

Our communities stand together. Politicians: take note.

It's time to admit Labour already burnt its bridges. It's too late. I'm so sorry, Nadia. But I do know one ascendant left-wing political party that may be interested in speaking with you!

And Matt Goodwin who DID NOT win

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"

HELL. YES.