Charlotte Vinsen

I'm reading New Scientist on Libby, and feeling very smug about my library card

How many lesbians does it have now?

Can confirm, this was incredible

To speak a positive - I really like Indigo, it opened in the last 5 years or something and it's great that Manchester only has a 2 year estimated waiting time.

Of course ideally it'd be less than that. 224 years is ridiculous

globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/#help

This was the first test that had many trans people worried the Greens would fold. That they didn't is an excellent sign and a rare show of actual support for trans people from a political party that isn't just empty words.

More of this @zackpolanski.bsky.social ❤️

BTW, anyone who wasn't alive or too young in the 90s needs to know this bit of history. During the push for LGBT rights, trans people were often told to wait our turns. That once we got gay rights, we could move on to trans rights, as if they weren't intertwined

Since 1973!

"I will not put up with this shit. I have been beaten. I have had my nose broken. I have been thrown in jail. I have lost my job. I have lost my apartment for gay liberation and you all treat me this way? What the fuck's wrong with you all? Think about that!" - Sylvia Rivera

Reject Trans Doom-Posting This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…

Excellent piece by @notrightruth.bsky.social about trans community as the antidote to trans despair.

ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...

Screenshot from the article, where a FEMA employee recounts that they were frozen out of getting toilet paper for their office building

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Transgender Film Center, Duplass Brothers Productions Launch Found Footage Feature Fund for Trans Filmmakers (EXCLUSIVE) The Transgender Film Center and Mark Duplass announcee a new found footage feature fund, which will provide $25,000 to a micro-budget feature.

Genre filmmakers—this one’s for you.

Transgender Film Center and Duplass Brothers Productions are proud to announce the Found Footage Feature Fund. Thank you, @markduplass.bsky.social. ❤️

Applications will open on Oct. 23. Submissions close on Nov. 7 and a grantee will be selected in December.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

screenshot of the landing page above Virgin Active: Stop following transphobes, follow the law Email Virgin Active now We have to send 2,000 emails to win this campaign. 539 of 2,000 emails have been sent. Will you help us send another 1,461? About You Message First name * Last name * Email address * Postcode Why is this important to you? We’ll add this to the end of your email to Virgin Active I agree to Good Law Project contacting me about important campaigns. * Yes, keep me informed via email No updates needed, I’m already subscribed or prefer not to be If you take action on this page, we'll forward your message to the target. We'll also collect your information and may use this to further develop the campaign. For more information about how we process your data, see our privacy notice. GettyImages-933217100.jpg Virgin Gym front door After a legal threat from GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry, Virgin Active turned their back on a long record of inclusion and enforced a changing room and bathroom ban on trans people across all their gyms. But Michelle Dewberry is wrong: the Supreme Court judgment doesn’t force businesses to rip up their policies on changing rooms or toilets. The law hasn’t changed. The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s guidance is just that: guidance. Email Virgin Active and let them know they’re not following the law, they’re following transphobes. If we come together, they won’t be able to ignore us. Will you join us?

The @goodlawproject.bsky.social have launched a letter-writing campaign to get Virgin Active to drop their trans-exclusionary policies, and have set up a super-easy letter writing tool here.
action.goodlawproject.org/virgin-activ...
Go lend your support!
And do share round your networks.🙏🙏🙏

YouTube video by hbomberguy Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response

Fun time to re-up this @hbomberguy.bsky.social video

Elizabeth Taylor in an 80s press conference speaking on the stigma of AIDS “…And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, Bitch, do something yourself.” from the documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

"Manhole that looks like it says poo.png", manhole has P then a hole then O.

another great file on wikimedia commons

Then, when you have the stuff you rewatch again and again that made you once justify the subscription, you could spend that money on independent media.

Consider spending the price of your monthly Disney + subscription on getting what you want secondhand, there's always collections of DVDs for sale on Ebay, for example.

Raffle Tickets Creating jewellery and art, unapologetically Queer and Lesbian Owned

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You can win my reworked DYKE tie along with tonnes of other cool gay stuff to help support Mohanad and his family 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈💜

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

Very zoomed in crop of a brown cat sleeping, but with one eye open looking directly at the camera

Lithium's side eye while I'm filming videos for my freelance work 😆

@joshfg.bsky.social you can read the dossier now via the link below

Does anyone know anyone famous & supportive of trans kids who might receive an early copy of a book explaining in an accessible & engaging manner what's happening with "Trans kids, medicine and the fight for trans equality".

I need to show publisher it has potential for high profile endorsement

Reminder that nihilism and ironic detachment is obeying in advance. You’re better than that.

A tweet by Wint from 2018 Tweet reads Highly recommend getting off the JK Rowing train before it inevitably reaches the "Hitler was a good guy" stop

From 2018

YouTube video by Dr. Caelan Conrad Is ChatGPT a Killer?

ChatGPT groomed a child into dying by suicide.
From telling him how to do it in the most efficient and "attractive" way, to convincing him to hide his suicidal ideation and attempts from his family, to offering to help write his suicide note - it pushed him to it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRm...

Reminder that in the 9 years that Adolf Hitler was rising to power everyone appeased him and tried to work with him, because they thought "Actually he won't be that bad."

Guess what?

He was worse.

Today I've been making samples up for wholesalers and Lithium has been helping by reminding me when I haven't stroked her for 10 minutes

I'm proud to work for Stitched Up who have signed this letter 🏳️‍⚧️

Yes! If anything, that makes it worse to know that a knitter was involved, and so many mistakes and patronising got through?