Emma, probably

That's literally what the word "controversial" means, fucking hell. These people are clowns.

And anyone who is feeling clever and wants to say "but my favourite genre is *defined* by being subversive", I'm sorry, but I just defined genre as above, so I'm afraid that's not a genre anymore.

Genres cannot be subversive.

Art *within* genres can be, but a genre itself is not subversive, no matter how much you like it.

Sex baked rights.

HR departments countrywide need to start treating gendercrit employees as potentially hostile. As soon as you are required to interact with one, you dust off the rulebook, you dot every eye and cross every t, and you assume bad faith at every turn.

They are a threat to every organisation.

the judge who refused the doctor being harassed by a bigot at Fife the right to anonymity throughout these proceedings and ultimately led to her name and photos being published by the press and all of the harassment that has happened since

should still step down

you piece of shit.

All the claims against Dr. Beth Upton failed.

She’s entirely vindicated and her evidence was found more reliable.

Let’s see if a single paper actually represents that fairly…

If nothing else, at least they've done everything in their power to lose my support before they ever had it, so I don't have to feel disappointed when it inevitably fails to amount to anything.

Still image capture of Your Party conference 30th November 2025 live video feed on YouTube, showing a person speaking and at the bottom of the screen there is an orange banner with white letters and the words "Yes: include trans liberation."

Still image capture of Your Party conference 30th November 2025 live video feed on YouTube, showing a person speaking and at the bottom of the screen there is an orange banner with white letters and the words "No: do not include trans liberation."

What fresh hell is this? #YourParty #TransRights

One of the simplest ways to see that creators aren’t bourgeois is that we don’t, as creators, appropriate other peoples’ labor.

We do labor that we can eventually make money from, we don’t make money from exploiting others. It’s the exploitative relation that characterizes the bourgeoisie.

Yeeeah... The similar-but-different thing I've been dealing with is "X is a problem (because of AI), so we're going to use AI to 'fix' it, even though that'll cause more X". But oh well, they're making me redundant so I just have to grit my teeth through the meetings for a little while longer.

Good luck, every one of them is apparently committed to making everything worse no matter what 🙄

Special type of stupid required to *start* trying to cash in on a bubble as all the major players start quietly engaging their exit plans. And to just constantly gesture at the idea of the future while you do it

Good luck solving this now you've made half the company redundant in the hopes this would be the magic trick to bring all the VC money in! I'm sure burning your company to the ground on the promise you could make things worse in a futuristic way was worth it.

Love being in a meeting about the stupid AI project that's costing me my job where all the evangelists wring their hands about how it's not nearly as good as they hoped. Like, yes you fucking morons, that's what I was trying to tell you months ago.

So sorry you had to deal with that too... Why can't they just be normal, for one second.

Meanwhile, I've had a doctor insist I have to tell her the *exact* sex acts which cause me most discomfort, no euphamism, and ask for more and more detail after every response 🙃

Hey yeah, it's awful right?? I dropped it there and haven't gone back. Really hard to indulge in some dumb comedy when it's brimming with hatred for fully half of people.

Esther Ghey's actions are the reason I just had a conversation with my siblings and fiancee, instructing them to ban my parents from any future funeral or memorial in my honour, along with anyone else using any kind of rationalisation to deadname me.

This made me realise I need to have some similar conversations. Fuck.

literally some of the first things my parents said to me before subjecting me to transphobic abuse was "if you lived in the village and had a Nokia with no internet, we wouldn't have this problem"

removing a trans person's connection to the internet is an act of deliberate social isolation with intent to 'convert' and everyone knows it

a lot of queer folk can't quite put their fingers on why they're so angry and upset about this shit and yeah no this is it.

We all know and we even know that they know too. Eg the MP can't even give a single line explaining how this phone shit would have helped Brianna.

They're just playing dumb.

Marilyn's writing is so good and It's A Living is so hot and adorable and you have to go read it right now and then give her your money on patreon. She deserves it, and *you* deserve to read this story, as a treat to yourself.

Thanks 🫂 I'll be okay, the notice period/redundancy pay for this one at least makes it easier to plan around. But still Not Best Pleased.

Getting made redundant twice in one year is so fun. I love when this happens.

You mean that time with the plague? The plague that causes long term illness and disability? You’re wondering why there was a massive bump in long term sickness during the plague?

This evening was my first irl experience of some 20-nothing enby I'd never met before telling me that I don't count as nonbinary because I use she/they and I'm not as nonconformist as they are.

Torn between astonishment at tumblr being a real person, and the urge to commit great acts of violence.

Transmasc erasure: wow there aren't any trans men here Nonbinary erasure: Fern's pronouns being they/them is routinely ignored by the fandom, likely a result of how they never have any real exploration of their gender identity in the narrative and are presented as a static character with no major narrative role. Transfem erasure: You think you know what trans women are like because you've seen the simulacrum of The Trans constructed in the minds of cis men's whispers of their wild trip to Thailand, but in actuality this has become a substitute for narratives by trans women, at their expense. Less than a mere lack of knowledge, the version of The Trans Woman you have been told of is a form of anti-knowledge, a barrier between you and a true understanding of trans women. You are conditioned into overconfidence, given permission to dismiss the lived experiences of the flesh-and-blood woman in front of you when she contradicts the story of the shadow on the wall. And all along, because the very idea that this narrative is untrue has been so thoroughly erased, you are capable of believing that this ridiculous caricature is actually representation.

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