Helen Zaltzman

They know exactly what they're doing here with this headline. They're making it seem like a trans person did this despite the fact that the trans person in this story is the victim.

If you were solely going by the headline, you'd be under the wrong impression that this was a trans nurse that did this.

In fact, the trans person at the center of this is a doctor who was harassed by this nurse who constantly spouted racist, transphobic stuff to her colleagues.

Way to go BBC.

BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, Souvenirs The story of a friendship torn apart by type - as in, the bits of metal that print words.

Listen here - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

What should we make of the HS2 fiasco? | The Observer Radio 4 airs an unmissable investigation of the high-speed rail network debacle – although ‘debacle’ seems too strong a word for the contained emotions i...

“One-off documentaries are at the heart of Radio 4 and this one was gorgeous…”

Great to see @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social pick up @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social’s documentary Souvenirs in this weekend’s @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/audi...

being a fucked-up tranny faggot dyke is way more fun than whatever the hell cishet people do i don't even know like is it some kind of boredom kink or

Israel trying to deflect blame for widespread starvation in Gaza Official and ministers either deny that Palestinians are being affected by hunger or say it is not Israel’s fault

nope, fuck you www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Two large models of dinosaurs on display in a museum. One is blue with auburn hair, and it is grasping the hindquarters of a green and red dinosaur with a distraught expression

this, in the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, is the first time I saw dinosaurs represented as brightly coloured and with feathers/hair. And also...humping??

Allusionist 213. Four Letter Words: Dino — The Allusionist The latest four letter word of Four Letter Word season is dino . 'Dinosaur' is derived from Greek 'terrible lizard', and they could have called it 'whopping great lizard' or 'sublime lizard' or 'hey ...

There's a new episode in your podfeed! Next in #FourLetterWord season is 'dino', which means 'terrible'. Hannah McGregor of Material Girls podcast joins to talk about Jurassic Park, and humans' relationship with language for dinosaurs. Hear/read via theallusionist.org/dino and the usual podplaces

There was a time when you could describe Gaza as an "open-air prison," and people would scoff at the ludicrous hyperbole, and now we're at "Gaza is an open-air death camp" and that's just ... true.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/19/live-israel-kills-more-than-50-in-gaza-as-un-warns-of-catastrophic

Meanwhile, and this is truly beyond belief, the solution to famine in Gaza is RIGHT THERE.

Which is what makes this starvation a deliberate and genocidal act.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

You simply cannot hang art shows that are "free from bias". That simply isn't how art works.

Look mum, I’m in the Radio Times! [Falls back down to Earth] Oh, no, it was that Helen Zatlzman again

We’re having a #Souvenirs live listening party during tomorrow’s broadcast in the Allusioverse Discord, what a great time to join: theallusionist.org/donate

Also perfect for you if you enjoy history, typefaces, Spice Girls, gorgeous music by @martinaustwick.bsky.social

Hey! Our piece #souvenirs is being broadcast on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow, 22 July at 4pm UK time (also available on the internet for a while thereafter), I’d love for you to listen! Especially if you enjoy tales of hurt feelings & petty revenge.

Justin McElroy has a mic stuck in his face in Vancouver's CRAB Park, on the edge of Vancouver port with stacks of shipping containers and big cranes

Justin McElroy poses enthusiastically with the green standing sign for Dude Chilling Park on the edge of the small park's worn grass

in Vancouver's tiny Sun Hop Park on the busy intersection of two streets, Helen Zaltzman and Justin McElroy sit recording on a low wall at the edge of a small grassy hillock. The rest of the park is paved, with an installation of giant red bendy straws forming a pergola

The sign for Choklit park - spelled C H O K L I T - stands in a colourful flowerbed. Behind it are some bald trees, a couple of trees laden with blossom, and behind them the tall buildings of downtown Vancouver

A new episode is in your podfeed! We go on a field trip with @jmcelroy.bsky.social around several of Vancouver's parks, to consider what IS park, also how their names can make us feel about them. Listen, see more photos, read the transcript at theallusionist.org/park

Analysis: Meet the new national police force | CNN Politics The agency of mask-wearing officers who aren’t afraid to smash windows, detain lawmakers, and pluck nonviolent undocumented immigrants off the street is about to become the best-funded federal police ...

cnn editor: u got that story on ice?

cnn reporter: sure did boss, real fuckin hypernormalized, just like u asked

cnn editor: first of all, i love it

How do LOBSTERS mate? 🦞
Helen explains all in AMT 407... #AnswerMeThis

@helenzaltzman.bsky.social | @martinaustwick.bsky.social

🎧 answermethispodcast.com/2025/06/26/e...

omg the true Leo backstory?!?!

good luck with the assessment, Ben - I hope you get what you need!

Helen Lewis @helenlewis • 9h The Bluesky reaction is about what you'd expect in terms of the emotional pitch. But what's telling is that no one is contesting the central claim -- that the suicide claims were overblown. Again, it isn't me that's spent a decade earmongering on this.

No I very much am contesting the central claim: “Lifesaving” is a perfectly reasonable way to describe a treatment that reduces depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation in a population with high rates of all three!

2 million died in the cambodian genocide. this is 7 times that. the scale of death here is simply staggering.

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

View of the No Kings protest from the 4th floor of the Boise Capitol Building

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO?

#NOKINGS

Aw I’m on the bus to the protest and there’s a family with kids around 4 and 6 years old, and the dad is gently preparing them. “Always take water!” ❤️

"Some say", the classic bullshit indicator!

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oy Toronto! Montréal!! Our live show Souvenirs is coming to you IMMINENTLY, get tickets via theallusionist.org/events or live forever chewed by regret

sorry: <boring podbiz> we had to move the show to a new host. But it's still out there!