Helen Zaltzman

Ooh thank you, I am honoured!

Allusionist 217. Feminist coffee houses — The Allusionist In their heyday of the 1970s and 1980s, there were more than 200 - possibly more than 400 - feminist restaurants and coffee shops in the USA and Canada. These places were aiming to change ways of work...

So excited to have my work featured on @allusionistshow.bsky.social by @helenzaltzman.bsky.social !! www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/...

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ha, interesting - I'm so terrible at writing that text, so would no doubt flub an epitaph too

oh what a night, when politics made us so happy for once

Hooray!! Email has emailed.

Ooh - any chance you’d be up for an interview on @allusionistshow.bsky.social?

I love that one of the things Jonathan is so perplexed by is “I thought this guy was rich, how come he makes the beds and lays the table himself?”

Ademólá. @OgbeniDemola White people in South Africa still cannot speak Zulu even after settling there for almost four hundred years. Keir Starmer @Keir Starmer 10h If you want to live in the UK, you should speak English. That's common sense. So we're raising English language requirements across every main immigration route

either the country is beset by hundreds and hundreds of terrorists massing in every major city -- little old lady terrorists, famous film writer terrorists, university student terrorists, disabled terrorists -- or the law is a sick fucking joke

Hee hee thank you!

I’m performing at Nerd Nite in Vancouver on Wednesday! I have read three different versions of Dracula in the past month and you should come along to learn why the hell I would do something like that www.eventbrite.com/e/nerd-nite-...

god, that company has been on my List ever since 2013, and they just keep on supplying reasons why they will never not be on it

But also, I know I've hit my cap of independent media support that I can personally offer to the venues I value.

Independent media that isn't taking a deep dive in the right wing cesspool is expensive to produce, maintain, and continue.

It's exhausting to play wack a mole like this.

Dem Congressman Ro Khanna Defends UK Anti-Trans Activist Arrested For Calling For Violence Against Trans People Graham Linehan was arrested after calling for violence against transgender people using the bathroom.

Shutting the fuck up is free, Ro Khanna www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-congre...

don't be too idealistic about the politics here either - the conservatives were only a few dozen votes off winning the supposedly leftie BC

I had low low hopes for this regime and they've still managed to be worse

I often wonder if I asked people *why* they are anti-migrant, they would actually have an answer. Aside from malignant fury with nowhere else to go.

alas he's basically Theresa May with less good outfits

yuk, looks like none of them are willing even to do the BARE MINIMUM

A Guardian headline that reads: "Labour must act to close asylum hotels or face Reform poll gains, ex-minister warns"

Alternative options (I suggest a combo): 1. steer people to be less fucking racist; 2. throw all this effort and more into stemming the main causes of migration: wars and climate catastrophe.

But, as always, alas

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A family outside their home. Their deck is loaded with guns.

A man in his living room. His living room is full of guns. There's also a big safe labeled "Liberty."

A man outside his home. The walkway into his home is full of guns.

A woman outside her garage. The front of her home is full of guns, some laid out in a star formation.

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

This is all over Twitter as agitprop to eradicate trans people. If they should actual raw numbers, it would show the thousands of mass shootings committed by white men. But they purposefully distorted statistics in a purposefully skewed scale guaranteed to push trans people to the top.

This is the dumbest propaganda fake statistic I've ever seen. It presents in a rate of per million population when there's only 2.8 million trans people in the entire country. A single trans mass shooter would show up in this and that's exactly what it shows.

yupppppp!!! Our history A-level course even managed to cover the East India Company without mentioning it

LGB Alliance Tweet: "Today's LGB History highlight: In protest against Section 28 lesbian demonstrators abseiled onto the floor of the House of Lords chamber following the vote to approve it. Lesbian activists also invaded the BBC News studios during the six o’clock news to protest the law. Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 forbade local authorities from ‘promoting’ homosexuality, or teaching about it as a possible family relationship." JK Rowling quote tweet: "I remember this vividly"

They were LITERALLY protesting against JK Rowling's best mate and partner in Lumos etc Baroness Nicholson.

Literally. Truth doesn't matter any more. Today they're protesting against HER.

BBC Sounds - Artworks - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Artworks on BBC Sounds.

Cultural recommendation for UK folk: Artworks art docs on BBC Sounds. Enjoying one about recorders by Susan Calman (expires tomorrow). Also beautiful Souvenirs by @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social, and a doc about Leigh Bowery by Nick Grimshaw www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

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...