Juliet

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I noticed you across the bar 🫦 and I think you draw far too much attention to yourself, Mr. Underhill 😠

"(modern right-wing thing) only happened because (ethnic group, sexual minority or women) went too far with (minor inconvenience) in the 2010s" living in a moment of apparent reactionary hegemony is already pretty grim but do they have to be so fucking whiny about it

If your argument against giving 16/17yr olds the vote is because they're idiots, please have a chat with any person whose job for 5+ years has been dealing with the general public.

Whenever somebody complains about purity tests, ask them exactly what should be compromised on.

They don't know, and if they do, they probably won't say.

It's nonsense, a stick to beat the left and blame them for the right's actions, which they accomplish through controlling the entire UK press.

We are governed entirely in the interests of imaginary desiccated Fashbook uncles with lives animated by a burning resentment that young people & minorities are thieving their inalienable freedom which they primarily understand to consist in being enshrined in being massive unrelenting arseholes

I recommend they read up on the harm JKR is causing to trans people. The last vestiges of HP nostalgia disappeared for me years ago because I now associate those books with bigotry and suffering.

1/ I have been practicing law for over 20 years and in that time, I have never once come across a social media profile of a sitting Judge, except for the fascist anti trans Reindorf.

The main thing that comes through to me about this piece is just how *forced* it is - it's an attempt to seem to acknowledge the polling evidence that then relies on carefully omitting ignoring particularly inconvenient features of it.

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Thank you for saying this! I'm a lesbian and I hate when transphobes claim to spread their regressive nonsense in my name. LGB with the T, always

It only looks "complex" if you've swallowed the lie that women's rights and trans rights are in opposition, rather than in alignment

"On the important issue of discrimination, Clause 9 makes it clear that a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act as a person of the acquired sex or gender. Once recognition has been granted, they will be able to claim the rights appropriate to that gender."

The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or gender." /1

I want to add something here. She also routinely claims that lesbian and gay people support her and her crusade against trans rights. We do not. And her lying about what we believe to attack other members of our community is abusive to the LGBTQA+ community.

Cis people: if you see someone trying to bully trans folks out of single-sex spaces, it’s your moral duty to intervene.

"you live in a bubble" oh sorry hadn't realized you were directly in touch with the universal like that. i've been practicing glimpsing it through the particular like a dumbass

No One Knows How This Will End (But I Do Not Think It Will End Well for Them) I can sum up the Trump/Musk/Vance theory of power in five words: "We have power; you don't." Alternative version in six words: "we can do anything we want." They seem to believe that nothing is really...

These three horsemen of the MAGA-tech-bro apocalypse are in the position of penthouse dwellers who think their top floor apartment doesn't rest on all the floors underneath... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-one-knows...

It's always peanuts

It's dumb to ask how the British bigot nightmare gang is reflecting on their years of Just Asking Questions now that Trump is deleting the word ’trans’ from all government documents because the answer is always ‘arguing with their editor over how nakedly gleeful their celebratory op-ed can be’

I have been laughing at this all day.

What really is the point of Labour if they are broadcasting deportation porn and cutting welfare that even the Tories hadn't?

Jan Styka - Les chrétiens aux lions

I bet I could go through the Jaunt while conscious and be fine.

a vintage clip of a comic illustration depicting a person with short hair looking out into the city skyline, leaning against their window and stating “What a stupid time to be alive.”

it would probably be a really fun time to impress Jodie Foster rn

Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic I worry for us, freelance, unemployed, rag-tag. Asked to choose how we want to go out and responding like George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence: not at all, or drowning in the Malmsey wine. On the phone, fizzing with my own incalculable whimsy, I announce I’m not playing the game! They can suck it! Here I am, my own engine of incredible catastrophe. But there’s tax and student loans and not getting the job. Again. There’s every disaster competing for every ounce of care. There’s my ever so carefully made savings. Eighty pounds. And hope, like a noose. My mam’s voice on the phone. And yes: that flowering and bizzare engine of mad catastrophe I am. But what next in this bullshit life? Everyone waking up into the new, expected despair. Today and yesterday is sheer wilful absurdity. The Duke and I sinking in a pink tubby custard. I dream that the writer of Revelations is brunch drunk over mimosas and saying you kids really did screw it, but I’m living now and midnight is slipping into tomorrow. And tomorrow? Good God. Tomorrow opens like a gasp.

god I can't believe I wrote this FOUR YEARS ago and it still feels the same.

I just want a government that doesn't constantly say 'SO SOWWY, can't have any libraries because there's no money you see' and yet somehow also constantly say 'GOOD NEWS, a nice man phoned us up and said he was a deposed prince and now we're investing a trillion pounds on MAGIC BEANS'

We should have some unprecedented events that are good for once