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Two of the most significant politics editors in Teen Vogue’s history were working class trans people from Ohio and Philly, and their tireless, fearless work is a huge part of why so many people are mourning its demise now. @satansjacuzzi.bsky.social and @leximcmenamin.com you will always be famous

I Watched Stand-Up in Saudi Arabia What the surreal Riyadh Comedy Festival foretold about the kingdom’s future

I missed this and enjoyed Jimmy Carr's face being described as "well ironed"

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DWP have been 'trying' to put me in touch with specialist advisors since February 2024. They don't exist.

It is fundamental

a shark is swimming in a tank with the words rapture me now lord written on the bottom . ALT: a shark is swimming in a tank with the words rapture me now lord written on the bottom .

So if the Rapture's Tuesday I don't need to do my compliance docs tomorrow right?

#OtD 20 Sep 2015 the #piggate scandal broke when claims from Tory donor Lord Ashcroft were published in a right-wing newspaper that UK Prime Minister David Cameron had sex with a dead pig's head while at university stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9335...

How marginalised groups are treated is an indicator for how they want to treat everyone. All this post shows is that you don't understand how marginalisation worlds. Trans people are students. Trans people need healthcare (and that is a whole front on its own). Also this is the internet, not the US

The Green party now has over 76,000 members 🔥

The Green Revolution is coming, but we need you 🫵

Step 1: Join the Greens 👇 join.greenparty.org.uk

Step 2: Repost this message! 🔄

Step 3: Get one friend or family member to pledge to vote Green! 💚

I do wish people would treat transphobia as the serious red flag it is, because if someone is repeating bullshit pseudoscience talking points from right wing cranks, that's just as bad as conceding to anti-vax nonsense and undermining trust in science and medicine, alarm bells should be sounding!

The FB tag group "this is the internet, not America" is my most used passive aggressive reply. We all have unexamined racial stuff to look at but this one baffles me.

God damn I would have taken your word for it, you didn’t need to show me this

I was harsh towards you in my frustration on insta (@cathusmax) & I apologised for singling you out. I just felt the awards had become worthless. I don't feel I can take credit for your decision-making down to my bullying and intimidation. It was clear you'd decided to do this off your own back ❤️

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

He seems determined to talk about abuse in every way apart from the way in which it impacts most women (cis and trans). Namely that at some point, at least one cis man, probably already known to us, will abuse us. And yes SA towards men needs to be discussed more. Not as a deflection from own harm

This is the equivalent of shitting on the birthday cake and complaining when others say they're leaving the party

Thank you, I don't see a lot of this from cis gay men you've set it out perfectly. I'm cis but fucked off at men carrying out bigotry in my name. As if there's not a thousand other ways they could do that.

It's deplorable that you're weaponising your abuse as a way to deflect from the harm you've caused by adding to overwhelming transphobia. As if the trans people you attack aren't overwhelmingly more likely to have been abused than to have been the abuser. I really hope obscurity is forthcoming.

This is the equivalent of shitting on a birthday cake at a party and then wondering why people are wanting to leave. No accountability from you at all.

The moment of horrified dissonance in a transphobe's mind when the question "DO YOU NEED HELP?" cuts a little too deep.

The mother, who asked to remain anonymous, argued that the retailer's reply fell "significantly short of the response that was required to satisfy me that M&S takes seriously the safety and dignity of women and girls". She said that the retailer had acknowledged "this colleague is not female" but this was "not sufficient to offer just my daughter the protection of not being approached by him".

“the protection of not being approached by him"

Either you’re discriminating against trans people, or your argument is that ALL men are inherently dangerous to women and must be banned from this part of the store. Pick. If you are discriminating, call it what it is.

JKFacho as the french translation of JKMoldemort is 🙌🏻

I'm backing @zackpolanski.bsky.social precisely *because* the Greens need to reach a genuinely broad appeal. For too long has the Green Party only spoken to middle class affluents who can afford to make their lifestyles greener, it needs to start talking to everyone who wants a fairer greener world.

Tl;dr: "This law breaks the internet, destroys online privacy, kills independent websites, wrecks accessibility, trains users to routinely bypass government blocks of genuinely illegal content, and offers less protection to kids than the tools that are already freely available from every major ISP."

Age verification: what's the harm? | Girl on the Net explains Age verification has hit the UK, people need to upload ID to see 'adult' content. What's the harm in laws like this, if they protect children? Let's see.

#AgeVerification: what's the harm?

In which I distill a lot of casual pub chats I've had with friends into a layperson's guide to the #OnlineSafetyAct. What it is, the problems it causes, and why you should definitely care.

www.girlonthenet.com/blog/age-ver...

The number of English youth centres run by local authorities almost halved between 2012 and 2023.

Youth centres are vital for young people's life chances, especially in the poorest areas. Reversing this damaging legacy of 2010s austerity can't come soon enough!

Does Porn Harm Young People? Most young people watch porn? Porn harms young people? They’re having non-consensual, unsafe sex as a result? No. The evidence points to a more inconclusive and also complicated picture. Does Porn Hav...

If you're wondering about the evidence base for the Online Safety Act in relationship to porn and young people, here you go. bishtraining.com/does-porn-ha...

Initiatives commemorating 80 years since the atomic bombing｜広島市公式ウェブサイト Information on the City of Hiroshima initiatives to commemorate 80 years since the atomic bombing.

I visited Hiroshima in 2008, and I cried the whole time I was there.

It’s the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing today www.city.hiroshima.lg.jp/english/1037...

"what's that banging noise?" It's just Luther nailing his 95 theses to the door. "Lucky theses"

I was braced for some Matt Lucas/Noel Fielding level cultural insensitivity this week. Pleased they've learned a bit

The psychiatrist who diagnosed me got my back up in the diagnostic session because he basically admitted "my wife does everything for me"