Matt Dovey

It's 2025. You have no excuses anymore. If you promote, participate in, or consume anything related to Harry Potter, you are directly supporting genocidal efforts against transgender people and creating a police state for strict gender roles and presentations even for cisgender people.

Has it got an indulgently long dialogue scene between two characters that really does not need to be that long by anyone else's standards but somehow works, mostly by virtue of having some incredible lines and character work?

There are 1K+ copies that they were supposed to send me and kept putting off and putting off and now “oops out of time to send them to you ooooopsieees we’re such silly gooses aren’t we toying with your LIVELIHOOD” which makes me sus that like many others they were actually unreported sales

the exploding boar memoji meme with white text “PAY ARTISTS FOR YOUR PARTY FLYERS AND IT LOOKS LIKE SHIT”

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Can it also do the "millennials are killing X" ones too, tho. It would be enjoyably ironic if AI killed those.

Motherfucking wind farms…

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12 years! Good gods, 12 years ago is like, 1873 or something, near enough. Definitely the 1990s at the latest.

It's a pretty huge arc you've carried the site through, and given how many others have fallen by the information superwayside in that time, you deserve to be proud of what you achieved.

So after two years of “Hamas steals all the aid” hysteria, Israeli military officials admit they found—checks notes—zero evidence. Israel is systematically starving Gaza on purpose, just like Palestinians, aid orgs, and human‑rights groups have been telling us.

Ha, funnily enough that's something I talk about in August's first episode, just coming up 😅 ableism has been a common theme for me in considering stories these past couple of years, and when it hasn't, it's been anticapitalism instead... or, as with lived experience, both at once :)

"What is art, if not faith persisting?" oh bravo @alasdairstuart.com, you incredible being

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Wow, friends, if I had a nickel for every friend of mine who has ADHD and doesn't know it, or talks about having ADHD as though it's a joke, or even knows they have ADHD but just refuses to get chemical help...

Please know, I was there. I thought I didn't have it, and I was wrong. #ADHD 🧵

I said something in one of my PodCastle outros along the lines of: there's a friction to existing in an NT world with an ND brain. And the modern world does nothing to ease that, leaves all of the burden on the individual, such that it manifests as anxiety and burnout.

The murder by famine of Razan Abu Zaher is gutting. But it's also one documented case with a name attached that is one of untold thousands.

I've said this many times: We won't know for a long time how many Palestinians, real human people, were murdered by Israel's genocide in Gaza.

"Four-year old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for life on Sunday."

"She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was laid out on a slab of stone."

Third up for PodCastle #DisabilityPride, we have the breathtaking "Sour Fruit" by @gvknox.bsky.social, read by Karen Menzel.

Gillian tells this story with such elegance and voice that I can't believe they haven't published dozens more already. Please listen or read!

Screencap from the middle of a paper: questions like ‘where?’, ‘whither?’ or ‘what?’ and answer them with demonstrative words like ‘there’, ‘thither’ or ‘that’. English, like many languages, allows a range of spatially calibrated answers—here versus there (and yon in older English), hither versus thither, this versus that. Moreover, many languages are like English in having proportional formal relationships between question words and demonstratives. The English formula is wh- for questions, h- for proximal demonstratives, and th- for distal demonstratives, but we don’t do this consistently HIGHLIGHT (we don’t express ‘now’ with hen, or answer which? with hich or thich). END HIGHLIGHT Some languages, like Japanese or Tamil, have systems that are both richer and more consistent (see Evans 2012b for [screencap cuts off mid-sentence]

brb making "hich" happen

Also, apropos of nothing, trans right are human rights because trans folks are humans.

If freedom and liberty don’t mean the ability to make decisions about your own body and how you live in it, I don’t know what they mean.

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srsly, tho. 900 stories. 9 0 0.

Helluva way to mark it, too--perfect story for a milestone, I think it encapsulates everything we try to do: using fantasy to cast a light on real life struggles & emotions & hopefully broadening the world's empathy just a little more

No neurodivergent person has ever been shamed, scolded or yelled into nervous system regulation. If that worked, my inner monologue would give me the eerie calm of a sociopath. I'd be walking into screwdriver fights with the bpm of an Olympic sprinter taking a bubble bath

Putting women in men's prisons is fucking sick and the only justification you have for it is that you, personally, don't think trans people are fully human

Finally, I can post this video I've been hanging on to since somebody sent it to me.

Rights, respect, equality anti-bullying guidance | GOV.WALES We are seeking your views on revising the draft statutory guidance on anti-bullying.

The Welsh government is doing a consultation on new anti-bullying guidance for schools. Inevitably the TERFs are trying to flood it with pro-bullying responses. If you live in Wales, please fill it in, and if not please pass this on to your Welsh-resident friends: www.gov.wales/rights-respe...

To be disabled in contemporary society is inherently traumatic, which is why this story is essential to Disability Pride & Magic Month

Fair warning, it's not easy, but that's because @catrambo.bsky.social refuses to make it easy, & instead cleaves to the harder, spikier truths of living with trauma

In my second pick for #DisabilityPride, @catrambo.bsky.social reads us her own story!

A darker story this time, exploring what it's like to feel broken, to have the world tell you you're broken, and what it means to keep going, in the face of that

The first of my picks for #DisabilityPride!

Kicking off with a fun, heartfelt story from @jrdawson.bsky.social & @wiswell.bsky.social, and an absolutely phenomenal narration by John Bell — it almost sounds like a full cast recording!

Extraordinarily response from the EHRC to our letter asking whether they were using AI to process consultation responses: "It is not for your client to question the manner in which that process is
being conducted while the process is ongoing."

Obviously we won't let it drop.

Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.

Thank you, Wes Streeting.

At least I knew myself enough to know that while the idea of buying all the parts separately to build exactly the custom 104-key Alice layout w/ knob, Kangaroo switches, shine through keycaps, beige delight would appeal immensely to the autism, the ADHD would get twenty keys in and abandon the build