Like most prohibition type rules this will end up backfiring in ways that get ever more dumb – not least that because teens aren't supposed to be on the network now, and only circumvent it via third-party tools, Australia can't hold social media companies responsible for harms they face on there.
Started watching How to get to heaven from Belfast thinking it looked fun without realising that, beyond being a murder mystery, it’s about women exactly my age having a midlife crisis. I have taken a huge hit of psychic damage, I am not ready to have midlife crisis media aimed at me.
100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride.
Mainstream media: nothing
Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes.
Mainstream media: nothing.
This is what extreme media bias looks like.
If my side was renowned for embarrassingly sparse and cursed discos I wouldn’t go to a huge packed out party for the other side in an attempt to make fun of them, but that’s just me
Do u think they did an equalities audit before deciding on a two-tier workforce because I have some wild guesses about who is most impacted here.
Hey so just so people are aware, if they do this they will be signing off on killing me. I do not produce hormones since I had surgery and was assured I would have that medication for the rest of my life from them.
I have other means, a lot of people like me wont and will be very scared
I get so frustrated with “this is a distraction from that” discourse, because what does your attention alone actually do?
An interesting thing to witness is the mass realisation of Sedgwick’s critique of a hermeneutics of suspicion, that, unlike on crime dramas, the public uncovering of damning evidence does not smoothly lead to justice, and often serves to further terrorise with the accompanying sense of powerlessness
found a stack of these cleaning up my studio the other day. as ever!!!
Evil goings on in Peckham today
"she was a citizen"
"he was a nurse"
so what?
the government shouldn't get to murder immigrants or assholes in the street either what the fuck
Absolutely, it’s an intended outcome rather than a side effect
See my thesis for research evidence of why a social media ban would be terrible for LGBTQIA youth.
TLDR- when you belong to a geographically dispersed minority that your family don’t belong to, might even be hostile to- social media is likely your only lifeline for identity work and community.
Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her.
This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.
Ah I hope so! I reference them ☺️
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My PhD thesis “Waving and Drowning: UK Trans Youth Experiences of Social Media Affective Publics” is now available online.
It features a model of the emotional cycle of doomscrolling that I’m particularly proud of.
This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.
the reason they don’t bother to manufacture the consent beforehand is that everyone just sort of does it for them post-facto now
The TLDR of the Streeting review is your quality of life doesn't matter so long as you are contributing to the economy and employment stats - which will exacerbate most MH conditions and increase suicide rates, which they don't care about either because the economy, stupid.
My boy says ekekek
This. We do not deserve to be abandoned. We deserve the full throated support of people who claim to support us. Not the apologetic shuffle of "sorry, but it's hard!"
Jam, Jerusalem and genital inspections 🙄
A solicitor, Andrew Milne has been bullying leaseholders across Sheffield into paying him extraordinary sums, with no legal basis.
Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.
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Why are we hearing about this now if it happened a few years ago?
Since coming to office AFTER the attack on his niece, Starmer's culture war anti-LGBTQ+ words and policies have got him and Labour banned from every Pride. He has personally made ...
“I didn’t think the leopards would eat *my* niece” says man in hotdog costume
Trying very hard to link transness with dangerous criminality is disgusting, but so is the following implication that only sane, well-behaved people should be allowed to transition, if any.
The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!"
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
When Rosie Duffield is in on it I think we can safely say the anti-phone campaign in Brianna's name is actively at odds with tackling transphobia
