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Buying yachts while children starve = evil, morally bankrupt, deplorable, selfish
Psychosis = a debilitating disconnect from reality, possibly involving delusions or hallucinations

People with psychosis are disproportionately vulnerable, especially to violence. Don’t conflate it with evil actions.

With the sheer number of people engaging with AI, we can’t necessarily infer a causation here. That said, this is all really alarming. The “reduction” of poor responses they’re framing as a boast, but can’t prove the efficacy of, is just not good enough- and that’s them trying to make it sound good.

Pronoun Disclosure and Discrimination on the Job Search Nonbinary folks who use they / them pronouns do experience discrimination on the job search. According to research by Taryn Eames, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of T...

People who use they/them pronouns face documented employment discrimination. Is that material enough for you?

newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/pronoun-disc...

If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

I adore your piece Amanda! It's been such a delight finally getting to see what everyone has made- or perhaps I should say what we've all made together!- today ✨

Sorren Briarwood - TELEPHONE View Sorren Briarwood's artwork in the TELEPHONE exhibition. a lover of storytelling in all its many forms. I write primarily speculative fiction, and hope to do so in as many mediums as I can before ...

I was lucky enough to participate in TELEPHONE, an international, iterative art game translating pieces from medium to medium & artist to artist:
telephonegame.art/game

Check out my story for cyberpunk flavours, pretty prosthetics, and backroom biohackers:
telephonegame.art/artists/sorren-briarwood

Remember this: VA is systemically excluding the trans kids skipping to swimming lessons with their friends. Playing mermaids when the lesson is over. Trying to help mum who never gained confidence in the water to swim better.

Shame on #VirginActive (who walked at London Pride this year) for introducing transphobic rules and bowing to transphobic pressures.

I learned to swim at a local pool that is now VA.

I actually don’t care whether you, a cis person, think what Emma said about the TERF-in-chief was too forgiving, not forgiving enough, or just right. Spend the five minutes you’re spending crafting your ever so erudite post about it writing to your reps, signing a petition, donating to a trans org.

There are so many pieces of this that I want to pull-quote, but this in particular is so important. Transformative fandom spaces are not without their own ugly biases, but the stories that get "uplifted" into tradpub books only serve to reinforce whose stories are already seen as worthy of telling.

Photo with Keir Starmer and copy that reads: RECOGNITION OF A PALESTINIAN STATE IS A HOLLOW GESTURE WITHOUT MEANINGFUL ACTION TO END ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE, APARTHEID & OCCUPATION

Recognition is no doubt significant but it will be a hollow gesture if the UK does not also seek to end Israel's genocide, illegal occupation, and system of apartheid against the Palestinian people.

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Petition: Add the Progress Pride Flags to the flags that don’t require permission There are rules about the flags that can be flown without local planning authority consent. The Rainbow Flag is already listed, subject to certain restrictions. We would like the Progress Flag & its...

Finally my petition is approved!

There’s a list of flags you can fly in England and Wales without planning permission, including the rainbow flag.

Sign here (anyone in the UK) to try and get the progress flags added to the list.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

New police powers could criminalise wearing a mask at Pride The police will have the power to make it a criminal offence to cover your face at a public protest if Labour’s proposed policing bill becomes law, putting LGBTQIA+ people attending Pride events in danger of being outed

The police will have the power to make it a criminal offence to cover your face at a public protest if Labour’s proposed policing bill becomes law, putting LGBTQIA+ people attending Pride events in danger of being outed

Maria's fundraiser for CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) Help Maria K raise money to support CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably)

My dear friend is raising money for #CALM this October! If you’d like to put a little good out into the world today, please consider donating or sharing ♥️ Just £12 could fund a potentially life-saving phone call for someone in crisis!
justgiving.com/page/maria-k-1?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL

However you feel about them, the EU parliament’s decision to downgrade wolf protections is a scientifically unsound nightmare for biodiversity:
wwf.eu/?18127416/Europe-turns-its-back-on-the-wolf-and-on-science

Please sign this petition against it:
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/stop_wolf_hunting_loc/

Hope for red wolves Full tree canopies and blooming goldenrod. Shifting bird sightings with migrating flocks. The thrum of cicadas, late sunsets, and lightning bugs.  The final remnants of summer are all around — and in ...

The Red Wolf Recovery Program has confirmed 4 wild litters on the Albemarle Peninsula this year, bringing 16 new pups into the world!

With only 18 known adults left in the wild, every birth is a vital step forward for this critically endangered species.

Read more: www.selc.org/news/hope-fo...

Mockup drawing of a UK parliament petition where the petitioner has asked for "good thing please" with description "we think the UK needs this". Government responded: "No."

Every UK petition is like this

Ofcom: stop TalkTV broadcasting hate TalkTV is Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News for the UK – a constant source of toxic hate and far-right lies. Over the last 11 weeks, TalkTV has been spouting transphobic hate again and again – totally ignorin...

🚨24 hours left to take action 🚨

Join over 21,000 people and stop TalkTV’s transphobic hate 👇
action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-t...

Person wearing beige vest and green hot pants holds sign that says bless the t girls and all the in between girls

Black dog with trans pride bandana held in a crowd with sign that says #notinourname in the background

Two signs that read we will always existed and I love my patchy beard

Sign thay reads honk if you support trans rights

Organisers say 100,000 people attended London Trans+ Pride yesterday 🏳️‍⚧️

The theme this year was existence and resistance.

Team QueerAF were there and witnessed a strong, empowered community that was turning its rage, into a powerful fight back 👇

I dunno, I just think universal basic income would solve a lot of these problems

Donate to Help Jien stay and remain in the UK, organized by Jia Wei Lee ABOUT: Our dear Jien's visa is ending, and unless they find another visa, they are… Jia Wei Lee needs your support for Help Jien stay and remain in the UK

Now more than ever, we need to look after each other 💕🏳️‍⚧️

Jien, a nonbinary transfemme, has been forced back to Malaysia- the 2nd worst country for the trans community w/ the highest danger rating. Please consider supporting them back to their chosen family in the UK:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-jien-...

[Image: Yellow text over a pink background. Text: "call for submissions. Trans survivors zine: Issue #3. Aging and Growth. Submissions open July 14 – August 1. poetry, art, and short fiction/non-fiction; $25 contributor payment. forge.tips/submit." FORGE logo.]

Submissions for issue #3 of the Trans Survivors Zine are now open! We're looking for poetry, short fiction/nonfiction, and visual art around themes of aging and growth. We want to hear about your experiences with change, growth, and identity across your lifetime. forge.tips/submit!

A TRANS COMMUNITY ZINE SUPREME INJUSTICE! SUBMISSIONS OPEN WE REFUSE TO BE SILENCED After the unjust and discriminatory Supreme Court ruling against trans rights on 16 April 2025, as well as the subsequent EHRC guidance, we are accepting submissions for a zine titled Supreme Injustice!, which will document and archive trans people's voices, art, and resistance against this ruling. THE THEME: Art as Resistance: My response to the Supreme Court ruling Submissions close on 25 July 2025 (23:59). Link in bio!

WE'RE ACCEPTING TEXT AND ART SUBMISSIONS! Short stories, Song lyrics, Articles and essays, Digital art, Photos, Speeches, Comics, Poetry This list is not exhaustive. If it can go in a zine, we're accepting it! Your submission should be your own work. It can be as short as a few lines, and up to 750 words or 2-3 A5 pages. (Toward 1000 words is OK, but not more!) Submissions close on 25 July 2025 (23:59). Link in bio!

Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh are looking for submissions to their printed zine 'Supreme Injustice!'

You can find out more and submit here, deadline is 25th July! 🏳️‍⚧️ cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

If you’re an artist of color, you need to keep making art. Especially if you’re also trans. Our world needs your voice.

In the face of increasingly hostile and murderous systems, this is what we can do. This is what we have to do.

How History Still Weighs Heavy On South Asian Bodies Today The health risks South Asians face aren't just down to lifestyle. Colonialism has a lot to answer for.

Glad you enjoyed it! 💜💛

Other way around- if a generation survives a famine, the next has lower lean mass- so we should see more of that in fantasy!

Sources:
• nature.com/articles/s41598-019-46960-9
• huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/south-asian-health-colonial-history_uk_620e74fee4b055057aac0e9f/

Perhaps when I learn more about the programme, I’ll change my mind. I hope I do. But for now, the ‘Year of Reading,’ feels a bit like lip service to me. [8/8]

These lacks, of course, impact poorer children disproportionately. And not every family takes their child to their local library. That’s assuming they can still access one if they want to, given that almost 200 libraries closed across the country between 2016 and 2024. [7/8]

In 2023, @literacy-trust.bsky.social found that 1 in 5 children aged 5 to 8 did not have books of their own at home.

They also report that 1 in 7 schools in the UK don’t have a library, and that number is worsening. The majority of primary schools in the UK don’t have library staff. [6/8]