Patrick Ness

Well, this has gone viral, which I didn’t expect. But it is a twisting of the facts, with well chosen and misleading words, to imply once again that all trans people are sex criminals. As was once done with gay men, as was once done with lesbians, as was once done with black men, and on and on…

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

I also know how to pronounce your name! I am unstoppable!

Look, I don't want to have to keep tweeting about the disastrous transphobia that's gripped billionaires and right-wingers and pick-me gays, but as long as they're going to keep spewing it, I'm going to keep fighting it. I'm not sorry. But I also do tweet about books and pets BECAUSE I AM LEGION.

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

My personal library arrives from the US today after three months in a crate on a ship. I read somewhere that the sand mandalas Tibetan monks create are meant to be outward reflections of their interior state. That’s me and my books.

Just assuming that's an asshole

My god, I love Japanese food.

Novelist Nicola Dinan has withdrawn as a Polari Prize judge, after self-described 'terf' John Boyne was longlisted for the LGBTQ+ book award

www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article... (£)

A badly cut page in a published novel resulting in the bottom left corner reaching out like an elephant leg from the rest of the book

Argh, when there’s a cutting error in a book…

Realized this morning that I see AI and Labubu in the same way. Not for me, seems like an awful lot of expense for very little, and will go the way of NFTs.

Saw an ad for War of the Worlds on Amazon starting Ice Cube. Thought wtf? And then read it had a 0% rating on Amazon. Then I just felt bad for Ice Cube.

Fantastic Four is fun. Vanessa Kirby really commits, which is a huge asset.

I finished the last pass of a book on Thursday before turning it into the publisher. Because I am who I am, I seem to have started writing a new book on Friday. So that's a thing. I wonder where it'll go...

John Boyne on JK Rowling: Rowling’s critics claim she is transphobic, the greatest sin of our time, and use the usual tedious hyperbole to demonize her. Her supporters, on the other hand, are encouraged by the advocacy of a domestic violence survivor who believes that women are entitled to safe spaces, that opportunities for women in academia or sport should not be stolen from them, that a lesbian who refuses to allow me into her dating pool is a bigot, and that children should not be subjected to medical experimentation when they’re too young to make informed decisions about their future. For these perfectly rational beliefs she has been pilloried by three distinct types of person: the middle-aged men who’ve been rejected by women all their lives and have now abandoned the real world in favour of taking out their frustrations on social media; there’s the young people, so indoctrinated by social media, that they fail to recognise actual misogyny and homophobia when they see it. And there are the grown women who are astonishingly complicit in their own erasure. These, perhaps, are the worst group, but it must be remembered that for every Commander Waterford, there’s a Serena Joy standing behind him, ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her.

The full paragraphs for complete context. Tap to see handmaiden part. He mischaracterizes what trans rights mean, then mischaracterizes those who advocate for them as incels, indoctrinated young people, and handmaidens.

John Boyne on JK Rowling: Rowling’s critics claim she is transphobic, the greatest sin of our time, and use the usual tedious hyperbole to demonize her. Her supporters, on the other hand, are encouraged by the advocacy of a domestic violence survivor who believes that women are entitled to safe spaces, that opportunities for women in academia or sport should not be stolen from them, that a lesbian who refuses to allow me into her dating pool is a bigot, and that children should not be subjected to medical experimentation when they’re too young to make informed decisions about their future. For these perfectly rational beliefs she has been pilloried by three distinct types of person: the middle-aged men who’ve been rejected by women all their lives and have now abandoned the real world in favour of taking out their frustrations on social media; there’s the young people, so indoctrinated by social media, that they fail to recognise actual misogyny and homophobia when they see it. And there are the grown women who are astonishingly complicit in their own erasure. These, perhaps, are the worst group, but it must be remembered that for every Commander Waterford, there’s a Serena Joy standing behind him, ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her.

The full paragraphs for complete context. Tap to see handmaiden part. He mischaracterizes what trans rights mean, then mischaracterizes those who advocate for them as incels, indoctrinated young people, and handmaidens.

This has gone quite wide, here & on insta. I’m talking about John Boyne and the Polari Prize. Boyne said in his paean to Rowling last week in the Irish independent that women who support trans rights are “complicit in their own erasure” and “ready to pin down a handmaiden as her husband rapes her.”

This is the best thing. Sending nothing but hearts and love.

My favorite typo for book is boom. As in, I went to the boomshop to buy some booms for my boomshelves. Because there’s nothing like a good boom.

I was raised by evangelical Christians, and I’m afraid this is true. The conversion of all the Jewish people in Israel to evangelical Christianity is a vital step towards the antichrist, Armageddon and the second coming. I’m not kidding. This is what’s guiding US foreign policy.

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For anyone asking, this is sort of thing I was referring to.

Yes, I couldn’t rememebr half of them but it didn’t matter. But the original seasons are good too. All stars is another level. Great stuff.

On a completely different topic, Drag Race France All Stars is the best Drag Race series in ages. Nikki Doll is easily the best international host, and the runways are cutting edge. In this house, we are Team Mami Wata and Team Moon.

I’m feeling like this has been done on purpose so someone can write an outraged essay for a right wing paper about how they’re being cancelled. So fun to score your publicity off the backs of your own community.

You can't call yourself "a prize for LGBTQ+ literature" and longlist a self-proclaimed terf. Anyone can give any prize to anyone they like, of course. But don't pretend you're a prize for my community when you're platforming someone who's actively fighting against it.

The Polari Prize.

You can't call yourself "a prize for LGBTQ+ literature" and longlist a self-proclaimed terf. Anyone can give any prize to anyone they like, of course. But don't pretend you're a prize for my community when you're platforming someone who's actively fighting against it.

The absolute wasted opportunity of this Labour government. All the things that could have been accomplished over the past year. But instead, this. One crappy little Reform-simpering pivot after another. Pathetic. This chance won't come around again for another twenty years, and they've blown it

We wanted change - and this is what we got. Labour will leave Government, after only one term, having achieved nothing beyond delivering the country to Reform