Sarah Clarke

I mean I can't speak to the US because you couldn't pay me to set foot in there. I can say that my experience of cis lesbians in bars has mostly been pretty positive. Online reviews tend to be skewed towards unusual or extreme experiences.

Prepping for teaching, and I'm appalled to discover how *little* detailed research exists on the Bristol Bus Boycott.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but it's no wonder there is so little awareness of the history of Black civil rights activism in the UK. Just a vicious cycle of ignorance.

It sounds an awful lot like a study somebody design if they just wanted to abuse a bunch of kids to manufacture data for a preferred outcome, in fact.

Now having said that, I think the proposed trial sounds fucking awful. All research on children and young people should be strictly beneficial to the CYP participants and that doesn't sounds like it's happening here.

Love to go to my local french fry restaurant for a mixed chow mein and a pot of that suspicious looking curry sauce.

When puberty blockers are allowed, we need more data. When they are banned, gathering more data is a waste of time and must be stopped.

Stop the count or count the votes? It all depends on what you want the numbers to say.

'Stop the count' or 'count the votes'? Trump supporters have been chanting conflicting messages in Michigan and Arizona. We look at why.

I think it's instructive to compare the GC attitude to data on puberty blockers (and trans healthcare more broadly) to this.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/elec...

I wonder if some polls that show higher support among cis bi people than cis LG people is a statistical quirk of there being more bi women than men tbh.

Yeah, the split along gender lines is consistent.

bsky.app/profile/alex...

Tbh it's so rare that any data has enough trans people to even do this meaningfully.

Ah, brilliant, thank you. Pretty much what I expected tbh.

We need accomplices, not allies.

Like cis people who will take those risks exist and I love them tremendously, but for most people, it's very noticeable that posting "Love is live! Trans people are so valid ✨🌈🥰" is easy whereas taking action that puts you at odds with cisheteropatriachal order is hard.

One reason I have very little patience for "allies" is because the ones who will actually take risks for us are rare as fuck.

Also obligatory statement that the slightly higher percentage for cis lesbians vs trans people is probably just noise in the data.

It's so weird to me that they don't disagregate bi men and women from each other when the split along gender lines is so clear for every other subset.

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The "I'm becoming closer to somebody I like a lot and now every conversation has High Stakes" thing is a lot sometimes, isn't it?

Can relate quite a lot. Fwiw from what I've seen you seem like an absolute sweetie to me.

Gillian Merron - Wikipedia

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The BBC, grand bunch of lads, never not at it

From Lacking to Malicious - An investigation into NHS England's ICB's guidance Since the Cass Review’s was published in April 2024, trans healthcare on the NHS has become significantly more precarious and unpredictable. While the dire situation for children has happened in the o...

Getting your GP to agreed to shared care for trans HRT has become a lot harder in recent years. Some GPs are willing, but many will refuse or make excuses. I investigated one possible reason for this variation for @transsafety.network transsafety.network/posts/from-l...

From Lacking to Malicious - An investigation into NHS England's ICB's guidance Since the Cass Review’s was published in April 2024, trans healthcare on the NHS has become significantly more precarious and unpredictable. While the dire situation for children has happened in the o...

@sasha98.bsky.social provides analysis of just how precarious and inconsistent access to trans healthcare on the NHS has become. They highlight how official guidance has favoured giving hostile and nervous clinicians excuses, rather than empower or expect them to provide good care standards.

I just miss whole sentences of dialogue if I don't, esp when actors are whispering or mumbling over incidental music. Afaik my actual hearing is fine but my audio processing is...hit and miss.

Did TV get mumblier or did I get old?

Every so often I watch something without subtitles and remember why I got into the habit of using them.

"trans activist" and it was a literal child that he assaulted

AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it The BBC and the European Broadcasting Union have produced a large study of how well AI chatbots handle summarising the news. In short: badly. [BBC; EBU] The researchers asked ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemi…

“Google Gemini was by far the worst. It would make up an authoritative-sounding summary with completely fake and wrong references — much more than the other chatbots. It also used a satire source as a news source.”

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/05/a...

This company doesn’t get nearly enough blame imo

Seen some people misunderstanding the point of TSN pointing out our previous communications with the government about this. It's not because we expect them to have empathy for trans people or to listen out of the goodness of their hearts. It's to prove that they know exactly what they're doing.

But you do get surprised by how much you can say like this. And that's good too, even if you wouldn't usually write like this to explain new or very hard ideas to other people.