Bex Sander

PinkNews is often trying to ragebait it's so frustrating

Imagine if the playing field was slanted towards protected groups, instead of there being a literal cabal (well, WhatsApp group) of transphobic literary editors, journalists and publishers

Has anyone said more like Matt Goodlose yet

Who up Qing their GIS?

Incredible work in the fight against maniacs and perverts

Reform’s Danny Kruger criticises UK’s ‘totally unregulated sexual economy’ Former Conservative laments divorce changes and says Reform UK will pursue policies to boost birthrate

It's the new Fully Automated Luxury Communism
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It's 2026. Minecraft is 15 years old, GTA Is 25 years old, Sonic is 35 years old, Mario is 45 years old.

If you are still doing "What is this strange thing you call 'gaming'", you're as out of touch as someone in 90s who's never heard of rock music, or someone in the 60s who's never seen a movie

This is... actually smart! And evidence based!

I think people still underestimate the extent to which the panic over an increase in trans boys transitioning is about the belief that AFAB bodies are rightfully for breeding and should be preserved as property belonging to their future husbands.

Ah yes the most shocking part of this story is definitely the gender of the persona chosen by the con artist, six more followup stories please.

Column chart titled "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrests by birthday" that shows one arrest, on his 66th birthday

Sometimes it's hard to find the dataviz angle in a story, but chart design is my passion

Editors: by "letting" I mean "commissioning" — publish trans writers, pay them for this kind of deeply impactful and emotionally challenging work, and anticipate that you'll need to protect them from the resulting online backlash.

If that takes too much courage, why are you even here?

I estimate around half of the trans people I know IRL are unemployed or underemployed. Probably a solid quarter of the trans people I know do subsistence sex work.

We are in crisis, and we're being utterly failed by this country's media and political establishment. Why is this not the narrative?

Even nominally left wing papers have no interest in telling human interest stories about trans people. No one cares. And we're months in.

Nearly a year into many trans people in the UK being forced to use disabled toilets or asked to work from home pending legal advice and stuff and I haven't seen a single "Izzy's boss told her she has to use a disabled toilet, here's how she feels about it" piece in the papers.

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Shout out to everyone reading this paper, not understanding it, and drawing the wrong conclusions.🤷🏿‍♂️

Switching to Twitter's algorithmic feed from chronological, only shifts political attitudes to the right *for people susceptible to far-right nonsense.*

Because they start following far-right dudes🤡

arguing that Youth Gender Surgery includes ear piercing, just to feel alive

The left [gesturing widely in a way that’s hard to pin down what I’m gesturing to] needs to take AI [gesturing more vaguely] seriously or something [moving both arms now] something will happen I think

Just remembered there very much was a non-binary kid present at that scene: me.

Magnum ice cream sales slide ‘reignites’ fears over weight-loss drugs Shares in Unilever spin-off tumble after 3% fall in fourth-quarter volumes

This isn’t the dumbest take on Ozempic that I’ve heard. But it’s close
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Genuine question because I feel very confused: what is the crisis part of the “student loan crisis”? The papers are going absolutely nuts on it, and I have a plan 2 loan, but just… am not that mad about it? And it seems like the people that are… make more money than me anyway?

At a primary school overnight trip we all watched a cis girl squat and pee in a communal shower but sure having a trans kid there would have been the troubling part of that story

I haven’t read the guidance yet but the idea of a trans kid being banned from school trips is just heartbreaking

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So excited to watch Wuthering Heights after all the reviewers having palpitations over how horny it is and inevitably witness the mildest most vanilla version of lust and kink, go on girl give us nothing

Look, I’m a giant, MASSIVE nerd who wants to live in Iain Banks’ Culture as much as the next post-scarcity guy, but our current fill in the blank machines bear about as much relationship to intelligence as a duck does to a stealth bomber.

All of this is so incredibly stupid.

I did a podcast ep about the itch de-indexing last year, exactly this (it has not gotten better since) open.spotify.com/episode/6Nam...

Are credit card companies the biggest force in online content moderation?

I did a podcast ep about the itch de-indexing last year on exactly this (it has not gotten better since) open.spotify.com/episode/6Nam...

We’re watching in real time how quickly “pornography” can become “that thing that I don’t like”