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Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.

And here you are just unloading misogynism and your career.

The Polari prize first book Longlist with crosses over books by Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire to show they've withdrawn

The polar prize award Longlist with crosses over books by Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth to show they've withdrawn

UPDATE: 10 of the 24 longlisted authors have now withdrawn from the Polari Prize.

First Book:
Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire

Main award:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth

Judging panel:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes

How about a pay raise for ECEs so we can actualize the $10/day national daycare program we were promised.

Yes

It also told me that I can read redacted CIA files with just the power of my mind!

Labour, the party of suckling at Joanne's withered teat

Target audience maybe?

Possibly? I like it more personally, twitter was just so argumentative and big. 😊

Film at 11!

*shrug* I'm just listening to ones who've been here since invite only time. That's what I get told. Fwiw the MA stuff works most of the time.

Also, "thought leaders" don't like bsky much and don't use it as much because there's no algorithm that directs people to see their skeets. So you're going to generally see less of that and more community.

To an extent. Prior to the various waves of Twitter refugees, bsky was occupied by a much more marginalized set and folx and they are mostly still here. They have a well-developed mutual aid network so it's natural you'll see more aid requests here.

Carney wants Indigenous acquiescence, not Indigenous feedback.

A meme with a bunch of drawings of people with Samus Aran arm cannons with the trans flags that says “Repost this is trans people should have Samus Arm Cannons.”

@bsky.app I eagerly await your response on deplatforming a trans author who has done nothing except promote another one of her (awesome) books.

Not that consultation means much anyways, but this doesn't even have a veneer of legitimacy.

Canadians with an X gender marker will now have to select male or female on Nexus travel cards after Trump order — The Globe and Mail Ottawa’s decision to allow policy change raises human-rights concerns for transgender and non-binary people, lawyers say

The Carney govt is collaborating with the US assault on trans people.

“Immigration lawyers said Canada’s decision to force non-binary or trans Canadians to choose a male or female gender designation for Nexus raises human-rights concerns & could prompt a court challenge…on constitutional grounds.”

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...

Fuck the Moan and Wail

This feels like the correct amount of nuance one should bring to these conversations.

In the fifties the covers of Anchor Books were printed with a flat color process that limited them to three colors and black, each printed separately. Edward Gorey turned this limitation into a virtue and many of his covers, like this one, have a distinct Japanese woodcut flavor.

Then again, it should be evident that it's false because it's been shared by an intellectual fraud.

The purely false things he's saying is ridiculous.

Cool, was just playing herself in White Lotus

TimB33 #noKings ‪@timb33.bsky.social‬ Follow First they came for the socialists etc. What if they came for some really small marginalized group of people (0.05% of population), and because we tied ourselves in knots trying to keep everyone happy, we never got into power, and never achieved anything. August 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM 256 comments 1 repost 102 quotes 38 likes

Who is this "we," for whom the marginalized can be sacrificed? Who is left, I wonder, when all those who can be sacrificed are gone? And why would that "we" look so much like the "them" this person claims to oppose?

What besides power itself could be achieved as the result of sacrificing others?

What if men stopped making having sex the Thing That Is Most Important In Life and just, I dunno, read a book or played Spirit Island?

Start spreading your legs ladies.

The only way to assess androgen sensitivity in female athletes is by measuring your clit, boobs and pubic hair.

Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand Steam and Itch.io are worried about trouble with their payment processors, and Mastercard is not a payment processor.

Great work by PC Gamer showing MasterCard shares much responsibility for what happened to Steam

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