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the only social media use responsible for brianna's death was not her own but the unchecked rampant transphobia that's become normalized by these platforms, and to pretend otherwise is victim blaming

#IMC2026 is shaping up to be beastly

Super fucking excited about this!

"oh but the times are so inopportune maybe I'll just defer transition until it's easier" even if we ignore the fact that exempting like 2008-2024 this is still the easiest time in human history to transition, do you seriously think this is all gonna be more survivable on the wrong hormonal profile??

A poster for 'Falling in Love with Love: A History of Popular Romance: An Online Course' including front covers from the following books: Fantomina by Eliza Haywood, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Sheik by E M Hull, The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer, Tabitha in Moonlight by Betty Neels, Indigo by Beverley Jenkins, Hen Fever by Olivia Waite, The Isle of the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri

I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up!

Come and join us!

www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

Spoop of Yotai

I don't have anything pithy to say, I'm just angry 6/6

A court can neither tell you who you are nor be trusted to protect you against the vicissitudes of hatred. But this has reminded me that institutions can hide behind cowardice and that in the years it takes tribunals to act people's lives are being ruined. 5/

I don't feel any vindication at the Peggie ET, the OU had its own catastrophic ET and afterwards chose to settle with two virulent homophobes/transphobes. These and all the other GC claims are such obvious instances of culture war lawfare that it makes me sick. 4/

This very nearly made me quit my job and frankly a lot worse. The only reason it all stopped was because one of the key perpetrators took early retirement for a heart condition ('fix your hearts or die', etc). 3/

They said people who are into queer studies are predisposed to pedophilia, that there would come a reckoning when all "trans activists" would lose our jobs and face legal accountability for mutilating children, as well as the usual crap about trans women being rapists, and abusers of 'real' women 2/

Text from the Sandie Peggie Employment Tribunal outcome reading: So far as her other comments are concerned, they were impermissible manifestations of her belief and were in our view what amounted to an incident of harassment by the claimant of the second respondent related to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, reasonably perceived by the second respondent to be so, and were a breach by the claimant of section 26 of the Act and of the Bullying and Harassment Policy.

The Peggie ET made it clear that spouting off about chromosomes/ TW in prison is harassment. The 1st 2 years I was at the OU some colleagues did *just that* almost every day on the staff forum + I was told officially that they were allowed to because of academic freedom/some other cowardly BS. 1/

Dark Eldar Starmer: I welcome She Who Thirsts but I think we should go further, becoming truly wanton and cruel in our lust for violence and sadism

The film aired in 1991 so I was probably about 7. Don’t show your 7-year olds films about infamous historical shark attacks. They’ll become animal historians.

To (mildly mis)quote November Kelly, "I love it when the forces of liberalism are brought to bear against TERFs".

dominoes falling meme. in the foreground a man places a domino labelled "the UK launches a toothless commission looking at improving life for trans people (2015)" and in the background a larger domino labelled "Natalie, 8, is banned from girl guides"

I have to say it's nice that this time it's a different OU which is bowing to conservative pressure and fucking over its trans staff (/s)

Kawashima, whose Mandarin name is Jin Bihui (Radiant Jade), says she once had "ambitions to restore the old Chinese Empire," but is now content to live as a man in Japan. At some point she clearly changes her mind, since her life takes several dramatic changes. 2/4

Many such occurrences

Love it when academics who can't/won't follow simple processes talk down to me and my student support colleagues when things go wrong (i.e. they fuck up).

"Anti-trans activist Graham Linehan guilty of criminal damage" - This is how this story should be framed by any neutral outlet.

Foot and Mouth – The Killing Fields in Wales (2021) This documentary revisited the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak and ensuing animal cull in Wales, and its impact on the country’s farmers, in part through the prism of the recent COVID pandemic.

My new piece on the 2021 BBC documentary ‘Foot and Mouth - The Killing Fields in Wales’, and its revisiting of the impact of the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak and ensuing animal cull on the nation’s farmers. A 🧵 about the programme...

#skystorians #envhum #polisky

I remember watching a BBC drama which fictionalised one of the court cases in 2010

The auto-transcription for my intro to Early Modern Europe lecture has rendered the last Plantagenet king as Bitchard III.

Amazing!

If there was ever a gravestone appropriate to the industrial revolution this one from Batley Cemetery fit the bill perfectly. It is worth expanding the photograph to read the words. Image "My flanges all refuse to slide" Tim Green CC BY 2.0

Trannies: do they deserve hate crimes and violence done to them?

We asked a panel of cis people with various degrees of scorn for the degenerates to debate this issue

Today's ear X-tacy: The Cure "Lovesong" Today's ear X-tacy features a classic track or deep-cut from the Alternative era every weekday at 10:10.

I take great solace and joy from the fact that at heart Robert Smith is just a really earnest wife-guy www.lpm.org/music/2023-0...

It was a very good birthday, London Transport Museum is fantastic