Bean Sharp

The way that major healthcare institutions have just decided the rules don't apply when it comes to trans people. Research ethics? Consent? Basic human dignity? Those would just be too inconvenient and it's only a bunch of trannies.

Wise Badger, art by Lily Seika Jones

In Cumbrian dialects, 'broc' is badger

Badger is held in high esteem and 'brocan' means wise man. In lore, badgers protect against witchcraft and other evils

more in: Folklore of the Lake District
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/

#NationalBadgerDay #folklore
art: Lily Seika Jones

How does a 'mistake' like this even happen? Seriously?

There needs to be criminal charges here.

Horrific.

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

“The Cass Review's contradictions are striking. It acknowledged some trans young people benefit from [blockers], but its recommendations have made this currently inaccessible to all. It found no evidence psychological treatments improve gender dysphoria, yet recommended expanding their provision.”

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Streeting previously acknowledged trans healthcare has an 8 year wait for a first appointment,
but this estimate suggests the national average is more than triple that (25 years).

And it’s not like you get hormones on the first appointment either, that can be a years long fight in itself!

Fewer than 30 of the red print left. Approx £350 raised so far. ❤️💚

I just want you to imagine how they treat palestinians if that’s how they treat people they know will be able to talk to western news about it later.

YouTube video by Marcia Belsky - Topic Cops on Horses

youtu.be/jtWwFvdEPxI?...

it's not a perfect comparison but ppl pleading for the rights of AI remind me of the ppl who said defunding the police would negatively impact police dogs

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

“This new data confirms what we already knew: there is a trans+ healthcare crisis in the UK. But the actual numbers are stark. The system of NHS gender clinics, which is failing to give people an appointment in their entire lifetime, is limiting the number of people who can transition.”

Appalling.

Kemi Badenoch: let's do this in Britain

"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak." —Audre Lorde

People insist on the bullshit pedantic “Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster” line (wrong on its face: I insist the Creature is Victor’s son, even if he’s unwanted and abandoned), never seem to care that Victor is actually a college dropout with zero degrees, AND he’s the *real* monster.

History repeats.

"Protests Are Highly Effective, Met Police Confirm"

jesus, I’ve seen what you’ve done for other people and I want that for me.

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch: Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

‘IPP sentences keep people inside based on what they might do in future, not what they have actually do - it's predictive sentencing’

Akiko Hart, Director of Liberty, speaking at the Labour Conference 2025

@libertyhq.bsky.social

I reckon that Jamal Khashoggi will beg to differ. Or, rather, he would, if Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince hadn't had him lured to his murder and had his body chopped up into fish food for the crime of exercising his freedom of speech.

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.

This includes a group whose members have endorsed mixing in chili powder with trans girls' makeup: the idea being that the intense physical pain in their eyes will want to make them stop being trans and gender-nonconforming. They have the ear, and the admiration, of health secretary Wes Streeting.

Antisemitism on the left has been around and tolerated as long as I've been active (which is a fucking while now). It is not hard to counter. Palestine solidarity groups and actual fucking Palestinians have been doing it for years. People spout this shit? Kick them out.

I'm going to be honest, while I know exactly why these people are doing it, I genuinely think their strategy of associating Jewish people *specifically* with the ongoing Palestinian genocide is a horrendous strategy that will imperil the safety of ordinary Jews in the long term.

Solidarity with the members of Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation and the whole Jewish community in Manchester after this horrible attack.

Labour conference: Calls for IPP sentences to be fully abolished Campaigners say indefinite sentences put lives at risks and abolition could be added to the Sentencing Bill.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe calls for IPP sentences to be fully abolished.

www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/labour-...

@libertyhq.bsky.social @akikohart.bsky.social

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

“What is unlawful is: genocide, the deadly blockade of Gaza, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and the piracy of civilian vessels and abduction of all those on board.” 3/3

When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up”

Twitter thread of Edith Jackson accidentally posting "nigel farage hot pics" instead of searching, then twice posting "delete" instead of deleting the tweets, then claiming she was "looking for him hot because of the weather not sexy hot", following this up with "by accident"