Good luck!

Update on the transphobic advert featuring on The National's front page this week.

This is good - but it shouldn't have taken people reaching out to have this response issued privately.

It should have been a public statement before the cover was unveiled.

Please wishlist this, and please play it when it comes out. It's important.

Transphobia splashed across their front page!

Just because someone offers you money doesn't mean you have to accept it. Especially when it's promoting bigotry like this advertisement...

And Jesus said unto the people "Forget that bit in Leviticus about treating the foreigner among you as one born among you. I'm going to build a wall, and the Romans are going to pay for it."

How an Orban backed populist think tank is stoking Scotland’s culture war Viktor Orbán lost in the most recent elections. But how has he helped fund the academics and think tanks influencing Scotland's populist right?

Orbán is out, but the think tanks, funding and relationships built under his government won’t just disappear overnight.

So we’re making that investigation free to read

Fun fact, Muslims are supposed to respect Christians and Jewish people as fellow Children of the Book. Jesus is a prophet in Islam. It's the same God, worshipped in slightly different ways.

You'd think this is common knowledge that everyone knows, but apparently you'd be surprised.

I used to live near an alleged target too. Our philosophy was to paint a huge bullseye in the garden.

Official Hedgehog Statement:

Fuck Pink News

Remember, even hate-watching is engagement, and that drives pronotion, which drives sales.

If, like me, you don't want JKR to see a penny more, just ignore it. There are plenty of better things to spend time and attention on.

J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization This is where "Harry Potter" profits are going.

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different?
here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225...
& here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

A thought experiment;

Imagine Rowling had decided she hated Spanish people*, and was using her platform, her virtually unlimited funds to help systematically eradicate them.

How many think pieces would we see on "separation of the art from the artist"?

*Broadly similar population size

a cartoon coyote is standing in the sky with a cloud in the background Alt: a cartoon coyote is standing in the sky with a cloud in the background. He then falls!

The Labour party remind me of Wile E Coyote. They've run off a cliff but they just haven't realised it yet

Yup. Ask me how I know...

I was already on tablets for hypertension - but the increase after COVID? 📈 Line go up!

My GP got me to wait for 12 weeks after my last symptoms had gone before gave me additional tablets. He was right, it came back down from "yikes" to "that needs a bit of managing".

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

But what can I do – Dr Ruth Pearce Posts about But what can I do written by Ruth

There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England.

1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".

There won't be a reckoning.

Israel has been slaughtering Palestinians with near-impunity for almost 80 years. There have been assaults and invasions and massacres throughout the region for untold decades.

In a West-centric world, MENA nations are fair game. We're not humans.

Seriously, every time someone says "it's a distraction from the files" I want to tear my hair out

The fascism and the warmongering isn't a distraction, IT'S THE POINT OF THE REGIME. THE FASCISM IS THE POINT.

This is what they came into power to do.

We got fascism and AI instead of replicators and flying cars. I will never forgive technocrats for this

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.

But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

"I am sorry I hurt you" and "I am sorry I got caught" are very much not the same statement.

Defend trans kids in school | Good Law Project

There's an astonishing cruelty in trying to make the world even more hostile for trans kids by suing schools that want to include them. But that's where 'gender critical' Britain is.

We're acting for a school that is being sued - and we could really use your help with funding.

This is the only chemistry knowledge I need. Could have skipped those pesky degrees.

Sadly it is official, my current employment contract finishes at the end of March. It has been a fantastic three years at Migrant Voice. If you, or someone you know, knows of job opportunities for an experienced policy, advocacy and comms person, across multiple sectors, please do let me know.

Filmmaker friends: please include cost of subtitling in your budgets, and then hire people to do closed captioning. People who are deaf, hard of hearing, or just went to too many heavy metal concerts in their youth (me) will thank you.

Definitely don't use AI for it, the results are awful!

Rachel Tonks Hill's Winter Sale 2025 by RachelTonksHill A bundle by RachelTonksHill, $7.60 for 5 games

Start your year off right by buying a bunch of queer books by a queer, disabled indie author.

They're half price for another few days.

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"Why would I care about that?"

"Hey, why am I no longer being paid overtime?"

"Hey, why haven't I had a raise in 5 years?"

"Hey, why are they taking all the safety signs and guard rails down?"

"Hey, why am I working 7 days a week now?"

"Hey, why was I fired for having one day off sick?"

Yes, mine does as well

Last day today, go check it out. I will.