I created this Bluesky to post art, but then I can't draw for longer then two hours without the nerves in my arm deciding to ruin the rest of my day. I promise I'll post something eventually (even if it's just a WIP)
I can't keep up with it. I love art, art is so important to me but after being diagnosed with cervical radiculopathy, I just can't draw at any decent rate. But in order to make any living from art now you have to produce 'content' and do videos and it's completely insidious.
The way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.
I'd love to see this thing try to swim. Your anatomy is SO good tho
Their wacky feet are so funny to me. I know its for walking on marshy ground, but they just look so weird!
It's crazy to me the idea that your main character has to be a good person with opinions that 100% match yours, and if they aren't that then you, the creator, must be awful by proxy.
The Guardian has identified the Columbia student abducted by DHS as Ellie Aghayeva. She posted the IG story below:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Wyoming Equality is at the state legislature this week fighting a gay book ban. Unfortunately it has passed the House.
secure.everyaction.com/lt5Elc0Mj0-n...
"Books are being challenged in Scottish schools. Librarians fear a 'chilling effect' on freedom of speech"
A third are LGBTQ+
www.theferret.scot/books-scotti...
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My one bragging right is my ability to draw horses.
✦ High pray drive ✦
It's pretty incredible that in response to the oil embargo Cuba has begun rapidly trying to transfer to solar energy to bridge the gap
Jellyfish & sea anemones lack brains & yet seem to sleep in ways similar to humans
New findings bolster a theory that sleep evolved before centralized nervous systems to repair DNA damage that builds up in individual nerve cells while animals are awake.
“Neurons are very precious”
I'm so delighted that I complied with the Online Safety Act, blocking an accessibility feature on my site from UK users to 'protect the children' while Elon Musk's site can just generate CSAM with total impunity.
The UK Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to biological sex, and does not include people with a Gender Recognition Certificate.
Labour MPs need to know it isn’t just about Welfare reforms. Starmer’s Labour have already lost
- Socialists
- Trans people
- Pensioners
- WASPI women
- People with disabilities
- Environmentalists
- Most EU supports
Plus Anyone with a moral compass thanks to the
Borders bill
Gaza genocide
I want you to read this thread ❤️
New guidance tells GPs not to support trans people by providing blood tests. This is under Wes Streeting's political control of the NHS. This isn't healthcare, this is putting people at risk.
Attempts to ban “LGBTQ+” books from school libraries are on the increase.
Nb; “LGBTQ+” is Guardian-speak for “mostly trans” but of course the Guardian won’t even use the T-word.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
it is interesting how this was totally an elite fabrication. trans rights were on the path to general acceptance on the gay marriage coattails but nearly our entire elite culture including elite liberals decided to run a multi-year op against a tiny minority
Screenshot from the UK government website showing a question “ to what extent do you agree or disagree with making the arrangements in the emergency order permanent? 9 strongly agreed 5 agreed 7 neither agreed or disagreed 5 disagreed 25 strongly disagree
Screenshot of the UK government website showing the answer to the question. Government is shown as one respondent who strongly agreed.
Evidence, if you need it, that Labour had already decided to make the PB ban permanent before the sham DHSC consultation on the matter.
In response to the question whether to make the ban permanent, a government genuinely seeking advice would have said ‘neither agree nor disagree’, don’t you think?
Hearing "the government can't take away who you are inside!" in response to anti-trans policies us what really made me *hate* "validation" politics.
It's so deeply patronizing, and minimizes our actual problems while painting us as hysterical mental patients one wrong pronoun away from suicide.
@theipaper.com please please please correct the error in this otherwise great article. I rang the news desk almost two hours ago.
The increase in anti trans media articles between 2012 and 2022 is 12,400% not 400%
‘Holistic’ care not hormones for children’s gender treatment on NHS Ben Spencer - Science Editor Camilla Kingdon, a paediatrician, says the subject has been “toxic”. No new prescriptions for cross-sex hormones have been issued to children since the controversial Tavistock gender clinic in London was replaced a year ago, NHS leaders have said. The new NHS children’s gender service prioritises “holistic” care for children with gender dysphoria rather than fast-tracking them on to hormones, an accusation that was levelled at the Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) before it closed in March last year. The service, which is running at Great Ormond Street in London, Alder Hey in Liverpool and Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, has also prescribed no new puberty blockers, which are banned until a clinical trial starts later this year, pending ethical approval. It marks a fundamental switch in approach to the treatment of children with gender dysphoria, with doctors slowing down the route to prescribing hormonal drugs. Between April 2018 and December 2022, a fifth of patients referred to Gids were put on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones or both. A year ago, a review of the Tavistock service by the paediatrician Baroness Cass criticised the “greater readiness” to use hormones for gender dysphoria despite “remarkably weak evidence” for their use.
Her report said: “Some practitioners abandoned normal clinical approaches to holistic assessment, which has meant that this group of young people have been exceptionalised compared to other young people with similarly complex presentations. They deserve very much better.” Cross-sex hormones induce physical changes to allow patients to develop bodily features that align with a different gender identity. Those born male take oestrogen to develop breasts and redistribute fat and muscle mass; those born female take testosterone to deepen the voice, increase muscle mass and develop facial and body hair. Children prescribed the drugs at the Tavistock are continuing to receive their prescriptions. James Palmer, NHS England’s national medical director for specialised services, stressed that the door for the new prescription of cross-sex hormones was still open. “There may be a circumstance where it is important for care,” he said. “The services need the option of taking someone into masculinising or feminising hormones, if that really is the most important thing to be done. But the services have not identified an individual yet for whom it would be a really important bit of their care pathway.” If doctors decide there is a case for hormones to be prescribed, the decision must be agreed by a national multidisciplinary team of experts, chaired by Camilla Kingdon, the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She said the new service was about more than hormones. “This is not just about endocrinology. It’s about a holistic assessment of a child or young person within the context of their family. “That means very detailed assessments looking at the child’s wider physical health, mental health, thinking about the child in the context of their school and so on. It involves psychologists, psychiatrists, paediatricians, clinical nurse specialists, speech therapists, occupational therapists.”
![Recruitment has begun to open a fourth gender centre at Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge, with eight planned across the country, each seeing 25 new child patients a month. Kingdon, who also chairs the provider network of new NHS gender clinics, said finding staff has been a struggle. “That’s due to the politicised and sometimes toxic nature of this topic,” she said. “It’s not necessarily the sort of environment that has people queueing up to work in it.”
Palmer said a particular challenge had been navigating “a hugely divided lobby of stakeholders”, adding: “There’s the very liberal end of the spectrum that think [we should focus purely] on access to a transitional arrangement. At the other end, people say NHS resources should not be spent on this area at all.”
Great Ormond Street and Alder Hey children’s gender services opened in June and Bristol started seeing patients in November. So far, 250 children have been seen, with a waiting list of 6,000 that is coming down after peaking in February.
“When we started, we had some individuals waiting for more than six years to be seen,” Palmer said. “By the summer, if our maths is correct, no one will be waiting for more than four years to be seen, but it will take another three or four years to get to ... something much more manageable.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyefpiziml7b24sxpd74axq7/bafkreihnycksxiosjfqptop5xinjmihtvwrcso5pyccoarn73eyylrj2ge)
Recruitment has begun to open a fourth gender centre at Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge, with eight planned across the country, each seeing 25 new child patients a month. Kingdon, who also chairs the provider network of new NHS gender clinics, said finding staff has been a struggle. “That’s due to the politicised and sometimes toxic nature of this topic,” she said. “It’s not necessarily the sort of environment that has people queueing up to work in it.” Palmer said a particular challenge had been navigating “a hugely divided lobby of stakeholders”, adding: “There’s the very liberal end of the spectrum that think [we should focus purely] on access to a transitional arrangement. At the other end, people say NHS resources should not be spent on this area at all.” Great Ormond Street and Alder Hey children’s gender services opened in June and Bristol started seeing patients in November. So far, 250 children have been seen, with a waiting list of 6,000 that is coming down after peaking in February. “When we started, we had some individuals waiting for more than six years to be seen,” Palmer said. “By the summer, if our maths is correct, no one will be waiting for more than four years to be seen, but it will take another three or four years to get to ... something much more manageable.”
This is just the NHS admitting they are denying treatent to trans children
Far too many NHS staff that are responsible for turning it into a conversion therapy center can be found on the SEGM 2024 conference speaker list...
The NHS is actively detransitioning young people and with the Sullivan Review they have been branded a digital pink triangle
This will cost lives
