assigned media is run by a trans man - but either way, yeah, bleak shit indeed

may all be judged by only the things they did at 14 under the influence of their parents

it's not hard to DIY stickers/wheatpaste posters, just saying!

(this was long enough ago that I did not, yet, know that being trans was an option--and for my gay peers' part, neither did they, though they've fortunately been willing to learn and are staunch allies now)

meanwhile, i, a trans masculine gay person, was in fact bullied by my gay peers in high school for not being willing to admit that i was a lesbian (since apparently being masculine and AFAB = lesbian)

Also if that were the case, they probably should have let him know it was there? e.g., "You might notice a mic near where we've seated you, but don't worry -- that's so we can be sure to edit out any offensive tics." But his description clearly suggests they didn't mention a mic at all

he said he remembered a microphone near where he was sitting, not that there was a mic on him - though it also seems. from his description, that seats were assigned, so the production would have known the mic was near him, while he doesn't appear to have been alerted to its presence ahead of time

Sure, but if you were ensured by event organisers that you would be seated out of arm's length from others, among other accommodations, & then the organisers quietly encouraged someone to sit behind you while you were distracted & so didn't notice until you flailed & hit them - who's fault is that?

A screenshot from the Variety article linked in the main post - after the first two sentences, the text is highlighted: "The negative responses only go to show the importance of people seeing the film and understanding more about an incredibly complex neurological condition. I had an expectation that the BBC would physically control the sound at the awards on Sunday. I was so far from the stage. From the lack of response from the early presenters to my tics, and with no one turning around to look at me, I assumed, like everyone else, that I could not be heard on the stage. "The only time I became aware that my tic had reached the stage was when Delroy and Michael B. Jordan appeared to look up from their role as presenters, and soon after that I decided to leave the auditorium."

this part also really struck me, esp. w/ everyone piling on him for not leaving earlier: reassured things would be edited out, seated 40 rows back, no one reacting up to that point--& clearly no one from the production letting him know he could be heard at the stage, either

"we prescribe a huge amount of [anaesthesia/surgery/chemo/insert your procedure or medications of choice] and I do not believe most of those conversations have informed consent because of the huge pressures on doctors"

if doctors don't have enough time for thorough informed consent conversations, as she suggests, presumably we have much bigger problems than birth control???

and also manage to elide the experiences of bisexual people in heterosexual relationships as well!

they conveniently ran right past the part where she said she has always felt nonbinary, which maybe, just maybe!, has some connection to her understanding her sexuality!

(the ad, quoted by the post I quoted I turn: bsky.app/profile/zohr...)

if it turns out that he doesn't uphold this part of his platform, now that it's being tested, that ad and its use of Sophie's "It's Okay to Cry" will be burnt into my memory as one of the most cynical political attempts to use and then discard the trans community

including reposting from noted nazi accounts bsky.app/profile/rach...

she posts (& reposts) a lot, you might have to go further back: bsky.app/profile/rach...

A good chunk of the clippings can be identified via full text search w/ archive.org. A lot of them are from ads that ran in multiple magazines around the same time, so hard to say exactly which magazine they are from, but most are dateable to between 1997-2003

its also highly likely substantial amount of observers/protesters have their phones set up to automatically sync their videos to various cloud services controlled by various tech companies sympathetic (at best) to this regime. if they want to id people, they will id people....

"why don't americans do something?!?" said Europeans in & surrounded by countries that increasingly elect the far-right or support 'left' parties implementing "zero asylum" migration policies that include seizing asylum seekers' assets then sending them to Rwanda to wait for their claim to be denied

it feels to me that part of the reason states are folding is because the people in charge also have the same overwhelming anxiety of trump's allegedly godlike powers

to me, this feels like all the more reason for as many people as possible to get as clear as possible, now, on the specifics of what the president would actually have to do to cancel the elections.

its possible people didn't clap *because* he left, but because the show was turned back on after having been paused while staff was talking to him

Thanks, I appreciate it, genuinely!

for all we know, he said more before, but the reporter cut it off for dramatic effect

I'm just trying to understand! The "no one else" quote is difficult to read in itself to me since the article gives so little context. If he didn't know how old the kid was, that makes it more likely he's a shit--but the only reporting I can find (including this article) has him saying the kid is 6

do you have a source for that? i see various news articles saying the kid was four or five, but that seems to be an issue with reporting, none of them quote him on that

all we have record of him saying are <20 words that a reporter decided to include, that's hardly a refusal. for all we know, he said a lot more leading up to "there's nobody else" that the reporter chose to cut

it's never made sense to me, bc like, idk, all bodies age and that's okay, right? but also i'm mostly asexual, so few things about the normative logic of attraction make sense to me, so who knows!

yeah, i've noticed it as a weird loop that just reconfirms the idea, central to the supposed problem of age gaps, that relative youth is the bastion of attractiveness - i.e., 45 year olds saying it wld be gross for a 28 year old to date them because their 45 year old body was gross and saggy etc