That joy of getting a new album and listening to it alone or with a friend. Taking that time to learn the lyrics and admire the artwork and what it meant...

Music is the bridge back to this for me. I turn on tunes and potter in my greenhouse and time slows down and becomes quite grounded for me. It takes something to arrest my brain and change it's pace to make it happen though.

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KKK marked Gender Criticals. Black people marked as trans people. Kezia Dugdale, the new Chair of Stonewall holding up a sign saying ‘Compromise?’

bsky.app/profile/appl...

Military analogy: Kezia, "hey fascist enemies just fyi, we won't be protecting any of our frontline bases and infact your dear leader is such an example to us all, we're very good at this battle thing by ceding our positions, opposing nothing and championing the merits of the enemy wanting us dead"

We'll see if the Israel party aka the Democrats can be bothered to do anything for the US vs being useless grifter puppets for their donors. They claimed to be an opposition but have barely opposed anything. They've not organised any resistance vs Hungary's hard graft for yrs for their result.

cis ppl can take hrt and nobody bats an eye.

i hate this shithole country.

Add in Kathleen Stock praise to the list as well bsky.app/profile/hlee...

What good would it have done if the civil servants hadn't "hidden" the vetting failure? Would the outcome differ?

Phillipson appointed Mary-Ann Stephenson as EHRC chair *despite* not one but two select committes warning her not to!

This government installs all the wrong people because it wants to.

My phone has a still functioning but broken screen and has cracks in the back as well. And years ago I might have thought positively about looking at new tech but thanks to AI forced on us all and enshittification rampant I'm dreading to replace this phone. No excitement for new tech at all.

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With a grain of salt but entertaining no leas to see rank 4th Iran vs rank 18th USA international-iq-test.com/en/test/IQ_b...

To the trans folk out there who've had dark days. Evenings sat in tears thinking nobody cares. Well, take no notice, it's lies. People do care. We're an amazing community and we're here to help one another.

You're loved.

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

i got a reply!!

a good apology, imo

have emailed back asking if it will be published in the national/on social media, and about the charity donation

got a reply back immediately saying she’s working with the team on how to resolve it all, and she’s aware there’s a lot of work to be done

Imagine dog-whistling such a blatant message to the queer community as the first thing you do as chair of Stonewall so the hate grifters come crawling out to congratulate you. I've had a queer friend swear she was one of the good ones awhile back when I was wary of her actions from 2014. I was right

@kezdugdale.bsky.social

I have loads of @stonewalluk.bsky.social merch I accumulated as a supporter from before you abandoned trans people.

Is there somewhere to send it now you’ve come out in support of a hate movement targeting all LGBTQIA+ people?

I don’t want any part of your new vision.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Glad I never gave Stonewall my money but wish I had some way to keep this org from getting donations. Give your donations to the Good Law Project who actually fight for and help LGBT people. Meanwhile Kezia is on a JKR worship tour. Imagine respecting JKR out loud let alone in print. Evil.

Good Law Project donations?

do you know what happens when a trans person goes begging to the bigots to please be kind, to see our humanity, to genuinely listen to our needs & fears & hopes, that we might have a respectful, productive dialogue?

they get jumped to the front of the queue at the abattoir

Posting a Scottish Labour as the head of Stonewall less than a week after Scottish Labour openly said they'd break the law to harm trans people is nothing more than a statement of intent.

Begone, Kezia, and your useless ilk. I am sick to the back teeth of failed politicians walking into charities

I think what stonewall doesn't realise is the level of betrayal gay Scots feel towards Kezia Dugdale specifically.

Back in 2014 she was the gay Labour leader that helped pass marriage equality in Scotland. In fact four out of five parties had LGBT leaders that helped pass the legislation (1/3)

She knows this is bad faith bs. There is no common ground with people actively aiming to eradicate you. Kezia using a queer org to help the fascists. She certainly doesn't nor will she ever speak for this queer person.

New JKR puff piece just dropped from the, checks notes, new Stonewall chair, queer woman Kezia Dugdale. This is career ending type stuff. It doesn't get more stupid. But enjoy the Wes Streeting level status Kezia.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

She had one job and if she isn't a staunch activist for queer human rights across the board then she isn't fit for the role but if she is ok to chair Stonewall still after this than the organisation is no longer worth supporting.

There's literally 1 acceptable answer to the JKR question. Is she a monster or not. Yes she is a monstrous person. It is completely ok to answer in a way you wont get sued, such as Stonewall does not support JKR or have any connections to her. Kezia actes like her audience isn't queer people bc wtf

How can you have respect for someone who supported throwing girls as young as three out of Rainbows and Brownies…?

So sick pandering queers who are happy to smile, dance whilst stomping on trans people to get higher to the futile crumbs that will never fall from a far right politics vs simply demanding human rights/equality unoquivocally for every single person. It isn't difficult. She failed at the first hurdle