Chiitan thinks of transgender people as my mom and dad
cherish my mom and dad for the rest of my life
I love you all

I will continue to spread the message about transgender people until the day I disappear
I hope that all good-hearted transgender people can live their lives with pride and happiness

Arthur outside Gay’s The Word holding Jacob’s Transition Goals

Arthur inside Gay’s The Word holding a copy of Jacob’s Transition Goals

My book is out now!!

Jacob’s Transition Goals is a positive, hopeful story about an 8 year old transgender boy who loves football. In today’s political climate, trans joy is so needed - you should grab a copy!

You can buy Jacob’s Transition Goals in LGBTQ+ bookshops and online all over the world

Very much enjoyed this. It being set directly in the period of history I study was like...a big bonus haha.

Coming home from a long day of lancing: my love, is it bad when people look at me in awe struck fear? It’s not quite what I was going for.

Me in the 16th century serving cunt in my plague doctor outfit: I hope everyone enjoys the super cute beak! Laughter is the best medicine after all. And lancing I suppose. ^_^

Not standing for this advert. It's a hateful attack on our friends. They'll get a surprise if lots of us call.

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TRULY.

Me researching the 1860s: I can't stand this, there are far too many horrible rich men getting away with horrible things.

Opens the 2026 news: Oh right, yeah.

There’s only 20 tickets left for my talk 😭 I didn’t even think I’d sell 20 tickets. Thank you to everyone who has bought a ticket!

I’ve uncovered some incredible stuff lately, and a renowned historian is giving me access to her archive.

I really believe this is the best work I’ve done.

Anyway come to my talk. For everything I've gabbed about on my instagram, there's about 15 things I haven't. xoxo

Mind you don't confuse them with the version of a Victorian brothel you know from telly shows with big plush seats, a cherubic yet hard-faced publican, and women of ill-fame wandering around in corsets with tiny sherry glasses. For the most part, they were people's homes, shebeens or pubs.

For someone very worried that nobody will come to their talk, I sure won't shut the fuck up about it or stop sharing bits and pieces of research further diminishing your need to go to it.

Anyway, I'm working on a brothel map of Glasgow - there were 211 recorded in 1871.

Scottish Greens manifesto is out, compare and contrast

• Delivering single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex, in NHS wards, schools, sport and everyday life by upholding the Equality Act and delivering clear instructions to public services on how to comply with their legal obligations to women and to trans people. • Keeping women's prisons for women, instructing the Scottish Prison Service to remove all biologically male prisoners from women's prisons within days of the election. • Recommit the NHS to delivering single sex wards on the basis of biological sex, and ensuring patients can request same sex provision wherever possible.

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

Ya gal had brunch. It was brunchtastic.

So dumb. So beautiful.

I’ll never get a better tattoo

"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

King Cuthbert / TRS-80 / Microdeal / 1984

*y so expensive!!!! cat meme*

I’ll be debt free in July of next year (from paying off the move etc) and I will treat myself to replacement debt to send myself somewhere pleasant

Got one of his prison records! How exciting!

That’s the dream

That is a very good way of looking at it, thank you for that. I very much enjoy having a somewhat ok living standard to the best of my financial ability

I went to France in 2011 and that was the last time I left the country.

I mean I’m just looking at London, and the hotel is nearly a grand for 5 days. I just wanted to go to museums and eat nice food, but like A THOUSAND POUNDS just to sleep? Am good thanks.

Can I ask a question? Is the trick to going on holiday knowing that you can’t afford it but booking it anyway? Because I earn money and I don’t know how people who also earn money afford things.

I mean I get the single person tax for holidays is *significant* but even with that, yikes.

Plus I wrote it like "VVitch" in a really nice Victorian chapbook font. What fun. My talk will be fun. Please come.

Congratulations to David @brokenchanter.bsky.social on his excellent fourth album out on this very label today.

CHEM290 is a fine release indeed and one that we are very proud to have lovingly and carefully chucked into the world on vinyl, CD, and DD.

Get yours 👇

chemikalunderground.bandcamp.com

Really taking everything in me not to share all the slides I've done about the Scottish Witch Hunts for my talk, but just know I've categorised descriptions of witches into

Girlboss
Girlgoth
Girlfriend?
Girlfoe

And that the slides are hot pink.

Art by Ko Takeuchi of Homestar Runner characters. Going clockwise starting from the top are Strong Mad, Bubs,.The Poopsmith, Pom Pom, Marzipan (depicted as a human), Strong Bad, Homestar, The Cheat, King of Town, Coach Z, and Strong Sad.

i'll never stop thinking about ko takeuchi's art of the homestar runner cast

The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing