“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it”

so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

BBC News is going very hard on its investigation into advisers who help people ‘fake’ asylum claims, focusing especially on people who falsely claim to be gay. But it doesn’t say what percentage of claims are made on the basis of sexuality. As of 2023 — the last available figures — it was 3%.

22 days until local elections.

Catch us all round the country putting forward our plans to end Rip Off Britain!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Every day Labour does something that makes me like them even less 🫠 anyway vote Green if you actually care about people

The book cover for Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation. It shows two men sat on a bench in the 1930s.

"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Freg the tiny from amigurumi checking his laptop and with a flip phone on his hand sitting at a tiny desk

"Yes I would like to order 50 nuggets please"

#crochet

What a guy!! 🐸🗡

Freg the tiny from amigurumi, holding a katana four times his size. There's a flowery mug behind him.

Strong Freg ⚔️💪✨

#crochet

How UK media has wrongly shaped knowledge about the UK’s most important Trans+ legal cases From outing Trans+ women to minimising legal successes, inflating “gender critical” power, the media has been failing in its responsibility to report fairly for decades

Brief history of UK media transphobia and how it relates to contemporary coverage of 'gender critical' legal cases. for @wearequeeraf.com

www.wearequeeraf.com/how-the-uk-m...

Hello, World - NASA NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window after completing the translunar injection

Here’s the official image release from NASA: www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Ah, this is why you need a journalist-free newsroom?

Article article written by Wes Streeting in PinkNews. Headline reads: Wes Streeting: 'Every trans person deserves safety and respect - that's not up for debate' Opening paragraph reads: Writing for PinkNews, Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, says he hears the concerns of LGBTQ+ people, and wants to reassure trans youngsters that they have not been forgotten.

@pinknews.bsky.social is pink washing for the most anti-LGBTQ+ government in the UK since Thatcher by allowing Streeting to gaslight unchallenged.

Archive link because PinkNews don’t deserve revenue for this and for being a journalist/reporter free newsroom (whatever that means): archive.ph/bLBcB

I know a lot of people from outside the UK who follow @pinknews.bsky.social to try to stay on top of UK development - friends, can you help spread the word? Boycott now - stop following them, remove them from your press lists, never click through to their website. Disgusting betrayal.

On a more positive note, and this is not an exhaustive list, but please do follow, read, and support our friends at places like @wearequeeraf.com, @attitudemag.bsky.social, @divamag.bsky.social and other UK queer media that provide good public interest journalism for our community.

The time has come for us, as an organisation, to boycott @pinknews.bsky.social.

Despite reservations about the company, we have sometimes worked with queer and trans reporters there to tell stories we thought were important for our community - the same as other outlets.

That ends today. Why?

To every out trans person on Trans Day of Visibility:

Thank you.

I’m still not fully out yet myself. But seeing other trans folks live openly was what helped me see myself clearly for the first time and to help me understand who I was.

You truly are inspirations. For everyone.

a mock-up of a holographic sticker with black ornate text that reads "DIY and Fuck AI!"

first foray back into making things post-surgery & i'm going slow (just digital collage) but...it's holo sticker time again

letters lovingly sourced & edited from my beloved digital collection of 19th century type specimen catalogues, plus one public domain font for the swear word 🖤

What fascist India is doing to trans Indians deserves global attention, not just because of course there is no revolutionary community without international solidarity, but because it charts out a pattern fascism in the US, UK, and elsewhere will also fall into.

The law bringing back invasive medical exams for India’s trans community A new law will require trans people to have their gender ‘verified’ via medical examination – the kind of humiliation that many thought had been consigned to the past. Namita Singh speaks to activists...

“My gender identity is my own, and I have the right to define it. No one else, especially cisgender people, has the right to decide my identity. That is why we firmly oppose the bill.”

Solidarity with trans communities in India who are fighting against a law that restricts their bodily freedom.

🇮🇳🏳️‍⚧️

A painted rainbow is the background to the words: LGBTQ+ History Month We honour Trans+ lives that have always been part of our history. Sheffield Green Party

How Does It Feel to Be a Heart? Once a young woman asked me, “How does it feel to be a man?” And I replied, “My dear,I am not so sure.” Then she said, “Well, aren’t you a man?” And this time I replied, “I view gender As a beautiful animal That people often take for a walk on a leash And might enter in some odd contest To try to win strange prizes. My dear, A better question for Hafiz Would have been, ‘How does it feel to be a heart?’” For all I know is Love, And I find my heart Infinite And Everywhere.” (from “I Heard God Laughing - Poems of Hope and Joy” By Hafiz, rendered by Daniel Ladinsky)

LGBTQ+ people have existed since there were people.

Join us in #LGBTQ+HistoryMonth to celebrate the amazing things LGBTQ+ people have achieved throughout history, in all areas of life. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

One a day! Let's kick off with a poem by 14th century Persian poet Hafiz (or Hafez). 👇

Gemini said An aerial view of London, featuring Hyde Park and surrounding city buildings, serves as the background for a central cream-colored text box. The box contains the following text: TOGETHER MARCH (in large, bold black capital letters) Park Lane, Central London (in orange handwritten-style script) 28th March @ 12pm (in orange handwritten-style script) A logo at the bottom features the word TOGETHER in a bold, italicized font, positioned above the smaller text AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT.

1️⃣ Day to Go

🛣️ March route: Park Lane to Whitehall

📍Meeting point: Park Lane, 12pm.

Music. Speeches. Community. Dancing

All are welcome 💚

togetheralliance.org.uk/march

it’s not hyperbole, JKR literally said support for HP is support for her transphobia

and she uses the money she makes from it to TRY TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY

if you watch that show please don’t ever speak to me again

trans lives are more important than your fandom of a terrible human’s IP

Video games taught me that if you just talk to enough NPCs, someone somewhere has the answer that advances the plot, and that strat works in real life too.

"feel ready to leave" like the girls being kicked out are being given any fucking choice in the matter? "feels ready to leave" is in actual fact going to look like "I don't want to leave please don’t make me leave"

Girlguides can shove their "kindness, care and respect" straight up their cis asses

The real theme of the modern age is "Nobody Wants This". AI, ICE in airports, ICE in general, the Iran War, data centers sending actual cities wiht people into blackouts -- "nobody" wants this. And yet here we are.

Alt text: The new trans pride notts logo with the text ‘New look - same love, event details to follow, saturday 20th june’ We have a new logo and a whole lot more to follow 🏳️‍⚧️ Protest March & Speeches, Board game Social, Trans Talent, Gladrags after Party and more… Save the date 20th June