Good times sparring at the renaissance faire yesterday

Officially a full instructor at my HEMA school now

Hot Scot Summer is over and Tartan Hottie Autumn is officially here!

Republicans would rather shut down the government than release the Epstein files

Had a cut day the weekend of the 280th anniversary of the Battle of Prestonpans.

I do HEMA for Scottish broadsword which I'm an instructor candidate for.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

SWALWELL: Did you ever tell the AG that Trump's name is in the Epstein files

PATEL: The AG and I have had numerous discussions about the entirety of the Epstein files

S: Did you tell AG that Trump's name is in the files?

P: *crashes out*

S: We'll take your evasiveness as consciousness of guilt

Wondering if @robynbennis.bsky.social has any more images of the Garnian Air Corps uniforms besides the cover of her book The Guns Above. The reenactor in me who was raised with Hornblower and Sharpe, and now focuses on broadsword & military sabre fencing, is tempted to cosplay after reading.

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Fern Brady's autobiography and advocacy work is outstanding

This is an outstanding documentary for understanding the path of transgender women to now, as was Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate which Morgan M Page was also a part of.

Other doc recommendations from me are Beautiful Darling about Candy Darling, and Screaming Queens in 60s San Francisco.

Just now watched it and appreciated it so much. Looked you up on because I also recognized you from seeing Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate, after which I bought a German language biography of Charlotte Charlaque.

Unable to find any marchers performing lewd acts or any evidence of the bacchanalia the government had been warning against for weeks, Mr. Orban’s media machine focused on traffic jams and minor scuffles caused by the march. “Chaos at Budapest Pride,” read a banner headline in Magyar Nemzet, a media outlet that serves as Fidesz’s version of the Soviet communist party newspaper Pravda. Mr. Orban, a populist nationalist, has long cast Hungary as a bastion of conservative values besieged by “woke” forces in the European Union and the United States, trying to distract attention from Hungary’s faltering economy and to rev up his right-wing rural base.

It's amazing how much clarity the New York Times has about Viktor Orban and his crackdown on LGBTQ people. If only they had it for Trump and the US. It's the exact same political strategy!

Complicit in murder on behalf of your donors and with fascists as well with your cowardice on the budget. This will destroy lives not only of those kids, but trans people at large with how it will extend to destroy our protections rapidly, and you call it a "distraction".

Séamas O’Reilly: Ballymena violence is the result of politics based on scapegoating any ‘other’ "The central perversity of treating these people as anything other than racist thugs is only more transparent in Ballymena because they have so few migrants that any other excuse is patently absurd."

Referring to events in Ballymena as "disturbances" is a euphemism too far. We are witnesses to a pogrom. And it behoves us to say so, loud and clear.

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Someday we shall conquer it and collect its seashells as the spoils of our victory.

Definitely wanna kind of merge trans pride with this far as the vibe. Art is from sebear.

I live in the States but would love that! 😭

Also, I'm not one of those weird American "styrofoam Scots". Not "heritage" or something, didn't own kilts before broadsword became my HEMA discipline, but after it did.... good drip is good drip!!!

Drip is love. Drip is life. 😤

I was gonna focus on longsword originally in my HEMA club, but ended up trying all our disciplines and am a Scottish broadsword instructor candidate.

So I'm looking at ways to do something more or less like an 18th century Highlander version of what you're doing.

#Goals
I might switched it up and do it my own way I've brainstormed for a while, and might not happen this Pride Month, but.... goals right here.

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

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Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.

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Pierre Poilievre and Trump are backed by the same people.

If the Conservatives win, our country is over.

This isn't doomerism, it's fact.

Pierre has brought American-style politics to Canada, and we have done nothing to stop it.

We let Americans control our media.

We let this fester.

One more reason she's an absolute favorite actress from across the pond.

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25 ) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

🚨 BREAKING: We’re suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after seven international students in Indiana had their legal status revoked without warning, explanation, or due process.

This isn’t just unfair—it’s illegal. That’s why we’re taking legal action to defend their rights.