Yellow - Coldplay (Transgender Duet With My Past Self) YouTube video by Dylan And The Moon

This is LOVELY.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojSm...

The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one.

Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.

Good morning young Womble! Very late to the party, but today I'm finally finishing the Winnowing Flame trilogy by the inestimable Jen Williams, The Poison Song. Really enjoyable, fantastic world building peopled with fascinating characters. Well recommended!

Good morning! I'm currently thoroughly enjoying a re-read of the Fractured Europe series by Dave Hutchinson. Realised that I never finished it - read the first three but not the concluding, so started again. So very good, amazing world building, great characters, serious WTF plot twists... Love it

Good morning Runny! Today I shall be finishing Lives of Bitter Rain (part of the Tyrant Philosophers series). Very enjoyable but it's Adrian Tchaikovsky so no surprises there. Much love for an excellent series.

Good morning Womble, and a happy New Year!

Today I'm reading The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, first of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet. A generous colleague gave me the series for Secret Santa.

Embarrassingly, a new series and author to me but oh my... It's simply beautiful.

Peter Sullivan tells BBC: 'I was bullied into false murder confession' In his first interview since release, Peter Sullivan says he wants an apology from the police after wrongful conviction of the 1986 murder of Diane Sindall.

This is one of the reasons I'm against the death penalty. This guy had half his life stolen by corrupt police, but it could have been everything.

Dude someone in my neighborhood has a TRANS-former car. This is so rad lmao

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators.

Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

There is no conflict between my rights and the rights of my sisters. There is no order of priority.

None of us are free until we are all free.

And fuck anyone, ESPECIALLY any cis man, who wants to tell me otherwise.

For centuries, the fight for women's rights has been infested by the belief that some women are more women than other women. It divides us, has caused untold suffering and materially diminished us all.

This cis woman demands my trans sisters be afforded the same rights as me.

There is no Ur Woman

Good morning! Having a re-read today: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Gothicky goodness, lesbian necromantic nuns in space. Such a good series, incredible world building, I enjoyed them all
Highly recommended.

Morning! Today I'm finishing Alien Clay by the annoyingly talented Adrian Tchaikovsky. It's very very good, going in a direction I didn't expect. The word genius gets bandied around too much these days, but the man really is. I'd say highly recommended but it's Tchaikovsky so that's a given.

Good morning! Sat in the garden enjoying the morning sunshine with a mug of tea and Real Tigers (Slough House 3) by Mick Herron. I *really* love these books, so well written, even poetic, peopled by the morally grey. Herron is a worthy le Carré heir

Attention actors in the new Hairy Bopper TV series:

No one gives a fuck that you "don't want to add to the trans debate" or some other bullshit about this just being another job. You're helping fund transphobia. You go in the trash. Literally nothing you can say will change that for normal people.

Good morning young Womble! Today I shall be finishing The City of Last Chances, first book in The Tyrant Philosophers by the inimitable Adrian Tchaikovsky. Not my usual cuppa char - I'm not a big fantasy reader - but it's outstanding. Top notch world building.

This is incredible.💗🏳️‍⚧️ Rhianna Pratchett and Rob Wilkins spent the whole week digging through Sir Terry Pratchett's archives to find an incredibly rare signed first edition of Monstrous Regiment for the Genre for Trans Rights charity auction. bit.ly/genrefortrans. It's already over £1000!

Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square. Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

"say what you like about her, but the Harry Potter books were a big part of my childhood" who gives a shit you're grown now

På tide å behandle Musk som en fiendtlig aktør. Stopp all subsidiering av Teslaer, selg oss ut av Tesla via oljefondet, blokker X i Norge. Det er ikke blitt annet enn en propagandakanal.

looking to talk with trans, non-binary, and genderqueer game developers. is that you? please get in touch. DMs open, signal meganfarokhmanesh.76

Opinion | AI Can Work for Us A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.

"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."

Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...

Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes

Good morning! Today I'm reading the most recently added book on my TBR 2025 Challenge: Karla's Choice, by Nick Harkaway. I'm a big le Carré fan, so was a bit dubious, fearing pastiche or parody, but it's really not bad at all, a worthy continuation that I'm enjoying a lot.

Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏

What-ho, Womble! Bit lurgified at the moment so having a quiet day cracking on with the TBR Challenge 2025. Reading my oldest book entry: Jamaica Inn, du Maurier's deliciously dark, gothic tale of deepest Cornwall. Bit melodramatic for my tastes but can't believe I've never read it before.

Morning! Currently reading the outstanding The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley. Loved every Pulley I've read and this genre-busting time travel alt-history is no exception. A late entry for Book of the Year.

I was hoping for unexpected love interest or at least zany sidekick but no, expositionary plot device instead 😞

Silently pleased that a very likeable, secondary character in this book shares my (somewhat unusual) first- and surname.

... Distinctly put out that they meet a sudden and grisly end about halfway through tho