Being a bit of a debbie downer atm but I'm tired & ✨I just don't think wealthy celebrities should get to baselessly doxx and libel random members of the public & get away with it scott free purely because said member of the public is in a minority that the celebrity personally finds icky✨
So now we've established that Mandelson is a corrupting force that sullies everything and everyone in his sphere of influence, what are we going to do about the fact he hand-picked the entirety of Labour's 2024 intake of new MPs?
Maya Forstater Congratulations Kezia Dugdale. I hope we can have discussions.
Kezia Dugdale has thrown trans people under a bus, and made cishet people who are Anti-LGBTQ+ very happy.
This is on the FB Stonewall page.
Farcical.
If you've agreed to read a manuscript for the purposes of giving feedback and then feed it through ChatGPT to produce the feedback, you are the devil. Don't do that to your creative friends. It's not only unethical, it would put them in violation of no-AI clauses in contracts (including ours).
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Character on For All Mankind: I don't do depression. I leave that to the philosophy majors.
S & I, in unison: Hey!!!
In the UK today the de facto position is that you can be subsidized by the taxpayer, through charitable tax relief, to campaign for the pathologisation and elimination of a group nominally protected by the Equality Act, but not for its protection.
This book is incredible.
Just glorious. I'd say it was the highlight of me week but I've seen friends and loved ones and petted a cat and ate some cake and been out in the sunshine, and read poetry, and lifted weights and, and, and... but it was still pretty good.
Mentioned this on here the other day but it's buried in replies to someone else's post, and it's too good not to share.
Some TERFs were transvestigating me the other day and one of them said "well, you can't always tell."
Bbz, your whole worldview is predicated on the fact You Can Always Tell.
Feminists for ages: we are not just vaginas and baby making parts.
A trans woman enters the room.
Those same feminists: we are only vaginas and baby making parts.
Fucking clowns.
It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly
Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
The Olympics ended sex testing because it was scientifically flawed and discriminatory.
Understand more about their decision to reintroduce it 👇
Maybe the real trick is to just change my professional name to Tyra Mancy. Keep people on their toes.
Honestly, I saw this struggling bee and I ripped my backpack open to get the bee saver off my keys as if I was an emergency trauma doctor. Waving glucose water around while saying to S. "It might be too late for this one but I have to try!"
If you google me, one of the first results is a zine of mine on the Goodpress website. Lots of the other results are Recent Events At Work. I'm making a zine called LAUNDERING MY ONLINE PRESENCE [offline] to supplement the fun results. It's mostly about how I tried to save a bee at the station.
Ai slop advertising a food festival that also has children's entertainment. In the background a man plays tennis, but his hands are replaced with tennis rackets.
Close up of Mr Rackets-for-hands
Looking forward to the local body horror festival
Another local festival using ai slop for advertising
Over 100,000 women stand with the trans community and say 'Not in Our Name'.
Will you join them?
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not-in-our-name...
And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion
Tell you what works really well? Singing the alphabet to the tune of Enya's Only Time
it's amazing how keir starmer can literally say 'well how should i know what is happening in the government? im just the prime minister.' and ppl will still defend him.
i could understand if he had a cult of personality around him but he has no personality. he is thoroughly charmless and useless.
I'm reading Sky Daddy. I guess I thought it was about a woman fucking a plane but a colleague told me it's really about neurodivergence and what it is to be human in this life. I hope it's at least a lil bit of both.
Thing is, I can sort of believe that Starmer just literally didn't ask whether Mandelson actually passed vetting, and also that his Downing Street imagines this to be an excuse rather than a pretty strong case for resignation in and of itself.
I think maybe I can only place half the Eastenders theme coz from Q onwards I just ended up saying the letters very flatly. If I can't remember the tune, it can't get stuck in my head. Unlike alphabet Mary Had A Little Lamb, which I hate and is going to live in my brain forever.
When I need to ground myself, I sing the alphabet song to myself. Somehow, S. only learnt this about me today, and after saying it isn't elemeno-p anymore, has been trying to fit the alphabet into other nursery rhymes. Disconcerting how little sense it makes to a different tune.
We are about two reveals away from Starmer saying he doesn't even know who Mandelson is
Say what you will about nerds, but back when only nerds made websites, they worked. You'd fire up your computer, go to a website, and it was actually there
I thought I was choking on some tea earlier. I asked S. to call 999 before quickly recovering enough to say "nah, don't." But in hindsight, think it was a wee panic attack. So that's fun.
the new statesman basically doing a politer version of this.
Revealing that the Guardian apparently couldn't actually find any examples of the ruling having "changed lives" positively. Those quoted in support simply express political agreement with it rather than being able to point to any tangible life benefit, in contrast to those quoted in opposition.