April

Trans Day of Visibility, Melbourne 2023.

The way we allow cis allies to speak to us absolutely disgusts and saddens me.

The fact that the nazis found their way to get an audience on Bluesky (and not just get immediately blocked/shunned) via transphobia is almost symbolic. The fact that the most vicious bigots on here are US Democrats, & that it took so little for them to reveal themselves, is like the UK in miniature

Firmly beleive the Western world is where it is because we haven't applied severe and overwhelming consquences to people who have done fundamentally evil things. This wont stop until people in "banality of evil" positions start going to jail and losing their livelihoods and futures.

the picture i took after my girlfriend complimented my appearance

I genuinely believe men do this because they imagine themselves as victims of an accusation, false or not. They dont imagine themselves as a victim of assault, so they don't care about that. They see themselves as a rapist or as a creep doing something that gets them painted that way.

tfw you're having a bizarre debate with Very Online trans girls who have never set foot in a lesbian bar, trying to convince them they dont have a right to kick out trans men, and it turns out one of the rudest and most offensive ones was a cis guy the whole time. Kind of deflates the lot of them.

i need to feel a cat purring.

Its upsetting that amongst all the rising fascism there's a whole layer of highly and narrowly educated engineers who have no idea how knowledge works bc they never thought it worth studying that are being tricked by cold-reading machines into thinking human consciousness is analogous to autocorrect

This is true but the discussion always always always leaves out the other side of the equation - that building a movement to fight for material improvements, while not expecting (or even trying) to *recruit* morons, pushes them back and creates an actual counterweight to their moron power.

i wish i had a pterodactyl kitten

"how lesbian are you?" "I didn't realise the mum in Witch From Mercury was meant to be a bad guy"

trans girls are like

The correct response when asked about trans kids playing sports is not "it doesn't matter" or "nobody cares". The correct response is "trans kids deserve the same rights as anyone else, including sports, bathrooms, etc". And frankly, this isn't asking for a lot, at all. The bar is in Hell.

Amnesty International UK actively covering up human rights abuses in the UK. They've been captured, and are no longer an independant organisation standing for human rights.

feel hot for the first time in my life this year

i may be australian but I'm pretty sure there was a pretty massive national debate about which bathroom black people could use in the US in 1965.

J. K. Rowling is a sex offender.

yeah this is why i've been banging the "prediction markets are not data" drum.

"I asked ChatGPT" Yeah well I asked the bugs and birds of the field and they say they're coming for you, that the age of fur is spent and the age of claw and beak is nigh and the only thinking beings allowed to retain their thoughts will think fast thoughts, air thoughts, and hunger, oh such hunger

hi my name is sam and this is my petition to STOP HURTING MEG IN FAMIL Y GUY!!! 1/64 :) keep readingt!!

A couple of weeks ago some creepy guy took a photo of me just walking down the street and it made me feel physically sick. Partly knowing he could've been some kiwifarms freak. They boast about integrating facial recognition. If you wear these you need to be bullied.

Oh good, now we have centrists saying that Platner proves you need real insider skills to be a contender. Dude was a mercenary with a nazi tattoo who raped someone what the hell are you idiots taking about?

I gave 15 years of my life to a socialist organisation that turned out to be soft on rapists, and led by one. All our good work was undone overnight because of the rapist and his supporters. It's entirely on the apologists posing as 'left.' If you come forward you will always have an advocate in me.

I told my girfriend about the "trans lesbians are bourgeois" thing and every few days she starts laughing out of nowhere because it came back into her mind

I dont like ppls Amazing Digital Circus opinions but here's mine: that everything we saw related to everything else & it doesnt make sense to say the finale focused too much on Jax bc Jax's arc was the meeting point of all the others & perfectly mirrored the protagonist. of course it ended that way

My girlfriend pointed out that if you think something is decadent, like workerists have for queer people, then thats kind of a word for someone doing stuff you kinda envy. Maybe having a political excuse for why youre not that means you dont need to feel bad that you dont get to be that.

You know what some of the people pushing the LA election fraud conspiracies have in common? They built, grew, and energized their audience around smearing Blake Lively. If you can believe anti-MeToo conspiracies, you can believe that elections are stolen and votes are fraudulent.

Bridget Phillipson’s transphobic EHRC guidance as it is currently configured, will mean a lot of trans women dying because they will not be allowed to get breast cancer screening. Labour’s transphobic policies are literally trying to kill trans women.

20 years in activism and everything I've seen leads me in the direction of feeling that having men around means you're going to be spending half your time dealing with issues of sexual abuse and the fallout from it, and losing good women activists in the process this is about Platner send tweet

People are too nice to fascists online. Like yes, the best approach for your mental health is block & report. But if you're going to interact, why make a cutesy comeback. Why treat them as if they are humans who are part of the human conversation? Tell them to shut the fuck up and call them vermin.

If you're not in favour of absolutely banning hate speech in all areas of life, then you are absolutely against free speech.

I just want to go on a social media site without seeing a single call for my extermination or denial of my right to existence. I guess that makes me an angry unpleasant lesbian.

I couldn't exist in the 90s. I was buried alive, my heart removed and placed on ice somewhere, and i was only a kid. It wasn't even possible for me to be a real person. It was an era in which my people had been 90% successfully deleted from existence. It wasn't a closet, it was a grave.