Dr Doom(scrolling)

Your Harry Potter dollars funded this.

My god - these were ADULTS being treated, and their medical treatments were denied at the last minute because of unverified 'family concerns'? How is this even legal? cwiar.org/en/2026/10/1...

Brilliant talk on “doomscrolling in a vortex of anti trans content” on trans youth social media use from @drews.bsky.social as part of the Create/Connect Trans & Queer Youth Creativity Community & Resilience Symposium. Similar ideas coming out of our (@paulreilly.bsky.social & Judas) work in Ireland

For my friend’s birthday I’ve made her a doll of her favourite coffee guy @jameshoffmann.bsky.social

Fascism can’t succeed without centrism, because far fewer people will admit to being a fascist than will endorse its policies — especially when they’re allowed to do so with the barest minimum necessary plausible deniability.

On the one hand, universities are inherently quite poor places to produce knowledge, built as they are around networks of privilege and authority. But we really don’t have an alternative place for systematically building knowledge, so I’d like it if they could occasionally do some resisting.

cis ppl can take hrt and nobody bats an eye. i hate this shithole country.

Like most prohibition type rules this will end up backfiring in ways that get ever more dumb – not least that because teens aren't supposed to be on the network now, and only circumvent it via third-party tools, Australia can't hold social media companies responsible for harms they face on there.

Started watching How to get to heaven from Belfast thinking it looked fun without realising that, beyond being a murder mystery, it’s about women exactly my age having a midlife crisis. I have taken a huge hit of psychic damage, I am not ready to have midlife crisis media aimed at me.

100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride. Mainstream media: nothing Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes. Mainstream media: nothing. This is what extreme media bias looks like.

Hey so just so people are aware, if they do this they will be signing off on killing me. I do not produce hormones since I had surgery and was assured I would have that medication for the rest of my life from them. I have other means, a lot of people like me wont and will be very scared

found a stack of these cleaning up my studio the other day. as ever!!!

Evil goings on in Peckham today

"she was a citizen" "he was a nurse" so what? the government shouldn't get to murder immigrants or assholes in the street either what the fuck

See my thesis for research evidence of why a social media ban would be terrible for LGBTQIA youth. TLDR- when you belong to a geographically dispersed minority that your family don’t belong to, might even be hostile to- social media is likely your only lifeline for identity work and community.

My PhD thesis “Waving and Drowning: UK Trans Youth Experiences of Social Media Affective Publics” is now available online. It features a model of the emotional cycle of doomscrolling that I’m particularly proud of.

This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.

the reason they don’t bother to manufacture the consent beforehand is that everyone just sort of does it for them post-facto now

This. We do not deserve to be abandoned. We deserve the full throated support of people who claim to support us. Not the apologetic shuffle of "sorry, but it's hard!"

Jam, Jerusalem and genital inspections 🙄

A solicitor, Andrew Milne has been bullying leaseholders across Sheffield into paying him extraordinary sums, with no legal basis. Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews. More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM

metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k... Why are we hearing about this now if it happened a few years ago? Since coming to office AFTER the attack on his niece, Starmer's culture war anti-LGBTQ+ words and policies have got him and Labour banned from every Pride. He has personally made ...

“I didn’t think the leopards would eat *my* niece” says man in hotdog costume

Trying very hard to link transness with dangerous criminality is disgusting, but so is the following implication that only sane, well-behaved people should be allowed to transition, if any.

The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!" You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

I usually try to butch it up with uber drivers but when the guy who just picked me up was complaining about all the crumbs students had just left in his car all I could think to say was “what a bunch of mucky pups” which he vehemently agreed with tbf

The way people talk about neurodivergent folk and trans folk is getting more alike by the day. No wonder we tend to stand up for each other. It's the same fatuous arguments made without input from those affected. This is just the social contagion lie. It's interchangeable.

Found the one guy who got raptured, right out of their sliders too, rip

This whole ICE nonsense quota based racist policing is so useful for illustrating so many Black civil rights concepts that people have been confused about for decades. People used to ask me, "Why do Black folk cheer when they see a man successfully run from the cops? He's a criminal!"🤡 No.

Hillsborough B&M is like the backrooms, after minutes of wandering I just had to submit myself to the humiliation of asking how to get out. I just want a birthday card for my nephew, I don’t want to die here.

I’m still not over a guy telling me that knitting can’t be art a decade ago. Not that not ALL knitting is art, I’d agree with that, but that knitting CAN’T be art. The same man used his knowledge of Simone de Beauvoir to convince women he fancied that he was a feminist 🙄

Sigh, greens it is then. What a waste of good will and potential.

Trash Future had their hands to close to the lathe again the other week when they said Led by Donkeys were going to be the next proscribed organisation 🫠

It's worth asking why every elite institution is issuing statements like this rather than pointing out the obvious fact that the institutional right commits and glorifies violence far more than the left. Is there a reason you feel you can't say that out loud? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

I guess MSNBC, Chris Jansing and GWB are memory holing the fact that Charlie Kirk established a professor watchlist, a compilation of faculty who didn’t align with Kirk’s value or ideas. People on the list received death and rape threats, btw.

What a beautiful morning to listen to Chumbawamba