cornish person girl

the only reason I haven't muted every jack ass on here still using twitter is because I don't use twitter and so don't know about them tbh.

one of the greatest examples of journalism in the UK for the last 30 years was Brian Deers work exposing Wakefield's abuse of autistic children re vaccines. and it wouldn't exist if he were just a "neutral observer doing objective journalism". No. He gave a shit about the kids! that's all it took!

there is no such thing as the neutral observer in journalism. there is no such thing as "objective journalism". These ideas are just bullshit marketing meant to make you think their work is somehow better than someone who openly cares about the subjects they investigate and report on.

and like... who the fuck else is doing this work??? The only cis people I see regularly writing about trans issues are bigots. maybe we don't want to give them the entire floor through this bullshit nonsense of "objective journalism" and "neutral observers"????

there is no such thing as the neutral observer in journalism. there is no such thing as "objective journalism". These ideas are just bullshit marketing meant to make you think their work is somehow better than someone who openly cares about the subjects they investigate and report on.

we are all humans and we are all biased in favour of our beliefs. It's good to be aware of that as a journalist - but acting like it isn't real is just silly and fools noone.

calling trans people elitist is very funny But it's not my favourite blatant bigot lie. that award has to go to "trans is big pharma" as if we're all such huge fans of the pharma industry and don't regularly talk about how restricted our health care access is

it turns out that the most important voices in trans lives are once again cisgender people.

briefly saw a notification in my mentions about Trans Writes and truthfully the bottleneck is money. I know people would do work for free but the point was always to make sure trans people get paid for doing work. So that's not an option. But I am going to do more streaming & save up the pennies

So yeah. My greatest apologies for it taking so long. But unless some rich cis folk are about to drop upwards of ten grand in my lap or somehow I win a lottery I don't play, it's gonna be a long road towards where I want it all to be. rest assured, I think about it every day and I'm trying my best!

briefly saw a notification in my mentions about Trans Writes and truthfully the bottleneck is money. I know people would do work for free but the point was always to make sure trans people get paid for doing work. So that's not an option. But I am going to do more streaming & save up the pennies

I want to bring it back and slowly but surely expand it out in all the cool ways I've mentioned previously ie regular online game nights, stickers, tshirts and other stuff. But I want to do all of that stuff 'right' and not just quick cheap and easy. eg we make our own tshirts, not using a service.

briefly saw a notification in my mentions about Trans Writes and truthfully the bottleneck is money. I know people would do work for free but the point was always to make sure trans people get paid for doing work. So that's not an option. But I am going to do more streaming & save up the pennies

ball park figures... but to take what we already have and remake it into something I can eventually commission people to help me expand is probably around the £10k mark. Writes currently has a bit over £2k. So it isn't completely unreachable via streaming over the course of a year.

it's just a joy theft machine it robs you of the joy of creating things - sure... creation is hard work but also THAT'S WHY IT'S FUN. THAT'S WHY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

idk man even if they magically invent AI that doesn't copyright theft and isn't shit for the environment or eats up computer components making prices for everyone else wacky... I still wouldn't want to use it. I enjoy making things. it tickles my brain good to figure stuff out myself. it is fun.

the truth is that nobody is "just a man" or "just a woman" for healthcare purposes. not even cis people. not even cis people who aren't specifically intersex. But it's cheaper and easier to be cruel to trans people than it is to provide us all with the individualised healthcare we all need.

"other people are doing it" as me mom always said whenever i did something stupid and used that excuse: if other people jumped off a bridge would you do it too?

The problem @societyofauthors.bsky.social is that your blog post and charter is one step *towards* the use of AI in publishing, not a step away. Yeah no shit people are using AI in publishing and not being upfront about it. They're not gonna start being upfront about it cos they know its bad.

yeah don't get me wrong! I think my presence online has been a benefit and I'm grateful for all the support I've received for doing it. It's just mostly that I was preaching to the choir - I don't think I ever changed a bigots mind for the better. if anything I gave them something to push against.

bigots are basically spoilt toddlers having a tantrum in a supermarket. You can't reason with them, shouting at them only makes it worse. People will start judging you badly for it all. There's really nothing you can do except scoop them up and carry on getting the shopping done.