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Arianwyn -She/Her. TTRPGs, music of almost any stripe, kobold enthusiast! 🏳️‍🌈 #ArisJournE to see the active process of my taking HRT. 🏳️‍⚧️ #LykaBaker to follow my sci-fi/fantasy cyberpunk romance kinda story!

No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.

To deny the link between religion and nationalism is to wilfully ignore history. I applaud moderate Christians who speak out against dangerous Christian nationalism today. But Christianity was the state religion of the Roman Empire… 1/3 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report

Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity

theguardian.com

Worse---his self-defence plea was initially rejected, but it has been successfully argued that the jury should have known the woman he killed was trans and not cis. Because apparently, the woman he killed being trans makes the killing more justifiable.

Sarah Clarke - Not your doll@damselindystopia.northsky.social · yesterday

So if I'm reading this correctly, a chaser murdered a black trans woman and is being allowed to use trans women being scary as a defence in court.

There is a Reclaim the Night protest organised in Glasgow for Monday. There are many local grassroots organisations and unions all pitching in. There has been nothing but the chirping of crickets from any of the TERF orgs who have vast wealth behind them. I need cis folks to understand this.

OK, probably true, but this isn't the fault of being diagnosed is it! It's the fault of social attitudes to these disorders and the way they're dealt with which isn't helped by people saying they're being overdiagnosed which just makes people think someone's looking for an easy way out.

The experts said too often diagnoses of mental health problems and ADHD and autism were ending up as labels that defined people by their "difficulties rather than their strengths and potential", harming their prospects at school, in work and in relationships.
REwadent Evil@ewacat.bsky.social · 4d ago

Pleased to announce that ADHD is being overdiagnosed again according to the BBC and pathetic skidmark Wes Streeting, so now - during ADHD Awareness Month no less - it's time to give it up and just be normal. Let it go. Just turn it off and get on with things www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.

Killing of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans, Tennessee Court Rules

The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”

erininthemorning.com

If you are so extraordinarily stupid that you fall for a standard Republican trans panic ruse, I cannot trust you to represent me in office. This is like media literacy 101. Your colleagues are going to run circles around you. Dupe you into anything. I'd be safer running and representing myself.

When folks say "not all cops" I have to say: Look, however good someone might be off the job, if they're on the job and looking the other way to prevent their cop colleagues from being arrested for, say, domestic assault, then they've been corrupted by the expectations of the job. So. Let's talk.

Them Fatale,@mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 4d ago

For each one of these 45 men, other cops will know. Cop families are thick as thieves. Everyone knows everyone's business, its like a gang. Well it is a gang, but ykwim. So cops know cops that abuse women and girls and they sit idly by, reinforcing that culture.

Guy with no profile picture and a generic name: "I've been a lifelong fan of the ̶L̶a̶b̶o̶u̶r̶ Green Party and a resident of [UK TOWN OR CITY] and it breaks my heart to say that I can no longer vote for Zack Polanski in the upcoming election. Mr. Corbyn, you must resign!"