Tamar but spooky
@heartinamber.bsky.social
Polish-Scottish woman, Glasgow/Brussels. Lampshade. Lord knows I don't go out of my way to be scary. (she/elle/ona)
The only time I find out who a youtuber is is when my partner gently explains to me what they do, so the idea that someone can get attached enough to a youtuber to respond to a rape allegation against one of them by navel-gazing about 'restorative justice' is like something from another planet to me
the funniest thing about all the kids who post "Magneto would support Palestine" is not that he most definitely would not, but that there is in fact one other Marvel villain who 100% would be proPal
Not sure about the subject title and pre-header here are really in conversation, but this is also what my brain often feels like 😅
My enemies are amassing on the outskirts of town. Probably to apologise for their grievous misconduct
my stance on fantasy vs sci-fi is that i think these are aesthetic labels that have gotten so broad that they're barely informative at all. the real slop genre is orc fiction. if there's an archetypal "orc species," a nuance-free inherently evil group of morally uncomplicated enemies, it's slop.
Very much hope this is the govt changing course and introducing the LDAN Bill. At the very least, explaining how they are going to achieve the aims of the bill without legislation.
Okay seriously what possesses people on this website to see a stranger talking about their anxieties and post a quirky chungus suicide joke and nothing else
If you have a crush on me you should tell me, not because I'm saying something's gonna happen, but just because it would be intensely embarrassing to go around for 18 months saying you have a crush
Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 3d agoa friend just admitted they've had a crush on someone for 18 months. i'm sorry but a crush should be limited to under a year, and i'd maybe even argue to 1 *season*
I hope going on holiday in a week fixes my now constant fight-or-flight reaction to everything because if it doesn't idk what will
I have genuinely never been to a lesbian event that was actually organized as a separatist space where only lesbians were allowed to participate. These are mythological constructs to me that straight up serve no other purpose than to bog down queer discourse in endless border politics.
Salomé from L'Estampe moderne, no. 2 http://www.moma.org/collection/works/67309
This has been the left's main rhetorical move for like a decade now, you're just noticing how lame it is now that Andy Burnham is trying it too
If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.
From now on, every time I start properly rolling my eyes at someone on here I'm just gonna post a vague subtweet and a song recommendation
TransActual partnered with @scottishtrans.bsky.social and @transsolidarity.bsky.social to bring messages from this month’s Mass Lobby for Trans Equality to the Labour conference in Liverpool, and to ask the party: what now for our standing on LGBTQ+ rights?
It keeps setting me off - I'm being told I have to vote Labour to defend a liberal society that Labour itself refuses to defend Labour won't defend my trans self, immigrant friends & family, HE colleagues, disabled students That matters most to me, but Labour's golden boy couldn't care less!
Tamar but spooky@heartinamber.bsky.social · 3d agoThe UK could have avoided shooting itself in the face in the first place, but people like Andy Burnham couldn't bring themselves to defend Eastern Europeans and so we are where we are
The UK could have avoided shooting itself in the face in the first place, but people like Andy Burnham couldn't bring themselves to defend Eastern Europeans and so we are where we are
it’s cool how he calls out eastern europe here. just so we know exactly who he’s talking about when he dismisses us as gastarbeiter
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.
“this kind of rhetoric is demobilizing. You either make outsiders think you're crazy or you make insiders — in this case trans people — panic and demobilize themselves” 🎯
This is a good and important read and it really echoes a lot of worries I have about the information environment, doomerism and misinformation in the UK trans community context too
Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · 4d agoRecently, I did a wonderful interview with the indefatigable @emilystjams.bsky.social about trans people's online information environment and why there are very strong incentives to spread panic. It was a wide-ranging discussion that I think is more relevant than ever.
This is observably a real phenomenon, but also I remember this specific guy already posting pure uncut 'Anthony Bourdain was a CIA agent' level conspiracy theories in like 2020
Alex@purplechrain.bsky.social · 4d agoa few years ago, references to Simon of Trent or Leo Frank trutherism were a sign that someone was an intensely Christian and/or Neo-Nazi right-wing antisemite but now formerly-normal lefty politics influencers who stayed on Twitter casually reply to Mamdani with 15th century blood libel posts
I have *been* saying that medieval style antisemitism has a major foothold in the left and the best thing allies can do is be aware of the dog whistles so you know when someone is gone off on one
Alex@purplechrain.bsky.social · 4d agoa few years ago, references to Simon of Trent or Leo Frank trutherism were a sign that someone was an intensely Christian and/or Neo-Nazi right-wing antisemite but now formerly-normal lefty politics influencers who stayed on Twitter casually reply to Mamdani with 15th century blood libel posts
Young Woman in a Blue Blouse https://www.wikiart.org/en/berthe-morisot/young-woman-in-a-blue-blouse-1
so many people's basic posture to the world is that they are supposed to engage with any given thing that gets put in front of them, even if critically, and i want to stress that you absolutely do not need to do that and also should not do that
in the mid aughts i had a gf who actually went to the mcdonalds website for some reason and spent 30m playing a flash game on there. i totally forgot about this until seeing you guys play with the donald trump white house chatbot reminded me
