Mags L Halliday

@magslhalliday.bsky.social

Writer. Waffler. Former redhead. Occasional public sector comms person. All views my own. Currently open to commissions about women, history, or the built environment. She/Her. www.magslhalliday.co.uk or https://linktr.ee/magslhalliday

Look I know I am not saying anything new here but I am *raging* that a bunch of self-proclaimed 'feminists' are in fact doing the work of patriarchy by trying to force us all back to a place where women must conform to a narrow set of stereotyped standards. FUCK OFF. I LIVED THROUGH THE '90S.

Do try to remember that the EHRC guidance only affects service providers and not employment, so if you work somewhere where there are toilets or changing rooms for employees that aren’t open to the public then your employers are wrong if they try to stop you from using facilities for your gender

Non-white people have been called monkeys by the white people they’re trying to help, and this society must somehow figure out a way to understand that the problem in this situation is white people

Selective time travel is one of the most interesting aspects of SF narratives around time. A lot of shows will talk about “fixed points” in time, essentially to prevent the characters from strategically or logistically deploying time travel to dismantle the crisis the story is about.

Great thread. There’s an informal kickabout in our local park which started as 2 kids and their dad this spring and is now about 16 kids of all ages. Every evening. Bikes for goalposts, etc I’m waiting for our local miseryguts to complain. We asked kids and teens to give up so much. Let ‘em play.

Gabby HC@scriblit.bsky.social · 3d ago

Yes lockdown was really tough for kids. Lots of those kids are teenagers now so maybe as a thank you our establishments could stop deliberately making even more things worse for them due to a weird systemic hatred of our own youth

This could not miss the point by a wider margin. Working class and vulnerable kids will never have the life they should have until we stop acting as if it's OK that poverty predominates in a rich country. No child should grow up in poverty. Covid school closures aren't the problem.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

Me: Tidal - serve me my Discovery playlist. Tidal: sure thing, boss, here’s your dark goth and glam / soft metal just like you like it. Me: what’s that there? Tidal: where? Me: between Siouxsie and Blue Oyster Cult. Tidal: …nothing. What? *skips two tracks*

A playlist starting with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, AC/DC, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Vera Lynn - Vera effing Lynn! - the Sweet, Blue Oyster Cult ans David Bowie.

Just got my combined unread emails across three inboxes down from 366 to 32. Unfortunately, those 32 need to actually be dealt with. I did at least unsub from several newsletters I've not even opened in months.