Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
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We all benefit from a society made up of educated, diverse and empowered human beings capable of independent thought and innovation, but authorities who want to impose their wills upon the population from above do not.
Injustice makes the rules and courage breaks them.
I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.
Must feel so good for text after you hit ctrl-x, floating in liminal space, before ctrl-v thrusts it back onto the desolate page
It seems worth mentioning that Beira’s Place is not actually a rape crisis centre, but a support service, and the rape crisis centre that has actually been attacked in recent years is Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, following a harassment campaign led by JK Rowling.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4w agoUsually, if something is deeply damaging and defamatory to an organization you founded, you wouldn't say you want everyone to read it. Rowling is someone who is confident the system will back her regardless of how she undermines her own organizations legal position because of her wealth.
Turns out it's really dangerous to have a whole field of medicine designed by people who don't face the consequences of it. So about trans healthcare..
there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like
On the fourth of July, 1980, about fifteen trans women went to one of the most upscale public swimming pools in Milan, took off their tops, and started lounging around. It was a Friday, and the height of the summer vacation, so there were plenty of families with young children around. 1/
Not to get all ‘oh Jeremy Corbyn’ about things but I have very vivid memories of journalists and other cunts all laughing their heads off at the 2017 manifesto commitment to plant fucking loads of trees to help cities mitigate the impact of excessive heat.
embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world
Neither grief nor pride had so much truth in them as did joy, the joy that trembled in the cold wind between sky and sea, bright and brief as fire.
When I did the maths a few years back, within a 3 year period there had been 5 articles about puberty blockers for every Trans adolescent who had ever received puberty blockers via the NHS.
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 3mo agoA friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.
To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.
"‘What’s in a name?’ As a Hungarian trans man, I can tell you: Everything I can’t have" transwrites.world/whats-in-a-n...
‘What’s in a name?’ As a Hungarian trans man, I can tell you: Everything I can’t have - Trans Writes
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What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to.
There is no death for an otter, only life to the end.
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!
Did you know: Every single trans person is braver and stronger then any collection of terfs could ever hope to be. That’s just science.
from these citations, I take it—the conclusion aimed at will naturally follow of itself
