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Cis queer guy. ADHDer. Trans rights are human rights. Black Lives Matter. He/him. Give me all your money and I'll make some origami, honey.

Let's talk about JK Rowling's 'bearded men'... I want to vent something that's been on my mind: The way transphobic groups and individuals are also actively homophobic. I've experienced it first hand, and know many others have too. 1/

this is the thing that really bugs me about california's slow vote counting. reporters can't help but describe it in terms of momentum, when it's really scanning across a snapshot

NYT screenshot, "Nithya Raman, a progressive Democrat who has drawn comparisons to New York's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, will face Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles in a two-person race in November, The Associated Press determined on Monday.

Ms. Raman, 44, a City Council member and former Bass ally, was behind in the initial vote count but came back in later returns to edge out Spencer Pratt, a Republican reality TV star who lost his home in the 2025 wildfires that devastated Pacific Palisades, a wealthy coastal enclave."

It's not surprising that an autistic kid struggles to put themself in the shoes of a neurotypical kid but that doesn't mean that they can't empathise or imagine other people's circumstances. If you asked a neurotypical kid to imagine what they'd do if they were autistic they'd struggle too!

The Sally-Anne test assumes that Sally will look for the marble in the last place she put it. As someone with ADHD, my short term memory is awful and I live in a state of constant disorganisation, so it's hardly a guarantee that I'd even remember where I put the marble to start with!

The answer is, of course, that very little in British politics is actually real except for expediency and convenience. It’s not a double standard because *there are no standards*, and there are no rules that apply to everyone. There’s only ever what’s entertaining the lads this week.

Members of the public are fully entitled to ask why the entire national press - who went into an 18-month terrifying panic about racism and bigotry, squealing in pant-soiling terror that even a trace of prejudice in public life was utterly intolerable - can talk about this calmly like it’s no biggie

This, while all the lads on the newspaper and magazine politics podcasts are talking about The Return Of Two-Party Politics as if it was a natural phenomenon and not a decision they have reached amongst themselves

The Times and Sunday Tim... » • 10m
Kemi Badenoch: Former neo-Nazi candidate would just be sorting out bins

So 'bearded men' or 'beardy men' is smart; It does so much with so little. It mocks us as little fashionistas attempting manhood. It allows us to be lumped in with every bad thing straight men have done. It masks that we are part of the affected community. It means you can just stop listening. 8/

Quite simply, it is a way to say 'shut up faggot' whilst still being able to claim a defensive position. We're still men, still 'the problem' even if the implication is we are substandard diluted versions. 9/

Didn't we have a few years of panic over antisemitism in the Labour Party under Corbyn? Anyway, the Tories have a literal neo-Nazi running for local council, backed by Badenoch, but he's no longer an *antisemitic* neo-Nazi because he says he supports Israel