Defiantly Alice
@mechanival.bsky.social
Glasgow based lover of worldbuilding, and anything that tells a story. Can often be found several wiki pages deep in lore creation. 🏳️⚧️ 🏴 (she/her)
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writing a piece on this tomorrow but I think the bland truth is that a lot of people just don't care! saw it in Westminster too, fundamentally a lot of men - and some women - simply don't really give a shit if a man is said to be a sexual abuser, as long as they don't have to see if they don't care
One of the more upsetting things in this is that he wasn't blackmailing them: These men were part of this and protecting him not out of obligation or even particularly out of access, but out of solidarity.
Lots of people say: that’s because he’s blackmailing them, but I don’t think he’s blackmailing Kathy Ruemmler! I don’t think that’s what explains it.
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
writing a piece on this tomorrow but I think the bland truth is that a lot of people just don't care! saw it in Westminster too, fundamentally a lot of men - and some women - simply don't really give a shit if a man is said to be a sexual abuser, as long as they don't have to see if they don't care
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The same dudes who whine about men being the "protectors"...
"Who cares about protecting women and children if I can't be rac_ist!"
"Who cares about protecting women and children if I can't be rac_ist!"
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The same dudes who whine about men being the "protectors"...
"Who cares about protecting women and children if I can't be rac_ist!"
"Who cares about protecting women and children if I can't be rac_ist!"
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"the only thing preventing several of your neighbours from murdering you is their fear of getting caught"
in this thread the New Right discovers what the average immigrant feels at any given time
in this thread the New Right discovers what the average immigrant feels at any given time
There's so many of these btw, NoVa right wingers realizing that their neighbors genuinely hate them
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"the only thing preventing several of your neighbours from murdering you is their fear of getting caught"
in this thread the New Right discovers what the average immigrant feels at any given time
in this thread the New Right discovers what the average immigrant feels at any given time
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The fuckers got away with it.
The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them.
They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬
The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them.
They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬
*US DISMISSES BOEING CRIMINAL CHARGE OVER 737 MAX JET CRASHES
November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The fuckers got away with it.
The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them.
They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬
The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them.
They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬
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"Tuesday’s election night was a resounding repudiation of those who insist that Democrats must cut their trans constituents loose in order to win elections."
For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Democrats’ election wins showed they don't need to hide their support for trans rights
Republicans repeated Trump's anti-trans strategy from 2024 and lost big. This should be instructive for Democrats.
www.msnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Tuesday’s election night was a resounding repudiation of those who insist that Democrats must cut their trans constituents loose in order to win elections."
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genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died
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Also there is no CRLGBT because too much of the world is still too homophobic and transphobic for one to be credibly brought forward, which is imo leading to that perverse attempt to weaponise CEDAW: "well here's the women's treaty I don't see one for the queers so hard luck" is real nasty stuff!
Where treaties (not just CEDAW but also CRPD and CERD) exist that have a specific group focus, that focus is not to grant additional, special rights to those groups that others are not granted, but to recognise the specific need to address barriers to rights realisation that others do not face
October 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Also there is no CRLGBT because too much of the world is still too homophobic and transphobic for one to be credibly brought forward, which is imo leading to that perverse attempt to weaponise CEDAW: "well here's the women's treaty I don't see one for the queers so hard luck" is real nasty stuff!
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
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this will probably get the least attention but "being in work" is an unhinged requirement, maybe even more so than the forced labour
(though the 10 year change is by far the worst)
(though the 10 year change is by far the worst)
Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:
Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering
Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering
September 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
this will probably get the least attention but "being in work" is an unhinged requirement, maybe even more so than the forced labour
(though the 10 year change is by far the worst)
(though the 10 year change is by far the worst)
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Question one from any journalist present should be "why has Downing Street withdrawn the press credentials of ABC?"
Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press
September 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Question one from any journalist present should be "why has Downing Street withdrawn the press credentials of ABC?"
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Remember: If it turns out he’s a leftist, that indicates a pervasive problem of violence on the left. If it turns out he’s a groyper, that means nothing whatsoever and he will disappear from the news cycle immediately.
the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter has been identified as 22 year old Tyler Robinson from Utah
very little in his family socials other than that Tyler was very online and dressed up on Halloween specifically to emulate this meme
knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultur...
very little in his family socials other than that Tyler was very online and dressed up on Halloween specifically to emulate this meme
knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultur...
September 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Remember: If it turns out he’s a leftist, that indicates a pervasive problem of violence on the left. If it turns out he’s a groyper, that means nothing whatsoever and he will disappear from the news cycle immediately.
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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Real mask off moment as one-by-one every single GC figure approvingly shares the Linehan tweet where he says you should assault trans women if they dare to use women's bathrooms.
September 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Real mask off moment as one-by-one every single GC figure approvingly shares the Linehan tweet where he says you should assault trans women if they dare to use women's bathrooms.
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The media losing their shit over “taxpayer money” being used to pay for 5 police to arrest Glinner are decidedly quiet about the THOUSANDS of police hours used to arrest grandmothers holding signs calling for the end to genocide in Gaza! 🤷🏼♀️
Make it make sense!!!
Make it make sense!!!
The U.K. mainstream media is absolutely OBSESSED with any story that allows them to take a swipe at trans people… Even if it means they have to back an unhinged abusive bigot, who by his own admission has lost everything due to his transphobia!
But they won’t cover Trans Pride! 😖
But they won’t cover Trans Pride! 😖
September 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The media losing their shit over “taxpayer money” being used to pay for 5 police to arrest Glinner are decidedly quiet about the THOUSANDS of police hours used to arrest grandmothers holding signs calling for the end to genocide in Gaza! 🤷🏼♀️
Make it make sense!!!
Make it make sense!!!
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They have disabled the comments on this post, so:
It wasn't "Trans issues". It was a tweet telling people to violently and physically assault a trans person if they came across one in a bathroom. That is incitement to violence, not "trans issues"...
It wasn't "Trans issues". It was a tweet telling people to violently and physically assault a trans person if they came across one in a bathroom. That is incitement to violence, not "trans issues"...
Father Ted writer Graham Linehan ‘arrested over X posts’ on trans issues
Father Ted writer Graham Linehan ‘arrested over X posts’ on trans issues
Linehan (57) says he was taken to hospital with high blood pressure after questioning by police
www.irishtimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
They have disabled the comments on this post, so:
It wasn't "Trans issues". It was a tweet telling people to violently and physically assault a trans person if they came across one in a bathroom. That is incitement to violence, not "trans issues"...
It wasn't "Trans issues". It was a tweet telling people to violently and physically assault a trans person if they came across one in a bathroom. That is incitement to violence, not "trans issues"...
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40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real.
No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
September 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real.
No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
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I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed.
There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.
Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.
Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
September 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
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I feel like they're trying to manage the electorate like a CLP, where people are with you or against you. If they're so against you that they leave that's even better! They're no longer even a factor!
The country does... not work like that. People being so hacked off they leave the tent is bad.
The country does... not work like that. People being so hacked off they leave the tent is bad.
It does not help that said carrots are being presented in secret and alongside the very clear message "If you don't like it you can fuck off, pricks". This may possibly turn out to be a poor strategy.
August 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I feel like they're trying to manage the electorate like a CLP, where people are with you or against you. If they're so against you that they leave that's even better! They're no longer even a factor!
The country does... not work like that. People being so hacked off they leave the tent is bad.
The country does... not work like that. People being so hacked off they leave the tent is bad.
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It's over - The Polari Prize has been halted for 2025.
Sunk by the decision to longlist a proudly anti-trans author.
Credit to the other longlisted authors who were willing to sacrifice award nomination to instead stand in solidarity with their community. This really meant something.
Sunk by the decision to longlist a proudly anti-trans author.
Credit to the other longlisted authors who were willing to sacrifice award nomination to instead stand in solidarity with their community. This really meant something.
August 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
It's over - The Polari Prize has been halted for 2025.
Sunk by the decision to longlist a proudly anti-trans author.
Credit to the other longlisted authors who were willing to sacrifice award nomination to instead stand in solidarity with their community. This really meant something.
Sunk by the decision to longlist a proudly anti-trans author.
Credit to the other longlisted authors who were willing to sacrifice award nomination to instead stand in solidarity with their community. This really meant something.
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Genuinely this is one of the first times I can remember where a bunch of people standing up for trans people and saying, very firmly, that we are part of the LGBT community and deserve inclusion like...worked
nice to see :3
nice to see :3
Look at that solidarity gets the goods
August 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Genuinely this is one of the first times I can remember where a bunch of people standing up for trans people and saying, very firmly, that we are part of the LGBT community and deserve inclusion like...worked
nice to see :3
nice to see :3
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As ever, there is an irony here from the camp which is constantly howling about the nonsense concept of "compelled speech": they are demanding, on threat of legal action, that the NLS be compelled to include a book in a display, which should in any sensible society be an absolutely laughable notion.
Sex Matters threatening The National Library of Scotland with legal action for not putting “The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht” on display (but still having it on the shelves) is ridiculous. Something has to be done about these vexatious lawsuits.
August 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
As ever, there is an irony here from the camp which is constantly howling about the nonsense concept of "compelled speech": they are demanding, on threat of legal action, that the NLS be compelled to include a book in a display, which should in any sensible society be an absolutely laughable notion.
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These cases are often brought because the organisations have messed up; they took the booking and cancelled; they put a book on display then removed it; they apologised for a member of staff doing their job; their social media policy was rubbish.
These vexatious cases are heavily funded...
These vexatious cases are heavily funded...
Sex Matters threatening The National Library of Scotland with legal action for not putting “The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht” on display (but still having it on the shelves) is ridiculous. Something has to be done about these vexatious lawsuits.
August 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
These cases are often brought because the organisations have messed up; they took the booking and cancelled; they put a book on display then removed it; they apologised for a member of staff doing their job; their social media policy was rubbish.
These vexatious cases are heavily funded...
These vexatious cases are heavily funded...
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We’ve gone from a scenario where there was no evidence of women experiencing violence to one where there absolutely is, in the name of protecting women.
‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse in aftermath of supreme court ruling
‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse in aftermath of supreme court ruling
Support groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities – but others call it scaremongering
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
We’ve gone from a scenario where there was no evidence of women experiencing violence to one where there absolutely is, in the name of protecting women.
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If you're a parent with kids at school in Edinburgh it's time to get in touch with your school admin and make clear you will not accept them bullying trans kids out of education.
This is cruel and discriminatory behaviour. Child cruelty.
goodlawproject.org/what-have-i-...
This is cruel and discriminatory behaviour. Child cruelty.
goodlawproject.org/what-have-i-...
‘What have I done wrong?’ Trans kids go back to school bathroom bans in Scotland
Councils rushing to put policies on school bathrooms in place leave trans children facing confusion, distress and the risk of being outed.
goodlawproject.org
August 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If you're a parent with kids at school in Edinburgh it's time to get in touch with your school admin and make clear you will not accept them bullying trans kids out of education.
This is cruel and discriminatory behaviour. Child cruelty.
goodlawproject.org/what-have-i-...
This is cruel and discriminatory behaviour. Child cruelty.
goodlawproject.org/what-have-i-...