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what has gotten into everyone tonight
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
what has gotten into everyone tonight
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what the fuck just happened
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
what the fuck just happened
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It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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People have a greater rate of regret for joint replacement surgery to be walk again than trans people do for their relevant surgeries
“what if they change their mind later” is never asked about cis kids going through puberty, even though they might be trans, which reveals that cis people view transness as a defect
The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!"
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
People have a greater rate of regret for joint replacement surgery to be walk again than trans people do for their relevant surgeries
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“what if they change their mind later” is never asked about cis kids going through puberty, even though they might be trans, which reveals that cis people view transness as a defect
The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!"
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“what if they change their mind later” is never asked about cis kids going through puberty, even though they might be trans, which reveals that cis people view transness as a defect
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Transition is a practice of self-abolition, and it demonstrates that abolition involves both destroying/ending and building/creating in a way that threatens all ideologies of natural right, of hierarchy and power with a simple gesture of desire and self-knowledge
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Transition is a practice of self-abolition, and it demonstrates that abolition involves both destroying/ending and building/creating in a way that threatens all ideologies of natural right, of hierarchy and power with a simple gesture of desire and self-knowledge
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The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!"
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!"
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences
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‘It’s never a ceasefire violation to commit mass murder against Palestinians. It’s only ever a “test” of the ceasefire, or something that happens “amid a fragile ceasefire”. ‘
You Don't Hate The Mass Media Enough
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‘It’s never a ceasefire violation to commit mass murder against Palestinians. It’s only ever a “test” of the ceasefire, or something that happens “amid a fragile ceasefire”. ‘
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This got little attention at the time, but has become more relevant by the day …
Criminalising the documentation of events is a direct attack on press freedom, and it puts journalists - including nyt journalists - at grave risk
Is the @nytimes.com backing this prosecution?
Criminalising the documentation of events is a direct attack on press freedom, and it puts journalists - including nyt journalists - at grave risk
Is the @nytimes.com backing this prosecution?
The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.
Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime
Gatekeeping over hate crime charges misses the forest for the trees
freedom.press
November 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This got little attention at the time, but has become more relevant by the day …
Criminalising the documentation of events is a direct attack on press freedom, and it puts journalists - including nyt journalists - at grave risk
Is the @nytimes.com backing this prosecution?
Criminalising the documentation of events is a direct attack on press freedom, and it puts journalists - including nyt journalists - at grave risk
Is the @nytimes.com backing this prosecution?
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The extent to which we can reach parents and stop them from cooperating with this is gonna be crucial. Any trans kid engaging with the NHS *at all* will be harmed more than they would be by simply leaving their dysphoria untreated (and way way more than DIY on the quiet).
This is in addition to some awful physical tests, an abusive assessment and approval process, awful coercion, terrible and abusive power dynamics, it is just so bad.
Why is anyone who claims to care about trans kids defending this?
Why is anyone who claims to care about trans kids defending this?
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The extent to which we can reach parents and stop them from cooperating with this is gonna be crucial. Any trans kid engaging with the NHS *at all* will be harmed more than they would be by simply leaving their dysphoria untreated (and way way more than DIY on the quiet).
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Don’t know the reason/the reason
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Don’t know the reason/the reason
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Already seeing some terrible takes on here about supporting science re the puberty blocker trial.
Science that is unethical & designed terribly, influenced by those who don't want us to exist, is never ever going to lead to useful outcomes.
& this trial will cause immense harm to participants.
Science that is unethical & designed terribly, influenced by those who don't want us to exist, is never ever going to lead to useful outcomes.
& this trial will cause immense harm to participants.
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Already seeing some terrible takes on here about supporting science re the puberty blocker trial.
Science that is unethical & designed terribly, influenced by those who don't want us to exist, is never ever going to lead to useful outcomes.
& this trial will cause immense harm to participants.
Science that is unethical & designed terribly, influenced by those who don't want us to exist, is never ever going to lead to useful outcomes.
& this trial will cause immense harm to participants.
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Some leaked (not verified) info on the puberty blocker trial linked here. In my own thread I will briefly highlight the two key measures they are prioritising. A short thread 1
A Substacker named Ben Ryan tweeted that "the long-awaited UK puberty blocker clinical trial protocol is out."
Shortly thereafter he deleted the post. I can't find a public version of the protocol but here's what I was able to salvage from the screenshot + post.
[A THREAD]
Shortly thereafter he deleted the post. I can't find a public version of the protocol but here's what I was able to salvage from the screenshot + post.
[A THREAD]
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Some leaked (not verified) info on the puberty blocker trial linked here. In my own thread I will briefly highlight the two key measures they are prioritising. A short thread 1
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
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I recall an interview where he was asked what it was like playing with Shields on stage. "I'll be watching him and just before he taps a pedal with his foot, he'll look across at me as if to say, This is REALLY going to fuck you up."
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I recall an interview where he was asked what it was like playing with Shields on stage. "I'll be watching him and just before he taps a pedal with his foot, he'll look across at me as if to say, This is REALLY going to fuck you up."
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The Prml Scrm XTRMTR live era with Mani on bass and Kevin Shields in the band played some of the best gigs I've ever seen, blew my young head off. RIP Mani.
I recall an interview where he was asked what it was like playing with Shields on stage. "I'll be watching him and just before he taps a pedal with his foot, he'll look across at me as if to say, This is REALLY going to fuck you up."
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The Prml Scrm XTRMTR live era with Mani on bass and Kevin Shields in the band played some of the best gigs I've ever seen, blew my young head off. RIP Mani.
RIP Mani. one of my absolute heroes as a teenager plucking the bass guitar
November 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
RIP Mani. one of my absolute heroes as a teenager plucking the bass guitar
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Its really the fact that they feel comfortable saying "I wish people didnt apply the lessons they learned from Holocaust history onto the undesirables" in public that blows my mind.
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Its really the fact that they feel comfortable saying "I wish people didnt apply the lessons they learned from Holocaust history onto the undesirables" in public that blows my mind.
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Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
top posts on r/OpenSourceMagic:
- problem waking up after casting Sleep
- eye of Newt vs wing of Bat (12,450 replies)
- cant get Summon to work inside a Cauldron
- problem waking up after casting Sleep
- eye of Newt vs wing of Bat (12,450 replies)
- cant get Summon to work inside a Cauldron
"open source magic" is an incredible concept and also just describes the Skaven ie "what if snorting uranium gave us psychic powers"
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
top posts on r/OpenSourceMagic:
- problem waking up after casting Sleep
- eye of Newt vs wing of Bat (12,450 replies)
- cant get Summon to work inside a Cauldron
- problem waking up after casting Sleep
- eye of Newt vs wing of Bat (12,450 replies)
- cant get Summon to work inside a Cauldron
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my secret transgender project… @annehealthcare.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
my secret transgender project… @annehealthcare.bsky.social
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trans people and allies have been speaking up, a lot. consistently all polls and data show that anti trans policies and positions are unpopular in comparison to trans inclusive ones.
But you wouldn't know that if you only paid attention to mainstream media sources.
But you wouldn't know that if you only paid attention to mainstream media sources.
Wtaf, this is insane. Trans advocates need to speak up!
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
trans people and allies have been speaking up, a lot. consistently all polls and data show that anti trans policies and positions are unpopular in comparison to trans inclusive ones.
But you wouldn't know that if you only paid attention to mainstream media sources.
But you wouldn't know that if you only paid attention to mainstream media sources.
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There has never been a better time to switch to Linux
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
There has never been a better time to switch to Linux