benny jaines
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"Morning Light on a Carolina Wren" 5" x 7" Oil on panel
I just think they're neat
I just think they're neat
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Morning Light on a Carolina Wren" 5" x 7" Oil on panel
I just think they're neat
I just think they're neat
godspeed anyone travelling to thought bubble (or for other reasons!) today 😬
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
godspeed anyone travelling to thought bubble (or for other reasons!) today 😬
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These are some quite heartbreaking stories and, as Holly Greenberry-Pullen comments in the piece, really illustrates the perverse absurdity of deeming trans teens to young to even get blockers but being fine with intersex kids getting horrifically drastic full-on bodily surgery as *toddlers*.
‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children
What should be done about the small proportion of babies born with genitals that are neither typically male nor typically female? Many of those affected believe parents and doctors are often too quick...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
These are some quite heartbreaking stories and, as Holly Greenberry-Pullen comments in the piece, really illustrates the perverse absurdity of deeming trans teens to young to even get blockers but being fine with intersex kids getting horrifically drastic full-on bodily surgery as *toddlers*.
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Tfw you’ve obtained the “Ham”
May 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Tfw you’ve obtained the “Ham”
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Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.
November 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.
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Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.
October 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.
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out of all the things that FatT predicted way ahead of time, casting keir starmer as the princept might be the one i'm most proud of
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
out of all the things that FatT predicted way ahead of time, casting keir starmer as the princept might be the one i'm most proud of
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i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
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every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
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a soap opera I can't immediately identify is on and a woman just leaned over to a man in a hedge maze and said "isn't it obvious? I'm trying to acquire my own train" and they gave each other knowing looks while sneaky harpsichord music played, which is maybe an ideal sort of soap opera scene
June 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
a soap opera I can't immediately identify is on and a woman just leaned over to a man in a hedge maze and said "isn't it obvious? I'm trying to acquire my own train" and they gave each other knowing looks while sneaky harpsichord music played, which is maybe an ideal sort of soap opera scene
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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
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we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
August 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
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bus driver: please move back in the bus to make room for more people
everyone on the bus: certainly they aren’t talking about me, god-king of the universe
everyone on the bus: certainly they aren’t talking about me, god-king of the universe
August 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
bus driver: please move back in the bus to make room for more people
everyone on the bus: certainly they aren’t talking about me, god-king of the universe
everyone on the bus: certainly they aren’t talking about me, god-king of the universe
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And I've obviously been saying this a lot lately, but BDS does not expect anyone to drop everything made by Microsoft all at once. They pick very specific targets in order to get as wide a coalition as possible, and in the case of Xbox, even suggest different tiers of engagement.
August 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
And I've obviously been saying this a lot lately, but BDS does not expect anyone to drop everything made by Microsoft all at once. They pick very specific targets in order to get as wide a coalition as possible, and in the case of Xbox, even suggest different tiers of engagement.
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We need to big this up, a V important legal judgement; if it had gone against us it would have been all over the oligarch/transphobic media as a "Landmark" case. I suspect it may be very useful in preventing Universities from silencing trans people under the pretext of pandering to the OfS.
Trans Advocates Win Landmark UK Tribunal Case.
Eva Echo and Saba Ali share the story behind their tribunal win.
www.wecreatespace.co
August 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
We need to big this up, a V important legal judgement; if it had gone against us it would have been all over the oligarch/transphobic media as a "Landmark" case. I suspect it may be very useful in preventing Universities from silencing trans people under the pretext of pandering to the OfS.
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generally speaking the whitest parts of the UK are also the most racist, which is one of many things that makes the 'legitimate concerns' line Labour is now worryingly parroting bullshit
I know very little about the intricacies of local and regional British politics, but I was stunned at the openly racist signs I saw driving past a demonstration last summer in rural Lincolnshire
(which, as I look it up, is 96% white)
(which, as I look it up, is 96% white)
large parts of UK politics are swinging far-right with very, very frightening speed, and racists are getting increasingly open about expressing their bigotry.
August 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
generally speaking the whitest parts of the UK are also the most racist, which is one of many things that makes the 'legitimate concerns' line Labour is now worryingly parroting bullshit
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I FEEL THE NEED TO TAP THE JOHN WATERS SIGN REALLY HARD LATELY.
June 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I FEEL THE NEED TO TAP THE JOHN WATERS SIGN REALLY HARD LATELY.
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There's only 8 days left in our campaign for our newest collection of comics, and we still have £3000 to go until we reach our goal! You're not going to want to miss out on these fantastic autobio comics 👇🐉
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Three fantastic autobiographical comics about relationships - with our family, with where we come from, and with partners - from Ashling Larkin, Judy Powell, and Hel Mel.
🐉 Support the campaign: kickstarter.com/projects/qui...
July 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Quindrie Press never misses, go check out the Kickstarter if you're into comics!
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The crackdown on civil liberties continue in the UK with at least 90 people arrested in London for opposing the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Courtesy of Labour
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Courtesy of Labour
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
At least 90 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Police in London detain dozens of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000
www.theguardian.com
July 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The crackdown on civil liberties continue in the UK with at least 90 people arrested in London for opposing the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Courtesy of Labour
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Courtesy of Labour
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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If you've wondered why Starmer raced to criminalize support for Palestine Action, this is the smoking gun. Absolutely disgraceful corruption in office on behalf of a foreign power. Meanwhile they're charging 80-year-old retired priests and magistrates with terrorism for carrying protest signs …
Half the British cabinet took money from a pro-Israel lobbying group with ties to the Israel embassy, including the PM, chancellor, foreign secretary, and home secretary: bribes total over £300,000 among 13 ministers: https://www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby-funded-half-of-keir-starmers-cabinet/
July 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you've wondered why Starmer raced to criminalize support for Palestine Action, this is the smoking gun. Absolutely disgraceful corruption in office on behalf of a foreign power. Meanwhile they're charging 80-year-old retired priests and magistrates with terrorism for carrying protest signs …
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Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
July 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
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lazer ted
July 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
lazer ted