Elizabeth
@elizabethedwards.bsky.social
Comics obsessive, mythology nerd, Whovian; I write n’stuff but I’m mainly here for the conversations, not to self-promote
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Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
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Study after study shows that it's remarkably cheap and easy to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty with low-barrier supportive housing and universal basic income, but our own fear that someone, somewhere will get something they didn't "earn" keeps us looking for other (punitive) options.
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
October 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Study after study shows that it's remarkably cheap and easy to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty with low-barrier supportive housing and universal basic income, but our own fear that someone, somewhere will get something they didn't "earn" keeps us looking for other (punitive) options.
NY Times laundering conservatism again. They aren’t trying to dissuade Democracts from supporting queer people as a means to the end of “attract[ing] more voters”; purging the Democratic Party of its halfhearted commitment to queer rights is their end, in and of itself.
September 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
NY Times laundering conservatism again. They aren’t trying to dissuade Democracts from supporting queer people as a means to the end of “attract[ing] more voters”; purging the Democratic Party of its halfhearted commitment to queer rights is their end, in and of itself.
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god, imagine being her daughter reading this
is that all having supportive cis parents is? waiting for the other shoe to drop?
is that all having supportive cis parents is? waiting for the other shoe to drop?
September 16, 2025 at 5:42 AM
god, imagine being her daughter reading this
is that all having supportive cis parents is? waiting for the other shoe to drop?
is that all having supportive cis parents is? waiting for the other shoe to drop?
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It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
September 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
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when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe
August 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe
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The surest sign that trans women are women is the fact that literally everyone else is trusted to be a better authority on our own lives than we are.
One of the most disheartening things about trans advocacy is how little the people who claim to be on our side actually listen to us.
"trans-identifying", "biological sex", and a variety of other GC dogwhistles have become common parlance because people listen to our enemies, but not us.
"trans-identifying", "biological sex", and a variety of other GC dogwhistles have become common parlance because people listen to our enemies, but not us.
Whole ass nation states are attempting to confine trans people to the home—preventing us from using the toilet, playing sports or accessing medical care without exposure to violence—on the basis that “changing your sex is impossible” so if you’re saying that to trans people too, meet your allies.
July 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The surest sign that trans women are women is the fact that literally everyone else is trusted to be a better authority on our own lives than we are.
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Omg its all gonna be shitty knockoffs of the films pathetic this is what these people are selling out for
Nick Frost in costume as Hagrid as the new Harry Potter TV show starts production. Details here bit.ly/44uyDFW
#HarryPotter #TV #book #fantasy #HBO
#HarryPotter #TV #book #fantasy #HBO
July 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Omg its all gonna be shitty knockoffs of the films pathetic this is what these people are selling out for
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Me, a year and a half ago, on the New York Times-Chris Rufo alliance: “The Times isn’t being manipulated; it’s using Rufo as an excuse to do what it wants to do.”
Holds up pretty well, IMO.
www.findinggravity.net/p/christophe...
Holds up pretty well, IMO.
www.findinggravity.net/p/christophe...
Christopher Rufo & Elise Stefanik understand the New York Times
When will the rest of us catch on?
www.findinggravity.net
July 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Me, a year and a half ago, on the New York Times-Chris Rufo alliance: “The Times isn’t being manipulated; it’s using Rufo as an excuse to do what it wants to do.”
Holds up pretty well, IMO.
www.findinggravity.net/p/christophe...
Holds up pretty well, IMO.
www.findinggravity.net/p/christophe...
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I get the points here but I can't think of any worse proof someone's not a communist than communists hating them
Would it surprise anybody to find out that actual communists don't like Mamdani?
Why Communists Can’t Support Zohran Mamdani - Revolutionary Communists of America
Rather than building the influence of socialism, NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is tainting that word through false promises and associating himself with the rotten and discredited Democratic Pa...
communistusa.org
June 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I get the points here but I can't think of any worse proof someone's not a communist than communists hating them
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May 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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On Doctor Who they should have a guy named Dale, and all season long his name is Dale, and everyone calls him Dale, and then in the second-to-last episode the Doctor is like “wait I’ve just decoded rhe ancient runes, there’s a hidden K at the end of his name and his name is actually DALEK!
May 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
On Doctor Who they should have a guy named Dale, and all season long his name is Dale, and everyone calls him Dale, and then in the second-to-last episode the Doctor is like “wait I’ve just decoded rhe ancient runes, there’s a hidden K at the end of his name and his name is actually DALEK!
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“Elite” undergraduate education exists to consolidate elites. Always has.
There are a hundred places in the UK where a straight-A student can get an outstanding degree, & have their pick of graduate opportunities. But only a handful of them put you on a lifelong pedestal *just for getting in*.
There are a hundred places in the UK where a straight-A student can get an outstanding degree, & have their pick of graduate opportunities. But only a handful of them put you on a lifelong pedestal *just for getting in*.
I remember being at a Williams College recruiting event where deans were telling students “you’ll be part of a network of alums that will take care of you for life.” No mention of quality of education or campus life. Just connections.
May 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“Elite” undergraduate education exists to consolidate elites. Always has.
There are a hundred places in the UK where a straight-A student can get an outstanding degree, & have their pick of graduate opportunities. But only a handful of them put you on a lifelong pedestal *just for getting in*.
There are a hundred places in the UK where a straight-A student can get an outstanding degree, & have their pick of graduate opportunities. But only a handful of them put you on a lifelong pedestal *just for getting in*.
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Everywhere in the western world trans people are making up for the gap in standard healthcare by having to basically buy drugs off the internet without prescription or supervision becasue there is not realistic alternative for continuity of care if you travel from one place to another.
Transgender people who have legally changed their gender and previously accessed healthcare in their home countries are required to join the years-long waiting list and be assessed again.
In our final article in our series, @conorocarroll.bsky.social speaks to people who moved to Ireland:
In our final article in our series, @conorocarroll.bsky.social speaks to people who moved to Ireland:
Transgender people moving to Ireland put on long waitlist for vital healthcare until assessed
The Journal Investigates spoke to transgender people who moved to Ireland and couldn’t continue the care they received abroad
jrnl.ie
May 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Everywhere in the western world trans people are making up for the gap in standard healthcare by having to basically buy drugs off the internet without prescription or supervision becasue there is not realistic alternative for continuity of care if you travel from one place to another.
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OMG, THIS. I've never heard it put that way before, but yes, my entire childhood, my entire life was "conversion therapy".
We know conversion therapy doesn’t work because the society we live in is conversion therapy. It is deeply rotted through with oppositional sexism and attendance is considered mandatory, no small infraction unnoticed. Not everyone can find the exit door, a deep injustice that often goes unnoticed.
May 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
OMG, THIS. I've never heard it put that way before, but yes, my entire childhood, my entire life was "conversion therapy".
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some dumb motherfuckers , even libs , act like the relative lack of conservative professors is a problem . but american conservatism is an anti intellectual movement! might as well ask why there’s a lack of vegan chefs in brazilian steakhouses
The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
April 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
some dumb motherfuckers , even libs , act like the relative lack of conservative professors is a problem . but american conservatism is an anti intellectual movement! might as well ask why there’s a lack of vegan chefs in brazilian steakhouses
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I'm a bi lesbian, which means im attracted to women, and men who don't know they're women yet
September 3, 2023 at 3:52 PM
I'm a bi lesbian, which means im attracted to women, and men who don't know they're women yet
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I’m extremely sympathetic to “no deportations regardless of who people are,” but it’s definitely a choice to intentionally elide that this is a.) an old post about b.) the deportation of a former Nazi camp guard. Not including that context up front is, frankly, shady
Eat my entire ass @aoc.bsky.social. You shut the fuck up about abolishing ICE the moment Biden got elected, you haven't said shit about it for half a fucking decade. No is illegal means no one is illegal, abolishing ICE means abolishing deportations
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
April 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I’m extremely sympathetic to “no deportations regardless of who people are,” but it’s definitely a choice to intentionally elide that this is a.) an old post about b.) the deportation of a former Nazi camp guard. Not including that context up front is, frankly, shady
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"It's just a myth" what do you think myths are for? what do you think they do? from whose perspective do we get them? how do they get reproduced and retold? who does that? Myth making is cultural, it is a site for social reproduction. It's not hard to see that this is suppression of transfemininity.
I can with confidence say that (a significant number of) Dionysus's maenads were trans women and so was Hermaphroditus. The erasure and third-sexing of transfemininity is key to reproducing patriarchy across time and culture.
this article is going to feel like self harm
April 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"It's just a myth" what do you think myths are for? what do you think they do? from whose perspective do we get them? how do they get reproduced and retold? who does that? Myth making is cultural, it is a site for social reproduction. It's not hard to see that this is suppression of transfemininity.
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The film Civil War and the marketing campaign for Civil War are fascinating cultural objects in diametrically opposed ways.
If Alex garland had just kept his trap shut in interviews, people would’ve realized civil war was one of the best movies of the year (and one of the few legitimately anti-war war movies, grading on the Murch scale)
One thing I really hate about all this is that it validates the Alex Garland movie CIVIL WAR
April 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The film Civil War and the marketing campaign for Civil War are fascinating cultural objects in diametrically opposed ways.
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This was always the plan and the reason the media portrayed the fast growing Biden economy - the first time American workers had any leverage over bosses in a generation - as if it was a recessionary crisis
April 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This was always the plan and the reason the media portrayed the fast growing Biden economy - the first time American workers had any leverage over bosses in a generation - as if it was a recessionary crisis
@darrenmooney.bsky.social has been one of our most valuable critics for a decade-plus, and this is some of his most vital and stirring work to-date www.patreon.com/posts/125510...
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March 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
@darrenmooney.bsky.social has been one of our most valuable critics for a decade-plus, and this is some of his most vital and stirring work to-date www.patreon.com/posts/125510...
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Learning to live without benefitting from oppression is a necessary part of abolishing oppression. That's not a bad thing. But let's not pretend it's something different
March 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Learning to live without benefitting from oppression is a necessary part of abolishing oppression. That's not a bad thing. But let's not pretend it's something different
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it also...took extra time because states and feds basically had to completely remap broadband access because our broadband maps, for decades, have been shit. You don't want to throw $42.5 billion in taxpayer dollars at a problem you haven't measured accurately. That would be...bad.
March 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
it also...took extra time because states and feds basically had to completely remap broadband access because our broadband maps, for decades, have been shit. You don't want to throw $42.5 billion in taxpayer dollars at a problem you haven't measured accurately. That would be...bad.
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Anyway, Klein and Stewart's portrayal of BEAD as a COMPLETELY worthless boondoggle was quickly picked up by right wing media, which has been trying to make this same case for years
in part because they want to redirect the money to elon musk. So nice job there, I guess.
in part because they want to redirect the money to elon musk. So nice job there, I guess.
March 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Anyway, Klein and Stewart's portrayal of BEAD as a COMPLETELY worthless boondoggle was quickly picked up by right wing media, which has been trying to make this same case for years
in part because they want to redirect the money to elon musk. So nice job there, I guess.
in part because they want to redirect the money to elon musk. So nice job there, I guess.