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Ellavescent ✨
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Middle aged, queer, disabled

I live in a pretty village with my wife and 2 cats

I post more on mastodon https://glitterkitten.co.uk/@ellavescent
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The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.

* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office
Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Thinking about Brianna Ghey while reading this article on screen time and bullying. Labour are using her name to push for a crackdown on phone use among teens.

But this research indicates increased screen time does *not* correlate with increased bullying for trans kids - unlike their cis peers.
Developmental Effects of Screen Time on Gender Diverse Student’s Experiences of Bullying Victimization
We used a large state-wide sample of adolescent students in 8th, 10th, and 12th grades (N = 58,689) to examine the predictive value of screen time on bullying victimization, as well as its interact...
www.tandfonline.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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The absolute gall of this. Trans people have been loudly decrying the blatant institutionalized transphobia being pumped out of the BBC offices FOR YEARS, and some staff made up bullshit "memo" sends the entire organization crashing within a week because they aren't transphobic ENOUGH.
“It reflected a “cultural problem across the BBC” which treats issues of gender and sexuality as ‘a celebration of British diversity’ rather than a complex and contentious subject.”

Just a second - what exactly is contentious about sexuality and gender identity?
BBC trans coverage ‘censored’ by its own reporters — The Telegraph
Corporation’s LGBT desk ‘keeps other perspectives off air’, leaked internal dossier claims
apple.news
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Jupiter says trans rights
🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt

star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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MasterCard is marketing its new MasterCard Threat Intelligence platform to issuers & acquirers. A source familiar w/ MasterCard’s internal operations told me MTI is flagging anime, VTubing, adult content, tabletop, video games as potentially “high fraud risk”

fintechmagazine.com/news/how-is-...
How is Mastercard Preventing Payment Fraud at Scale?
Announcing Threat Intelligence at Money 20/20 US, Mastercard showcases its latest technology in preventing fraud, combining insights from Recorded Future
fintechmagazine.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Looking for trans anime? Wondering what makes an anime trans? All of these are good! Well, aside from Strawberry Eggs, maybe steer clear of that one
June 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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NHS Gender Clinics are a state tool to control Trans+ existence - keeping numbers at a level cisgender clinicians and politicians find "desirable"

True Trans+ liberation means tearing down these harmful cis-led systems and creating Trans Healthcare options built by and for Trans+ prople
October 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could

now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest
September 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Tilly isn’t sure whether she prefers the new duvet more, or the box that it was delivered in. #Cats
September 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The private hospital that the NHS has outsourced my arm surgery to just bumped my surgery date by a week because a private patient wanted my slot. Just like that. It’s fine, I just have to rebook a different NHS appointment that was in the other slot now. No big deal.
September 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I updated my iPad to iPadOS 2026 and honestly? I want slideover back. I used it all the time to access a calculator or notes or even a quick puzzle game over the top of whatever I had open, and resizable windows just don’t replace that. And I keep knocking my main window out of full screen.
September 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
After all her comments about obsession I just walked in on my wife watching videos about Kpop Demon Hunters
September 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
When I was playing Overwatch 6 years ago I tried to know every characters abilities so I could work with them properly but now I’m trying to get back in to it I barely know my own abilities when they change mid-game, never mind all the new characters
August 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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“She was not the only developer who reported the company singling out yuri content.”

Games journalists really dropped the ball on itchio targeting yuri content, both SFW and NSFW

The censorship of Toxic Yuri Game Jam hasn’t gotten any coverage from the games press
August 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
In a couple of hours I’m going to a see family that I haven’t seen in almost fifteen years, before I transitioned. I’m a little bit anxious about it.
August 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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me: innocently stepping out of my front door onto the street

british engineers for some reason:
August 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Tilly has decided no more gaming today. She headbutted my Steam Deck mid-fight until I stopped and now she’s attempting to sleep on it.
June 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Tilly has decided my wheelchair is hers now. Probably because it’s the most expensive seat in the house.
#Cat #Caturday
April 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Sunbathing cat can be hard to spot
March 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The box said this was supposed to be a cat
February 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The box said this was supposed to be a cat
February 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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crazy to think that fifty years from now when you say ‘nazi rocket guy’ people won’t think of werner von braun
November 17, 2023 at 12:26 AM