Sam Sneddon 🏳️⚧️
@gsnedders.com
she/they · v. trans, v. queer · mostly here to be gay, do crimes · San Francisco, CA
https://gsnedders.com for the rest (but I recommend "do queer" over "do tech")
https://gsnedders.com for the rest (but I recommend "do queer" over "do tech")
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Someone tell Shabana Mahmood that the European court of human rights exists LITERALLY to tell governments when they're exploiting human rights, and this is not, in fact, a case to leave the ECHR, but a case for the government to go "oh shit, we fucked up"
As I said she's cartoonishly evil
As I said she's cartoonishly evil
The pretzel-shaped logic Labour bigots and the transphobic right-wing media twists itself into…
Apparently it’s the fault of Human Rights bodies that the UK might leave the ECHR, because they criticised the UK for its lack of human rights for trans people??? 🤔🤔🤔
👉 archive.ph/gu5Zy
Apparently it’s the fault of Human Rights bodies that the UK might leave the ECHR, because they criticised the UK for its lack of human rights for trans people??? 🤔🤔🤔
👉 archive.ph/gu5Zy
October 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Someone tell Shabana Mahmood that the European court of human rights exists LITERALLY to tell governments when they're exploiting human rights, and this is not, in fact, a case to leave the ECHR, but a case for the government to go "oh shit, we fucked up"
As I said she's cartoonishly evil
As I said she's cartoonishly evil
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"The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...
Britain’s Bathroom Ban
The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...
re: all the Bluesky drama,
I see a bunch of people claiming “of course there’s no compassion, of course there’s no equality, they’re all tech people”…
And like, I’m not saying we’re all good people, but: isn’t this just people with power and capital? Are tech people worse than most C-levels?
I see a bunch of people claiming “of course there’s no compassion, of course there’s no equality, they’re all tech people”…
And like, I’m not saying we’re all good people, but: isn’t this just people with power and capital? Are tech people worse than most C-levels?
October 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
re: all the Bluesky drama,
I see a bunch of people claiming “of course there’s no compassion, of course there’s no equality, they’re all tech people”…
And like, I’m not saying we’re all good people, but: isn’t this just people with power and capital? Are tech people worse than most C-levels?
I see a bunch of people claiming “of course there’s no compassion, of course there’s no equality, they’re all tech people”…
And like, I’m not saying we’re all good people, but: isn’t this just people with power and capital? Are tech people worse than most C-levels?
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there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is
September 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is
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One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.
trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people
September 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.
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“There’s an old Jewish tale about a rabbi who assigns a person who has spread harmful information around their small village to rip open a pillow and let the feathers out. Then, his punishment is to gather back all the feathers. It’s impossible, he complains. The rabbi says that’s the point.”
On Charlie Kirk and How the Media Helped Perpetuate a Trans Boogeyman
The US loves creating a boogeyman for violence that distances itself from that violence.
www.autostraddle.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“There’s an old Jewish tale about a rabbi who assigns a person who has spread harmful information around their small village to rip open a pillow and let the feathers out. Then, his punishment is to gather back all the feathers. It’s impossible, he complains. The rabbi says that’s the point.”
When we talk about systemic victimisation this is what we mean.
> the shooter is trans
> ok the bullets were trans
> ok the roommate is trans
> ok the bullets were trans
> ok the roommate is trans
September 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
When we talk about systemic victimisation this is what we mean.
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To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.
September 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.
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From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/
September 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/
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When 100 thousand trans people rallied in London it was only worthy for the "local news" section.
Don’t recall BBC News leading with any of the myriad marches for Palestine, #PeoplesVote or #Rejoin. How very odd. How very strange. How very expected.
September 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
When 100 thousand trans people rallied in London it was only worthy for the "local news" section.
Is there anywhere good to get a corset in the #SFBA, especially as someone with a relatively small waist-to-hip ratio, and as someone who has never bought a corset before?
September 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Is there anywhere good to get a corset in the #SFBA, especially as someone with a relatively small waist-to-hip ratio, and as someone who has never bought a corset before?
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since Bluesky is chock full of Newsom-stan-bots insisting that "Dems should compromise on trans issues", I will re-up my November essay about why this is not only immoral & unempirical, but BAD POLITICS. Dems WILL LOSE if they do this, here's why (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ...
Should Democrats Throw Trans People Under the Bus?
Here’s Why It Would Be Bad Politics
juliaserano.medium.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
since Bluesky is chock full of Newsom-stan-bots insisting that "Dems should compromise on trans issues", I will re-up my November essay about why this is not only immoral & unempirical, but BAD POLITICS. Dems WILL LOSE if they do this, here's why (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ...
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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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i think what bothers me most about how "terf island" has been used is that it implies there's some unique essential characteristic of the uk that's allowed trans rights to be rolled back so thoroughly. this can and will happen anywhere we let it
August 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
i think what bothers me most about how "terf island" has been used is that it implies there's some unique essential characteristic of the uk that's allowed trans rights to be rolled back so thoroughly. this can and will happen anywhere we let it
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One of the first things you learn about trans competent primary care is how many of us routinely develop PVD, UTIs, and kidney stones from avoiding or not having access to bathrooms. As a fun bonus, the disinfo machine then uses this high prevalence to make mendacious claims about HRT.
If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK
🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
August 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
One of the first things you learn about trans competent primary care is how many of us routinely develop PVD, UTIs, and kidney stones from avoiding or not having access to bathrooms. As a fun bonus, the disinfo machine then uses this high prevalence to make mendacious claims about HRT.
This is… intriguing. As far as I’m aware, Stripe is still one of the payment processors used by OnlyFans — of course, some of this is volume, but also we don’t know how bespoke OnlyFans’ contract is (what rates are they paying? are they obliged to do cascading payments?).
August 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is… intriguing. As far as I’m aware, Stripe is still one of the payment processors used by OnlyFans — of course, some of this is volume, but also we don’t know how bespoke OnlyFans’ contract is (what rates are they paying? are they obliged to do cascading payments?).
The damning thing here, really, is using AI to select which submissions to pay attention to. (And okay, that may well be just rebranding of old ML stuff, but who knows.)
A random sample would be just about defensible. A selected sample is absolutely not.
A random sample would be just about defensible. A selected sample is absolutely not.
August 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The damning thing here, really, is using AI to select which submissions to pay attention to. (And okay, that may well be just rebranding of old ML stuff, but who knows.)
A random sample would be just about defensible. A selected sample is absolutely not.
A random sample would be just about defensible. A selected sample is absolutely not.
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Alex Parmar-Yee said the EHRC’s claim that it would seriously consider the submissions in just a month is “simply not credible.”
“This is an emergency, and we urge people to tell their MP now – this isn’t how we should make decisions about fundamental rights.”
www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/31/e...
“This is an emergency, and we urge people to tell their MP now – this isn’t how we should make decisions about fundamental rights.”
www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/31/e...
'Rushed out' EHRC trans toilet guidance could be sent to govt as soon as August
An EHRC representative has claimed its trans toilet guidance could be finished and sent to govt by August, court documents have shown.
www.thepinknews.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Alex Parmar-Yee said the EHRC’s claim that it would seriously consider the submissions in just a month is “simply not credible.”
“This is an emergency, and we urge people to tell their MP now – this isn’t how we should make decisions about fundamental rights.”
www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/31/e...
“This is an emergency, and we urge people to tell their MP now – this isn’t how we should make decisions about fundamental rights.”
www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/31/e...
So why does #Dublin Luas’s Cross City Green Line extension run on a loop around via Marlborough St rather than just go down O’Connell St in both directions? With the central division it looks wide enough for trams to turn, albeit not very fast…
August 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
So why does #Dublin Luas’s Cross City Green Line extension run on a loop around via Marlborough St rather than just go down O’Connell St in both directions? With the central division it looks wide enough for trams to turn, albeit not very fast…
Does anyone have recommendations for what to do in Dublin? Here till Saturday, and while I have plans to do a bunch of the normal touristic stuff, I don’t have that much planned.
July 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Does anyone have recommendations for what to do in Dublin? Here till Saturday, and while I have plans to do a bunch of the normal touristic stuff, I don’t have that much planned.
Do I know any (by birth) British trans person who has acquired a GRC while living abroad, but where there was never any change of legal sex abroad?
July 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Do I know any (by birth) British trans person who has acquired a GRC while living abroad, but where there was never any change of legal sex abroad?
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The U.K. “online safety” act has had the consequence of censoring LGBT content and forums. This makes trans kids *less* safe. It means we can’t access any information about our community, healthcare or our lives without going through our parents.
Together with Labour’s other policy of banning
Together with Labour’s other policy of banning
It absolutely guts me that one of the "faces" of the UK censorship act is a trans girl who was murdered for who she was.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Brianna Ghey’s mother hits out at potential watering down of Online Safety Bill
Bill could reportedly be softened as part of US-UK trade deal
www.independent.co.uk
July 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The U.K. “online safety” act has had the consequence of censoring LGBT content and forums. This makes trans kids *less* safe. It means we can’t access any information about our community, healthcare or our lives without going through our parents.
Together with Labour’s other policy of banning
Together with Labour’s other policy of banning
This country is so deeply… cursed.
I have incredibly mixed feelings about digital credentials and the slippery slope of “well now it’s easy to require strong guarantees”, but in a country where so many sites now ask for photos of identity documents via unknown third parties, it doesn’t feel so bad…
I have incredibly mixed feelings about digital credentials and the slippery slope of “well now it’s easy to require strong guarantees”, but in a country where so many sites now ask for photos of identity documents via unknown third parties, it doesn’t feel so bad…
July 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This country is so deeply… cursed.
I have incredibly mixed feelings about digital credentials and the slippery slope of “well now it’s easy to require strong guarantees”, but in a country where so many sites now ask for photos of identity documents via unknown third parties, it doesn’t feel so bad…
I have incredibly mixed feelings about digital credentials and the slippery slope of “well now it’s easy to require strong guarantees”, but in a country where so many sites now ask for photos of identity documents via unknown third parties, it doesn’t feel so bad…
Every time I get onto the Heathrow Terminal 5 station platforms, my brain says they’re north/south. Except I know they’re not, and I can’t never figure out where I get rotated by 90°.
July 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Every time I get onto the Heathrow Terminal 5 station platforms, my brain says they’re north/south. Except I know they’re not, and I can’t never figure out where I get rotated by 90°.