Kaliathane
@kaliathane.bsky.social
Bookworm, animal devotee, pro-trans feminist, needlework enthusiast
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Will Streeting’s review of mental illness, autism and ADHD just be another Sewell or Cass (gaslighting the nation into agreeing with pre-decided government policy/ideology)?
December 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Will Streeting’s review of mental illness, autism and ADHD just be another Sewell or Cass (gaslighting the nation into agreeing with pre-decided government policy/ideology)?
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
Are we quite sure she's a real live person?
"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
October 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Are we quite sure she's a real live person?
Autistic people and immigrants are good actually.
Some of us are a) both b) adorable and c) save our reserved British friends money when they are too shy to challenge mistakes on their restaurant bills and we offer to do it for them.
Some of us are a) both b) adorable and c) save our reserved British friends money when they are too shy to challenge mistakes on their restaurant bills and we offer to do it for them.
September 29, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Autistic people and immigrants are good actually.
Some of us are a) both b) adorable and c) save our reserved British friends money when they are too shy to challenge mistakes on their restaurant bills and we offer to do it for them.
Some of us are a) both b) adorable and c) save our reserved British friends money when they are too shy to challenge mistakes on their restaurant bills and we offer to do it for them.
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I actually don’t give a fuck about the level of “illegal migration”
September 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I actually don’t give a fuck about the level of “illegal migration”
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Can’t explain it but of course they want to take away one of the only painkillers that’s safe for pregnancy, a condition that causes weird and unusual pains. these people WANT pregnancy to be a punishment and handicap. they want to control.
'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol
2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.
news.ki.se/no-link-betw...
2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.
news.ki.se/no-link-betw...
No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children
In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ...
news.ki.se
September 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Can’t explain it but of course they want to take away one of the only painkillers that’s safe for pregnancy, a condition that causes weird and unusual pains. these people WANT pregnancy to be a punishment and handicap. they want to control.
Reading @swordsjew.bsky.social's Wild Faith and shocked by the scale and institutionalisation of abuse in evangelical circles.
It must be terrifying to think the devil and demons are hiding around every corner trying to catch you. No wonder they all have that over-alert look in their eyes.
It must be terrifying to think the devil and demons are hiding around every corner trying to catch you. No wonder they all have that over-alert look in their eyes.
September 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Reading @swordsjew.bsky.social's Wild Faith and shocked by the scale and institutionalisation of abuse in evangelical circles.
It must be terrifying to think the devil and demons are hiding around every corner trying to catch you. No wonder they all have that over-alert look in their eyes.
It must be terrifying to think the devil and demons are hiding around every corner trying to catch you. No wonder they all have that over-alert look in their eyes.
The weird thing about the England flag debate is that as far as I can tell, a bunch of racists are upset that when they advertise their racism by sporting that flag, people think they're racist and that...upsets them?
September 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The weird thing about the England flag debate is that as far as I can tell, a bunch of racists are upset that when they advertise their racism by sporting that flag, people think they're racist and that...upsets them?
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I love London so much. So much.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
September 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I love London so much. So much.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
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I wrote a column responding to Ezra Klein’s eulogy for Charlie Kirk, and argued that democracy depends not just on civil disagreement, but on the civic equality that Kirk passionately opposed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Charlie Kirk’s killing was a tragedy. But we must not rewrite his life | Moira Donegan
In the wake of horror, honest accountings of his life have not only become rare – they have also become dangerous
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I wrote a column responding to Ezra Klein’s eulogy for Charlie Kirk, and argued that democracy depends not just on civil disagreement, but on the civic equality that Kirk passionately opposed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Equality of rights is a baseline precondition for a liberal democracy, and advocating for the end of that condition is not compatible with a commitment to the liberal democratic project.
Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
September 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Equality of rights is a baseline precondition for a liberal democracy, and advocating for the end of that condition is not compatible with a commitment to the liberal democratic project.
My thoughts are with the loved ones of Charlie Kirk that they ever had to put up with him in the first place.
September 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
My thoughts are with the loved ones of Charlie Kirk that they ever had to put up with him in the first place.
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Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.
Why would a teenager need a professional bra fitter anyway?? Do you own a tape measure? Can you count?
If you can't find a suitable bra without professional help, I really don't think trans women are your biggest problem.
If you can't find a suitable bra without professional help, I really don't think trans women are your biggest problem.
August 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Why would a teenager need a professional bra fitter anyway?? Do you own a tape measure? Can you count?
If you can't find a suitable bra without professional help, I really don't think trans women are your biggest problem.
If you can't find a suitable bra without professional help, I really don't think trans women are your biggest problem.
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“Men suffer in silence” then why am I constantly hearing about it
this is hilarious to me as a woman on the left because it seems like every conversation is absolutely dominated by this topic, either explicitly or implicitly
The left is completely silent on the subject of men getting laid - which, generally speaking, they are v.interested in doing and will continue to be interested in regardless of whether progressives want to talk about it. So the stage has been left entirely clear for the far-right.
August 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“Men suffer in silence” then why am I constantly hearing about it
The thing about the Epstein files is that for Trump, deflecting the fact that he went to some parties or wrote some gross notes is child’s play. So whatever is in them must be bad enough that TRUMP thinks is bad. Like, what sexual behaviour could TRUMP think is inexcusable??
July 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The thing about the Epstein files is that for Trump, deflecting the fact that he went to some parties or wrote some gross notes is child’s play. So whatever is in them must be bad enough that TRUMP thinks is bad. Like, what sexual behaviour could TRUMP think is inexcusable??
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Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
July 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
Autism actually does not make you run around with a sock on your penis
July 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Autism actually does not make you run around with a sock on your penis
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
Helen Lewis seems to think she's part of a moderate, feminist led branch of the GC movement made up of nice ladies who just care about women's rights and protecting teenagers and are happy to use pronouns and behave courteously. No such movement exists! Any actual feminists have jumped ship long ago
June 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Helen Lewis seems to think she's part of a moderate, feminist led branch of the GC movement made up of nice ladies who just care about women's rights and protecting teenagers and are happy to use pronouns and behave courteously. No such movement exists! Any actual feminists have jumped ship long ago
It's so weird to me that people find it inexplicable that women are choosing to have fewer or no children nowadays. Sure, for some people it's related to finances but the hand-wringing ignores the simple explanation that a lot of people just don't want to be parents because it's...not...that...good?
kinda strikes me that there might be a link between the backlash to trauma/“therapy culture” represented by this piece, the rise of biological essentialism, and through it all a kind of intellectual immaturity that refuses the notion that people can harm one another without meaning to
Opinion | There’s a Link Between Therapy Culture and Childlessness
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It's so weird to me that people find it inexplicable that women are choosing to have fewer or no children nowadays. Sure, for some people it's related to finances but the hand-wringing ignores the simple explanation that a lot of people just don't want to be parents because it's...not...that...good?
Do you think that anxiety is ultimately an inability to accept that bad things exist in the world and some of them will come for you?
May 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Do you think that anxiety is ultimately an inability to accept that bad things exist in the world and some of them will come for you?
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this is the uk @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is creating with the help of the ehrc.
never let labour forget that they did this. it needs to be hung around their necks for generations. it is such an example of bigoted stupidity that the labour party should never be able to shake it.
never let labour forget that they did this. it needs to be hung around their necks for generations. it is such an example of bigoted stupidity that the labour party should never be able to shake it.
"Packer is widely recognized as an icon of women’s sports. Yet not for the first time, Packer recently found herself being misgendered as a result of gender policing she believes is escalating in line with heightened anti-trans rhetoric."
www.outsports.com/2025/5/21/24...
www.outsports.com/2025/5/21/24...
PWHL hockey icon Madison Packer 'told to go to men’s restroom' - Outsports
After a 'humiliating' experience, Madison Packer calls bathroom policing a by-product of anti-trans propaganda.
www.outsports.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
this is the uk @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is creating with the help of the ehrc.
never let labour forget that they did this. it needs to be hung around their necks for generations. it is such an example of bigoted stupidity that the labour party should never be able to shake it.
never let labour forget that they did this. it needs to be hung around their necks for generations. it is such an example of bigoted stupidity that the labour party should never be able to shake it.
I think an unexpected consequence of all this is that gender neutral bathrooms/fitting rooms could become the norm. A lot of businesses are simply not going to want to deal with complicated exceptions when they could just make everything neutral
April 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I think an unexpected consequence of all this is that gender neutral bathrooms/fitting rooms could become the norm. A lot of businesses are simply not going to want to deal with complicated exceptions when they could just make everything neutral
So that's three GC women who are paedophiles by my count?
April 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
So that's three GC women who are paedophiles by my count?