🏳️⚧️ she/her. trans girl. horror fan. 'woke c*nt' apparently. the real nightmare is telling people i make video essays. on bsky:
@itstransylvania
.bsky.social
liz truss is crying bc her anti-trans bill will be rescheduled. while she's having a tantrum i want to ask a question; how did she go from pledging to be an ally to now? well, lets take a closer look at her bill, shall we? some of this is old news, but its important context. 1/12
@LilySimpson1312
My guess is it'll be 'coincidentally' all the same ideas, but so heavily reworded as to be not outright plagiarism. I mean, he must've been doing something since the hbomb vid. 🙈
If you can't work out why a comedian on a comedy show is different from a wannabe politician on a 'news' show, I don't know what to say to you. We can argue the toss over if Jo Brand's comments were acceptable, but stop pretending its anything like fuckwit Fox's gross misogyny.
Can we talk about how a Universal Basic Income isn't given to people 'for doing nothing', but rather for people to live so that they CAN do something? The lopsided view that you must live to work/work to live is pretty gross when think about it for more than a second.
'Are people likely to work if they're given a universal basic income for doing nothing?' -
@susannareid100
Thirty people could be paid £1,600 a month without any obligation under proposals for the first trial of a universal basic income in England.
at the end of this video, esther knight claims she has given blood 293 times. can someone smarter than me do the math on that one? bc as far as i can tell, she's like 90!
Lincoln local elections 2024 🗳️ Meet Esther Knight from the Party of Women — She is hoping to claim the Minster ward seat under the newly-established party
@shaun_vids
It's also worth noting, though it may seem obvious, that general transphobia is a slope that leads directly to the anti-trans movement. And this is like a gateway for a lot of ppl, a supposedly 'reasonable concern' that opens up to more and more outlandish and frightening ideas.
cass doing that interview with the kite trust, backpedaling on a lot of the cass review's claims, is pure self-preservation. she knows her name is now synonymous with a genocidal hate movement and pseudo-science, and she wants to undo her involvement. but she can't, it's done.
the purpose of the bill, at least according to truss, is to “define sex in law as biological sex” (ofc what exactly biological sex means is up for debate itself lol) but we all know what the true aim is. pic below is the definition as written in the bill – 2/12
@becca2uk
imo this makes truss especially dangerous bc she doesnt seem to be driven by ideology but a self-serving desire for success. and she'll say and do anything and get into bed with anybody to make that happen. even dangerous people. as we've seen, that's already happening. 12/12
so far so insidious. but - as pointed out by
@becca2uk
– the definition bears a striking resemblance to a definition outlined in a bill from 2023... in florida (see pic) so, what's going on here? did truss simply copy and paste this definition in her bill? what's the deal? 3/12
this is horrific, but you should all go look at the comments and then decide who you wanna stand with. even if this wasn't a transphobic hate crime (it was, but even if it wasn't) this is *still* a human being who has been seriously attacked. sort yourselves out, seriously.
i often see this claim made about duvall and the shining, and honestly it's so frustrating. duvall's performance in that movie is *incredible* and it's a disgrace that it gets palmed off as being entirely the result of kubrick being a prick. duvall deserves all the praise.
[THREAD 🧵] It seems to be of popular internet belief that Shelley Duvall was traumatized for life because of Stanley Kubrick/The Shining. Here’s a thread, by me a Shelley connoisseur, explaining why her life and career was NOT ruined.
With
#IStandWithRoisinMurphy
, here's what she said/why it's not great; 1) context; climate makes it seem targeted. 2) ignorance; blockers help cis kids too, at best it's uninformed. 3) language; 'mixed up kids' is insulting/dismissive, implying trans kids aren't valid. Thanks.
@becca2uk
in 2020, rep barbara ehardt enlisted the help of alliance defending freedom (adf), a far-right hate group opposing abortion/lgbtq+ rights, to craft the 'fairness in women's sports act'. similar language has since appeared in legislation across the us. 4/12
@itssamanthaaaa_
I asked to change my name on the tenancy agreement and my landlord just went "no, it's fine" and that's that. I'm too much of a coward to push so now I have a tenancy agreement in a name that isn't even my legal name.
@girldrawsghosts
@jk_rowling
I'm with you. And I kinda want answers. I want Rowling and everyone like her to explain why their vicious and aggressive assault on trans people was worth Brianna’s life.
@becca2uk
she's an egotist. at uni she was a lib dem, supporting the legalisation of cannabis and, at the 1994 conference, calling for the abolition of the monarchy. by 1996 she'd joined the tories, bc truss doesnt have *any* politics, she's in it for herself. 11/12
Hi Sian, I see you're a fan of harassing trans ppl on the internet.
What is it you always say? Oh yes, trans people are "psychopathic liars with no concept of reality".
Which is funny really. Because it seems that you're quite the little liar yourself.
Lets take a look..🧵
@becca2uk
while serving as equalities minister truss claimed she planned to “improve health care for transgender people, and will shortly be bringing forward plans to ban conversion therapy, which is an abhorrent practice" seems a far cry from where we are now. 9/12
forgive them for what? this tells you so much about how rowling views herself. she wrote a fucking book, radcliffe and watson are actors. they don't owe her anything. joanne needs a reality check.
@becca2uk
adf work closely with family research council (frc) who, in 2016, outlined a five point plan to eradicate trans ppl from public life by making it next to impossible for anyone to transition medically, legally, or socially. its still on their website. 5/12
@becca2uk
another speaker at the summit was steve bannon, former breitbart news chairman and chief strategist for trump's white house. truss recently joined bannon at cpac, where he praised tommy robinson as a “hero” 7/12
@becca2uk
in 2021 she claimed she used to be a lefty. she told lbc, “i remember standing in the paisley piazza and we were chanting [...] "maggie, maggie, maggie, oot, oot, oot." which is strange bc she keeps dressing up as thatcher. 10/12
@becca2uk
frc host the yearly 'values voter summit'. In 2017, meg kilgannon, executive director of concerned parents and educators of fairfax county, spoke at the summit, saying, “focus on gender identity to divide and conquer.” 6/12
@joannaccherry
oh, so you *dont* like it when people talk over marginalised groups?
you know, some would say that makes you a massive hypocrit. not me, though. i'd say it makes you much worse.
@becca2uk
ofc, truss ran on a platform of trans hostility while campaigning to be pm, but she seems to have doubled down since then, cosying up with the far-right and pushing their rhetoric for her own gain. bc this has always been about her own gain for truss. 8/12
@KatyMontgomerie
i honestly think its a desperate plea for someone somewhere to justify their hatred in some way that proves them entirely correct and not just bigoted. the problem is they know, subconsciously, the responses are either bs or the same desperate plea, so they keep looking.
I honestly would not have believed when I was 23 if someone had told me that when I was 73 would be the worst time in my life for a woman to be a woman
Linehan won't take responsbility for anything he's done. Publically calling David Tennant a groomer for wearing a T-shirt is the kind of unhinged, lunatic behaviour that one would expect to lose work over. The term "slightly more money" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here 🤣🤣🤣
Speaking yesterday on the panel of the Tufton St love-in IEA/TaxPayers Alliance event at the Tory party conference Graham Linehan admits he has just been dropped by his TV agent after calling David Tennant a "groomer".
@miffythegamer
nobody has done more for gay rights than the straight author who couldnt even write a single gay character actually *into* her work...? okay then.
you can't reason with gc's, they don't care that they're wrong. bigotry isn't about logic, and you can't use logic to fight it. they *just* hate trans people. that's it. there's nothing deeper going on there.
@FernRiddell
"toxic masculinity and patriarchy demonises and attacks every aspects of the feminine" - so, so true. this v attitude has literally left my life in tatters. im so done with this.
holy shit, this blew up way more than i was expecting. i advise those reading to click the links, don't just take my word as proof. bc even if you wind up disagreeing, it's better to be informed than ignorant. and above all, remember, trans people are people too.
waiting for the gender critics to go apeshit over baby reindeer for depicting a c*s woman as dangerous and predatory and a trans woman as a decent human being.
@PunishedHoots
@Glinner
he's literally on the same side of the people who pushed to overturn roe vs wade. weird bedfellows for someone who uses his pro-choice campaigning as a flex.
@IndiaWilloughby
@suzseddon
This is such a clear example of what's wrong with their entire attitude handily presented in a single tweet. Basically everything they stand for can be boiled down to misogynistic ideas of what gender is.
idc who they are or what they've done, if a person suggsst they might hurt themselves (or worse) you believe them. i would rather be made a fool by someone still breathing than ignore the pain of someone who isn't. it really is that simple. james somerton is a human being first.
@Levans6081
i saw this earlier and think it's pretty indefensible. however, this isn't just 2 hours of ai up on screen. there are also actual artists doing work too, so while i think it's hella disappointing, im not going to boycott an entire movie woth actors and editors etc. bc of it.
notice rightwing trolls are blaming 'leftists' for james somerton's potential su!cide. its pathetic. they dont care bout him, this is a game to them. its possible to hold somerton acccountable and also want him to be okay. we are speaking about a human being, fucking ghouls.
@LGBwiththeT
You know, I KNEW that was gonna be the answer, and my brain still wouldn't let it compute and needed confirmation. How the ever-loving f do any of these people see this and think, 'Yeah, we're deffo on the right side of this one'?
@LGBTLabour
@UKLabour
and what are you doing about your party? pointing the finger at the tories when your own mp's are celebrating the removal of healthcare for trans children rings extremely hollow. sort it out.
@CReddog31724
@mushycrouton
gc is literally the term you lot demanded to be called after you decided terf was offensive 😅 im beginning to think you just dont like anything.
@KirstieMAllsopp
@jk_rowling
rowling hides behind harry potter. people look at her and think she's the harmless author of those wizard books, and so they don't think its possible she can be as cruel and hateful as she is. but she is. let's call a spade a spade: rowling is a transphobic bigot.
Nothing to see here, folks. Just J K Rowling not caring about her legacy 🤣🤣🤣 Honestly, it's hilarious how much effort she's put into supposedly protecting her name - from essays to podcasts to lawsuits - for someone who gloats so brazenly about apprantly not caring about it.
JK Rowling sent a four-page demand letter from her attorneys over a tweet that, at the time, was seen by exactly 941 people.
That's how petty and insecure the author of Harry Potter & Cormoran Strike is, concerning her transphobic bigotry and the world's reaction to it.
what the actual fuck is she talking about? she doesn't understand what peer reviewed means, does she? imagine being so confidently wrong that you'll not only tweet this out as a comeback, but you'll do it to 14m followers.
is it just me or does it feel like there's been a ramp up in hostility toward trans people in the media and from politicians etc. over the last few weeks even compared to just a year ago?
i can't shake the feeling something awful is coming. i feel sick and anxious all the time.
@PeterTatchell
you are the trans critic, hon. i know you think you mean well, but you're not helping. you don't understand the issue, educate yourself and stop speaking over us.
If this is real can someone in a position to do so to make sure James Somerton okay? I've been in a similar space and when you are there, nothing but direct intervention will stop you. Can someone please help him? This isn't about what he did, this is a human being in pain.
Quelling my first impulse to assume a play for sympathy and snarkily post "my condolences to the family of whoever James Somerton plagiarized his s**c*d* note from".
If you're actually crying for help, James, public discredit and humiliation need not be how your story ends.
@lewisjwr
I h8 being all 'old man yells at cloud' (suitable, given the movie, ha!) but this is what happens when audiences spend yrs being spoonfed the same generic plot from the same handful of studios - suddenly they're unable to actually read a movie that doesn't spell everything out.
Hi Sian, I see you're a fan of harassing trans ppl on the internet.
What is it you always say? Oh yes, trans people are "psychopathic liars with no concept of reality".
Which is funny really. Because it seems that you're quite the little liar yourself.
Lets take a look..🧵
@thelincolnite
curious why you're reporting this as just another candidate and not, you know, a fucking neonazi running as candidate for a party of science denial.
@shaun_vids
It's about time someone starred saying this. It isn't a different moral code, it's a lack of morals full stop. And that's kinda the point; being openly immoral is like a thrill that the right get off on.
@the_traitors_
The producers didn't guarantee this, The Traitors did. The rules of the game are that they can recruit when there's two left, but don't have to, and Ross could have said no.
there's one issue facing the western world atm; the rise of the far right. everything from gender critics to trump to climate denial is directly tied to that single threat. anyone who opposes the growing threat of fascism should be standing together. if they win, we all lose.
so, let me get this straight. diane abbott and jeremy corbyn aren't welcome in labour, but the right wing, anti-migrant tory natalie elphicke is? when people say we must vote labour to get the tories out, what do they even mean?
@HLeeHurley
The scale of his mental gymnastics are insane. Not 'imagine reading porn on a train', that's dine apparently. No, but imagine *seeing* someone reading porn on a train! Having eyes, that's what's creepy. 🤣
Glinner being told by literally everyone on his life that he's the problem and just completely refusing to accept that is one of the funniest things ever. he's so deluded.
@Twizted_Dream
@itssamanthaaaa_
Yeah. I need to get on it really bc I know I'm in a dodgy space in one way or another. But I struggle to be assertive irl. Anxiety as it is.
"I took issue with the demand on me to socially transition children who are unable to make an informed decision."
student was 17 years old. kevin lister lost his job bc he dehumanised a student and couldn't be bothered to show them basic human dignity.
Overweight man in drag, Lexi, implied JKR was responsible for Brianna’s death, repeatedly accused her of being a bigot, nazi sympathiser & holocaust denier.
Lexi is stamping his size 9s over JKR blocking him - obviously it’s because she doesn’t have a “coherent response” 🥴😅