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doing a PhD on Spider-Man, race, cities, and prison abolition.💥 sometimes teaching. mostly knitting, walking, or rowing. trans, Mad, and figuring it out. New Englander in Old England.
- every day i think i find the bottom of grief and horror and something rips the floor out from under me
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- Reposted by reed pSNAP is : a means-tested business-friendly conservative policy to deal with the fact that produce rots, something that doesn’t go nearly far enough, basically impossible to commit fraud on, the reason I’m taller then some cousins, being targeted by bigots despite its budget being a rounding error
- burned my hand kinda bad but also have an event this evening so icing my hand with a can of irn-bru please consider this my application for scottish citizenship
- truly my fave piece of “feminist media lost to continuing capitalist crisis” merch
- Reposted by reed pIt is too horribly perfect that Musk's Grok is spewing racist inanities while fueled by huge methane generators that are menacing the health of Memphis's Black communities.
- Reposted by reed ptoday marks 40 years since Philadelphia police bombed the Black liberation group MOVE's home in West Philadelphia. 6 adults and 5 children burned to death. over 60 homes were destroyed from the resulting fire, and over 250 people left homeless. (resharing @kimkelly.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com)
- wow, i thought last week was bad? lmao
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- i think i am having a week where i remember that i have chronic fatigue
- something about Sinners I absolutely loved is that I am finally able to start to articulate to friends who love folk music here (the UK) how “traditional American folk” is not a stable category
- just got home from seeing SINNERS and holy shit i haven’t seen such a banger in so long
- Reposted by reed pEvery review of youth gender medicine is just, "there's evidence that this helps and no evidence that this causes harm, but here's why that doesn't count."
- Reposted by reed pthis is EXACTLY the sort of "buzz" (industry term) you want your project to have. when you're needlessly remaking beloved properties with lower budgets, worse actors and garbage plots you gotta let the fans know: the creators awful genocidal rhetoric will NOT be in there!
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- HAPPY NEW PUP (the band) DAY puptheband.bandcamp.com/album/who-wi...
- Reposted by reed pIf you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne. The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews. Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.
- I have seen Valnet absolutely destroy sites and people’s lives. solidarity and rage to those laid off in the most recent round of purchases and layoffs. there really is just so little for culture writers these days
- Reposted by reed pyes [though she regularly denied that she was formerly enslaved or Black] I think it's important to say that Parsons always said that she was not Black. She had her reasons, I get that.
- Reposted by reed pSo basically just sort of banning people who enjoy a sport for fun really?
- Reposted by reed pColleagues of mine are seeking to commission a graphic novel that captures their research project's findings. Commission value £24,000, application deadline 7th May To apply: Send CV and portfolio to reimagining@lancaster.ac.uk Further details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/nuri-k...
- it is going to be 79F here tomorrow??? on the first of May??? listen I was excited about the sunshine we had all April but this is a lot
- there’s a version of this where I talk about how frightened I am, how painful living between borders is. there’s also a version where I ask you all to help me celebrate turning 30 and nearing the completion of my PhD by gifting me a few more years in this place I’ve made my home: gofund.me/78116d74
- Deadline for this is Friday!
- Reposted by reed pHow come “shrinking government” always involves taking away school lunches and building 3,000 more prisons.
- Reposted by reed pCop City is officially opening today, made possible only through extreme state violence –– including the murder of Tortuguita, clearcutting of forest land, and mass criminalization of protestors. But the fight does go on. And support for those facing charges is still critical.
- Reposted by reed pCop City is officially "opening" today. The movement against it carries so many lessons for people everywhere, because the issues are everywhere today: the un-democratic militarization and expansion of policing and state violence, backed by dark money private funding.
- Reposted by reed pI wonder how explicit this will get - how many campaign ads against right-wing ethnonationalist parties in South Asia, South America, Europe, or Africa will end up warning voters about the kind of governance the US is getting if they fail to reject the right
- Reposted by reed pShe’s in jail for writing an op-ed.
- NEW: The Second Circuit halts Rümeysa Öztürk's physical transfer from Louisiana to Vermont until a 3-judge panel has the chance to hear arguments on the govt's emergency motion next Tuesday, May 6. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by reed pNew executive order dropped. It's called "STRENGTHENING AND UNLEASHING AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PURSUE CRIMINALS AND PROTECT INNOCENT CITIZENS." The section pictured here is particularly concerning. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
- Reposted by reed pThe term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?
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Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.” - Reposted by reed pThey are fucking BANNING trans inclusive freedom of association what the actual FUCK
- The EHRC have published their 'interim guidance' and it's about as disgraceful as we expected www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
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- Reposted by reed pI call upon Pride in London to unequivocally stand with trans people by banning marching under the banner of political parties that have pushed for keeping the ban on puberty blockers and that have openly called for trans exclusion following the Supreme Court decision. chng.it/ZkgMckGYtc
- Reposted by reed pfor my entire life i have simply never understood how anyone reading this can be convinced this is an antisemitic statement
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- go see thissss
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- highly recommend going to a trad sesh at a worker-owned co-op to cope with the state of the world
- Reposted by reed pWhen Clive Barker was working on the MUMMY remake for Universal in the early '90s, he had a trans character in the script, and when the studio vetoed it, he basically said "I really can't stress how much I don't need to fucking make THE MUMMY" and left.
- Clive Barker gets it. faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-c...
- being autistic is one of my favorite things about being alive. the lich powered by a tapeworm is wrong.
- work has never set anyone free. we are not made human through work. i love my fellow “unproductive” disabled people ❤️🔥
- say it with me everyone: i will not respond to ableism by throwing disabled people who do not/are unable to work under the bus
- “every border implies the violence of its maintenance” includes gender
- this is the work of fascism. fascism reduces the complex warp and weft of life into the simple, into concrete binary categories. fascism requires sex, gender, & family to be stable and policeable categories to maintain its power
- Reposted by reed pregardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.
- it is completely horrific that we have allowed people who claim there are biological limits on what a woman is, is capable of be the “feminist” voices that have quite literally reshaped every corner of legislation in multiple countries
- i’m at an extreme loss for words. being wedged between the two cutting blades of the US and the UK is an unspeakable horror.
- Reposted by reed pAll this money & energy spent to make life more miserable for trans people could've been used to fight against domestic violence, wage disparity, sexual harassment, harassment of people accessing abortion services, proper childcare provision; you know, to make the world a better place instead.
- Reposted by reed pThis is where your Harry Potter money goes
- Reposted by reed pThe priest caste of an unpleasant island that once ruled far too much of the world—facing collapsing living standards, a crumbling civil society, and increasingly globally irrelevant economic and political leadership—chants “Adult Human Female” as if it were a spell that could banish their curse.
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- just spent the last 7 hours putting this @rogueprintco.bsky.social t shirt on this jumper (i grew out of it) and while I am deeply tired I do think it looks sick
- genuinely the tower of london remains one of the most upsetting sites i have ever visited - the insides of some of the towers are completely covered in carved graffiti. how long must someone have been trapped to carve this into stone? how long?
- the lesbian punisher of my hyperfixations from 2017-2020 lives again
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- this advert on the tube really broke my heart - what does it say about our relationship with the prison and with state executions that we jokingly suggest it is the ideal place to take “troublemaking” children on summer holidays?
- putting a teddy roosevelt quote over a photo of a bison to encourage people to give a shit about our land and ecosystems is… colonizer cognitive dissonance. i am so tired
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- nothing like trying to file your taxes and then get a “there’s a mouse in the sink!” call from across the flat
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- are you using or working on community energy projects? you should come make comics with us about it! 🔋✍️
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- Reposted by reed pYes, because what's holding the US back from greatness is our lack of "wood independence". 🙄 Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.
- hey just what the hell is going on in the politics of food in the new daredevil show
