Not Cordelia

"provide precise definition" fuck OFF this is such a ridiculous way to launder what the fuck this bill's trying to do

absolute mess

Actually given the popularity of the "love jihad" conspiracies in India---where conversion of Hindu women is seen as a non-consensual act of aggression---this approach to trans people kind of rhymes.

More like "grooming victim", which is a pretty common belief about our 'revered' third-gender populations.

It's pure transmedicalism, putting power into the hands of medical experts over trans people's bodily autonomy and testimony, while also taking myths about the hijra (that they kidnap young children) at face value and stating them as fact.

Absolute clusterfuck.

So the Lok Sabha in India introduced "The Transgender Persons Amendment Act", which basically rolls back protections for trans people, on the basis that you can't identify into a protected class.

It seems to allege that only intersex and "non-consensually transitioned" people deserve protections.

A photo of Mahmoud on wheelchair showing the severity of his injuries. Both legs are filled with metals and screws.

A photo of three girls with worried faces reunited around a candle light.

Solidarity Call from Gaza Lina is raising funds to save her husband, Mahmoud. His legs are severely injured and need another surgery. His condition is critical. She also cares for their three daughters and Mahmoud's mother. They need urgent help to cover: • Daily medical follow-up, medications, tests, and wound dressings. • Leg surgery. A wheelchair. • Food and milk. • Diapers. Chip in here:

Solidaridad para Gaza Lina está recaudando fondos para salvar a su familia. Mahmoud, su esposo, está en riesgo de amputación y de perder la vida a causa de la infección. Tienen tres hijas y también cuidan de madre de Mahmoud. Necesitan ayuda urgente para cubrir: • Seguimiento médico diario, medicamentos, pruebas y vendajes. • Cirugía para colocar placas y reparar daño en tendón y nervios. • Comida, leche y pañales.

Please, I beg you, do not ignore this call🙏💔😭
Mahmoud’s life is deteriorating dangerously⚠️🩸
For the sake of his daughters… please do not leave him alone👧👧👧💔
Even £1 from each person could help save his life.💷
Every donation and every share gives us hope.
£1,630 remains🙏💔
chuffed.org/project/omsh...

(Says the woman who has already purchased and plans to read Chernyshevsky's 'What Is to Be Done' in the next month or so as prep for my World of Darkness game because my autism and ADHD are uncontainable eldritch forces at this point.)

I realize that at some point I'm going to have to sit down and read Bogdanov and Plekhanov and Mach and Avenarius to begin to make heads or tails of how fairly Lenin is treating them considering how ruthlessly political (and wrong) his reading of Chernyshevsky is.

I am normally one of those types who will say "you can read Engels on Marx [sometimes] and you can read Lenin on Engels and Marx [usually]," and I hate that now that I'm reading about the actual historical and philosophical and political debates surrounding Materialism and Empirio-Criticism...

None of you can let me fall too deep into this rabbit hole because if I do, I'm afraid I won't come back out well-adjusted.

If I wind up reading Bogdanov because of this, I'm going to be very upset with how easy it is for me to distract myself with 20th century debates about epistemology.

Decided to commit to rereading all of Materialism and Empirio-Criticism while actually looking up all the references this time. Let's see how my latest political transformation changes my relationship with this book.

I know it's hard to believe but dropping bombs on a population doesn't make them like you

Famously, the best way to put together a convincing and persuasive worldview is to loudly and consistently demonstrate you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about and are uninterested in learning.

It is

🚨 Mahmoud’s condition continues to deteriorate each minute.
He needed this surgery by YESTERDAY.
It is not only his leg but his whole body, his life at risk, a high risk that increases by the minute.
He and his body simply cannot wait.
I don’t know how else to say this.

chuffed.org/project/omsham

Heba and her children

Her children in front of rubble

Eid is approaching,and my children watch others buying new clothes while they have none.My heart breaks when they ask if they will have Eid clothes too. Your small support can bring them joy and dignity this Eid.We need $200 to provide the baby clothes.🙏🏻🇵🇸
gofund.me/c3bf6fb78
@mommunism.bsky.social

like, there is enough very real shit to be scared about right now without fearmongering about something that isn’t even happening. misinformation makes it that much harder to organize and keep people safe

me waking up to new shit stirring from so called trans journalists who routinely post inflammatory shit with zero ethics in sight and just thinking “ah shit here we go again.”

cannot scroll the timeline for more than 5 seconds without seeing a new, unique example of a republican or technomilitarist executive bragging about how badass we are at killing indiscriminately. massacre pride at an all time high.

if and when the tables turn on them, there must be repercussions.

I am ashamed to admit that I haven't stopped laughing at this incredibly unfunny joke that my brain has decided is the funniest thing I've said in months.

Anyways, this is your brain on dad rock and force femme deconstructive fiction.

It is a sign, of a very particular and very autistic cultural education, that I thought (incorrectly) that I'd seen the cover of 'Welcome to Dorley Hall' and then immediately started singing a Dorley Hall themed mashup of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show's "Cover of the Rolling Stone."

There is no movement and this man’s life is at risk and every minute that goes by the risk increases, as does the infection, as does the nerve damage
Cc. @mommunism.bsky.social @jenniekermode.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/omsham

A man in a burgundy hoodie takes a selfie next to a person in a black head covering and surgical mask lying in what appears to be a hospital bed with an IV drip overhead.

Two young girls, one crying, the other with hands clasped in prayer, sit on a woven mat against a backdrop of a makeshift refugee camp under a partly cloudy sky.

🚨Urgent appeal🚨
We are suffering every day in Gaza We are homeless and living in danger as the bombing continues My mother cannot see with her right eye and urgently needs surgery and treatment. Please help my mother or share my story so it reaches kind people. Save us 😭🙏
chuffed.org/project/help...

🚨 This is not just a post — it’s my child’s life
In Gaza, he is fighting for survival while we search for a way to get him the treatment he urgently needs outside
I am pleading with you — don’t scroll away
you — donate or share and help give my child another chance to live
chuffed.org/project/168482

I have been trying to gain weight because I lost so much when I first left Amerikka adjusting to a new diet, and I've gained something like 20 pounds over the last three months which is a reason for celebration. 💜

Did the AI he uses to write his papers cite his mom