Pseudospectre
@pseudospectre.bsky.social
post photos and philosophical/political musings - trans rights are human rights - black lives matter - free palestine - he/him - check out my blog twilliambell.wordpress.com
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it's interesting because right wingers won't shut up about triggering the libs, liberal tears, etc etc but on a deep level what they want isn't for us to be angry, what they want is for us to apologize and admit they were right all along
Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.
November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
it's interesting because right wingers won't shut up about triggering the libs, liberal tears, etc etc but on a deep level what they want isn't for us to be angry, what they want is for us to apologize and admit they were right all along
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This is of course fucking grim and all I can say is that Satan will be going to work in a snow plow before I turn a student away from my class for wearing niqab or anything else.
Fuck that forever.
(great column by @nolore.bsky.social)
open.substack.com/pub/noralore...
Fuck that forever.
(great column by @nolore.bsky.social)
open.substack.com/pub/noralore...
Quebec's new secularism bill expands the scope of who the government officially hates
Today, the Coalition Avenir Québec is introducing, An Act respecting the reinforcement of laicity in Québec (the name is better in French, surely).
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is of course fucking grim and all I can say is that Satan will be going to work in a snow plow before I turn a student away from my class for wearing niqab or anything else.
Fuck that forever.
(great column by @nolore.bsky.social)
open.substack.com/pub/noralore...
Fuck that forever.
(great column by @nolore.bsky.social)
open.substack.com/pub/noralore...
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1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
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This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
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BBC Now Calling Trans Women 'Biological Males Who Identify As Women'
These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
How your email finds me m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk1n...
SketchyLand - 2013 whitewater kayak beatdown/carnage reel
YouTube video by Quebec Connection
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November 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
How your email finds me m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk1n...
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Holy effing shit. So long democracy.
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Holy effing shit. So long democracy.
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the degree to which Labour have limboed under my lowest expectations for them is remarkable.
what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
the degree to which Labour have limboed under my lowest expectations for them is remarkable.
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what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
what the fuck
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using "device hoarding" to describe people who are *not* buying every new device on the market is some wild work
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
using "device hoarding" to describe people who are *not* buying every new device on the market is some wild work
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Weird, I thought it was totalitarian censorship to sideline people with views you don’t agree with
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Weird, I thought it was totalitarian censorship to sideline people with views you don’t agree with
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When I think "where the vast majority of Americans actually are," I think about the millionaire lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein & Harvey Weinstein & Donald Trump who was recently in the news for threatening to sue a pierogi seller in Martha's Vineyard, where he has one of his homes.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
When I think "where the vast majority of Americans actually are," I think about the millionaire lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein & Harvey Weinstein & Donald Trump who was recently in the news for threatening to sue a pierogi seller in Martha's Vineyard, where he has one of his homes.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Someone caught a bird in a dream
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Someone caught a bird in a dream
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The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented. Hear more on today's episode of "The Daily." nyti.ms/480eqtm
The Autism Diagnosis Problem
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.
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This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.
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My "I'm not Enron" shirt has people asking a lot of etc.
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
My "I'm not Enron" shirt has people asking a lot of etc.
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it's happening dot gif
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
it's happening dot gif
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"In the event of rocket fire on the Israeli population by one or more of the Palestinian organizations in Gaza, should heavy fire be carried out on Palestinian population centers in order to burn into their minds the cost of the provocation?"
55%+ of Israelis surveyed say yes to war crimes.
55%+ of Israelis surveyed say yes to war crimes.
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"In the event of rocket fire on the Israeli population by one or more of the Palestinian organizations in Gaza, should heavy fire be carried out on Palestinian population centers in order to burn into their minds the cost of the provocation?"
55%+ of Israelis surveyed say yes to war crimes.
55%+ of Israelis surveyed say yes to war crimes.
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it's wild to watch this happening in a situation where we've had no prior military engagements with the country or recent attack to even drum up a public desire for vengeance. nothing at all is going down but Trump is clearly trying to push Iraq 2.0 on the country.
I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't"
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
How to Topple Maduro
And why regime change is the only way forward in Venezuela.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
it's wild to watch this happening in a situation where we've had no prior military engagements with the country or recent attack to even drum up a public desire for vengeance. nothing at all is going down but Trump is clearly trying to push Iraq 2.0 on the country.
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On one hand the unending horrors
On the other sometimes you see a small animal
On the other sometimes you see a small animal
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
On one hand the unending horrors
On the other sometimes you see a small animal
On the other sometimes you see a small animal
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Zohran keeping Tisch on as NYPD commissioner & saying Jeffries should be Speaker are 2 disgusting moves. it’s okay to call it what it is. you’re not throwing the baby out with the bath water. calling it out even if you think he’s making a “political move” is necessary, especially if you support him
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Zohran keeping Tisch on as NYPD commissioner & saying Jeffries should be Speaker are 2 disgusting moves. it’s okay to call it what it is. you’re not throwing the baby out with the bath water. calling it out even if you think he’s making a “political move” is necessary, especially if you support him
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no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
Dorothea’s bs detector for her husband’s orientalism (and practically the field as a whole)
November 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Dorothea’s bs detector for her husband’s orientalism (and practically the field as a whole)
Mr Ladislaw (in Middlemarch) touching on political self-consciousness (or lack thereof)
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Mr Ladislaw (in Middlemarch) touching on political self-consciousness (or lack thereof)
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency