DC
@tanngrisnir.bsky.social
Glasgow, Scotland based SFFH fan and sometimes conrunner. Less so these days since disabilities have worsened. Happy to eat tofu, not ashamed to be “woke”. Trans rights matter, queer rights matter, if you think otherwise, awa’ an bileyerheid.
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omg the actual patheticness of Dawkins running to Epstein's pal to tattle on Watson, who obviously Dawkins has beef with because Elevatorgate was the start of the end of his reputation
To add to this, Richard Dawkins (biologist). Complaining about Rebecca Watson. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM
omg the actual patheticness of Dawkins running to Epstein's pal to tattle on Watson, who obviously Dawkins has beef with because Elevatorgate was the start of the end of his reputation
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This is particularly interesting because there is currently a case before the Scottish courts in which the TERFs are arguing for what Scottish Labour just promised, and the Scottish government is saying, ‘but we have to abide by the European Convention on Human Rights’.
Scottish Labour commits to banning transgender women from female prisons if Anas Sarwar becomes first minister
www.reddit.com/r/tra...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.reddit.com/r/tra...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
February 3, 2026 at 11:12 AM
This is particularly interesting because there is currently a case before the Scottish courts in which the TERFs are arguing for what Scottish Labour just promised, and the Scottish government is saying, ‘but we have to abide by the European Convention on Human Rights’.
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"Late stage capitalism" - factors are combining to give us fewer and fewer options aside from "selling our labour to make capital more profitable". Social jobs, academic jobs, creative jobs, all increasingly precarious, while the cost of living continues to increase.
“I didn’t have rich parents, a childhood bedroom to return to or an infatuated billionaire intent on marrying me. Either writing had to make me money or I couldn’t do it. “
I wrote about making a living from writing in the new economy.
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I wrote about making a living from writing in the new economy.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Please sir can I have some more
On making a living as a writer
substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:28 AM
"Late stage capitalism" - factors are combining to give us fewer and fewer options aside from "selling our labour to make capital more profitable". Social jobs, academic jobs, creative jobs, all increasingly precarious, while the cost of living continues to increase.
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Good lord. In 2009, Mandelson was actively sabotaging the UK government at the time, led by Brown and Darling.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Faisal Islam: Mandelson, Darling and the conversation I can't forget
The Epstein files appear to give extraordinary context to a call between the former chancellor and JP Morgan's boss.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Good lord. In 2009, Mandelson was actively sabotaging the UK government at the time, led by Brown and Darling.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I'm so delighted to be joining the Luna Novella Series! Make sure to also check out @aknighton.bsky.social's SF novella out today too! www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page...
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February 3, 2026 at 10:23 AM
I'm so delighted to be joining the Luna Novella Series! Make sure to also check out @aknighton.bsky.social's SF novella out today too! www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page...
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It's publication day for In This City, Where it Rains out now from @lunapress.bsky.social! This is my Scottish gothic love letter to Edinburgh, a weird tale of ghosts, curses, family secrets, weird moths, & dark rituals 🖤 All links: linktr.ee/lyndseycroal Bonus Q: how many ghosts can you see here? 👀
February 3, 2026 at 10:23 AM
It's publication day for In This City, Where it Rains out now from @lunapress.bsky.social! This is my Scottish gothic love letter to Edinburgh, a weird tale of ghosts, curses, family secrets, weird moths, & dark rituals 🖤 All links: linktr.ee/lyndseycroal Bonus Q: how many ghosts can you see here? 👀
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The reality that there are blurry boundaries between the two sexes and one can move from one to another more or less by choice is a deeply destabilizing one for people who believe in natural, unchanging hierarchies.
February 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM
The reality that there are blurry boundaries between the two sexes and one can move from one to another more or less by choice is a deeply destabilizing one for people who believe in natural, unchanging hierarchies.
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Trans women threaten patriarchy bc seeking to live as a woman voluntarily is anathema to the idea that men are superior.
Trans men threaten patriarchy bc if women were naturally inferior it would show - someone assigned female wouldn't be able to easily pass as male with a bit of testosterone.
Trans men threaten patriarchy bc if women were naturally inferior it would show - someone assigned female wouldn't be able to easily pass as male with a bit of testosterone.
February 3, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Trans women threaten patriarchy bc seeking to live as a woman voluntarily is anathema to the idea that men are superior.
Trans men threaten patriarchy bc if women were naturally inferior it would show - someone assigned female wouldn't be able to easily pass as male with a bit of testosterone.
Trans men threaten patriarchy bc if women were naturally inferior it would show - someone assigned female wouldn't be able to easily pass as male with a bit of testosterone.
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On trans Bluesky, there are many posts circulating describing Epstein's anti-trans views and ties to prominent transphobes.
Anti-trans politics fit neatly into all of this because the existence of trans people threatens the idea that men are naturally superior to women.
Anti-trans politics fit neatly into all of this because the existence of trans people threatens the idea that men are naturally superior to women.
These men hate the left, labor organizing, feminism, #metoo, and human rights movements because all of these are pushing for equality and accountability, presenting a threat to these men's ability to dominate and abuse with impunity.
February 3, 2026 at 11:54 AM
On trans Bluesky, there are many posts circulating describing Epstein's anti-trans views and ties to prominent transphobes.
Anti-trans politics fit neatly into all of this because the existence of trans people threatens the idea that men are naturally superior to women.
Anti-trans politics fit neatly into all of this because the existence of trans people threatens the idea that men are naturally superior to women.
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I read this, and I almost regret it. What do you even do with the knowledge that Epstein wanted and was trying to engineer societal breakdown via far right populism bc he thought it would benefit his sex trafficking business?
I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy.
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
February 3, 2026 at 10:32 AM
I read this, and I almost regret it. What do you even do with the knowledge that Epstein wanted and was trying to engineer societal breakdown via far right populism bc he thought it would benefit his sex trafficking business?
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What is fucking wrong with these people?
Sarah Ferguson ‘took daughters to visit Epstein’ days after his prison release
Sarah Ferguson ‘took daughters to visit Epstein’ days after his prison release
Sarah Ferguson ‘took daughters to visit Epstein’ days after his prison release
www.independent.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 12:12 PM
What is fucking wrong with these people?
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So, Thames Water have cut off half our estate's water for weeks now. Seemingly unbothered and untouched by press coverage.(anyone?)
Today's community whatsapps reveal the "engineers" are now using diving rods and an acknowledgement that TW routinely use "magic".
It's certainly not dull...
Today's community whatsapps reveal the "engineers" are now using diving rods and an acknowledgement that TW routinely use "magic".
It's certainly not dull...
February 3, 2026 at 12:39 PM
So, Thames Water have cut off half our estate's water for weeks now. Seemingly unbothered and untouched by press coverage.(anyone?)
Today's community whatsapps reveal the "engineers" are now using diving rods and an acknowledgement that TW routinely use "magic".
It's certainly not dull...
Today's community whatsapps reveal the "engineers" are now using diving rods and an acknowledgement that TW routinely use "magic".
It's certainly not dull...
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So funny that a certain demographic are furious about the Odyssey film because it's historically inaccurate and "not faithful to what Homer wrote."
February 3, 2026 at 12:58 PM
So funny that a certain demographic are furious about the Odyssey film because it's historically inaccurate and "not faithful to what Homer wrote."
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Emily Thornberry has complained about English students attending Scottish universities having to pay tuition fees.
Emily Thornberry's party promised to make tuition fees in England free for English students.
Then they put fees UP instead of abolishing them.
Emily Thornberry's party promised to make tuition fees in England free for English students.
Then they put fees UP instead of abolishing them.
February 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Emily Thornberry has complained about English students attending Scottish universities having to pay tuition fees.
Emily Thornberry's party promised to make tuition fees in England free for English students.
Then they put fees UP instead of abolishing them.
Emily Thornberry's party promised to make tuition fees in England free for English students.
Then they put fees UP instead of abolishing them.
1. This translates to “I will within days act to ensure trans women are placed in a situation where they’re at high risk of sexual assault and rape.”
2. Also, “What are trans men? Never heard of them.”
2. Also, “What are trans men? Never heard of them.”
NEW: Anas Sarwar has said he would act to ban transgender prisoners from women’s jails 'within days' if he becomes first minister after the May election
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
February 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
1. This translates to “I will within days act to ensure trans women are placed in a situation where they’re at high risk of sexual assault and rape.”
2. Also, “What are trans men? Never heard of them.”
2. Also, “What are trans men? Never heard of them.”
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The way this whole trans prisoners "debate" is taking place as if people usually just get chucked in prison with no analysis of possible risks they present to fellow inmates is wild, and I assume disingenuous from most journos
February 3, 2026 at 1:35 PM
The way this whole trans prisoners "debate" is taking place as if people usually just get chucked in prison with no analysis of possible risks they present to fellow inmates is wild, and I assume disingenuous from most journos
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What is it about being a highly educated person working at a place like the Financial Times that makes one think Arbeit Macht Frei? What is it about the thought of work being voluntary that makes one think we all will choose not to do anything? It's so frustrating to see them think they're so wise.
February 3, 2026 at 2:23 PM
What is it about being a highly educated person working at a place like the Financial Times that makes one think Arbeit Macht Frei? What is it about the thought of work being voluntary that makes one think we all will choose not to do anything? It's so frustrating to see them think they're so wise.
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Whereas if he could, JD Vance would wear a four piece suite
"The senior sub was a smoothly silver-haired gent of the old school. One could have said of Leo what Virginia Woolf said of T. S. Eliot; that if he could, he would have worn a four-piece suit."
For Fence #26, John Banville recalls his start in the newspaper biz.
www.the-fence.com/banville-pub...
For Fence #26, John Banville recalls his start in the newspaper biz.
www.the-fence.com/banville-pub...
Lead Heads
It would be libellous to print anything else.
www.the-fence.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Whereas if he could, JD Vance would wear a four piece suite
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They literally won't stop until they've made it impossible to be openly trans in the UK
February 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
They literally won't stop until they've made it impossible to be openly trans in the UK
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Musk and now Not Prince Andrew...
February 3, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Musk and now Not Prince Andrew...
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JUST IN: A search was being carried out at the French offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X as part of an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. https://cnn.it/4keUiI9
February 3, 2026 at 10:19 AM
JUST IN: A search was being carried out at the French offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X as part of an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. https://cnn.it/4keUiI9
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It would be good to get some transparency from government on the full extent of the roles and level of influence Mandelson has had since July 1992.
Three decades of malignant corruption at the very heart of The Establishment.
Three decades of malignant corruption at the very heart of The Establishment.
It would be good to get some transparency from government on the full extent of the roles and level of influence Mandelson has had since July 2024.
February 2, 2026 at 7:11 PM
It would be good to get some transparency from government on the full extent of the roles and level of influence Mandelson has had since July 1992.
Three decades of malignant corruption at the very heart of The Establishment.
Three decades of malignant corruption at the very heart of The Establishment.
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Gaiman launching his redemption campaign; be warned.
February 2, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Gaiman launching his redemption campaign; be warned.
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Andrew's multimillion pound 'cottage' that he has been sent to.
You are paying for this, does it seem like punishment to you?
You are paying for this, does it seem like punishment to you?
February 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Andrew's multimillion pound 'cottage' that he has been sent to.
You are paying for this, does it seem like punishment to you?
You are paying for this, does it seem like punishment to you?
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The McSweeney Mandelson relationship? Tell us more.
The PM's internal opponents will surely use the latest Mandelson revelations to emphasise his lack of political judgement in appointing Mandelson Ambassador to the US.
You'd think McSweeney's internal opponents, if they have a lick of sense, would start emphasising his own Mandelson relationship...
You'd think McSweeney's internal opponents, if they have a lick of sense, would start emphasising his own Mandelson relationship...
February 2, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The McSweeney Mandelson relationship? Tell us more.