Zoë 🇺🇦🏳️🌈
@zoesomelastname.bsky.social
Software developer / shambolic type ADHD / cat servant / trans woman / she / her
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Having trans women not stripped and humiliated by men is like the barest fucking allowance you could give an over-policed demographic of women, but no, the British state wants to institutionalise the sexual assault of trannies at the hands of men, specifically!
December 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Having trans women not stripped and humiliated by men is like the barest fucking allowance you could give an over-policed demographic of women, but no, the British state wants to institutionalise the sexual assault of trannies at the hands of men, specifically!
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the trans person’s dilemma
We will always be defined in the manner which most disadvantages us, even if it directly contradicts a) observable reality and b) the way the same people defined us five minutes before
December 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
the trans person’s dilemma
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My distressingly earnest take on a lot of stuff is that the real divide in politics is by people who are ultimately driven by love and joy and those who are primarily driven by hate and anger. Each finds different objects, policies and directions, but the chasm is between rather than among each side
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
My distressingly earnest take on a lot of stuff is that the real divide in politics is by people who are ultimately driven by love and joy and those who are primarily driven by hate and anger. Each finds different objects, policies and directions, but the chasm is between rather than among each side
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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
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Yes, my sincerely held belief is that people who insist on having an always spotless kitchen are 1) underemployed 2) people who don't cook every day 3) sociopaths
December 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Yes, my sincerely held belief is that people who insist on having an always spotless kitchen are 1) underemployed 2) people who don't cook every day 3) sociopaths
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“If the Christian world is to honour the meaning of Christmas, it must turn its gaze to Bethlehem — not the imagined one, but the real one, a town whose people today still cry out for justice, dignity and peace.”
A powerful reminder of what is at stake for Palestinians and other oppressed people.
A powerful reminder of what is at stake for Palestinians and other oppressed people.
Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one
Christmas is a story of empire, injustice and the vulnerability of ordinary people caught in its path.
www.aljazeera.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“If the Christian world is to honour the meaning of Christmas, it must turn its gaze to Bethlehem — not the imagined one, but the real one, a town whose people today still cry out for justice, dignity and peace.”
A powerful reminder of what is at stake for Palestinians and other oppressed people.
A powerful reminder of what is at stake for Palestinians and other oppressed people.
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An absolutely ideal story for the day. Wrenched the heart. Merry Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
An absolutely ideal story for the day. Wrenched the heart. Merry Christmas.
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
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EU citizen dies while being detained by US federal paramilitaries
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
abc7chicago.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
EU citizen dies while being detained by US federal paramilitaries
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It's a little depressing how a lot of the critical traction this story has got is treating it as primarily a faith thing or an academia thing, and not as what it actually is: a concerted effort to hound trans people out of public life
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It's a little depressing how a lot of the critical traction this story has got is treating it as primarily a faith thing or an academia thing, and not as what it actually is: a concerted effort to hound trans people out of public life
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Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other.
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
buttondown.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other.
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
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I can’t think why every prominent transphobe in the UK keeps coming out with takes like ‘don’t cut off your abusive family’
Yeah, no thanks.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
December 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I can’t think why every prominent transphobe in the UK keeps coming out with takes like ‘don’t cut off your abusive family’
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Vast majority of anti-trans activism
December 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Vast majority of anti-trans activism
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The BBC and Herald are both linking arms in a journalistic hit on the judge of the Sandie Peggie case in which both struggle to pretend that alterations to the judgement which include changing a capital letter to a lower case letter should be considered an issue of major judicial malpractice.
December 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The BBC and Herald are both linking arms in a journalistic hit on the judge of the Sandie Peggie case in which both struggle to pretend that alterations to the judgement which include changing a capital letter to a lower case letter should be considered an issue of major judicial malpractice.
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“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
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The Labour Party, here to make sure people do as much labour as possible
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Four-day week may be considered a sign of failure, England councils told
Local government secretary writes to town halls warning them against ‘part-time work for full-time pay’
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The Labour Party, here to make sure people do as much labour as possible
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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It looks like the UK playbook because they're both using the same playbook.
An actual conspiracy.
An actual conspiracy.
Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise.
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
The Neglected Front in RFK Jr.’s War on Science — Assigned
As trans healthcare is decimated no one is standing up for the integrity of the scientific process for these patients.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It looks like the UK playbook because they're both using the same playbook.
An actual conspiracy.
An actual conspiracy.
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There are no end of stupid decisions made by this government but this is in the top five.
December 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
There are no end of stupid decisions made by this government but this is in the top five.
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'Listen to me as I come to your neighbourhood and tell your trans siblings they are subhuman or I will use the wealth of billionaires to sue you into oblivion,' is a very late-capitalism form of free speech right.
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
'Listen to me as I come to your neighbourhood and tell your trans siblings they are subhuman or I will use the wealth of billionaires to sue you into oblivion,' is a very late-capitalism form of free speech right.
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I'm a trans woman who, if anyone ever asks, will give my deadname as a different male name each time. It's been the single fastest way to find people who talk behind my back. If that name leaks I know just who leaked it and just who to instant block forever.
December 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I'm a trans woman who, if anyone ever asks, will give my deadname as a different male name each time. It's been the single fastest way to find people who talk behind my back. If that name leaks I know just who leaked it and just who to instant block forever.
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If we really want to live up to our self appointed title of the Free World, then we never should allowed it to go this far. And now that we have we, and everyone else who claims to value freedom and basic dignity of human beings, have a responsibility to clean it up.
December 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If we really want to live up to our self appointed title of the Free World, then we never should allowed it to go this far. And now that we have we, and everyone else who claims to value freedom and basic dignity of human beings, have a responsibility to clean it up.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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When Cass, or anyone, says there's been no increase in trans youth suicidality since the imposition of the puberty blocker ban, it is a lie.
Cass literally saying there has been no increase in suicide as a result of her ban on puberty-blockers.
Tell that to the family of Leia Sampson-Grimbly.
She is also ignoring all the other harm her ban is causing, that I have documented here in my peer-reviewed (unlike the Cass Review) research.
Tell that to the family of Leia Sampson-Grimbly.
She is also ignoring all the other harm her ban is causing, that I have documented here in my peer-reviewed (unlike the Cass Review) research.
December 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
When Cass, or anyone, says there's been no increase in trans youth suicidality since the imposition of the puberty blocker ban, it is a lie.
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LEAK of Hilary Cass talk:
Check other quote skeets for detailed analysis.
Basically, Cass is using an entirely unevidenced/contradicted by evidence idea that kids are being pushed into being trans.
This is anti-trans propaganda: the debunked “social contagion”/“trans the gay way” theories.
Check other quote skeets for detailed analysis.
Basically, Cass is using an entirely unevidenced/contradicted by evidence idea that kids are being pushed into being trans.
This is anti-trans propaganda: the debunked “social contagion”/“trans the gay way” theories.
Leaked audio from Cass talking to NHS Sheffield.
drive.proton.me/urls/EPMR96E...
Leak is thanks to Trans Kids Deserve Better
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drive.proton.me/urls/EPMR96E...
Leak is thanks to Trans Kids Deserve Better
www.instagram.com/reel/DSf3rqb...
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December 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
LEAK of Hilary Cass talk:
Check other quote skeets for detailed analysis.
Basically, Cass is using an entirely unevidenced/contradicted by evidence idea that kids are being pushed into being trans.
This is anti-trans propaganda: the debunked “social contagion”/“trans the gay way” theories.
Check other quote skeets for detailed analysis.
Basically, Cass is using an entirely unevidenced/contradicted by evidence idea that kids are being pushed into being trans.
This is anti-trans propaganda: the debunked “social contagion”/“trans the gay way” theories.
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“…the (Cass) review also disregarded the level of harm caused by denying youth with gender dysphoria access to puberty blockers and hormone therapy. Her research found “the harm the UK puberty-blocker ban has caused is truly appalling”.
This needs to be said, and said often, and said loudly!
This needs to be said, and said often, and said loudly!
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“…the (Cass) review also disregarded the level of harm caused by denying youth with gender dysphoria access to puberty blockers and hormone therapy. Her research found “the harm the UK puberty-blocker ban has caused is truly appalling”.
This needs to be said, and said often, and said loudly!
This needs to be said, and said often, and said loudly!