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@clairq.bsky.social
Club Tropicana's beverage pricing consultant (they/them)
Read my stuff, nerds: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4554-7291
Read my stuff, nerds: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4554-7291
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Forever on the look-out for the perfect image to go with my favourite quote from A Lover's Discourse
Oh coooool look @joshuashaw.bsky.social has published his piece on body bequests prior to the Anatomy Act of 1832 and I know from when he presented it at KLS that this is absolutely fascinating stuff www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Oh coooool look @joshuashaw.bsky.social has published his piece on body bequests prior to the Anatomy Act of 1832 and I know from when he presented it at KLS that this is absolutely fascinating stuff www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The full final cover is in and I would just like to draw your attention to that slim elegant spine - you will be able to get through this bad boy over the course of a medium-length train journey and arrive at your destination freshly conscious of the alien lifeform that battens on our biosphere
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The full final cover is in and I would just like to draw your attention to that slim elegant spine - you will be able to get through this bad boy over the course of a medium-length train journey and arrive at your destination freshly conscious of the alien lifeform that battens on our biosphere
there is YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A HOUSE discourse going on & I just want to say that it is very mean and contemptible to download pirate copies of stuff being sold by independent creators but downloading pirated corporate IP is a solemn moral duty xx
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
there is YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A HOUSE discourse going on & I just want to say that it is very mean and contemptible to download pirate copies of stuff being sold by independent creators but downloading pirated corporate IP is a solemn moral duty xx
Oooh I should add that it has attracted this very helpful endorsement quote:
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Oooh I should add that it has attracted this very helpful endorsement quote:
Just saw a bleet that describes capitalism as "an economic system that depends on a constantly accelerating throughput of material resources". I agree that that is what it is!! HOWEVER. Did U know that there is no science of it, as such? You would think maybe Marxism? Biophysical economics? but no.
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Just saw a bleet that describes capitalism as "an economic system that depends on a constantly accelerating throughput of material resources". I agree that that is what it is!! HOWEVER. Did U know that there is no science of it, as such? You would think maybe Marxism? Biophysical economics? but no.
a movie that takes place where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
a movie that takes place where you're from
thinking about this has reminded me that the cross-examination of me in Forstater v CGD was based on the proposition that the reason I was giving evidence at all was attention-seeking and ... I think it is pretty clear from how things have unfolded which one out of the two of us likes attention lol
I don't mind changing in public I have done it a lot on beaches, by rivers &c. But it annoys me that I am characterised by the cis as having some kind of attention-seeking/imposing-my-fetish-on-them thing going on yet it is THEM forcing ME to expose my hermaphrodite body to their prurient gaze. 2/n
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
thinking about this has reminded me that the cross-examination of me in Forstater v CGD was based on the proposition that the reason I was giving evidence at all was attention-seeking and ... I think it is pretty clear from how things have unfolded which one out of the two of us likes attention lol
The pic is of the mixed pond which is the only one I can swim at because I am neither a man nor a woman. Ironically (in the Alanis Morissette sense) the mixed pond has only men's and women's changing areas, so despite it being the only pond I can swim at, it still manages to be exclusionary. 1/n
It’s almost crunch time for a legal challenge from an anti-trans pressure group which could see trans people banned from Hampstead women’s pond.
With the hearing coming up on 17th December, we’re not backing down.
https://goodlaw.social/giqe
With the hearing coming up on 17th December, we’re not backing down.
https://goodlaw.social/giqe
We’re standing with trans people against hate at Hampstead women’s pond | Good Law Project
It’s almost crunch time for a legal challenge from an anti-trans pressure group which could see trans people banned from Hampstead women’s pond. We’re not backing down.
goodlaw.social
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The pic is of the mixed pond which is the only one I can swim at because I am neither a man nor a woman. Ironically (in the Alanis Morissette sense) the mixed pond has only men's and women's changing areas, so despite it being the only pond I can swim at, it still manages to be exclusionary. 1/n
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Labour pushing through a milkshake tax as a means to make milkshakes too expensive to throw at them
November 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Labour pushing through a milkshake tax as a means to make milkshakes too expensive to throw at them
Wowee this (Cross) is the EHRC's lawyer arguing in court that a trans-inclusive women's loo is *discriminatory against cis men* because the men's might have a queue which trans women can skip HAVE YOU NOT NOTICED WHICH LOO HAS THE QUEUE OUTSIDE IT BACK IN THE REAL WORLD KISHWER MAYBE FIX THAT??
33/ Cross suggested that perhaps they are not side by side, and there might be a queue. The judge responded that a queue would be transient and would not amount to direct discrimination.
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Wowee this (Cross) is the EHRC's lawyer arguing in court that a trans-inclusive women's loo is *discriminatory against cis men* because the men's might have a queue which trans women can skip HAVE YOU NOT NOTICED WHICH LOO HAS THE QUEUE OUTSIDE IT BACK IN THE REAL WORLD KISHWER MAYBE FIX THAT??
absolutely can't get over that Charli xcx John Cale song/video - incredible work
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
absolutely can't get over that Charli xcx John Cale song/video - incredible work
hahahahaha amusing myself no end by dreaming up seminar questions for my students
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
hahahahaha amusing myself no end by dreaming up seminar questions for my students
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Genuinely believe with my whole heart that the stances on trans rights taken by @zackpolanski.bsky.social are contributing massively to a load of emotionally burn-out and mentally exhausted trans people having hope for the first time in bloody ages.
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Genuinely believe with my whole heart that the stances on trans rights taken by @zackpolanski.bsky.social are contributing massively to a load of emotionally burn-out and mentally exhausted trans people having hope for the first time in bloody ages.
Sadly 20th Century Studios have denied me permission to use this quote as the epigraph for my value theory book
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Sadly 20th Century Studios have denied me permission to use this quote as the epigraph for my value theory book
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I want it to be on the record that I have supported our new Carnivorous Death Ball overlords from the very first day
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I want it to be on the record that I have supported our new Carnivorous Death Ball overlords from the very first day
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Details of the Garzweiler surface mine - Germany
🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/JJbyiLQvkJ8R...
4K link : imgur.com/a/h5r35F5
🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/JJbyiLQvkJ8R...
4K link : imgur.com/a/h5r35F5
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Details of the Garzweiler surface mine - Germany
🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/JJbyiLQvkJ8R...
4K link : imgur.com/a/h5r35F5
🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/JJbyiLQvkJ8R...
4K link : imgur.com/a/h5r35F5
this strikes me as a really good framing - @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social is this one you considered in your work on this stuff?
We need to frame this as “Billionaires need to *take less* - framing it as they’re going to “pay more” implies that they’ve somehow ‘earned’ their billions - “taking less” (including taking less tax breaks) so that there’s more to go around for everyone else is grounded in equity narratives.
The Spectator are confused.
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
this strikes me as a really good framing - @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social is this one you considered in your work on this stuff?
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the secret is that we keep marxism sort of confused & rough around the edges so that you (you in particular!) can have the joy of setting it right. it’s like a proof left to the reader, or those scenes in video games where you have to press the X button quickly to save the world
November 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
the secret is that we keep marxism sort of confused & rough around the edges so that you (you in particular!) can have the joy of setting it right. it’s like a proof left to the reader, or those scenes in video games where you have to press the X button quickly to save the world
it has never ever occurred to me that I might want to go into politics but the office of "aloof wife" would suit me I think
November 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
it has never ever occurred to me that I might want to go into politics but the office of "aloof wife" would suit me I think
This is the core ontological point. Biological sex is 100% real, but it is a process, not a set of categories.
The category not the act. The latter is real and it’s great. The former is made up jibber jabber.
November 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This is the core ontological point. Biological sex is 100% real, but it is a process, not a set of categories.
ye gods if the reason Streeting is deliberately torturing trans children is because the press are holding back shit they have on him then there really can be no hell hot enough
and those things aren't even "we will be mean to your party's tax policy" they are "we will pull out the file on wes streeting's extracurricular activities"
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
ye gods if the reason Streeting is deliberately torturing trans children is because the press are holding back shit they have on him then there really can be no hell hot enough
Further to "late capitalism" having definitively begun on that specific fateful day in 1976, look at the kind of thing that was unleashed?? 👇👀
48 years ago today (4 November 1977), the New Statesman published this article about divisions in the Communist Party of Great Britain. It is the first written use that I have found of the term ‘tankie’ to describe someone who (uncritically) supported the Soviet Union.
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Further to "late capitalism" having definitively begun on that specific fateful day in 1976, look at the kind of thing that was unleashed?? 👇👀
I feel like we should designate the era of "late capitalism" as starting on the date the Penguin edition of Capital was published and throw it a birthday party next year
"there is no need to look very far for indications that capitalism's heyday is over. " -- Ernest Mandel, 1976
November 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I feel like we should designate the era of "late capitalism" as starting on the date the Penguin edition of Capital was published and throw it a birthday party next year
Forever on the look-out for the perfect image to go with my favourite quote from A Lover's Discourse
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Forever on the look-out for the perfect image to go with my favourite quote from A Lover's Discourse
omg why was Picard the paradigm facepalm when this still has been out there all along???
Troi in particular suffered terrible hangovers.
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
omg why was Picard the paradigm facepalm when this still has been out there all along???