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Researcher of anti-trans harms. Moody anarchafeminist. Just some dickhead. Sin is treating people as things. She/her. https://damselindystopia.ghost.io

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · Apr 11

If there are three things I want to impress on everybody who reads anything I write they are:
* It's about power
* Don't take fascists at face value
* I am literally just some dickhead

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · Apr 11

I cannot empahsise this enough; I am just some dickhead. If you have experience living in the world as a trans person and a baseline level of intellectual curiosity about the world you have the same qualifications to do this stuff I do.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 3h

Kids are getting blown up and starved and shot. I don't care if their parents literally personally want me dead, that's fucked up.

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 3h

Like can you imagine if queer activists went around saying we should bomb whole population centres to rubble if the ruling government of the area was queerphobic? What do you think the response would be?

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 3h

The thing is that even if there weren't queer Palestinians in Gaza who are being killed by the IDF, even if every single individual Palestinian were a raging homophobe or transphobe (they aren't), it still wouldn't be okay to murder them with explosives.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

She’s not wrong as Israel would exterminate them just as Israel exterminates everyone.

It’s the same stupid argument for the past decade. These people think that Queer Palestinians don’t exist, that they’re not also being starved to death and bombed from the skies by that genocidal state.

World+
HERTA MÜLLER
"In Gaza, the Queers for Palestine would not survive for half an hour."
By Jan Philipp Burgard
Editor-in-Chief WELT Group
As of 04.10.2025 | Reading time: 11 minutes

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 4h

"Umm actually it's patriotism not nationalism."

Those are the same thing with different affects attached.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 5h

It terrifies me how much we're seeing stuff like this. What powerful institutions are doing is treating our existence as an emergency, a state of exception.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 5h

The way that major healthcare institutions have just decided the rules don't apply when it comes to trans people. Research ethics? Consent? Basic human dignity? Those would just be too inconvenient and it's only a bunch of trannies.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 8h

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 12h

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 12h

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner

Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

www.forskning.no

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Without Pity @withoutpity.bsky.social · 5h

Holding up a copy of The New World at the train station but shaking my head the whole time so the BTP won't arrest me on terrorism charges.

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 14h

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18h

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20h

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 6h

It's reassuring to know that even in these tumultuous times, some things are constants, like Billy Bragg showing his arse trying to do progressive English nationalism.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 17h

That's a system you should stop using if you can't fix it tbh.

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 17h

It seems like a non-trivial problem, to me, if your automated moderation system is routinely hiding images of disabled people because it misclassifies them as sexual content.

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

It's an automated system, so unfortunately this is an error that gets made surprisingly often with prosthetics.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 21h

Trans people banned from professional darts spectating after research shows we have an unfair advantage in alcoholism and obnoxious singing.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 21h

Transgender for some, miniature American flags for others.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

Terrifyingly, there are over 7 billion people in the world who didn't vite for Kamala Harris in the 2024 US Presidential Election. The monsters.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, but only if Zack is very lucky.

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

The conditions that got us the NHS and the rest of the post war settlement don't exist anymore. We got all that shit because the ruling class were terrified of us, that isn't true now.

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski seems like a nice man but do we really need a historical reenactment of things that happened just 10 years ago?

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

I fucking hope not. Look what the last mass party the British left made is doing.

Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 1d

Can the Greens become a mass party of the left?

Owen Jones: The Greens can become a mass party of the left under Zack Polanski’s leadership

"There's a sense that the Greens seem to think that this is their time"

leftfootforward.org

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Rhi Belle @spoopyspoonie.bsky.social · 1d

Captioned full version of my speech on intersecting trans and disabled issues and solidarities at the DPAC protest at Labour conference.

It was very windy ha

Also yes I was shouting bits of it because another noisy demo appeared part way through.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ms...

Speech at the Disabled People Against Cuts Demo at Labour party conference

YouTube video by SpoopySpoonie

www.youtube.com

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

So federation is an interesting attempt to do social media in a decentralised way, but in practice atm the infrastructure is all centralised. How many Mastodon instances are actually running on machines the admins own and have physical access to? I'm sure some are, I bet most aren't.

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

In line with the new, nicer face of patriotism, the Home Office will now decide asylum claims with a baking competition judged by Paul Hollywood. In order to reassure Reform voters that the process will still be sufficiently cruel and dehumanising, Noel Fielding will still be involved.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking fascism with Keith Lemon characteristics.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

"There's actually a progressive kind of British nationalism and it's all the most aesthetically hideous and annoying aspects of our culture."

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