Fiona of the Fifth
@eitheror2025.bsky.social
Please point me to the nearest dark academia chronotope.
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I would wear a 1950s British boarding schoolgirl uniform every day if it were socially acceptable.
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If you're not familiar with this "debate", I can promise you that I am not being uncharitable here at all: this is what highly-regarded "gender-critical" intellectuals like Emma Hilton and Colin Wright actually believe.
[“GC” voice] I’ll see your 3500 scientists and their paltry empirical evidence and raise you a teleological and positively creationist-adjacent theory of sex in which humans (evolved organisms) are comparable to buses (designed objects), with unchangeable destinations.
December 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you're not familiar with this "debate", I can promise you that I am not being uncharitable here at all: this is what highly-regarded "gender-critical" intellectuals like Emma Hilton and Colin Wright actually believe.
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3500 scientists, biologists and experts in human sexual development write to the US government saying that sex isn't binary
www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...
www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...
Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender
President Donald J Trump Washington, DC Members of the US Congress Washington, DC February 5, 2025 RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender Dear President Trump and Members of the US Congr...
www.evolutionsociety.org
February 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
3500 scientists, biologists and experts in human sexual development write to the US government saying that sex isn't binary
www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...
www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...
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there is no moral universe in which someone who ran on QAnon and supported a coup is pro-democracy, and if there is, it’s worse than worthless
The pro-democracy movement needs to include factions which we disagree with vehemently on all other matters.
That’s the point of a pro-democracy movement—we aren’t aligned on the direction of our society, but we all agree we should have a right to contest it freely and fairly.
That’s the point of a pro-democracy movement—we aren’t aligned on the direction of our society, but we all agree we should have a right to contest it freely and fairly.
December 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
there is no moral universe in which someone who ran on QAnon and supported a coup is pro-democracy, and if there is, it’s worse than worthless
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New Story: MP Visits Saint Clare – Part VIII – Mustn’t Grumble Gladys
Evening at Bryn Derwen.
Everyone fed.
Everyone settled.
Well, almost everyone.
mijasroom.net/mp-visits-sa...
#FamilyDiscipline, #historicalfiction, #TearsAtBedtime
Evening at Bryn Derwen.
Everyone fed.
Everyone settled.
Well, almost everyone.
mijasroom.net/mp-visits-sa...
#FamilyDiscipline, #historicalfiction, #TearsAtBedtime
MP Visits Saint Clare – Part VIII – Mustn’t Grumble Gladys
The story of Inez de Vries unfolds through a constellation of documents—some official, drawn from the prim and unforgiving files of Saint Clare’s School for Girls; others more intimate, taken from …
mijasroom.net
December 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
New Story: MP Visits Saint Clare – Part VIII – Mustn’t Grumble Gladys
Evening at Bryn Derwen.
Everyone fed.
Everyone settled.
Well, almost everyone.
mijasroom.net/mp-visits-sa...
#FamilyDiscipline, #historicalfiction, #TearsAtBedtime
Evening at Bryn Derwen.
Everyone fed.
Everyone settled.
Well, almost everyone.
mijasroom.net/mp-visits-sa...
#FamilyDiscipline, #historicalfiction, #TearsAtBedtime
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New Story! MP Visits Saint Clare — Part VII
Ghastly Gladys
Former pupils are reminded that leaving school does not necessarily end one’s education. Tea is served. Attendance is compulsory, summer holidays notwithstanding.
mijasroom.net/mp-visits-sa...
Ghastly Gladys
Former pupils are reminded that leaving school does not necessarily end one’s education. Tea is served. Attendance is compulsory, summer holidays notwithstanding.
mijasroom.net/mp-visits-sa...
MP Visits Saint Clare – Part VII – Ghastly Gladys
The story of Inez de Vries unfolds through a constellation of documents—some official, drawn from the prim and unforgiving files of Saint Clare’s School for Girls; others more intimate, taken from …
mijasroom.net
December 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
New Story! MP Visits Saint Clare — Part VII
Ghastly Gladys
Former pupils are reminded that leaving school does not necessarily end one’s education. Tea is served. Attendance is compulsory, summer holidays notwithstanding.
mijasroom.net/mp-visits-sa...
Ghastly Gladys
Former pupils are reminded that leaving school does not necessarily end one’s education. Tea is served. Attendance is compulsory, summer holidays notwithstanding.
mijasroom.net/mp-visits-sa...
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BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
December 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
Irish Catholic priest who outwits Nazis.
Joseph O’Connor, “The Ghosts of Rome”
Joseph O’Connor, “The Ghosts of Rome”
I'm the head magic teacher at a British boarding school.
Emily Tesh, "The Incandescent"
Emily Tesh, "The Incandescent"
December 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Irish Catholic priest who outwits Nazis.
Joseph O’Connor, “The Ghosts of Rome”
Joseph O’Connor, “The Ghosts of Rome”
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It isn’t darkest before dawn.
An entry from Inez’s diary, written after lights-out at Saint Clare’s.
mijasroom.net/inezs-diary-...
An entry from Inez’s diary, written after lights-out at Saint Clare’s.
mijasroom.net/inezs-diary-...
The MP Visits Saint Clare, Part VI – Inez’s Diary, 13 July 1955
The story of Inez de Vries unfolds through a constellation of documents—some official, drawn from the prim and unforgiving files of Saint Clare’s School for Girls; others more intimate, taken from …
mijasroom.net
December 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It isn’t darkest before dawn.
An entry from Inez’s diary, written after lights-out at Saint Clare’s.
mijasroom.net/inezs-diary-...
An entry from Inez’s diary, written after lights-out at Saint Clare’s.
mijasroom.net/inezs-diary-...
I would wear a 1950s British boarding schoolgirl uniform every day if it were socially acceptable.
December 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I would wear a 1950s British boarding schoolgirl uniform every day if it were socially acceptable.
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Just read this brilliant article about craftivism - activism by crafters - in the US. The fibre artists particularly are doing some wonderful work as a compassionate & creative community. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Weapons of mass construction’: the US ‘craftivists’ using yarn to fight back against Trump
Fiber artists across the US are using their craft to protest against everything from national guard deployments to rollbacks on abortion rights
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Just read this brilliant article about craftivism - activism by crafters - in the US. The fibre artists particularly are doing some wonderful work as a compassionate & creative community. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I've quietly watched Brynn go through this for the past year. It's absolutely heartbreaking. I'm glad she can share her story now but it's rough. She gave her life to helping people and doing medivac rescues with the California national guard and she's being tossed out line trash because she's trans
I told my story. It's behind a paywall, but here it is. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
A California National Guard pilot warned about Trump for years. Now she’s being forced out
Brynn Tannehill is a Navy-trained helicopter pilot who joined the California Air National Guard in 2023. She says she’s being kicked out for being transgender.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I've quietly watched Brynn go through this for the past year. It's absolutely heartbreaking. I'm glad she can share her story now but it's rough. She gave her life to helping people and doing medivac rescues with the California national guard and she's being tossed out line trash because she's trans
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The Sunday Times has a feature on "Alternative Honours 2025" and have included For Women Scotland.
Note how we are now at 'man who wishes to identify as a woman', not even 'identifies as' anymore, which was bad to begin with.
Note how we are now at 'man who wishes to identify as a woman', not even 'identifies as' anymore, which was bad to begin with.
December 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The Sunday Times has a feature on "Alternative Honours 2025" and have included For Women Scotland.
Note how we are now at 'man who wishes to identify as a woman', not even 'identifies as' anymore, which was bad to begin with.
Note how we are now at 'man who wishes to identify as a woman', not even 'identifies as' anymore, which was bad to begin with.
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If only journalists and magazine producers didn’t have to pay rent and mortgages. But it’s Christmas, so here’s a gift link.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
What if Our Ancestors Didn’t Feel Anything Like We Do?
The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow
www.theatlantic.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
If only journalists and magazine producers didn’t have to pay rent and mortgages. But it’s Christmas, so here’s a gift link.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Always come back to this observation from @adamserwer.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Always come back to this observation from @adamserwer.bsky.social
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First time I scuba dived a coral reef, I saw hammerhead sharks, a giant sea turtle older than my parents, a barracuda swam with me, then a manta ray came by close enough to touch. I was ecstatic but the boat captain said 20 years ago there was 20x as much life there. On the surface, a TV floated by.
December 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
First time I scuba dived a coral reef, I saw hammerhead sharks, a giant sea turtle older than my parents, a barracuda swam with me, then a manta ray came by close enough to touch. I was ecstatic but the boat captain said 20 years ago there was 20x as much life there. On the surface, a TV floated by.
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I sincerely believe the real cultural impact of Avatar is pretty fucked up and poignant: for most people on Earth, its computer generated imagery of an imagined planet made by artists is the only affordable way to connect to an immersive experience of natural habitats we’ve already destroyed here.
December 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I sincerely believe the real cultural impact of Avatar is pretty fucked up and poignant: for most people on Earth, its computer generated imagery of an imagined planet made by artists is the only affordable way to connect to an immersive experience of natural habitats we’ve already destroyed here.
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Few things have made me feel as nihilistic as the way genocide in Sudan has been allowed to unfold with minimal comment from anyone outside the Sudanese diaspora community
"The massacres in El Fasher are among the most predicted slaughters in the history of atrocities. Yet no one, from world leaders to the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, has made it a sufficient focus."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
Opinion | This Is What the Murder of a Whole City Looks Like
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Few things have made me feel as nihilistic as the way genocide in Sudan has been allowed to unfold with minimal comment from anyone outside the Sudanese diaspora community
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A disturbing account from a Queens woman describes immigration detention with her first-grade daughter.
hellgatenyc.com/from-queens-...
hellgatenyc.com/from-queens-...
A Queens Woman Describes What It’s Like to Be Held in Immigration Detention With Her First Grader
In an affidavit filed from detention in Dilley, Texas, the woman describes filth, cruelty, medical neglect, and negligible schooling.
hellgatenyc.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A disturbing account from a Queens woman describes immigration detention with her first-grade daughter.
hellgatenyc.com/from-queens-...
hellgatenyc.com/from-queens-...
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We are currently in discussion with the NPCC about their policy of strip searches of transitioned women (in which we are treated as men because of the SC ruling).
I'm going to just share with you exactly how incoherent the NPCC are, underlining just ONE tiny aspect of their response.
I'm going to just share with you exactly how incoherent the NPCC are, underlining just ONE tiny aspect of their response.
December 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
We are currently in discussion with the NPCC about their policy of strip searches of transitioned women (in which we are treated as men because of the SC ruling).
I'm going to just share with you exactly how incoherent the NPCC are, underlining just ONE tiny aspect of their response.
I'm going to just share with you exactly how incoherent the NPCC are, underlining just ONE tiny aspect of their response.
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This dipshit put Erika Kirk, the wife of a murdered guy that most of America didn't even know existed, on a Town Hall on CBS News and no one fucking watched because no one cares. How on earth is that kind of behavior 'working to win back American viewers'. Do you hear yourself
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss said she held back a “60 Minutes” segment earlier this week because it needed additional reporting and she is working to win back the trust of American viewers.
Bari Weiss defends held “60 Minutes” story in email to CBS News staff
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss shelved a “60 minutes” segment because she said it needed additional reporting, including an interview with a Trump administration official.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This dipshit put Erika Kirk, the wife of a murdered guy that most of America didn't even know existed, on a Town Hall on CBS News and no one fucking watched because no one cares. How on earth is that kind of behavior 'working to win back American viewers'. Do you hear yourself
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Fake victim successfully victimizes a trans teaching assistant. The actual bully here was always the student.
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 3:19 PM
Fake victim successfully victimizes a trans teaching assistant. The actual bully here was always the student.
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we live in hell
Trump: We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election
December 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
we live in hell
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Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
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This is the most interesting story of the week.
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
December 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
This is the most interesting story of the week.