JC Hoskins 🏳️⚧️🍉
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Smol comrade, inveterate dawdler, extruder of words. English bastard dwelling in beautiful Wales. Pic by Mattie Lubchansky.
They/them.
They/them.
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Stanley Spencer painted about a dozen landscapes in and around Leonard Stanley in Gloucestershire during the early 1940s. The village, not far from Stroud, contains the remains of a Benedictine priory which lies at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment.
January 18, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Stanley Spencer painted about a dozen landscapes in and around Leonard Stanley in Gloucestershire during the early 1940s. The village, not far from Stroud, contains the remains of a Benedictine priory which lies at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment.
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Here are a couple of photos I've taken that prove GHOSTS ARE REAL.
December 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Here are a couple of photos I've taken that prove GHOSTS ARE REAL.
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Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital
MPs and next of kin of prisoners Amu Gib, 30, and Kamran Ahmed, 28, call for immediate government intervention
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Read some of the stuff written by Irish hunger strikers who survived. These people will suffer the impact of this on their bodies for the rest of their lives, if they survive and, at this point, that is getting increasingly unlikely.
Via Prisoners for Palestine… take action: linktr.ee/prisoners4pal #Palestine
December 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Read some of the stuff written by Irish hunger strikers who survived. These people will suffer the impact of this on their bodies for the rest of their lives, if they survive and, at this point, that is getting increasingly unlikely.
This is what genuine, courageous allyship looks like.
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This is what genuine, courageous allyship looks like.
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In November 1990, LIFE Magazine ran a now-legendary photograph of AIDS activist David Kirby’s last moments. Just out of frame was another eventual victim of AIDS, and the reason Therese Frare was in the room at all; Peta, a two-spirit caretaker with their own story to tell.
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December 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
In November 1990, LIFE Magazine ran a now-legendary photograph of AIDS activist David Kirby’s last moments. Just out of frame was another eventual victim of AIDS, and the reason Therese Frare was in the room at all; Peta, a two-spirit caretaker with their own story to tell.
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By @piperbomb.bsky.social
Ah fuck.
9 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social .bsky.social -- UK tribunal declares nonbinary ppl can't sue under employment laws bec. these cover those "moving from one sex to the other &,the claimant is not proposing, nor do they intend to take any steps to reassign their sex from that of female to male."
Tribunal rules non-binary does not meet trans protections
Non-binary worker who claimed harassment loses case after judge rules they did not have gender reassignment protected characteristic.
www.personneltoday.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Ah fuck.
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Note that equivalent men's and boys' organisations like the Scouts and the Men and Boys Coalition (for whatever criticisms you can make of them) aren't feeling compelled to expel trans men and boys. Weird how this is only effecting women's and girl's organisations.
All these statements being made with "utmost regret and sadness" fundamentally don't change the fact that these organisations are all folding to appease one vexatious bigot because she has infinite money, instead of doing the right thing and sticking by their guns and ignoring the Supreme Court.
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Note that equivalent men's and boys' organisations like the Scouts and the Men and Boys Coalition (for whatever criticisms you can make of them) aren't feeling compelled to expel trans men and boys. Weird how this is only effecting women's and girl's organisations.
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Are trans people allowed to visit other people's houses at Xmas this year or does some randomer think that's an issue, too, so we're banned?
December 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Are trans people allowed to visit other people's houses at Xmas this year or does some randomer think that's an issue, too, so we're banned?
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Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
theintercept.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
Tiny and remarkably affecting! Go on, read it, it’s only small, and worth the time.
Why not take a moment to savor cake by the ocean? Sometimes the little joys are all that's left for us.
Cake By the Ocean - Small Wonders
A piece of birthday cake in Dublin. A red party hat with a snapped elastic band. Limp balloon rags with the number 5 printed on the plastic.
smallwondersmag.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Tiny and remarkably affecting! Go on, read it, it’s only small, and worth the time.
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In highly important news from history today, it’s the 80th anniversary of the 21st birthday of Christopher Tolkien, notable now for the wording (especially the small print) of the invitation to the party
November 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
In highly important news from history today, it’s the 80th anniversary of the 21st birthday of Christopher Tolkien, notable now for the wording (especially the small print) of the invitation to the party
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Tactical ketchup. Performance mustard. Weapons grade sriracha.
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Tactical ketchup. Performance mustard. Weapons grade sriracha.
The world is so much brighter for the work she did in life.
Just came back here to share a more detailed obituary written by her friend for the @thesicktimes.org.
It includes her activism in support of 🇵🇸, and her advocacy and support for people with Long Covid.
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
It includes her activism in support of 🇵🇸, and her advocacy and support for people with Long Covid.
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The world is so much brighter for the work she did in life.
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love this absolute moonshot of humor & joy from Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com — read “A Home Run,” new on hex today !!! 👇🥎🏟️🔥
A Home Run by Dan Weaver
Back it goes that seems like a long one! Still going! Still up there just going and going! It's gone! Outta here! Literally in outer space. Upsetting the logical order of the universe on that one. Hom...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
love this absolute moonshot of humor & joy from Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com — read “A Home Run,” new on hex today !!! 👇🥎🏟️🔥
Read the thread for further context. The original guidance was terrible and this is terrible.
A man got a blowjob from a trans woman and after his friends mocked him, he called the police and filed a criminal complaint. Now she has been convicted of sexual assault for not disclosing she was trans and will now have to register as a sex offender.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Thornaby transgender woman guilty of sexually assaulting man
Ciara Watkin lied about being a biological female when the pair had a sexual liaison, a court hears.
www.bbc.com
August 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Read the thread for further context. The original guidance was terrible and this is terrible.
OH HELLO BEAUTIFUL BOOK
FANCY MEETING YOU ON MY DOORMAT
FANCY MEETING YOU ON MY DOORMAT
August 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
OH HELLO BEAUTIFUL BOOK
FANCY MEETING YOU ON MY DOORMAT
FANCY MEETING YOU ON MY DOORMAT
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a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
August 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
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Good to see the updates on this thread. Sticking many of these authors’ books right up the top of my TBR!
Keeping track of people withdrawing from the Polari Prize Longlist over the inclusion of proud self-described "TERF" John Boyne.
Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.
Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.
August 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Good to see the updates on this thread. Sticking many of these authors’ books right up the top of my TBR!
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Those on the Left who think it's just Identity Politics irrelevant to class have an incoherent model of how Fascism traps the liberal bourgeoisie into complicity, by targeting selected minorities for elimination and making that common sense. It's the essence of how austerity paved the way for Reform
August 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Those on the Left who think it's just Identity Politics irrelevant to class have an incoherent model of how Fascism traps the liberal bourgeoisie into complicity, by targeting selected minorities for elimination and making that common sense. It's the essence of how austerity paved the way for Reform
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It's a wonderful example of everything that is going wrong with Starmer's Labour and everything they oppose. Not speaking out loudly risks alienating a lot of natural supporters for whom this is an existential issu
August 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It's a wonderful example of everything that is going wrong with Starmer's Labour and everything they oppose. Not speaking out loudly risks alienating a lot of natural supporters for whom this is an existential issu
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The assault on trans existence by the Right media and the Starmer government is such an open goal for a humane rights-oriented Left that the abject failure of eg Corbyn and Sultana to do more by way of allyship than occasional boilerplate condemnation is both incomprehensible and scandalous.
August 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The assault on trans existence by the Right media and the Starmer government is such an open goal for a humane rights-oriented Left that the abject failure of eg Corbyn and Sultana to do more by way of allyship than occasional boilerplate condemnation is both incomprehensible and scandalous.