Phil Kehoe
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Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know
Once again thinking about every actor trying to justify taking the money for the new HP series.
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know
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this feels like another iteration of the "what if I give a homeless man money and he buys booze" thing. So then he bought booze, so what, you are not his personal life coach. You did your bit now go live your life.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
this feels like another iteration of the "what if I give a homeless man money and he buys booze" thing. So then he bought booze, so what, you are not his personal life coach. You did your bit now go live your life.
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I keep coming back to this, because it is important to keep in mind, I think, given recent goings-on re: trans exclusion. The culture has changed *a lot* over the past 20 years and transphobes won't be able to undo that with politics, billionaire lawfare, transphobic EHRC guidance, or whatever.
I think this prediction is holding up pretty well, and maybe I should have noted the failure of the Turn Charlie Kirk Into A Martyr moment might have been the pinnacle of the phenomenon. In some deep way I think the New Right Loser Men fail to understand what state power can and can't do for them.
December 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I keep coming back to this, because it is important to keep in mind, I think, given recent goings-on re: trans exclusion. The culture has changed *a lot* over the past 20 years and transphobes won't be able to undo that with politics, billionaire lawfare, transphobic EHRC guidance, or whatever.
Pure evil.
Making the lives of disabled people harder by making them jump through hoops to prove they are the deserving poor, benefits nobody in any way. Yet these ideas get pushed because it appeals to the meanest nastiest pettiest little fuckers around... 1/
Making the lives of disabled people harder by making them jump through hoops to prove they are the deserving poor, benefits nobody in any way. Yet these ideas get pushed because it appeals to the meanest nastiest pettiest little fuckers around... 1/
One of the biggest impacts I’ve seen from the unproven idea that people are wrongfully using disability accommodations is that people stop trusting people with disabilities and in fact further restrict, remove, and demonize accommodations for people with disabilities in general
December 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Pure evil.
Making the lives of disabled people harder by making them jump through hoops to prove they are the deserving poor, benefits nobody in any way. Yet these ideas get pushed because it appeals to the meanest nastiest pettiest little fuckers around... 1/
Making the lives of disabled people harder by making them jump through hoops to prove they are the deserving poor, benefits nobody in any way. Yet these ideas get pushed because it appeals to the meanest nastiest pettiest little fuckers around... 1/
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Absolutely agree! 🌍✨ Diverse voices in SFF enrich our imaginations and connect us all. Let's champion translated works and explore new worlds together! #SFF #TranslationMatters 💖
We need more SFF in translation, these are magnificent works and help make the SFF conversation global! Please pitch in to get it over the top!
Embroidered Worlds cost $30K and we raised it all, in a combination of a grant and the Kickstarter. For one book. For white writers.
Here, we're trying to get to $10K. After nine months. For two books.
We (yes, wp we) have to see the world differently.
This is beautiful. I hope you see it:
Here, we're trying to get to $10K. After nine months. For two books.
We (yes, wp we) have to see the world differently.
This is beautiful. I hope you see it:
December 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Absolutely agree! 🌍✨ Diverse voices in SFF enrich our imaginations and connect us all. Let's champion translated works and explore new worlds together! #SFF #TranslationMatters 💖
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The man in this video is the same man shown below who refused to engage with community members and walked away when they attempted to hand over a letter at a protest at the NGS last week: gcn.ie/transgress-t...
Activists protest for urgent action on trans healthcare outside National Gender Service
Transgress the NGS, staged a protest outside the National Gender Service (NGS) calling for urgent changes in gender affirming care
gcn.ie
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The man in this video is the same man shown below who refused to engage with community members and walked away when they attempted to hand over a letter at a protest at the NGS last week: gcn.ie/transgress-t...
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The man in the recording of the trans woman receiving those disgusting questions released today is unmistakeably Paul Moran, lead psychiatrist at the NGS by the way, not just some random maverick clinician. The rot comes from the very top #SpéirGorm #Trans
December 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The man in the recording of the trans woman receiving those disgusting questions released today is unmistakeably Paul Moran, lead psychiatrist at the NGS by the way, not just some random maverick clinician. The rot comes from the very top #SpéirGorm #Trans
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There's a special place in hell for the ghouls and jackals who are using the Supreme Court ruling as a stick with which to threaten women's organisations, many of which have welcomed trans women for years or decades. It doesn't achieve anything or make anyone safer, it's just performative cruelty.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
There's a special place in hell for the ghouls and jackals who are using the Supreme Court ruling as a stick with which to threaten women's organisations, many of which have welcomed trans women for years or decades. It doesn't achieve anything or make anyone safer, it's just performative cruelty.
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Every trans person who is on a knife edge. On one side is employment for another day. On the other is whether a random transphobe posts "Ick, gross, trans person" with your picture and employer name, and it goes viral. You will get fired, from pretty much any company, if that happens to you.
When writing this piece, I kept thinking back to this Instagram post I saw from a trans woman the other day. This is what I'm talking about. Watch this:
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Every trans person who is on a knife edge. On one side is employment for another day. On the other is whether a random transphobe posts "Ick, gross, trans person" with your picture and employer name, and it goes viral. You will get fired, from pretty much any company, if that happens to you.
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One of the most common replies in any discussion of universal basic income is "but how do we pay for it?" and not once do those same people ever question the costs incurred by not doing UBI. We spend $1.5 trillion every year on the costs of child poverty alone. Poverty ain't free, folks. WE ALL PAY.
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
One of the most common replies in any discussion of universal basic income is "but how do we pay for it?" and not once do those same people ever question the costs incurred by not doing UBI. We spend $1.5 trillion every year on the costs of child poverty alone. Poverty ain't free, folks. WE ALL PAY.
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"Respectful and understanding" - perhaps they were. I'm not. I don't think any of us should be. I think orgs that do this need to pay a heavy price for doing it. They're afraid of the power transphobes have: and so we must endeavour to build power of our own and to wield it uncompromisingly.
This part is *infuriating*. This cis woman heard an 80 year old trans woman say, 'This is the only place I've been respected as a woman IN MY LIFE.'
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"Respectful and understanding" - perhaps they were. I'm not. I don't think any of us should be. I think orgs that do this need to pay a heavy price for doing it. They're afraid of the power transphobes have: and so we must endeavour to build power of our own and to wield it uncompromisingly.
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Everyone involved in these organisations who isn't a TER needs to stop participating in them immediately. The WI and Girl Guides are done now. They are hate groups. That's it. Set up an alternative one. Leave the transphobes to hang out with each other.
This part is *infuriating*. This cis woman heard an 80 year old trans woman say, 'This is the only place I've been respected as a woman IN MY LIFE.'
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Everyone involved in these organisations who isn't a TER needs to stop participating in them immediately. The WI and Girl Guides are done now. They are hate groups. That's it. Set up an alternative one. Leave the transphobes to hang out with each other.
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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 11:20 AM
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.
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one of the reasons I stopped engaging in these discussions is our opponents are incapable of addressing criticism. but the point for them is not to hash out these issues, it's to repeat the same thing over and over again until it starts to look like the "truth" for people with institutional power.
Utterly baffling to insist any description of sex as a phenomenon in humans must be applicable to every species with a sex, not least when the more universal a definition of sex becomes the less utility it has.
(And has the state of the argument really progressed so little in six years!?)
(And has the state of the argument really progressed so little in six years!?)
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
one of the reasons I stopped engaging in these discussions is our opponents are incapable of addressing criticism. but the point for them is not to hash out these issues, it's to repeat the same thing over and over again until it starts to look like the "truth" for people with institutional power.
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...which is intended as a process that starts with social exclusion is a diversion from 'actual politics' is an utter betrayal of political will to struggle whether or not you dress it up as Leninism, feminism, religion or 'biological realism'.
Or to put it more succinctly, fuck off.
Or to put it more succinctly, fuck off.
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
...which is intended as a process that starts with social exclusion is a diversion from 'actual politics' is an utter betrayal of political will to struggle whether or not you dress it up as Leninism, feminism, religion or 'biological realism'.
Or to put it more succinctly, fuck off.
Or to put it more succinctly, fuck off.
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This was my response to some workerist clown on FB.
The question is very simple.
Are you in alliance with international Fascism or are you not?
Pretending for any reason that defending trans people from the genocide...
The question is very simple.
Are you in alliance with international Fascism or are you not?
Pretending for any reason that defending trans people from the genocide...
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This was my response to some workerist clown on FB.
The question is very simple.
Are you in alliance with international Fascism or are you not?
Pretending for any reason that defending trans people from the genocide...
The question is very simple.
Are you in alliance with international Fascism or are you not?
Pretending for any reason that defending trans people from the genocide...
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transphobes using money and power to bully little kids is absolutely no different from mobs turning up to intimidate refugee families, and you should treat anyone who so much as excuses either of these things with complete contempt
December 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
transphobes using money and power to bully little kids is absolutely no different from mobs turning up to intimidate refugee families, and you should treat anyone who so much as excuses either of these things with complete contempt
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James Cameron on how close he came to directing 1993’s Jurassic Park & what he thinks of Steven Spielberg’s adaptation. I love this for the honesty, modesty & graciousness of Cameron’s reflections. (It’s from the latest edition of the estimable Empire magazine.)
December 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
James Cameron on how close he came to directing 1993’s Jurassic Park & what he thinks of Steven Spielberg’s adaptation. I love this for the honesty, modesty & graciousness of Cameron’s reflections. (It’s from the latest edition of the estimable Empire magazine.)
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people who think Ireland is too small and unimportant for foreign countries or other bad actors to interfere in our politics need to wake up. we are an important global economic hub and it isn't just for tax reasons. we do have power to flex and our influence does matter
The state of Israel was in ‘constant contact’ with a Fine Gael councillor to help him defeat a county council motion calling for an Irish government boycott of Israeli military equipment.
It directed ‘concentrated and intensive activity’ on social media.
www.ontheditch.com/israel-collu...
It directed ‘concentrated and intensive activity’ on social media.
www.ontheditch.com/israel-collu...
Israel colluded with Fine Gael to defeat council motion
The state of Israel was in “constant contact” with a Fine Gael councillor.
www.ontheditch.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
people who think Ireland is too small and unimportant for foreign countries or other bad actors to interfere in our politics need to wake up. we are an important global economic hub and it isn't just for tax reasons. we do have power to flex and our influence does matter
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while we are at it: regular reminder that in scotland, legally, both under older legislation and uncrc, parents do not have *rights* they have *responsibilities*. it's children who have rights.
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
That MSPs are now openly saying stuff like this is chilling. "Controversial groups like LGBT Youth Scotland"? LGBTYS didn't need to be in my schools for me to be gay, but they sure as hell would have helped me avoid 9 years of fear and self-loathing if they had been. Despicable stuff.
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
while we are at it: regular reminder that in scotland, legally, both under older legislation and uncrc, parents do not have *rights* they have *responsibilities*. it's children who have rights.
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
"parents' rights" are as made up as "sex based rights" and for the same reasons
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Those Afghan teenagers who were attacked in Brittas because of the kind of crap he's saying here, live in Kilbride Co Wicklow and therefore they are Harris' constituents.
Not that he gives a shit
Not that he gives a shit
Harris links housing lack to immigration in visit to Cork
Mr Harris was speaking to The Echo on Friday in Macroom
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December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Those Afghan teenagers who were attacked in Brittas because of the kind of crap he's saying here, live in Kilbride Co Wicklow and therefore they are Harris' constituents.
Not that he gives a shit
Not that he gives a shit
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Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
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I reckon Harry Dean Stanton is the best choice here, what a range (you even get one Avengers movie to keep the kids quiet)
This is a Bill Simmons game, but you’re stranded on a desert island. You can only have one actor’s filmography. You get it all, including cameos. But just the one performer.
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I reckon Harry Dean Stanton is the best choice here, what a range (you even get one Avengers movie to keep the kids quiet)
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One of my favourite dumb sci fi tropes is that space helmets have lights on the inside of the helmet you can see the actors face better.
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
One of my favourite dumb sci fi tropes is that space helmets have lights on the inside of the helmet you can see the actors face better.