Will
@thatwillb.bsky.social
He/him. Autistic chronic undersharer. Welsh learner. Prynhawn da in bio.
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Will
@thatwillb.bsky.social
· Nov 17
I've forgotten how to have pithy thoughts since my Twitter account was nuked. Hey.
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Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
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It beautifully exposes the absurdity of using anti-terrorism laws to suppress an activist group. Legislation on e.g. terrorism funding was written with 'money for guns moved around offshore accounts' in mind, not payments of book royalties.
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
It beautifully exposes the absurdity of using anti-terrorism laws to suppress an activist group. Legislation on e.g. terrorism funding was written with 'money for guns moved around offshore accounts' in mind, not payments of book royalties.
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Idea: whining about your taxes in the press comes with a *free* wallet inspection from HMRC just to make sure you're not over paying
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Idea: whining about your taxes in the press comes with a *free* wallet inspection from HMRC just to make sure you're not over paying
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Re: Graham Linehan
I would be happy if I never heard the name Graham Linehan again, but I do feel the need to comment, because the nature of a lot of the abuse trans people receive is straight up sexual harassment, but is not recognized as such because the victim is trans.
What Glinner is doing is sexual harassment.
What Glinner is doing is sexual harassment.
Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Re: Graham Linehan
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UK health officials urge extra precautions, including wearing a mask if you have symptoms, as 4 winter viruses spread: RSV, Flu, COVID and Norovirus.
Source: archive.md/z6uDK
Source: archive.md/z6uDK
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
UK health officials urge extra precautions, including wearing a mask if you have symptoms, as 4 winter viruses spread: RSV, Flu, COVID and Norovirus.
Source: archive.md/z6uDK
Source: archive.md/z6uDK
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I think my biggest problem with the "vaccines cause autism" bullshit is that, even assuming they did (they don't, actually), neurodiversity is...good?
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I think my biggest problem with the "vaccines cause autism" bullshit is that, even assuming they did (they don't, actually), neurodiversity is...good?
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
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I won’t say what I want to say but this is unethical.
You don’t put 7.3% of cancer patients on a treatment and leave the rest to see how they get on.
Trans healthcare is the only branch where this is allowed to happen.
Puberty blockers were the compromise and they’ve taken that away.
You don’t put 7.3% of cancer patients on a treatment and leave the rest to see how they get on.
Trans healthcare is the only branch where this is allowed to happen.
Puberty blockers were the compromise and they’ve taken that away.
The trail will involve 220 children.
Meanwhile 3000 another children seeking health care for their gender dysphoria will be placed on an ‘observational’ study.
The old ‘watch and wait’ is how Alice was treated. Although this time there might be someone actually watching, this is not health care.🧵
Meanwhile 3000 another children seeking health care for their gender dysphoria will be placed on an ‘observational’ study.
The old ‘watch and wait’ is how Alice was treated. Although this time there might be someone actually watching, this is not health care.🧵
Puberty Blocker clinical trials to begin
on the NHS
- The trial will involve around 220 children under 16
- Young people will “undergo intensive medical and psychological screening”, including Gillick competency evaluation
- Trial: Group 1 will get PBs straight away vs Group 2, 12 months later
on the NHS
- The trial will involve around 220 children under 16
- Young people will “undergo intensive medical and psychological screening”, including Gillick competency evaluation
- Trial: Group 1 will get PBs straight away vs Group 2, 12 months later
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I won’t say what I want to say but this is unethical.
You don’t put 7.3% of cancer patients on a treatment and leave the rest to see how they get on.
Trans healthcare is the only branch where this is allowed to happen.
Puberty blockers were the compromise and they’ve taken that away.
You don’t put 7.3% of cancer patients on a treatment and leave the rest to see how they get on.
Trans healthcare is the only branch where this is allowed to happen.
Puberty blockers were the compromise and they’ve taken that away.
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wearing a respirator today, this weekend, lowers the risk of bringing unwanted microscopic guests to your holiday celebrations, now less than a week away. your government has no interest in supporting you to preventing illness, nor in caring for you once you’re ill—take responsibility. mask up.
we are in an unprecedented untenable situation: wanton destruction of federal public health apparati (already reduced by biden), on top of a precarious, ever consolidating for-profit “care” system that’s been inching toward collapse for yrs as insurance rates soar—& you won’t help prevent illness? 🤨
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
wearing a respirator today, this weekend, lowers the risk of bringing unwanted microscopic guests to your holiday celebrations, now less than a week away. your government has no interest in supporting you to preventing illness, nor in caring for you once you’re ill—take responsibility. mask up.
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I see once again we're all accurately remembering how shit Boris Johnson's government was on covid whilst simultaneously letting every other government afterwards and all society completely off the hook for just pretending it went away when it is in fact still happening now
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I see once again we're all accurately remembering how shit Boris Johnson's government was on covid whilst simultaneously letting every other government afterwards and all society completely off the hook for just pretending it went away when it is in fact still happening now
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Quite a good example of how the right is a coalition of people who use violent rhetoric as a real statement of intent and those who use it insincerely for cynical populism and none of them fully know who is who until the moment comes.
Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Quite a good example of how the right is a coalition of people who use violent rhetoric as a real statement of intent and those who use it insincerely for cynical populism and none of them fully know who is who until the moment comes.
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The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
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"Here’s the thing nobody gets: COVID doesn’t give a shit about your positive thinking. It’s not checking your Instagram to see if you’re living your best life. It’s binding to your ACE2 receptors"
🧵 o'quotes in memory of my parents who died of lung cancer (my mom) & emphysema (my dad) from smoking
🧵 o'quotes in memory of my parents who died of lung cancer (my mom) & emphysema (my dad) from smoking
COVID Isn’t a Cold. It’s Cigarettes All Over Again - WHN
This is the first of a series of posts on Long COVID by David Brasure. See parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. I would like to thank, Dr Alice, @calirunnerdoc on X for many of the concepts in this article. Th...
whn.global
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Here’s the thing nobody gets: COVID doesn’t give a shit about your positive thinking. It’s not checking your Instagram to see if you’re living your best life. It’s binding to your ACE2 receptors"
🧵 o'quotes in memory of my parents who died of lung cancer (my mom) & emphysema (my dad) from smoking
🧵 o'quotes in memory of my parents who died of lung cancer (my mom) & emphysema (my dad) from smoking
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Bill Clinton was the most powerful man in the world, and Monica Lewinsky was an intern and his subordinate, and in any other workplace that would be called sexual harassment, and if you don't take power dynamics into account when you talk about things like this, you don't actually understand consent
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Bill Clinton was the most powerful man in the world, and Monica Lewinsky was an intern and his subordinate, and in any other workplace that would be called sexual harassment, and if you don't take power dynamics into account when you talk about things like this, you don't actually understand consent
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I do not understand how anyone goes through life without this reality just completely poleaxing them from time to time. I mentioned it to my brother once and he was "fuck Beth, that's grim, you need to go outside" and it's just like "this is outside too!!!" How the fuck do you turn aside???
Following on what @miawong.bsky.social and @riotlinguist.bsky.social and others have said, it's worth repeating that the majority of rape is committed against kids and teenagers (<20yo) obviously mainly girls + mostly by adult/teen cis men. Rape culture is inherently CSA culture!
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I do not understand how anyone goes through life without this reality just completely poleaxing them from time to time. I mentioned it to my brother once and he was "fuck Beth, that's grim, you need to go outside" and it's just like "this is outside too!!!" How the fuck do you turn aside???
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the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
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Not this debunked howler again. For the millionth time, left-wing people call the BBC right-wing because its news output has a clear and repeatedly proven right-leaning bias; right-wing people call it left-wing because some of the presenters are black. Not equal and opposite in any way.
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Not this debunked howler again. For the millionth time, left-wing people call the BBC right-wing because its news output has a clear and repeatedly proven right-leaning bias; right-wing people call it left-wing because some of the presenters are black. Not equal and opposite in any way.
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It's wild seeing people act surprised that Keir 'Alpaca attacker' Starmer is authoritarian. The guy that deported someone for stealing ice cream. The cunt so servile to america that he tried having an autistic man sent to Guantanimo for trying to find out if aliens existed.
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
It's wild seeing people act surprised that Keir 'Alpaca attacker' Starmer is authoritarian. The guy that deported someone for stealing ice cream. The cunt so servile to america that he tried having an autistic man sent to Guantanimo for trying to find out if aliens existed.
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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Friday the US Supreme Court is set to discuss whether to hear a challenge to Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 landmark decision which extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide. 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 💔
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Friday the US Supreme Court is set to discuss whether to hear a challenge to Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 landmark decision which extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide. 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 💔
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The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.