Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

"UK Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch met with transphobic group LGB Alliance, who campaign against gender being discussed in schools, government disclosures reveal."

The official response:

"A government Equality Hub spokesperson said: "The Government consulted extensively as part of its work on the Gender Recognition Act. That is why the GEO [Government Equalities Office] and its ministerial team met with more than 140 stakeholders, and it was entirely appropriate that views from all sides of the debate were heard.”"

Nice for one's existence to be a matter of debate, isn't it? Absolutely no echoes of Section 28 here, nope! /s

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/uk-equalities-minister-antitrans-group/

Might as well throw it out there:

We're looking for a room to rent in the Detroit metro area/suburbs with access to M-59 or I-75 so we can get to work. Must be queer, 420, and plural friendly. Cats/dogs are a bonus.

It's not an emergency but we're stuck at our parents' house atm and it's bad for our mental health. We have income and we genuinely like cooking on our off days and cleaning.

DM if you happen to have any leads

I can’t be the only person who’d respond to “We only hire certain people, we’re very stringent in our hiring practices” with “oh, so you’re probably racist, ageist, and misogynistic?”

Black woman: *states thst queerness doesn't absolve you of racism*
Inevitably, one of you chucklefucks: "Yeah, OK, well that's transphobic, unfollowing :("

Bandcamp Friday recs. No commentary other than that I really like all these.

https://jstrecords.bandcamp.com/album/phantom-lp

https://inthecompanyofserpentsdoom.bandcamp.com/album/lux

https://psudoku.bandcamp.com/album/planetarisk-sudoku

https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/enlightened-in-eternity

https://waxchattels.bandcamp.com/album/clot

https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/k-g

my nonbinary razor is named “Truth and Reconciliexfoliation”

Pretty happy with how my body is looking

hello everyone, time for some ✨ self promotion ✨

I have unleashed all of my Valentine's Day pins, new pride flag pins, some body positive stuff, stickers, and a couple pairs of earrings over on my etsy shop 🎉

so if you like my art and wanna help support a queer, disabled, indigenous artist please check out my shop, share my shop, boost this post, etc. and if you don't want to buy off etsy, you can message me right here and we can work somethin out. thank you!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/StarsFallStudio

"Divide and conquer" is an age-old tactic because it works. Every last wedge in the squabbling Left is proof of that. The more you make someone fight amongst themselves, the less work YOU have to do.

So why not pit the elites against each other like they do with us? Make the government provide a car. Is it ugly? Sure. But it runs and it's cheap. Suddenly people can get a budget car that's reliable. But Ford makes sure that government car stays reliable.

Finally put this up publicly on twitter so I'll post it again here.

Here's my new experiment in distributing writing: If you've written anything about DIY, small games, or anti-capitalist tech and transform it into a .pdf booklet, I'll print it and distribute it at cost for you through Plaintext Distro at online zine fairs https://plaintextdistro.neocities.org/

This is not (currently) a profit-making endeavor, to be clear. I don't want people putting themselves out too much to make new work. It's very old-school zine economics in that it's about the satisfaction of your work being out there in a different format and maybe breaking even.

If that's fine with you, especially if you already have work you distribute for free digitally and want to try something different with, then let me know!! I will do my best to be able to offer any submissions I get thru mid-March at the Glasgow Zine Festival in April.

🎉