Reposted by Avery SelenaTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026The UK right's current political project is to co-opt the language of antidiscrimination to make bigotry legally unimpeachable. 131225340
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 28/09/2026we finally pulled the trigger on a Buffy rewatch.. 000
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 28/09/2026beyond devastated by the Pac news one of the best ever our bastard king 000
Reposted by Avery SelenaRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 23/09/2026*horrific racist fascist blackshirt actions* UK gov official: first of all, they are correct in their beliefs, however they should trust us to enact the violence and racism, can’t they see how good we are at it Burnham on tiktok : hey kids check out this barm! What am i like eyy up 1382101
Reposted by Avery Selenalastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"What if a competent team of professionals tried to solve problems in line with their genuinely humane values?" is the motivating question behind some of the most beloved science fiction of the twentieth century, yet its rarely emulated. 1321925
Reposted by Avery SelenaDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Concerns". In narrative and policy terms, the "legitimate concerns" paradigm must be one of the greatest political disasters of the modern era. A racism laundry run by centrist pundits and politicians, which has achieved one thing and one thing only: the mainstreaming of the far right. 318166
Reposted by Avery SelenaSophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It takes a toll. 162092689
Reposted by Avery SelenaGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 19/09/2026Right-wing politics is laden with contradictions, but "We're the movement of authentic, traditional masculinity who have to ask for help sounding tough from the calculator" is one of the funnier ones. 71752285
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026lidl is doing knock-off le creusets so I got a cute dutch oven set that comes with some extra stackable pans about the right size for cooking for mostly 2, sometimes 3 or 4, and obv not super high-end but looks good enough quality for like 20% of the price 010
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026obviously 20 year old me would mostly be like "what the fuck", and also probably "ah shit i might as well get on with it now then" but i think would mostly be impressed at my being 'brave'*, sad at the costs a lot of that has come with, and angry about what 2026 looks like 100
Reposted by Avery SelenaRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Any pointing back and forth by britains and americans for whose to blame for the widespread transphobia when its obviously been a collaborative simultaneous process. US christian money, UK institutional legitimisation feeding back into US law, coming back to the UK to appease trump. Its symbiotic 339277
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 12/09/2026what “male socialisation” actually is (i went through it and hated it and it harmed me a lot) 040
Reposted by Avery Selenaflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I mean, look at this shit: the paper that got everything it demanded, that has shoved its big dirty thumb onto the scales over and over to *ensure* that Britain is like this and is still working to make it uglier and worse, urging the public to imagineer us back to Cool Britannia. 2335
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 11/09/2026world is fucked but i have a nice coffee and a book of good poems to read, which is both enough and not yknow 010
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 11/09/2026pretty much a rosetta stone for like 90% of the “public sphere” in this absolutely cooked country 010
Reposted by Avery SelenaGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 11/09/2026Interesting. I was just thinking about how constructing a practically unworkable nationwide Gender Stasi to cruelly police 0.5% of the population is probably much more costly than simply letting children enjoy sport and allowing people to piss where they like, but it's funny how we assign value. 5764143
Reposted by Avery Selenavibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026my thing with "trans culture" is that especially at this point individual trans people are making and doing so much consequential shit in so many different sectors of life that i don't know why we need to feel any obligation to fry our brains on some kind of online high school clique stuff 223833
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 10/09/2026if you can, please support this amazing, important place that's been again targeted by bigots www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...gofundme.comDonate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is BooksFor the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters! 000
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 07/09/2026finding it basically impossible to hold any hope for good political or social change these days, haven’t truly felt it for like five years i think? 100
Reposted by Avery SelenaTristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I'm not sure how the UK can turn back at this point. The govt says almost nothing about hundreds of men in black blocking a port, police wait 17 hours to comment on racist mobs in Glasgow, and now we are burning building sites because they MIGHT someday house asylum seekers.glasgowtimes.co.uk'Wilful' tenement fire burns community development site amid 'disinformation'A "wilful" fire in Glasgow has been deemed a "depressing act of self-harm" for the community, as a tenement block was ravaged by… 7231111
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 04/09/2026why is the Chronicles of Riddick anime in a box 120
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 03/09/2026big believer in regularly telling friends you love them 120
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 02/09/2026feeling so weird and self conscious about having a trans body rn and i hate feeling like this but it’s as bad as it’s been in a long time 000
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 29/08/2026odyssey banged hard again on a second viewing i know i'm way higher on it than a lot of pals but idk, just an excellent film to me tbh 100
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 29/08/2026the WGS stuff is so extremely fucked up idk what even to say cis people need to wake the fuck up yesterday to what is going on here 220
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 28/08/2026got approval to take a leave of absence from work Jan-March to go to culinary school !! 110
Reposted by Avery SelenaTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 28/08/2026So is the sheer dissonance of being the central fixation of right-wing propaganda campaigns while still being treated as a fringe or niche issue by putative "allies" eroding anyone else's sanity to a fucking nub Or just me 652449531
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 26/08/2026every now and then a person is just so obviously amazing that basically everyone from every walk of life agrees they were the fuckin best, and it sucks that the way you can most easily tell that is the universally shared reaction to their death. 💔 💖 010
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 25/08/2026fucked me up, and in a different way to anthology ii 111
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 23/08/2026trying to decide if leaving my job to go to culinary school is a good idea or absolutely insane and i just dk wahh 000
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 22/08/2026been out long enough i can maybe fuck w a tie again 020
Reposted by Avery SelenaPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The wild thing about this is that, at root, this is every opinion in the UK. Me, my friends and family are real people and we should be treated with kindness and respect. Everyone else is a grifting fake taking money out of my pocket and using up resources that should be mine. 22821218
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 19/08/2026cried in a meeting with my boss and boss’s boss today, stuff‘s going real well for me rn 000
Reposted by Avery SelenaBearOfScots🎃🐾🏴 @bearofscots.bsky.social · 23/05/2026The leadership of Stonewall were quicker to heap praise on Rowling than they have been to show any real fury, urgency, or leadership over the stripping away of trans people’s rights and dignity. An org built to defend us is more comfortable appeasing those who exclude us. Let that sink in!🏳️⚧️🫂🏳️🌈 02812
Reposted by Avery SelenaRuth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 23/05/2026If you're trans and work for a sizable UK company or organisation, now is a great time to log into your HR portal and remove any information you can on your sex/gender, e.g. by replacing any information with "prefer not to say". 12459211
Reposted by Avery SelenaUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 22/05/2026Equality is not conditional. Dignity at work is not negotiable. The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. UCU is examining it urgently. This is a significant and unsettling moment and we will not leave branches to navigate it alone. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1451... 3390119
Reposted by Avery SelenaKaty Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/05/2026I can't believe how many politicians are saying "let's ban trans people from public life, but in a way that is respectful". Are you fucking thick? Who is this for? 382007403
Reposted by Avery Selenalastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/05/2026It's clear there are many people in the Labour Party who do not share the assessment that chasing the cultural-war right while pursuing centre-left economic policy has proven economically, culturally, and politically disastrous. I desperately want to know what they think their current problems are. 8879
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 22/05/2026as expected, just more ”dignity and respect” BS fuck labour, who cares if its kier or andy 110
Reposted by Avery SelenaCN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Every trans-supporting cis person in the UK needs to make peace with becoming more annoying, persistent, and pedantic than they ever thought possible. EHRC guidance is full of contradictions - they're relying on transphobic compliance out of fear. DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM 91179411
Reposted by Avery SelenaTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 22/05/2026Since the concept is being misunderstood and misused, let's talk about what "third-sexing" means as a mechanism of transphobia. I built on an idea first discussed in @juliaserano.bsky.social's "Whipping Girl" that discussed how, interpersonally, cis people refuse to acknowledge our genders.taliabhattwrites.substack.comThe Third Sex“The Gender Binary” is a misnomer; gender has always been a hierarchy. 3560193
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 21/05/2026insane that what is now national law and policy was framed as a lunatic being totally unreasonable and a bully 30 years ago on fuckin Corrie of all things 010
Reposted by Avery Selenasinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 21/05/20261998 btw Truly insane how far backwards rainy fascist island has gone on trans rights and acceptance 110732
Reposted by Avery SelenaJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026It’s time for the people who haven’t said much about trans rights because it’s a bit inconvenient and might cause tension with gender critical colleagues to actually say something btw 6470159
Reposted by Avery SelenaTom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 21/05/2026I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights. 653460995
Avery Selena @wireframe-bird.bsky.social · 21/05/2026hard to overstate how fucked this shithole country is 110
Reposted by Avery SelenaRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Sooo if they admit theyre a tranny you can kick em out but also there’s no actual way to prove it in which case if their Tranny Vibes are big enough you can still probably kick em out but be careful about it 1322435
Reposted by Avery SelenaNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I often see people expressing horror at discrimination, prejudice & hatred when it is racist, antisemitic, homophobic, misogynist, ableist, etc. If those people are not now speaking up/screaming about Labour’s Transphobic Toilet Ban, they don’t really oppose discrimination, prejudice & hatred. 1120757