The last three days have been maximum anxiety. I remembered yesterday was the six year anniversary of my old Da dying.

I miss the old git

Quite a bloody cheek, this, given the UK has the most hostile regime towards healthcare for young trans people and their families in the world (www.gov.uk/government/s...).

Guardian headline writers be like...

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Omg. I have a tonne of Octavia Butler on my list I just realised. I really should look at it... Thank you!

Oh I saw this the other day and added it to the to-read pile. Thanks!

Oh yeah. I mean, without forgiving anything, it's a product of its time right? I've added it to my list. Maybe not one for now, but another time!

Yeah I grew up on 60s-80s SciFi and when you go back and revisit stuff it can be... Grim 😅

I have not. StoryGraph is very keen I should though!

thanks you! StoryGraph is usually really good, but at the moment my recommendations are a mega sausage fest. Also, so much 80s and 90s dross with misogyny as the whole plot 😅

Bonus points if it's by a woman and/or non-white author.

Been revisiting Jeff Vandermeer, Ann Leckie, N K Jemisin recently for example

(Yes i know Jeff is a white dude, but for style)

#SciFi #book #nerds

Some help? I'm really in the mood for a SciFi book that is themed around alien archeology, mystery, a bit like how Prometheus could have been, or Halo or Mass Effect. If possible, less emphasis on military yawn and avoiding misogyny.

this was on my wife’s timeline and she said to me, how long did it take you to realize it was a paw? and I said it is what

Men rape women all the fucking time and nothing gets done about it in this country but if a trans woman performs a sex act on a man who consented she'll be found guilty and locked up with men.

The judiciary hates all women.

The evidence is extremely clear.

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

Victoria Derbyshire, "You described Reform UK as the right wing fascists of 1930s, why?"

Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"

The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

In this video I go to the Cotswolds and complain about the lack of integration

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Knickers at half mast today everyone, for Jilly Cooper x

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester