I saw a screenshot the other day of someone saying, "Can you send me the no of your cleaner?" then a vcf of "kim cleaner" and the person was like, lol, nominative determinism and I thought, surely they've just ... saved them ... as Kim [the] Cleaner ... ??

... I suppose there might be people who need that context and to whom it wasn't obvious. :)

maybe this is my sign to tie-dye next.

Everything in my kitchen (and probably my insides) is various shades of pink, purple, blue and green.

jeez a red cabbage is a commitment though. slightly less than a quarter of it became Japanese pancake on Friday night. We’ve done science. We’ve done art. Another third has been pickled in apple cider vinegar with ginger, coriander, cumin, peppercorns and cloves. And there’s STILL a quarter left.

Wow.

(It makes terrible Art, the colours are way too unstable and dilute.)

I mean, is IS more violent, but is is THAT much more violent? Especially stuff like “people will randomly steal your baby if you leave them unattended for a few minutes”?

what I always notice when an American gets in on this conversation is that the fear of violent crime is *off the scale* compared to here— not just gun crime, but (armed) burglary & kidnapping too. Can never tell how much is wild overblown fears & how much is yes US is that much more violent.

And because they can't do that - no one can; it's absurd - we get this, "We expect everyone to follow the rules" sound bite. Which of course is the crux of it: there won't be any enforcement (there can't be), they just expect society to be transphobic enough for it to happen automatically.

does he — put the gun down and throw rocks at the shooter as he runs away? incredible.

If your Naomi be Klein, you’re doing just fine
If your Naomi be wolf, oh buddy, oof

> underlying obsession with what female/femme bodies look like and how hard it is to not internalise that.

I mean, the key thing here is that both are doing “you are female, your value and worth are intimately connected to your appearance / body shape” with a level of intensity and scale that is rarely true for male bodies. Expanding the range of body types is all good, but it’s not tackling the >

I remember discovering in about 1999-2000 that Levi’s were “the cheap shitty jeans your dad wears” in the US when I’d saved up three times the price of TopShop Moto over here. the Stiltskin Inside ad!

I watched it about five years ago for the first time in 30 years and was blown away how political it is! Like it’s a proper noir, where a mysterious death turns out to be the end of a string that has a real-life political conspiracy at its heart.

Hah, that was why I had a question mark, it seemed unlikely that they wouldn’t be on your radar!

Tiffany Aching?

“We’re women’s rights campaigners! Who just happen to find out highest levels of support amongst middle-aged men, and on the same side as far-right authoritarians and forced birthers!”