so much reactionary politics comes from men freaking out about reproduction - and the simple fact that sperm owners do not control gestation and do not have certainty over reproduction without uterus owners' consent

I once heard a cutting assessment of someone’s intellect in Argentinian Spanish that went jugas al tetris y giras el cuadradito. It means “you spin the square tile on Tetris.”

A colloquial German word about someone viewed as low on intellect, especially popular in the 1990s, was Teletubbyzurückwinker. It means “one who waves back at the Teletubbies.”

Important to keep a track of all those deaths caused by necromancy, I guess.

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Kaczynski.

The reality is that most of the healthcare needs of trans people are entirely straightforward and routine and there is no medical reason why they cannot be met by their GPs like everyone else's are.

Any changes must be properly resourced, but, like many, we are worried that our current Labour government – and especially our current Health Secretary, Wes Streeting – will not properly invest in these services.

We cautiously welcome the Levy Review’s identification of the many barriers to accessing adult trans healthcare. With sometimes decades-long waiting lists to access care, the current situation is untenable.

It's slightly outside my precise area of expertise, but on first glance I'm cautiously optimistic. Albeit with a caveat that I've not read the whole thing through in minute detail yet.

In a similar vein, Doritos

We get our shopping from the Greek island of Tescos.

World building fails and collapses under the weight of too many theories, too many imported ideas. World building is an emotional response to the engine of your imagination as much as an intellectual response. Make yourself continually in service to your world by actually building it and feeling it.

And I must not leave out the famous Greek goddess, Telephone. Or her sisters Cellophane and Methane.