Zoe R 🏳️⚧️
@zoe-r.bsky.social
Autistic trans woman, social and climate justice fundamentalist, climate finance nerd.
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Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!
January 27, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
Ironically the word for this is fremdschämen
Trump in Davos, Switzerland:
"Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German".
German is the main language of Switzerland.
"Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German".
German is the main language of Switzerland.
January 21, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Ironically the word for this is fremdschämen
"It’s just true that when you know trans people in your day-to-day lives, there is a certain clarity to this all being bullshit.” - excellent and much-needed article on British trans womens' experiences
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
January 21, 2026 at 10:06 AM
"It’s just true that when you know trans people in your day-to-day lives, there is a certain clarity to this all being bullshit.” - excellent and much-needed article on British trans womens' experiences
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Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.
January 19, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.
The state of this, and the replies. This guy is Danish far right with his own dodgy motives (and the clip is old, apparently). Timely reminder that you absolutely do not have to hand it to the far right ...
European Parliament Member Anders Vistisen gave a speech, warning Donald Trump that Greenland is "not for sale." He concluded by saying, " Mr. President, let me put this in words you will understand - fuck off." (He also got reprimanded by the parliamentarian for swearing.)
January 20, 2026 at 10:27 PM
The state of this, and the replies. This guy is Danish far right with his own dodgy motives (and the clip is old, apparently). Timely reminder that you absolutely do not have to hand it to the far right ...
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We ran a progressive slate for the Akademikerpension board elections 10 years ago (and won), because we wanted fossil fuel divestment. I don’t think we ever imagined we might one day help trigger a margin call on U.S. Treasuries.
Well well well. The Danes are weaponising firesales.
January 20, 2026 at 8:29 PM
We ran a progressive slate for the Akademikerpension board elections 10 years ago (and won), because we wanted fossil fuel divestment. I don’t think we ever imagined we might one day help trigger a margin call on U.S. Treasuries.
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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
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pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
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Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question):
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question):
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it
January 11, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it
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Ultimately it’s not a hard question, or shouldn’t be: if there were a website called creepywank dot org, where you could upload any picture or screengrab of anyone and get AI to produce a photorealistic picture of that person, regardless of age, in a state of undress…should it be legal in the UK?
Stephen has been bang on with this aspect of Badenoch's leadership from the start, and it has culminated in a position of being squeamish on banning a site mass-producing CSAM images because something something "Labour might ban it"
The premise of everything Kemi says and does is “if Labour are doing it, it must be bad”, and everything else is about her making intellectual pretzel shapes around that.
January 12, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Ultimately it’s not a hard question, or shouldn’t be: if there were a website called creepywank dot org, where you could upload any picture or screengrab of anyone and get AI to produce a photorealistic picture of that person, regardless of age, in a state of undress…should it be legal in the UK?
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Today: Supreme Court takes up critical fossil fuel case: Chevron v. Plaquemines Parish. The state of Louisiana contends that the drilling activities of Chevron, Exxon and other major oil companies so decimated the land that it has contributed significantly to the state sinking into the Gulf.
January 12, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Today: Supreme Court takes up critical fossil fuel case: Chevron v. Plaquemines Parish. The state of Louisiana contends that the drilling activities of Chevron, Exxon and other major oil companies so decimated the land that it has contributed significantly to the state sinking into the Gulf.
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One point that should not get lost in all of this: GOP officials - including the President - initiated a smear campaign about the woman who was shot before her name was even known. These are the same people who wanted anyone who quoted Charlie Kirk accurately to lose their jobs.
January 7, 2026 at 9:53 PM
One point that should not get lost in all of this: GOP officials - including the President - initiated a smear campaign about the woman who was shot before her name was even known. These are the same people who wanted anyone who quoted Charlie Kirk accurately to lose their jobs.
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
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Not every country’s going down the same path as the UK – the High Court of New Zealand has ruled that a ban on puberty blockers for young trans people should not be enforced ahead of a legal challenge from a trans health body:
https://goodlaw.social/6pig
https://goodlaw.social/6pig
New Zealand court stops trans puberty blockers ban
The High Court of New Zealand has ruled that a ban on puberty blockers for young trans people should not be enforced ahead of a legal challenge from a trans health body.
goodlaw.social
December 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Not every country’s going down the same path as the UK – the High Court of New Zealand has ruled that a ban on puberty blockers for young trans people should not be enforced ahead of a legal challenge from a trans health body:
https://goodlaw.social/6pig
https://goodlaw.social/6pig
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Brilliant news from Aotearoa New Zealand, where trans health professionals have won an interim halt to the country's politically-driven puberty blocker ban. Wishing them all the best for further legal action.
PATHA's statement follows: “This is a win for trans young people, their whānau, and the health professionals who care for them. The High Court has recognised the harm this ban will cause, and the significant issues in the decision Cabinet made to restrict access to this life-saving care.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Brilliant news from Aotearoa New Zealand, where trans health professionals have won an interim halt to the country's politically-driven puberty blocker ban. Wishing them all the best for further legal action.
More evidence of the BBC's "pro-trans bias" 🤦♀️🤦♀️
So, Laura Kuenssberg's introduction to her interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson is just hideous.
Let me count the ways. 🧵
Let me count the ways. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
More evidence of the BBC's "pro-trans bias" 🤦♀️🤦♀️
Well I was already *not* going - not for work, not for leisure. No way! But this adds more reasons for more people to avoid US, and not just tourists or non-profit workers either - curious to see what companies would risk sending people there still www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Censorship pure and simple’: critics hit out at Trump plan to vet visitors’ social media
Some warn proposal will decimate US tourism industry as free speech advocates say it will lead to people self-censoring
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Well I was already *not* going - not for work, not for leisure. No way! But this adds more reasons for more people to avoid US, and not just tourists or non-profit workers either - curious to see what companies would risk sending people there still www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Battle of the sexes" nonsense veers into a clash-of-the-bigots take on transgender women in sports - no science referenced, just Sabalenka's opinion backed up by world-famous defender of women (who assaulted his ex-girlfriend) Nick Kyrigios www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
Aryna Sabalenka says ‘not fair on women to face basically biological men’ in tennis
Aryna Sabalenka has weighed into the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sport, saying it would be unfair for women to face ‘biological men’
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Battle of the sexes" nonsense veers into a clash-of-the-bigots take on transgender women in sports - no science referenced, just Sabalenka's opinion backed up by world-famous defender of women (who assaulted his ex-girlfriend) Nick Kyrigios www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
We're claiming it. Sans serif is now trans serif
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
We're claiming it. Sans serif is now trans serif
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
Actual bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from fifty years before you were born
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Actual bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from fifty years before you were born
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Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Also worth noting, the Tribunal found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Beth Upton in a "hate incident".
We're far enough through the looking glass here that Forstater, a witness discredited by the tribunal being reported on, is quoted in media articles covering the very same verdict. But when the UK media reports on transgender people it really is open season bigotry and facts be damned
Oh this was good.
"Whilst the claimant argued that Ms Forstater was not presented as an expert witness, in our view that is
essentially what she was doing. She was giving evidence on matters of opinion dressed up as matters of fact."
"Whilst the claimant argued that Ms Forstater was not presented as an expert witness, in our view that is
essentially what she was doing. She was giving evidence on matters of opinion dressed up as matters of fact."
December 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
We're far enough through the looking glass here that Forstater, a witness discredited by the tribunal being reported on, is quoted in media articles covering the very same verdict. But when the UK media reports on transgender people it really is open season bigotry and facts be damned