He is our enemy, till the end. But he's like trump in a way, he just doesnt actually give a shit about lgbt issues beyond reactionary grandad beliefs. But as a guy who's ultimately quite good at talking to "normal people" he also isn't paranoid at all times about the transes.
Dan Klein
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I have migrated from Twitter, I am hopeful Bluesky will develop the sauce that twitter had but with fewer Nazis. Gay/Queer He/they
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Farage has learned quite frequently that the UK on the whole is just not very invested in homophobia or transphobia. He still remembers the humiliating jeers when he brought up immigrants bringing in HIV/AIDS and getting dunked on by everyone else in an election debate before 2015.
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As a brit (and therefore lives in the press nadir particularly on trans rights).
Why has Teen Vogue been able to carve out an actually good editorial environment? Like how the fuck do we get one of those?
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This is not caused primarily by "screen time".
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’
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I have seen it as a meme. Its definitely catching on but idk if it will actually become anything more than a meme of the moment.
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The best and most loving obits come with anger/annoyance/deep-love-in-spite-of-that at a person's foibles and flaws.
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Idk I think I've seen mediums do a better job just through knowing what actual people are like i.e. specific. It beyond depresses me that this stuff dupes people.
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I think its really "to non-readers" as opposed to non-writers. Composing good prose is real hard, but parsing good from bad takes literacy.
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*Genuinely profound
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That people are touched by cringe boilerplate genuinely disturbs me. Alongside the fact that these are the same people who put up "live laugh love" posters and think they're genuine.
