Elizabeth

oh god I also did this today (and then ran out the Oxfam)

played a bit of the Titanium Court demo today - funny narrative-driven match three tower defence with heaps of style! Go check it out! @apthomson.bsky.social

Things that didn't stop me from being a trans child:

- not being allowed to cut my hair
- not being allowed to change my name
- not knowing that trans people existed
- being bullied by adults
- being bullied by kids

They did, however, make me miserable, so I suppose Cass would consider that a win.

If you've ever met an adult lesbian who has a short haircut and a gender ambiguous name, you will know that queer cisgender kids do not need protecting from haircuts and preferred names.

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.

Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.

i swear every time i pop the winter olympics on the bbc it’s fucking curling

"She also suggested "unrealistic images and expectations on social media" had misled children", the "unrealistic image" being that you can transition and have a happy and long life, but since Cass sees every transition as a failure she doesn't believe that is possible

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good to know if needed my middle management experience would be enough to be PM

was that quote supposed to be a compliment 🙃

happy paperback publication day to me (it was yday shhh)

I had a fun day signing some books and eating lots of nice food!!

I’m so happy the book gets a new life in a more portable (and cheaper!!) form - long live lesbians 📞🩷💚

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

thank you, some of my finest work

you gotta open the images for the full triptych

Dave vs Bacon

I loved It Lasts Forever And Then It’s Over - not your usual zombie book this is a clear-eyed look at grief and memory. Short but cutting. Plus a weird moon, everyone loves a weird moon.

god I can't wait for the "Wuthering Heights" reviews to start dropping, have absolutely no desire whatsoever to go watch it myself but will I be reading 5 to 17 pieces on it? absolutely

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There is something exceptionally fucked up about the owner of the biggest online book store killing the books pages on his newspaper.

N (No) Negative

Yes, the silicon valley class are ruining the world and destroying society, but at least we can take comfort in knowing they're absolutely miserable doing it

I would like to open a programme, an app, an email service, ANYTHING, without being asked if I'd like to use whatever built in AI thing they are pushing. NO THANK YOU.

It really feels quite desperate at this point.

Baudrillard must be spinning in his grave that he missed this era of image-making

A rare bit of games crit from me, on Many Nights a Whisper and trying to get at what a “poetic” game might be 👇

The upcoming games being funded by the Draknek New Voices grant in 2026 · Thinky Games For the third time the Draknek New Voices grant program, lead by designer/publisher Alan Hazelden, is putting money behind some promising up-and-coming thinky games from underrepresented developers.

Check out these upcoming games that were selected by the Draknek New Voices grant!

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TR-49 coded

not the meta-metacritic

then of course we'd need a review site for that, so meta-meta-metacritic etc.

it's critics all the way down.

no one walks slower and across the entire pavement than a group of teen boys on their way home from school, god bless them but get out the way

I had some real ah-ha moments that echoed experiences I've had in archives, the overwhelming sense at the start of there being too much lost, too many unknowns and the slow piecing together of the whole story as you start to understand the scale of what you're looking at