Happy #NationalComingOutDay to all those celebrating! :heart_trans: :heart_pride: :party_heart:

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Ooh

I hadn't really talked about it much before then (either here or in person), it's admittedly been something I've tried to push out of my mind a bit.

...copying emoji to your instance from another one really easy already; just being a bit cautious towards respecting people's art (even if you check it's okay I'm aware others might not be so conscientious). If you get permission and make a pack I'll totally feature it though! 💚

Pushed it yesterday evening, if you login to the appview there should be a link when you go to add emoji! I currently have it set up so you need to have permissions on the Mastodon server to administrate emoji to be able to import to Bluemoji, but maybe that's overkill given how Mastodon makes

To be fair, he lives in Canada so really wouldn't have any idea how bad it's gotten here. It's probably not the thing I needed to say before departing after a lovely holiday with him and my mom but god I get in such a dour mood any time I need to return to a country I only refer to as The Miasma.

Dad: "But why care, it's just tabloids like The Sun right?" Me: "yes and broadsheets like The Times, oh, and also The Guardian and sometimes The Economist and also The Telegraph and..."

My dad asked me earlier today whether the UK's xenophobia and transphobia ever impacts me outside of vibes online and, like, the guy who attacked me and my partner last year is now wearing an ankle bracelet so like you tell me

People ask me this all the time, so I’ll just say: look at the transgender hate panic, a thing that had no organic element and did not arise from the public, and was instead imposed upon everyone by the world’s most hateful, poisonous and malignant media class.

Struggling with returning from Málaga today. I don't really enjoy any aspect of living in the UK anymore.

The huge number of deaths by trans people under the care of NHS gender clinic shows that it is time more people with lived experience become involved in governance and oversight of NHS gender clinics. It is also time the NHS was forced to maintain proper patient records.

Oof.

Might raid my old Mastodon instance and make some packs

I'm here for it

Heck, you wouldn't even need to make readers do the quiz to comment, but say it displays your score next to your comment and nudges you to do the quiz if you don't. Let readers shame each other into reading the damn article, love it!

My mom showed me a travel blog where it gives you a little quiz for reading comprehension at the end, and what a wonderful world it would be if you needed to get a passing mark before being able to comment on news articles