Bumped into a trans woman today at the grocery store. She smiled and said hi. I smiled and said hi back. Nothing happened. I didn’t become trans myself, It’s like there were Just two people living their lives normally If that bothers you then, you’re an asshole.

Taash and ALL of her dialogue (beyond the recruitment quest) is optional as well. Which you knew because you played the game, right? RIGHT!? Not a single part of her trans storyline shows up in the recruitment quest; that's all optional if you CHOOSE to take her as a companion and pursue her favor and OPTIONAL storylines. Zero pronouns. Zero "bharv". Zero lecturing. Zero ANYTHING unless you CHOOSE to have her as a main companion. Freaking LARPers and tourists, claiming they've played @bioware games when it's clear they've NEVER logged a single hour in any of them.

The mockery of British elected representatives being detained by a rogue state is disgraceful. Whatever your politics, this should be a matter of principle. Israel must not be allowed to act with impunity. I hope our government condemns this in the strongest possible terms.

But happy to be funded by the evangelical far right?

Nope, that’s not how taxes and price works. The price is determined by demand and supply. Companies charge the highest price they can given demand. A tax levied on *profits* does not affect a company’s cost ie supply. Taxes on *windfall* profits (like oil and gas) are the most efficient kind of tax there is.

Statement by the Oxford University Reform Society on my upcoming lecture

And so it begins. This is what I arrived to this morning. If there are any positives to be taken from it, at least they can spell. I could still cry, though.

If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was still possible – you’d know they sit in the fiction stacks adjacent to the novels of another SR whose books have been withdrawn in dastardly political circumstances. Until last week, “Rooney” and “Rushdie” had little in common beyond being shelfmates; now they have more than just a physical proximity. @tanjil_rashid_: This is censorship by other means newstatesman.com/comment/202…

There it fucking is. The BBC just called the France riots “mostly peaceful”

The battle of narratives is going strong. Our countries are a recurring target. It is time to act to tell the stories that make us strong. Let’s live our own story! Protect what matters - our democracy.

I don’t blame immigrants specifically, although some would have been involved. No, I blame the hard right for introducing violence and destruction to an otherwise legitimate nationwide protest. Is Le Penn behind a Trumpian January 6th Capitol riot I ask myself?

I’d you’re shocked at the damage in France to an old town hall you’ll be horrified to hear what’s happened to the beautiful old buildings and heritage of the Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans

It doesn’t make sense that protests over the education system would escalate into this level of violence. Someone may be benefiting from the chaos. It could be far-right groups infiltrating the protests, setting things on fire to fuel the “deport immigrants” narrative. Or it could be the government itself, using the violence as a pretext to crack down on the protests and avoid addressing the protesters’ demands. Either way, we should be asking who stands to gain from this escalation. I don’t know I’m just not buying people becoming this violent just to “have a better education.” 🤨