AndOrNorLyn

@norlyn.bsky.social

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Saltier than cinema popcorn. Views, boosts, etc. my own, don't blame them on anyone else.

Screenshot from the WPATH guidelines saying: "The overall goal of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s (WPATH) Standards of Care—Eighth Edition (SOC-8) is to provide clinical guidance to health care professionals to assist transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people in accessing safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort with their gendered selves with the aim of optimizing their overall physical health, psychological well-being, and self-fulfillment. This assistance may include but is not limited to hormonal and surgical treatments, voice and communication therapy, primary care, hair removal, reproductive and sexual health, and mental health care. Healthcare systems should provide medically necessary gender-affirming health care for TGD people: See Chapter 2."
Rowling being extremely nasty about Freda. Sorry, I refuse to alt text the nasty-minded denigration word for word.
A front page story from The Times headlined "Amnesty 'won't survive' Rowling's action", outlining how a wave of lawsuits would make them insolvent.
A screenshot from the link: "Marquis Bey, assistant professor at Northwestern University, considered the power of TERFs. “I think the power TERFs have or deploy or subject themselves to comes from their … ability to maneuver through normative ways of thinking, which then gives them a little bit of clout and power by virtue of their proximity to things that are sanctioned by cis male supremacy.” Bey acknowledged the impact of anti-trans activists who organize to change laws around using bathrooms or accessing gender-affirmative surgeries. But even if such policy issues are taken off the table, they said, the power of the TERF remains: “TERFs seem to have the power to renaturalize and reinstall or to further solidify the stranglehold of the gender binary, which is in and of itself a mode of violence and violation.” But they do it, and allow deeply conservative social systems to do it, under the vague banner of feminism."
A screenshot of a thread from Small Robots discussing how the current transphobic policies spill over into attacks on the bodily autonomy of everyone who doesn't present according to gendered stereotypes. https://bsky.app/profile/smolrobots.bsky.social/post/3mqehywbtvc26
Screenshot of rabid transphobe Maya Forstater posting "If you want to complain to Amnesty International for branding a bunch of civil society organisations"anti-rights" this is how to do it", with an email address for amnesty.org.uk - because totally normal non-hateful people ALWAYS encourage the dogpiling of one of the world's premier human rights watchdogs, doncha know. The list that Amnesty International posted includes GC groups with unambiguous hate groups and far-right fundamentalist Christian groups which advocate for the removal of all women's reproductive rights and all LGBT rights, but Forstater makes no mention of any distinction.
Abbott (written by Saladin Ahmed) flicking a lighter and saying "We're not going back to another era. We're going forward."
Jesus leaning into frame saying Don't Bring Me Into This Shit.
Screenshot of the FT article paragraph where a wealth tax is pooh-poohed as unfeasible, and "absurd marginal tax rates" for middle & upper-middle earners condemned. We do not pay absurd marginal rates.
The political cartoon of a weeping Palestinian woman holding the bloody corpse of a child, while all the main news outlets shove a microphone at her demanding "But do you condemn Hamas?"
Digger from the Digger comic saying "But you'd die without your heart!", and Ed replying "Not be getting far without liver, either." https://diggercomic.com/blog/2007/02/26/digger-24/
Screenshot of a bit of the actual ad for "MRI in Dallas, TX starting at $263", with STARTING AT highlighted in blue, because any semi-sentient human being with real world experience knows that "starting at" means you are never in a million years going to be offered that actual price
The cover of the book "Bad Ink" by Riki Wilchins. "How The New York Times Sold Out Transgender Teens"
Screenshot: "Kilgannon identified a wide coalition of potential allies outside the Christian Right who could confront trans friendly measures. Here’s her advice on how to draw them in: Explain that gender identity rights only come at the expense of others: women, sexual assault survivors, female athletes forced to compete against men and boys, ethnic minorities who culturally value modesty, economically challenged children who face many barriers to educational success and don’t need another level of chaos in their lives, children with anxiety disorders and the list goes on and on and on."
Graphic from the Project 2025 Tracker site showing 53% of Project 2025 having been implemented now, with a "994 days, 14 hours, 58 minutes, 44 seconds until end of term" showing below that, per time of screenshot.
Cover of the book Democracy In Chains, showing older white men sitting in a cloud of cigarette smoke.
Photo of an extremely long, narrow whale floating peacefully near the surface of a dark blue sea. Photo is of a Rice's Whale taken from a drone, sourced from NOAA.
Purple and yellow irises standing proudly in front of a bush with pink blossoms.
Unhinged rant by Trump, transcribed exactly: Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. It is the first time that Iran has ever lost, in thousands of years, to surrounding Middle Eastern Countries. They have said "Thank you President Trump." I have said, "You're welcome!" Iran is no longer the "Bully of the Middle East." they are, instead, "THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST," and will be fore many decades until they surrender or, more likely, completely collapse! Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iran's bad behavior, are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Screenshot of Jo claiming "Why doesn't Israel let any reporters into Gaza to walk freely among the people to report the news? I suspect one of the reasons is that you'd get yourself killed or kidnapped by freedom fighters & then Israel would have to try to retrieve you or release more terrorists in exchange for you. Maybe."
1924 New York Times article, "Hitler Tamed By Prison"
A very large cardboard box inhabited by a very large tiger.
Jesus leaning into frame saying "Don't bring me into this shit."
Poem: Last night I had nightmares The house starting to creak crack as the hill below it cracked and slid I had locked the door because my husband wasn’t home and outside was a man who I somehow knew would harm me but I had to get out and he was there and in the house was all the precious things I hadn’t had time to pack or couldn’t pack I woke, sweating and trembling, listening to the cracking of foundations in my mind
The cover of Downbelow Station
Picture of the cover of a book: "Rise and Kill First: The secret history of Israel's targeted assassinations" by Ronen Bergman.
Screenshot of the cover of the book "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide", by Samantha Power.
Jonathan Edward Durham comment: THEM: You look tired ME: I am tired THEM: oh right because of the... ME: the horrors yeah THEM: right right, that's right
A child's skull with bone surface cut away to show that it has a double row of teeth top and bottom, with adult teeth actually stacked up into a triple row in places, growing inside the cheekbones and chin until it's time to descend into the mouth.
Photo of a panting leopard, captioned "Looks like face is back on the menu."
Screenshot from a story at Haaretz.com - 'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
Gimli/Legolas meme - Gimli Terf: "never thought I'd be fighting alongside the far right" Smug Legolas: "Yes, you did."
Effing birds - "I was not prepared for this horseshit"