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Political Cartoon GalleryMorten Morland @mortenmorland on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/GenderDysphoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenderDysphoria</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WCC</a> 2504.16 — How present is music in your work?</blockquote>Mars Needed Women: There's muzak playing in the scene in O'Hare airport in 2133 (time approximate). In another, there's ambient seashore music, with gulls, which May Ri misinterprets a white noise track of the seashore.Elsewhere: The devil-girl's deceased mother was an international opera and "Broadway" theatre star. Her records are everywhere. Sometimes she hears them playing in restaurants, and leaves immediately. In the story, she only sings the song in the shower. Folks remark she's pretty good (but they don't know she's the daughter of a celebrity because she hides that identity).[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mystery</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thriller</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#romance</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sf</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sff</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSstory</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSReluctanceStory</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSMarsNeededWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSMarsNeededWomen</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScribesAndMakers</a> 2504.16 — What one thing would you tell your older or younger creative self if you could time travel?</blockquote>The agent said don't write in 1st person. Ignore that commandment.You sold the novel. Write the sequel now. While the day job is important, opportunity has a limited lifespan, as do editors who like your stories.[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CommentingIsCool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommentingIsCool</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photographer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/chef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chef</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cooking</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a>

Police State UK"It must be remembered that this is not an abstract debate – it involves real people. Trans people, for example, are now twice as likely as cis people to be the victim of violent crime; 62%-73% report being harassed."<a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#UKPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Gender</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Equality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Equality</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/16/supreme-court-definition-woman-judges-law" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/16/supreme-court-definition-woman-judges-law</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 2504.16 — If your MC wasn’t involved with the story, what would they do with their life?</blockquote>Wow! That's a very interesting question. This character is well-storied, so let's unwrap.Current story: It was a turning point. In the previous story she'd learned something very essential about how people work, something she thinks she can fix. If she never gets to be in the current story—where she learns she can trust friends and then finds love—she turns the path toward evil.-1 Story: She attends a school like Princeton with her saved prizefighting money. She becomes a professsor in thaumology and a spinster. Because she doesn't intervene in mob family politics, the main series antagonist may be assassinated. Whether that kills her is another matter.-2 Story: She works as a grocery clerk and doing other odd jobs, possibly even performing "magic" tricks, eventually ending up in a lessor college. In this path she becomes an eccentric because she doesn't really trust people (she's autistic and can't really read them), something like Nikola Tesla. She likely invents something evil.-3 Story: Having never run away, she grows up an increasingly angry and dissatisfied elite, with power she feels she has not earned. She governs a small but prosperous prefecture well enough that she is well loved, which confuses her. She marries someone suggested to her and has children who end up squabbling over accession. Being as they are her children, one will be evil. The author will ensure she's female and has to fight her brothers, which sours her.-4 Story (unwritten, hinted at in backstory): The immortal main series antagonist has been practicing eugenics, amongst her other sins. In her case, it's encouraging the migration of peoples between towns and prefectures, also doing some careful matchmaking. The MC's mother was one such highly "magical" methodically bred endpoint, and one of the main antagonist's lessor students. Had the woman not encouraged the MC's future mother's thaumaturgy and singing talent, the woman would not have met (read: been strategically introduced to) the MC's father. The MC would not have been born, and neither would the MC's mother died an untimely death having being caught on a spy mission. (Of course, that death is assumed. The author gets to retcon that fact in a later story, as has already been done but not confirmed for the simultaneous death of the MC's father.)[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mystery</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thriller</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#romance</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sf</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sff</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSstory</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSReluctanceStory</a>

Political Cartoon GalleryPatrick Blower @blowercartoons on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/GenderDysphoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenderDysphoria</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gender</a> @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/2000922/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/2000922/</a> UK’s top court says definition of a woman is based on biological sex <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AidanONeill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AidanONeill</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AmnestyInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmnestyInternational</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/APTopNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#APTopNews</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#courts</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Discrimination</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GenderInSports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenderInSports</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GeneralNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneralNews</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/InternationalNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InternationalNews</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JKRowling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JKRowling</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JohnSwinney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnSwinney</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MaggieChapman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaggieChapman</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MayaForstater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MayaForstater</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PatrickHodge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PatrickHodge</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SusanSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SusanSmith</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TrinaBudge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrinaBudge</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedKingdom</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensRights</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#world</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorldNews</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldTopics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorldTopics</a>

Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:"While there haven’t yet been the big fireworks of last session, lawmakers are quietly pushing proposals to further restrict the lives of trans people — what bathrooms they can use, what government documents they can obtain and what services public schools and mental health providers can offer to young people."<a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/14/texas-legislature-transgender-bills/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/14/texas-legislature-transgender-bills/</a><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtq</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transgender</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/sexuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sexuality</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MentalHealth</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#texas</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/txlege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#txlege</a>

Derick RethansThis is a well written and researched article explaining why (even) *biological sex* is so much more complicated than 0 or 1.<a href="https://theness.com/neurologicablog/a-discussion-about-biological-sex/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theness.com/neurologicablog/a-discussion-about-biological-sex/</a>Steven, the author, is also a host on one of my favourite podcasts, the Skeptics Guide to the Universe: <a href="https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts</a> <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/sex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sex</a> <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biology</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://asso.lgbt/@toutesdesfemmes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@toutesdesfemmes</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TerfIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TerfIsland</a> is denying >100 years of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/facts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#facts</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sex</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gender</a> ain't binary, cuz even if we're as sexist to only define sex per <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Gonosomes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gonosomes</a>, we'd still have to ask: "what about XO, YY, XXY, ... ?"</li></ul><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TransRightsArehumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransRightsArehumanRights</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NonbinaryRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NonbinaryRightsAreHumanRights</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NonbinaryRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NonbinaryRights</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransRights</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nonbinary</a>

Flipboard UKBreaking: UK Supreme Court rules the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex.Sky News has the details: <a href="https://flip.it/mdt7DV" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flip.it/mdt7DV</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/UKNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKNews</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/UKSupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKSupremeCourt</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gender</a>

nichtvermietbarUps - und Wasser ist nass 😂 <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#press</a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transgender</a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/frau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#frau</a> <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-supreme-court-rules-woman-means-biological-female-trans-gender-recognition/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-supreme-court-rules-woman-means-biological-female-trans-gender-recognition/</a>

Peter NimmoScottish Government loses the legal case on <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> as the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> rules that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. IMHO: back to the drawing board for lawmakers, but it's really important that this is not used to make life even worse for <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trans</a> folks <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgq9ejql39t" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgq9ejql39t</a>

Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺The United Kingdom's top court on Wednesday upheld an appeal by a campaign group on whether transgender women are legally women under equality legislation, ruling that the law referred to a "biological woman and biological sex". <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQIA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TERF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TERF</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gender</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/uk-supreme-court-says-woman-refers-to-biological-sex-under-equality-laws/ar-AA1D1jBT" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/uk-supreme-court-says-woman-refers-to-biological-sex-under-equality-laws/ar-AA1D1jBT</a>

Radical AnthropologyA very good discussion with Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias and Karen Kramer on the <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#huntergatherer</a> sexual division of labour debates, and why we impose our ideas about status for women. Do you imagine women need to hunt to have power?...because the Hadza wouldn't think so.<a href="https://c.im/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#women</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anthropology</a><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ZGADyVN2iK0HlsuXJoEHT" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ZGADyVN2iK0HlsuXJoEHT</a>

Peter NimmoBackground to the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> case, in which a ruling is expected today. The case arose in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyvdd671e6o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyvdd671e6o</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 2504.15 — How much attention do you give to the rhythm of your words?</blockquote>Words, not so much. I am no poet. Meter on such a small scale is a bit finicky for me. I am a prosaist.I used to spend a lot of time at the clausal and sentence level, rearranging whilst composing, trying to vary the length of each sentence as I went, in a fool's quest to ensure never creating similar-sized groupings. Now a-days, I simply write. I've enough awareness of the music I compose, while I compose, that thinking about the its lyrical rhythm would add unnecessary drag. I'm aware that I write in Grammar B. That helps; adds trust. What I find written down rarely proves monotonic.In revision, I fix things: Meter. Rhyme. Alliteration. Elocution. Sometimes I concatenate sentences with semicolons, sometimes with commas and conjunctions. Sometimes, well, I change commas to periods.Or. Periods to a new paragraph, to accentuate an idea—giving the orator time to look the audience in the eye, one by one. Maybe I'll italicize a word. Let the heart skip a beat. Yes. I read it aloud. Again and again. If it doesn't flow, I kick words and slide sentences around.So… Do I pay attention to rhythm? Yes. And No?[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PennedPossibilities</a> 644 — Does your MC’s current actions reflect their past experiences? </blockquote>For May Ri, it's personal. Earth attacked her family and killed her people. She's an engineer. They should have known better.[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sf</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sff</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSstory</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSMarsNeededWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSMarsNeededWomen</a>

the magnificent rhysBig day today.I'd like to say this is clear cut and that I'm expecting a decisive victory for the Scottish Government, and that this insane GC cult has been stopped as it should have been way back when it was determined to be not worthy of respect in a democratic society, but I can't given their cultural reach thanks to the right wing media.But I am optimistic.<a href="https://mastodon.rhys.wtf/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.rhys.wtf/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://mastodon.rhys.wtf/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.rhys.wtf/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPol</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/16/uk-supreme-court-rule-legal-definition-woman" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/16/uk-supreme-court-rule-legal-definition-woman</a>

Sco :progress: :flag_mm:Kat Blaque looks at a person who decided that Kurt Cobain was trans. Her look at the claim, the response, how to approach talking about the dead, about celebrities, and also masculinity.I like the conclusions she comes to in this. Esp when she talks about a cis-masculinity that fine wearing dresses, being feminist, etc. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIlNVYNsXOE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIlNVYNsXOE</a><a href="https://socel.net/tags/VideoEssay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VideoEssay</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/Celebrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Celebrity</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/Gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gender</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/Masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Masculinity</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trans</a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/Queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Queer</a>

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