#hell island

[youssefguedira]

my last post lost traction so here we are again!

mermaids, a trans charity here, is currently running an email campaign for people in the UK to write to their MP and urging them to pressure the government to change the current draft guidance for trans kids in schools here. the current draft, among other things, states that schools "do not have to accept a child’s request to socially transition, and that teachers or pupils should not be pressured into using different pronouns."

the email is already written for you and can be modified as you choose. all it takes is your name, email address, and UK postcode. it's a 30 second process. if you're in the UK and are able please take the time to do so! their goal is 10000 emails and they're at 8946 at the time of writing this (they were at 8901 when i posted about this before, so thank you to everyone who did it last time!)

you may want to wait until after the election, and i don't know whether the campaign will change at all, but if you're concerned about the current state of trans rights in the uk (which is definitely worrying), this is a small thing you can do to help!

if you're not in the uk, reblogs would be appreciated! and if you're able to, donate to mermaids! they provide support to trans young people and their families in a lot of different ways, which is needed now more than ever.

[the-gershomite]

Dark Horse Presents: Hellboy #151 -February 2000-

Hellboy "The Nature of the Beast"

story and art by Mike Mignola

letters by Pat Brosseau

Doc Thunder "Terror from Planet X"

story, art and letters by Jason Armstrong

"Hell Island" A Vonshollywood retro-classic

story, art, and letters by Pete Von Sholly

[eyes-onthehorizon]

kemi. ffs.

[legosloth16]

Live footage of living in the UK:

[transcerat0ps]

wow rishi. i wonder what might have happened during a devastating global pandemic that has meant more people are living with long term illness. what a mystery

[baddingtonbitch]

every study about australian men is the worst thing you'll ever read. two studies i've seen in the past couple of days make me want to join a convent.

[brw]

"uhhhh but Scotland didn't vote for independence in most recent poll!!" survation has been laughed at before for its poor polling + true north, as to its name, is based primarily in the north of scotland. most of Scotland's population is further south in glasgow and edinburgh i know people know this but this doesn't mean shit i hate people taking this as gospel shut uppppppp.

[notquiteaghost]

GB news is absolutely not a reliable source & this guy's credentials are he wrote an unofficial biography of charles a few years ago. he is an investigative journalist but he did also recently publish a biography of jeremy corbyn that has been widely criticised for being factually incorrect. charles IS big into alternative medicine but we do not Know if he's actually gonna refuse chemo when he's the one with cancer. this guy is guessing. i am primarily reblogging this post to say it is so fucking jarring to live in the uk & hear actual journalists speculate about the royals on their actual news programs in the exact same way i see fans speculate about fictional characters in fandom spaces. especially when there are a hundred far more pressing things happening that actually effect the average person's life.

potions??? lmaoo rip bozo

[youssefguedira]

hey the uk petition to not ban trans people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards, and all other petitions, are gonna close on may 30th (next thursday) because of the election, so if you haven't signed please do that. it's reached the threshold to get a response from the government (10,000) but is still a long way from actually being debated (100,000). it's at 14,695 at the time of writing this

[man-made-misery]

British people are so fucking annoying!!!

My uncle shared this post on Facebook (under the cut because it's racist as shit)

Which is nice and easy for him to say, living in a safe country where he's the majority. God fucking forbid England becomes the victim of an attack from another country and he has to seek asylum.

I don't see why "people deserve to live somewhere safe" is a controversial opinion. Asylum seekers in England get £49 if their accommodation doesn't provide food, and £8 if it does (!!) Nobody is choosing to live on £8 a week, in an unfamiliar country, where they're constantly exposed to people telling them they're not wanted.

Look at the words "winter fuel payments". We shouldn't need extra payments from the government to be able to heat our houses!!! You know why we do? It's not because of a family of 3 seeking refuge from a war torn country. It's because the energy suppliers have put prices up so much. The government created a cost of living crisis and used immigration as a scapegoate and Brits are eating it right up.

Why did the elderly get free tv licences in the first place? Because we have to pay fucking money to access television, even if you don't own a tv in some cases. Immigrants didn't cause that.

But you know what the worst thing is?

MY FAMILY ARE IMMIGRANTS. MY UNCLE IS AN IMMIGRANT. HE WAS NOT BORN IN THIS COUNTRY. but that's fine because he's not one of the ones the government blames shit on.

[basictrevelyan]

What is fucking me up is that what's happening here is not Tory voters seeing that righty politics is not working and going for righty lite politics (labour of "more police" fame) but being like. Well it's simply that the Tories are idiots and we need to go RIGHTER

And effectively reform have split the vote. So most people in this country still want to privatise the NHS and stop the boats and whatever the fuck they think will magically cause them to be able to get a GP appointment while costing them no money.

[bullet-proof-gay]

The link she mentions is here

go OFF queen

[unknownn-girl]

[dollmaxxxing]

[notquiteaghost]

This expresses my feelings precisely.

[brw]

girl help two homophobes and a transphobe are the options for the SNP girl help we had just made so much progress im so 🧍