Aly Thymia

Me/themselves Recovering dissociative identity disaster, built back strong & supple. Reborn punx philosopher, gets thru each Feb 3rd with help of PA. Sic trans.

[Aly Thymia @AlyThymia]

Limited space in profile. Spill your darlings:

Disenchanted Ella rising from cinders, now punmancer with latent tiffany achings.

Pronouns in fairy nonbio, ending the spin cycle; time to air out and dry.

No more changeling; growing old, defaced fully.

I hate contemptus mundis

[The Tweedy Mutant @the_tweedy]

One of the most fascinating transition-related changes I have experienced as a disabled white man is how much it has diminished the administrative burden related to my medical care relative to when I was perceived as a woman...

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

This is an actual interior corridor of a major NHS hospital.

In 2023.

Who can look at this & pretend Conservative governments haven’t spent 13 years deliberately running the NHS into the ground?

[Paul Brand @PaulBrandITV]

“I’m not familiar with that particular case”.

Suella Braverman says she didn’t know about 12 refugees being killed in Rwanda in 2018 after protesting about their conditions.

Moments earlier she insisted “Rwanda is safe for refugees”.

“Rwanda is a safe country” she repeats.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

1000s of words have been said in reply to Lineker. It interests me that hardly anyone has looked closely at what terms and phrases were being used in Germany in the 1930s to see if they match (or not) what's said today by Ms Braverman. I offered a list, meant only as a starter.

[Kit Yates @Kit_Yates_Maths]

Buried in WhatsApp conversations between then-prime minister Boris Johnson, his scientific advisers and Dominic Cummings, is an exchange which is arguably even more worrying than this headline-grabbing stories.

Johnson's fundamental maths mistake...
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[Marcus Chown @marcuschown]

In 2010, when the Tories came in, the NHS was ranked the fairest, most efficient & cost-effective healthcare system in the world. It had its highest ever public approval rating

Now it's on the verge of collapse.

They said the NHS was safe with them.

It wasn't, was it?

#C4News

[Elaine Scattermoon @scattermoon]

It's been hell to witness as a trans person in the UK over the past half-decade, seeing the hatred get increasingly mainstream in the press and then in politics, and the arguments of strange internet bigots appear in papers and then parliaments. Feels like going backwards, fast.

[Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo]

🚨Exclusive: OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic, my investigation found

(Thread)

https://t.co/302G0z7vy3

[Aly Thymia @AlyThymia]

@heyalexdaily Happy birthday!

[Alex 🏳️‍🌈 @Alex_Autistic]

The "trans travel ban" claims are nonsense, GRCs don't affect travel. What the policy actually does is force people to pay several hundred pounds in private re diagnosis by a UK doctor for no reason

[Mik Scarlet @MikScarlet]

@JeremyVineOn5 As a disabled person & regular train user it's vital the public understands the rail strikes are also to protect the assistance that is provided to allow people like me to travel by train. Staff cuts will mean rail becomes closed to many who need assistance.

[Elaine Scattermoon @scattermoon]

Everywhere I've lived with prepayment meters has been hell, and we've always (as a household) had the ability to keep them topped up, even if we frequently lost electricity/gas when they ran out overnight. The costs add up extremely quickly and you can never be much in credit.

[Elaine Scattermoon @scattermoon]

That debt agencies are able to just get warrants for many hundreds of forced prepayment meter installations with zero oversight is horrifying, though prepayment meters themselves are always utterly inhumane, nothing but a way of making poor people pay more for *vital* fuel.

[Amber Briggle (she/they) @mrsbriggle]

I'm the mother of a transgender child. Last spring Greg Abbott ordered CPS to investigate parents like me for child abuse. A caseworker came to my home, interrogated my children individually & alone, & kept our investigation open for MONTHS despite no evidence of harm or abuse🧵

[Lumiai @yes_wecan_cer]

My father and I had a hard but very real interaction last night.

I was reading one of the recent WPATH statements (yes, at a family dinner, on a holiday weekend, I know), and my dad said something I knew was true, which was that he's skeptical of transgender medicine for youth.

[Elaine Scattermoon @scattermoon]

This was incredibly hard to write but I don't know how much longer Twitter is going to be around and honestly I could really use the help if you're able to offer my any aid at all. Please help if you are able, it means the world to me.

https://t.co/VWfGANsRTB