We can't do serious things on Twitter if the owner only wants meme war

This man owns Twitter; it's not an ideal platform for journalists.

Using #FreeSpeech as an excuse for communicating or legitimizing harmful and even homicidal ideas is intellectual and moral cowardice. True freedom requires using freedom responsibly.

— Phillipe Copeland (@PTheeEducator) December 3, 2022

Alexey Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, created an X account on February 19, 2024. In doing so, "she announced she would continue the work of her husband...More than 90,000 people followed Navalnaya’s account within 24 hours after it was created." The next day, X suspended her account for about 30–45 minutes. X claimed it was an error, but who believes X?

August 2024

We are here:

"The office of U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has condemned Elon Musk after the billionaire claimed “civil war is inevitable” in Britain amid far-right riots.

The prime minister’s official spokesman said Monday that there was “no justification” for Musk’s comment after he used his online platform X, formally called Twitter, to weigh in on the violence that has shaken the country since last week."

— Graeme Demianyk, Elon Musk Criticized By U.K. Prime Minister For 'Civil War' Comment: Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said there was “no justification" for the billionaire's intervention amid far-right riots. HuffPost, Aug 5, 2024

People saying that LGBTQ people deserve to be murdered

Saying that trans people, and those who enjoy going to bars with them, can expect to be murdered is the same thing as saying that LGBTQ people deserve to be murdered.

So it's just "nice human life you got, shame if anything happened to it" now https://t.co/f3r8GdkfhL

— Jude Doyle, Still On This Website (@byJudeDoyle) November 23, 2022

Christian hate-preacher Aaron Thompson celebrated the mass shooting at Club Q, saying it's a "good thing" the victims were murdered because it means "they're not here anymore to molest kids."

More details: https://t.co/e92r4vWGfs pic.twitter.com/EMooeKuMmR

— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) November 24, 2022

We need to be clear; the rights response to the Club Q shooting was not “thoughts and prayers” but instead “the groomers deserved it”. This is the rhetoric continuing to escalate. This is inciting violence. It will continue to get worse, as will the violence against trans folks.

— Jessie Earl (@jessiegender) November 25, 2022

See also: "Hate-Crimers and Their Pronouns". It's a 9-minute read on Medium.

Yes, Rowling is transphobic

Spotted today on the internet. Never heard of this person before.

Decides to Be: A TERF

According to her, she used to be a TERF. I believe her. They exist. She had decided to be this way. Then:

Announced: Not a TERF

Re-Announced: Actually, Yes, a TERF

In All Those Months of Research, Why Not Read What *Trans* People Have Said?

Here's my issue. If you want to understand why someone is transphobic, you have to listen to what trans people have said to explain that. You can't just listen to the person themselves and then say, Oh, OK, it all sounds great to me — You can't say that. Not if you yourself are not trans.

Trans people have explained a billion times why that person is a transphobic ringleader of transphobes.

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Yet, in 2023, BBC Scotland won't let interviewees say that J.K. Rowling is transphobic without demanding that they use their on-air time rehashing why she's transphobic (as if that were not an obvious fact everyone already knows), thus devoting their on-air time to dissecting and thereby amplifying transphobic discourse and making J.K. Rowling more famous rather than having 15 minutes of fame to talk about their own beliefs and ideas.

Maybe the BBC apologised when they published a story about trans women potentially sexually assaulting cis women that heavily relied on a cis woman that was known to have serially sexually assaulted other women, then posted a terrorist manifesto, but I haven’t seen that apology pic.twitter.com/V6sfBjhgAR

— Nate (@nateffo) February 21, 2023

See the Vox article: "Is J.K. Rowling transphobic? Let’s let her speak for herself.: An exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia." The timeline is kept updated.

Glamour Magazine dissects her tweets.

What has JK Rowling said about transgender people?

Here's What J.K. Rowling Has Really Said About Trans People, The Cut, 2023

2019 JK Rowling: "I'm not transphobic"
2022 JK Rowling: "Trans women are men"

(There are still people that try to argue she's not transphobic, lol) pic.twitter.com/fUm3SB1IwH

— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) September 16, 2022

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Oh, the thin skin.

Under her pseudonym, The Cuckoo's Calling sold fewer than 500 hardback copies in its first three months. It sold 43 copies in the week before JK Rowling was revealed to be the author, and then it sold 17662 copies the week after.

Siobhán touched a nerve. https://t.co/XjTJICe98C

— Aidan Comerford (@AidanCTweets) April 4, 2023

On a day when the Gender Critical press are openly campaigning to enable child abuse, JK Rowling is trying to mitigate the stench of her neo-Nazi supporters by associating herself with a small group of Stalinists condemned by the left for their extreme hostility to LGBTQ+ people. pic.twitter.com/DJoodI3dkO

— Bad Writing Takes 🖊️🏳️‍🌈 (@BadWritingTakes) March 30, 2023

JK Rowling: "I have never said anything transphobic"

Also JK Rowling: "Trans women are men"
Also JK Rowling: "Trans women are rapists"
Also JK Rowling: 1024 page "I'm getting cancelled" book
Also JK Rowling: Meets with group that says "all transsexuals rape women's bodies" https://t.co/9PedDEGPFi pic.twitter.com/2e8wpZQOTQ

— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) September 30, 2022

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Please see:

J. K. Rowling, endorsed by Helen Joyce: The Misrepresentation of Compassion and Solidarity (on Rowling’s 2020 essay and what Helen Joyce said about it in Trans in 2021) (Medium)

J. K. Rowling, creator of monsters (DD)

For those who don’t want to read the new ‘Robert Galbraith’ serial killer tale

Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies major at Boston University

"One step to keeping history’s darkest events from recurring is to learn as much as possible about how and why they happened.

BU’s new interdisciplinary major in Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies (HGHRS) will ask students to dig deep into the roots of those cataclysmic events and look for ways to head them off in the future."

— "BU Launches New Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Major", Joel Brown, BU Today, Oct. 24, 2022.

Recent climate tweets

Its blowing my mind that “it could be 125 degrees in Missouri within our lifetime” is not bigger news. https://t.co/CSAowNhpXr pic.twitter.com/KEEbJxfVRc

— Matt Bernico (@Matt_Bernico) August 18, 2022

Breaking: Scientists have found trees growing in the Arctic tundra for the first time. The "shocked" scientists who made the discovery said that such a dramatic ecological shift "wasn’t supposed to happen for a hundred years or more, going by the models."

— XR Cambridge (@xr_cambridge) August 10, 2022

BREAKING: scientists reveal they now have ample evidence that climate change could lead to worldwide societal collapse or even human extinction even with modest levels of warming 🧵

— Ben See (@ClimateBen) August 1, 2022

An amazing news story virtually ignored by state/corporate media: scientists are pointing to immediate system change actions because emissions must peak this year to avoid catastrophic 1.5°C/2°C of global warming but economic growth means emissions are surging apocalyptically. 🧵

— Ben See (@ClimateBen) July 23, 2022

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is now explicitly pointing to actions such as moving away from the idea of economic progress based solely on GDP growth as we risk extinction calamity - pehaps even rapid, fully completed mass extinction by between 2075 and 2150. 🧵

— Ben See (@ClimateBen) July 23, 2022

Billionaire’s space rockets are destroying the planet pic.twitter.com/346hErGWTs

— Paul Gottinger (@PaulGottinger) June 28, 2022

"No rainwater in the world is safe to drink" really feels like one of those headlines they show in a film's introduction to let you know things went wrong somewhere along the way.

— EL BARTO ANTI-WORK (@ElBartoArmy) August 11, 2022

The entire scientific world: The Earth is getting dangerously hotter and threatens our very existence

Dave936 on Twitter: I was 9 in 1976 and I remember it being hot. There’s nothing to worry about, have an ice cream

— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) July 16, 2022

BREAKING: UN confirms industrial agriculture is unsustainable in the face of abrupt climate change heatwaves that threaten present and future farming 🧵

— Ben See (@ClimateBen) June 13, 2022

BREAKING: This evening alone, the United States of America has been struck by no fewer than 6 natural disasters.

A thread on these events. 🧵

First, a massive flash flood has torn through Yellowstone National Park destroying roads and bridges.https://t.co/NYRBc302Oo

— Edgar McGregor (@edgarrmcgregor) June 14, 2022

The trope about transgender people's bones

I'd really like it if you'd read "Our Bones Help Us Live," a 7-minute read in "The Identity Current" on Medium.

I was talking about this:

So:

I often see transphobes say "anthropologists will say your skeleton is the other sex even if you're trans, owned"

they just assumed a viking skeleton was male from 1878 until they DNA tested it in 2017 because it was buried with a sword, an axe, and a spear

— i bless the rains down in castamere (@Chinchillazllla) April 23, 2022

😊Trans person : ...and that's why I support reforming this legislation that directly affects my life!

🤔 Random creeps on the internet : But what about the BONES?!? If someone dug up your BONES in ONE THOUSAND YEARS, would they say they were -boy- bones or ~girl~ bones?!?!?!?

— Alex - Fold Up Toy Designer✂️📦 (@FoldUpToys) October 16, 2022

6) Why would anyone living now care about what some archeologists a thousand years from now think about their bones?

Would YOU change YOUR life because of some hypothetical future scholar might think? Why?

— RB Lemberg (@RB_Lemberg) October 13, 2022

"your skeleton will always be male" okay so what. Then I'm a lady with a skeleton dude inside of me. I'm 100% comfortable with that idea

— Eve Harms, Gourd Respecter 🐀 (@EveHarmsWrites) October 12, 2022

Clive Barker: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the mummy
Barker: but i a got twist for ya
Barker: what if this time
Barker: the mummy
Barker: was
Barker: tra
Dan Simmons: THATS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD
Barker: ns

— The Midnight Society (@midnight_pals) November 7, 2022

Simmons: how you gonna know if a mummy is trans?!?! archeologists would just LOOK at the mummy's pelvis and KNOW the mummy's BIOLOGICAL SEX
Barker: uh no
Barker: it would be obvious
Barker: this mummy wears a choker
Barker: probably with a big ol' scarab on it or something

— The Midnight Society (@midnight_pals) November 7, 2022

Barker: of course ancient egypt considered cats sacred, so naturally my trans mummy wears cat ears
King: right, right
Barker: and post orchiectomy she carries around her balls in a canopic jar
King: sure sounds legit
Simmons: I AM
Simmons: SO MAD ABOUT THIS

— The Midnight Society (@midnight_pals) November 7, 2022

"'Buhhhh a thousand years from now archaeologists will know your skeleton is MALE'
WRONG, they will be fighting for their lives against my tomb's elaborate traps in the heart of my cursed necropolis"
— Gretchen Felker-Martin on Bluesky

Yup, because there's nothing more to human society, culture, and identity than sexual reproduction. 🙄 pic.twitter.com/YrLxNKmmD9

— T. Seifman (@toranosukev) January 26, 2023

This whole thought experiment is so dark.

— A. D. McCormick (@a_d_mccormick) January 26, 2023

I'm still stuck on the kidnapper dumping a couple hundred people on two separate islands with no birth control or cell phones and sailing off with an empty boat...to run a hundred-year experiment, with a control, to find out who has a uterus?

Also ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/cV73TpMz8Q

— Tucker Lieberman (@tuckerlieberman) January 27, 2023

"Nuestros cuerpos son llaves que abren sólo ciertas puertas. De hecho nuestros cuerpos hablan y nuestros huesos son nuestro último testimonio. ¿Nos traicionarán nuestros huesos?"
Cristina Rivera Garza, “Nota de la autora” (2017) to La Cresta de Ilión (The Iliac Crest), originally published 2002

Let’s talk about sexual dimorphism in humans.

This is something that comes up a lot in Jordan Peterson & incel circles. And it sets you up for terrible answers, because it fundamentally misunderstands the question.

A better question: why are human males and females so SIMILAR. pic.twitter.com/Y1qRumBufL

— ern. (@ErinEARoss) February 18, 2023

not gonna get in a quote tweet fight with transphobes but archaeologists are constantly finding skeletons of whatever alleged sex with the opposite gender role’s expected burial items and going “huh. neat”

— chin up, soldier (@tronsgender) March 5, 2023

C.J. continued:

Trans rights are not an "is" claim but an "ought."

Not "I can make my birth sex unrecognizable" but "I should not be forced to act in any particular way because of my birth sex."

which kinda just sounds like Feminism 101 For Small Babies and: that's because it is

and explicitly including pronouns and medical interventions and such among the freedoms not to be constrained by sex shouldn't actually be all that revolutionary

"trans rights are human rights" not as empty slogan but as "trans rights are the natural consequence of every human's right to self-determination"

I do not deny the angle of my pelvic bones; I deny that I'm required to base any major life decisions on it.

another article on this topic

If you'd like information on the pelvic bones of castrated men, see:
Kathryn Reusch, “Raised Voices: The Archaeology of Castration.” Castration and Culture In the Middle Ages, ed. Larissa Tracy. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013.

Image by Thorsten Dittmar from Pixabay

The 125 richest people on Earth hold investments with the carbon footprints of a whole country

From CNN:

On November 7, 2022, Oxfam published its

"analysis of the investments of 125 of the world’s richest billionaires.

It found that, contrary to average people, the wealthiest individuals’ investments account for up to 70% of their emissions.

According to the report, these billionaires’ investments produce an annual average of 3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per person, which is a million times higher than the average 2.76 tons of CO2 for those living in the bottom 90%.

Nafkote Dabi, climate change lead at Oxfam, said that emissions from billionaires’ lifestyles, their private jets and yachts are already thousands of times higher than those of the average person. But looking at emissions from their investments, their carbon emissions are more than a million times higher.

“These few billionaires together have ‘investment emissions’ that equal the carbon footprints of entire countries like France, Egypt or Argentina.

You'd think they can afford a better gastroenterologist. https://t.co/t2hS8z2GSN

— Arturo Serrano (@carturo222@nerdculture.de) (@carturo222) November 8, 2022

"How wealthy 'super emitters' are disproportionately driving the climate crisis — while blaming you": A new study found that the top 10% of households are responsible for 40% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Matthew Rozsa. Salon. August 22, 2023.

Rowling's transphobia (recent commentary on Twitter, Fall 2022)

“his creator” strongly implies that this journalist does not understand the difference between Daniel Radcliffe, a real human person, and Harry Potter, a fictional character he depicted in a film series that concluded more than a decade ago pic.twitter.com/y8Ik9U6nvk

— Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley (@lottelydia) November 3, 2022

yes it’s madly terfy but it’s also the sort of a mistake that a six year old might make???

— Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley (@lottelydia) November 3, 2022

Daniel Radcliffe seems like a sweet, thoughtful, quite softly spoken person and the idea that he is CANCELLING someone by expressing an opposing opinion is a very weird free speech gyration

— Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley (@lottelydia) November 3, 2022

Here's how Weird Al dealt with it:

Humble beginnings: Did you know that prior to his career-defining role as “Weird Al” Yankovic, actor Daniel Radcliffe appeared in a number of movies about a boy wizard, in which he played the title character? #MovieTrivia

— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) November 8, 2022

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Also, this happened in 2023:

Apparently Daniel Radcliffe’s pregnant girlfriend is trans because she’s taller than him according to the transvestigators pic.twitter.com/gePpN6pw9l

— Right Wing Cope (@RightWingCope) April 7, 2023

See: "One person in a couple is always taller than the other". It's a 5-minute read on Medium. Medium lets you read a certain number of stories for free every month. You may also consider a paid membership on the platform.

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JK Rowling makes other people money.

That is why those people in the media never shut up about her and why she trends on here every goddam day.

She fuels ”engagement”

Transphobia is ALWAYS about profit. Always. The profit isn’t always financial, but it is ALWAYS about gain.

— What The Trans!? (WhatTheTrans.com) (@WhatTheTrans) October 16, 2022

Rowling just taking the fucking mask right off and saying with her full chest, in a national newspaper, “It is dangerous to assert that any category of people deserves a presumption of innocence.”

WTF? Presumption of innocence is one of the cornerstones of any democracy.

— Fancy Brenda 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (they/them) (@SpillerOfTea) October 16, 2022

Rowling is actually out here arguing that trans people don’t deserve the presumption of innocence. Save me your childhood wizard nostalgia, this woman is endangering people the world over.

— Nic Anstett (@NicAnstett) October 16, 2022

The reason why JK is so angry about Graham Norton saying, "I'm painfully aware [that] my voice adds nothing to that discussion.”

Is because she's also in that same boat. She's not an expert, she's not trans or an ally. She's simply made her entire gig hating trans people.

— Esme (@discount_Ripley) October 14, 2022

i’m tired to my bones of having to hear about what jk fucking r*wling is up to. we are all diminished by this

— Lillian Boyd (@herelieslill) October 16, 2022

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JK Rowling going full "trans people are rapists." She continues her downward spiral into a petty hate filled existence obsessed with trans people to the exclusion of all else. pic.twitter.com/4bNq2Db8vy

— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) September 16, 2022

My new favorite genre is TERF's like JK Rowling praising christofascists for their transphobia.

People need to wake up at how transphobia is being used as a gateway to radicalize wealthy white women into reactionary fascist views. pic.twitter.com/OgXWsskp17

— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) July 10, 2022

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I feel like almost everyone has forgotten exactly what prompted JKR to go embark on her transphobic era to begin with:
HP used to be extremely popular among trans people, for obvious reasons. This angered JKR and she started denouncing her trans fans on twitter.

— Pinko Scum (@kayla_denker) February 8, 2023

I remember someone being like, "as a trans person I identify with Harry," and her essentially going, "absolutely the fuck not," and then it just escalated from there

— Jackie, the Stupidest Angel 💀 ✡️ (@EntryLvlNut) February 8, 2023

Yeah, that's the event that I remember too.

— Pinko Scum (@kayla_denker) February 8, 2023

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If you are a writer and millions of people have misunderstood you “profoundly,” it might just be possible that you are really shitty at your trade. Using words is literally your gig. https://t.co/ELSM5Z1JrQ

— Ralph Carhart (@ralphcarhart) February 15, 2023

"You could not have misunderstood me more profoundly."
*refuses to clarify*

— Cheese-Eating Sinner (@TheOneTruMoo) February 15, 2023

JK Rowling wants you to know who the real victim is in all of this, her. pic.twitter.com/I67DWYPjan

— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) February 15, 2023

If you have power and wealth you can suppress free speech. I was commissioned to write an article about JK Rowling’s new podcast last wk - in which SHE is portrayed as the victim. Editor loved it. However, it’s been blocked. Nobody will publish anything negative about her. Slapp.

— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) February 23, 2023

Recent tweets on climate

A guy literally burnt himself alive in front of a government building as an emblematic casualty of climate crisis, and it generated nothing compared against the simulated destruction of a thing of the past. Something incredibly to the point here that everyone should dwell with.

— Alex Colston (@re_colston) October 27, 2022

The belief that the climate can be stabilised below 1.5C or 2C is a *religious* belief.

It's impossible in the real world, where 400ppm of CO2 produces a 3C+ planet.

No other outcome is possible within the laws of physics governing this universe.

— Uncovering the Truth About Climate | Risk Assessor (@MarkCranfield_) November 5, 2022

Cop27 climate summit: window for avoiding catastrophe is now closed say tropical corals 🧵

— Ben See (@ClimateBen) October 30, 2022

Kudos to @dwallacewells, who argues that an increasing likely 2C to 3C of warming demands that we think harder about how to adapt.

One point worth amplifying: I cover climate adaptation, and I truly don't think people realize how hard it will be. (1/x) https://t.co/v40nZ58AI2

— Christopher Flavelle (@cflav) October 30, 2022

Yesterday, I attended a conference at which an influential financier shared this unpublished map. Look at it. The estimated death toll is 2-3 *billion*; the timeframe is 20-30 years (previously: 50). Segments of the elite have simply 'written off' large parts of the Global South. pic.twitter.com/P7JTfepn9k

— Benjamin Ramm (@BenjaminRamm) October 16, 2022

I made a video, it's called Earth Support. I tried to convey appropriate urgency while still being somewhat entertaining so people actually watch, which is a tight-rope walk. I even dressed up in my best t-shirt. https://t.co/AErUAeHGrV

— Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) October 25, 2022

People want to know what they can do about climate breakdown. A good starting point is the free app I co-founded and work on, @EarthHeroOrg. It's the #1 climate app, it has lots of great stuff, and we're working on making it a powerful tool to link new activists to climate groups

— Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) November 4, 2022

Here is the link to the report: https://t.co/44VxUjD0R7

— Sommer Ackerman (@lifewithsommer) October 28, 2022

Dangerous assumptions:

1. economic growth won't end in collapse
2. rapid warming of 1.5/2°C won't break us
3. CO₂ sucking machines will soon work
4. Arctic sea ice loss isn't key
5. near-term mass extinction is unlikely

How many journalists will challenge these ideas? 🧵

— Ben See (@ClimateBen) October 28, 2022

Canada’s logging industry:

'Far from being a bit player in driving climate change, its impact is roughly on par with the emissions footprint of tar sands operations.' https://t.co/oSVpOCi8KY

— Ben See (@ClimateBen) October 26, 2022

Does the IPCC's AR6 report suggest scientists have been systematically underestimating the rate & magnitude of climate change extremes and that even if temperature rise is limited to 2°C, the extremes species suffer might be what was previously expected at (apocalyptic) 4 or 5°C?

— Ben See (@ClimateBen) October 27, 2022

BREAKING: catastrophic insect declines will drastically reduce the ability of humankind to build a sustainable future warn scientists 🧵

— Ben See (@ClimateBen) October 25, 2022

Far from being able to stabilise the climate below 2C, this event is the most extreme warming event in Earth's 4.5 billion year history.

— Uncovering the Truth About Climate | Risk Assessor (@MarkCranfield_) November 6, 2022

Very exciting to see my forthcoming book 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 is now featured in @ManchesterUP's Spring/ Summer catalogue

More info here: https://t.co/9l7vpWQzau

Out May 2023! pic.twitter.com/ta3tdYWl56

— Laurie Parsons (@lauriefdparsons) November 3, 2022

Recently I learned about a man who has trained 1,000+ people to block wind and solar projects.

I read through all his training materials, presentations, and seminars.

Here's what I learned about him and how his students plan to "win the war on clean energy."

🧵

— Michael Thomas (@curious_founder) November 1, 2022

The system could in theory decouple GDP from fossil fuel use & emissions? Too damn late. Climate chaos is inevitable! And.. growth means habitat bulldozing and poisoning that's wiping out butterflies, primates, bees, trees, & people. So we're going to have to change the system.🧵

— Ben See (@ClimateBen) October 31, 2022

The total power from all the world's solar & wind is only equivalent to the increase in global energy demand for the past 2 yrs. - they are built using rare earth metals, concrete, steel, plastic, & oh yes.....fossil fuels. They are "replaceables" at best...not renewables.

— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) October 30, 2022

Scientists have been systematically underestimating the rate and magnitude of extremes. Even if temperature rise is limited to 2 degrees, the extremes might be what would previously have been projected for 4 to 5 degrees. https://t.co/BSpEhJfamp

— Ben See (@ClimateBen) October 31, 2022

You are broadly correct. The problem is much too large to use trees alone to solve climate change.

Trees can be a part of the climate solution (and have other benefits as well), but there isn't enough space on Earth to plant enough trees to compensate for all our emissions.

— Dr. Robert Rohde (@RARohde) October 29, 2022

Its also more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from human activities than all the world's living biomass combined (which is also now exceeded by human-made mass): https://t.co/vN3M2Kp8Bi

— Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath) October 28, 2022

you ever take the time to think about how strange it is that we have quantified evidence that slowing down the economy for just a couple months caused much larger rebounds in ecological health than expected, and ever since we've been ordered to grow the economy as fast as we can?

— emsenn says end food apartheid (@emsenn) October 27, 2022

The “clean” tech transition is not going to save civilization. If you’re putting your hopes in that you haven’t understood the magnitude of the problem. Building out such a transition instantly gets us over 2C warming. At 2C all bets are off for societal and ecological collapse.

— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) October 28, 2022

Today I’m visiting the ground zero of global warming: the old furnace in Coalbrookdale. This was the first place to successfully use coal instead of charcoal in iron smelting and thereby begin the fossil fuel age. pic.twitter.com/j8DpEuL1Yy

— Gavin Jackson (@GavinHJackson) October 22, 2022

I’ve said this before, but ecological politics today isn’t about ‘saving the planet’ or ‘solving the climate crisis’ as we used to be told. It isn’t even about staying within 1.5C of planetary heating. That’s over. It's gone. 1/4

— Kai Heron (@KaiHeron) September 14, 2022

We can change the story. It’s not about utopias or dystopias - but the adventure of getting there!

Solving climate change is a thriller - villains, unlikely heroes, unexpected allies, a terrifying monster & plot twists galore.

Will you be cast or an extra in the background?

— Solitaire Townsend (@GreenSolitaire) October 5, 2022

How to tell that story?

Watch this Storytelling the Solutions panel from #climateweek - we went deep into the message and method! https://t.co/JjSqIkIllm

— Solitaire Townsend (@GreenSolitaire) October 5, 2022

We could have changed the world. Normalizing remote work would have reduced carbon emissions, curbed mass infection, freed up space for downtown housing, and put full-time employment within reach for so many more. 1/10

— Indehisce (@indehisce) August 29, 2022

This is unreal. A new study was just released today in Nature Climate Change, finding that it's now inevitable that 110,000,000,000,000 tons of ice will melt in Greenland.

This would cause a whole foot of sea-level rise. (1/8)

— West Virginia Rising (@WV_Rising) August 29, 2022

Scientists warn future temperatures will test humans' ability to survive | CBC News https://t.co/SOi4F9wFe2

— Moses Ingram (@MosesIngram) May 29, 2022

"The U.S. has sustained 338 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2022). The total cost of these 338 events exceeds $2.295 trillion.

2022 in Progress...

In 2022 (as of October 11), there have been 15 weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each to affect the United States. These events included 1 drought event, 1 flooding event, 10 severe storm events, 2 tropical cyclone events, and 1 wildfire event. Overall, these events resulted in the deaths of 342 people and had significant economic effects on the areas impacted. The 1980–2021 annual average is 7.7 events (CPI-adjusted); the annual average for the most recent 5 years (2017–2021) is 17.8 events (CPI-adjusted)."

— NOAA

Seen on Twitter: breakdowns of transphobia

They complain whether a trans woman is honoured as a woman or as a person. Even a modest honour as the 27th most influential person in a single city in a single year gets the same response! pic.twitter.com/pWHSTzGwT1

— 🏳️‍🌈 Izzy Kamikaze 🏳️‍⚧️🦕🦖 (@IzzyKamikaze) November 4, 2022

This is genuinely pathetic. Absolutely embarrassing. Imagine sitting at your computer and typing these words and not combusting into a fiery shameball. pic.twitter.com/gkBaJzUd64

— Sara Gibbs (@Sara_Rose_G) November 3, 2022

A Gender Critical person makes this claim about once every other month https://t.co/liLkxrlio9

— K80 Montgomerie 🦗 (@KatyMontgomerie) November 4, 2022

Liana's thread is pretty banging but as I read it i noticed every tweet had like its own rabbit hole of extra information that could be included and thats probably why we havent moved particularly far forwards since transphobes started being taken seriously by the media.

— a wailing banshe/her (@notCursedE) October 16, 2022

Weaponization of white femininity and use of the traditional nuclear family unit to absolve herself of being a figure head of a movement that seeks to brutally oppress a marginalized group. Anti trans is white supremacist. It is essential to the functioning of the entire ideology pic.twitter.com/eO9JMFqC1c

— tai lee // END FEMICIDE (@yungz0rn) November 3, 2022

Dear "gender critical" cultists,

You are not entitled to ask me to describe my intersex condition to you, which would necessitate talking about my genitals and sexual development.

You have no right or need to know intimate details of my body.

— Meryl Links ♂️ (@minusplnp) November 4, 2022

Lol at anti trans activists calling Genital Reassignment Surgery "experimental". It's nearly 100 years old

They just call all trans healthcare "experimental" to make it sound riskier than it is

— K80 Montgomerie 🦗 (@KatyMontgomerie) November 4, 2022

Homophobes: gay people using the term marriage devalues my own marriage. They are not married - that is defined as between one man and one woman. Gay people have the same rights as everyone else - to marry someone of the opposite sex

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— Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 (@FaustFury) November 2, 2022

Transphobes: trans women calling themselves women devalues my own womanhood. They are not women - that is defined as producing large gametes. Trans people have the same rights as everyone else - to use the facilities assigned to them by their observed sex at birth

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— Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 (@FaustFury) November 2, 2022

You shouldn’t need to be personally affected to care about trans people but it seems that’s where we are so let me be clear:

Fascists are building their campaign by attacking trans people. But they’re not going to stop there.

— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) October 31, 2022

When terfs say they want to rescue and save transmascs/men they mean forcibly detransition and have us coercively raped until we accept submissive tradwife status just so you’re aware lol implying terfs mean “save” & “rescue” in any genuine sense is…so far removed from reality

— Salem Void ֎ (@thewarmvoid) November 1, 2022

An “Ex-Detransitioner” Disavows the Anti-Trans Movement She Helped Spark
https://t.co/JeDCjnkPVD

— K80 Montgomerie 🦗 (@KatyMontgomerie) October 30, 2022

I think it's really tempting to for well-intentioned cis people to look at trans folks talking about normal things on the internet and assume that bc we're talking about normal things, our situation must not be so dire.
We talk about normal things bc we're all in avoidant panic.

— Alex (he/him) loves 🦇🦇🦇! (@AlexPetrovnia) October 31, 2022

TERFs: this 19-year-old is still a child and cannot be trusted to make decisions with life-altering consequences

Also TERFs: this 14-year-old is big and is therefore not a child

— Evan (@evantesseract) October 31, 2022

I wish we’d stop talking about gnc cis women being policed in bathrooms as some sort of “splash effect” from transphobia. Transphobia is about enforcing the bounds of patriarchal gender… harassing gnc cis women is absolutely part of that.

— Roe 🏳️‍⚧️ (@RoeGraceM) October 30, 2022

Prediction: if the government actually legislates to ban trans women from womens toilets, it will only have one observable effect on incidents of crime in women's toilets; a sharp increase of "gender critical" women and men attacking cis women they've mistaken for trans women.

— Ash Routh 🏳️‍⚧️ (@AshRouth) October 29, 2022

I honestly worry a lot more about normal people whose gut tells them that there's some sense in the trans-accepting side of the "debate" and some sense in the anti-trans side, than I do about comitted transphobes.

— Evan Urquhart | Assigned Media (@e_urq) October 30, 2022

The only children having their genitals mutilated are intersex babies who are forced to undergo surgeries at birth to conform them to a societal binary.

You’d think transphobes would care, yet every law targeting trans kids carve out exceptions for these practices to continue.

— Chlöe, without the umlaut (@ItsChloeNow) October 30, 2022

Kellie-Jay Keen, who goes by the pseudonym Posie Parker, is on a speaking tour in the USA. She’s the head of a group, Standing for Women, which says it supports free speech and women’s sex-based rights. It is virulently transphobic. #transtwitter https://t.co/fqh6rGcubd

— translashmedia (@translashmedia) October 29, 2022

Not trying to brag but I definitely have a better beard and am stronger than this man pic.twitter.com/NVEVt8ayi7

— Chris Stedman (@ChrisDStedman) October 29, 2022

New Stonewall chair of trustees Iain Anderson told Laura Kuenssberg that he wanted to take the trans rights conversation off twitter and talk to gender critical groups.

This is not the first time a cis person has called for the ‘debate’ to be less ‘toxic’.

Some thoughts

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— What The Trans!? (WhatTheTrans.com) (@WhatTheTrans) October 30, 2022

A journalist pal at the BBC explained it to me last week. The mentality is that trans is seen as a ‘women’s issue’ - with trans people not viewed as being women (or men) but as a separate distinct species. The priority is on how ‘women’ feel (all of them GC) about letting us in.

— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) October 30, 2022

I am so sick of 'well-meaning' and 'concerned' people writing about how there're just too many people like me, based entirely on 'well, there weren't as many of you fifteen years ago'.

Fifteen years ago most people like me didn't have the /words/ for what we are!

— Finn 🏳️‍🌈 (@house_of_five) October 28, 2022

You mean to tell me that an entire political party accusing LGBTQ people of "grooming children" and calling the Democrats a "child sacrificing cult" would incite crazy people to attempt to murder the Speaker of the House? I'm shocked. pic.twitter.com/8tCfHDrUFW

— Alejandra Caraballo 🐀 (@Esqueer_) October 29, 2022

I need to again say this, so that it is clear to the news outlets and nonprofits that follow me:

The FL Board of Medicine just replied ‘that’s okay’ when told trans kids would die because of this proposal and that their blood was on their hands.

— Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 (@AlyAlyOutnFree) October 28, 2022

I want to also say this, so that every ally and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community understands:

The FL Board of Medicine said, on the record, ‘you’re not going to win’ when told this proposal would kill trans kids.

— Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 (@AlyAlyOutnFree) October 28, 2022

Todays FL BofM meeting was a clear message to every single trans child, parent, relative, classmate, friend or grandparent: ‘your trans child’s life does not matter to us.’

They were told ‘their blood is on your hands’.

They actually replied, on mic, ‘that’s okay.’

— Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 (@AlyAlyOutnFree) October 28, 2022

The anti-trans experts and politicians in that Florida healthcare ban hearing are talking about putting trans people who seek treatment on a registry, in case you think trans peoples’ fears are out of proportion right now.

— Lyra, Esq., is NOT DAREDEVIL (@PinkRangerLB) October 28, 2022

There's a reason they had the Florida Medical Board meeting in a airport. All of the anti trans people had to be flown in from out of state. Here they are leaving for their flights to go terrorize trans people in other states. pic.twitter.com/MqLsGLhu7v

— Alejandra Caraballo 🐀 (@Esqueer_) October 28, 2022

It sounds like they will not launch a registry but I want it on record that this was discussed. pic.twitter.com/tdqeDRFFZa

— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) October 28, 2022

They appeared to briefly consider allowing those already on HRT and puberty blockers to continue, but they scrapped that last minute.

They considered adding all trans youth to a Florida registry but will take that up at another time.

This is genocide. It is happening now.

— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) October 28, 2022

Florida board of medicine is cutting off comment early.

They tell the crowd “you can have our email.”

The crowd has exploded. pic.twitter.com/CzZx2bxGVt

— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) October 28, 2022

I know Ky, and she's pretty incredible. This is a reminder that over 60% of those who detransition will likely retransition later in life.

This is yet another similarity the political detrans movement has with the ex-gay movement. pic.twitter.com/Dy0hVsEp8T

— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) November 1, 2022

A transphobe just saw "En/日本語 🆗" in my bio and said "you don't even know if you're a he, a she or an en whatever THAT is!"

— Meryl Links ♂️ (@minusplnp) November 1, 2022

apropos of what's happening on my TL right now: back when I was doing research for my 1st book Whipping Girl, I came across several references that suggested that the person who wrote perhaps the most notorious anti-trans book ever had written it shortly after...

— Julia Serano (@JuliaSerano) November 1, 2022

Question for Gender Critical people:

Do you want a world without trans people? I'm not asking if you want to put us in death camps, I'm asking if we exist in your utopian future

If yes, what do you think of people who say no? If no, how do you justify that?

— K80 Montgomerie 🦗 (@KatyMontgomerie) October 25, 2022

I have no words for the kind of the person who sees their own family member committing suicide as a great chance to dunk on trans healthcare pic.twitter.com/7xt2eP2xUz

— Lily Simpson has blue hair + pronouns (@LilySimpson1312) October 26, 2022

They just keep getting lower. They hate trans people so much that their own niece dying from suicide is just a smug Twitter dunk. We aren't human to them https://t.co/JAo4U5krwQ

— K80 Montgomerie 🦗 (@KatyMontgomerie) October 26, 2022

If you think this picture is "sexualised" then that is a serious you problem you fucking weirdo pic.twitter.com/gj8Gm0cfnx

— K80 Montgomerie 🦗 (@KatyMontgomerie) October 26, 2022

Wait that's Nicole Maines?! Why do these fucking losers always pick happy and successful trans people who massively benefitted from early transition and try and describe them as if they didn't. They do this with Jackie Green too https://t.co/4YP0IOgZND

— K80 Montgomerie 🦗 (@KatyMontgomerie) October 26, 2022

The latest "big" Gender Critical news story is "GC cis woman threatens and harasses trans woman for using the toilet, gets arrested" and they have, of course, spun that to the GC being the victim

— K80 Montgomerie 🦗 (@KatyMontgomerie) October 26, 2022

Your world with, what, gay and trans drug satanic orgies? Rights for queer & trans people, abortion access, immigration reform, protections for people of all & no faith, & God willing things like healthcare for all & deep engagement on the climate crisis? Well… not the former.

— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) October 23, 2022

“trans-identified people”

I don’t identify as trans, I’m just a woman. Society calls me trans because of my unique path to womanhood.

— emmy zje ✨🌘 (@emmy_zje) June 23, 2022

Why would any trans person applying for a job tell their potential employer they were trans if they didn't have to for their own safety or peace of mind? It's irrelevant.

— K80 Montgomerie 🦗 (@KatyMontgomerie) October 19, 2022

Something that's come up at trial a lot is how coming out and transitioning allowed the trans plaintiffs to imagine their future. Ambitions, careers, colleges--all of which were beyond the scope of their closeted imagination--now suddenly seem possible and necessary.

— Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) October 21, 2022

embarrassing how people admit over and over again that they think trans men "pass better" and "have it easier" simply because if someone doesn't pass easily and swiftly they don't see them as a "real" trans man

— aarón (@transmutanthood) October 21, 2022

This brilliant point from @OwenJones84 sums up the approach of so many anti-trans activists I encounter on here:
"The nature of prejudice is to seek out the extreme and the hypothetical and use it to tar an entire minority in order to lay the foundations for discrimination". https://t.co/xL5pBC0g2d

— Billy Bragg (@billybragg) October 20, 2022

so cis white women, stop comparing trans women to blackface, because doing so exposes your own anti-Black racism, as well as your desperation to mischaracterize another oppressed population (trans women) as an oppressor

— Jerrica ☭ (@JinkiesJerrica) October 18, 2022

Excuse me while I have an existential crisis, Ive just discovered I'm a trans woman, not a cisgender woman, which came as quite a shock.

I'm fucking devastated. pic.twitter.com/x6p6HsUl2G

— Joss Prior 🌈 🎃Non-Menstrual Witch🎃🌈 (@joss_prior) October 18, 2022

It's so weird how the people who go on about how trans peoples legal recognition is a ~legal fiction~ now live in a legal fantasy world where the Equality Act works in the complete opposite way to how it's written and all case law has shown it to work.

Wacky & unserious people.

— Alex - Fold Up Toy Designer✂️📦 (@FoldUpToys) October 18, 2022

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It was inevitable that they'd start calling for the imprisonment of LGBTQ people and their allies. When you use terms like "sexual mutilation" to describe the standards of care for gender dysphoria endorsed by all major medical orgs, the only rational outcome for them is prison. pic.twitter.com/tODz2Wnkft

— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) November 2, 2022

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Transphobia is rife. It's been in every mainstream newspaper, every day, for years. It's on BBC, Sky News, RTE, Channel 4. It's all over social media of course. ‘Polls say that trans rights' support has fallen.’ ‘Transphobic hate crimes are on the rise.’ Who can explain it? 1/

— Aidan Comerford (@AidanCTweets) October 16, 2022

New: In Arizona, Republican candidate Kari Lake's closing message is the most vile, desperate attack I have seen. With the help of the Daily Wire and Charlie Kirk, she's attacking Katie Hobbs for the crime of being married to a trauma therapist with a trans patient.

— Ari Drennen 🏹 (@AriDrennen) November 4, 2022

Kari Lake appeared in a video promoting Ethan Schmidt’s account.

Kari Lake refuses to publicly denounce Ethan who is now stating he will “hunt LGBT supporters” at Target and across Phoenix. pic.twitter.com/FB9Ue831G9

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 21, 2022

A year & a half ago, we came across disturbing signs of crossover between fascist & TERF/GC movements. We became concerned about the possibility of violence & collaboration, dubbing it TAnon.

Unfortunately that reality is here with Posie Parker’s Let Women Speak tour.

— Health Liberation Now! (@HealthLibNow) November 4, 2022