It's not a tea break - it's a strike

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"What’s the point of supporting gay rights but nobody else’s rights. You know? Or - workers’ rights but not Women’s rights - it’s - I don’t know - illogical."

"There’s a lodge banner down in the welfare. We bring it out for special occasions. It’s a hundred years old. I’ll show it to you one day. It’s a symbol like this -

Two hands.

Good letter template for contacting your MPs re the new code of practice. We have a month. Make the biggest stink you can. As stated at the link, this template is useful as it contains specific Procedural questions, which are harder for unsympathetic MPs to shoot down than exclusively Ideological ones (though there's space for that in the template too!). It took me less than ten minutes and I wrote like two paragraphs.

If you're in the UK, this is one of the easiest ways to do Anything about this bullshit. If not, you very well might have friends or followers who are, so send this their way. Regardless of where you are, please do all you can to support the trans people here.

"Even if the people you knew in your lost years emerge intact, there's a sense in which you never see them again. You can't. Either they metamorphose and leave their toxic carapace behind, or they don't make it. Rephrase that: Either you metamorphose and leave your toxic carapace behind, or you don't make it. Do it again: Either I metamorphosed and left my toxic carapace behind, or I didn't make it. This song works out as many versions of this sentence as I can tolerably stand."

"What's "funny" to me about this one is that I think it's ground zero for me becoming preoccupied by the future, by the phrase "the future" and by the idea of the future and by the way the future is always a moving target, one that assumes any number of shapes, depending on who's taking aim, and how clear a shot they have at it. It's also being written from the perspective of my younger self, who didn't believe there was going to be any actual future at all—for whom "the world about to come" doesn't include me."

Pylon quilt!

09/04/2026 • every time @softinvasions writes a villanelle about how sonnets suck i write another suckful sonnet*. metrical malpractice!