"All star charity concert for trans rights"

[FuriousAndFrustrated]

Spotted on the Guardian today:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/28/sugababes-sophie-ellis-bextor-wolf-alice-and-more-to-play-all-star-charity-concert-for-trans-rights

Raising money for the kimono-clad fox-killer's "Good" Law Project.

Definitely one to avoid!

Would cost far less in logistics and allow all
the shut-ins to participate.

it's only a matter of time before hoarding gets it's own colour in the pride flag

... who by a strange coincidence was a big SNP donor before getting the ferry contract in spite of not submitting the lowest bid and having no track record. What are the chances?

What I find odd is how ferry users are not allowed to complain about the absurd shitshow that is Calmac without SNPers jeering 'yoon' at them.

I've been trying to find a Greek word for 'tedium' to pair with -philia, but for once the Greeks don't seem to have had a word for it.

The nearest I could find is ania (ανία) = boredom or monotonia (μονοτονία) = monotony.

[sits on hands to avoid further derailing the thread]

Not being a Greek language scholar, AI is telling me

Moral theologians, intellectual historians, and cultural critics have variously construed acedia as the ancient depiction of a variety of psychological states, behaviors, or existential conditions - primarily laziness, apathy, ennui, or boredom

Which might work - acediphilia?

So this is a high profile trans rights thing where the location and timing has been advertised months in advance.

Are they expecting a big "counter protest" with flares, loud hailers, sirens, smoke bombs, loud music, flags, banners, disruptions and being intimidated from the "other side"? Has the venue been innundated with complaints for hosting such an event? Or is that not actually how "both sides" works?

I think it falls under the banner of queer.

Seeing as how the concert is scheduled for tonight, it's interesting that 50% (or perhaps even more) of the seats are still "available". Wonder how that's going to work out....

I suppose strategic use of active ear defenders might help.

The ones with a volume control knob. Or a knob volume control.

Mighty Hoopla, who are the organisers, are owned by KKR, a capitalist company that allegedly invests in all the things that Zack Polanski is against: Israel, big oil, big property, etc.

It might be said to be big hypocrisy.

That’s a genius idea. Or The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm - it can do between 1,700 or 3,300 depending on how many tickets you fail to sell and how you want the main space laid out (cabaret style or standing gig), and has all the streaming tech. Also great for heritage railway enthusiasts if the acts are … disappointing or indeed absent.

But I’d deffo pick all our houses for the MN Collective Sunshine Freedom Festival.

Merch at mine to include Tayto crisps, and model ferries for jumping up and down on, next to the ‘Hold My Beer’ bar.

I think @boiledbeetle is far too busy running The Bluestocking. Those gerbils take a lot of wrangling!

Hell no! Leave us poor mentally knackered hoarders out if it, god knows we've enough going on.

All we all ready? I’m very keen to see Jumper Debobbling.

After all our co-operative hair washing etc maybe we could all sing a virtual encore holding virtual hands and bat wings at the end of all our activities? I’ve learnt from this event that self promotion of your own mediocrity is quite the current thing, so could I tentatively suggest a rousing rendition of…“We built cis city on sexist roles?”

Get your fucking hands out of your hair and in the air everyone!

I am on quite lovely painkillers at the moment in case no one can tell. sadly no cider and black in a flimsy container for me!

Transmission Instagram updated with information about tonight, including this lovely bit:

WHAT IS THE VENUE AND EVENTS REFUSAL POLICY?

THE VENUE AND THE EVENT HAS THE RIGHT TO REFUSE AND/OR EJECT ANY GUESTS THAT DO NOT FOLLOW THE VENUES AND EVENTS CODE OF CONDUCT.

THIS EVENT IS A JOYOUS EVENT, ANY BEHAVIOUR THAT MAKES ANYONE FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

I mean. Zack P and Jolyon make me feel uncomfortable for a start....

Somehow I doubt anyone will turn up to cause trouble.

Oh no, that means I probably can't wear my Adult Human Female t-shirt, can I? What about suffragette colours, might they trigger someone?

You could claim you're wearing genderqueer colours, I'm told they're the same as the suffragettes.

We’re all far too busy watching paint dry.

Picture Vogon poetry, that should help 😬

βαρύς could serve you for "tiresome".

You’d think they’d be getting all excited about it on trans Reddit but apparently not.

Would you take ephebophilia?
They will be espousing underveloped views of mid-to-late adolescents, and it's pedo adjacent.