XLCChelt Long Form

CW: This blog contains my belief of what is coming down the track regarding climate change and the fate of human society as we know it. If you are someone who has negative thoughts, especially on catastrophising, on this topic, you may want to stop reading now. This week (on Thursday 5th October), the Copernicus Climate Change service announced that September 2023 had on a global basis broken the all-time monthly temperature record - not by a small margin, but by 0.5C (0.9F). That is after both July 2023 and August 2023 had broken their monthly records by 0.3C (0.5F). That should be effectively impossible in a non-influenced climate statistically. Yet it happened. And you should be thinking whether as seems clear, we've already gone past a 'tipping point', and the system has been irretrievably broken. And you almost certainly didn't hear about any of it. That is deliberate and by design. Talk TV's James Max asked on his eponymous show on Friday 6th , why it was tha...

  On Sunday 19th June 2022, world swimming organisation FINA (now World Aquatics) became one of the first to give in to the anti-trans hysteria, and ban trans women from ever competing in women's (which have now become 'female') races. At the time I believed this would either never happen, or would maybe happen once for publicity. From Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) on Twitter, June 19 2022: "This is essentially a ban of trans women from swimming entirely, unless they start transitioning under the age of 12. No Olympics. They'll create a "separate category" which will basically have a single swimmer per race by themselves. This is terrible." With my reply: "Doubt that 'open' category will ever see the light of day. Or maybe they'll do one event for publicity, before shelving it over the optics, competitiveness & the inevitable backlash. But in the end they can ban who they want from their events - maybe it's time to set-up ou...

This is another of my adapted Twitter/Mastodon threads to be reposted for posterity to the blog. The original title of this was "An anti-capitalism wail into the ether" . One day I am certain that historians will unanimously call out capitalism as being the most destructive ideology in human history. From it consuming the earth, which led to imperialism and colonialism over many centuries, through the required expansion of states to sate capital demand, and the ensuing enslavement and murder of those not deemed 'useful' in a pure profit sense - both within their land, and more explicitly and openly, abroad. Then the continuing wealth disparities, both within countries and between them, with this being a necessity of the system for it to even exist, to allow the ruling class to continue to accrue ever more capital. The monopoly of those few over the rest of humanity, both in terms of the wealth and power they've captured and controlled, and the oppression and viole...

CW: usage of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, language and discourse So a few months ago, I wrote a blog on how right-wing media deliberately employ gay pundits to push anti-trans talking points, and eventually anti-LGBTQ+ discourse as the former is a Trojan horse for the Right's eventual goal, as a way of convincing normies that they are 'moderate' 'centrist' positions, so it brings many more people in - many who would think of themselves as being 'friendly' 'allies' - and they can then slowly move them over towards the eventual end goal of returning LGBTQ+ people back to the closet and out of sight of 'normal' 'natural' society (at the least, with some on the far-Right arguing for much more oppression than that). The seemingly never-ending anti-trans hysteria pushed deliberately by the Right - crafted in American 'think tanks' - as a distraction to their 'policies' that are deliberately chosen to fuck over the lives and future...

So over the weekend I replied to the below tweet for a blog by Politically Enraged on 'mediocrity in British politics', asking "how did we let our standards for politicians decline so steeply?" The tweet in question from @PoliticalRagers on Twitter, to a blog by @Daviemoo titled "Mediocrity in British politics", with the question "how did we let our standards for politicians decline so steeply?" Firstly, I want to make it clear that despite this being the second time in just six blog posts that I've responded to one of Daviemoo's blogs, I will categorically deny we are secretly dating. It's simply on Twitter that I follow few people who blog themselves, and have responded to replies on a regular basis, so it's a self-fulfilling result, if I choose to reply to anyone's blog. I will try to mix it up more though. And secondly, I'm not going to really even respond to the content of the blog here - you can go and read that t...

  (This is an expanded post to a social media thread I created over the weekend. When I 'left' Twitter and joined Mastodon, I had planned to add the off-the-cuff threads to the blog to keep them for posterity (vanity?). But as I'm a 'lazy lefty', I lived up to that moniker and just didn't bother. I will try to remember this blog exists to post any more of these in future.) We are told by those above us, that this 'society', including its social and economic organisations, is the best possible that has ever existed for humanity to thrive. Indeed most people - both those with power, and the normies (many who like to believe they have some themselves, while they regurgitate 'talking points' from those really with any power) - will say it should not be touched, other than minor alterations at its edges. But definitely not to overthrow them. Included in that is the belief that these systems allow us the opportunity to 'enjoy life'. Yet that is...

The following piece was written before the news of Brianna Ghey's murder in Warrington . This event was an inevitability given the daily, never-ending, obsession of the media on the existence and validity of trans people in the UK - an important of the US Right's playbook of distraction. That's whether it's those on the Right who write many pieces every single day pushing this faux-panic to their audiences, like in print The Times, The Sun, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, and on TV/radio GB News and TalkTV, or those portrayed by those in the aforementioned outlets as 'on the left' like the BBC and The Guardian, who have gone along with this moral panic, to soothe the fears of their white, cis-hetero 'liberal' audience. The news of a trans girl being killed was met, unsurprisingly, either by erasure of her identity being in any way noteworthy, or like The Times did, deadname and degender her , or effectively ignoring it all together, as according t...