'Patriot News' reporter Chris Atkins (scatatkins.bsky.social) was just kicked out of Liz Truss' CPAC conference for asking the wrong questions. So much for free speech.

“For everyone” He’s just so deluded

One of the subtle features of the “gender critical” movement is how they define “woman” by suffering and weakness. How dare trans women - who if on hormones have a heightened risk of breast cancer - and how dare cis men, who can also get it, get cancer there? Who do they think they are? 🤦

Good morning 😌

#同性婚を願う街頭アクション0717 #結婚の自由をすべての人に

Earlier tonight, in front of Shinjuku ALTA: a protest rave to demand marriage equality in Japan. #同性婚を願う街頭アクション0717 #結婚の自由をすべての人に

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Someone online said he's like if God decided to punish Himmler by having him reincarnated as a Jew and it backfired and that's been living in my head every since

In a 2017 ABC Insiders interview, Pauline Hanson described Vladimir Putin as a "strong" and "patriotic" leader. When questioned about Russia's role in the MH17 tragedy, she disputed the evidence and said her priority was Australian domestic issues, not foreign affairs. #auspol

From a variety of angles, the work that Wikipedians are doing on GenAI use is very interesting and useful.

@kermodeandmayo.bsky.social A case of altitude-adjusted lachrymosity syndrome?

Gaines was a Republican activist. She came joint sixth with a trans woman whose relative performance matched her pre-transition performance competing against men. Gaines got angry because as the younger swimmer she had to wait for her duplicate participation award to arrive in the mail.

Klein: forever the student in the tutorial group who didn’t do that week’s reading so bullshits his way through. What does this mean, as a sentence? That liberals need to be better at TikTok? Is that it?

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

I came up with a joke about Tantalus.

One of the most depressing parts of the Divine Playhouse story is the fact that people are treating the anti queer bigotries of these extremist religious groups as being not only valid concerns, but also that conflict is somehow intrinsic between religion and queerness.

But the most bizarre and insidious thing about the article is that it was indisputably written with ChatGPT. Which means it’s as superficially sensible as one would expect. I wonder if it’s a bit they’re doing.

I'm going to phrase this in a way which will hopefully cut through for once: Just 0.7% to 0.8% of Germany in 1930 were Jews. So, what was Hitler's obsession with Jewish folks ?

Harold Wilson, with a majority of four, had the courage to say that the winner of the Smethwick by-election would be greeted “like a leper” in Parliament. Ted Heath, trailing in the polls, fired Enoch Powell. The comparison with the Labour government and Conservative opposition now..oy.

One of the things about Pete Hegseth is he confirms all the worst prejudices I ever had about men who talk like Pete Hegseth but never had the chance Pete Hegseth has had to shit out his brain while occupying major public office.

Once you get used to it, it’s not burdensome. It’s just the thing you do with images. A lot of people appreciate it.

When the BNP won a single council seat in 1993 it was a national news story for days. Horror. Condemnation. Now an even more far right party is getting 11% across a whole county and it's just normal.

Which makes the negligent slaughtering of the UK HE sector by post-Brexit governments even more criminal. Coulda been making hay.

When I was a kid, there were certain sporting names still spoken of like they were gods decades after their peak. Pele was one. Gary Sobers was another. This is a lovely video with reminiscences before the main play.

This is an incredibly depressing read, tbh. One might think that a bullshitter already has an advantage over a liar because a bullshitter freely tailors what they say to their audience. But this study shows that even knowing someone is a bullshitter has only a mild impact on how trusted they are.

Very useful thread for understanding UK mortality data and heatwaves. atm, heat waves are fairly short; deaths are of the frail being hastened by a couple of weeks. That may change as heatwaves get longer and more intense.

What's happening to trans rights in Britain is more chilling than what's happening in the US. In the US there's an ecosystem of zealotry. The people dismantling trans rights openly lie, not just about trans people but about a whole host of things. For them to dismantle human rights feels natural.

We’re rapidly approaching a situation in which it becomes legally hazardous to express any criticism of “gender critical” views. The combination of well-funded lawfare and well-funded media moral panic is extremely dangerous to free speech for everyone, as well as obviously to trans people’s rights.

Incredible statement from the Church in Wales on the ignominious Code of Practice: "The Church in Wales will not use equality law exemptions to exclude trans people from our worship, our sacraments, our pastoral care, or our common life." www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-...

Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

Usually, if something is deeply damaging and defamatory to an organization you founded, you wouldn't say you want everyone to read it. Rowling is someone who is confident the system will back her regardless of how she undermines her own organizations legal position because of her wealth.

@neunion.bsky.social what are you doing about this? In Sept your members will be *forced* to harm trans children. In many cases that harm is going to be very significant & very stressful, & many teachers could be forced to carry high levels of guilt & stress. Especially when (& I mean “when”)… 1/3

Is it normal for such calls to be recorded? Is it normal, if they are recorded, for those recordings to be shared around in this manner?

I don’t know how Amnesty International can lose in any defamation actions. (Speaking as a former lawyer on the team defending Google in speech injunction cases.)

This is the context of JK Rowling putting a survivor of rape or sexual assault on blast for having the gall to seek help

Peston is a courtier, not a journalist.

There's a lot of this about. It's the way people think when they assess politicians by their capacity for triangulation, rather than their performance in a department.

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

The proportion of trans people in any given population is the same as the proportion of the German population in 1933 that were Jews. The British media have demonised them. The BBC has changed its style guide to be anti-trans. Vigilantes are harassing them in public.

Hey this @skywatch.blue labeller is BULLSHIT. Unsubscribe from it if you’re using it. They’ve been clearly told multiple times by many people I’m a real person promoting a real thing. The only conclusion I can come to is that it’s malicious / personal.

How about casting... the BEST actors for the roles, Andy? It's a choice for you to decide not to do that. It's fantasy. It doesn't matter. People get past it very quickly.

If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the election in 2020, then maybe he shouldn't be head of US intelligence.

Why not just fire her? Does she really have a power base in the PLP? Considering her awful stint at the Home Office, I'm really not clear what skills Mahmood is bringing to anything.

In which the BBC fails to mention the fact why Beira’s Place was classified “anti-rights” One might disagree with the reason for the classification, but it’s journalistic negligence to omit what the reason was. www.bbc.com/news/article...

And this is one of the cancers at the heart of journalism.

The next time you hear somebody claim that rape culture doesn't exist, point them to this famous television personality saying in public under his real name "every guy rapes women, rape is so normal that it's not even rape."

No, this really really really is rape

Well, happy 80th birthday, Derek Griffiths

I dunno “He’s a billionaire” vs “he’s a Nazi” It’s a biblical choice. I wouldn’t boast about which way you went.

So I had originally thought that Starmer was weak on LGBTQ rights, an inarticulate man uncomfortable with gotcha questions. I now think he’s more likely a genuine transphobe. And basically dishonest. And that his opposition to Brexit was cynical and possibly deliberately ineffectual.