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And even if we take this “correctly sexing people on sight“ seriously, which we should not, a 2-4% false positive rate over millions of people is a Huge number innit, we’re talking hundreds of thousands the EHRC head here is setting up to be judged trespassers for going to the “correct“ loo

Putting together the pieces of senior coworker who seems constantly busy producing shit that accomplishes unclear goals, can't stop lying about being an expert in everything, pisses off everyone around him, and using LLMs for everything and the core is a contempt for expertise itself

Wasn't enjoying the replies on this one so took it down Lol

Trans people, three years ago: “You should believe them when they tell you who they are.” Transphobes: “No, no, no. It’s just simply a bad choice of words on their part.”

Crazy how this is the one of the coldest summers of the rest of our lives

As someone who has been reluctantly dragged into calling themselves a non-binary transwoman [sic] I gotta say that no you don't gotta put up with "maybe in no perceptible way transitioning is the most radical thing of all" but also you don't gotta go full HSTS about it y'know

The fact that people are making jokes about this is sickening. It's not funny when someone dies or almost dies. McConnell has long-struggled with autoerotic asphyxiation and was found by the police with a belt around his neck and his erect penis in his hand. It's not a fucking joke.

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silly notes on how the were-piñata thing works

imagine doing something this cool just to fly a flag so sauceless

oh so when the president wants to do weird gay freudian stuff that's okay, but when i wanna do the same with random men...

hey is the word “eliminate” good when they’re talking about You. just wondering

Well, if there's a bloc of voters whose concerns about genocide aren't being addressed, then the politicians who want their vote are going to have to appeal to them to earn their vote. I'm confused thought your nation was a democracy? Don't you know how politics works?

#OtD 1 Jul 1919 prohibition of alcoholic drinks in the US was due to come into force. Workers in New York and New Jersey voted to strike if the law was enforced, wearing "No beer no work" pins. We've reproduced the graphics to help fund our work: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

That was one of my clearest takeaways from a class I took on Nazi hostility toward LGBTQ+ people. Their definitions of gender nonconformity were extremely broad. The ambiguity (and tensions) in their definitions created essentially infinite justifications for violence.

-in einem Premier Inn im Rheingebiet -gehe zum Frühstück -Ruhrei

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

"well that was a wild night but gracious me I have a job interview soon and I don't have a towel to look more presentable!" THE EVER SOLICITOUS SIMON INDELICATE, WIGGLING TOWARDS ME BACKWARDS ON ALL FOURS:

You need to understand that genital inspections aren't going to look like a stern man standing there telling kids to drop their pants. They'll be more insidious about it. They'll make it seem "common sense." Make it more palatable to the parents of cis kids. Make it seem normal.

This isn't an exaggeration.

developing bewildering stereotypes from personal experience like 'stenographers are all genderqueer'

Did adorjan write this

*FULL FORCE PUNCHES THE FUCKING SIGN SO THE FUCKERS IN THE BACK PAY ATTENTION*

I will look up how to say transfer a call in a bilingual dictionary I should be sure. Let me check in my monolingual dictionary. Perfect! I'll use this for TWO YEARS. now to say it to someone I'm not about to end the call with for the first time - "If I call the main number, you'll kill me?!"

We’ve lost some of our best minds to smartphone addiction. But not mine. At best society has lost someone with fairly average cognitive ability

The "democratization of art" already happened. It was called the internet connected personal computer.

Daughters of the American Revolution being to the left of Stonewall UK is incredibly funny

24. Tunic I could describe Tunic as a beautiful isometric Zeldaesque game with a great soundtrack, but that sells short what is a singularly unique experience, because I don't want to spoil elements of how Tunic explains itself that are an absolute joy. So just trust me on this one, play Tunic.

Worth remembering “take bribes for clemency” is one of Justice Sotomayor’s examples in the Presidential Immunity dissent that Roberts complained was far-fetched catastrophizing

Not to keep repeating myself, but the problem with the Court is not merely that their decisions are bad, but that their entire self-conception of themselves as the Guardian Council of the USA, with sweeping and arbitrary power to maintain the mos maiorum, is utterly incompatible with a free society

You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. It's already 4PM and you haven't even started.

have to go to work tonight still