Lisa van Gelder
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Engineering Leader, London. More cats than you might expect
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Alex von Tunzelmann
about 2 hours ago
Really looking forward to having to prove my sex repeatedly in a restaurant, in the event I want to do something outrageous like order food or go to the lav
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Ed Morrish
2 days ago
it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
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Helen Kennedy
5 days ago
They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.
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flyingrodent
6 days ago
For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)
6 days ago
This was an actual nazi policy after the housing crisis Germany experienced during hyperinflation in the 1920-30s. They targeted Jewish people claiming they controlled real estate and spread lies that Roma and Sinti people were "invading" and people with disabilities were a burden on the taxpayer
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Fixing the real problems that slow teams down is hard. Much easier to say teams should use AI. And if teams arent faster, they arent using AI well.
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Erin Reed
14 days ago
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.
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Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/study-in-the-journal-of-pediatrics
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Nop - Deny, Defend, Depose
16 days ago
Umm. Actually, "the benefits of puberty blockers for young people" have been known for literal decades. This is just another bullshit attack on trans kids, where you & your bigoted friends are very literally trying to drive them to suicide.
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Cheryl Morgan
17 days ago
This investigation shows how much of a non-issue trans women in toilets is, yet the EHRC, government and the media are absolutely obsessed with the supposed problem. If only they put that much money and effort into tackling actual sexual assaults.
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Cheryl Morgan
18 days ago
The TERFs think that they can “always tell”. But they can’t. These revised EHRC guidelines that The Times is leaking will affect far more cis women than trans women. What a ridiculous waste of public money the EHRC has become.
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆
19 days ago
We need to stop protecting predators.
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LindaLion
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Bruno J. Navarro
9 months ago
the full quote here
english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
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PeoriaBummer
22 days ago
One of my friends when I was an undergrad had a professor take her into his office hours one-on-one and say explicitly to her face that women are incapable of doing engineering.
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Dan Sohege
22 days ago
There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.
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Jess Calarco
23 days ago
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
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Adam Bienkov
23 days ago
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c231x8rj1zpo
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Adam H Johnson
24 days ago
Congressional republicans have been spewing racist attacks on Mamdani for weeks and it’s almost never mentioned in our media. Not only that, the person leading the hate campaign—Randy Fine—is treated by the same media as a good faith expert on antisemitism. I wrote about this obscene double standard
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Why is Mainstream Media Ignoring Overtly Racist Attacks on Mamdani from Congressional Republicans?
Non-stop Islamopbohic vitriol, threats of deportation, and virtually no coverage from CNN, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or The Washington Post.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/zohran-mamdani-racism-media-randy-fine-nancy-mace
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feminist next door
28 days ago
What was the point of making government employees work for 40 days without pay and SNAP recipients lose their benefits if you were just going to capitulate and vote with the Republicans anyway
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Ah the famous identity politics of .. checks notes .. free busses and childcare. And the minimisation of
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Beat𝗚𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗛 ✳
about 1 month ago
ICYMI: The New York Times is done with women
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Hunter Walker
about 1 month ago
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
@allegrak.bsky.social
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...
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What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we-lost-when-conde-nast-unceremoniously-shuttered-teen-vogue
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Jolyon Maugham KC
about 1 month ago
The EHRC's position "leaves businesses and their staff caught in the crossfire of the increasingly bitter gender wars, while doing absolutely nothing to advance women’s rights or protect vulnerable women from abuse": Rachel Taylor MP.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Equality commission’s guidance after sex ruling is fundamentally unworkable | Letter
Letters: The EHRC has ignored warnings about the contradiction between possibly being sued for challenging someone’s gender versus being sued for failing to, says Rachel Taylor MP
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/03/equality-commission-guidance-after-sex-ruling-is-fundamentally-unworkable
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onion person
about 1 month ago
perfect optics event to hold right as 40 million americans will increasingly struggle to get food with SNAP benefits expiring
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️
about 1 month ago
Suddenly when puberty blockers are given to cis kids, the Daily Mail (the same newspaper which backed Hitler btw) finally admits that "their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal." Which is true for trans kids too.
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Mark Grimshaw
about 1 month ago
Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.
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Aram Shabanian
about 1 month ago
Exactly a week ago tonight, I bought an outstanding quesadilla from a food truck around the corner from my house. Sometime today, the man who smiled warmly and provided my meal to me, and literal shelter from a rainstorm, was kidnapped by paramilitary forces.
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Jessica Kant
about 1 month ago
Trump two happened because NYT cynically platformed every worst reactionary centrist impulse as “just asking questions” pieces. WaPo wants to leapfrog to the top of that niche, and that’s specifically why Bezos bought the paper— to convince liberals it’s virtuous to hate the poor in advance of 2026.
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NPR
about 1 month ago
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr/4qFa1mY
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Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
https://n.pr/4qFa1mY
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Justin Baragona
about 1 month ago
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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Jo Wolff
about 1 month ago
This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.
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jael holzman
about 1 month ago
a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes a day in an american life
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Eli Erlick
about 1 month ago
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
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Brian Goldstone
about 1 month ago
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
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Victoria McCloud 🏳️⚧️🌈♾️
about 2 months ago
This is 100% correct. Including as to the chaos the Gender Critical Ideological Movement so beloved of Labour has now descended into as their facade of respectability crumbles like the Berlin Wall.
www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...
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Nobody Knows What UK Law on Toilet Access is
The lawlessness of the government's response to For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows-what-uk-law-on-toilet-access-is/
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Tilly Bridges
about 2 months ago
there’s no problem with trans women in bathrooms
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Anti-trans group admits bathroom predator myth is made up
Empirical research shows bathroom predator concerns are baseless.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2018/12/07/anti-trans-group-bathroom-predator-myth/
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Pookleblinky
about 2 months ago
The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing. Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist. Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird Media: trans activist criticizes media
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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust
about 2 months ago
Here it is. Yes i have it printed 👀
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Eric Umansky
about 2 months ago
BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will
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Spryte M. ♿🏳️🌈♀️🎮✍🏻🪆🧩🦅
about 2 months ago
@theradr.bsky.social
I believe this is your gem of wisdom
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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁
about 2 months ago
The real problem here is the illusion that an LLM can represent some Platonic "unbiased" view on a given subject; aside from God Himself, no one and no thing can have a complete, comprehensive, objective view of reality as it is. An LLM will *always* exhibit some perspective, some bias.
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Tade Thompson
4 months ago
We are not trivialising LLMs. Copyright theft is not trivial. Environmental damage is not trivial. Unreliability is not trivial. Risk to human cognition is not trivial. Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.
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I am the child of a Holocaust survivor. I exist because my grandfather's best friend hid my grandfather and grandmother in his cellar, in occupied Netherlands. My father was born in hiding.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 2 months ago
My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous. This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
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Governor JB Pritzker
2 months ago
His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street. Separating children from their parents. Creating fear. Taking people for “how they look.”
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David Dayen
2 months ago
ICE abducts people and then immediately moves them around to prevent access to lawyers and habeas corpus petitions.
@emmarjanssen.bsky.social
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How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers
‘It seems like cruelty is the point,’ one attorney said.
https://prospect.org/justice/2025-10-06-how-ice-hides-detainees-from-their-lawyers/
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Abigail Thorn
2 months ago
Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years. This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.
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BK. Titanji
2 months ago
Speaking for all physicians and healthcare providers here. When we see patients in need of care especially in an emergency room we do not leave them for dead. We do not care about their immigration status, we treat them because that is what we took an oath to do and is also basic human decency.
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Felicity Hannah
2 months ago
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
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