1/ An interview with Bridget Phillipson. She is still doing “dignity and respect”. She said she ran a woman’s refuge and argues it is one thing that can exclude trans woman. Okay, cool, then why don’t you amend Schedule 3 right now so that refuges becomes the only kind of exempted services?

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The function of the "dignity and respect" line is that liberals get to discriminate against us and then blame us for getting mad about it.

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just gonna reshare this post (and thread) because I think it's really important that people understand how we all use social media differently. some simply want to chat, some want to joke, or offload, or muse. These are not all opportunities for debate

Britain and the EU need to bite the bullet and start talking about America no differently to Russia or China

There are many in this world who believe a trans woman going for a pee is a bigger danger than Donald Trump.

What a load of bollox by Landlord Minister Michael Healy-Rae on short-term lets & with record homeless figures too He must really hate rural Ireland & all it represents if he wants it to be full of empty homes He's a harsh reminder of our colonial landlords #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

“If you didn’t want your photo digitally altered and turned into sexual content you shouldn’t have posted it online” is just the social media version of “if you didn’t want to be raped you shouldn’t have worn a short skirt.” If you’re participating in this “trend” you’re a predator.

In the wake of all the news coming out of the US and the amount of shouting at the TV I've done, I thought everyone else might benefit from one of my favourite photos from 2017 to break up the doom scrolling. I cannot fix the big things, so here's a small thing.

Fair

Am now genuinely concerned about the reaction to Clare being knocked out of this year's Munster championship

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I hope 2026 is the year more people realise that putting into power known sexual predators with a predilection for fascism is something to be, errrrr, questioned at the very least and that it should not be considered an extremist position on the scales of media balance to bring the subject up

'How much does the aurora borealis weigh?" It's pretty light.

Probably took me about 5 years to work out why our plumber's name was so familiar (and he actually was a very good plumber)

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Just saw a video saying 2016 was ten years ago and I don’t think the years 2020-2023 should count so no, 2016 was six years ago.

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WELL MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, YOU SHOULDN’T DESCRIBE YOUR BABY AS “BOUNCY” THEN?

Knew someone at uni who got freaked out when he used an ouija board & asked how he would die. It spelt out ‘In a way that is amusing to others’ He was doing a lot of drugs and that sent him off the deep end…

On X this week there were a bunch of viral posts about how Bluesky sucks and now because of the Grok CSAM trend (ugh) there are a bunch of viral follow-up posts being like actually maybe the Bluesky people are right

London in the good old days - before everyone's feet pointed forwards.

some people say that you shouldn’t post on the CSAM-friendly site run by a billionaire white nationalist who allowed rightwing propagandists to troll through internal documents to publish misleading narratives about its staff and users but where else could you get reporting like this

The only CSAM we have here is Coveted Alf Sensuality Material.

If you are visiting here from X because the CSAM thing was a bridge too far, welcome. I'd encourage you to carefully consider whether the things you heard about Bluesky on X are true or whether they were lies spread by the guy who owns X who controls what posts you see on his site.

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Okay I'm a little bit proud of this one

Say what you like about Clippy, you didn’t have to serve 20 years inside after he helped you compose a letter

LGBT+ friends, pls share #LGBT+

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Placing bets now that Rowling will start transvestigating the Gruffalo or write a Cormorant Strike novel wherein the murderer is some sort of yeti/bigfoot 😆

Broke: The MCU Woke: The EMU (Enoch Moral Universe)

We are now as far away from the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark as audiences in 1981 were from its setting of 1936

This Upton Sinclair quote never misses “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

Perhaps one of the jolly good chaps at the next Spectator Garden Party could explain this quote using 14 small words and 88 visual aids?

I'll break it down for you "for too long" for a long time "those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum" some people have acted extremely polite "to mask agenda of cruelty" to hide that they are nasty little bigots

Memento (2025)

Showed your arse here, son.

Labour secured a landslide majority where they could theoretically enact any policy they want, unopposed. They instead chose to try and appease the right-wing, including the paper this man is writing in. That has failed, so they're blaming an all-powerful left-wing that they systematically ejected.

This thread shows exactly what was being described: abstraction, reversal, and escalation until the original issue, dehumanising language about trans people, disappears entirely. That is not good faith engagement.

The UK government that made it harder for people to access adult porn sites is the same UK government that uses a social media site that creates child porn.

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