Once again I say: To be loved is to be changed. And slightly moistened.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

"Made it with AI" Invisibly appearing over my head:

...doesn't everyone do this??

The important point to remember is NO SHE DOESN'T. What was published yesterday were guidelines for service providers. They impose NO obligations on individuals and are NOT the law. People want you to believe otherwise, to intimidate trans people. But they haven't yet criminalised their existence.

7. How? • fight over cleaners of all genders. If you have people going in then it’s not a single sex space • make people police everyone to a level which pisses off cis people because suddenly the press will care • make policing trans people as impossible as you can

6. The fight on this is: A) legal because the code doesn’t meet Human Rights baselines B) practical because being inclusive is still lawful C) by ignoring the code’s attempts to change culture D) on the ground by lawful protest

EHRC Code: 1. The point of the Equality Act was to prevent discrimination. So if you were discriminated against, you had (in most cases) a route to make a complaint, the law to back you up and a route to make inequality expensive enough that most companies complied (to some extent).

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Scientists believe that a function of a zebra’s stripes is to deter insects, so a team of researchers painted black and white stripes on several cows and discovered that it reduced the number of biting flies landing on the cows by more than 50%.

This is an *excellent* thread which adds much to the key point I already knew (but you might not).

Hong kong actress Maggie cheung for Vogue Italia (2008)

1/🧵 The EHRC draft Code misstates the law and incites “bathroom bounty law” actions against service-providers. It recommends but does not demand segregation of trans people.

men used to put that shit on

Once again I repeat my motto: "Don't comply in advance, but also, don't cry in advance."

For the record this is not true. You need two witnesses aged 18 or over. Some places want witnesses who live at other addresses than yourself. If you’re a registered offender you have to notify the police. You say you’re switching names, what they are, and you sign it. That’s it.

No. Fed. Posting. Direct action has a place and it is not on social networks. Don’t post about it. Don’t condone it. Don’t plan it on electronic devices.

Here's what you need to know about the Code of Practice.

When assembling your dog, please make sure that you follow the instructions carefully.

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

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You cannot trust this bullshit www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

personally I think anyone should be able to change their name for any reason ever and society should just adapt for that. you will not change my mind

lmao

Eddie come on. Be serious.

As a professional researcher I’ve spent time comparing different search engines to see which one makes my job the easiest and Kagi is by far the most effective search. Duck Duck Go isn’t even close.

me and my friends will kill talking gmail with hammers, i can tell you that much

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Lol and dare I say it, lmao. @waitmanwbeorn.com did you see this?

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There do keep being reasons to be excited.

Myrtle does not own one single thought. I mean, why snuggle with your warm sleeping sisters when you could pretend to be a potato instead?

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sleep

too soon

Always Spinch.

Carcinization is real

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

no wait let’s hear them out

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

some people may argue that The Beekeeper not high art but it contains a scene in which a scammer tries to bribe Jason Statham with NFTs and is immediately tied to a truck and driven off the bridge so who’s to say it is not the greatest cinematic accomplishment of our times

I just can't get past "What do you mean I have to check AAALLLLLLLL my citations?" Like, dude, what? My PhD advisor would have hung me by my toenails on the quad if I didn't know what one of my citations was for.

God, scientists are so lazy and sloppy and then they want to accuse the HISTORIANS of being unserious? Literally everything these babies are whining about is minimum due diligence for making empirical claims in history.

Hell yeah girl

Truly I cannot explain how unserious of a country we are

If you refuse to understand that expensive technical subjects are LITERALLY SUBSIDISED by every arts, humanities and social science seminar-group in the country, well, no wonder you want to shut them all down.