God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group

Ah Mná na hÉireann and the Irish Housewives Union. Maria Steen's inspiration. comeheretome.com/2012/07/29/u...

Getting fecked in the arse in honour of Úna!

“I think sometimes the best thing you can do is just be absolutely unashamed, authentically who you are, be really clear and bold about that and find joy in it. People will either like it or they won’t but at least you’re being honest”. Great interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social in the Observer.

Also from the UK … A powerful government agency is preparing to call on businesses and organizations to restrict access to single-sex spaces and services based *solely on appearance.* Its plan has yet to finalised … Can common sense or decency talk the deeply unpopular Labour govt off the ledge?

Lewis assumes that other people’s discomfort is always reasonable and that “breaking it defiantly” is never justified. Women with short hair, Black people with locs, queer people with flashy and/or GNC styles, etc. are always justified in their defiance of oppressive dress norms.

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The shiny shilling failed to improve polls. Deliverism has been declared to be a failure. Back to racism

it’s not 1600 and you’re not shakespeare. you better do something interesting with it

when a fictional narrative has a character hiding as the opposite gender and falling in love with someone as the same gender as their fake gender and at the end it’s all a big relief because they’re not the same gender after all. we call this The Coward’s Homosexual

I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next. Will come back to dissect. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

“Striking down Mississippi’s law would mandate massive nationwide overhauls of essential post-election activities and destabilize election administration,” Joshua Tom, the legal director of the ACLU of Mississippi, told Capital B.

U have died of dysentery

A bit late for tdor but reposting Emilia's article anyway, as most cis people have no idea what long, complicated, cruel and arbitrary bureaucratic nightmares their trans friends have to go through just for recognition of who they are

dizzying how much people are talking about teenagers fucking.

getting brought up by these people, especially those aligned with TERFs, is that those kids won't be able to fuck to some prescribed level of satisfaction, while simultaneously allowing right wing media to smear queer people as groomers, and then with everything going on with Epstein, it's almost

Another thing that gets me here is that the center and right media (which NYT is undoubtedly largely a part of) in this country has this whole thing where it's talking an awful lot about how teens need to be able to fuck. Like one of the big arguments in debates on GAH care for youth that keeps

On point 2, the NYTimes and other legacy media have been hard at work the last few years sanewashing extremist RW pro-natalism:

On point one, just one of the dangerous things RFK Jr. keeps saying about life-saving drugs:

Setting aside any merits, boy oh boy, the timing on this NYTImesMag cover piece in the midst of: -RFK Jr.'s wildly conspiracist campaign against SSRIs -the RW pro-natalist push -the escalating hideousness of the Epstein story -an unabated youth mental health crisis #GiftLink #GiftArticle

What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?

Climate change, gun violence and swatting, infrastructure problems, austerity and privatization, and now, violent immigration "enforcement" are causing absenteeism and school closures both temporary and permanent. Do we still care about them when the teachers unions can't be blamed?

Much of the anger over school closures wasn't about children, example #122225

👇👇👇 According to Baumgartel, the emerging picture is one of a community defined not by social ranks but by collective purpose. “We believe these were egalitarian hunter-gatherers,” she notes. “There is no archaeological indication of chiefs directing their labor.” arkeonews.net/radical-new-...

I can vaguely understand opposition to completely destroying them on the grounds that they may have some utility to historians if stored somewhere. But the vast majority of people making this argument, including this guy, are clearly just saying "I don't want it officially stated that this was bad".

"They were regarded as heroes by Glaswegians of their time" So what. That was then, this is now

As a Lithuanian I do not understand these attitudes at all tbh. When we regained our independence, there were quite a few statues we promptly destroyed. When Syrians overthrew Assad, they knocked down his statues. Why is knocking statues down or altering them purportedly in itself bad?

'Responding to the decision, Devine, 80, said: “In principle I am opposed to changing historic artefacts to suit ­today’s tastes. To do so is presentism, imposing 20th-century values on those of the distant past.' '20th-century'? Bit of an own goal Sir T.

the national animal of Norway is the seagull (I assume)

Ohio, continuing to work hard to ensure MAGA control of schools:

About 1,000 community members received meals from the 10th annual Feed the Streetz Outreach Thanksgiving Blessing event in collaboration with the MLK center. Feed the Streetz has organized the event for the last 10 years to provide “blessing bags” to the community.

Anus dentatus - what a wonderful phrase!

P.S. Linguists tell us that the Indo-Europeans (people who spoke the common ancestor of German, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit) had a word for "tooth" [*h₃dónts] derived from "to bite, to eat" [*h₃ed-]. Via Latin/Greek we inherited "dentistry" and "orthodonture." Via German ("Zahn") we inherited "tooth."

Microsoft Excel also does not understand jokes Genuinely, it is such a serious problem that academics and media outlets are presenting text processing software as if it could ever "understand" anything. All this does is misinform the public and do supply free PR for tech companies

one favorite of mine (and a sort of self-portrait)

Plenty of evidence that these guys are doing real, measurable harm to the rest of us and yet we seem incapable of standing up to them. I hope I live long enough to see this change.

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people who sometimes bemoan that german reunification was a failure should consider that if there /still was/ an independent east germany it would almost certainly be the worst place on earth

Dans l'espace européen, il est interdit de déporter et d'enfermer des citoyens de l'UE dans des CRA, bien que la pratique se fasse, les procès au TA sont toujours en faveur des personnes mises en détention administrative.

He knows he'll lose his target audience if they end up in a fulfilling relationship. Like any cult leader, the victims need to be isolated.

He intentionally words it as a "contradiction", because he knows it'll gain traction that way; in the end, those, who get it, get it.

The point of his post and his specific wording is that granting women the status of "girlfriend" is giving them too much autonomy, too much say in things. He wants to reduce every woman to an object without a shred of humanity, and anyone, who doesn't go along is an untermench, too.

fellas is it gay to be straight

Honestly this is why I put my effort into the Peretz Centre for Yiddish music events. Yes it's more marginal but you can wear a keffiyeh if you want and be your social justice minded self without some guard power tripping. Which is utterly incompatible with artistic expression and enjoyment. 😒

Ugh I'm a lil furious tbh... My guestlisted friend at the Chutzpah Fest @ Vancouver JCC where I was working tonight was denied entry because he was wearing a kuffiyeh and wouldn't take it off. Like it's a public arts festival and an event with a social justice theme. He wasn't hurting anyone!