I need a few days offline to try and refocus against the Horrors, so I’ll see you all soon, but if you’d like to help while I’m away:

Interesting how many workplaces do not realize this

😬 "This works similar to a normal camera, the difference being that in our case, radio waves instead of light waves are used for the recognition," explains the cybersecurity expert. "Thus, it does not matter whether you carry a WiFi device on you or not."

This is 100% nailed on. Labour are not part of any left coalition. There's genuinely a better hope of allying with the Lib Dems.

Like I never trusted him but I thought he might implement some popular left wing policies or vaguely try to win over some Green voters or like... just do anything that isn't just copying the guy everyone hates while saying change a lot.

Hot Fuzz is about the violence of stasis, the villages inability to change with time and process loss ultimately causes it to become reactionary as it increasingly aggressively polices its own idea of itself. The escalation to murder, including of their own, the ultimate expression of that futility.

The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors

We don’t praise Helen Lewis round these parts

They seem to have had, as a class, this idea that it's all in good fun and you can't really go to the refs about a little minor pushing and shoving Because it's only ever been about political posturing to them, the idea that we are real people affected by their actions gets in the way of the game

I remember Ian Dunt comparing Helen Lewis being patched out of Watch Dogs Legion's radio show for being a transphobic freak to book burning, and now he's appalled by the EHRC code. Damn pal, maybe if you'd stood up to the radicalisation of your powerful profession this could have been prevented

I'm studying Latin. Someone help me conjugate! Wait. That's not what that means.

I'm going to keep banging this drum because the press are absolutely going to try this narrative: Keir Starmer is/was not a helpess passenger on Britian's road to the far-right. He has been its most active contributor.

Since we’re sharing “reasons to avoid and discredit Helen Lewis”, this is evergreen:

By asking employees to disclose biological rather than lived sex the Government’s guidance breaches data protection and human rights principles.

Will say, when they won this last year and everyone laughed at kentish people only for the entire country to go do it themselves has been intriguing

There’s been a few solid responses from trade unions over the past twenty-four hours, but as far as I can tell my union is the only one to have recognised the necessary centrality of trans voices in organisational responses to the British state’s eliminationist policies. Other unions must do better.

So basically Burham is Labour Together's replacement product for the corporate donors who are very disappointed with the Keir Starmer they purchased back in 2020, which I'm guessing only has something like a 12-month warranty

Remember when the Greens were being roundly chastised for being "too selfish" to enter into a "progressive alliance"?

One of the cats is now so used to following me to the bathroom that now whenever I joke “where’s my chaperone” aloud he’ll go wait for me by the bathroom door

hottest thing a woman can be is confusing

The thing about trusting people at their word that its inherently dangerous, but distrusting everyone you meet is no way to live at all

Cis people I’m serious, if you have trans friends whose life is basically under house arrest now, go visit them! Bring them flowers! Help put up some shelves! Make it a conjugal visit if you’re nasty!

trump at his rally today:

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

Trans folks didn’t recruit me or radicalise me or any of the bollocks transphobes claim. The TERFs did that all on their own with their playground cruelty. I sure as fuck went away and learned how to better advocate for trans people after getting a sample of what they were up against.

Every time trans rights are in the news, if I take an opinion I inevitably get a few ‘why won’t you listen to women’s opinions on their own safety’. A boilerplate answer: The *vast* majority of opinions I read in support of trans inclusion come from women. Presumably just not the ones who count.

it has always been the purpose of this party to ensure things don't get back to the left when they get in power after republican pushed things to the right bipartisanship is the death of politics

The fact that they haven’t been thrown out of the party for voting for this genocidal monstrosity of a bill condemns the entire Democratic Party leadership at the very least

just, if you were curious, other things that don’t resolve the underlying problem of an unsupportive family: • making sure unsupportive family can intervene, undermine, & abuse the child at the earliest convenience • EPISTEMICIDE i know it’s not a good faith answer but wikipedia is still free.

I’m often surprised by how few people think of me as a buffoon

I can't word this perfectly in bite size, but it's pretty clear many people in publishing saw diversity as a burden they've now been permitted to discard, a social media fad they no longer need. 2020 saw so many promises made to writers of color, and the past 5 years saw all of those promises broken

following trans people who tried to get away from them by moving websites says what 'gender critical' dickheads are all about, and it ain't protecting women

That first spike is circa 2016 when the Trumpists / MAGA / GamerGate latched on to transgender identity as a persecutable scapegoat identity.

Lol same thought

Always remember: for the vast majority of citizens, trans people are less than a non-issue. They want to be able to afford to feed their kids, not govern toilets. For all the neoliberal crowing about “much needed guidance,” on our rights, we’re a luxury problem for those who don’t have real ones.

The EU is going to have to put the brakes on this sort of thing because it's going to get turbocharged quickly if not

*Kier Starmer voice* grogu

Due to poor The Mandalorian And Grogu box office sales Disney have announced they’re pivoting to baby Jar Jar

My milkshake brings all the ants to my car

i am altering my sex. pray i do not alter it further

Nothing from Corbyn or Sultana on the EHRC code of practice I see Not surprised but disappointing all the same

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hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

President Deals has done it again!!!

The difference between my trans jokes and your trans joke is you can only make cis people laugh

the huge disney flop and grogu

I think we could all use a huge Disney flop to cheer everyone up

Updated guidance from the EHRC suggests that anybody who holds or expresses a negative opinion of people who are anti-LGBTQ+, may be committing discrimination against those whose bigotry is “sincerely held”. Labour are plumbing depths that even Thatcher’s government didn’t dare to.

I get so exhausted so easily at the moment, it’s not fun