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but all the characters are Muppets

Nestor Makhno biopic written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón.

Also knives out but the suspects are the Muppets

Knives Out: A Star Wars Story

the british establishment is very closely-knit so a shift in opinion in journalism heralds a shift in opinion in the judiciary, in politics etc.

thinking about getting a side cut, why not.

Like it was obvious when the Supreme Court randomly decided to rewrite the Equality Act, but I think there's a large amount if journalistic negligence that no one really treats judges as anything other than neutral conduits through which the word of law moves

I think we are long past the point of noting the judiciary is ideologically captured by bigots and extremists

this includes "male bodied" "male sexed" "male socialized" and maybe my hottest take "male to female"

The consequentialist argument "I will sacrifice justice for the greater good" only formally works if said sacrifice is actually necessary and sufficient for the greater good / lesser evil. You don't get to be triumphal about being an amoral cretin if you also lose and bring about the greater evil.

And the history of these categories bears this out. Supposedly biological categories of "male" and "female" (categories which we are supposed to pretend exist in some "objective" sense, an absurdity) of "male" and "female" do not and cannot exist independently of gender.

I don't agree. Sex is just an extension of gender.

calling trans women "male", no matter how much confused, so-called "biology' you try to back it up with, is transphobic and functions to erase the reality of our being. it is a key pillar of trans-eliminationist "gender-critical" ideology and the BBC has clearly been captured by this ideology.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

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It might sound counterintuitive but trying to take Farage, Trump, Le Pen down based on individual flaws without centring the damage their politics do is counterproductive It opens the way for less extreme actors espousing the same politics while these have become normalised by mainstream actors

It's grim isn't it. "Trans woman" is fewer words and perfectly clear, but it seems to be editorial policy to go out of their way to imply she's making it up.

I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement www.bbc.com/news/article...

U.K. court un-divorces linehan in recent ruling

And these things are not equal—institutional neutrality should not under any circumstances include ‘neutrality’ on racism, genocide, anti-migrant hate, and anti-trans bigotry; and yet, even under the impossible ‘view from nowhere’ framework, the BBC is not remotely ‘neutral’ on any of these points

"line go up is more important than preventing children from being preyed upon" - billionaire Mark Zuckerberg

Innocent Smoothies vibes but for people who want to shit themselves.

sometimes you just need someone who can tell you firmly, to your face: "you don't need all those tabs open."

Just now appreciating that Fascists have often given getting milkshake, soup, and beans throw on them the same gravity and sense of "This means war." as they did a Far-Right pundit being shot. It's pretty funny.

The US is very much the senior partner in this relationship and thinking otherwise is crazy conspiracy stuff that conjures up old antisemitic tropes.

This is a good example of obvious bullshit and why conspiratorial antisemitism makes you dumb. No, it doesn’t actually make sense to think the DHS gov account is managed out of Israel. that’s actually a really stupid thing to think.

After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF

I love how these guy will get owned in public and then just post about it

It's nice that Mamdani is good with the elderly also.

They line up perfectly.

it feels like forever a go cyber punk 2077 was advertising it's game with dick girl posters

Finally playing Cyberpunk 2077. First impressions: you can be a woman with a penis, wow.

anyway I am going to pub

Trumpism is the imperial boomerang.

Yesterday evening I watched The Menu (2022). It's a fun film, one of the best Hollywood films exploring class antagonism released in the past three years, definitely. That it might be the only one such film from the past three years doesn't make it less fun.

milkshakes are out, beans are in. 🫘✊

I like to think that aaron ramsey missed that pen against frankfurt on purpose.

I think that contradiction is always there in nationalism, the right-wing march in Mexico City last weekend was full of Mexican flags and banners of the Virgin of Guadalupe and also people calling for Trump to invade

The former leader of Reform in Wales and a major Farage ally getting sent down with a 10 stretch for being in the pay of Russia should be much bigger news than it is. It's the kind of story that should tank Reform.

They spend half their time on Twitter sharing screenshots they scrape from Bluesky because literally all they do is sit in mouldy homes and stew in hatred

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