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@sammagotchi from The Other Place. Boston girl living in Toronto. She/her. Picrew by aworus. 🇨🇦🇪🇺 ✊♥️🏳️⚧️
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I'm sure the GCs and their fellow travellers will be apoplectic over the phrase "like maggots in an apple", but it's a perfect description of the way they operate
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*argue
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So the New York Times just published a puff piece about a purveyor of CSAM?
This wouldn't happen to be the same New York Times that likes to argues that gender affirming care for trans kids is the worst thing in the world, would it?
That New York Times? 🤔
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Beautiful, but eerie in that you know seeing it means something is terribly wrong
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As far as we know.
I for one haven't forgotten, and I hope enough other people who refuse to memory-hole injustices haven't forgotten either.
I also haven't forgotten the 15 people who are *still* imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay 20 years after the Iraq war. It remains a moral stain to this day.
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I think that's exactly what he's trying to do, using "quirky" advertising in the hopes that someone will be impressed enough with his cheek/nerve to buy it - not sure it will work, but I guess we'll see
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Let me guess: it was never released because it would have helped her case, and God forbid that should happen
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There we have it: women with 5-ARD, AIS, Swyer's Syndrome, and any number of other conditions are officially "men" according to Rowling. Figures.
She's also wrong about haemophilia: XX people can still have haemophilia if both X chromosomes are affected.
She's wrong about a lot, actually.
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Enshittification hits water boilers.
What are the chances the next model will be Wi-Fi enabled, and will break within a year with no chance of replacing any components?
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I momentarily forgot you were a parody account and thought this was real. With the American flag in the logo I assumed the worst. 💀
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Wait a minute, do the EHRC minutes make it look like the SC outcome was known in advance?
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God damn it
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☐ No
☐ Hell no
☐ F**k no
☑ All of the above
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I think this varies depending on country too – in my experience the sequence space, en dash, space (' – ') appears mainly in works from the UK, whereas the em dash with no surrounding spaces ('—') is more common in the US. There are always exceptions, though.
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It's rather telling that the WSJ is portraying these companies' decision to drop those law firms as emotional - "angered their clients".
Anger may be a factor, but at its core it's a perfectly rational decision. A law firm that isn't willing to stand up for itself won't stand up for you either.
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If even the newly hollowed-out FDA is warning people about this, it must be very bad indeed
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That chyron - "Will Congress get a say in whether DOGE cuts are here to stay?" - has to be one of the most asinine things I've seen from CNN. Of course they have a say! They're bloody Congress! They're just not doing their jobs!
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Heh - so her house is basically The Last of Us, Scottish Edition
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"Anal leakage"? Did she seriously use those words in a public post?
It's not the words themselves, it's the fact that until recently she was affecting a kind of authorial persona, a woman of letters, polite, precise, above the fray.
That seems to be disappearing. She's definitely losing it.
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Oh my goodness, who could POSSIBLY have done such a dastardly deed? 😏
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Do they really expect a sign like this to be posted at every toilet entrance?
Incredible.
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Interesting fact: one of the first major brands of estrogen available in the West is literally made from the urine of pregnant mares, and its name is pure rebranding genius: Premarin = Pre-Mar-In = Pregnant Mare's Urine.
If I lived in the pre-industrial era, I totally would have drunk the piss too.
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As someone who grew up before the WWW was invented and remembers what life was like before, I totally agree!
Off to get a large latte with 2% milk and a hazelnut shot plus a yummy blueberry muffin at my local café and bore everyone about how great it is
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Is California trying to have it both ways by creating two sets of rankings for every competition, one with trans women and one without, and letting everyone choose which ranking they feel is legitimate?
Yeah, no, that won't satisfy the anti-trans crowd - they don't want trans people to exist at all
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They should still continue to be called out on it. It should dog them for the rest of their careers. They need to know that people aren't going to forget what they did. It's gone way too far for that.
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Glad to hear this. I don't trust Alberta politicians in the aggregate to do the right thing, but maybe there's hope in this action. Bravo to the CMA.
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The EU should retaliate and bar American officials until they agree to respect European laws.
Not that anyone should be visiting the States unless absolutely necessary.
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He doesn't want people with actual morals, he wants people who will conveniently change their morality whenever the party leadership wills it. So, no.
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Exactly - that's the term they want people to use, and now it's spread to the media and even some LGBT+ spaces as well.
None of their terminology was chosen without a reason.
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I plan to become a zillionaire by creating the world's first AI-powered handjob machine
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Separately to this, when did the term "cross-sex hormones" start being used everywhere? I never saw hormones described as "cross-sex" before GCs and the conservative press started using it. It feels like an engineered term, designed to make people think of "sex" as always meaning the original sex.
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What a great way to get the younger generation to read the Times! /s
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That's 0.2%, not 0.002%. Lower than the US's to be sure, but not by two orders of magnitude.
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Note that she's from the UK - "f*ck off" isn't quite as much of a shocker there as it is in most parts of the US
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This is obviously some strange usage of the words 'building equality law' that we weren't previously aware of.
(with apologies to Douglas Adams)
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I was wondering this too. Just the names - Al? Alexandra?, Ali? - The Telegraph is practically trolling us
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Sadly, this doesn't sound so farfetched now
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I had a friend from way back when whose boyfriend used "What's the Matter Here" by 10,000 Maniacs as lovemaking music
(if you're not familiar, it's a deceptively nice-sounding song about child abuse)
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I live in Canada and I approve of this message
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Obviously "safeguarding" means any "gender critical" being able to access any child's personal details and medical history at any time without any questioning by any authority whatsoever, parents be damned
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This is exactly the premise of the following comedy skit - I think it was originally made for Saturday Night Live, but became (in)famous enough that they added it as an Easter egg to the DVD:
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This sounds like a good argument for a renewed push to get HBO to cancel their HP reboot. They should know that this has gone far beyond a simple difference of opinion and deep into the realm of active harm (though we all knew that already).
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Obviously "gold standard science" means they're paying money to get the results they want to hear
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Occasionally it can be handy for items that have a million available accessories when what you need is the item itself (Cuisinart comes to mind). Also occasionally for items with a million cheap knockoffs. Other than that, virtually never