Just the fact he thinks it's fine to bully children is appalling. Bestie of the world's richest children's author as well.
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Just the fact he thinks it's fine to bully children is appalling. Bestie of the world's richest children's author as well.
Honestly I'm more baffled that Boyne was ever successful in the first place. Pyjamas is awful, his writing is chock full of egregious research fails, & I've never read any of his prose which hasn't been leaden.
Hey John "the Auswitz musume called me out for my crappy nazi apologetics book" Boyne, how come you haven't condemned Gray lines constant pedo accusations against other people? Additionally, how come you haven't condemned the metric ass tone of pedos on your side?
This is about "Earth" by John Boyne, who continues to surprise and appall
Stop recommending this book. It's actively damaging to Holocaust education.
He may never come back to Britain? 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
The NY Times Book Review has a limited number of titles to review, so when they (and Michelle Ruiz) decide to platform someone known mainly for his transphobia, that's a statement.
Do you think it's possible to interrupt the spawning process so he doesn't come back?
Yes!
Turns out actually believing in stuff is magnetic and energizing! What a concept!
Lmao
Even just as a cis dude that's a loud Communist that speaks against this regime and in favor of Trans Rights and a Free Palestine; I'm straight up not traveling due to fear that stepping into any Airport could be my last contact w/ the outside world before I'm thrown in a hole in El Salvador.
It's wild that people think you shouldn't be able to block someone for being a dickhead. That's the only way to make social media bearable!
Remember, kids, you don't owe anyone a debate, you don't owe them space on your timeline, you don't owe them a platform, and you don't owe them respect if they behave like a dick. There is nothing wrong or bad about curating your online experience.
Technically it’s called a Buttplug when you block Assholes.
I think you nailed it. The cultural divide is "people I detest and who detest me are forced to listen to my opinions" vs "actually they aren't"
Tell that to the residents of a Memphis neighborhood, who are being polluted by a XAI data center. Seriously, building stuff just to build stuff and pollute the world is just dumb. time.com/7308925/elon...
The left: We should build affordable high-speed rail. The right: We should use chatbots to design a subscription service for a single-lane underground tunnel exclusively for Dickhead® car drivers in select US cities. The centre: Why are you ceding "we should be able to build stuff" to the right!?
They've never built anything. Highlights of the stuff they've ruined: taxis but the pay is less, food delivery but the pay is less, better ways to track personal information to serve ads, the worst web searches with 100x the environmental detriment, etc
If I weren't already following you, this would definitely have made me follow you 🙇🏻🤣🙌🏼
Damn right. For example, Silicon Valley builds machines that consume vast amounts of energy and fresh water, with a proven ability to talk teenagers into committing suicide.
Is the "Abundance" in the room with us?
They want to build stuff that enriches themselves and makes everyone's lives worse.
I mean I have a lot of problems with the politics of Darklord Grothnorax but at least he wants to build a Torment Nexus and I just don't want to cede "we should be able to build stuff" to the Skeleton Army.
We don't want to build data farms and "AIs" that burn up the environment to say garbage. If that's what the right wants to build, they're welcome to it. When the silicone valley dudes want to build stuff that makes other people's lives better instead of lining their own pockets, get back to me.
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The reason Mamdani scares his opponents is that he is so much better than them at this politics thing.
He's a bad writer and a shitty, shitty person.
Imagine thinking the defense to "you mocked a young girl" is "I didn't, I mocked a boy" makes you any less of a creepy bully
RIGHT? Like that's your defence??? What a horrible POS!
He is so fucking awful in so many ways.
If I wanted to get into a fatal accident caused by hubris and stupidity I would. I don't need a computer to help.
Is he not, like, fifty-odd? And primarily a YA writer? And he thinks it's okay to mock the appearance of a teenager? Just when you think he can't get any lower he grabs a shovel and digs 🤮
Right? What a hateful little gobshite. Absolutely unreal.
Well fucking said.
Mister Boyne you are fifty odd years old and you write primarily for teens, if you are then encouraging bullying towards your target audience then you need to get that fucking egg of a bonce of yours seen to
KM of high-speed rail in Europe (2023): 8,556 Current KM of high-speed rail in US: 56 bsky.app/profile/econ...
os juro que pensaba que era de cachondeo, rollo the onion o algo así.
Keep telling yourself that pal
Will the absence of high-quality public transport or cycling infrastructure in the US mark the moment its citizens notice how far their montiert has fallen behind? The assumption that progress is marked only by the American way is nonsense.
Is it really so radical that Europeans don't want to live in cities increasingly designed for cars above all else? That perhaps we don't want to erase upwards of a thousand years of history so some American billionaires can get even richer? Now is not the time for more institutional vassalage
Why would Europe, broadly, dismantle a functional and practical public transportation system in favor of a glitchy flock of gridlock generators?
Quelqu'un a accès à cet article et pourrait me le faire passer ? Rien que l'intro me fait marrer tellement c'est nul (j'ai roulé 11 ans en RP, l'2toile j'ai pratiqué plus d'une fois), mais je suis curieux de voir à quel point le rédacteur fait semblant de ne pas savoir ce qu'est un bus.
Will the absence of heavy rail transit in America mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?
This is in the same category as thinking America is the best because of dumb stupid shit as red cups at frat parties or being able to buy 500 different brands of cereal at the supermarket.
¿Podrá la ausencia de un sistema de salud público marcar el momento en el que los ciudadanos estadounidenses se den cuenta de lo atrasados que están?
Will the absence of high-speed rail in North America mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?
Los robotaxis son la última estratagema de empresas privadas para evitar que Estados Unidos construya redes de transporte público rápidas, baratas, eficientes y limpias como tenemos en Europa. Si el futuro son los robotaxis, que Europa no avance.
What's structurally progressive about more taxis, even if robotaxis worked, when we have public transport & don't need them? Having fewer cars on the road is better & safer for everyone, even ignoring the risks & lack of accountability of AI driven cars.
Oh honey.
Your Party really thought Britain needed another party of transphobes and landlords huh
*therefore gdi
Legit I've hated this man since the first terrible book of his I read in two thousand & fucking nine, but I read that & thought "I have not hated on him nearly enough" like CHRIST WTF did I just read??
Up Yours Party.
Capitalism is evil, landlords are evil, housing not being a human right is evil, wealth is evil.
Like how have they fucked it this badly so quickly? Stunning work, honestly.
Christ. What’s the point of this shower of transphobic dickheads if they’re not even going to go after landlords and the enormous and growing wealth gap?
Christ. I didn't come into it with super high hopes, but the degree to which it's crashed and burned is startling.
They’re the same picture 😅
Boyne refusing to condemn Glinner for baselessly accusing people of paedophilia.
OOF. So per John Boyne, it's acceptable to mock a teenaged girl for wearing makeup to a sporting event because she's trans there for "really" a boy & it's acceptable to mock a boy for that? When TERFs claim to be inclusive of gender nonconformity, they are lying.
Rowling, John Boyne, Linehan et al ….. y’know cis people with tons of privilege - making trans issues about them. It’s the height of narcissism.
If they included the tweets, it would probably be far more difficult to paint him as a victim.
Nah don't support transphobes and don't support people who are godawful hack writers.
Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.
Celebrity transphobe John Boyne was outraged to the point of legal action when, to prove a point, someone did to him what Graham Linehan does to countless: called him a paedophile. So I invited him to condemn Linehan for doing the same. He stalled. Then blocked me 12 hours later. Not a brave man.
And I must reiterate, calling someone a "groomer" is an accusation of pedophilia, of child abuse. I won't mince words, that is what is being said here, it is the plain understanding of the term, and that is what Linehan means.
I would be happy if I never heard the name Graham Linehan again, but I do feel the need to comment, because the nature of a lot of the abuse trans people receive is straight up sexual harassment, but is not recognized as such because the victim is trans. What Glinner is doing is sexual harassment.
Angling on the Irish as oppressed and oppressor appeals greatly: Scotland occupies that same place, and it's so rarely a dichotomy I see explored.
"Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency, but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given that he already owns other properties."
i don't know what stupid shit mcbride gets up to in delaware. but i do know a lot of people doing harm reduction work, organizing, and advocacy in a lot of places all over the country. and a shitton of them are trans, and a shitton of them have lost trans family. 4/8
revisting this made-up story of mcbride's to share a real, actual story from earlier this week that made me mad about it again. a thread. monday morning, when my roommate walked into a coffee shop here in mid-city, there was a guy on the floor holding his friend, who was overdosing. 1/8
This. And before that, medicine radicalises people with uteruses against it by being sexist af and treating serious conditions like endo/pms/period pain as if they are nothingburgers. And don't even start me on what medicine routinely does to most chronic illness & disability sufferers.
This goofball just says shit
So many people supremely relaxed about inciting people to violence - and strangely none of them with a skin colour or gender or immigration status which makes them routine targets of violent people.
I am SO TIRED of hearing RFK Jr. saying he "wants to see the data" he is neither a scientist nor a physician and we have absolutely zero proof that he's qualified to interpret ANY data, about anything, at all
Perhaps it seems that way to you, Ken. As a woman, what I saw was a man telling his followers to beat up women. That's why scum like Linehan are involved in the 'gender critical' movement. They enjoy hurting women. The GC movement gives them cover to do so.
Posting this again because the majority of people have forgotten that this kind of relentless targeted abuse resulted in a real world hate crime against me and my partner. How quickly it's forgotten when you're not cis.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... The British Government are aiding and abetting a GENOCIDE in Gaza and allowing illegal Israeli settlements to exist.Now they are rolling out the red carpet for this man.Absolutely disgusting.
Your "personal view" sounds like a crock of shit based on nonsense.
Stochastic violence as a joke isn't okay.
If you’re comfortable with a man calling for members of the public to assault trans people in bathrooms (which in practice disproportionately endangers cis women who are tall, large or gender nonconforming) then you can get on the list of people who actually don’t give a sh*t about women’s safety.
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It was clear very early on that Sir Keir’s project was a forced restoration of an old guard their party didn’t particularly want, and that it was imposed by lying, stitch ups and shenanigans. The words required here are not things like “unusual” but “calculated fraud” and “total media complicity”.
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YES it's such a delightful video for how incredibly human it is.
Yup. & often it's the ones with the least power who are trying the hardest, & the ones with the most who are (at best) wringing their hands & expressing helplessness, or at worst profiting from it directly or indirectly. I'm definitely saving my ire for those who have power & won't exert it.
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I am not seeing "Constitutional amendment reversing Citizens United" on any of these New Reconstruction wishlists folks are circulating, and. Absent starting over from scratch, I don't see us establishing any semblance of democracy here without that plus Supreme Court expansion.
If you are honestly trying to make this a matter of degree, let's be very clear; in your bizarre paradigm, Harris is very complicit in genocide. HTH!
Regular humans who have very little leverage being unwillingly complicit in genocide doesn't make it okay for politicians to be complicit in genocide. Harris said, REPEATEDLY, that she would continue Biden's policies, wouldn't sanction Israel, wouldn't support arms embargoes. People believed her.
There is not enough fuck you in the universe for the demistocrats claiming Harris didn’t enthusiastic pledge her unconditional undying support for the genocidal regimen that her administration funded and defended in the UN and elsewhere. Just the most disgusting dishonest assholes in the world.