"But women are too emotional to lead!", they cried.
🇬🇧 🇪🇺 50-something lover of live entertainment, science and music, open source advocate, cat dad and wannabe author. Like my books I'm a constant work in progress. Warning - may contain nuts.
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"But women are too emotional to lead!", they cried.
@aoc.bsky.social as a citizen of the UK I can't vote for you but I really wish I could. You have more intelligence, compassion and empathy than anyone currently in office either side of the pond.
We in the UK had exactly the same problem post-Brexit. We didn't see any of the "foreign workers taking our jobs" mob in the fields either.
The thing is, he's not a bully. He is a coward though. I suspect he was bullied at school for being a little bitch and realised a long time ago that it was better to be friends with the bullies rather than stand up to them. Look at the people he admires.
'But we were just following orders" will be their rehearsed, uniform defence. Where have we heard that before?
100% agree. We were considering ng a trip to the US for our wedding anniversary - then a paedophile rapist felon Russian asset was elected (apparently). No thanks. My money is not propping up fascism.
At least Austin can take consolation from the fact that an educated, qualified woman wasn't elected! No. Effing. Sympathy (We're the same in the UK with people who voted for Brexit and lost their businesses as a direct consequence). Zero fucks.
Follow the success of the F1 movie a sequel is planned. Again starring Brad Pitt, F5 will be more of a refresh.
Last night I re-watched F/X - Murder By Illusion. I'd forgotten how good it was. Released in 1986 it comes from a time when films didn't treat its audience as idiots.
Let's be 100% clear on this. If what they are doing was legal their faces wouldn't be covered.
Obviously they need to compare the results with other countries that also have trans people but no access to guns. I suspect they won't correlate.
Just did my first 5k run after a couple of weeks of suffering from a sore hammy. Not a bad pace and I think the run did it some good! (I'll probably be proven wrong in the morning)
Ah, the famous quote from Brieheart.
Call Of Doody
Apologies to those on Bluesky who had to witness my exchange with a MAGAT. He's now blocked. You can't reason with stupid.
Okay. You're a MAGA. That explains everything. Enjoy your day.
It's funny that nowhere else in the world with gun control has that problem. What you're doing now is regurgitating NRA propaganda.
Secondly, the US is rapidly sliding into fascist authoritarianism. The very thing the 2A was put in place to prevent. So what are you going to do about it with the 393 million guns?
Where I am is irrelevant. What is relevant is that everything I have said is factual. What you've done is brought an opinion to a discussion based on facts. Remove the guns = remove the gun violence. This has been proven globally.
1A is the right to free speech. 2A is the right to bear arms. Secondly, I'm not in the US. I live in a country that strongly controls who can and cannot carry a gun. My country also has transgender people. My country doesn't have mass shootings.
I'd say the problem is that firearms in the US are easier to get than healthcare. People in other countries have mental health issues. What they don't have is easy access to high-powered killing devices.
Mix it with onions and roll it into a ball and you have some stuffing for your turkey. That's sage advice.
Bondi will be furious when someone finally explains it to her.
The literal German translation of "Die Hard" is "The Hard" Follow me for more film trivia.
Does anyone else in the UK with the BBC News app ask "Is he dead yet?" every time they get an alert? Or is it just me?
Unfortunately they're stuck with a Total Kunta instead.
I hope it's as batshit mad as the first series!🤞
For context - that could charge up 175 flux capacitors!
I'm considering trying 5k to couch, where I give up running and decide I'm happier as a fatty.
Excellent time. Well done!
I've just seen this group suggestion on Facebook. My question is this - have they tried prayer?
I'm watching Back to the Future 3 for the umpteenth time. At the end when the Delorean is smashed up, why doesn't Marty salvage Mr Fusion from the wreckage and sell it as his own invention? This would be a classic example of the Bootstrap Paradox.
I get that advertisements are important to websites, but is it necessary for the ads to cover 50% of the screen?
Finally getting to watch Superman. Loving the merch. It will go well on my office geek shelf.
Me too, sadly...
One of the great benefits of being an adult is knowing that crisp butties are an actual meal.
Representation without taxation.
It's amazing how you seem to attract these bastions of flawless physical perfection, so self-assured of their own Adonis-like bodies that they're 100% comfortable criticising others' appearance. I'm jealous.
This is literally taking the piss.
In that case, welcome!
The thing to remember about him is this: He was bullied as a child and so now chooses to be friends with the bullies so they'll leave him alone. 🍊🤡
So if you look at it subjectively, eggs will be relatively cheaper. Totally what was promised.
Absolutely fine as long as the rest of the world can insist on seeing American tourists' vaccination history before they're allowed to travel beyond the Trumpdom.
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I'm not implying that I need a holiday soon, but yesterday I went shopping, loaded up the boot and sat in the car. I was in the back seat. I was shopping alone.
Anyone from UKIP / Reform would claim that it is in Norfolk.
Faces, meet leopards.
For my utilities (where possible) I go with B-Corp companies. My broadband (Zen) and gas/electric (Octopus) are examples. Unfortunately I have no choice in my water company and as for banks...
"publicity seeking president" - written without any self awareness or irony.
They say that a vampire can't enter your house without being invited. Doesn't that mean that they're just polite? I mean I've never entered anyone's house without being invited. That's just rude.
My cat had the exact same reaction.
Are you out there advocating for gun control to protect actual children or are you only concerned about controlling women?
And in the event of rape? What about if the mother's life is endangered by going to term? And my final question - what the hell has it got to do with you regarding what a woman does with her own body?
So you're saying it's 100% the woman's decision? What about non-consensual sex? What about men stepping up and making the decision about using protection during sex? What about giving women absolute control over their own bodies and men staying in their own fucking lane?
Jesus doesn't say anything about homosexuality. At all. Anywhere. I'm am atheist and even I know that.
Pro-abortion or pro-choice? The two are different.
Didn't The Hollies sue Radiohead for using part of that song in Creep?
Friend: "What would your wife do if you died first?" Me: "I'm not sure, but I'm confident that she'd spend the first few hours disposing of the evidence."
Seems legit.
Yeah, but they were most likely MAGA, so no tears shed by me.
So how do we pronounce the new Pope's surname? Is it Ziv or Ecksiv?
Can anyone help me to find a film? I'm not sure what it's called but it stars Jason Statham and it's the one where he goes around fighting everyone. Thanks.
My wife said she wants to be treated like a princess, so I've booked her a chauffeur-driven tour of Paris.
I was 19 when I completed first Marathon, although by then they'd been renamed Snickers.
So Musk will be entry #1?
So Musk will be entry #1?
Apparently when a Pope dies his ring is destroyed Catholic bishops. The same is true of living altar boys.
Something I can't understand in the rush to replace actual people with AI is this - When everyone is out of work because of AI, who's going to buy the crap these billionaire tech bros are pushing?
The only film that has ever made me cry. What could go wrong with a fun, family afternoon of viewing?
Me: Darling, we need to talk about the elephant in the room. My wife, a zookeeper: I know I shouldn't bring my work home, but look at his cute flappy ears.
Actual footage of me after my Easter egg breakfast.
I've just made an epic Worcestershire sauce pun in the family chat and nobody laughed. How do I begin emancipation proceedings?
The world's shortest population is the recently discovered F'Kawi tribe of Indonesia. The tallest of whom is 1.2m (almost 4ft) in height. Their hunting ground is a large plane consisting of 2m grasses. This, it's believed is what gave the tribe their name - their hunting cry of "Where the F'Kawi?"
Here's an idea. Let 47 trash the US Constitution by allowing a President to seek a third term. Then let the Democrats put up Obama as his opponent.
It will never not be funny.
Seriously, Monday. Didn't we just do this?
Me: That would be hard work and racism. Waiter: That's nice, but I meant food allergies or intolerances.
Me: That would be hard work and racism. Waiter: That's nice, but I meant food allergies or intolerances.
This man was courageous enough to stand up to Trump and Vance. So it's important to post this message and photo to 27 million people. Don't just "like" it -- that only means that YOU'VE seen it. Postb it, blow it up and get it out there! #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
I've recently realised that I am now the same age (52) that my nans was when I was born!
I really hope the sex scenes are in flashback.
To be fair, he knows more than anyone what a failing business looks like.
It's a little known fact that the name Barry is short for Barrison.
Whoever wrote "and on the seventh day God rested" has obviously never deployed to live on a Friday.
So we just create another AI to read it? Why should we bother to read something that nobody could be bothered to write?
I've never understood the phrase "There's no easy way to say this". "This" is an incredibly easy word to pronounce.
If it's wrong to be 52 years old and eating jelly and ice-cream then I don't want to be right.
I'm not usually an emoji user, but I think I can sum up today's mood with them: ❤️ = 🇺🇦 🖕🏻 = 🍊💩🔔🔚
A rainy, slow but steady midweek 10k run. Third 10k in as many weeks.
Just in case any of you are still in any doubt as to whom Trump is working for. Clue - it's not the US or its allies.
You can't return damaged goods.
If you can't judge a book by its cover then isn't that just bad design and marketing?
In case anyone was wondering what the 80s were really like, when this film came out I really wanted clothes like these.
Hey, girl. Are you Github? Because I really want to do a push into your repository. #NerdPickupLines
Dear America. What the actual fuck? Signed, The Rest Of Humanity.
Trump is a stupid man's idea of a smart man.
Yeah, but at least the US didn't get an educated, supremely qualified woman as President. Totally owned the libs...
Groundhog Month.