for the record, i hate him for not lifting the Section 30 order blocking the GRR Bill
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for the record, i hate him for not lifting the Section 30 order blocking the GRR Bill
sorry involuntary human medical experimentation enthusiast shabana mahmood is home secretary?
lol, lmao
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it's also basically antisemitic to get mad at him for changing his name back to the family's original surname that they'd changed to escape antisemitism pretty fucked up!
sorry it didn't actually stop til 2015, it's just that they changed the minimum age to 18 in 2003 (it had been 16 before)
every time a british publication like the spectator complains that boobs have been banned it's probably important to remember at british papers had full-on topless models in them as a regular feature into the 2000s and they're still mad that stopped
nothing has made me more pessimistic about the tenor of disability rights discourse, especially in neurodivergent communities, on social media than the absolute dogpiling the daily tism has been experiencing the last few days
Protected belief is a pretty squishy category these days, entirely possible to win a case on this
oh absolutely not
worst part is i ended up in the wrong part is the hospital and had to take it back down lol
friends, i used the out of order lift as it's the only one that came
adventures in haunted nhs hospitals: royal alexandra edition
my teen thing in the pre-energy drink days was just eating chocolate covered coffee beans
also lol you have to get to like those double sized red bulls to have that much caffeine, they actually aren't all that bad
wait has england not been having to get age verified for a supermarket meal deal all this time?
/this/ is how you write a piece on this subject
say what you will about the snp but it's nice to have a leader willing to say refugees welcome
this is the best reason for scotland's free 60+ bus pass imo, speeds things up no end
The latest column from Scottish Trans Manager, Vic Valentine, was published in the Scotsman on Sunday. It explores the devastating impact of the proposed EHRC Code of Practice and our calls to ensure that it is properly debated in Parliament. Read here: www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
Yesterday’s UK Government announcement that family reunification for refugees are being suspended is a cruel and inhumane policy. The UK Government can’t reduce illegal immigration by closing down the few safe and legal routes for people seeking sanctuary. 1/3
also wtf 'false hope' love when labour admits they believe that there's no actual hope for anything good i guess
just realised the current chicago manual of style doesn't require publication place names anymore good things do still happen!!
i'm extremely posting though it i'm aware but like idk i think if i was asked to fix the asylum hotels situation i'd simply give asylum seekers the right to work like canada does and then they could afford to sort themselves some actually humane accommodation
we're just at evil for evil's sake at this point
comic as in comic book villain obviously because there's nothing funny about this
actually panicking about how comically evil labour are
by entire run i mean like, all of the issues from 1943 to 1981
academic pals: i'm doing the bibliography for my phd thesis and one of my primary sources was a printed trade magazine do i just put the entire run of the magazine in as one entry in a bibliography? obviously the individual articles are cited throughout
just to be clear, people who have been through our brutal horrible asylum system and been judged to have been persecuted can't bring their families here because somehow, the same regimes magically won't go after them?
It goes without any goddamn fucking saying that a right to asylum that does not include the right to bring your family here is not a real right to asylum.
anyway going to go play the ps5 remaster of hzd to decompress for half an hour before i get cracking on the formatting
don't get too excited there's still a lot to do but big milestone!
who has two thumbs, speaks limited french, and just sent a full draft of her phd thesis to her supervisor? this moi
Oh my lord yes Beiruti hummus is among life's great pleasures
also not quite the same but since i'm a vegetarian this always makes me think of falafel rather than meat so: Time Out Café in dumbarton road has egyptian falafel that is absolutely banging
quite keen on Beirut Star if you fancy sit in
all this food chat has done is make me daydream about the incredible general tsos tofu at this place i loved in ottawa that i haven't had in like six years
And that this ofc bears v little relationship to Chinese food proper (with all its regional diversity) and is an incredible Chinese American innovation Which, damn I could murder some general tsos right now but it isn't widespread in the UK
Her argument is essentially that even before the concept of a franchise or fast food was widespread, you could basically walk into any Chinese American takeaway and without looking at a menu order general tsos chicken and some egg rolls and know what you were going to get Which like, she's right
Have you ever seen Jennifer 8 Lee's ted talk (I know I know) about American Chinese being the first "fast food"? It's really good and I still think about it/all the various different versions of westernised Chinese a lot
oh fuck me, we are so cooked
stand down, couple of fabulous glasgow uni students found it for me!!
the worst part is i just need the title of an article and the author if it, not to even see the whole piece! you just can't even *search* this archive if you aren't subscribed to it!
if you are a student at the university of edinburgh you definitely have access to this fwiw
i have a lot fewer academic followers on here than i had at the old place, but as a long shot: does anyone's institution have access to the proquest women's magazine archive? looking for a specific issue of ladies' home journal from 1955
yes, correct
Yeah it was intense and was giving me full Catholic school trauma flashbacks so I had to nope right out of there
Do you not remember her cross in username posting nothing but theology all day phase that lasted about 6 months
I love that I just get drivebys like this because I had to mute her back on the old place when she went through her intense ratzinger fangirl phase
just saw how restrictive the nhs criteria are for a winter covid booster this year we really don't have much of a leg to stand on criticising the americans for anti-vaxxery at this rate
The Westminster system made people poorer with austerity and Brexit - and now it’s trying to distract from those failures by scapegoating people who have been through unimaginable hardship. It is pathetic, it is cowardly and I will have no part in it. #RefugeesWelcome
ok for real why does anyone do a phd this sucks
the nyt has abysmal account policies as well - you lose your sub the day you cancel it, not at the end of the month you've already paid for (i learned this the hard way and will almost certainly not give them another penny)
(that said it was the combo of him starting to talk about trying to get into heaven because he's not doing so good, and then vance making comments about how he's ready to step up, and *then* the empty calendar)
we all know we're playing along just to feel something, dw
Everything is so bleak, let us dream while we can
well, if he was just hanging on maybe that judgment on the tariffs will have done it
developing an intense loathing for everyone in a field that lets them just get away with (author, 2015) as a citation
look chicago style is definitely the best when it comes to being a reader - how handy, all the references to exactly what the writer is talking about right there, easy to find! - but it is absolutely the worst when you're the writer
this is entirely a 'person who needs to search things so she can reference them with the utterly vile chicago style that requires page numbers' problem but it would be nice if you got a lil pdf of the book when you bought a physical copy
i need to know who the 3% are
when you think about it, the palantir situation was really just saruman getting his brain cooked by twitter
There's a reason this sign is up in the window of Glasgow's LGBT bookstore
at some point one has to recognise that the powers that be in labour are adults with agency, and that regardless of political expediency they are making these choices we might have to accept that these actually are their favoured policy outcomes, not just some electoral game
labour pretty transparently wants you to see homeless refugees and get angry with people for coming here and blame them for all the problems that labour themselves are causing
this is what glasgow city council is warning about btw. the uk government is engaging in policies designed to overwhelm council homelessness services and destroy social cohesion while making life miserable for our most vulnerable populations - refugees and other homeless people alike
Genuinely if you are a Labour member and you're knocking doors for this, you should be ashamed of yourself. If you aren't screaming bloody murder about it to your local elected representatives, you should be ashamed of yourself. Did you really, really campaign to just capitulate to fascism?
and him deepfaking someone and being an ai freak generally
i think it's especially bad we gave most of the voice assistants women's voices and then left people to develop the habit of being casually cruel to them tbh
A nation which makes a martyr out of Lucy Connolly has lost its moral bearings My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
oh no, who now
‘I’m a lesbian and feminist. I’ve been harmed by men. So I wouldn’t fight for trans people if it hurt women’s rights. Yet I’m called a groomer and a misogynist’ Rebecca Don Kennedy, head of the Equality Network, on how dark it’s got for trans people in Britain www.heraldscotland.com/news/2541309...
(it's important not to erase that she's trans because she spoke very clearly about wanting to contribute to trans visibility)
she is trans, she spoke at length to scientific american but that's the point. she's trans, she's a girl, and she's world-beatingly good at math. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
The chief problem with the Unionist accusation that the SNP blames all of Scotland's problems on the UK is that it is an accurate assignation of blame
Tomorrow's front page 📰 Refugees are welcome here: New series highlighting their positive stories in Scotland begins
also the midge allergy update is that i have simply learned to embrace the midge net
have always been a west highlands girlie but i think i've been converted by the cairngorms this weekend
reiterating: hills are in fact very good
After years of waiting for the fun funicular to actually work, we finally got to the top. Hell of a view.
(it's fine, about to get on a bus properly out to go camping, but oh my god the noise)
update: have inadvertently come to aviemore during europe's largest motorcycle rally send help
rip to me, wanted to go on a nice trip to aviemore for the weekend and now stuck on a bus for an indeterminate number of hours because the a9 is closed
fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
I hope you have an amazing time! I was planning to do it at the end of the month but it looks like we are getting hit with the tail end of hurricane Erin so I'll have to delay
it is entirely possible i think this is a common turn of phrase because it became one in a very narrow set of years due to this
oh nooo friend have you considered why scrooge mcduck exists even though the character of ebeneezer scrooge is a londoner
this is a very common turn of phrase in north america unfortunately it's the whole scottish people being cheap stereotype (which is wild incidentally, y'all are some of the most reflexively generous people i've ever lived amongst)
Excellent statement here from the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC), doing what the EHRC should have been doing all along. This shows how way off track our biased EHRC are. www.scottishhumanrights.com/media/3044/p...
i hear they put actual butter on the popcorn 👀
The war for housing and the Butlerian Jihad are the same struggle.
technically team gb also boycotted, so she won that medal under the olympic flag as well - it's just unlike canada and the us, the uk gave individual sports bodies the option to send people who wanted to go (just not as team gb)
lol yeah the two countries with probably the best women's sports programmes globally (especially back then) didn't turn up, it's literally the only reason she got anything
canada too tbf, we'd won silver and bronze in her event in '76 and then boycotted '80 which is to say she'd have placed like, 7th
you heard it here first: feminism is killing everything good and holy about british culture. ladies, back in the kitchen or you'll be responsible for societal collapse in the form of pudding extinction
why isn't everyone like my sainted mummy, staying home to steam a pudding for several hours with every meal
what made sugar more widely available, hmm? wouldn't be empire and slavery would it?
ok not to do Discourse on an objectively silly puff piece but i actually find this quite sinister the whole thing is some guy from english heritage praising the emergence of widely available sugar and bemoaning the loss of mums spending hours cooking puddings