Briton in Japan 🗣️🇬🇧🇯🇵🇷🇺🆗, learning 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ ally
1,344 followers 4,208 following 11,566 posts
view profile on Bluesky 
Alas! It is 68 years since the world was deprived of Peter Freuchen, anthropologist, arctic explorer, writer, WWII resistance fighter, quiz show contestant, film star, friend of Mae West, fucking enormous geezer, and maker of tools from frozen excrement
It’s simply not credible that Clegg doesn’t know that there is loads of evidence. He’s lying in public.
And when you dig deeper, “the rich” often turns out to mean (((guess who))) All three of the people here are, or in the now deceased Berns’ case were, MAJOR figures in the anti-trans movement.
Might I suggest that 8 years of sitting in front of a computer for 18 hours a day typing “groomer” at strangers was a poor health choice.
this is what you get when you search “kitchen table issues” on X
A spokesperson for the culturally significant British brand told QueerAF that "everyone is welcome" at bra fittings, including "new mothers looking for a nursing bra, teens trying on their first bra, to post-surgery and transgender bra fits." www.wearequeeraf.com/m-s-has-not-...
Only yesterday I was gushing over an excellent YouTube essay of all the bad things Wakefield did: (Link in the post I’m replying to.) bsky.app/profile/valo...
But whatever comparison on effectiveness also needs to have a good measure of comparison. Separate studies in different populations with different inclusion requirements can’t simply be compared. Better to have direct comparisons.
Or this one: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Rather than using ChatGPT to integrate two separate studies (which is dodgy practice), why not use an actual direct comparison? www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
I haven’t lied to you. Do you think falsely accusing people of lying is a healthy way of interacting?
I’m not particularly interested in the topic - it’s one you seem very interested in though. You could use the search function to find a discussion about it. You might find it more cognitively comfortable than being asked about the topic you originally posted on.
Yes, and I’ve pointed out how I disagree with your interpretation that this inescapably means she would legislate for death camps. What I’m curious to know is whether you think it’s unreasonable to characterise Badenoch’s trans views as extreme. Do you agree with Badenoch on trans people?
As for this site? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I disagreed with your claim and asked you what your views were on the topic in question were. All perfectly politely. You don’t have to answer my question, but it does look really weird for you to be so upset at someone asking you polite questions.
*Opral
I notice you didn’t answer my question. Do you agree with Kemi Badenoch on trans people?
This way of answering right wing framed questions has always been stupid. It cursed the Brexit debate.
Its time to ensure the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities in Britain – about a concerted effort to dissolve foundational social norms against racism + deny our status as equal citizens – are heard too We should *reject* excessive pessimism about pushing bsck www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
What the US needs - as the UK needs on a slightly different issue - is leadership telling people, articulating to people that this is wrong, why it is wrong, how it is wrong, and what sort of country people should aspire to be.
The article repeatedly describes restaurants that closed as apparently prospering (ie full of customers) as if the issue wasn’t lack of customers. Were the bits where it explained how this appearance was deceptive cut out?
So… this is someone who spends a lot of money on high end clothes already and who works for a fashion website. For each item, Gemini gave her a range of clothes to choose from. So basically, a fashion expert went shopping online pretty much using her own judgement.
He doesn’t say that. The context is the limit on any Prime Minister. Do you agree with Badenoch on trans people?
Just a note regarding the whole “Ah, but Frankenstein actually IS the monster” jokes doing the rounds once more: In case you haven’t, *read the book*. It’s SO much better than you might think. (And the joke far more profound.) (Fwiw, the audiobook is excellent. www.audible.com/pd/Frankenst...)
Yvette, I'm confused.
"i've got access to the kids, but they don't wanna see me"
It generally only works if you’re a smug asshole but your opinions are also the wrong ones. Because then you’re appealing to the cruelty crowd.
It is SUCH a good video essay. Every time I watch it, i find details about how stunningly awful and immoral Andrew Wakefield was that I had blanked from my mind just to cope. - and I’m glad HBomberguy goes so far out of his way to credit Brian Deer, the journalist who uncovered so much of it.
So journalist Erin Biba blocks me because she misattributed a quote (she confused two different people), and in the process made a false accusation against a fellow journalist. How very professional.
I had read Gourevitch’s original post but was thrown when you attributed it to the wrong person. bsky.app/profile/valo...
I’m not saying anything either way about Gourevitch. But accuracy is important, isn’t it, when accusing people? 2/2
You misquoted Lynskey and accused him of ignoring complaints about ableism. Lynskey explicitly said he wasn’t making any diagnoses, and *as far as I can see* got no hassle about the issue. DL 100% agrees RFK is a eugenicist and fascist, but thinks eg RFK’s miasma belief isn’t itself eugenicist. 1/2
Here: bsky.app/profile/pgou...
I found the quote. It wasn’t Dorian Lynskey. It was someone else.
I can’t find that particular skeet. What word would you prefer he used to describe the extent of how weird and unorthodox RFK’s beliefs are? In the quote you provide, DL explicitly connected what RFK is doing to fascism. His point is that fascism is not an exhaustive explanation.
Where did he say that?
RFK jr is a conspiracy theorist about his own Dad’s assassination. Genuinely. He’s that much of a prick.
The Bolognese aren’t too happy, to be honest. But fuck ‘em. Authenticity is a silly idea. And I also have a vegetable drawer to clear out.
Far right violence is stoked and whitewashed by the UK media, and rewarded by the UK government.
14 years for red paint if you're an activist, writes Prof Richard Murphy. Zero arrests for red paint when it's used to harass migrants. What’s going on?
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
It’s really striking when I visit the UK these days how food labels in the supermarket are covered with Union Jacks and “BRITISH” origins.
Those aren’t British beers though.
I was specifically talking about cheddar though, not other cheeses. I wouldn’t be so crass as to make generalisations about food I haven’t tried.
In these threads you made a flatly false claim about the demographics of transphobia. I corrected you and offered to provide links on any of the details of how it was wrong. I see you’re still posting but I got no reply. If you’re not interested in evidence, isn’t Dorian right?
For some reason, on Twitter there developed a culture of seeing blocking as somehow admitting defeat. I think it’s better here with the nuclear block and the ethos that it’s fine to block someone if they’re annoying.
I wouldn’t compare Costco UK cheddar with anything I’d buy from a cheesemonger. It compares to a standard supermarket own brand mature cheddar in the UK. I explicitly cited views of Americans I know on the US cheese available. But you’d agree ridiculing a good cheddar is silly, right?
I’ve found being more proactive in organising feeds helps. Twitter/X had an unhealthy attention-seeking algorithm. It’s good not to have that, but it means replacing that with another way of getting a fix.
(The idea that a movement originating in and funded by the religious right is somehow a champion of women’s rights is really astoundingly silly)
No, it isn’t. The majority of transphobes are men, and the majority of feminists are trans inclusive. The most trans inclusive demographic are lesbians. Do you need any links for this?
Labour have appointed an anti-trans Chair of the EHRC, an anti-trans Comms Director, whilst failing to remove previous Tory anti-trans hires such as the OfS Director, whilst adhering to their recommendations. If you thought Labour would ever actively stand up for vulnerable minorities, think again.
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
In Lynskey’s defence, he probably knows more about the history of eugenics than most others commenting. I don’t think he thinks it’s a good or scientifically justified idea in any way. podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/o...
I think everyone on that thread missed the point he was making by a country mile. The claim he was countering was that RFK’s medical beliefs could ALL be reduced to eugenics which itself implies a coherence. RFK has other health beliefs which are mad but not eugenic.
Well, of course (James Dreyfus otoh tries to get into extended arguments and it becomes very clear he wouldn’t get anywhere without a script writer)
Thanks to Costco, I get to compare what American friends think is good US cheddar with the (good but not stunning) British mature they also stock. So I’m guessing no, he hasn’t. But he should.
The first time I had Japanese curry I had a huge Proustian rush of being back in (my British) primary school!
I hadn’t heard this story before but it does sound preposterous. She wouldn’t be the first modern Tory leader to make things up about their education, of course. www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/...
Tbf, Sean may not realise that what he thinks is a respectable prejudice is actually a deliberately engineered and well-funded moral panic by the transatlantic religious right, and that he has in fact been living alongside trans people without it being a problem his entire life.
Racism and homophobia also get a hostile reception.
Of course. It can get complicated. The thing is, the absorption of Indian food into British culture is undoubtedly a positive thing in the context. What’s striking is every time a “progressive” American has this take, they won’t even listen to British Asians telling them they’re wrong and racist.
Can I ask a question? Every time a supposed progressive American has this take, amid the pile-on are, of course, lots of British Asian people also telling you you’re being incredibly racist as well as ignorant. But none of you listen to them. Is that *even* to them, or *especially* to them?
Funnily enough, Tempura comes from the same Portuguese tradition. Still really quite Japanese though.
Bill thinks Downton Abbey is a contemporary documentary.
Such think tanks are better understood as professional disinformation operations. They exist because genuine research and expertise doesn’t back up their politics. So they manufacture the necessary huge scare quotes “research” for propaganda purposes.
You can't selectively cite work to attempt to present it as saying the very opposite of what it says and retain academic credibility. But we have such a skewed media landscape that Policy Exchange can still get this mess of claims injected into the political mainstream.
I used to get one who repeatedly attempted dogpiles on me, but he kept forgetting that his half a million followers were from back when he had a comedy career and barely anyone ever responded.
(Ticket ffs)
So apparently we’re doing “the casual yet severe racism of the American left” again.
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from. I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR." It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
It’s in no small part so that the UK can persecute trans people even more. It’s the ECHR that forced the UK to legislate to give trans people the right to privacy ie not to be outed ie to be allowed to live as their gender.
The cynical contempt for the literal physical safety of people in Northern Ireland shown by the people who work at Policy Exchange make it hard to get too outraged by paint splattering. Sure, yeah, arrest people for criminal damage whatever. But enough with the crocodile tears.
There was a time not long ago, when the idea of a Labour government deliberately acting to keep families of recognised refugees apart, would have been unthinkable. The same week masked men tried to break in to asylum seeker accommodation, presumably with violent intent #r4today
“Among other things” means that this was the least significant reason given. In other, older news, Steven Pinker searches his own name on Xitter and blocks people critical of him.
(I’m trying each on rotation for a few days)
Thank you!!
Why do I get the feeling that “among other things” is a VERY large drape here.
I have started on the same chronological journey! (Liked Oberto a whole lot, not so keen on Un Giorno di Regni) Do you have a recommended recording for I Lombardi alla prima crociata?
So I’m trying to untangle this from her article about Democrat influencers taking secret cash and there is a WHOLE MESS of people supporting and attacking her and working out which ones are the cranks/dodgy ones on which issue is doing my head in.
What I can see from a little browsing is that people have entirely understandable reasons for not liking Lorenz, but that this particular story appears to be true.
Would you like to explain how that amounts to any kind of retraction? Because having read the article following this clarification, it doesn’t look like a particularly significant adjustment.
What they don’t get is: appeasement doesn’t work. They can’t trade someone else’s safety to secure their own. I’m sure some of them say “don’t appease Trump!! Stand up to the bully!!!!” And yet… A big part of Trump’s appeal is his positive confidence. How is showing negative weakness a good idea?
Because that is where the funding from the very rich is going.
I remember that crazy time when there was broad agreement on the left that we should basically not be ****s to each other based on who we were. The kind of people breaking that agreement are the ones least targeted.
“Trans people being denied the very same medication that cis people are given without question. Many of the refusals are for people that are already on HRT" ✅ Restricting legal recognition ✅ Restricting freedoms ✅ Restricting health care www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
🔖 EdTech evidence lacking
So why were you so rude and dismissive towards her?
Has he actually finished his undergrad yet? He was being touted as some sort of health expert with his own tinpot “institute” a couple of years ago.
She spends her time in public advocating for the rights of refugees. She’s quite well known. You just saw a woman and didn’t like her having opinions and decided to mouth off. You’re a dinosaur.
You haven’t got anything of any substance to say to anyone All you have is insults. You’re an empty waste of space on here.
No, sorry I don’t share your politics. I don’t think pandering to the far right and shitting on minorities is good. I mean, I assume that’s why you think Starmer is doing a good job.
So you’re a Reform supporter?
The problem is that he then goes on to use the attack to justify the role of dark money in British politics.
So basically you were rude to me without having anything to say.
So how would YOU explain the shift from expectations the UK wouldn’t leave the single market through May’s “citizens of nowhere” stance to the even harder Johnson Brexit reached, that nevertheless failed to satisfy the ERG and the strong as ever Faragists?
Because Brexit is a philosophy of permanent revolution. No agreement among mainstream politicians and parties would ever be acceptable. Brexit is never finished. There is always something - or someone - to burn down.
The Mandala was a local community effort. Erasing it isn’t a cry from neglected communities. It’s just fascism. It’s fear of difference and kindness. A desire to wipe them out. And these people are in charge. In office. In government.
What is the point of Labour? This sort of thing isn’t causing any crisis among the ranks or withdrawal of funding for the party.
Also, there are people who find fascists a bit vulgar but basically go along with their disgust for people who don’t conform.