I didn't say it was. I'm blaming the police.
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I didn't say it was. I'm blaming the police.
I was going to put boots on today but I just can't do it. It can't be autumn yet, not even with the prospect of a 3 hour Staff Meeting For Info.
The best revenge is living well. Congratulations!
Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.
People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".
Sam still fed up with his builders. Twas ever thus.
I'm afraid in your position I generally just buy a new copy on eBay.
The divorce of LGB and the TQ+ is final, and some people find it hard to accept. It was a forced marriage with one abusive partner if we were honest. Good riddance. (Sighs of relief) Let us get on with life!
Bet he hasn't darkened the door of a church in decades. Bet the churches are glad of that too!
Good grief. I do post photos of my kids on FB but they are exclusively viewable by people who have actually met my kids.
Couldn't happen to a nicer racist.
I was on a women's clothing group on FB and someone has posted themselves in their outfit WITH A NAKED CHILD IN THE PHOTO. I mean do people not live in the same world as us?
The critiques aren't even PRETENDING to be neutral. They are paid as expert witnesses and earn money from prescribing the medication they recommend.
As I say to my students, research would be pretty boring if you only researched things you weren't interested in.
Exactly. There are layers of argument when dismissing scientific work and "I just don't like the results" is such a low tally it's through the floor. We're needing to hear constructive criticism of methods, what they could have done differently that is actually a commonly accepted change.
Every human, mammal (& most complex life) is a result of the fusion of two very different gametes produced by two different organisms within a species. We call the individuals who made the small gametes "males", and the ones who made the large gametes "females". Male and female are the sexes.
I mean, this is obviously stupid, because SHE'S HAD CHILDREN, but men who identify as women yet claim they are "biological women" rather than putting their hands up and saying "yes I'm male but this is my deeply held personal belief", and men who want to compete in women's sport, have started this.
I went to the DDR museum recently and while quite a lot of it was shocking or depressing (and I wanted to find out more about the role of students in the 80s as that's when I was a student), some of it was "yeah, 70s childhood". Chemistry sets. Home made clothes, and not very many of them.
Same energy
I've never heard of Gail's. I've now officially become Northern.
It was a nice Booths too. We have finally got a refurbished Booths after having been promised a big one, then it was going to be Aldi, now it's houses. We had the only tatty Booths in the county for ages.
Fourteenth Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp Topic: The philosophical implications of aphantasia/hyperphantasia Length: 3000 words. Deadline: December 1, 2025. Prize money: 3,000 Euros.
OTD 15 September 1890, the novelist Agatha Christie was born. Famous for her mystery novels she is forever linked with the town of Harrogate. Christie disappeared from her home in December 1926, sparking a nationwide search and media frenzy. After 11 days,
Another day, another conference... finishing up at #childlanguage Symposium at @uniofreading.bsky.social (conference organisation 10/10, food, drink and accommodation 0/10) and off to @royalholloway.bsky.social for @bpsdevsection.bsky.social - polishing my talk on autism & sex/gender understanding
Have gladly taken the chance to tell them how out of touch and navel gazing they are. Don't worry folx, I didn't use either of those phrases and I'm definitely not the only one who thinks this.
Who could possibly have foreseen?
It's all Dungeons and Dragons.
You are a mensch. Thank you for taking one for the team.
Best not to disturb it.
💥 #FiLiA2025 speaker news 💥 Gita Sahgal, writer, activist and film-maker. She is a co-founder of @sbsisters.bsky.social and Women Against Fundamentalism and she serves as an Editorial Collective member of @feministdissent.bsky.social. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #WomenAgainstFundamentalism
Private Eye, 6-18 Sept edition
Good morning and welcome to the tightly timetabled Saturday activities chez nous. Daughter has cycling, son has guitar, there is a spider in the bike shed, and no trousers in son's drawer (he claims). Later we have riding and need to squeeze in a call to grandparents. Given them a 1 hour window!
A UK-wide wave of strikes by schoolchildren started on this day 1911. It began when pupils in Llanelli, Wales walked out in sympathy with a boy disciplined by a deputy headmaster. Walkouts spread to at least 62 towns and cities. Came at time of widespread industrial unrest.
A final little bit from me in today's edition: the south London flagger who told the BBC he was one of many “hardworking business people” hanging British flags -- and his £98,000 false injury claim When I called him, he gave this gem of a quote
This is the best one for her - there are other schools closer but she and we chose this one.
My daughter has 15 mins to unspeakably early bus then 45 mins to school (though at least that's dry).
Here's the real time bit. www.seat61.com/european-tra...
Ooh I need to know this because I'm getting a train to Berlin next Friday!
Were you on a deadline or about to give a presentation or have a meeting?
Don't give up the day job.
obviously we all have our own opinions. I got called a nazi just hours ago for the last two things on this list. The fact that trans activism (unlike the gay/lesbian activism of my youth) isn't about any of the top three things is telling.
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Because of course no public buildings have any male, female, or unisex toilets.
I wonder if it could mean the same as "swaggering Toms" or "swaggering Harrys" but then I have no idea why you'd pay 1/2 old d for them.
HYPNOTITS FTW www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Good Lord. (I wonder if, somewhere, there is a world supply of flabber and I'm going to run out of my allocation to be ghasted).
As a gender critical woman, I could never get away with what men get away with. But then I'm not a trans identifying ex-copper who can get his copper mates to arrest people, either.
Some people have been pointing out the aggressive nature of the tweets in question. I can't disagree, but I recently reported a threat of punching against @drchrispook.bsky.social and as far as I know the post wasn't even taken down, let alone the poster arrested.
Apparently, all the crimes in the South East of England are now solved. grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/i-just-got...
Seriously, is that the same guy? I don't know which is madder: believing that you can will yourself to change sex or believing that you can will yourself to be better endowed in the Bravissimo department.
I never miss an opportunity to use this gif.
If you won't adhere to the party dogma, out you go.
@naomicunningham.bsky.social is unbeatable (from the Peggie tribunal). How I wish I could berate my reviewers (or the "three points and a question" audience member) like she does.
I vote using the missing bannister.
A colloquial Swedish word for giving a confident answer to something you know nothing about is killgissa, or “guy-guessing.” Conversely, the lesser-known word tjejveta (meaning “girl-knowing”) can describe elucidating (shelucidating?) on a topic you have expertise in.
‘The Super Exploitation of the Cheapest Possible Workforce’: How University Funding Cuts Have a Hidden Cost A dispute over the marking of a student's work at one London university illuminates a much bigger problem, writes Mathilda Mallinson
Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". -seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951. This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
Good news. I'm pretty sure my university has never used such requirements but now others can't. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pressur...
Stray Syria in there. Thanks autocorrect.
I show my students snippets from Father Ted but they have no idea what it is.
Mine told me that hunter gatherers keep bankers' hours (you don't need many hours to gather the calories you need). He also signed a few of us up for a dig in France with the archaeological adviser to Syria Asterix and free food and wine.
That's handy to know.
I'm speaking at Child Language Symposium, @bpsdevsection.bsky.social and the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine. Bet you can guess which has attracted the attention.
I'm talking at a conference that has been threatened with disruption. See above.
In fact I've made a new conference bingo card.
Well I didn't have "threats to let insects loose like they did at LGB Alliance" on my conference attendance bingo card this year but here we are.
Who's it by? I'm not sure if there's much point in a book on women's health that doesn't know anything about sex.
Currently reading The Stitch-Up, a book on medical misogyny, in which they talk of "pregnant men". I'm finding it unbearable so I went to check the index to see how much more of this there is in the rest of the book, only to see "see also intersex people" next to the trans people entry.
Well, if it’s 30 August, it’s the 121st anniversary of the marathon at the St Louis Olympics, which saw 32 people start, 14 finish, the ‘winner’ get disqualified for cadging a lift, and the gold medallist reach the end only with the aid of brandy and strychnine
NONE OF THEM FORRINERS HERE EXCEPT THE ONES I'M IMPORTING AS SLAVES.
Can't reply to this so... AW was my great-great uncle and a right grumpy sod. Met him as a child. His second wife (I didn't know his 1st but she was apparently ace) was absolutely lovely but he was grumpy af. If you want to know more, book here: rheged.com/event/wainwr...
This is the future for the UK that Farage wants.
Ah I see it was "Shut the System" and is related to Palestine. Because nothing says "we think the Palestinian people are being terrorised" like committing terrorism.
As Hadley Freeman points out, nobody wants to claim they are women when they kill children, only when they make jokes about "the girlfriend" which are exactly the same as Les Dawson about his wife.
Shock horror!
And finally - the flat in Brighton that’s causing all this fuss Yes, she has bought a flat in Brighton No it is not “an addition to her burgeoning property empire”🙄 This is the only property she owns There are 100s of MPs who ACTUALLY own multiple properties Rayner isn’t one of them🤷🏼♀️ 5/
I wonder if this is related to this report, which advocates for evidence based medicine for the most vulnerable children in the UK? Guess that's unacceptable now and the vandals would prefer to sterilise children in care. policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Appalling that Policy Exchange’s offices were violently attacked last night - just the latest in a lengthy series of such intimidatory attacks targeted at think tanks and campaign groups, doing perfectly legitimate work that is part of our democratic process.
I see the Canary has described PE as a "dark money funded, ultra right-wing so-called 'think tank'" which *checks website* published a report advocating building millions of council houses a fortnight ago.
On where UK Bluesky does have a blind spot, I haven’t seen anything on here about the vandalism of Policy Exchange’s office (see below). This kind of stuff should be called out and criticised and I’m very happy to do so.
FFS. You're ridiculous. Fascists clearly aren't defending women's rights! Come back and argue when you have the slightest fecking idea why women are fighting to defend our hard-won, sex-based rights and the global history, and continuing reasons, for that fight. Just shouting "fascist" is brain-dead
Perhaps men, including trans identifying men, not being abusive to women, just for defending our rights, would stop you all looking like stupid, misogynist bullies. Just a thought ...
Good. www.thetimes.com/article/2abb...
Ooh, I hope one of them is Girl Guiding.
I'm a long standing customer of Hester's and I'm bringing up my kids to love it too (though mainly for crafts in their case). Glad to see they are back!
Stillbirth Inquiry Hijacked by Gender Identity Debate in South Australia Read and subscribe for free: open.substack.com/pub/katiepin...
time line cleanse: 70 year?!? anniversary of the Guinness records!
Oh look, the thing everyone with even an once of data security knowledge predicted would happen, happened
Meanwhile here are the facts. Would have been good for a journo to check them.
Like you I've seen all the pics people post here abt the steady increase of tacky gold crap he keeps adding to the oval office. But somehow it wasn't until I saw this picture that it just hit me. What the actual fuck. Like a Vegas whorehouse.
JK Rowling taking Nicola Sturgeon down is great entertainment. You would almost feel sorry for Nicola. Almost. 🍿🍿🍿
I love our town fair day, but there's always one violent idiot who has to ruin it for everyone, trundling around making threats.
My word! Do matches go on all night in June?
23 August 1940 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Simone Frajermauer, was born in Brussels. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 August 1943 in a transport of 1,553 Jews deported from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen. She was among 1,087 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
Interestingly (and I have no idea why) Orthodox sects were the only denomination with a majority of male members for a very long time.
Hair on mammals is unnatural?
I teach my first years to p-hack so if you want to employ any of them I can verify they know what it is.