The UK media is now reporting the Parkrun have erased their records "to appease transgender runners".
This is a total lie. They did it because TERFs were throwing a wobbly at them.
But, of course, this will be used to push the narrative that "trans activists are ruining things for everyone."
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2009: Harriet Harman is squeamish about trans women and so lets the Equality Act get drafted in a sloppy and ambiguous way.
2010: The coalition government passes it and can’t be arsed to read the damned thing, despite trans people (and I was one of them) waving frantically at MPs and senior civil servants.
A decade of dominoes fall…
2025: “I know he was goosestepping past the water cooler yelling ‘Heil Hitler’, but the courts have decided that the Equality Act means we can’t fire him.”
Guys, some of us tried. 🤷🏻♀️
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UK media: wow, British politicians have got really transphobic!
Me: Sure have, UK media. Who do you think they learned it from?
UK media: we will never know
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UK employment law some time ago set a precedent that trans-hostile beliefs were protected in a workplace environment.
So I'm doing the Cassandra thing again, where once again we warned the rest of you that if you didn't push back, the shit flung at us would start hitting other groups.
Well, it's hitting other groups. We warned you.
theguardian.com/education/2024…
UK professor suffered discrimination due to anti-Zionist beliefs, tribunal rules
University of Bristol academic who was sacked after being accused of antisemitic comments wins ‘landmark’ decisionCaroline Davies (The Guardian)
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Programmers: we are utterly Anglo centric. We work in English and only think about English. We require English naming conventions in name and address fields.
Also programmers: YOUR USE OF AN APOSTROPHE WAS ENTIRELY UNEXPECTED!
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Bishop’s Stortford: 11°
Feels like: -273°
Ryanair: check in now for your flight to Faro
Me: thank fsck for that!
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The Reddit ads in the UK are unreal:
- our website helps you find swingers
- you’re a nonce, aren’t you? We’re coming for you!
- join the army you fucking pussy!
On Portuguese Reddit I get ads for computer keyboards and mobile games.
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Just reminded myself, in the traditional manner, why the pack of dried goji berries I bought months ago is still nearly full.
Note to self: if it’s marketed as “health food”, it’s because it can’t be marketed on the basis of tasing nice.
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Reading the sentencing remarks. The girl, Scarlett Jenkinson, appears ti be using this whole procedure as a way to build her “brand” as a serial killer for the instagram generation.
God help us all.
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At this point, the British court system is actively transphobic, acting as the judicial arm of a state that seeks to eradicate trans people, especially women.
When the law is unjust, it must be ignored. Resist transphobia.
It is disappointing to see the Open University back down in the face of obvious justice denied.
ounews.co/around-ou/ou-speaks-…
A statement from Professor Tim Blackman, Vice-Chancellor of The Open University regarding the recent employment tribunal judgment
The judgment made for difficult reading for all of us. We apologise unreservedly to Professor Phoenix for the hurt and distress this has caused.The Open University (OU News)
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Well yeah it was obviously exactly that. What research was expected to come out of it?
Intellectual enquiry can be into new understandings of things, or the psychology of why people hold to their views, but it can't simply seek to re-affirm a mainstream view. That's not research in any meaningful sense.
Only imagine my surprise that someone who doesn't understand that turned out not to handle robust criticism well and became unpopular with her colleagues.
@petealexharris @ajlanes Phoenix is whining that in criminology there's ~300 academics in the field (seems an under count) and she's been ostracised by them.
That's cos most criminologists follow the Actual Evidence not some "I get to wave my trauma to be a bigot" like Phoenix did. Also there are already prison policies (not always followed) which Phoenix-and-friends (there's a disturbing children's TV prog title) never talk about either.
Shouting about being cancelled=attention.
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Building out an IoT VLAN with an OpenWRT RPi functioning as a VLAN bridge (via a single Ethernet port).
Getting mDNS proxying working was a PITA. Everything you can Google is out of date, so
you have to poke round a bit. Firewall rules take some getting right too, especially if the bridge isn’t also your internet gateway (it’s not).
Still, it’s working, and I’m quite pleased. Can’t AirPlay across it yet, but that’s a project for later.
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Sarah's Theory of Modern Politics: When we were young, some of us liked to build sandcastles. Others liked to kick them over.
The Republicans, UKIP/Tories, AfD, Chega, and so on, are the people who kicked sandcastles over, asking for the votes of people who kicked sandcastles over.
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The selfish ultra-rich are unwittingly creating a powder keg. They won’t care until it blows up.
Imagine being Elon Musk, or Donald Trump, or Boris Johnson. You have more money than you know what to do with. You could literally afford to go to whatever paradise you want and spend the days of your one life doing whatever you please.
They came so tantalisingly close to having more fulfilling and carefree lives than 99.99% of humans who have ever lived, but instead they want the masses to fear and adore them.
And they are utterly miserable, because nothing will fill the void, and the more they try, the more they debase themselves in front of billions, and the people they most need to respect them probably think they’re losers.
Idiots. Fools. Losers.
Musk is the worst of them. Read some Iain M Banks books, didn’t understand any of then, decided to save the world by becoming a solar power and electric vehicle magnate with space colonies.
But instead he is approaching old age as the proprietor of a bankrupt nazi chat room, and none of his kids will speak to him.
How can you have so many advantages and yet fuck up so amazingly completely?
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not your point, but the colour and lighting design of Rogue One was *perfect*
Starts dull blue gray, and lightens throughout and ends full saturated bright colour...
Finally got myself an official Pi 5 power supply, so hopefully the thing won't just randomly die under load any more.
Raspberry Pi Foundation love making videos about their "not invented here" approach to power supplies, but guys, you actually suck at it and your continued inability to implement USB C Power Delivery (and PoE) sensibly is getting fucking old.
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oooohhh but if we implement USB-PD and use anything >5V then we would have to add another voltage regulation stage and ooooohhh woe is me
i understand their "lets not add cost for a feature only 2% of users might actually want" philiosphy, but yeah no fuck off pi foundation. power delivery is not one of those things worth saving 12 cents a board on
@joshie 🏳️🌈 Particularly because it ONLY works with their PSU. It will boot up massively degraded from anything else, but at less capability than a Pi 4 (like, it will disable USB boot and if you force enable it, it will randomly die from lack of power).
And don't get me started on the PoE hats that scream and function as heaters when the pi shuts down.
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Journalists: LLMs will replace us! Oh noes! What will we do without humans in the loop to ensure fact checking and quality journalism?
Also journalists: This is a propeller
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I just checked the date. It’s the 11097th of September, 1993.
If you get this, you are fucking old. I, for one, am still waiting form my 20th birthday.
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We are rushing headlong into technodickensianism.
This is not the future we thought we were building in the 90s tech industry. We thought we were going to help people. What we built could have been used to help people, but it’s not. It’s being used as a misery amplifier on a massive scale.
I’m so sorry.
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I got a career out of it so at one level I guess I shouldn't complain.
@FeralRobots I was 21 and being "on the grid" meant using payphone, realistically. The internet at that point was pre google, and the idea of just being able to use a satellite navigation system, text messaging and email when out and about seemed utterly transformative.
I was naive.
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I pay a small fortune to streaming services and there’s nothing fucking on.
I’d pirate something, but … there’s nothing fucking on.
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Slow Horses on Apple
Fargo s5 on Prime
Percy Jackson on Disney
Kin and The Tourist on iplayer
True Detective s4 just started this week and looks very promising
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Boeing seeks Ryanair support with checks after mid-air blowout
Asked in an interview with the BBC if he had complete confidence in Boeing's quality control processes after the incident which saw a part of the aircraft's fuselage fall off, the Ryanair boss said "no".
bbc.com/news/business-67994140
Boeing seeks Ryanair support with checks after mid-air blowout
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary told the BBC that it was asked to send engineers to oversee quality checks.By Katy Austin (BBC News)
“We are definitely not invading Ukraine, troop buildup is training exercise” - Putin
“There will be no whitewash at the White House” - Nixon
“iOS will automatically be upgraded tonight” - my iPhone.
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One disadvantage of having bsky integrated into my feed is that site’s propensity to have a Normal One.
Muuuuum (casts eye towards urn with mum in), they’re doing it again!
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Some months ago, I asked about trans women who were long term post op and who have had dental implants with bone regeneration.
I am pleased to report that at my 3 1/2 month appointment to place the healing abutment, I have had more than satisfactory levels of bone regeneration. The procedure worked really well!
2mg estradiol, oral, twice daily, FWIW. I also supplement vitamin D3.
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This is what I look like after a max strength shot of espresso at 22:30
It’s just possible that I have ADHD, you guys.
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