But you are a bloke, doing the exact same thing as blackface.
Róisín Murphy defended racist golliwog imagery. I challenged her. Within minutes, she was calling me a fascist, denying my gender identity and attempting to deadname me.
From defending racist imagery to attacking an intersex woman.
#RoisinMurphy #Transphobia #Racism #Bigotry
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Este señor promovió activamente la legalización del asesinato de niños argentinos por nacer.
También es conocido por militar la ideología de género: “última rebelión de la criatura contra el Creador” (Benedicto XVI).
Hoy se disfraza, no solo de mujer, sino también de católico.
William Gibson and Neal Stephenson can give up now. The world’s moving too fast to write near-future sf.
Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon
they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7
the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them
as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon
the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off
but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon
so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:
> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past
> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse
> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away
> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead
we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao
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William Shatner spent YEARS apologising for this joke!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
William Shatner has not spent years apologizing for the 1986 SNL "Get a Life" sketch. He has described it as exaggerated comedy meant in fun, received more praise than criticism at the time, and later embraced fandom in his book and documentary of the same name.
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I couldn’t be more delighted. I love Mike, and he richly deserves this belated recognition.
Author M John Harrison wins Booker Prize 2026, becoming oldest recipient of award aged 81 bbc.in/4kBfOsY
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Civil servants now have to spend two days p/w in the office but ScotGov still doesn’t know how self-reporting will work. @heraldscotland👇
🔹No stricter methods considered
🔹No work done to assess effectiveness
🔹No clarity on publishing attendance figures
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They do but so does the Good Law Project, and it specifically targets women who disagree with millionaire retired KC Jolyon Maugham.
Powerful men use the law to intimidate women they’ve abused into silence.
But it’s time to flip the fear. Help us to fund cases that turn the tables on these men, empower women to speak out – and get justice:
goodlaw.social/plpq
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Good Law Project's Jolyon Maugham has pursued legal action against women for sex-based rights views, supporting Mermaids v LGB Alliance (costing LGBA £250k+) and a BSB complaint against Sarah Phillimore rejected by regulator.
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Beyond parody. Russell Brand advising the British Legislature on its drugs policy, chaired by Keith Vaz. How did we get here?
Sickening scenes as we take a look back at when Russell Brand was courting the Labour Party, oh look Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP is eager to talk to him.
In true form, back then, he has a go at the Conservatives when talking of the victims of crime.....
Only some accounts can reply? Are you ignoring the ones asking whether you know anything about biology?
A joint committee made up of members of the House of Lords and House of Commons has been set up to consider the government’s Draft Conversion Practices Bill.
The committee seeks views on how the draft bill could be improved. Get involved by 16 November ⬇️ committees.parliament.uk/com…
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A statistic that sounds fake but isn't: Not one single white American man born after 1984 has published a work of literary fiction in The New Yorker.
It's not because they stopped writing. It's because The New Yorker has refused to publish them. The publishing industry has blacked out a generation of male writers & then they wonder why boys don't read.
About 70% of publishing professionals are women.
Because agents and editors tend to select books they personally relate to, an increasing number of male authors are being sidelined in the publishing industry, resulting in an overwhelming number of female protagonists on our shelves—and a dearth of male ones.
No wonder young men are no longer reading.
The price of everything is the price the seller wants versus the price the buyer wants. If it’s high, it will be because of scarcity, cost of production, transport, energy or artificial increases such as taxes, regulation or leverage from workers. ½
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How very, very apt. Anyone who pays to read Eaton was already a fool; here is the picture such fools can nail to their bedroom walls. While they're listening to their End of Politics podcasts, no doubt.
The conservative "prior" is stronger than the liberal one. I needed nothing more than my upbringing to regard Brand as a foul degenerate, irregardless his recent sex crime convictions. His psychological torture of Andrew Sachs was the proof, were any needed, of his depravity.
But let's not feel too superior. Yes, we always disliked Brand, and watched, aghast, as he was venerated, repeatedly, by men such as our current Prime Minister. But the fact remains: all those who venerated him still have legislative power over the rest of us.
It seeks views. But only some accounts can reply.
A joint committee made up of members of the House of Lords and House of Commons has been set up to consider the government’s Draft Conversion Practices Bill.
The committee seeks views on how the draft bill could be improved. Get involved by 16 November ⬇️ committees.parliament.uk/com…
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Italian chef fired for refusing to put pineapple on pizza bbc.in/4egT8uf
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Media Editor of the Guardian. Who refuses to report on the BBC paying out £400,000 to a Jewish producer after she was made redundant for making a complaint about antisemitism.
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Ben Hur
The Robe
The Passion of the Christ
Jesus of Nazareth
David, yes to numbers 2, 5, and 8. But what about a little love and comedy? My nomination is Bell, Book, and Candle, starring Kim Novak, James Stewart, Ernest Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, and Jack Lemmon as a
(Gay) witch. Kim as a witch who
. . . but atay in suspense.
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