People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason
So, according to news reports, the NHS England hormone ban ("pause") for under-18s is informed by new research reviews. Has anyone actually seen these? I can't find them.
I also have a *lot* of questions, given the sheer amount of evidence that hormones work. I suspect a Cass-style stitch-up.
So far all reporting suggests none, which is nigh miraculous. It's possible the station itself is undamaged, these are buildings around the outside - but they're going to have to check *very* carefully before considering reopening, naturally
one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files
You bastards made the first five minutes of UP and you expect us to believe you’re worried about the audience needing therapy?
Maybe it’s Good Actually if you get a generation of people who are less immersed in Ye Olde Genre because then their experience of genre isn’t defined by Ye Olde Beefs that go along with it.
Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.
Sometimes @ichotiner.bsky.social really does have to do barely anything to get his interview subjects to glaringly expose their bullshit. This is one of those times.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Even as she emphasises how much she and her party hate trans women and Muslims
bloody plumbers
coming over here
taking our seats in parliament
Psychopomp & Circumstance has finally made it to UK bookshops so I've finally read it and damn, @edenroyce.bsky.social, that's an extremely good novella. A beautiful little quiet and powerful thing.
I think it’s very telling about the state of the BBC right now that they deemed it acceptable to keep a racial slur in the broadcast of the BAFTAs, but decided they needed to cut the phrase “Free Palestine” from a winners speech.
Phillipson's argument seems to be that a lot of this shouldn't require specialist plans – it should be built into general education. I agree. But whilst you build up that accessibility (which takes time) it's unconscionable to leave disabled kids who need it without individualised support.
If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.
Nick Land tries to play vague and esoteric a lot of the time but he's a fucking fascist.
Smart well off nerds like him because the ambiguity feels like nuance and the esotericism makes them feel smart huffing his farts.
This is both brutal and extremely accurate in so many ways
The one capital punishment I would approve of
I need more adherence to precedent than just this, come on now
I just had a falling out with @umactually.bsky.social on @dropout.tv because THE TURKISH DELIGHT ISN'T A BRIBE TO EDMUND! It's part of *grooming* him to betray his family, he doesn't actually get any for DOING IT!
Spoiler: it's really fucking good.
Over the course of the last month or so I've reread @amalelmohtar.com's Seasons of Glass and Iron, one story or poem after each book. And I've put my thoughts on it down in electrons, this time.
www.waterstones.com/reviews/seas...
"Add AI to remove bias!" Are... are you sure about that, ISU? Because all evidence ever is... not that
I think emphasising that he fled South Africa in the late 80s when the writing was on the wall for this preferred system of government is more telling!
The very existence (let alone the wording) of this consultation is an outrage, but please fill it in anyway, it doesn't take long.
Uhhh. Fire In Every Direction by Tareq Baconi, a gay (displaced) Palestinian memoir. So far beautifully written and brutally poignant.
I'm going to win.
the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style
Lucy Darling or Gianmarco Soresi doing crowdwork with Statler and Waldorf!
And if you can't imagine Papa and the Muppets, go watch the Vincent Price and Alice Cooper episodes.
