When an illegal war, likely to cause mass murder, is launched, we have a choice of 2 positions:
1. It's wrong and has to stop.
2. Hurray! Let's join in.
Much of the UK Establishment - Conservatives, Reform, the billionaire media - went straight for Option 2.
Which tells you all you need to know.
No one wants to "turn kids trans." That's not a thing.
We just want to see trans kids turn into adults.
well is frakkin enraging @officialgrammarly.bsky.social this is wrong, you absolute clowns who are also thieves, STOP DOING THIS GRAMMARLY
every time I think these LLM thieves have enraged me the absolute most, they go further ๐๐คฎ
They are going to get this in the form of an email in the morning. I am currently examining legal options. Gosh, Iโll be so sad if any Grammarly lawyers or PR people are caused any agita if they read this! www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
So sad, and so unnecessary. We offered a legal indemnity, against all legal risks, to the leadership of Women's Institute, and Girlguiding, so they could continue to include all women.
Both declined.
A reminder that Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the entire Conservative-supporting press have spent the past week lambasting Keir Starmer for not joining the Iran war.
Here's what has happened since then to public opinion
"And we came within about 30 minutes of having a war." Israel tried to pressure Barack Obama to launch military strikes on Iran, according to former US secretary of state Antony Blinken, who said Israeli leaders warned they would attack themselves if Washington refused. Obama rejected the push for war, arguing the better approach to Iran's nuclear program was "very muscular diplomacy" backed by global sanctions rather than immediate military action. Blinken also revealed the US nearly entered another regional war after the October 7 attacks, when Israeli officials gave false information insisting Hezbollah was about to attack from Lebanon and pushed for a preemptive strike. According to Blinken, Washington came within about 30 minutes of a new conflict before the situation was halted.
Again: if you are a superpower and your crackpot, fascist-led client state has finally bullshat you into fighting its enemies for them, then that is *your* fault. You have owned yourselves.
Itโs almost like the UKโs right-wing press doesnโt actually reflect public opinion but instead the fevered imaginations of a very small group of sociopaths.
Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.
Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.
I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore.
If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.
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Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?
wes streeting has killed more young girls than ian huntley.
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is intent on the same.
the only difference is they're doing it via policy and paper pushing so it's not treated as the crime it actually is.
but the pair of them are *knowingly* killing children.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going โwow, thatโs really sillyโ and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or itโs problematic
200 different gay fuckin nerds: Okay but you know we cancelled Adam Baldwin right you know we fucking HATE Joss Whedon right??? We cancelled them 20 years ago and we'll do it again if we have to!
Neil Gaiman, peering in thru the window thru little binoculars: Uh oh
I really try to be a "now that you're on board, here's what you do" person but bro come on, this cannot possibly be news to you
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kฤkฤpล chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
Fuck, that graph is startling and bleak
Mindblowing story. The UK met most of the costs of a key propaganda tool used by the Israeli Government to launder its genocide in Gaza - then tried to cover up the fact it had done so.
Why would that be the case? The internal model they use to justify their treatment of Farage and co differently from the Green party is surely that they have sympathy for the former and, like the rest of our establishment, have total contempt for anyone on the left.
"The left will always destroy itself with infighting whereas the right always galvanises" has ALWAYS been absolute bullshit btw.
BBC Newsnight O @BBCNews... โข10h "The UK-US relationship is like an iceberg, seven-eighths of it is beneath the surface" X Ex-UK National Security Adviser Sir Mark Lyall Grant says that despite Trump's "not Churchill we're dealing with" remarks about Starmer, "all will be well by the end of the week"
Yes: we gladly swallow any insults, ignore their open contempt, assist in wars that are devastating to our own national interest and sit quietly while the America government openly tries to shitehouse us towards fascism, like them. Why? You tell me mate: because Itโs How Things Are Done, I guess.
BBC Politics Y NEI @BBCPolitics โข 26m X "After all the effort invested into building up this relationship, it has never been in a rockier place than it is now" @ChrisMasonBBC on the fallout from Donald Trump's comments about Keir Starmer
Doesnโt really get much more 21st century Britain than this: itโs a nightmarish disaster that produces nothing but murderous catastrophes, and itโll only get worse now, but we absolutely cannot change anything about it, are you crazy?!
It's also just plain counterfactual. The same people who advocate conversion therapy now would have thrown effeminate gay boys into anti-trans conversion therapy just to be safe back then, too! We know because THAT'S WHAT THEY FUCKING DID, LOOK:
xtramagazine.com/health/drop-...
if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately
In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I donโt know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel
If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kidsโor of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kidsโthey arenโt saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britainโs foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facilityโs work, โthere would be no gay people left.โ A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a childโs gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.
Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and itโs my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.
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Please donโt leave him alone. Even $10 or a share can save him'
