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The evil, abhorrent JK Rowling (who personally founded and funds the only female only rape crisis centre in Edinburgh) has had a say.
Warning - when reading you might think “hmmm, she’s not wrong is she?”

You’ll never guess what the throwaway sentence about “spouse objections” means in practice, by the way Go on….. Currently a person who is in a marriage with a person who comes out as trans can exit the marriage before the person is legally recognised as having “changed sex”, on the grounds that a s...

Read this to get the true extent of how this activism works in practice



Btw, the women in her 60s was a woman seeking help from a rape crisis centre.

Roz Adams won her case against Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. You know, the rape crisis centre run by a man with no gender recognition certificate. I’d warn you to only read this if you’re ok with the fact that you’ll be a full TERF by the end (or in complete denial) https://x.com/lucyhunterb/status/...

It’s not about trading, but about not allowing the shitness of history to mean it’s fine to be fobbed off that we’ve never had it so good

Currywurst and Chips wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 11:58 am Which period in history was it better to be poor in this country?

That’s not the question though, if we’re talking relative terms.
The better question would be at what point in history was there a bigger gap in standards of living between the richest and poorest?

You’ll never guess what the throwaway sentence about “spouse objections” means in practice, by the way

Long slender neck wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 11:25 am What is the current process?

Panel of medical professionals reviewing evidence after meeting specific criteria

It’s not irrelevant, because as Dunners says, it’s accurate. So I’m asking what your position will be once it comes out as accurate: you can choose to see it as hypothetical if you like.
I don’t see why you would feel that you can’t answer

I see the Tory client journalists have been fed their daily non factual Labour scaremongering story. Please link me to where they’ve denied the story that contains quotes from the shadow minister who would be responsible? I’ll wait There is no story. Labour has just indicated they would update the ...

[##] All of them. Ask your ancestors at any point in human history if you're in any doubt. Good point. Things are - for now, at least - better than Victorian times, I guess. So, you're in agreement that the post-war capitalist settlement has been a relative success, in that it has delivered the gre...

Ask questions - that’ll help!

Are you familiar with the idea of a Motte & Bailey argument? Might want to look that up

Show your working?

If only there were a way to work out if the thing that was trialled and not used worked or not

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 1:45 pm Could be time to scrap the offside rule.

One of your worst ever posts, and that’s saying something

A “daylight” rule still has a tiny margin between “daylight” and “not daylight”.
The issue with the offside rule isn’t where the line is, it’s that the law no longer reflects the spirit of why it exists

“With the mother/daughter relationship strained”
understating it somewhat, considering the story suggests she’s been kicked out of the house to sleep on a park bench at 60

The biggest problem with VAR isn’t even when it gets things wrong, IMO. The issue is that it contributes significantly and unduly to the momentum of a match. Example - a team scores a goal. There’s a few moments of celebration, the team that conceded and the fans adjust to being a goal down… and the...

I put a neutral overlay on the background, the first thing that becomes clear is that the clothing itself actually *is* part of the background - you can see that there’s lower contrast and definition than you’d expect, even when it isn’t sitting against a background of the same colour. That being th...

There could be lots of reasons, aesthetically and symbolically.

I KNEW this post would be about hands.

But yeah are you not aware of Charlie’s finger issues?

Did the operation succeed in making Doctor Who be for you again?

It’s Shirley Henderson

“Doctor Who has never been for straight white men!”*

*apart from that time we joked about a man face f*cking a paving slab with a woman’s face