Whatever you want, all the time.

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This crap makes me so tired.

The GRR was one of the most scrutinised bills in our history. It had cross-party support.

All who support equality must stand up for what is right. Instead, Labour is threatening to U-turn on basic equality legislation already used around the world.https://t.co/fkabKYxqhb

— Maggie Chapman MSP (@MaggieChapman) July 24, 2023

What does any of this have to do with “equality”?? Nothing. Men pretending to be women has nothing to do with equality; men trying to force women to agree that the men are women has nothing to do with equality; men trying to take everything that belongs to women has nothing to do with equality; men assaulting women with impunity has nothing … Read the rest

The reception of this news is not altogether delighted.

Just a warning? Is that it?! While women are arrested and put through the ringer over speaking simple facts online? https://t.co/62YiSNPfSE

— Prof. DR TheFamousArtistBirdyRose (@TheFamousArtBR) July 24, 2023

https://twitter.com/wundt_vil/status/1683505953226850305

Sam Cowie’s friend isn’t best pleased either.

So the police have confirmed this to a newspaper? Yet I have not had the decency to contact me, not even to ask how I am today. To say there are no Injuries yet I'm sitting here with a swollen, painful arm, my neck is in agony. Thankfully, my eye isn't too bad. https://t.co/nyoWl6U5J2

— JFM ♀️ Agent 5000 (@DarcyWAHF) July 24, 2023

There’s a torrent of furious replies and quote tweets.

https://twitter.com/cyberfrontier/status/1683497516484947969… Read the rest

This is beyond belief. The police “issue a warning” to the guy who slammed a woman in the face and arm with a sign. The National frames the whole thing as the woman’s fault. The police announce there were no injuries when there were.

POLICE have issued a statement after an assault of a gender critical protester at a Women Won’t Wheesht event in Scotland. The incident took place on Sunday July 23 as campaigners from Women Won’t Wheesht (WWW) took to Speaker’s Corner in Aberdeen’s Duthie Park.

Officers said they had been in attendance at the organised protest and were forced to step in after reports of an assault. They said that a woman, aged 54, was

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“What does she expect?”

https://twitter.com/ThePosieParker/status/1683389069378699266… Read the rest

https://twitter.com/GraceBrodie/status/1683386726339821569… Read the rest

More reactions to Esme Houston’s joy at attacks on women.

Yet another Green Party male celebrating violent threats against women and girls@PSOSAberdeen are you investigating this violent threat to women? https://t.co/iOYrcdQEo6 pic.twitter.com/9loBD5lPKU

— Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS (@Sorelle_Arduino) July 23, 2023

Strange this…the only hate on display today was the TRA who assaulted my friend, punching her in the arm and face. Her crime was to gather together with other women to talk about issues that affect them. https://t.co/U4Fu1Fhkfo

— Alison Weir- Deliberately defiant (@WeirAlison) July 23, 2023

https://twitter.com/Gillian_Philip/status/1683182007373766657

Adding a couple more

A member of the Scottish Greens celebrates one of his gang punching a woman in the face, as suggested by someone at Trans Pride London. https://t.co/e4YIOBgc9K

— Progressive

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This guy part two:

https://twitter.com/AnneICoombes/status/1683090529637023745

Our “silly games” he calls it. He’s the one who’s going around demanding to be allowed to get naked in the women’s changing room and he accuses us of “silly games.”

I read a long long string of comments and didn’t see one that agreed with him, let alone cheering him on or crying with him or shouting at women for him.

Could the ship be slowly slowly slowly turning around?… Read the rest

This happened today:

Esme organised the "counter protest" against women who gathered to talk about sex-based rights in Aberdeen today. One of those women @DarcyWAHF was attacked, badly bruised arm & a black eye. Is this what Esme means by coming out in "force"? Is this how @scottishgreens campaign? https://t.co/4da3HRHgFK

— Susan Dalgety (@DalgetySusan) July 23, 2023

And smashed me in the face, my glasses were knocked clean off my face with such force. I was then punched in the arm. I had arrived with the others just 5 mins beforehand, and we completely ignored them. Yet this person thinks that theft and violence are acceptable. Shameful.

— JFM ♀️ Agent 5000 (@DarcyWAHF) July 23, 2023

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Entitled man in a skirt rages about the servants.

https://twitter.com/AnneICoombes/status/1683090524641566721 https://twitter.com/AnneICoombes/status/1683090529637023745

There is no “rule of self identity.” There is no rule that says everybody has to take everybody else’s word for their magic “identity.” We don’t have to do that. Angry men don’t get to force us to do that.

And we feminist women who say a skirt doesn’t turn a man into a woman aren’t playing silly games, we’re risking jobs and friendships and mental tranquility on defending our rights against the encroachments of entitled men in skirts.

https://twitter.com/AnneICoombes/status/1683114970165260290

He wants to send a hotel worker for re-education because she knows a man when she sees one. Also, being sent on a DIE (better known as EID for … Read the rest

Rhodes is burning.

A large wildfire tearing through the Greek island of Rhodes forced thousands of tourists to flee their hotels in what Greek officials said was the largest evacuation effort in the country’s history.

Those caught up in the blaze described chaotic and frightening scenes, with some having to leave on foot or find their own transport after being told to leave.

The wildfire in the central and south part of Rhodes – a hugely popular island for holidaymakers – has been burning since Tuesday. It is the largest of a number of blazes in Greece, which is sweltering due to a heat wave that experts say is likely to become the country’s longest on record.

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It’s shocking to see MPs (or Senators and Representatives) ranting about the wickedness of colleagues who know and say that people can’t change sex. It’s like theocracy without the theo part.

The Home Sec suggesting MPs read this book is a disgrace, it shows a lack of respect for equality laws in this country & is yet more evidence of this Govt desire to attack the trans community in a divisive culture war. pic.twitter.com/jC1rGlk94Z

— Kate Osborne MP (@KateOsborneMP) July 21, 2023

Of course parents who “support their kids through transition” are irrevocably harming them. The idea that people can change sex is a mistake, and physically acting on it is of course harmful.

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We’ve been hearing lately that house insurance is difficult to get, and very expensive if you can get it, in Florida. Fortune looks at it from the profit or no profit point of view:

Given that Farmers is not the first home insurer to stop offering coverage in Florida over the past year or so, things are looking challenging for its housing market, and particularly, its homeowners that are already paying the highest insurance premiums in the nation, with an average premium of $6,000 per year versus the U.S. average of $1,700 per year, according to Mark Friedlander, Florida-based director of corporate communications for the Insurance Information Institute. That’s 42% higher than the year prior, Frielander added. 

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We’re getting closer and closer to the buzzsaw.

A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice have alarmed some scientists who say their speed and timing is unprecedented. Dangerous heatwaves in Europe could break further records, the UN says.

It is hard to immediately link these events to climate change because weather – and oceans – are so complex. Studies are under way, but scientists already fear some worst-case scenarios are unfolding. “I’m not aware of a similar period when all parts of the climate system were in record-breaking or abnormal territory,” Thomas Smith, an environmental geographer at London School of Economics, says.

Scary enough yet?

The average global ocean temperature has smashed records

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Press release from the office of the Mayor of London:

Mayor launches new campaign empowering men to challenge misogyny by saying ‘maaate’ to their mates when they cross the line

Empowering them? What, they’re so enfeebled now that they can’t say “maaate”?

But, more to the point, does that really “challenge misogyny”? Naaaaaah.

The innovative campaign aims to help men and boys confidently step-in when they witness language and behaviour towards women and girls that crosses the line.

Step-in? What’s with the hyphen? A century ago “step-ins” was a word for women’s underpants. It’s not a verb. One steps in, one doesn’t step-in. One doesn’t go-out or come-in or run-away. Just say No to superfluous hyphens.

The Mayor is clear

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Oh blah blah blah. Stonewall trots out the usual evasive dishonest generalities instead of for once condescending to be clear and precise.

On 20 July, Stonewall Chair, Iain Anderson, was interviewed by Beth Rigby on Sky News. The interview was supposed to be an opportunity to talk about 10 years of marriage equality, LGBTQ+ veterans, and Rainbow Laces 10 – all remarkable moments that deserved recognition and celebration.

We took part in the interview because Stonewall has always been engaged in difficult conversations on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community.

No it hasn’t, for the simple reason that Stonewall has not always talked about the fictional “LGBTQ+ community” at all. Stonewall started out as an organization for lesbians and gay men.… Read the rest

Thanks for all the help, slavery!

Kamala Harris was due to visit Florida on Friday, to respond to the state board of education’s controversial new standards for Black history education which include the contention that some Black people benefited from being enslaved.

I wonder if the members of the state board of education wish they could be enslaved so that they too could get some of those sweet sweet benefits.

On Wednesday, the Florida board of education approved new standards for how public schools should teach Black history.

According to a 216-page document, public school students will now be taught that some Black people received “personal benefit” from slavery – because it taught them useful skills.

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I missed the news that Nancy Kelley is leaving Stonewall.

Nancy Kelley, head of the divisive charity Stonewall, announced earlier this week on Twitter that she is to step down from the role. Her post on Monday stated that while the job hasn’t “always been a pleasure”, leading Europe’s largest LGBTQIA+ organisation “has surely been a privilege”. 

But under her leadership Stonewall morphed into a TQ organization with extra added misogyny.

Over her three years in the post, Kelley brought a smorgasbord of hitherto unrepresented identities under the organisation’s “trans umbrella”. Perhaps spokespeople from the asexual, pansexual, demisexual and allosexual communities will be sad to see her go. But it’s fair to say that many homosexuals who once turned

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Hmm. Irony, or no? Lia Thomas having a little laugh, or Lia Thomas going all Patty Hearst on us? Hard to tell.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1680971523660697601

At least we know he’s still an entitled abuser of women.… Read the rest

https://twitter.com/_KylieJender/status/1682162633733021696

Well he doesn’t say quite exactly that – he says the less true, less fair, less justifiable version. He says there are competing rights, in other words that men do have a right to invade women’s spaces regardless of what women want.

What do you say to women who want to keep women’s spaces she asks, do you understand them she asks. “I do,” he says with energy, “and I think there is um more of a conversation to be had to try and you know to try and calm this, to try and provide reassurance”

Ah yes, that’s the important thing, calm this, provide [empty] reassurance so that these god damn women will shut the fuck up… Read the rest