Another turn of the screw:

What is a woman? This now highly controversial issue will be decided in November by the highest court in the land.

No it won’t. It’s not the kind of thing that can be decided by a court, however high. The question would have to be “What will we all be required to call a woman?” or some similar wording for the claim to be true. Courts decide law; they can’t decide reality.

The justices — three men and two women — will be led by Lord Reed of Allermuir, 68, president of the court and the UK’s most senior judge. He is undaunted by the task. “When we hear cases … we are not

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Weirdness report:

A number of Donald Trump critics have mocked Elon Musk over his appearance alongside the former president at a Pennsylvania rally.

What, just because he jumped up and down like a lunatic?

Musk, the billionaire owner of X, formerly Twitter, and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, joined Trump onstage in Butler on Saturday to show his support for the Republican and state that he is “not just MAGA — I am Dark MAGA.”

After Trump introduced Musk to the stage, the tech mogul enthusiastically jumped in the air several times while supporters cheered. Musk, who wore a black Make America Great Again cap, warned in his speech that “this will be the last election” if

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Billionaires unite to trash everything.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1842679008791581140 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1842679258587488697

This is the most important election of your LIFE!!

And there are only 2 days left to register to vote in Arizona & Georgia before it’s too late!

Make sure everyone you know & everyone you meet has registered to vote. The fate of our civilization is at stake. https://t.co/Ysh0sYknpx

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 5, 2024

If @realDonaldTrump doesn’t win, the “Democratic” Party will legalize so many illegals that there will be no swing states!

America will become a single-party socialist state, just like what happened to California, where they just made requiring voter ID illegal. https://t.co/I9FhicDbfP

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 5, 2024

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Shit just got real.

Financial services firms have been forced to pay hundreds of pounds in compensation to non-binary customers over “discriminatory” application forms. 

MoneySuperMarket (MSM), the comparison website, and Transunion, a credit union, were hit with separate complaints because their application forms did not include options for non-binary customers in their gender section.

But…that’s not a thing. It’s not real. It has nothing to do with realities like credit. You might as well say credit applications should include options for witches.

According to the complaint, MSM argued that changes to their website are bound by the information their insurance partners ask for and that many of them have not made provision for customers who identify as non-binary.

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If only we could have not-idiots. Never mind nice things, that’s too much to ask, but just not…this…

Marjorie Taylor Greene challenges YOU to prove Hurricane Helene wasn’t an inside job.

As the death toll from one of the worst U.S. storms in recent memory topped 200 on Friday morning, the Republican congresswoman and noted conspiracy theorist posted a timely reminder on X that “yes they can control the weather” and that “it’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”

I wonder who “they” are. The Jews? The Dems? People with some brain cells?

The Georgia Republican drew widespread mockery and derision in 2021 after it was revealed she’d previously suggested devastating wildfires in

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It seems the hot new thing is to claim that the Feds are ignoring the hurricane victims.

I keep seeing images and footage of NC and can’t help but wonder if leaving the bereaved to fend for themselves and sending no help is part of a strategy to anger the American people. How can such a wealthy country not rescue and help those in desperate need?

— Kellie-Jay Keen (@ThePosieParker) October 5, 2024

Yeah good question except that that’s not what’s happening.

I did a little exploring and, of course, found that it’s the usual bullshit – baseless claims being amplified by fools.

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Originally a comment by Dave Ricks on These rococo claims.

Maya Forstater won her landmark employment case in the UK Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) on Thursday, June 10, 2021. The UK EAT is a high court, so she won a binding precedent for lower court cases (e.g. in the more recent case of Elizabeth Pitt that the FSU reported above).

Later that day, Freddie Sayers interviewed Maya about her case, and Ophelia posted the interview video here. In my comment #6 there, I transcribed part of the video, where Maya explained that her legal position had two parts to be taken together:

(1) The scientific FACT that “sex is real” — as her shorthand for “binary, immutable”, and … Read the rest

On a brighter note, meet the Falkirk Wheel. It joins two canals that are at different heights. They used to be joined by 12 locks that took almost an entire day to go through. Now the joining takes minutes.

The Falkirk Wheel canal bridge in Scotland is ridiculously cool 😱 https://t.co/hxoSRMz6Xr pic.twitter.com/BtQk3L0m9F

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) April 4, 2019

Adding another, filmed by a drone.

The famous Falkirk Wheel which links the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal 😎 #falkirk #visitfalkirk #canalmagic #scotland #visitscotland #drone pic.twitter.com/zduglf5ZU8

— Scotdrone (@scotdrone) September 13, 2024

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Cheltenham Literary Festival is in a panic because – oh my god – people might have unpopular thoughts which they might utter aloud.

Cheltenham Literature Festival has come under fire after issuing a warning notice to speakers comparing gender-critical views with racism and homophobia.

The festival, which begins today, sent an email to people who are hosting talks at the event, asking them to follow new guidance “in order to protect both yourselves and the [festival] from complaints”. It said: “If, during any of your events, a speaker shares an opinion that could be deemed controversial, please reinforce that everyone is entitled to express an opinion, however Cheltenham Festivals [the organiser] does not endorse the views shared on stage. By

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Yebbut that’s not what competitive sports does. That’s not how it works. The whole point is that somebody wins, which entails that somebody loses. It’s not about “being kind”; it’s about being the best.

San Jose State volleyball played its first game on Thursday night since three Mountain West schools announced they would forfeit rather than play the Spartans and transgender starter Blaire Fleming. 

After the match, Spartans head coach Todd Kress said he was “disappointed” that his team was “losing opportunities to play” but did not reference why, exactly, schools don’t want to face San Jose State. 

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Gee, why don’t female athletes want to go up against teams that include male players? I just can’t figure it out.

San Jose State volleyball played its first game on Thursday night since three Mountain West schools announced they would forfeit rather than play the Spartans and transgender starter Blaire Fleming. 

That is, rather than play the Spartans, who have a male player.

After the match, Spartans head coach Todd Kress said he was “disappointed” that his team was “losing opportunities to play” but did not reference why, exactly, schools don’t want to face San Jose State. 

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“It’s not just us that are losing opportunities to play,” Kress continued. “It’s the people choosing not to play us, and

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I guess Cheltenham Literary Festival identifies as disdainful of literature. Seems odd, given the name.

#CheltLitFest isn't just about words on a page—it’s a celebration of the stories that resonate through music too

This year, were fortunate to have a line-up of events which are never gonna let you down

🎤✨: https://t.co/bpRJQqhmMq pic.twitter.com/SCCBRUPwWG

— Cheltenham Festivals (@cheltfestivals) September 29, 2024

The lit fest isn’t just words on a page – ew, how gross would that be? Words on a page are for snobs and toffs and probably terfs. Ew. … Read the rest

A win…but how grotesque that there was ever a contest. Frederick Attenborough at the Free Speech Union underlines how grotesque it all is:

A gender critical social worker was harassed by her colleagues after making “non-inclusive and transphobic” comments about a co-worker’s “gender-neutral” dog, a tribunal ruled. Elizabeth Pitt, who worked for Cambridgeshire county council, was awarded £63,000 after bosses reprimanded her for expressing gender critical views at an online meeting.

The background to Ms Pitt’s claim is that she made various comments during a Zoom meeting of the county council’s LGBTQIA+ Group in January 2023. The meeting began with a male colleague claiming that his dachshund was “gender-fluid” and that he put a dress on the dog

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Sometimes you just have to track down the source.

I saw this on Facebook, posted by Jay Novella.

So I wanted to know more, because was it really that incoherent and nothing to do with the question asked and random and babbling about an award? And the answer is yes but more so. There’s some punctuation in the version Novella shared that is not there in the reality.

Question:,What actions will you take to ensure that our jobs stay in America?

Trump: I was honored as the man of the year. Maybe 20 years ago. The fake news heard about it and said, it never happened… pic.twitter.com/eqOvGHNmiL

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 28, 2024

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Chelt Lit Fest puts a target on women who know men are not women.

People chairing events at the Cheltenham Literary Festival have been told by email that if a speaker at their event expresses a gender critical view, that could be "controversial" and "harmful" and to explicitly say the festival doesn't endorse the views on stage. 🤦‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/ldLQyA5CiQ

— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) October 4, 2024

Watch out for opinions that could be deemed controversial, folks.

Of course, that’s all opinions, so maybe you should just stay home, with all the doors locked and all the windows covered.

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Hmm. Pink News:

The founder of a social media app designed for “females” is appealing against a finding that it discriminated against a transgender woman.

For “”females””? Really? Scare quotes on the word “female” because there’s no such thing? A man is a transgender woman, but women are “””females”””? The male category exists but the female one is just a sad pathetic joke?

Duly noted, Pink News. By the way you can’t have pink. If we can’t have female, you can’t have pink.

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Project 2025 even wants to reimpose the sabbath on us. Annie Laurie Gaylor has the details:

Today, we take for granted that you can do many of the things on Sunday that you can do on other days, perhaps reduced hours notwithstanding. Will this still be the case if Project 2025 becomes a reality? Not if the Heritage Foundation gets its way. Let’s turn to page 589 of Project 2025, to a subsection titled “Sabbath Rest.”

“God ordained the Sabbath as a day of rest, and until very recently the Judeo-Christian tradition sought to honor that mandate by moral and legal regulation of work on that day,” states the document. “Moreover, a shared day off makes it

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Even the Mayo Clinic does this. I’m not sure I knew.

Feminizing surgery, also called gender-affirming surgery, involves procedures that help better align the body with a person’s gender identity. Research has found that gender-affirming surgery can have a positive impact on well-being and sexual function.

Feminizing surgery includes several options, such as top surgery to increase the size of the breasts. That procedure also is called breast augmentation.

That is, surgery on men to increase the size of men’s “breasts.” Do men even have breasts? Nipples, yes, but breasts?

Breast surgery. Surgery to increase breast size is called top surgery or breast augmentation. It can be done through implants, the placement of tissue expanders under breast tissue, or

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It’s not clear what county council this is (possibly Hampshire), but whatever council it is, it’s interesting in more than one way. Or maybe it’s just variations on one way. It’s interesting but highly irritating that any council or anyone else is trying to train anyone via childish cartoons.

This is a real training module from a local council in England on what to do if someone who works there shares “anti-immigration views.”

The answer according to the module? Call counter-terrorism police on them.pic.twitter.com/ssL89Je0u9

— Lewis Brackpool (@Lewis_Brackpool) October 3, 2024

If you play it you will see how insultingly crude and infantile it is, and you will wonder what the hell is the point. Who in charge thinks … Read the rest

Appropriate advertising to have on public transportation? Or no?

So @MayorofLondon on the one hand we have posters up on public transport warning us about unwanted staring, on the other hand we have adverts like this on London trains.
Literally encouraging staring pic.twitter.com/n8Sc0P03NF

— Lily Maynard (@LilyLilyMaynard) October 2, 2024

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