What happened to the whole idea that it’s a mistake to spend too much time thinking about yourself instead of everything else there is to think about? That idea does exist, doesn’t it? I didn’t imagine it?

Normally we think people who go on and on and on about themselves are boring, yes, but worse than that, they’re…well, the obvious: they’re self-obsessed. It’s bad to be self-obsessed. We used to know that, didn’t we? What happened to that?

Behold: from Science Mag: Why I came out as nonbinary to my Ph.D. lab

Who cares?

The illustration nails it:

Yes, every bit as smug as that.

But maybe the content is better than the title would lead you to expect?

No.… Read the rest

Brilliant. Trump scores again. Absolute genius.

Trump administration officials passed when Pfizer offered in late summer to sell the U.S. government additional doses of its Covid-19 vaccine, according to people familiar with the matter. Now Pfizer may not be able provide more of its vaccine to the United States until next June because of its commitments to other countries, they said.

Thanks, Don! That’ll be a few hundred thousand more deaths because you’re such a genius. What was the plan? That Ivanka would design an awesome vaccine and you could rake in all the profits?

As the administration scrambles to try to purchase more doses of the vaccine, President Trump plans on Tuesday to sign an executive order “to

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This is shocking.

I’m guessing the film is from a security camera.

I freaked out when the guy in front pulled his gun –

– and then he pointed it.

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There will be no update today.

At 8:30 am this morning, state police came into my house and took all my hardware and tech.

They were serving a warrant on my computer after DOH filed a complaint.

They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids.. pic.twitter.com/DE2QfOmtPU

— Rebekah Jones (@GeoRebekah) December 7, 2020

This is what happens to scientists who do their job honestly.

This is what happens to people who speak truth to power.

I tell them my husband and my two children

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Trump gave the Prez Medal of Freedom to a wrestler today.

This prestigious award is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, which may be awarded by the President to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.

Like, you know, wrestling.

How about poker? Any prez medals for that?

Bridge? Checkers? Monopoly? Hide & seek?

He’s trolling us (or maybe the wrestler gave him cash for it).… Read the rest

Another lawsuit stamped NO:

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia.

The lawsuit was brought by former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell and relied on baseless conspiracy theories to argue Biden’s victory, which has been upheld by two recounts, was illegitimate.

“They want this court to substitute its judgment for the 2.5 million voters who voted for Biden,” US district judge Timothy Batten said of the lawsuit. “This I’m unwilling to do.”

Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, said today that the state would move forward with recertifying Biden’s victory after another recount confirmed his win.

Trump is being completely grown-up and reasonable about it.

The Republican Governor of Georgia refuses

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Michigan trumpers are armed and dangerous.

Michigan secretary of state Jocelyn Benson said dozens of armed protesters gathered in a threatening manner outside her home on Saturday evening chanting “bogus” claims about electoral fraud.

Armed protesters. Outside her house. In support of a criminal trying to steal an election. We’re on a knife-edge here.

In a Twitter statement on Sunday, Benson said the protesters were trying to spread false information about the security and accuracy of the US election system. “The demands made outside my home were unambiguous, loud and threatening.”

The individuals gathered outside my home targeted me as Michigan’s Chief Election officer. But their threats were actually aimed at the 5.5million Michigan citizens who voted in

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Mmmm.

https://twitter.com/NoName_XX_AHF/status/1335859246190260224

No, chum, that’s not it. Spend your month off to learn being passed over for jobs and promotions, being ignored at meetings, being expected to make the coffee and keep the break room clean, being lectured and shouted at on social media, being a member of the sex seen as second, as an afterthought, as subordinate, as irrelevant, as stupid, as feeble, as scheming, as ball-breakers, as whores, as frigid bitches, as outsiders, as the enemy.… Read the rest

The Daily Mail again, sorry:

Two transgender women who viciously beat up and stamped on a teenager after he mocked them in central London have admitted they ‘overreacted,’ but have slammed Britain as ‘transphobic’.

Tamzin Lush and Tylah Bryan walked free from court last month after admitting violent disorder, alongside a third trans woman, Amarnih Lewis-Daniel, who has not since spoken out. 

They were filmed beating up and stamping on a 19-year-old who mocked them and told them: ‘You’re not a woman. You need a f**** to be a woman’.   

A fanny, that is, which here in the US is just very mild slang for butt/bum/ass/arse, so mild that it may have dropped out of use altogether, but in … Read the rest

So anyway Rudy has the Covid. Serves him right.

Giuliani was admitted to Georgetown University Hospital on Sunday, a source familiar confirmed to CNN.

Nice for some. Ordinary people can’t get admitted to anywhere unless they’re gasping, and not always even then, but Rudy just checks in the day he tests positive.

The former mayor of New York has been crisscrossing the country to battleground states, leading the President’s long-shot legal battle to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

In other words Giuliani has been doing lots of traveling as the pandemic gets ever worse and the medical experts and health care workers plead with us all not to travel, and he’s been doing this stupid reckless … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Living azza.

I don’t know, maybe guys like Skye Morden are constantly saying to themselves (sotto voce) “I am a woman I am a woman I am a woman” ad infinitum. It sounds horribly distracting, but maybe it does the trick.

I believe the formula is most effective when repeated in ALL CAPS, like the preferred repetition of TWAW. I also am of the understanding that the minimum number of reps is five for best results.

Distraction is of no consequence, so long as one achieves confirmation and validation (or at least compliance/acquiescence), which is a much higher priority than actual policing. Perhaps PC Morden will be put onto limerick … Read the rest

More bullying of women who refuse to endorse the gender mythology:

It doesn’t relate to this week’s court ruling, but is in some ways adjacent, and concerns something that happened a year ago today. What happened was this.

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— Clara Vulliamy (@ClaraVulliamy) December 6, 2020

(A side point, before we go on – I just want to make a note of the self-admiration in the first tweet of saying “feel free to wander off, I shan’t mind a bit” – as if Twitter were a living room and people were gathered around her listening to a speech. There’s no such thing as “wandering off” on Twitter because no one knows you’re there to begin with. She can’t see people … Read the rest

Hmm.

https://twitter.com/westmidspolfed/status/1335141106699341824

West Midlands PC Skye Morden is determined to blaze a trail for other transgender police officers. Skye knew that though she was assigned male at birth and had lived as a man for many years, she was, in fact, female.

What I’m wondering is, if you “live as a man” for many years (along with having a male body), how is it possible to “be, in fact, female”? Even if you believed in the whole magic internal gender-soul thing, once you’ve put in many years of “living as a man” while also having a male body…how would that work? Wouldn’t the two things working in combination end up over time making the magic internal gender-soul so attenuated as … Read the rest

This is ominous.

Over half of New York City firefighters said they will not get vaccinated for COVID-19 despite the second wave of cases in the city.

So they’ll spread it. They’re essential workers, obviously, so if they don’t get vaccinated they’ll spread it like crazy.

The results of the survey came nearly two weeks after the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) announced it won’t make the vaccine mandatory for its members, even as the city sees a surge of COVID-19 cases.

Yeeeeah that’s no good.

“It may become necessary to require that certain individuals or communities be vaccinated, such as health care workers and students, to protect the public’s health,” Mary Beth Morrissey, the chair of the

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Trump was supposed to be in Georgia to help the Republican candidates in the run-offs for the Senate, but of course he talked exclusively about himself as he always does. He

has held his first political rally since losing the presidential election, delivering an incoherent speech laced with baseless conspiracies theories about election fraud and attacks on Republican state officials in Georgia who have refused to help him subvert the results.

In front of a crowd of thousands of mostly maskless, non-socially distanced supporters in south Georgia, Trump repeatedly claimed, falsely, that he had won the presidential election, and called for those in government with “courage and wisdom” to help him reverse the result.

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Another university tells another student to shut up about All That, but there’s a twist.

Alistair Bonnington, an ex-BBC legal adviser and former honorary law professor who taught Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during her student days, posted his views on an Open University forum during a discussion about the 18th Century French writer Voltaire – an advocate for freedom of speech.

But his comments, referring to Scotland’s Hate Crime Bill, which will allow men to self-identify as women, and the ‘woke’ backlash faced by Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling earlier this year over her trans views, were deleted.

He’s a law maven, and an adult, but the OU wouldn’t (and won’t) let him speak freely.

In his

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Ugghh. Trump is doing his loathsome Steal The Election rally.

Trump tries to express sympathy for Covid victims but can't help but immediately transition into bragging about how he helped the vaccine process. Then he falsely claims "a lot of people already are vaccinated." pic.twitter.com/4kClJPElG5

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 6, 2020

"They want to go into a communistic form of government" pic.twitter.com/JE4KK2EBxk

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 6, 2020

Trump can't believe he lost the election despite getting 74 million votes pic.twitter.com/hGv60at2Ca

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 6, 2020

Trump is out here delusionally claiming that he won Georgia. It's completely nuts. pic.twitter.com/MxL8u3uSDG

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 6, 2020

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Pink News flings its stones at the witch with its usual sloppy illiterate vacuous zeal.

The SNP’s new equalities convener is facing scrutiny for her support of anti-trans pressure group For Women Scotland and the author JK Rowling.

Scrutiny from this Pink News reporter at least. That’s so typical of this kind of shite – agent-free accusations of “scrutiny” – from whom? Besides you there at your laptop?

Elections for the party’s national executive committee on Monday (30 November) saw Lynne Anderson chosen by the party membership to serve as equalities convener, giving her a crucial say in SNP policy.

And Nick Duffy, the hack who wrote this, wants the party membership to un-give that crucial say. He has her … Read the rest

There’s a public Facebook group called Edinburgh LGBTI+. Note the public part: anyone can read the posts. It shares details in a top of the page post:

Edinburgh LGBTI+ Community Group is intended as a safe space for all members of our community, regardless of race, religion, sex, gender, sexuality, trans identity, and ability/disability. We stand, to the best of our current knowledge and understanding, against both direct and indirect discrimination, striving to be anti-racist, anti-abilist, anti-ageist, anti-religious discrimination. We are anti-asexual erasure, anti-aromantic erasure, anti-intersex erasure, anti-bisexual erasure and anti-polyamory erasure. We are pro-trans rights, pro-nonbinary rights. Ultimately we are pro-human rights.

It’s oddly careful to say nothing about women or sexism or misogyny or feminism. It … Read the rest

Is it cruel to find this funny?

https://twitter.com/elijahyab/status/1335002327401558017 https://twitter.com/RahulKohli13/status/1335006060562661377 https://twitter.com/RahulKohli13/status/1335006876954624001

He’s not always so sweet and obliging.

https://twitter.com/RahulKohli13/status/1334751284327378944… Read the rest

That must have been an awkward phone conversation, maybe the most awkward since that “We need you to do us a favor though” one.

President Trump called Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Saturday morning to urge him to persuade the state legislature to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the state and asked the governor to order an audit of absentee ballot signatures, the latest brazen effort by the president to interfere in the 2020 election.

“Hi Brian, do me a solid and get the lej to throw out the votes for Biden, ok?”

Hours before he is scheduled to hold a rally in Georgia on behalf of the state’s two GOP senators, Trump pressed Kemp to call

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