A couple of years ago the Daily Mail did a long flattering article on James “Jan” Morris, the famous pioneering dick-remover.

While Jan was feted around the world for her exquisitely warm and vivid prose, her sense of romanticism, her ground-breaking travel books, for being the first to report that Edmund Hillary had reached the top of Everest in 1953, and for her courage and conviction in embracing the ‘real Jan’ in her pioneering transition from male to female — at home she was rather different.

According to [his youngest child] Suki, who yesterday published an excoriating account of Jan’s appalling parenting in the Sunday Times, her famous parent was selfish, neglectful, sexist and deeply unkind.

Huh. Well you know what? That’s a deal-breaker. That’s four things that no parent should be – that’s a list of four qualities that make their owner a really terrible person to raise a child. It means the person is incapable of giving the child what it needs. If you’re like that, don’t have children at all.

But perhaps her worst crime was being so unforgivably blind to the impact of her 1972 sex-change operation — at a Casablanca hospital, by a dashing young French surgeon called Dr Georges Burou — on those closest to her.

There again – that’s not some minor flaw, it’s a crime against his children.

Jan’s career was already flying at this stage. But her sex change simply magnified her fame. And the demands placed on her by others. Which was fine by her, because she loved to be busy.

‘Three-quarters of the time, I was abroad: wandering around, having a marvellous time,’ she admitted in an interview with the Financial Times in 2018. Even when she was at home with Elizabeth and the children, she’d be glued to her typewriter writing at least 3,000 words a day — even on Christmas Day.

‘My chief fault is an utter self-centredness. It hasn’t always been good,’ she once declared.

That’s not just a “fault”; it’s a disqualification. If you’re utterly self-centered you need to leave other people mostly alone. If you’re utterly self-centered you absolutely should not be in close relationships where the other person expects some affection and attention and the like.

The whoopdedo about his being trans doesn’t even matter; the problem is that he’s the kind of person who decides to “change sex” despite the fact that he has four kids and a wife. Being trans seems to be completely inseparable from being utterly self-centered, and that’s a bad quality to have.

It seems they have a website.

“…convicted torturer SJ/Alan Baker. I have raised a PREVENT and a safeguarding concern with Met Police and Westminster City Council”

I suppose Baker designed the website, too, because that’s how dumb it is.

Home page:

The rights and freedoms of trans+ children and young people have been deliberately and systematically eroded. We have been made into political tools for failing British politics in order to create moral panic, split the left, and distract from real problems.

Eroded? Eroded from what? What are these rights and freedoms of “trans children” that have been “eroded”? Do they extend back into the past as far as we can see?

Of course not. Nobody was talking about “trans children” until recently, so nobody was talking about any such “rights and freedoms.” Newsflash: children don’t have the kinds of freedoms adults have, because it’s not safe for them to have such freedoms. There are no special rights for “trans children.” What Baker no doubt means is the “right” to be talked into idennnifying as trans and proceeding to ruin your life. He’s talking about recruitment, not rights.

About page:

Healthcare

We deserve equal access to gender-affirming healthcare. To delay care to a trans person is to deny it. We don’t have time to wait. Secondly, we should be able to give informed consent to our own treatment – just as any cisgender young person already can.

Well that depends on how you define “young person,” but seeing as how the website is for “trans kids” with no minimum age mentioned, Baker clearly means from infancy on. I’m pretty sure toddlers can’t give informed consent to anything, let alone medical treatment. Baker is an idiot.

We deserve to be treated with respect in all areas of life. We are human beings, and should be protected from misgendering and deadnaming at all times.

Massive non sequitur. Might as well say we are human beings, and should be protected from leaf mold and dry rot at all times.

And finally

We deserve to be heard in all matters which affect our lives. We should not be used as political pawns, and must not be made a spectacle for the benefit of politics or the press.

That is hilarious. Baker is using them as political pawns and making them a spectacle for the benefit of politics and press, and ventriloquizes them as saying he should not be doing that.

There is of course a page telling you to check their fundraising page.

Lizard man very active devouring people.

Elon Musk is using his social media network to spread election conspiracy theories about U.S. disasters — just as online falsehoods are complicating the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

Musk has helped spread accusations that the Federal Emergency Management Agency “actively blocked” donations to victims of Helene and is “seizing goods … and locking them away to state they are their own” — allegations that FEMA officials call false and which run afoul of state and local Republican leaders’ praise for the assistance from Washington.

On his social network, X, Musk also amplified rumors that authorities in North Carolina had “taken control to stop people helping” stricken residents and accusations that sheriffs were threatening to arrest FEMA staff “if they hinder rescue and aid work.” Many of his allegations centered on the claim that immigrants had already depleted federal disaster funds, which FEMA has said is untrue.

“FEMA used up its budget ferrying illegals into the country instead of saving American lives. Treason,” Musk wrote without evidence on X, where he interspersed messages about hurricane damage with political attacks on Democrats.

The horror movie we’re living in keeps getting worse.

The lizard people are teaming up.

Elon Musk’s X social media platform has reportedly worked with Donald Trump’s campaign to censor material that could be harmful to the former president’s White House chances as part of a pattern of election interference that is unprecedented in U.S. history. According to The New York Times, Trump told one associate that Musk was pumping $500 million into his campaign. The two men are said to speak “multiple times a week.”

The Times reported that the Trump campaign “connected with X” to prevent the spread of hacked information supposedly from a dossier drawn up by GOP staffers tasked with vetting running mate JD Vance. X, formerly known as Twitter, then suspended the account of the journalist who posted the leak and blocked links to the material, said two people quoted as having knowledge of the situation.

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The tech billionaire’s “frenzied engagement” in the race is said by the Times to reflect his determination to help secure a Trump victory. His millions are being funneled through a Super PAC and he has set up a team of top advisors at a war room in Pittsburgh. According to federal records, America PAC has so far spent $80 million boosting the Trump campaign, much of it going towards voter canvassing programs.

“I’m not sure there is a precedent in modern history to how Musk has inserted himself into the presidential race,” historian Benjamin Soskis told the Times.

They should just rename it the Bad Men Party.

Ah this again. Seems like a century ago, and like yesterday.

The Telegraph on the slaughter of the crickets:

Four suspected trans rights protesters attacked a gender-critical conference by releasing hundreds of live crickets into a packed auditorium. The stunt threw the annual LGB Alliance conference into chaos, as a room of about 600 people had to be evacuated on Friday afternoon…Rhona Hotchkiss, the compere of the event, encouraged people to stamp on the crickets.

That seems unnecessary. Crickets are harmless, and they’re nourishment for a lot of critters up the food chain. I’ve fed crickets to plenty of reptiles and birds back in the day.

Kate Barker, LGB Alliance’s chief executive, told The Telegraph that security guards had stopped the protester as she tried to leave the building and the police were called to the scene. She said: “They are trying to squash reasoned debate with silly tactics.

Could that be because reasoned debate is ruled out because what can they say???

It was an abrupt end to the charity’s fourth annual conference, which had featured speeches from writers, activists and lawyers. Many of the speeches criticised gender ideology, which is the belief that gender is not binary and can differ from your assigned sex at birth.

James Dreyfus, the keynote speaker who appeared in the 1999 film Notting Hill, said he had experienced homophobic abuse from supporters of the gender ideology movement.

“The current gender movement is undoubtedly the most homophobic movement I’ve witnessed since the early 80s,” he said. “And that is no exaggeration. We all have re-experienced being called ‘fucking poofs, Aids carriers’ etc.

“From three very specific groups. Firstly, the mob that is known as Trans Radical Activists. Secondly from those who feel the need to put their preferred pronouns in their online bios. And thirdly, from the ‘allies’, perhaps the most worrisome of all, who understand so little of the facts or indeed what the entire argument is about that I’m continually astonished how usually intelligent people have become so utterly brainwashed.”

Same, James, same.

Other speakers included Catherine Leng, a former senior journalist on the BBC News Channel, who left the corporation after multiple disciplinary actions over her gender-critical views. Speaking at the conference, she said the BBC had been, and remained, unbalanced in its coverage of trans issues.

She said: “2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, everything was so trans-affirmative it was incredible. There were no stories about puberty blockers but there were stories about transgender struggles.”

A BBC spokesman said: “We don’t agree with this characterisation; the BBC reports a wide range of views and perspectives on the subject, in line with our editorial guidelines.”

Hahahahahahahahahaha that’s a good one.

“India” Willoughby is an evil dangerous liar.

“Gender Critical is a hate movement,” he says. “No different [from] belonging to the Ku Klux Klan.” He’s a filthy malicious liar. Of course being gender critical is nothing like belonging to the KKK. The KKK disguised themselves and terrorized Black people with violence because the Klan considered them inferior and dangerous. People who are gender critical don’t believe that men are women, and we say so, and we argue about it.

Not the same things.

Willoughby is a filthy liar.

I share his frustration.

Alabama’s most respected meteorologist, James Spann, recently expressed frustration over a “society full of hate, anger, rage, and the inability to think clearly,” following an onslaught of negative responses after he attempted to debunk hurricane-related misinformation. Spann took to Facebook earlier in the week to share his concerns after encountering a wave of false claims about Hurricane Milton, which developed in the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall in Florida. His post, as first reported by AL.com, urged his followers to stop spreading misinformation.

Among the wild claims Spann addressed were conspiracy theories, such as the assertion that “the moon has disappeared and was nuked by the government,” and that hurricanes were being steered by “chemtrails.” He also highlighted other baseless claims, like the notion that federal agencies were manipulating weather patterns to influence the upcoming presidential election or imprisoning relief workers.

I was unaware of that claim about the moon. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it around lately.

Later in the week, Spann shared a link to a FEMA page that debunked rumors surrounding Hurricane Helene. However, instead of appreciation, Spann was met with a barrage of hostile comments. In a follow-up post, he wrote, “I pass along information from officials with zero comment. I have no interest in politics. But the threats I have received from posting this are not good. Some I turned in. Some of the most hateful messages I have received come from people with Bible verses all over their profile. It is clear that we live in a society full of hate, anger, rage, and the inability to think critically. It has been very tough today, and all I do is pass along information. If you hate me, that is fine, but you might want to pull down those verses and your church affiliation. It isn’t a good look. This post will be gone soon.”

Two words. Trump & Murdoch.

Obama tells men it’s not Manly to be afraid to back women.

Former President Barack Obama traveled to Pittsburgh on Thursday to urge voters there to choose Vice President Kamala Harris in November, aiming a message at one group in particular: Black men.

The decision voters have between the vice president and former President Donald J. Trump, her Republican opponent, “isn’t a close call,” Mr. Obama said as he visited with a group of campaign volunteers and officials at a field office just ahead of his appearance at a Harris rally. His message was for Black male voters whom he said might not be yet on board with Ms. Harris.

Citing “reports I’m getting from campaigns and communities,” he called out what he said was flagging enthusiasm for Ms. Harris compared with the support he received when he was running for the presidency in 2008.

“You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses,” Mr. Obama said. “I’ve got a problem with that.

“Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that,” Mr. Obama continued, adding that the “women in our lives have been getting our backs this entire time. When we get in trouble and the system isn’t working for us, they’re the ones out there marching and protesting.”

Besides which, is it really better to have a toad for president rather than a woman?

The reasoned debate continues.

It turns out the hurricane was caused by meteorologists.

Trump suggested the Biden administration’s response had been lacking and planned in partisan ways that caused Republican voters be abandoned and left “Americans to drown”, particularly in North Carolina after Helene. “They’ve let those people suffer unjustly,” he said. His comments have received bipartisan criticism, including from some local and state Republican leaders in affected areas.

Remember how Trump dealt with hurricanes? Throwing rolls of paper towels at people? Ignoring Puerto Rico altogether?

Meteorologists tracking Milton have been beset by conspiracy theories that they are controlling the weather, even by using a nuclear explosion, and have faced death threats.

“I’ve never seen a storm garner so much misinformation, we have just been putting out fires of wrong information everywhere,” said the CBS meteorologist Katie Nickolaou. She added: “Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes. I can’t believe I just had to type that.”

Ok but will throwing vulcanologists into volcanoes stop eruptions?

Trump thinks “grocery” is an obscure word that needs him to explain it.

Trump attacking other people’s intellectual capacities:

Donald Trump lashed out at the hosts of The View on Wednesday with a string of low-brow insults, including that they are “demented,” “dirty,” and “dumb.”

“I watched that stupid View where you have these dumb people,” a rambling Trump told a rally in Reading, Pennsylvania…Then, as if his brain were spitting out one of his impulsive, celebrity-obsessed tweets of yore, the former president trained his ire on Whoopi Goldberg, The View’s co-host and moderator, calling her “demented.”

Trump claimed, before he was in politics, he once hired Goldberg—a celebrated comedian who has won the Mark Twain Prize and the EGOT—to perform and accused her of having a “foul mouth.”

“Every word out of her mouth was like the f-word,” Trump said “She was so filthy, dirty, disgusting half the place left. I said I’d never hire her again.” He then called Goldberg a “loser.”

But…sir…

The hypocritical Trump, of course, is well known for profanity. He attacked NFL players who kneeled during the national anthem to protest police brutality as “sons of b—–es” and infamously called Haiti and several African nations “s–thole countries” during a government meeting. A New York Times analysis of his speeches published last week found he has used swear words 69 percent more often at rallies this year than he did when he first ran for president in 2016.

But that’s different, because he’s male, and pale, and rich, and evil.

And Trump’s attack on Goldberg wasn’t even his first broadside aimed at a View host that day. At an earlier rally in Scranton, Trump attacked her co-host Sunny Hostin as “dumber than Kamala.”

“She’s a dummy,” Trump told the crowd of Hostin. “I watched her over the years, that is one dumb woman. I’m sorry, women, she’s a dummy.”

At his Reading rally—after he finished disparaging Goldberg—Trump called Harris “a dumb person” before seemingly admitting his own staff have told him to tone down his boorish, sexist attacks on her. “Somebody said to me, one of my people, a nice person, a staff person said, ‘Sir, please, don’t call her dumb, the women won’t like it,’” he said, before insisting women “don’t care.”

A poll released last week by the Women and Politics Institute at American University’s School of Public Affairs found Trump trails Harris among women voters by 15 points.

It should be way more than 15 points.

Mount Holyoke College wants to have it both ways.

At Mount Holyoke College, the leading gender-diverse women’s college, students learn beyond boundaries, explore interests across disciplines and build skills and connections for a lifetime of purposeful leadership.

What thee helll is a gender-diverse women’s college?

Nothing, that’s what. A contradiction in terms. You can be a women’s something or you can be a gender-diverse something, but you can’t be both.

Its second most recent post is about “a vibrant community space dedicated to supporting LGBTQIA+ students, staff and faculty.” So they have gay male students and male students who are trans or queer or asexual or plus? But then they’re not a women’s college.

You have to pick one. You can’t do both, not because it’s not allowed, but because it’s not possible.

Something called “Attitude” tells us:

India Willoughby has slammed the Labour government, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting over the party’s policies regarding the ban on hormone blockers and their stance on trans healthcare.

Speaking to Attitude on the red carpet at the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards, powered by Jaguar, Willoughby said: “I’m not exaggerating when I say that the Labour government are going to be responsible for the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, of trans people.”

Hahaha that’s funny, because exaggerating is exactly what he’s doing. He’s just making shit up, out of nothing. Look at Willoughby: is he dead? Is he approaching being dead? Not so much. He’s standing around in a red strapless dress, looking ridiculous but not dead.

“We are going through a very slow and quiet genocide,” she said.

Yahuh, so slow and so quiet that it can’t be detected at all, no matter how fine the instruments.

Everyone thinks that a genocide is all about death camps. Not necessarily.”

Nope, everyone doesn’t think that at all. Rwanda wasn’t death camps. Even the Holocaust wasn’t all death camps; they started out just shooting people, but decided that wasn’t efficient.

[He[ continued: “You’re stopping people transitioning. This is going to lead to suicides. Every study in the world has shown this leads to suicides. But Wes Streeting just does not care. I think it’s an absolute disgrace.”

Nobody’s stopping anybody “transitioning”; it can’t be done. People can’t change sex. Willoughby is dressed up in a bright red fluffy dress that starts at the tits and ends above the knees. He is 59 years old. Do you know a lot of 59 year old women who dress like that? The photo of him in it is hilarious, because he’s glowering like Sterling Heyden in Dr Strangelove, which doesn’t really jibe well with the pwetty dwess.

Oh ffs. Some pond scum is attacking the Internet Archive. Why? Because Palestine uh uh uh.

Tom Nichols in The Atlantic on the contrasts between George Washington and the wannabe dictator:

Donald Trump and his authoritarian political movement represent an existential threat to every ideal that Washington cherished and encouraged in his new nation. They are the incarnation of Washington’s misgivings about populism, partisanship, and the “spirit of revenge” that Washington lamented as the animating force of party politics. Washington feared that, amid constant political warfare, some citizens would come to “seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual,” and that eventually a demagogue would exploit that sentiment.

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Most American presidents have had some sort of military experience. A few, like Washington, were genuine war heroes. All of them understood that military obedience to the rule of law and to responsible civilian authority is fundamental to the survival of democracy. Again, all of them but one.

During his term as president, Trump expected the military to be loyal—but only to him. He did not understand (or care) that members of the military swear an oath to the Constitution, and that they are servants of the nation, not of one man in one office. Trump viewed the military like a small child surveying a shelf of toy soldiers, referring to “my generals” and ordering up parades for his own enjoyment and to emphasize his personal control.

Trump was more than willing to turn the American military against its own people. In 2020, for instance, he wanted the military to attack protesters near the White House. “Beat the fuck out of them,” the president told the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley. “Just shoot them.” Both Milley and Defense Secretary Mark Esper (a former military officer himself) talked their boss out of opening fire on American citizens.

Senior officers during Trump’s term chose loyalty to the Constitution over loyalty to Donald Trump and remained true to Washington’s legacy. Such principles baffle Trump—all principles seem to baffle Trump, and he especially does not understand patriotism or self-sacrifice. He is, after all, the commander in chief who stood in Arlington National Cemetery, looked around at the honored dead in one of the country’s most sacred places, and said: “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”

Not someone we should put in a position to do it again.

No, he doesn’t say that.

“We’ve really got to stand up for the rights of trans people, yes we’ve got to hear those women who say that there’s a case for single sex spaces, I understand that, but, I do think that we’ve got to empathize and recognize the pain that so many people, so many trans people face and treat them with the respect that they deserve.”

The whole bit between the “yes” and the “but” is rushed and gabbled, while everything after that is slowed and said with great emphasis. It’s very very very clear that the “yes yes women blah blah” bit is a contemptuous hostile yesyesIknowallthat, the only function of which is to lead up to the but.

It couldn’t be more clear or more insulting.

Updating to add: Video credit: @Jonnywsbell

So, to cheer us up, here are Jesus and Mo and the barmaid.

The UN coughs up a hairball onto women again.

Oh look! There are the women with missing lower legs again, complete with weird antiquated Captain Hookish prosthetic replacements. Corporate Memphis Pegleg.

Anyway. The real issue is here is the UN again telling us that men can be women, i.e. men can push women aside and take over everything. I tried to find a parallel Gay Men Day but was unable to. UN Free & Equal doesn’t try to force gay men to be incloosive of women but it does try to force lesbians to be incloosive of men. Why’s that then? I suppose it’s because the UN considers women inferior and subordinate.