Today in social justice toolkit:
A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation.
You've given them only bad options.
I give some examples
& then we talk about how to design them.
This one's pretty important.
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Keir starmers entire argument is that he is essentially a moron that was not trusted with essential briefing about an important diplomatic position which I'll accept. I also don't think this person should be prime minister
if Tim Curry had only blessed us with this speech it would have been enough, but he has given us so much more
There needs to be forthright condemnation of Stonewall's new chair'svsucking up to Rowling from her predecessors and a majority of the organisation's leading figures. This betrayal of trans people is utterly unforgivable cowardice.
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
‘I never said nothing,’ said Nanny Ogg mildly.
‘I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You’ve got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn’t dead!’ [said Granny Weatherwax]
– Lords and Ladies
Famously Sauron's eye never missed any intruders upon his land
torn between "we need to soften IP law to stop the calcification of the culture" and "we need to give the Tolkien estate the right to extrajudicially execute these clowns at will"
Telling people about the good, useful use cases for AI is kinda like telling people about the 30-50 feral hogs you need your AR-15 for
It is entirely true and yet so completely divorced from the lived experience of your audience that you sound ridiculous
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
Businesses like Amazon are going to keep doing whatever they can get away with and that's why people should keep suing them and why there should be punitive damages | no paywall
"AI is for autistics" may be the most offensive thing I've heard as an autistic person, and I grew up when the r-word was uttered every other sentence
With all due respect, wearing my own culture studies hat I'd say this is overly nostalgic and ignores how much silly, dumbass culture of the past has just been left in the dust because it wasn't worth remembering to anyone who wasn't a specialist
I often get the sense that American leftists write off joint Israeli-Palestinian activism as naive kumbaya shit but whenever I read something like this I am blown away by the strength of people who have endured the worst losses possible and yet still show up with compassion for the “enemy”
Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies
NHS claims 'it's raining cats and dogs'is culturally insensitive Doctors and nurses in Lancashire told some idioms risk offending 'international colleagues or patients' Doctors and nurses have been ordered not to say "it's raining cats and dogs" and "the early bird catches the worm" to avoid offending foreign patients. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust instructed staff against using the phrases in its diversity and inclusion training, claiming that the terms were not culturally sensitive. It warned that the terms "may not translate well across other cultures" and may need to be explained to international colleagues or patients.
No, the NHS didn’t do anything of the sort.
The evidence the NHS didn’t do that is the third paragraph in the hit piece.
Any decent paper would have trashed the piece during the pitch phase, but the Telegraph runs dozens of these articles every single day. The Telegraph must be destroyed
by the way, what a kick in the teeth this is for the stonewall staff/volunteers who've been on the receiving end of abuse from the vicious online hate mob Rowling actively encourages
It’s April 18! You know what that means! In 1938 the world saw the first sustained appearance I one of the single greatest fictional characters to ever exist: LOIS LANE. Some other notable great chars also appeared in that same Action Comics #1. But none quite as awesome as Lois.
trans women have a biological advantage at being hot now
bringing back shame and social sanction for being a bigoted asshole is good, actually
JK Rowling: my empire crumbless around me!
Rowling: KA Applegate sstealing my thunder
Rowling: the digital circuss trailer topping harry potter
Rowling: and alwayss that blasted diane duane in the ventss!
Diane Duane: free masons run the country!
Rowling: [pounding on wall] i know you're in there!
I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u
#transdayofvisibility #tdov
that they are freaking out this badly over a surtax on second homes worth more than five million dollars - the most excessive rich person thing imaginable, which doesn’t even affect most of them - really makes it clear how little attention you need to pay to the freak outs
Peter mandelsons entire career is like a cursed pharaohs amulet that kills everyone that tries to use its power and every other week some Labour party idiot picks up and goes have we tried using the pharaohs amulet
In that case I have a message of love and compassion to everyone who supports Trump
Despite our best efforts, multiple crises in the arts and charitable sector, and the ongoing patriarchal stance on inclusiveness mean that the Vagina Museum continues to struggle. We are having to have serious conversations about our long-term future. And now, more than ever, we need your help...
Oh, so Jorkin Depeanus Vance is a whole-ass heretic pretending to be Catholic.
*Forty* senators voted against US weapons for Israel tonight.
~1/2 the chamber & the overwhelming majority of Democrats + allies. No such vote had ever occurred in Congress before November 2024.
A sea-change that will resonate in Tel Aviv, dramatically boost calls for a Dem overhaul + reckoning.
Today marks a year since the Supreme Court decision. We now know a revised version of the draft statutory guidance is due in May. We need to act fast to make sure it explains how trans people can still be included.
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