Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.

It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

I guess we can look forward to endless university lectures by James Orr, Maya Forstater and Matt Goodwin?

If students protest the universities are fined?

The students should just stay away. #r4today

Restrictions and attacks on intelligentsia are a feature of totalitarianism.

Our episode about JK Rowling is now out wherever you listen to podcasts!

Hans Zimmer is a transphobe. A tweet reads "I worked for him. I did good work that he praised, but after transitioned he quickly had me fired. He had cue notes named "tr*nnv fight"' etc etc... It's a pattern of abuse that will inevitably come out over time, and I'm glad that the industry is changing slowly."

I regret to inform y'all that Hans Zimmer fuckin sucks.

opening card of the "thriller" music video: Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult. --Michael Jackson

Every horror movie should start with this exact disclaimer

A "wartime" poster that says: "Using Generative AI? You're Prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead! Don't surrender your creativity to the Tech Billionaires' control!"

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment.

Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here:

www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

Tweet by Graham Linehan. Hi to my new international readers. I was a successful UK comedy writer until I spoke out against men in women's sports and private spaces, and children being mutilated and sterilised in gender clinics. The fight is far from over so join me if any of this interests you.

Graham Linehan still hasn't won?? Apparently, "the fight is far from over?" Of course, it will never be over, and will always require you to give money to Graham Linehan so he can keep "fighting."

I, and every other decent Irish person, is happy to accept him saying he is a British person, though.

YOUR ATTENTION

A new treasure trove of live music being uploaded to the Internet Archive. Tons of bands that are hipper than I, plus REM, Fuzzbox (!), The Cure, Bad Livers, Neil I nestle, and so much more.

Trans people, I have a question, if anyone wants to answer. What's keeping your hope alive, lately? Share anything positive, I'd like to hear.

so sick of divisive age discourse pushed by trad media. It's self-perpetuating and clearly meant to stop younger and older people from organising together. it's all about fostering contempt.

I just wish we could cringe at each other AND overthrow the wanker classes at the same time lol

Car companies convinced us this is freedom

The word blurb was coined in 1906 by American humorist Gelett Burgess (1866–1951).[2] The October 1906 first edition of his short book Are You a Bromide? was presented in a limited edition to an annual trade association dinner. The custom at such events was to have a dust jacket promoting the work and with, as Burgess' publisher B. W. Huebsch described it, "the picture of a damsel—languishing, heroic, or coquettish—anyhow, a damsel on the jacket of every novel". In this case, the jacket proclaimed "YES, this is a 'BLURB'!" and the picture was of a (fictitious) young woman "Miss Belinda Blurb" shown calling out, described as "in the act of blurbing." The name and term stuck for any publisher's contents on a book's back cover, even after the picture was dropped and only the text remained.

The original Belinda Blurb

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

UNLOCKED: Woking Up 11 - Transphobic Meltdown (Full ep) YouTube video by Polite Conversations Podcast

Here's an episode I did a while ago about Sam Harris' transphobia and his meltdown over Emane Khelif. Seems relevant ..so I wanted to share it again.

youtu.be/5Klz3VhINWg?...

UNLOCKED: Woking Up 11 (FULL) - Transphobic Meltdown

You can find it on your podcast apps too
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LOL sure Tony, okay mate. Even if we pretend the actual topic here is addressing a real, serious problem and it’s not the usual “I must never be held accountable for my career of horrifying crimes”: how, exactly, would we go about ending this sinister nexus of treason

Transphobia cooks your brain. You spend years screaming "everyone fits neatly into two sexes!" and then reality hands you Khelif or Caster Semenya and you can't adjust. You can't say "this is more complicated than I thought." You just call her a man, because the framework demands it. Fundamentalism.

She’s not just a person with bad opinions. She’s a hate group leader who funds hate. There’s no excuse for engaging with her in any way.

Would you watch a TV show created by David Duke, who had loudly announced that any money he made off it was going into the Klan’s coffers?

No, you say? Only someone who was totally okay with racism would do that?

Then don’t watch Harry Potter.

This is the sort of thing schoolchildren and teachers know and it’s very satisfying when you learn it. To remember which is a Dromedary and which a Bactrian camel, look at the first letters on their side.

There are about 22 thousand ICE agents, which means that ruining every single one of their days, every day, is a totally achievable goal and one we should not so much strive for as assume as a baseline.

If an ICE agent is having a good day, we are failing.

To be clear: the public can easily resist fascism arising within the public, that is not a problem. Years of proof of this. The public cannot resist fascism that is being imposed from above, in a system where the elite decide amongst themselves. Not without quite extraordinary action.

One more time: there is no ethical way to consume Harry Potter.

Telegraph article ‘Abortion "pills by post" must be banned, peers have said. A group of female peers - including Baroness Falkner, the former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and Baroness Davies, the Olympic medal-winning swimmer - are seeking a change in the law to end the controversial Covid-era scheme.

What are the main amendments? Nine amendments have been laid on abortion so far, including proposals to have a police investigation of every girl under 16 who accesses a legal abortion and a proposal for the first new abortion offence in nearly 100 years. The key amendments are two broadly pro-choice and two broadly anti-abortion proposals. Source: Guardian

🧵Some Lords are busy trying to wreck abortion decriminalisation. An amendment to report every girl under 16 who has a legal abortion to the POLICE and Sharron Davies wants to ban telemedicine that allows early abortions to happen at home in privacy

A lovely furry bench in Manaton, Dartmoor

There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.

For the longest time I thought "Our God Is An Awesome God" was a real hymn that was like two hundred years old, but it came out in 1988, it uses "awesome" the same way the Ninja Turtles did

A nude sculpture of what is clearly a trans woman, with breaststroke and penis, carved into marble.

Terfs: "transgender is a modern delusion"

Classic Antiquity:

This is why you never concede even an inch to fascists.

In the eyes of legislation, gender critical transphobes have won SO many of their supposed "battles" and they're STILL not happy. They won't be happy until trans people are gone. So stop fucking capitulating to them. This isn't a "purity test"