I feel like reminding everybody that even with the vile UK Supreme Court ruling, setting up a single-sex space for the purpose of the Equality Act is not trivial.
Take toilets, for example. Assuming you can justify making them single-sex legally, and that involves, if it comes to trial, proving they're a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim (something made easier by FWS) then...
If you want them to be single-sex then you have to MAKE them single-sex. No "Cleaners of both/all genders are employed here." The minute you allow a "biologically male" cleaner in, it's not a single-sex space. No taking your "biologically male" 4 year old into the ladies with you. No taking your "biologically male" baby in. No going in the men's to avoid the problem either, you're barred.
Don't get me started on single-sex wards. Actually do...
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Lawrence: 'Irreversibly stupid' Trump's biggest tariff 'humiliation day' has yet to come
MSNBCβs Lawrence OβDonnell details how Donald Trump, through his lawyers to an appeals court, promised to issue refunds if the Trump tariffs are found to be ...YouTube
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Any comparison I make to the fascists of the 1930s and the radical right of today is meant as a condemnation of the radical right, and not a trivialization of the original fascists.
The similarities are too strong to ignore for me.
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HOLY SHIT.
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The US Is Storing Migrant Childrenβs DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.Dhruv Mehrotra (WIRED)
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Calgary adding fluoride back into drinking water starting on June 30
Fluoride will officially be reintroduced to Calgaryβs drinking water at the end of June.Brendan Ellis (CTVNews)
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@JohnMashey I stand corrected; I see my knowledge is outdated. I remember reading a study in the past, but I just searched the latest research and see that research has since been discredited and currently thereβs no relation observed.
Thanks for correcting me; TIL
βThe culprit admitted he wanted to quote βprotect childrenβββ¦
you know, you could have said claimed? Listening to an NPR description of a guy who threw a Molotov cocktail into a church hosting a drag event. wskg.org/npr-culture/2025-05-2β¦
Drag artists are getting attacked. This safety handbook aims to help.
As Pride Month approaches, a group of drag artists and their allies are releasing guidelines to help performers navigate a landscape of online harassment and physical violence.Chloe Veltman (WSKG)
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My understanding is that Drag Queen Story Hour involves drag queens reading stories to children.
So, he's claiming that he firebombed a church, where children were supposed to be, to protect children.
If you're reading vintage science fiction, here's a handy dandy list of authors who supported the Vietnam War vs. authors who opposed the war.
I wish I had this list in the 80s when I was reading war-supporting butt nuggets like Larry Niven and Robert Heinlein.
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I'm not surprised by Heinlein, Niven, nor Pournelle being on that list. I am surprised by how many author's names I did not recognize.
I just take it for granted that any author beyond the draft age at that time would support the war.
A more useful list for sci-fi authors circa 1940s-1960s would authors who didn't have laughably racist or misogynistic views at the time.
Thwarted by the shrinking capacity of my laptop's battery.
Guess we'll resume work on the future tomorrow.
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Watching another one of Elon's rockets burst into flames is hilarious...until I realize it's my fucking tax dollars he's wasting a billion at a time...
DOGE my shiny-white-ass...
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T Hartmann wealthy usurp US politics
"..1978, in the Bellotti decision written by βPowell Memoβ author Lewis Powell himself, five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court ruled that money is actually βfree speechβ and corporations are βpersons.β It floated Reagan into office in 1981 on a tsunami of oil and banking industry money. Five other corrupted SCOTUS Republicans doubled down on that bizarre ruling in 2010 with Citizens United, creating an entirely new form of corrupt political bribery.."
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20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capitalism.
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- Audre Lorde
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There is a bot that periodically reposts Dril content to Mastodon. I think it only runs once a week or so. If you're not on Bluesky, this is the next best thing.
@dril
It's hard for ppl who are not evil to understand the logic of evil billionaires. You can roll out all your logical (let alone ethical) reasons why something doesn't make sense as US policy, but then you look at the @SiliconJets account and realize these folks do not have the borders the rest of us do. They don't care if they destroy US science, higher ed, etc.
Immigration policies don't fence out the rich. And they've each got private jets to bounce wherever they want. They can access things.
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Just spent some money at #Etsy, and immediately after I submitted the order, the credit card company sent me an email saying "We see that you just spent $XX at Etsy! We'd like to give you $10 free!"
WTF?? That's creepy as hell! NO, I don't want your free $10. Mind your own business. Jesus christ.
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Gah.
This whole fucking administration is a socio-political EMP that's going to knock the US back to 1619.
And not in a good way.
(I've said this before, but I feel it bears repeating.)
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Vers la fin du dΓ©marchage tΓ©lΓ©phonique non consenti
Enfin une bonne nouvelle !
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Vers la fin du dΓ©marchage tΓ©lΓ©phonique non consenti
Les personnes, qui accepteront de recevoir des appels de commerciaux, devront le faire savoir, et les entreprises devront prouver quβelles ont Γ©tΓ© sollicitΓ©es, selon une proposition de loi qui devrait Γͺtre dΓ©finitivement votΓ©e mercredi.RafaΓ«le Rivais (Le Monde)
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It looks like Streeting is about to ban hormone therapy for under 19s, as well as puberty blockers.
If/when this is done, it will criminalise medical transition before 19 completely. Levy will finish the job and then they'll go for adult trans healthcare.
Combined with the law changes that effectively ban us from participation in public life, and the demonisation campaign from the mainstream press since around 2016, this can only be described as a serious, sustained attempt at genociding trans people under the noses of the British public.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/192β¦
Thread by @hannahsbee on Thread Reader App
@hannahsbee: BREAKING. The Government has established a Working Group to look at whether prescription of cross-sex hormones (CSH) will, like puberty blockers, should be banned to under 18s, outside of NHS (ie privat...β¦threadreaderapp.com
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Maybe you could dig mine out of the medical waste from Brighton Nuffield in 2019, they must be in there somewhere...
"Dignity and respect" is how politicians talk about people detained under the Mental Health act.
If you use it about trans people, you're threatening us. If you don't know you're threatening us, you're more dangerous because you're gullible.
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Keep 'em coming
Via Kyle Cheney:
JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of an education grant supporting long-running desegregation efforts in southern schools.
The #Trump administration canceled funds for the program under its anti-DEI policy.
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#Jan6 criminals received #WhiteHouse tour
Months after being freed through a #pardon from #Trump, 2 men convicted of #felonies for their roles in the Jan 6, 2021, #insurrection scored visits to secure grounds of the WH.
Shane Jenkins, who had a criminal record before J6, was sentenced to 7yrs in prison for #assault of police protecting the Capitol & using a metal tomahawk to smash a window. The day after the attack, Jenkins wrote, "I have #murder in my heart & my head."
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Idea: send a letter to each person. Claim it's from them in the future and that they are trans.
Trans people will be like "of course!" And cis people will be like "whatever".
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Drivers of SUVs and pick-ups should pay more to be on our roads. Hereβs how to make the system fairer
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> Bigger cars mean bigger costs for everyone else. Itβs only fair those costs are reflected in how car rego is priced.
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It used to be the same in England. In the 1950s, our neighbour had a 3-wheel car.
It had no reverse gear, so it was taxed as a motorcycle.
It would have been taxed as a car if it had had reverse.
He had to pick up the rear end to turn it around or get in/out of parking.
I'm looking at an email for a local Book Festival (including indie writers, zinesters and comic creators.)
And I'm thinking to myself... they been doing these donation drives for years. How come these schools ain't got no books?
And that little part of my brain said: "Cuz them Bible thumping crazies want everything but their version of the Bible to be the only thing in schools. If they could burn the Berenstein bears they would.π"
That little voice ain't wrong!π«
#blackmastodon #queer #books
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ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make Arrests
The tactical shift accelerates the erosion of limits on ICE β and appears to be aimed at speeding up the pace of deportations.
theintercept.com/2025/05/21/icβ¦
#news #USnews #ICE #immigration #deportation #justice #law
ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make ArrestsΒ
The tactical shift accelerates the erosion of past limitations β and appears to be aimed at speeding up the pace of deportations.Akela Lacy (The Intercept)
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Some creators have way too much time on their hands.
Which Car Will Take A Speedbump At 120MPH?
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12 yr me: _cool_
current engineer me: well that's not a fair comparison at all; the 4th gen Mustang's suspension travel clearance is equal to the heigh of the speedbump, but the Skyline GT has maybe 2" of clearance so that speed bump to IT is a RAMP, of course it got launched. Run a Buick Skylark or a Toyota Sienna over that bump and I bet they wouldn't even notice. Guh, why can't people take these experiments seriously. Here, let me set up a control group for you and run it properly.
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Surprise! GOP Medicaid Massacre bill is also a Medicare Massacre bill!
Pennsylvania Democratic Representative Brendon Boyle, on MSNBC last night: Rep. Boyle: This reminds me very much of 2017, I believe, I believed at the time and was proven correct that we won the 2018 midterm elections during the summer of 2017 when Rβ¦ACA Signups
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I am honestly shocked how calm we are while being marched into the Apocalypse. There are 350 million of us in the United States, it will take time for the taint to touch us all, but every single new federal hire is a chance for a bigot fascist to get paid well to spend 8 hours a day to figure out how to use tax payer dollars to reward rich people for being ruthless and deny earned services to the poor, and to link diversity to poverty.
8 hours a day, bigotry as a service.
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Kew Gardens have rowed back their transphobic toilet policy.
Pressure *works* people
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Front facing roles can be tricky and they don't always say the right things (speaking from experience of other similar museum roles) or represent the organisation correctly.
Thanks Natasha, I've been afk.
Heather, I don't think names were given in the original screenshots.
23andMe and its user data will soon belong to a pharmaceutical giant
23andMe will continue to offer customers its DNA testing services after being bought out of bankruptcy by Regeneroon for $256 million.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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An air traffic control outage just hit Colorado, too. #NotJustNewark
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"If you own the S&P 500 you now own #Coinbase. That's very similar to 2008."
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"COLONIALISM IS BACK!"
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#Colonialism #USPOL #Gambia #ElonMusk #Musk #Starlink
Trump State Dept. Leaned on African Nations to Help Muskβs Starlink
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Muskβs satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers as part of a βmaximum pressureβ campaign.ProPublica
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell it's just 'White People being White" again. The only people who are fooled by it are ......White People.
Fucking shameful
When I first got into #3dprinting more than a decade ago, I thought a lot about how it could be used to make life better for everyone.
In the decade or so since then Iβve seen a lots of technical problems solved with 3D printing, but few of our non-technical problems.
This is one of them Iβd love to work on.
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As an aside:
While I do believe people have the right to try to make money off their work if they want to, I do also miss the earlier days of 3d printing where it felt like the community was more aligned around open source
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Ghost of Hope π³οΈββ§οΈ
in reply to Ghost of Hope π³οΈββ§οΈ • • •Wes Streeting will do this anyway because he's a transphobe, but...
Make a single-sex female ward for the purpose of the Equality Act and you can't allow a "biologically male" doctor into it, never mind a cleaner or a porter. Good luck with that.
You can make it NHS policy to segregate by "biological sex" but it's not supported by the EA and a single-sex service and so it would be subject to challenge as discrimination. This won't stop it happening, but damn there are going to be some rich lawyers before this is over.
And fair play to them. Some people hate lawyers. Me? I think they're all that stand between us and the camps.
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in reply to Ghost of Hope π³οΈββ§οΈ • • •Ghost of Hope π³οΈββ§οΈ
in reply to Angie B • • •@fallen_angela
Definitely.
Shivvi
in reply to Ghost of Hope π³οΈββ§οΈ • • •"Biological Sex" doesn't exist. There are so many variables that it's stupid. But... there are even darker, more sinister aspects to this.
Thinking from an insurance point of view, once you establish "Biological", you can exclude anyone with an artificial hip, or who needs glasses or a hearing aid. Once you start defining biology, you start defining who gets to be human.
They are coming for the disabled next.
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Ghost of Hope π³οΈββ§οΈ
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They've got that covered already, I don't think they need this angle.
With my disabled rather than my trans hat on, they'll try to force us out of existence the Tory way by removing our financial support and barring us from medical treatments that "cost too much."
Wrong tense actually, they're already doing it.
Shivvi
in reply to Ghost of Hope π³οΈββ§οΈ • • •Fair, I kind of knew that... It's all just evil.
We're back in mid 1930s Weimar Germany.
Ghost of Hope π³οΈββ§οΈ
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It is, and we are.
Except, we aren't. This time round, the fascists have got cleverer. They get their way by manipulating the system rather than outright destruction of democracy by violence.
Why break the system when it works for you already? Just a tweak here and a tweak there, and you can take away the human rights of anyone you like and then blame them for all society's ills while you expand your personal power.