Jen
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More like WiFi (derogatory)
September 1, 2026 at 10:19 AM
More like WiFi (derogatory)
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If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.
July 18, 2026 at 7:33 AM
If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.
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Everything is political.
What you buy, how you dress, the way you raise your children, what you read or watch, where you go and how you get there.
The fact that sometimes you might be unaware of the political implications of your actions doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
What you buy, how you dress, the way you raise your children, what you read or watch, where you go and how you get there.
The fact that sometimes you might be unaware of the political implications of your actions doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
Oh, is there discourse about "apolitical" science fiction again?
Humans are political animals. There's no apolitical art. There's art that supports/confirms your default assumptions about how the world ought to work - to such a degree that it's invisible - or art that challenges those assumptions.
Humans are political animals. There's no apolitical art. There's art that supports/confirms your default assumptions about how the world ought to work - to such a degree that it's invisible - or art that challenges those assumptions.
March 31, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Everything is political.
What you buy, how you dress, the way you raise your children, what you read or watch, where you go and how you get there.
The fact that sometimes you might be unaware of the political implications of your actions doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
What you buy, how you dress, the way you raise your children, what you read or watch, where you go and how you get there.
The fact that sometimes you might be unaware of the political implications of your actions doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
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If you look back to the various consultations in the late 10s, Scottish Women’s Aid, Rape Crisis Scotland & others’ position was “we have no issues being trans inclusive and we’ve never seen any significant incidents as a result”. A wholly manufactured problem with predictable & disastrous results.
The absolute fucking brass neck of Susan Dalgety writing in the Scotsman that the "transgender debate has shattered Scotland's rape crisis centre network".
YOU and your hate-filled transphobic friends have shattered Scotland's rape crisis centre network, just as you have harmed every women's group.
YOU and your hate-filled transphobic friends have shattered Scotland's rape crisis centre network, just as you have harmed every women's group.
March 15, 2026 at 10:24 AM
If you look back to the various consultations in the late 10s, Scottish Women’s Aid, Rape Crisis Scotland & others’ position was “we have no issues being trans inclusive and we’ve never seen any significant incidents as a result”. A wholly manufactured problem with predictable & disastrous results.
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a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate'
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
www.thepinknews.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:36 PM
a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate'
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
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again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are
his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
February 4, 2026 at 5:41 PM
again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are
his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
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"WE WILL NEVER BE SILENCED" anti-trans campaigners shout, while appearing on the front page of every single newspaper and interviewed on all major news platforms in the country repeatedly for the past 10 years. Pretty sure you have the wrong definition of 'silenced', but okay.
January 21, 2026 at 8:52 AM
"WE WILL NEVER BE SILENCED" anti-trans campaigners shout, while appearing on the front page of every single newspaper and interviewed on all major news platforms in the country repeatedly for the past 10 years. Pretty sure you have the wrong definition of 'silenced', but okay.
Bought one (1) children’s toy on Vinted and now the algorithm is screaming “wait, you must have a CHILD? Forgive us for thinking you want anything for yourself, here is baby clothing and nothing else”.
January 9, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Bought one (1) children’s toy on Vinted and now the algorithm is screaming “wait, you must have a CHILD? Forgive us for thinking you want anything for yourself, here is baby clothing and nothing else”.
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The language our allies need to defend us out there can actually be this elegant all the time, as long as you know what you're saying 🏳️⚧️
Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The language our allies need to defend us out there can actually be this elegant all the time, as long as you know what you're saying 🏳️⚧️
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transphobes using money and power to bully little kids is absolutely no different from mobs turning up to intimidate refugee families, and you should treat anyone who so much as excuses either of these things with complete contempt
December 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
transphobes using money and power to bully little kids is absolutely no different from mobs turning up to intimidate refugee families, and you should treat anyone who so much as excuses either of these things with complete contempt
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the nominees were
-a campaign to get lifechanging medication for extremely sick children
-a campaign to improve access to justice for victims of rape and sexual assault
-a transphobic hate campaign that managed to convince some judges to make the worst ruling in Supreme Court history*
(*winner)
-a campaign to get lifechanging medication for extremely sick children
-a campaign to improve access to justice for victims of rape and sexual assault
-a transphobic hate campaign that managed to convince some judges to make the worst ruling in Supreme Court history*
(*winner)
For Women Scotland wins Public Campaign or Campaigner of the Year at The Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards 2025, in association with ScottishPower
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
#politicianawards25
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
#politicianawards25
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
the nominees were
-a campaign to get lifechanging medication for extremely sick children
-a campaign to improve access to justice for victims of rape and sexual assault
-a transphobic hate campaign that managed to convince some judges to make the worst ruling in Supreme Court history*
(*winner)
-a campaign to get lifechanging medication for extremely sick children
-a campaign to improve access to justice for victims of rape and sexual assault
-a transphobic hate campaign that managed to convince some judges to make the worst ruling in Supreme Court history*
(*winner)
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Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.
October 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.
Rich people would rather spend a fuckton of money on something shit than speak to a person who isn’t also rich.
Why would someone pay $20k for a robot controlled by a human in a remote location to do things more slowly and clumsily when the median wage for a maid or housekeeper is $33k per year, which is typically spread across 10-20 households?
October 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Rich people would rather spend a fuckton of money on something shit than speak to a person who isn’t also rich.
Will I ever hear a 6Music news update that doesn’t mention migrants or small boats ever again, feels infuriatingly unlikely.
October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Will I ever hear a 6Music news update that doesn’t mention migrants or small boats ever again, feels infuriatingly unlikely.
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1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵
For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.
msf.org/msf-denounce...
msf.org/msf-denounce...
October 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.
msf.org/msf-denounce...
msf.org/msf-denounce...
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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
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I agree, and appreciate someone qualified backing this up, but also, you don’t even need to be trained in behavioural psychology to know this, this *should* just be common sense, that you can’t just frighten people into being well enough to work, that these stresses will just make them worse
As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP
DWP boss just said Universal Credit gives disabled people 'perverse incentives' not to work
Liz Kendall's shocking comments came just as a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants.
So which is it???
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Liz Kendall's shocking comments came just as a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants.
So which is it???
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
July 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I agree, and appreciate someone qualified backing this up, but also, you don’t even need to be trained in behavioural psychology to know this, this *should* just be common sense, that you can’t just frighten people into being well enough to work, that these stresses will just make them worse
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I rant about this a lot but I can’t for the life of me understand why BBC 6 Music News gives a daily update of how many people crossed the channel in small boats yesterday
From a news values perspective alone, it makes no sense
From a news values perspective alone, it makes no sense
June 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I rant about this a lot but I can’t for the life of me understand why BBC 6 Music News gives a daily update of how many people crossed the channel in small boats yesterday
From a news values perspective alone, it makes no sense
From a news values perspective alone, it makes no sense
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The fact that they call it DEI when it is EDI in the UK shows you how brainwormed these rightwing fucks are.
A group of Labour MPs, peers and supporters write:
“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”
Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”
Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:03 AM
The fact that they call it DEI when it is EDI in the UK shows you how brainwormed these rightwing fucks are.
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This is why disabled people and trans people must be in solidarity with each other at all times - transphobia cannot exist without ableism. The idea that you have the right to another person's medical details and that your opinion on their care should carry any weight at all is ableist at its core.
This is the entire fulcrum of the anti-trans movement. Every random person believes they have the right to weigh in on "care" and what is psychologically and medically best for kids and even other adults, and for some reason governments have decided this is rational.
May 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This is why disabled people and trans people must be in solidarity with each other at all times - transphobia cannot exist without ableism. The idea that you have the right to another person's medical details and that your opinion on their care should carry any weight at all is ableist at its core.
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ai has already kind of materially ruined the basic act of looking at pictures
May 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
ai has already kind of materially ruined the basic act of looking at pictures