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Remarkably, none of this is factually correct. The shift to a trans focus was initiated by Stonewall, after it achieved its lifetime campaigning goal in 2013 with the legalisation of same sex marriage. CEO Ruth Hunt, appointed in 2014, formally announced the new strategy in 2015.
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2w agoWorth adding some numbers to this. The British press decided to make trans rights into an issue. It just wasn’t an issue before. This was a top-down decision. shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
Raise the Colours, an organisation which has had one of its founders charged with murder, has been heavily implicated in a hit and run (currently under investigation), and another "leading light" faces trial for 22 indecent images charges.
Anna H@athenepallas.bsky.social · 2w agoThis may be a relatively minor thing for people, it may not but the whole phenomenon of 'Raise the Colours' and the shrug with which the government greeted it (IIRC at one point RtC was even tacitly endorsed?) continues to blow my mind.
Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹
And the level of skill and accomplishment on display will be similar in both games
Fintan Mallory@fintanmallory.com · 2w agoThe All-Ireland Hurling Final today will have a larger attendance than the World Cup Final. 82,000 in Croke Park compared to 80,663 in the MetLife Stadium.
Today I found out that babadook wine party lady later went on to create Widow’s Bay. And it all makes sense.
Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...
Eight papers on Margaret Archer from the Journal of #CriticalRealism special issue are now available. Authors include Al-Amoudi, Donati, Maccarini, Morgan, Porpora, and Steyn. www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...
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Their list of ‘anti-rights groups’ conflates gender critical groups with anti-abortion groups. The trick of tainting with false association. It’s a mess of complaining about traditional gender roles without mentioning the Barbie/GI Joe scale that justifies surgically altering bodies to fit in.
The only World Cup penalty shootout you need to see today.
Donaldson arrived at Newry Crown Court in a nice car. He's leaving in a prison vehicle and is going on to the sex offender register. One of NI’s most powerful politicians, who was mentored by Enoch Powell, he has lived up to Powell’s famous dictum.
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhen utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
agreed. I also think it's not really about this generation of 13-18s - it's about setting a new norm for under-13s when they reach that age, and I'd judge it in a decade not by how many existing 15yos dodge it.
I thought we had another week before the World Cup. Thankfully I had this 1986 Nugget to hand. Now on the MBRS buff.ly/xzoltLh
The domestic abuse backgrounds of arrested rioters is even starker for Belfast
Almost half NI race rioters reported for domestic abuse
The figures for Northern Ireland – 48% - were higher than the UK average (41%).
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Northern Ireland, functionally, has no immigration. Net immigration last year was about 8000 people in a population of 2 million, and that was a record.
SpinningHugo@spinninghugo.bsky.social · 2mo agoReally? That is your view? Really?
Absolutely rightX The Starmer defenders on here will go “you think he’s a disaster? But what about the last 14 years?” The reality is that bad prime ministers go in sequence because it takes a leader of real quality to not whine as Cameron did “why should I do the difficult shit?”
David Henig@davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe limits of a UK political system that has refused for ten years to make hard decisions are reached. There are no easy answers. There is no magic money / growth tree. Leaders are going to have to make choices.
It's actually wild how we're all agreed X is a hellsite but totally seem to have let zuckerburk off the hook because Facebook is where you post pics of your kid doing something cute so Mum can share it with her friends 😐 It's the original dumpster fire
Reminder that it's not just X that is driving anti-immigrant protests in Northern Ireland and elsewhere - Facebook is a big part of it all too, with monetised engagement by people like Raise the Colours who weren't even there (they tried to get to Belfast but their flight was cancelled)
Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · 2mo agoOrchestrated racist far-right terrorism in Northern Ireland again in response to an attack in Belfast, gleefully reported by RTC
Just a wee reminder for anyone listening to politicians doing the ‘I condemn the violence but people have legitimate concerns’, shuffle, immigration in NI is 3.5% of the population. Most of them working in NHS, social care and other badly paid jobs.
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2mo agoNorthern Ireland saw a second night of unrest with police using water cannon on rioters, as the Belfast stabbing attack victim's family said they were "disgusted" by the disorder
If you want to understand the dynamics of Northern Ireland beyond the history for idiots version (the sectarianism, the flags, the headlines) this is a good place to start. One of the best pieces of writing to come out of this crisis. sarawildtimmy.substack.com/p/the-hurl
The Hurl
Maitiu Mág Tighearnán is a West Belfast dad who was in the right place on Monday night with the right object in his hand.
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When women are routinely murdered by their compatriots and their murderer’s crimes are treated as inevitable, the BBC is trying to trace the route of an asylum seeker. For what? Oh for him
Nigel Farage: If You Want To
ALT: Nigel Farage: If You Want To
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Race riots on British streets, incited by a man currently in Moscow and amplified by a South African paedophile. But your engagement.